1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64] 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 4 copy_dsdt } 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64] 7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 14 are available 15 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 17 18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 19 Format: <int> 20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 21 1,0: use 1st APIC table 22 default: 0 23 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 25 { vendor | video | native | none } 26 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver 27 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 28 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 29 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. 31 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. 32 33 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 34 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 35 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 36 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 37 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 38 39 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 40 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 41 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 42 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 43 This option is useful for developers to identify the 44 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 45 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 46 47 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 48 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 49 Format: <int> 50 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 51 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 52 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 53 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS 54 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 55 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 56 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 57 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 58 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 59 debug layers and levels. 60 61 Enable processor driver info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list> 117 118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 122 auto-serialization feature. 123 This feature is enabled by default. 124 This option allows to turn off the feature. 125 126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 127 kernels. 128 129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 132 installed automatically and they will appear under 133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 134 This option turns off this feature. 135 Note that specifying this option does not affect 136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 138 139 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 140 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 141 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 142 143 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 144 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 145 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 146 second kernel for kdump. 147 148 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 149 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 150 151 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 152 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 153 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 154 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 155 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 156 157 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 158 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 159 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 160 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 161 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 162 strings 163 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 164 strings 165 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 166 167 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 168 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 169 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 170 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 171 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 172 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 173 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 174 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 175 care about the state of the feature group strings which 176 should be controlled by the OSPM. 177 Examples: 178 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 179 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 180 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 181 182 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 183 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 184 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 185 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 186 multiple times through kernel command line is also 187 meaningless. 188 Examples: 189 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 190 FALSE. 191 192 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 193 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 194 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 195 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 196 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 197 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 198 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 199 there are quirks related to this string. This command 200 is useful when one want to control the state of the 201 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 202 the OSPM features. 203 Examples: 204 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 205 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 206 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 207 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 208 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 209 equivalent to 210 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 211 and 212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 213 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 214 215 acpi_pm_good [X86] 216 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 217 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 218 and always returns good values. 219 220 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 221 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 222 223 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 224 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 225 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 226 227 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 228 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, 229 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl } 230 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 231 s3_bios and s3_mode. 232 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 233 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 234 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 235 used during resume from hibernation. 236 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 237 control method, with respect to putting devices into 238 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 239 of _PTS is used by default). 240 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 241 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 242 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 243 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 244 but some broken systems don't work without it). 245 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 246 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 247 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 248 249 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 250 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 251 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 252 253 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 254 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 255 256 agp= [AGP] 257 { off | try_unsupported } 258 off: disable AGP support 259 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 260 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 261 262 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 263 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 264 265 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 266 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 267 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 268 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 269 270 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 271 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 272 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 273 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 274 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 275 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 276 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 277 278 32: only for 32-bit processes 279 64: only for 64-bit processes 280 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 281 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 282 283 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 284 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 285 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 286 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 287 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 288 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 289 290 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64] 291 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the 292 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict 293 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this 294 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit 295 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0 296 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted. 297 298 See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more 299 information. 300 301 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 302 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 303 Possible values are: 304 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1 305 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 306 the system 307 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 308 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 309 allowed anymore to lift isolation 310 requirements as needed. This option 311 does not override iommu=pt 312 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known 313 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this 314 option with care. 315 316 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 317 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 318 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 319 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 320 IOMMU initialization. 321 322 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 323 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 324 remapping modes: 325 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 326 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 327 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 328 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 329 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 330 331 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 332 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 333 Format: <a>,<b> 334 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 335 336 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 337 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 338 connected to one of 16 gameports 339 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 340 341 apc= [HW,SPARC] 342 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 343 Format: noidle 344 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 345 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 346 APC and your system crashes randomly. 347 348 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 349 Change the output verbosity while booting 350 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 351 Change the amount of debugging information output 352 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 353 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 354 driver name. 355 Format: apic=driver_name 356 Examples: apic=bigsmp 357 358 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 359 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 360 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 361 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 362 backup of CPU 0 363 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 364 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 365 shot down by NMI 366 367 autoconf= [IPV6] 368 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 369 370 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 371 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 372 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 373 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 374 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 375 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 376 apic=verbose is specified. 377 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 378 379 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 380 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 381 382 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 383 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 384 385 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 386 Identification support 387 388 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 389 support 390 391 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 392 support 393 394 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 395 396 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 397 398 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 399 EzKey and similar keyboards 400 401 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 402 403 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 404 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 405 406 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 407 keyboards 408 409 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 410 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 411 412 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 413 Use software keyboard repeat 414 415 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 416 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 417 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 418 enabled until the next reboot 419 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 420 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 421 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 422 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 423 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 424 userspace auditd. 425 Default: unset 426 427 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 428 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 429 Default: 64 430 431 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 432 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 433 Format: { "0" | "1" } 434 0 - Disable the BAU. 435 1 - Enable the BAU. 436 unset - Disable the BAU. 437 438 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 439 Format: <io>,<mode> 440 441 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 442 Format: <io>,<mode> 443 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 444 445 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 446 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 447 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 448 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 449 450 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 451 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 452 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 453 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 454 455 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 456 embedded devices based on command line input. 457 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 458 459 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 460 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 461 no delay (0). 462 Format: integer 463 464 bootconfig [KNL] 465 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 466 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 467 468 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 469 470 bert_disable [ACPI] 471 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 472 473 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] 474 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 475 476 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 477 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 478 kernel args too. 479 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 480 bttv.tuner= 481 482 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 483 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 484 at a time. 485 486 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 487 488 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 489 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 490 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 491 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 492 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 493 This option provides an override for these situations. 494 495 carrier_timeout= 496 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 497 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 498 it waits 120 seconds. 499 500 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 501 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 502 trust validation. 503 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 504 505 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 506 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 507 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 508 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 509 others). 510 511 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 512 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 513 514 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 515 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 516 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 517 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 518 a single hierarchy 519 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 520 subsystem 521 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 522 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 523 created 524 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 525 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 526 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 527 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 528 stall information accounting feature 529 530 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 531 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 532 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 533 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 534 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 535 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 536 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 537 all v1 hierarchies. 538 539 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 540 Format: <string> 541 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 542 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 543 544 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 545 Format: { "0" | "1" } 546 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 547 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 548 any implied execute protection). 549 1 -- check protection requested by application. 550 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 551 Value can be changed at runtime via 552 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 553 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 554 555 cio_ignore= [S390] 556 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 557 clk_ignore_unused 558 [CLK] 559 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 560 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 561 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 562 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 563 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 564 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 565 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 566 platform with proper driver support. For more 567 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 568 569 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 570 [Deprecated] 571 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 572 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 573 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 574 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 575 576 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 577 Format: <string> 578 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 579 with the name specified. 580 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 581 the platform: 582 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 583 [ACPI] acpi_pm 584 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 585 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 586 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 587 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 588 [MIPS] MIPS 589 [PARISC] cr16 590 [S390] tod 591 [SH] SuperH 592 [SPARC64] tick 593 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 594 595 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 596 [ARM,ARM64] 597 Format: <bool> 598 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 599 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 600 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 601 systems. 602 603 clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL] 604 Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to 605 external delays before the clock will be marked 606 unstable. Defaults to three retries, that is, 607 four attempts to read the clock under test. 608 609 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 610 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 611 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 612 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 613 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 614 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 615 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 616 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 617 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 618 619 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 620 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 621 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 622 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 623 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 624 625 clearcpuid=BITNUM[,BITNUM...] [X86] 626 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 627 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 628 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily 629 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific 630 ones should be. 631 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 632 or using the feature without checking anything 633 will still see it. This just prevents it from 634 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 635 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 636 some critical bits. 637 638 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 639 [KNL,CMA] 640 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 641 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 642 placement constraint by the physical address range of 643 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 644 altogether. For more information, see 645 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 646 647 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 648 [ARM64,KNL,CMA] 649 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 650 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 651 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 652 specificed, the default value is 0. 653 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 654 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 655 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 656 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 657 658 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 659 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 660 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 661 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 662 a hypervisor. 663 Default: yes 664 665 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 666 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 667 allocations, by default set to 256K. 668 669 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 670 Format: 671 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 672 673 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 674 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 675 676 com90xx= [HW,NET] 677 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 678 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 679 680 condev= [HW,S390] console device 681 conmode= 682 683 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 684 685 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 686 687 ttyS<n>[,options] 688 ttyUSB0[,options] 689 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 690 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 691 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 692 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 693 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 694 695 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 696 information. See 697 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 698 alternative. 699 700 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 701 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 702 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 703 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 704 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 705 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 706 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 707 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 708 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 709 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 710 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 711 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 712 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 713 the h/w is not re-initialized. 714 715 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 716 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 717 718 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 719 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 720 console=brl,ttyS0 721 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 722 723 console_msg_format= 724 [KNL] Change console messages format 725 default 726 By default we print messages on consoles in 727 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 728 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 729 `printk_time' param). 730 syslog 731 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 732 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 733 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 734 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 735 from /proc/kmsg. 736 737 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 738 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 739 Defaults to 0. 740 741 coredump_filter= 742 [KNL] Change the default value for 743 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 744 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 745 746 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 747 [ARM,ARM64] 748 Format: <bool> 749 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 750 0: default value, disable debugging 751 1: enable debugging at boot time 752 753 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 754 disable the cpuidle sub-system 755 756 cpuidle.governor= 757 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 758 759 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 760 disable the cpufreq sub-system 761 762 cpufreq.default_governor= 763 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 764 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 765 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 766 767 cpu_init_udelay=N 768 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 769 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 770 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 771 Default: 10000 772 773 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 774 Format: 775 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 776 777 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 778 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 779 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 780 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 781 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 782 is selected automatically. 783 [KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and 784 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 785 hasn't been specified. 786 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 787 788 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 789 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 790 in the running system. The syntax of range is 791 start-[end] where start and end are both 792 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 793 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 794 795 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 796 [KNL, X86-64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 797 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 798 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 799 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 800 available. 801 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 802 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 803 [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 804 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 805 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 806 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 807 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 808 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 809 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at 810 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 811 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G 812 for second kernel instead. 813 0: to disable low allocation. 814 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 815 or memory reserved is below 4G. 816 817 cryptomgr.notests 818 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 819 820 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 821 Format: <dma> 822 823 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 824 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 825 826 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call 827 handling. When switched on, additional debug data is 828 printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is 829 detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try 830 to resolve the hang situation. 831 0: disable csdlock debugging (default) 832 1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact) 833 ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact, 834 but more data) 835 836 dasd= [HW,NET] 837 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 838 839 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 840 (one device per port) 841 Format: <port#>,<type> 842 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 843 844 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 845 846 debug_boot_weak_hash 847 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 848 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 849 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 850 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 851 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 852 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 853 854 debug_locks_verbose= 855 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 856 Format: <int> 857 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 858 self-tests. 859 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 860 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 861 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 862 useful to lockdep developers. 