1 accept_memory= [MM] 2 Format: { eager | lazy } 3 default: lazy 4 By default, unaccepted memory is accepted lazily to 5 avoid prolonged boot times. The lazy option will add 6 some runtime overhead until all memory is eventually 7 accepted. In most cases the overhead is negligible. 8 For some workloads or for debugging purposes 9 accept_memory=eager can be used to accept all memory 10 at once during boot. 11 12 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64,EARLY] 13 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 14 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 15 copy_dsdt | nospcr } 16 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 17 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64,riscv64] 18 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 19 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 20 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 21 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 22 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 23 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 24 nocmcff -- Disable firmware first mode for corrected 25 errors. This disables parsing the HEST CMC error 26 source to check if firmware has set the FF flag. This 27 may result in duplicate corrected error reports. 28 nospcr -- disable console in ACPI SPCR table as 29 default _serial_ console on ARM64 30 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on", "acpi=force" or 31 "acpi=nospcr" are available 32 For RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 33 are available 34 35 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 36 37 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI,IOAPIC,EARLY] 38 Format: <int> 39 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 40 1,0: use 1st APIC table 41 default: 0 42 43 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 44 { vendor | video | native | none } 45 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver 46 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 47 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 48 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. 49 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. 50 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. 51 52 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr [ACPI,EARLY] 53 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 54 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 55 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 56 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 57 58 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 59 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 60 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 61 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 62 This option is useful for developers to identify the 63 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 64 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 65 66 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 67 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 68 Format: <int> 69 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 70 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 71 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 72 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS 73 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 74 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 75 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 76 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 77 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 78 debug layers and levels. 79 80 Enable processor driver info messages: 81 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 82 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 83 object while interpreting AML: 84 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 85 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 86 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 87 88 Some values produce so much output that the system is 89 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 90 if you need to capture more output. 91 92 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 93 { strict | lax | no } 94 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 95 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 96 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 97 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 98 can interfere with legacy drivers. 99 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 100 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 101 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 102 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 103 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 104 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 105 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 106 no further checks are performed. 107 108 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 109 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 110 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 111 size limitation. 112 113 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 114 ACPI will balance active IRQs 115 default in APIC mode 116 117 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 118 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 119 default in PIC mode 120 121 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 122 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 123 124 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 125 use by PCI 126 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 127 128 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 129 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 130 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 131 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 132 the GPE dispatcher. 133 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 134 GPE floodings. 135 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list> 136 137 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 138 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 139 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 140 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 141 auto-serialization feature. 142 This feature is enabled by default. 143 This option allows to turn off