863 864 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 865 866 no_debug_objects 867 [KNL] Disable object debugging 868 869 debug_guardpage_minorder= 870 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 871 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 872 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 873 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 874 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 875 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 876 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 877 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 878 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 879 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 880 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 881 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 882 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 883 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 884 bypassed) which are not detectable by 885 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 886 tracking down these problems. 887 888 debug_pagealloc= 889 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 890 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 891 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 892 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 893 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 894 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 895 on: enable the feature 896 897 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 898 and debugfs internal clients. 899 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 900 on: All functions are enabled. 901 no-mount: 902 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 903 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 904 its content. There is nothing to mount. 905 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 906 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 907 or directories within debugfs. 908 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 909 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 910 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 911 912 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 913 914 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 915 Format: <area>[,<node>] 916 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst. 917 918 default_hugepagesz= 919 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 920 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 921 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 922 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 923 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 924 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 925 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 926 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 927 Format: size[KMG] 928 929 deferred_probe_timeout= 930 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 931 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 932 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 933 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0 934 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also 935 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 936 retrying. 937 938 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 939 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 940 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 941 level 1 and decompression (default) 942 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 943 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 944 only (compression on level 1) 945 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 946 only (decompression) 947 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 948 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 949 950 dhash_entries= [KNL] 951 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 952 953 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 954 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 955 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 956 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 957 miss to occur. 958 959 stress_slb [PPC] 960 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 961 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 962 on kernel addresses. 963 964 disable= [IPV6] 965 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 966 967 hardened_usercopy= 968 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 969 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 970 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 971 from reading or writing beyond known memory 972 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 973 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 974 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 975 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 976 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 977 978 disable_radix [PPC] 979 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 980 981 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 982 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 983 invalidate. 984 985 disable_tlbie [PPC] 986 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 987 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 988 989 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 990 Format: <int> 991 The number of initial APIC ID for the 992 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 993 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 994 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 995 causing system reset or hang due to sending 996 INIT from AP to BSP. 997 998 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 999 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1000 to workaround buggy firmware. 1001 1002 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1003 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1004 1005 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1006 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1007 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1008 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1009 1010 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 1011 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1012 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1013 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1014 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1015 1016 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1017 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1018 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1019 1020 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1021 1022 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1023 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1024 1025 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1026 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1027 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1028 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1029 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1030 architectural default is too low. 1031 1032 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1033 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1034 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1035 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1036 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1037 driver later using sysfs. 1038 1039 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1040 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. 1041 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1042 1043 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1044 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1045 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1046 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1047 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1048 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 1049 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 1050 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 1051 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 1052 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 1053 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID 1054 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 1055 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 1056 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 1057 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1058 data set with no connector name will be used for 1059 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1060 1061 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1062 1063 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1064 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1065 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1066 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1067 exists). 1068 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1069 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1070 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1071 1072 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1073 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1074 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1075 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1076 1077 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1078 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1079 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1080 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1081 for details. 1082 1083 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 1084 in some Intel CPUs. 1085 1086 <module>.async_probe [KNL] 1087 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 1088 1089 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1090 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1091 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1092 which are not unmapped. 1093 1094 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1095 1096 When used with no options, the early console is 1097 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1098 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1099 the platform. 1100 1101 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1102 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1103 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1104 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1105 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1106 configured. 1107 1108 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 1109 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 1110 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 1111 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 1112 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1113 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1114 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1115 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1116 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1117 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1118 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1119 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1120 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 1121 1122 pl011,<addr> 1123 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1124 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1125 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1126 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1127 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1128 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1129 the device registers. 1130 1131 liteuart,<addr> 1132 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1133 specified address. The serial port must already be 1134 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1135 1136 meson,<addr> 1137 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1138 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1139 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1140 supported. 1141 1142 msm_serial,<addr> 1143 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1144 port at the specified address. The serial port 1145 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1146 yet supported. 1147 1148 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1149 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1150 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1151 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1152 yet supported. 1153 1154 owl,<addr> 1155 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1156 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1157 specified address. The serial port must already be 1158 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1159 1160 rda,<addr> 1161 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1162 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1163 specified address. The serial port must already be 1164 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1165 1166 sbi 1167 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1168 console. 1169 1170 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1171 1172 s3c2410,<addr> 1173 s3c2412,<addr> 1174 s3c2440,<addr> 1175 s3c6400,<addr> 1176 s5pv210,<addr> 1177 exynos4210,<addr> 1178 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1179 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1180 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1181 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1182 Options are not yet supported. 1183 1184 lantiq,<addr> 1185 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1186 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1187 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1188 yet supported. 1189 1190 lpuart,<addr> 1191 lpuart32,<addr> 1192 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1193 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1194 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1195 port must already be setup and configured. 1196 1197 ec_imx21,<addr> 1198 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1199 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1200 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1201 must already be setup and configured. 1202 1203 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1204 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1205 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1206 address. The serial port must already be setup 1207 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1208 1209 qcom_geni,<addr> 1210 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1211 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1212 specified address. The serial port must already be 1213 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1214 1215 efifb,[options] 1216 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1217 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1218 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1219 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1220 mapped with the correct attributes. 1221 1222 linflex,<addr> 1223 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1224 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1225 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1226 already be setup and configured. 1227 1228 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1229 earlyprintk=vga 1230 earlyprintk=sclp 1231 earlyprintk=xen 1232 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1233 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1234 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1235 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1236 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1237 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1238 1239 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1240 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1241 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1242 1243 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1244 takes over. 1245 1246 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 1247 be used at a time. 1248 1249 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1250 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1251 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1252 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1253 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1254 You can find the port for a given device in 1255 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1256 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1257 1258 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1259 very good. 1260 1261 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 1262 the real console. 1263 1264 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1265 1266 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1267 1268 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1269 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1270 UART class. 1271 1272 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1273 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1274 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1275 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1276 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1277 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1278 default: on. 1279 1280 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1281 ekgdboc=kbd 1282 1283 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1284 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1285 1286 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1287 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1288 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1289 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1290 1291 edd= [EDD] 1292 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1293 1294 efi= [EFI] 1295 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1296 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1297 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1298 debug: enable misc debug output. 1299 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1300 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1301 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1302 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1303 firmware implementations. 1304 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1305 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1306 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1307 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1308 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1309 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1310 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1311 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1312 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1313 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1314 1315 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1316 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1317 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1318 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1319 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1320 1321 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1322 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1323 updating original EFI memory map. 1324 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1325 from ss to ss+nn. 1326 1327 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1328 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1329 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1330 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1331 1332 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1333 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1334 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1335 1336 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1337 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1338 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1339 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1340 "soft reserved". 1341 1342 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1343 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1344 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1345 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1346 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1347 1348 1349 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1350 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1351 1352 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1353 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1354 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1355 1356 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1357 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1358 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1359 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1360 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1361 1362 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1363 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1364 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1365 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1366 1367 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1368 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1369 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1370 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1371 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1372 1373 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1374 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1375 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1376 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1377 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1378 Default value is 0. 1379 Value can be changed at runtime via 1380 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1381 1382 erst_disable [ACPI] 1383 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1384 support. 1385 1386 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1387 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1388 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1389 1390 evm= [EVM] 1391 Format: { "fix" } 1392 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1393 current integrity status. 1394 1395 failslab= 1396 fail_usercopy= 1397 fail_page_alloc= 1398 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1399 General fault injection mechanism. 1400 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1401 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1402 1403 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1404 Format: { initns | none } 1405 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1406 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1407 1408 floppy= [HW] 1409 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1410 1411 force_pal_cache_flush 1412 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1413 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1414 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1415 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1416 1417 forcepae [X86-32] 1418 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1419 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1420 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1421 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1422 and may cause unknown problems. 1423 1424 ftrace=[tracer] 1425 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1426 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1427 boot debugging. 1428 1429 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1430 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1431 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1432 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1433 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1434 oops. 1435 1436 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1437 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1438 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1439 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1440 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1441 tracing directory. 1442 1443 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1444 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1445 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1446 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1447 tracing directory. 1448 1449 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1450 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1451 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1452 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1453 that can be changed at run time by the 1454 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1455 1456 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1457 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1458 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1459 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1460 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1461 1462 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1463 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1464 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1465 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1466 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1467 1468 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1469 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1470 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1471 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1472 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1473 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1474 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1475 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1476 suppliers). 1477 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1478 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1479 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1480 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1481 up (sync_state() calls). 1482 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1483 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1484 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1485 1486 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1487 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1488 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1489 Format: <bool> 1490 1491 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1492 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1493 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1494 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1495 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1496 1497 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1498 1499 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1500 Format: off | on 1501 default: on 1502 1503 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1504 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1505 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1506 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1507 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1508 1509 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1510 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1511 android emulator 1512 1513 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1514 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1515 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1516 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1517 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1518 1519 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1520 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1521 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1522 GPT to be used instead. 1523 1524 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1525 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1526 Format: 0 | 1 1527 Default: 0 1528 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1529 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1530 Format: 0 | 1 1531 Default: 0 1532 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1533 Format: 0 | 1 1534 Default: 0 1535 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1536 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1537 Default: 1024 1538 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1539 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1540 Default: 1024 1541 1542 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1543 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1544 backtraces on all cpus. 1545 Format: 0 | 1 1546 1547 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1548 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1549 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1550 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1551 1552 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1553 1554 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1555 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1556 1557 hest_disable [ACPI] 1558 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1559 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1560 logic will be disabled. 1561 1562 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1563 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1564 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1565 size on bigger boxes. 1566 1567 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1568 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1569 Default: "on" 1570 1571 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1572 1573 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1574 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1575 verbose } 1576 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1577 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1578 VIA, nVidia) 1579 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1580 1581 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1582 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1583 1584 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1585 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1586 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1587 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1588 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1589 1590 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1591 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1592 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1593 1594 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1595 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1596 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1597 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1598 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1599 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1600 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1601 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1602 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1603 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1604 1605 hugepagesz= 1606 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1607 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1608 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1609 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1610 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1611 architecture dependent. See also 1612 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1613 Format: size[KMG] 1614 1615 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1616 [KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP 1617 enabled. 1618 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1619 memory (6 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1620 Format: { on | off (default) } 1621 1622 on: enable the feature 1623 off: disable the feature 1624 1625 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1626 the default is on. 1627 1628 This is not compatible with memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory. 1629 If both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes 1630 precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory. 1631 1632 hung_task_panic= 1633 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1634 Format: 0 | 1 1635 1636 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1637 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1638 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1639 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1640 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1641 1642 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1643 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1644 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1645 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1646 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1647 1648 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1649 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1650 guest on lock contention. 1651 1652 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1653 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1654 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1655 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1656 the real console. 1657 1658 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1659 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1660 registered from board initialization code. 1661 Format: 1662 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1663 1664 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1665 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1666 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1667 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1668 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1669 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1670 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1671 keyboard and cannot control its state 1672 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1673 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1674 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1675 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1676 for the AUX port 1677 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1678 controller 1679 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1680 controllers 1681 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1682 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1683 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1684 transitions, or never reset 1685 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1686 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1687 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1688 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1689 architectures force reset to be always executed 1690 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1691 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1692 1693 i810= [HW,DRM] 1694 1695 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1696 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1697 hardware. 1698 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature 1699 does not match list of supported models. 1700 i8k.power_status 1701 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1702 (disabled by default) 1703 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1704 capability is set. 1705 1706 i915.invert_brightness= 1707 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1708 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1709 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1710 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1711 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1712 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1713 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1714 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1715 value switches the backlight off. 1716 -1 -- never invert brightness 1717 0 -- machine default 1718 1 -- force brightness inversion 1719 1720 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1721 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1722 1723 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1724 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1725 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1726 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1727 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst. 1728 1729 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1730 Format: <int> 1731 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1732 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1733 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1734 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1735 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1736 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1737 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1738 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1739 was 0x3. 1740 1741 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1742 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1743 1744 idle= [X86] 1745 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1746 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1747 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1748 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1749 Not recommended. 1750 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1751 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1752 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1753 1754 idxd.sva= [HW] 1755 Format: <bool> 1756 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1757 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1758 true (1). 1759 1760 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 1761 Format: <bool> 1762 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 1763 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 1764 1765 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1766 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1767 Default: strict 1768 1769 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1770 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1771 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1772 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1773 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1774 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1775 encoding mode. 1776 1777 Available settings are as follows: 1778 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1779 supported by the FPU 1780 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1781 by the FPU 1782 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1783 by the FPU 1784 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1785 supported by the FPU 1786 1787 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1788 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1789 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1790 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1791 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1792 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1793 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1794 MIPS64 CPUs. 1795 1796 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1797 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1798 except where unsupported by hardware. 1799 1800 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1801 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1802 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1803 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1804 could change it dynamically, usually by 1805 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1806 1807 ignore_rlimit_data 1808 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1809 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1810 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1811 1812 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1813 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1814 1815 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1816 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1817 default: "enforce" 1818 1819 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1820 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1821 owned by uid=0. 1822 1823 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1824 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1825 measurements, instead of host native format. 1826 1827 ima_hash= [IMA] 1828 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1829 | sha512 | ... } 1830 default: "sha1" 1831 1832 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1833 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1834 1835 ima_policy= [IMA] 1836 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1837 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1838 fail_securely | critical_data" 1839 1840 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1841 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1842 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1843 uid=0. 1844 1845 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1846 all files owned by root. 1847 1848 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1849 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1850 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1851 1852 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1853 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1854 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1855 flag. 1856 1857 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 1858 critical data. 1859 1860 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1861 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1862 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1863 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1864 opened for read by uid=0. 1865 1866 ima_template= [IMA] 1867 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1868 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" } 1869 Default: "ima-ng" 1870 1871 ima_template_fmt= 1872 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1873 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1874 1875 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1876 Format: <min_file_size> 1877 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1878 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1879 1880 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1881 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1882 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1883 1884 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1885 Format: <bufsize> 1886 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1887 1888 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1889 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1890 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1891 1892 init= [KNL] 1893 Format: <full_path> 1894 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1895 process. 1896 1897 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1898 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1899 startup. 1900 1901 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1902 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1903 modules and initcalls. 1904 1905 initramfs_async= [KNL] 1906 Format: <bool> 1907 Default: 1 1908 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 1909 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 1910 with devices being probed and 1911 initialized. This should normally just work, 1912 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 1913 historical behaviour of the initramfs 1914 unpacking being completed before device_ and 1915 late_ initcalls. 1916 1917 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1918 1919 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 1920 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 1921 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 1922 setting. 1923 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 1924 Default is 0, 0 1925 1926 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 1927 zeroes. 1928 Format: 0 | 1 1929 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 1930 1931 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 1932 Format: 0 | 1 1933 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 1934 1935 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1936 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1937 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1938 override in debugfs after boot. 1939 1940 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1941 Format: <irq> 1942 1943 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1944 1945 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1946 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1947 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1948 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1949 1950 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1951 on 1952 Enable intel iommu driver. 1953 off 1954 Disable intel iommu driver. 1955 igfx_off [Default Off] 1956 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1957 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1958 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1959 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1960 DMA. 1961 strict [Default Off] 1962 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 1963 sp_off [Default Off] 1964 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 1965 has the capability. With this option, super page will 1966 not be supported. 1967 sm_on 1968 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 1969 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 1970 translation. 1971 sm_off 1972 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 1973 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 1974 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 1975 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 1976 could harm performance of some high-throughput 1977 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 1978 mapping is enabled. 1979 Note that using this option lowers the security 1980 provided by tboot because it makes the system 1981 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 1982 1983 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 1984 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1985 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 1986 1987 intel_pstate= [X86] 1988 disable 1989 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 1990 scaling driver for the supported processors 1991 passive 1992 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 1993 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 1994 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 1995 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 1996 feature. 1997 force 1998 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 1999 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2000 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2001 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2002 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2003 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2004 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2005 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2006 no_hwp 2007 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2008 if available. 2009 hwp_only 2010 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2011 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2012 support_acpi_ppc 2013 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2014 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2015 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2016 then this feature is turned on by default. 2017 per_cpu_perf_limits 2018 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2019 cpufreq sysfs interface 2020 2021 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 2022 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2023 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2024 nosid disable Source ID checking 2025 no_x2apic_optout 2026 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2027 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2028 2029 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2030 strict regions from userspace. 2031 relaxed 2032 2033 iommu= [X86] 2034 off 2035 force 2036 noforce 2037 biomerge 2038 panic 2039 nopanic 2040 merge 2041 nomerge 2042 soft 2043 pt [X86] 2044 nopt [X86] 2045 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2046 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2047 2048 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2049 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2050 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2051 falling back to the full range if needed. 2052 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2053 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2054 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2055 2056 iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2057 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2058 0 - Lazy mode. 2059 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2060 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2061 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2062 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2063 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2064 1 - Strict mode. 2065 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2066 synchronously. 2067 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2068 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2069 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2070 2071 iommu.passthrough= 2072 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2073 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2074 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2075 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2076 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2077 2078 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2079 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2080 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2081 2082 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 2083 0x80 2084 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2085 0xed 2086 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2087 udelay 2088 Simple two microseconds delay 2089 none 2090 No delay 2091 2092 ip= [IP_PNP] 2093 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2094 2095 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2096 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2097 2098 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2099 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2100 2101 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2102 [ARM, ARM64] 2103 Format: <bool> 2104 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2105 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2106 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2107 2108 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2109 [ARM, ARM64] 2110 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2111 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2112 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2113 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2114 LPIs. 2115 2116 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2117 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2118 requires the kernel to be built with 2119 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2120 2121 irqfixup [HW] 2122 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2123 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2124 firmware running. 2125 2126 irqpoll [HW] 2127 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2128 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2129 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2130 firmware running. 2131 2132 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2133 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2134 2135 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2136 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2137 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2138 2139 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2140 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2141 2142 nohz 2143 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2144 2145 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2146 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2147 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2148 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2149 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2150 2151 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2152 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2153 be configured manually after bootup. 2154 2155 domain 2156 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2157 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2158 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2159 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2160 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2161 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2162 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2163 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2164 2165 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2166 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2167 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2168 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2169 2170 managed_irq 2171 2172 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2173 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2174 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2175 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2176 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2177 2178 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2179 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2180 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2181 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2182 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2183 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2184 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2185 2186 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2187 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2188 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2189 only delivered when tasks running on those 2190 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2191 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2192 queues. 2193 2194 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2195 2196 iucv= [HW,NET] 2197 2198 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2199 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2200 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2201 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2202 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2203 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2204 2205 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2206 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2207 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2208 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 2209 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2210 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2211 2212 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2213 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2214 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2215 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2216 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 2217 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2218 2219 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2220 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2221 2222 nokaslr [KNL] 2223 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 2224 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 2225 Layout Randomization). 2226 2227 kasan_multi_shot 2228 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2229 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2230 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2231 invalid access. 2232 2233 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2234 2235 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2236 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2237 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2238 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2239 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2240 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2241 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2242 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2243 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2244 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2245 2246 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2247 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2248 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2249 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2250 zone if it does not. 2251 2252 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2253 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2254 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2255 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2256 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2257 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2258 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2259 2260 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2261 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2262 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2263 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2264 optional and is the number seconds in between 2265 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2266 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2267 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2268 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2269 the kernel debugger. 2270 2271 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2272 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2273 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2274 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2275 keyboard only format: kbd 2276 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2277 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2278 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2279 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2280 2281 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2282 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2283 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2284 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2285 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2286 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2287 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2288 2289 The name of the early console should be specified 2290 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2291 the early console might be different than the tty 2292 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2293 blank and the first boot console that implements 2294 read() will be picked. 2295 2296 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2297 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2298 2299 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2300 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2301 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2302 2303 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2304 Valid arguments: on, off 2305 Default: on 2306 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2307 the default is off. 2308 2309 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2310 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2311 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2312 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2313 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2314 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2315 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2316 2317 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2318 2319 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2320 Boot Parameter" section. 2321 2322 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2323 and kernel address spaces. 2324 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2325 0: force disabled 2326 1: force enabled 2327 2328 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2329 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2330 2331 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2332 Default is false (don't support). 2333 2334 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 2335 KVM MMU at runtime. 2336 Default is 0 (off) 2337 2338 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2339 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2340 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2341 force : Always deploy workaround. 2342 off : Never deploy workaround. 2343 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2344 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2345 2346 Default is 'auto'. 2347 2348 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2349 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2350 2351 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2352 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2353 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2354 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2355 period (see below). The default is 60. 2356 2357 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2358 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2359 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2360 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2361 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2362 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2363 2364 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2365 Default is 1 (enabled) 2366 2367 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2368 for all guests. 2369 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2370 2371 kvm-arm.mode= 2372 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2373 2374 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2375 2376 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2377 protected guests. 2378 2379 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2380 state is kept private from the host. 2381 Not valid if the kernel is running in EL2. 2382 2383 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2384 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2385 for the host. 2386 2387 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2388 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2389 system registers 2390 2391 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2392 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2393 system registers 2394 2395 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2396 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2397 system registers 2398 2399 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2400 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2401 LPIs. 2402 2403 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2404 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2405 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2406 allocation. 2407 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2408 Format: <integer> 2409 Default: 5 2410 2411 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2412 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2413 Default is 1 (enabled) 2414 2415 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2416 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 2417 Default is 0 (disabled) 2418 2419 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2420 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2421 Default is 1 (enabled) 2422 2423 kvm-intel.nested= 2424 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2425 Default is 0 (disabled) 2426 2427 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2428 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2429 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2430 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2431 2432 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2433 CVE-2018-3620. 2434 2435 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2436 2437 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2438 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2439 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2440 never: Disables the mitigation 2441 2442 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2443 2444 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2445 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2446 Default is 1 (enabled) 2447 2448 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL] 2449 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2450 2451 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2452 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2453 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2454 2455 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2456 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2457 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2458 not have direct access. 2459 2460 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2461 options are: 2462 2463 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2464 2465 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2466 affected CPUs 2467 2468 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2469 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2470 2471 full 2472 Provides all available mitigations for the 2473 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2474 enables all mitigations in the 2475 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2476 2477 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2478 sysfs interface is still possible after 2479 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2480 when the first VM is started in a 2481 potentially insecure configuration, 2482 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2483 2484 full,force 2485 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2486 flush runtime control. Implies the 2487 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2488 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2489 2490 flush 2491 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2492 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2493 L1D flush. 2494 2495 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2496 sysfs interface is still possible after 2497 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2498 when the first VM is started in a 2499 potentially insecure configuration, 2500 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2501 2502 flush,nosmt 2503 2504 Disables SMT and enables the default 2505 hypervisor mitigation. 2506 2507 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2508 sysfs interface is still possible after 2509 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2510 when the first VM is started in a 2511 potentially insecure configuration, 2512 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2513 2514 flush,nowarn 2515 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2516 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2517 insecure configuration. 2518 2519 off 2520 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2521 emit any warnings. 2522 It also drops the swap size and available 2523 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2524 bare metal. 2525 2526 Default is 'flush'. 2527 2528 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2529 2530 l2cr= [PPC] 2531 2532 l3cr= [PPC] 2533 2534 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2535 disabled it. 2536 2537 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2538 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2539 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2540 Format: notscdeadline 2541 2542 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2543 in C2 power state. 2544 2545 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2546 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2547 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2548 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2549 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2550 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2551 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2552 2553 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2554 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2555 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2556 2557 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2558 when set. 2559 Format: <int> 2560 2561 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma- 2562 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 2563 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 2564 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 2565 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 2566 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 2567 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 2568 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 2569 2570 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2571 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2572 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2573 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2574 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2575 host link and device attached to it. 2576 2577 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2578 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 2579 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2580 The following configurations can be forced. 2581 2582 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2583 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2584 2585 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2586 2587 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2588 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2589 allowed. 2590 2591 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2592 2593 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 2594 2595 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 2596 and both resets. 2597 2598 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 2599 hot-unplug link recovery 2600 2601 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 2602 2603 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 2604 2605 * disable: Disable this device. 2606 2607 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2608 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2609 2610 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 2611 2612 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2613 2614 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2615 Format: <integer> 2616 2617 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2618 Format: <integer> 2619 2620 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2621 Format: <integer> 2622 2623 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2624 Format: <integer> 2625 2626 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2627 { integrity | confidentiality } 2628 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2629 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2630 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2631 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2632 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2633 are also disabled. 2634 2635 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2636 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2637 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2638 number of online CPUs. 2639 2640 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2641 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2642 2643 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2644 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2645 2646 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2647 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2648 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2649 2650 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2651 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2652 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2653 mode during the locktorture test. 2654 2655 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2656 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2657 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2658 2659 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2660 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2661 2662 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2663 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2664 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2665 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2666 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2667 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2668 2669 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2670 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2671 2672 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2673 Enable additional printk() statements. 2674 2675 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2676 Format: <irq> 2677 2678 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2679 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2680 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2681 loglevels are defined as follows: 2682 2683 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2684 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2685 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2686 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2687 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2688 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2689 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2690 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2691 2692 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2693 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2694 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2695 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2696 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2697 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2698 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2699 2700 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2701 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2702 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2703 kernel boot problems. 2704 2705 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2706 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2707 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2708 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2709 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2710 attached printers to be reset. Using 2711 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2712 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2713 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2714 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2715 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2716 port specification list means that device IDs 2717 from each port should be examined, to see if 2718 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2719 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2720 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2721 2722 lpj=n [KNL] 2723 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2724 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2725 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2726 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2727 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2728 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2729 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2730 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2731 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2732 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2733 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2734 hardware. 2735 2736 ltpc= [NET] 2737 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2738 2739 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2740 2741 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2742 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2743 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2744 2745 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2746 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2747 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2748 2749 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 2750 different yeeloong laptops. 2751 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2752 2753 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2754 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2755 2756 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2757 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2758 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2759 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2760 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2761 only takes effect during system bootup. 2762 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2763 which also disables the IO APIC. 2764 2765 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2766 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2767 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2768 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2769 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2770 /dev/loop-control interface. 2771 2772 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2773 2774 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2775 2776 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2777 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2778 2779 mdacon= [MDA] 2780 Format: <first>,<last> 2781 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2782 2783 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2784 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2785 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2786 2787 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2788 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2789 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2790 2791 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2792 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2793 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2794 not have direct access. 2795 2796 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2797 options are: 2798 2799 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2800 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2801 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2802 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2803 2804 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 2805 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 2806 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 2807 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 2808 too. 2809 2810 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 2811 mds=full. 2812 2813 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 2814 2815 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2816 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 2817 2818 1 for test; 2819 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 2820 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 2821 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 2822 2823 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2824 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2825 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2826 belonging to unused RAM. 2827 2828 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 2829 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 2830 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 2831 2832 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2833 memory. 2834 2835 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2836 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2837 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2838 2839 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2840 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2841 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2842 set according to the 2843 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2844 option. 2845 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 2846 2847 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2848 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2849 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2850 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2851 option description. 2852 2853 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2854 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2855 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2856 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2857 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2858 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2859 comma delimited. 2860 Example: 2861 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2862 2863 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2864 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2865 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2866 2867 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2868 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2869 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2870 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2871 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2872 or 2873 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2874 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 2875 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 2876 will be eaten. 2877 2878 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2879 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2880 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2881 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2882 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2883 2884 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 2885 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 2886 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 2887 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 2888 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 2889 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 2890 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 2891 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 2892 2893 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2894 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2895 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2896 Setting this option will scan the memory 2897 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2898 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2899 from using the memory being corrupted. 2900 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2901 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2902 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2903 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2904 2905 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2906 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2907 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2908 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2909 corruption in more or less memory. 2910 2911 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2912 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2913 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2914 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2915 2916 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 2917 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 2918 Format: {on | off (default)} 2919 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 2920 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages) 2921 from the hotadded memory which will allow to 2922 hotadd a lot of memory without requiring 2923 additional memory to do so. 2924 This feature is disabled by default because it 2925 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 2926 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 2927 memory blocks). 2928 The state of the flag can be read in 2929 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 2930 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 2931 the feature is not effective. 2932 2933 This is not compatible with hugetlb_free_vmemmap. If 2934 both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes 2935 precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory. 2936 2937 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest 2938 Format: <integer> 2939 default : 0 <disable> 2940 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2941 performed. Each pass selects another test 2942 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2943 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2944 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2945 regions that are detected. 2946 2947 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 2948 Valid arguments: on, off 2949 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 2950 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 2951 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 2952 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 2953 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 2954 2955 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst 2956 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 2957 2958 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 2959 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 2960 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 2961 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 2962 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 2963 2964 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2965 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst. 2966 2967 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2968 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2969 platforms. 2970 2971 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2972 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2973 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2974 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2975 2976 mga= [HW,DRM] 2977 2978 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2979 physical address is ignored. 2980 2981 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2982 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2983 Default: "0tb" 2984 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2985 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2986 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2987 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2988 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2989 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2990 unconfigured. 2991 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2992 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2993 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2994 VGA shield. 2995 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2996 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2997 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2998 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2999 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3000 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3001 3002 mitigations= 3003 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 3004 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3005 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3006 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3007 3008 off 3009 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3010 improves system performance, but it may also 3011 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3012 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 3013 kpti=0 [ARM64] 3014 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3015 nobp=0 [S390] 3016 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3017 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3018 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3019 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3020 l1tf=off [X86] 3021 mds=off [X86] 3022 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3023 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3024 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3025 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3026 3027 Exceptions: 3028 This does not have any effect on 3029 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3030 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3031 3032 auto (default) 3033 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3034 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3035 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3036 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3037 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3038 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3039 3040 auto,nosmt 3041 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3042 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3043 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3044 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3045 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3046 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3047 3048 mminit_loglevel= 3049 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3050 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3051 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3052 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3053 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3054 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3055 3056 module.sig_enforce 3057 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3058 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3059 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3060 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3061 3062 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3063 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3064 3065 mousedev.tap_time= 3066 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3067 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3068 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3069 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3070 Format: <msecs> 3071 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3072 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3073 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3074 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3075 3076 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 3077 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3078 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3079 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3080 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3081 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3082 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3083 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3084 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3085 is not too small. 3086 3087 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3088 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3089 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3090 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3091 allocations. Use with caution! 3092 3093 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3094 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3095 3096 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3097 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3098 3099 mtdparts= [MTD] 3100 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3101 3102 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3103 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3104 at a time. 3105 3106 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 3107 3108 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 3109 3110 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 3111 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 3112 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 3113 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 3114 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 3115 3116 mtdset= [ARM] 3117 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 3118 3119 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 3120 3121 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3122 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3123 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3124 3125 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3126 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3127 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3128 3129 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3130 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3131 Default is 1. 3132 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3133 using up MTRRs. 3134 3135 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 3136 Format: <integer> 3137 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3138 Default : 1 3139 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3140 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3141 3142 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3143 3144 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3145 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3146 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3147 something different and driver-specific. 3148 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3149 file if at all. 3150 3151 nf_conntrack.acct= 3152 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3153 0 to disable accounting 3154 1 to enable accounting 3155 Default value is 0. 3156 3157 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3158 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3159 3160 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3161 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3162 3163 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3164 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3165 3166 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3167 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3168 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3169 requests. 3170 3171 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3172 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3173 channel should listen. 3174 3175 nfs.cache_getent= 3176 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3177 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3178 3179 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3180 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3181 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3182 3183 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3184 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3185 entries. 3186 3187 nfs.enable_ino64= 3188 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3189 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3190 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3191 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3192 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3193 3194 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3195 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3196 slots the client will assign to the callback 3197 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3198 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3199 a particular server. 3200 3201 nfs.max_session_slots= 3202 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3203 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3204 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3205 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3206 Note that there is little point in setting this 3207 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3208 3209 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3210 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3211 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3212 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3213 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3214 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3215 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3216 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3217 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3218 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3219 back to using the idmapper. 3220 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3221 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3222 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3223 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3224 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3225 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3226 3227 nfs.send_implementation_id = 3228 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3229 information in exchange_id requests. 3230 If zero, no implementation identification information 3231 will be sent. 3232 The default is to send the implementation identification 3233 information. 3234 3235 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 3236 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3237 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3238 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3239 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3240 after the locks are lost. 3241 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3242 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3243 parameter to '1'. 3244 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3245 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3246 3247 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 3248 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3249 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3250 3251 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3252 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3253 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3254 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3255 3256 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3257 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3258 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3259 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3260 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3261 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3262 3263 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3264 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3265 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3266 3267 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3268 when a NMI is triggered. 3269 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3270 3271 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3272 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3273 Valid num: 0 or 1 3274 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3275 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3276 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3277 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3278 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3279 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3280 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3281 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3282 need the box quickly up again. 3283 3284 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3285 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3286 3287 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3288 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3289 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3290 waits 4 seconds. 3291 3292 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3293 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3294 is present. 3295 3296 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3297 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3298 3299 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3300 3301 no_console_suspend 3302 [HW] Never suspend the console 3303 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3304 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3305 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3306 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3307 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3308 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3309 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3310 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3311 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3312 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3313 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3314 turn on/off it dynamically. 3315 3316 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3317 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3318 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3319 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3320 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3321 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3322 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3323 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3324 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3325 is set. 3326 3327 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3328 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3329 but will impact performance. 3330 3331 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3332 3333 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3334 (CPU alternatives feature). 3335 3336 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3337 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3338 3339 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3340 3341 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 3342 on "Classic" PPC cores. 3343 3344 nocache [ARM] 3345 3346 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 3347 3348 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 3349 3350 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3351 3352 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3353 3354 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3355 3356 noexec [IA-64] 3357 3358 noexec [X86] 3359 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 3360 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3361 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 3362 3363 nosmap [X86,PPC] 3364 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3365 even if it is supported by processor. 3366 3367 nosmep [X86,PPC] 3368 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3369 even if it is supported by processor. 3370 3371 noexec32 [X86-64] 3372 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3373 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3374 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3375 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3376 read implies executable mappings 3377 3378 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3379 3380 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3381 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3382 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3383 3384 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3385 3386 nohugevmalloc [PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3387 3388 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3389 Equivalent to smt=1. 3390 3391 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3392 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3393 via the sysfs control file. 3394 3395 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3396 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3397 possible in the system. 3398 3399 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3400 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3401 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3402 option. 3403 3404 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3405 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3406 3407 no_uaccess_flush 3408 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 3409 3410 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3411 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3412 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3413 3414 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3415 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3416 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3417 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3418 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3419 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3420 3421 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3422 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3423 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3424 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3425 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3426 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3427 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3428 3429 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait 3430 in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3431 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3432 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3433 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3434 correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute 3435 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3436 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3437 3438 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3439 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3440 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3441 3442 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3443 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3444 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3445 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3446 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3447 real-time systems. 3448 3449 no_hash_pointers 3450 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3451 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3452 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3453 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3454 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3455 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3456 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3457 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3458 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3459 value printed. Pointers printed via %pK may still be 3460 hashed. This option should only be specified when 3461 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3462 kernels. 3463 3464 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3465 3466 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3467 Valid arguments: on, off 3468 Default: on 3469 3470 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3471 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3472 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3473 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3474 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3475 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3476 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3477 just as if they had also been called out in the 3478 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3479 3480 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3481 3482 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3483 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3484 3485 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3486 broken timer IRQ sources. 3487 3488 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3489 3490 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3491 initial RAM disk. 3492 3493 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3494 remapping. 3495 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3496 3497 nointroute [IA-64] 3498 3499 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3500 3501 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3502 3503 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3504 3505 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3506 fault handling. 3507 3508 no-vmw-sched-clock 3509 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3510 clock and use the default one. 3511 3512 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time 3513 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't 3514 influence scheduler behaviour 3515 3516 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3517 3518 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3519 3520 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 3521 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 3522 3523 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3524 3525 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3526 3527 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3528 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3529 3530 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3531 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3532 irq. 3533 3534 nomodule Disable module load 3535 3536 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3537 pagetables) support. 3538 3539 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3540 3541 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3542 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3543 3544 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3545 with UP alternatives 3546 3547 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 3548 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 3549 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 3550 available to user space applications. 3551 3552 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3553 space. 3554 3555 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3556 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3557 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3558 3559 nosbagart [IA-64] 3560 3561 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 3562 3563 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 3564 3565 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3566 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3567 3568 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3569 3570 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3571 3572 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3573 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3574 3575 nowb [ARM] 3576 3577 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3578 3579 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 3580 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 3581 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 3582 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 3583 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 3584 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 3585 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 3586 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 3587 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 3588 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 3589 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 3590 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 3591 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 3592 3593 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3594 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3595 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3596 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3597 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3598 parameter's value. 3599 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3600 Default: 255 3601 3602 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3603 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3604 SAL PALO. 3605 3606 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3607 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3608 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3609 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3610 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3611 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3612 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3613 hot plugging. 3614 3615 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3616 3617 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only 3618 set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. 3619 3620 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 3621 NUMA balancing. 3622 Allowed values are enable and disable 3623 3624 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3625 'node', 'default' can be specified 3626 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3627 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3628 3629 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3630 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 3631 info. 3632 3633 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3634 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3635 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3636 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3637 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3638 interrupts *may* be lost! 3639 3640 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3641 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3642 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3643 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3644 3645 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3646 process, but there is a small probability of 3647 deadlocking the machine. 3648 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3649 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3650 3651 page_alloc.shuffle= 3652 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3653 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3654 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3655 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3656 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3657 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3658 can be read from sysfs at: 3659 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3660 3661 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3662 Storage of the information about who allocated 3663 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3664 we can turn it on. 3665 on: enable the feature 3666 3667 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3668 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3669 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3670 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3671 on: turn on poisoning 3672 3673 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 3674 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 3675 Format: <integer> 3676 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 3677 reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1). 3678 3679 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3680 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3681 timeout = 0: wait forever 3682 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3683 Format: <timeout> 3684 3685 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3686 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3687 bit 0: print all tasks info 3688 bit 1: print system memory info 3689 bit 2: print timer info 3690 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3691 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3692 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3693 3694 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 3695 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 3696 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 3697 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 3698 called with any of the flags in this set. 3699 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 3700 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 3701 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 3702 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 3703 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 3704 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 3705 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 3706 3707 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3708 on a WARN(). 3709 3710 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 3711 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 3712 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 3713 succeeds in any situation. 3714 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 3715 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 3716 kernel more unstable. 3717 3718 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3719 connected to, default is 0. 3720 Format: <parport#> 3721 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3722 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3723 Format: <mode> 3724 3725 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3726 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3727 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3728 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3729 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3730 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3731 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3732 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3733 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3734 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3735 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3736 are specified on the command line, starting 3737 with parport0. 3738 3739 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3740 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3741 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3742 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3743 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3744 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3745 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3746 3747 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 3748 Format: <int> 3749 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 3750 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 3751 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 3752 3753 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 3754 Format: <int> 3755 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 3756 changes. Disabled by default. 3757 3758 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 3759 Format: <int> 3760 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 3761 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3762 Disabled by default. 3763 3764 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 3765 Format: <int> 3766 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 3767 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3768 Disabled by default. 3769 3770 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3771 Format: <int> 3772 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 3773 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 3774 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 3775 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 3776 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 3777 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 3778 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 3779 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 3780 all channels. 3781 3782 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 3783 Format: <int> 3784 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 3785 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 3786 respectively. Disabled by default. 3787 3788 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 3789 Format: <int> 3790 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 3791 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 3792 respectively. Disabled by default. 3793 3794 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3795 Format: <int> 3796 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 3797 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 3798 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 3799 All modes allowed by default. 3800 3801 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 3802 Format: <int> 3803 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 3804 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 3805 3806 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3807 Format: <int> 3808 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 3809 platform configuration and the use of other driver 3810 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 3811 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 3812 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 3813 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 3814 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 3815 By default all supported ports are probed. 3816 3817 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 3818 Format: <int> 3819 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 3820 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 3821 3822 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 3823 Format: <int> 3824 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 3825 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 3826 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 3827 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 3828 0 otherwise. 3829 3830 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3831 Format: <int> 3832 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 3833 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 3834 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 3835 allowed by default. 3836 3837 pause_on_oops= 3838 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 3839 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 3840 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 3841 3842 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 3843 3844 pcd. [PARIDE] 3845 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 3846 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3847 3848 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 3849 3850 Some options herein operate on a specific device 3851 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 3852 specified in one of the following formats: 3853 3854 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 3855 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 3856 3857 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 3858 bus/device/function address which may change 3859 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 3860 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 3861 by other kernel parameters. If the 3862 domain is left unspecified, it is 3863 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 3864 to a device through multiple device/function 3865 addresses can be specified after the base 3866 address (this is more robust against 3867 renumbering issues). The second format 3868 selects devices using IDs from the 3869 configuration space which may match multiple 3870 devices in the system. 3871 3872 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 3873 changes anything 3874 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 3875 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 3876 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 3877 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 3878 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 3879 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 3880 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 3881 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 3882 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3883 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 3884 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 3885 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3886 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 3887 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 3888 bus number. The config space is then accessed 3889 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 3890 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 3891 on the configuration access mechanisms. 3892 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 3893 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3894 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 3895 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 3896 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 3897 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 3898 Configuration 3899 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 3900 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 3901 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 3902 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 3903 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3904 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 3905 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 3906 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 3907 should never be necessary. 3908 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 3909 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 3910 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 3911 when the system masks IRQs. 3912 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 3913 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 3914 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 3915 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 3916 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 3917 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 3918 on several machines and they hang the machine 3919 when used, but on other computers it's the only 3920 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 3921 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 3922 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 3923 motherboard. 3924 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 3925 Use with caution as certain devices share 3926 address decoders between ROMs and other 3927 resources. 3928 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 3929 expansion ROMs that do not already have 3930 BIOS assigned address ranges. 3931 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 3932 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 3933 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 3934 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 3935 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 3936 this way. 3937 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 3938 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 3939 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 3940 F0000h-100000h range. 3941 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 3942 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 3943 secondary buses and you want to tell it 3944 explicitly which ones they are. 3945 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 3946 numbers ourselves, overriding 3947 whatever the firmware may have done. 3948 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 3949 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 3950 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 3951 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 3952 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 3953 IRQ routing is enabled. 3954 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 3955 or for PCI scanning. 3956 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 3957 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 3958 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 3959 please report a bug. 3960 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 3961 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 3962 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 3963 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 3964 so this option is a temporary workaround 3965 for broken drivers that don't call it. 3966 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 3967 handle more pci cards 3968 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 3969 This might help on some broken boards which 3970 machine check when some devices' config space 3971 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 3972 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 3973 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3974 This sorting is done to get a device 3975 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 3976 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3977 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 3978 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 3979 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 3980 supported by all devices below the root complex. 3981 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 3982 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 3983 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 3984 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 3985 or bus can support) for best performance. 3986 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 3987 every device is guaranteed to support. This 3988 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 3989 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 3990 reduced performance. This also guarantees 3991 that hot-added devices will work. 3992 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3993 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 3994 The default value is 256 bytes. 3995 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3996 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 3997 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 3998 resource_alignment= 3999 Format: 4000 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4001 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4002 aligned memory resources. How to 4003 specify the device is described above. 4004 If <order of align> is not specified, 4005 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4006 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4007 windows need to be expanded. 4008 To specify the alignment for several 4009 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4010 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4011 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4012 for 4096-byte alignment. 4013 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4014 end-to-end CRC checking). 4015 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4016 the default. 4017 off: Turn ECRC off 4018 on: Turn ECRC on. 4019 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4020 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4021 Default size is 256 bytes. 4022 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4023 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4024 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4025 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4026 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4027 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4028 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4029 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4030 MMIO_PREF window. 4031 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4032 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4033 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4034 Default is 1. 4035 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4036 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4037 accommodate resources required by all child 4038 devices. 4039 off: Turn realloc off 4040 on: Turn realloc on 4041 realloc same as realloc=on 4042 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4043 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4044 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4045 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4046 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4047 port. 4048 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4049 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4050 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4051 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4052 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4053 taints the kernel. 4054 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4055 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4056 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4057 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4058 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4059 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4060 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4061 this removes isolation between devices and 4062 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4063 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4064 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4065 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4066 one PCI domain per PCI function 4067 4068 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 4069 Management. 4070 off Disable ASPM. 4071 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4072 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4073 4074 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4075 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4076 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4077 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4078 also tries to use these services. 4079 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4080 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4081 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4082 hotplug). 4083 4084 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4085 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4086 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4087 4088 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4089 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4090 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4091 4092 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4093 4094 pd_ignore_unused 4095 [PM] 4096 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4097 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4098 for debug and development, but should not be 4099 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4100 4101 pd. [PARIDE] 4102 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4103 4104 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4105 boot time. 4106 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4107 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4108 4109 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4110 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4111 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4112 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4113 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4114 and performance comparison. 4115 4116 pf. [PARIDE] 4117 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4118 4119 pg. [PARIDE] 4120 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4121 4122 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4123 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4124 4125 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4126 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4127 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4128 4129 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4130 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4131 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4132 4133 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4134 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4135 4136 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4137 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4138 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4139 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4140 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4141 possible settings and some assignment information. 4142 4143 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4144 { off } 4145 4146 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4147 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4148 4149 pnp_reserve_irq= 4150 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4151 4152 pnp_reserve_dma= 4153 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4154 4155 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4156 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4157 4158 pnp_reserve_mem= 4159 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4160 autoconfiguration. 4161 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4162 4163 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4164 Default is 21. 4165 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4166 may be specified. 4167 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4168 4169 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4170 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4171 platform machine description specific power_save 4172 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4173 execution priority. 4174 4175 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4176 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4177 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4178 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4179 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4180 4181 ppc_tm= [PPC] 4182 Format: {"off"} 4183 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4184 4185 preempt= [KNL] 4186 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4187 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4188 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4189 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4190 can be preempted anytime. 4191 4192 print-fatal-signals= 4193 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4194 4195 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4196 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4197 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4198 coredump - etc. 4199 4200 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4201 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4202 4203 default: off. 4204 4205 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4206 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4207 panics 4208 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4209 default: disabled 4210 4211 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4212 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4213 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4214 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4215 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4216 in order to provide more debug information. 4217 Format: <bool> 4218 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4219 4220 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4221 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4222 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4223 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4224 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4225 Default: ratelimit 4226 4227 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4228 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4229 4230 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4231 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4232 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4233 4234 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4235 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4236 instead using the legacy FADT method 4237 4238 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4239 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4240 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4241 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4242 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4243 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4244 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4245 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4246 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4247 statistical time based profiling. 4248 4249 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4250 4251 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4252 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4253 that). 4254 Format: <bool> 4255 4256 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4257 tracking. 4258 Format: <bool> 4259 4260 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4261 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4262 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4263 per second. 4264 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4265 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4266 (0 = never). 4267 psmouse.resolution= 4268 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4269 psmouse.smartscroll= 4270 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4271 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4272 4273 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4274 4275 pt. [PARIDE] 4276 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4277 4278 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4279 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4280 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4281 system calls and interrupts. 4282 4283 on - unconditionally enable 4284 off - unconditionally disable 4285 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4286 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4287 4288 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4289 4290 nopti [X86-64] 4291 Equivalent to pti=off 4292 4293 pty.legacy_count= 4294 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4295 default number. 4296 4297 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4298 4299 r128= [HW,DRM] 4300 4301 raid= [HW,RAID] 4302 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4303 4304 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4305 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4306 4307 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4308 4309 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 4310 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 4311 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 4312 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4313 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 4314 4315 randomize_kstack_offset= 4316 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4317 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4318 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4319 that depend on stack address determinism or 4320 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4321 available on architectures that have defined 4322 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4323 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4324 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4325 4326 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4327 4328 cec_disable [X86] 4329 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4330 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4331 4332 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 4333 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 4334 4335 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 4336 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 4337 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be 4338 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that 4339 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and 4340 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number. 4341 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs, 4342 which can be useful for HPC and real-time 4343 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency 4344 for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4345 4346 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4347 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4348 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4349 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4350 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4351 This improves the real-time response for the 4352 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4353 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4354 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4355 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4356 4357 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4358 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4359 process in one batch. 4360 4361 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4362 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4363 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4364 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4365 4366 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4367 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4368 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4369 4370 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4371 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4372 RCU grace-period initialization. 4373 4374 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4375 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4376 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4377 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4378 the rcu_node combining tree. 4379 4380 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 4381 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 4382 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 4383 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 4384 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 4385 4386 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 4387 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 4388 to zero. 4389 4390 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4391 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4392 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4393 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4394 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4395 4396 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4397 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4398 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4399 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4400 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4401 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4402 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4403 4404 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4405 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4406 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4407 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4408 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4409 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4410 condition. 4411 4412 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 4413 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 4414 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 4415 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 4416 4417 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4418 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4419 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4420 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4421 and maximum value is HZ. 4422 4423 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4424 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4425 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4426 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4427 4428 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4429 Set required age in jiffies for a 4430 given grace period before RCU starts 4431 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4432 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4433 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4434 a value based on the most recent settings 4435 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4436 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4437 This calculated value may be viewed in 4438 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4439 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4440 overwritten. 4441 4442 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4443 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4444 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4445 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4446 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4447 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4448 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4449 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4450 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4451 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4452 4453 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4454 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4455 each group, which defaults to the square root 4456 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4457 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4458 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4459 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4460 4461 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4462 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4463 batch limiting is disabled. 4464 4465 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4466 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4467 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4468 4469 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4470 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4471 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4472 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4473 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4474 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4475 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4476 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4477 4478 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 4479 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 4480 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 4481 4482 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4483 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4484 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4485 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4486 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4487 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4488 4489 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 4490 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 4491 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 4492 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 4493 Larger delays increase the probability of 4494 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 4495 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 4496 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 4497 4498 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4499 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4500 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4501 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4502 4503 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 4504 Measure performance of asynchronous 4505 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4506 4507 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4508 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4509 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4510 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4511 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4512 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4513 4514 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 4515 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4516 grace-period primitives. 4517 4518 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4519 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4520 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4521 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4522 interference. 4523 4524 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4525 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4526 4527 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 4528 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4529 If this parameter has the same value as 4530 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 4531 and double-argument variants are tested. 4532 4533 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 4534 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4535 If this parameter has the same value as 4536 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 4537 and double-argument variants are tested. 4538 4539 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4540 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4541 4542 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4543 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4544 4545 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4546 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 4547 of allocations and frees. 4548 4549 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4550 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4551 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4552 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4553 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4554 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4555 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4556 a single reader. 4557 4558 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 4559 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4560 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 4561 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4562 4563 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL] 4564 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4565 4566 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4567 Shut the system down after performance tests 4568 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4569 testing. 4570 4571 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 4572 Enable additional printk() statements. 4573 4574 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4575 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4576 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4577 no holdoff. 4578 4579 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4580 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4581 in microseconds. 4582 4583 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4584 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4585 in microseconds. 4586 4587 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4588 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4589 in seconds. 4590 4591 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4592 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4593 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4594 4595 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4596 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4597 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4598 4599 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4600 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4601 forward-progress tests. 4602 4603 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4604 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4605 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4606 testing. 4607 4608 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4609 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4610 primitives, if available. 4611 4612 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4613 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4614 4615 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4616 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4617 update-side primitives, if available. 4618 4619 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4620 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4621 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4622 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4623 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4624 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4625 they are all non-zero. 4626 4627 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 4628 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 4629 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 4630 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 4631 4632 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 4633 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 4634 This can of course result in splats, and is 4635 intended to test the ability of things like 4636 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 4637 such leaks. 4638 4639 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 4640 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 4641 4642 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 4643 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 4644 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 4645 test, hence the "fake". 4646 4647 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 4648 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 4649 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 4650 4651 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 4652 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 4653 callback-offload toggling attempts. 4654 4655 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 4656 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4657 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4658 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 4659 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4660 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4661 4662 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 4663 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 4664 4665 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4666 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 4667 4668 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4669 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 4670 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 4671 4672 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 4673 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 4674 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 4675 task-exit processing. 4676 4677 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 4678 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 4679 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 4680 is spawned. 4681 4682 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 4683 The delay, in seconds, between successive 4684 read-then-exit testing episodes. 4685 4686 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 4687 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 4688 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 4689 during the rcutorture test. 4690 4691 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4692 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 4693 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 4694 4695 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 4696 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 4697 warnings, zero to disable. 4698 4699 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 4700 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 4701 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition 4702 to any other stall-related activity. 4703 4704 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 4705 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 4706 4707 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 4708 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 4709 4710 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 4711 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 4712 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 4713 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 4714 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 4715 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 4716 4717 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 4718 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 4719 4720 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 4721 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 4722 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 4723 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 4724 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 4725 4726 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 4727 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 4728 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 4729 under test support RCU priority boosting. 4730 4731 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 4732 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 4733 4734 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 4735 Interval (s) between each boost test. 4736 4737 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 4738 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 4739 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 4740 4741 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 4742 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4743 4744 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 4745 Enable additional printk() statements. 4746 4747 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 4748 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 4749 stall warning. 4750 4751 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 4752 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4753 4754 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 4755 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 4756 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 4757 during early boot, that is, during the time 4758 before the init task is spawned. 4759 4760 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4761 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4762 4763 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 4764 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 4765 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 4766 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 4767 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 4768 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 4769 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4770 4771 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 4772 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 4773 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 4774 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 4775 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 4776 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 4777 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 4778 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 4779 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4780 4781 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 4782 Once boot has completed (that is, after 4783 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 4784 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 4785 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4786 4787 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 4788 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 4789 it to the value one, that is, converting any 4790 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 4791 period to instead use normal non-expedited 4792 grace-period processing. 4793 4794 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 4795 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 4796 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 4797 of a given grace period. Setting a large 4798 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 4799 but lengthens grace periods. 4800 4801 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4802 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 4803 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 4804 to zero. 4805 4806 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 4807 Run the RCU early boot self tests 4808 4809 rdinit= [KNL] 4810 Format: <full_path> 4811 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 4812 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 4813 4814 rdrand= [X86] 4815 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 4816 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 4817 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 4818 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 4819 path). 4820 4821 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 4822 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 4823 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 4824 mba. 4825 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 4826 rdt=cmt,!mba 4827 4828 reboot= [KNL] 4829 Format (x86 or x86_64): 4830 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 4831 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 4832 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 4833 [[,]f[orce] 4834 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 4835 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 4836 reboot only), 4837 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 4838 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 4839 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 4840 to be used for rebooting. 4841 4842 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4843 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4844 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4845 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4846 interference. 4847 4848 refscale.loops= [KNL] 4849 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 4850 primitive under test. Increasing this number 4851 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 4852 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 4853 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 4854 x86 laptops. 4855 4856 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4857 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 4858 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 4859 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 4860 4861 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 4862 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 4863 the console log. 4864 4865 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 4866 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 4867 measured in microseconds. 4868 4869 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 4870 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 4871 4872 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4873 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 4874 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 4875 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 4876 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 4877 4878 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 4879 Enable additional printk() statements. 4880 4881 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 4882 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 4883 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 4884 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 4885 specified. 4886 4887 relax_domain_level= 4888 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 4889 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 4890 4891 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 4892 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 4893 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 4894 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 4895 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 4896 4897 reservetop= [X86-32] 4898 Format: nn[KMG] 4899 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 4900 address space. 4901 4902 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 4903 during initialization. 4904 4905 resume= [SWSUSP] 4906 Specify the partition device for software suspend 4907 Format: 4908 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 4909 4910 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 4911 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 4912 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 4913 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 4914 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 4915 4916 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4917 read the resume files 4918 4919 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 4920 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4921 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4922 4923 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 4924 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 4925 present during boot. 4926 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 4927 no Disable hibernation and resume. 4928 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 4929 (that will set all pages holding image data 4930 during restoration read-only). 4931 4932 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 4933 4934 rfkill.default_state= 4935 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 4936 etc. communication is blocked by default. 4937 1 Unblocked. 4938 4939 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 4940 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 4941 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4942 blocked and the previous configuration. 4943 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4944 blocked and everything unblocked. 4945 4946 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4947 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 4948 4949 ring3mwait=disable 4950 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 4951 CPUs. 4952 4953 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 4954 4955 rodata= [KNL] 4956 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 4957 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 4958 4959 rockchip.usb_uart 4960 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 4961 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 4962 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 4963 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 4964 4965 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 4966 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 4967 4968 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4969 mount the root filesystem 4970 4971 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 4972 4973 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 4974 4975 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 4976 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4977 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4978 4979 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 4980 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 4981 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 4982 managed by CMA. 4983 4984 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 4985 4986 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 4987 4988 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 4989 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 4990 strict 4991 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 4992 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 4993 which is faster. 4994 4995 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 4996 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 4997 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 4998 factor of the size of main memory. 4999 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5000 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5001 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5002 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5003 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5004 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5005 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5006 5007 sa1100ir [NET] 5008 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5009 5010 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5011 5012 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5013 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5014 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5015 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5016 5017 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5018 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5019 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5020 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5021 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5022 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5023 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5024 value. 5025 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5026 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5027 1 64 ms 5028 2 128 ms 5029 and so on. 5030 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5031 Default is 0. 5032 5033 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5034 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5035 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5036 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5037 tests. 5038 5039 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5040 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5041 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5042 default) disables this feature. Please note 5043 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5044 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5045 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5046 5047 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5048 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5049 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5050 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5051 equal to the number of CPUs. 5052 5053 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5054 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5055 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 5056 5057 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5058 Number seconds to wait between successive 5059 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 5060 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 5061 5062 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5063 The number of seconds following the start of the 5064 test after which to shut down the system. The 5065 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 5066 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 5067 5068 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5069 The number of seconds between outputting the 5070 current test statistics to the console. A value 5071 of zero disables statistics output. 5072 5073 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 5074 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 5075 to the set of CPUs under test. 5076 5077 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 5078 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 5079 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 5080 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 5081 functions. 5082 5083 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 5084 Enable additional printk() statements. 5085 5086 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 5087 The probability weighting to use for the 5088 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 5089 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 5090 default if all other weights are -1. However, 5091 if at least one weight has some other value, a 5092 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 5093 5094 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 5095 The probability weighting to use for the 5096 smp_call_function_single() function with a 5097 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5098 5099 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 5100 The probability weighting to use for the 5101 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 5102 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5103 Note well that setting a high probability for 5104 this weighting can place serious IPI load 5105 on the system. 5106 5107 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 5108 The probability weighting to use for the 5109 smp_call_function_many() function with a 5110 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5111 and weight_many. 5112 5113 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 5114 The probability weighting to use for the 5115 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 5116 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 5117 weight_many. 5118 5119 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 5120 The probability weighting to use for the 5121 smp_call_function_all() function with a 5122 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5123 and weight_many. 5124 5125 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 5126 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 5127 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 5128 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5129 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 5130 1 -- enable. 5131 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 5132 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 5133 5134 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 5135 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 5136 "lsm=" parameter. 5137 5138 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 5139 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5140 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 5141 0 -- disable. 5142 1 -- enable. 5143 Default value is 1. 5144 5145 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 5146 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5147 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 5148 0 -- disable. 5149 1 -- enable. 5150 Default value is set via kernel config option. 5151 5152 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 5153 5154 shapers= [NET] 5155 Maximal number of shapers. 5156 5157 simeth= [IA-64] 5158 simscsi= 5159 5160 slram= [HW,MTD] 5161 5162 slab_merge [MM] 5163 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 5164 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 5165 5166 slab_nomerge [MM] 5167 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 5168 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 5169 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 5170 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 5171 layout control by attackers can usually be 5172 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 5173 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 5174 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 5175 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 5176 own. 5177 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5178 5179 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 5180 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5181 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5182 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 5183 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 5184 5185 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 5186 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 5187 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5188 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5189 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5190 last alloc / free. For more information see 5191 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5192 5193 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 5194 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5195 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5196 fragmentation. For more information see 5197 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5198 5199 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 5200 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 5201 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 5202 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 5203 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 5204 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 5205 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 5206 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5207 5208 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 5209 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 5210 lower than slub_max_order. 5211 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5212 5213 slub_merge [MM, SLUB] 5214 Same with slab_merge. 5215 5216 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 5217 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 5218 See slab_nomerge for more information. 5219 5220 smart2= [HW] 5221 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 5222 5223 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 5224 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 5225 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 5226 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 5227 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 5228 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 5229 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 5230 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 5231 1: Fast pin select (default) 5232 2: ATC IRMode 5233 5234 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 5235 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 5236 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 5237 actual hardware limit. 5238 Format: <integer> 5239 Default: -1 (no limit) 5240 5241 softlockup_panic= 5242 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 5243 Format: 0 | 1 5244 5245 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 5246 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 5247 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 5248 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 5249 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 5250 5251 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 5252 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 5253 backtraces on all cpus. 5254 Format: 0 | 1 5255 5256 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 5257 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 5258 5259 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5260 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 5261 The default operation protects the kernel from 5262 user space attacks. 5263 5264 on - unconditionally enable, implies 5265 spectre_v2_user=on 5266 off - unconditionally disable, implies 5267 spectre_v2_user=off 5268 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5269 vulnerable 5270 5271 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 5272 mitigation method at run time according to the 5273 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 5274 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 5275 compiler with which the kernel was built. 5276 5277 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 5278 against user space to user space task attacks. 5279 5280 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 5281 the user space protections. 5282 5283 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 5284 5285 retpoline - replace indirect branches 5286 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline 5287 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk 5288 5289 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5290 spectre_v2=auto. 5291 5292 spectre_v2_user= 5293 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5294 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 5295 user space tasks 5296 5297 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 5298 enforced by spectre_v2=on 5299 5300 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 5301 enforced by spectre_v2=off 5302 5303 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 5304 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 5305 per thread. The mitigation control state 5306 is inherited on fork. 5307 5308 prctl,ibpb 5309 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 5310 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5311 always when switching between different user 5312 space processes. 5313 5314 seccomp 5315 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 5316 threads will enable the mitigation unless 5317 they explicitly opt out. 5318 5319 seccomp,ibpb 5320 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 5321 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5322 always when switching between different 5323 user space processes. 5324 5325 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 5326 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 5327 5328 Default mitigation: "prctl" 5329 5330 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5331 spectre_v2_user=auto. 5332 5333 spec_store_bypass_disable= 5334 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 5335 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 5336 5337 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 5338 a common industry wide performance optimization known 5339 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 5340 to the same memory location may not be observed by 5341 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 5342 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 5343 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 5344 end of a particular speculation execution window. 5345 5346 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5347 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 5348 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 5349 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 5350 5351 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 5352 Bypass optimization is used. 5353 5354 On x86 the options are: 5355 5356 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 5357 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 5358 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 5359 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 5360 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 5361 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 5362 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 5363 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 5364 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 5365 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 5366 for a process by default. The state of the control 5367 is inherited on fork. 5368 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 5369 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 5370 5371 Default mitigations: 5372 X86: "prctl" 5373 5374 On powerpc the options are: 5375 5376 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 5377 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 5378 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 5379 exit. 5380 off - No action. 5381 5382 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5383 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 5384 5385 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 5386 spia_fio_base= 5387 spia_pedr= 5388 spia_peddr= 5389 5390 split_lock_detect= 5391 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 5392 5393 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 5394 instructions that access data across cache line 5395 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 5396 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 5397 bus lock detection. 5398 5399 off - not enabled 5400 5401 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 5402 about applications triggering the #AC 5403 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 5404 the default on CPUs that support split lock 5405 detection or bus lock detection. Default 5406 behavior is by #AC if both features are 5407 enabled in hardware. 5408 5409 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 5410 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 5411 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 5412 both features are enabled in hardware. 5413 5414 ratelimit:N - 5415 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 5416 per second for bus lock detection. 5417 0 < N <= 1000. 5418 5419 N/A for split lock detection. 5420 5421 5422 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 5423 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 5424 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 5425 mode. 5426 5427 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 5428 CPL > 0. 5429 5430 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 5431 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 5432 (SRBDS) mitigation. 5433 5434 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 5435 exploit which can leak bits from the random 5436 number generator. 5437 5438 By default, this issue is mitigated by 5439 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 5440 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 5441 much slower. Among other effects, this will 5442 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 5443 5444 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 5445 the following option: 5446 5447 off: Disable mitigation and remove 5448 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 5449 5450 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 5451 Specifies how frequently to check for 5452 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 5453 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 5454 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 5455 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 5456 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 5457 are ignored. 5458 5459 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 5460 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 5461 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 5462 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 5463 grace period will be considered for automatic 5464 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 5465 expediting. 5466 5467 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 5468 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 5469 5470 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 5471 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 5472 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 5473 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 5474 5475 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 5476 for both kernel and userspace 5477 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 5478 for both kernel and userspace 5479 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 5480 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 5481 to allow userspace to register its 5482 interest in being mitigated too. 5483 5484 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 5485 override the default stack gap protection. The value 5486 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 5487 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 5488 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 5489 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 5490 5491 stack_depot_disable= [KNL] 5492 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 5493 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 5494 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 5495 to false. 5496 5497 stacktrace [FTRACE] 5498 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 5499 5500 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 5501 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 5502 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 5503 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 5504 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 5505 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 5506 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 5507 5508 sti= [PARISC,HW] 5509 Format: <num> 5510 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 5511 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 5512 as the initial boot-console. 5513 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5514 5515 sti_font= [HW] 5516 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5517 5518 stifb= [HW] 5519 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 5520 5521 strict_sas_size= 5522 [X86] 5523 Format: <bool> 5524 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 5525 against the required signal frame size which 5526 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 5527 be used to filter out binaries which have 5528 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 5529 5530 sunrpc.min_resvport= 5531 sunrpc.max_resvport= 5532 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5533 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 5534 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 5535 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 5536 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 5537 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 5538 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 5539 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 5540 maximum port values. 5541 5542 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 5543 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5544 Limit the number of requests that the server will 5545 process in parallel from a single connection. 5546 The default value is 0 (no limit). 5547 5548 sunrpc.pool_mode= 5549 [NFS] 5550 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 5551 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 5552 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 5553 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 5554 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 5555 NFS server is running. 5556 5557 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 5558 automatically using heuristics 5559 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 5560 percpu one pool for each CPU 5561 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 5562 to global on non-NUMA machines) 5563 5564 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 5565 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 5566 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5567 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 5568 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 5569 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 5570 improve throughput, but will also increase the 5571 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 5572 5573 suspend.pm_test_delay= 5574 [SUSPEND] 5575 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 5576 mode before resuming the system (see 5577 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 5578 is set. Default value is 5. 5579 5580 svm= [PPC] 5581 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 5582 This parameter controls use of the Protected 5583 Execution Facility on pSeries. 5584 5585 swapaccount=[0|1] 5586 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 5587 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 5588 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) 5589 5590 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 5591 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 5592 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 5593 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 5594 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 5595 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 5596 5597 switches= [HW,M68k] 5598 5599 sysctl.*= [KNL] 5600 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 5601 process, as if the value was written to the respective 5602 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 5603 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 5604 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 5605 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 5606 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 5607 5608 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 5609 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 5610 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 5611 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 5612 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 5613 in older udev will not work anymore. 5614 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 5615 the kernel configuration. 5616 5617 sysrq_always_enabled 5618 [KNL] 5619 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 5620 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 5621 Useful for debugging. 5622 5623 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5624 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 5625 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 5626 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 5627 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 5628 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 5629 5630 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 5631 5632 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 5633 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 5634 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 5635 as the system sleep state during system startup with 5636 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 5637 The system is woken from this state using a 5638 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 5639 5640 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5641 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 5642 5643 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 5644 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 5645 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 5646 5647 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 5648 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 5649 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 5650 5651 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 5652 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 5653 critical and hot trip points. 5654 5655 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 5656 1: disable ACPI thermal control 5657 5658 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 5659 -1: disable all passive trip points 5660 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 5661 value 5662 5663 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 5664 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 5665 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 5666 0: no polling (default) 5667 5668 threadirqs [KNL] 5669 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 5670 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 5671 5672 topology= [S390] 5673 Format: {off | on} 5674 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 5675 topology information if the hardware supports this. 5676 The scheduler will make use of this information and 5677 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 5678 Default is on. 5679 5680 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 5681 Format: {off} 5682 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 5683 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 5684 LPAR. 5685 5686 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 5687 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 5688 until after init has spawned. 5689 5690 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 5691 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 5692 even if there were no errors. This can be a 5693 very costly operation when many torture tests 5694 are running concurrently, especially on systems 5695 with rotating-rust storage. 5696 5697 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 5698 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 5699 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 5700 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 5701 5702 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 5703 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 5704 5705 tp720= [HW,PS2] 5706 5707 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 5708 Format: integer pcr id 5709 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 5710 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 5711 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 5712 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 5713 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 5714 are saved. 5715 5716 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 5717 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 5718 5719 trace_event=[event-list] 5720 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 5721 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 5722 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 5723 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 5724 5725 trace_options=[option-list] 5726 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 5727 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 5728 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 5729 to echo the option name into 5730 5731 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 5732 5733 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 5734 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 5735 5736 trace_options=stacktrace 5737 5738 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 5739 section. 5740 5741 tp_printk[FTRACE] 5742 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 5743 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 5744 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 5745 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 5746 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 5747 5748 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 5749 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 5750 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 5751 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 5752 5753 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 5754 to stop the printing of events to console at 5755 late_initcall_sync. 5756 5757 ** CAUTION ** 5758 5759 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 5760 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 5761 the system to live lock. 5762 5763 tp_printk_stop_on_boot[FTRACE] 5764 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 5765 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 5766 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 5767 make the system inoperable. 5768 5769 This command line option will stop the printing of events 5770 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 5771 5772 traceoff_on_warning 5773 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 5774 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 5775 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 5776 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 5777 5778 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 5779 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 5780 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 5781 5782 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 5783 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 5784 5785 transparent_hugepage= 5786 [KNL] 5787 Format: [always|madvise|never] 5788 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 5789 with respect to transparent hugepages. 5790 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 5791 for more details. 5792 5793 trusted.source= [KEYS] 5794 Format: <string> 5795 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 5796 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 5797 sources: 5798 - "tpm" 5799 - "tee" 5800 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 5801 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 5802 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 5803 successfully during iteration. 5804 5805 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 5806 Format: <string> 5807 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 5808 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 5809 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 5810 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 5811 virtualized environment. 5812 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 5813 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 5814 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 5815 can add overhead. 5816 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 5817 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 5818 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 5819 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 5820 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 5821 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 5822 acceptable). 5823 5824 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 5825 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 5826 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 5827 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 5828 Format: <unsigned int> 5829 5830 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 5831 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 5832 support TSX control. 5833 5834 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 5835 5836 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 5837 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 5838 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 5839 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 5840 so there may be unknown security risks associated 5841 with leaving it enabled. 5842 5843 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 5844 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 5845 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 5846 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 5847 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 5848 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 5849 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 5850 5851 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 5852 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 5853 5854 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 5855 5856 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 5857 for more details. 5858 5859 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 5860 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 5861 5862 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 5863 certain CPUs that support Transactional 5864 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 5865 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 5866 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 5867 conditions. 5868 5869 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5870 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 5871 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 5872 access. 5873 5874 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 5875 options are: 5876 5877 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 5878 if TSX is enabled. 5879 5880 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 5881 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 5882 is not disabled because CPU is not 5883 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 5884 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 5885 5886 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 5887 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 5888 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 5889 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 5890 5891 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5892 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 5893 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 5894 required and doesn't provide any additional 5895 mitigation. 5896 5897 For details see: 5898 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 5899 5900 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 5901 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 5902 Format: 5903 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 5904 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 5905 5906 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 5907 happen after console_init() and before a proper 5908 console driver takes over, this boot options might 5909 help "seeing" what's going on. 5910 5911 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5912 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 5913 5914 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 5915 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 5916 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 5917 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 5918 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 5919 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 5920 reported either. 5921 5922 unknown_nmi_panic 5923 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 5924 5925 usbcore.authorized_default= 5926 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 5927 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 5928 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 5929 if device connected to internal port) 5930 5931 usbcore.autosuspend= 5932 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 5933 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 5934 is the time required before an idle device will be 5935 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 5936 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 5937 5938 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 5939 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 5940 5941 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 5942 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 5943 (default = 65536). 5944 5945 usbcore.blinkenlights= 5946 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 5947 5948 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 5949 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 5950 scheme (default 0 = off). 5951 5952 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 5953 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 5954 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 5955 5956 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 5957 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 5958 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 5959 5960 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 5961 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 5962 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 5963 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 5964 5965 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 5966 5967 usbcore.quirks= 5968 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 5969 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 5970 commas. Each entry has the form 5971 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 5972 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 5973 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 5974 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 5975 the following meanings: 5976 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 5977 descriptors must not be fetched using 5978 a 255-byte read); 5979 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 5980 correctly so reset it instead); 5981 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 5982 Set-Interface requests); 5983 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 5984 handle its Configuration or Interface 5985 strings); 5986 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 5987 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 5988 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 5989 more interface descriptions than the 5990 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 5991 talking to these interfaces); 5992 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 5993 during initialization, after we read 5994 the device descriptor); 5995 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 5996 high speed and super speed interrupt 5997 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 5998 require the interval in microframes (1 5999 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 6000 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 6001 (bInterval-1). 6002 Devices with this quirk report their 6003 bInterval as the result of this 6004 calculation instead of the exponent 6005 variable used in the calculation); 6006 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 6007 handle device_qualifier descriptor 6008 requests); 6009 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 6010 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 6011 remote wakeup capability); 6012 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 6013 Power Management); 6014 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 6015 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 6016 frames instead of the USB 2.0 6017 calculation); 6018 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 6019 to be disconnected before suspend to 6020 prevent spurious wakeup); 6021 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 6022 pause after every control message); 6023 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 6024 delay after resetting its port); 6025 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 6026 6027 usbhid.mousepoll= 6028 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 6029 6030 usbhid.jspoll= 6031 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 6032 6033 usbhid.kbpoll= 6034 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 6035 6036 usb-storage.delay_use= 6037 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 6038 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 6039 6040 usb-storage.quirks= 6041 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 6042 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 6043 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 6044 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 6045 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 6046 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 6047 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 6048 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 6049 of sense data, not on uas); 6050 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 6051 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 6052 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 6053 device capacity by one sector); 6054 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 6055 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 6056 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 6057 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 6058 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 6059 command, uas only); 6060 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 6061 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 6062 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 6063 reported device capacity by one 6064 sector if the number is odd); 6065 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 6066 device); 6067 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 6068 command, uas only); 6069 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 6070 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 6071 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 6072 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 6073 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 6074 not on uas); 6075 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 6076 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 6077 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 6078 reported by the device, not on uas); 6079 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 6080 by default, not on uas); 6081 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 6082 bogus residue values, not on uas); 6083 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 6084 Logical Unit); 6085 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 6086 commands, uas only); 6087 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 6088 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 6089 medium is write-protected). 6090 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 6091 even if the device claims no cache, 6092 not on uas) 6093 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 6094 6095 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 6096 Format: <int> 6097 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 6098 1 - undefined instruction events 6099 2 - system calls 6100 4 - invalid data aborts 6101 8 - SIGSEGV faults 6102 16 - SIGBUS faults 6103 Example: user_debug=31 6104 6105 userpte= 6106 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 6107 6108 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 6109 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 6110 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 6111 6112 vdso= [X86,SH] 6113 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 6114 6115 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 6116 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 6117 6118 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 6119 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 6120 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 6121 6122 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 6123 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 6124 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 6125 6126 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 6127 alias for vdso32=0. 6128 6129 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 6130 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 6131 6132 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 6133 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 6134 6135 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 6136 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 6137 6138 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 6139 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 6140 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 6141 level and then send out the event to user space through 6142 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 6143 will only send out the event without touching backlight 6144 brightness level. 6145 default: 1 6146 6147 virtio_mmio.device= 6148 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 6149 6150 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 6151 where: 6152 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 6153 like K, M and G) 6154 <baseaddr> := physical base address 6155 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 6156 request_irq()) 6157 <id> := (optional) platform device id 6158 example: 6159 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 6160 6161 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 6162 6163 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 6164 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 6165 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 6166 Use vga=ask for menu. 6167 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 6168 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 6169 6170 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 6171 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 6172 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 6173 All options are enabled by default, and this 6174 interface is meant to allow for selectively 6175 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 6176 debugging features. 6177 6178 Available options are: 6179 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 6180 - Disable all of the above options 6181 6182 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 6183 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 6184 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 6185 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 6186 mapped kernel RAM. 6187 6188 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 6189 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 6190 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 6191 6192 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 6193 Format: <command> 6194 6195 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 6196 Format: <command> 6197 6198 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 6199 Format: <command> 6200 6201 vsyscall= [X86-64] 6202 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 6203 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 6204 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 6205 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 6206 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 6207 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 6208 6209 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6210 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6211 page is readable. 6212 6213 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6214 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6215 page is not readable. 6216 6217 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 6218 them quite hard to use for exploits but 6219 might break your system. 6220 6221 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 6222 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 6223 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 6224 6225 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 6226 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 6227 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 6228 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 6229 6230 vt.default_blu= [VT] 6231 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 6232 Change the default blue palette of the console. 6233 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6234 ranging from 0-255. 6235 6236 vt.default_grn= [VT] 6237 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 6238 Change the default green palette of the console. 6239 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6240 ranging from 0-255. 6241 6242 vt.default_red= [VT] 6243 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 6244 Change the default red palette of the console. 6245 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6246 ranging from 0-255. 6247 6248 vt.default_utf8= 6249 [VT] 6250 Format=<0|1> 6251 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 6252 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 6253 newly opened terminals. 6254 6255 vt.global_cursor_default= 6256 [VT] 6257 Format=<-1|0|1> 6258 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 6259 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 6260 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 6261 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 6262 cursors, 1 will display them. 6263 6264 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 6265 Default: 2 = green. 6266 6267 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 6268 Default: 3 = cyan. 6269 6270 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 6271 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 6272 or other driver-specific files in the 6273 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 6274 6275 watchdog_thresh= 6276 [KNL] 6277 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 6278 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 6279 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 6280 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 6281 seconds. 6282 6283 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 6284 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 6285 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 6286 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 6287 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 6288 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 6289 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 6290 corresponding sysfs file. 6291 6292 workqueue.disable_numa 6293 By default, all work items queued to unbound 6294 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 6295 issued on, which results in better behavior in 6296 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 6297 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 6298 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 6299 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 6300 6301 workqueue.power_efficient 6302 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 6303 they show better performance thanks to cache 6304 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 6305 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 6306 6307 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 6308 were observed to contribute significantly to power 6309 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 6310 power usage at the cost of small performance 6311 overhead. 6312 6313 The default value of this parameter is determined by 6314 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 6315 6316 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 6317 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 6318 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 6319 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 6320 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 6321 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 6322 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 6323 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 6324 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 6325 impacted. 6326 6327 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 6328 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 6329 supporting x2apic. 6330 6331 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 6332 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 6333 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 6334 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 6335 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 6336 domains. 6337 6338 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 6339 Unplug Xen emulated devices 6340 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 6341 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 6342 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 6343 nics -- unplug network devices 6344 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 6345 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 6346 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 6347 the unplug protocol 6348 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 6349 6350 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 6351 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 6352 panic() code such as dumping handler. 6353 6354 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 6355 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 6356 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 6357 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6358 6359 xen_nopv [X86] 6360 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 6361 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 6362 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 6363 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6364 6365 xen_no_vector_callback 6366 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 6367 event channel interrupts. 6368 6369 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 6370 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 6371 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 6372 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 6373 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 6374 6375 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 6376 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 6377 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 6378 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 6379 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 6380 more timer interrupts. 6381 6382 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 6383 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 6384 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 6385 6386 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 6387 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 6388 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 6389 6390 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 6391 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 6392 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 6393 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 6394 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 6395 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 6396 6397 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 6398 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 6399 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 6400 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 6401 6402 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 6403 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 6404 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 6405 contention. 6406 6407 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 6408 Format: 6409 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 6410 6411 xive= [PPC] 6412 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 6413 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 6414 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 6415 6416 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 6417 controller on both pseries and powernv 6418 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 6419 6420 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 6421 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 6422 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 6423 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 6424 6425 xmon [PPC] 6426 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 6427 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 6428 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 6429 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 6430 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 6431 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6432 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 6433 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 6434 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 6435 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6436 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 6437 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 6438 can be written using xmon commands. 6439 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 6440 memory, and other data can't be written using 6441 xmon commands. 6442 off xmon is disabled. 6443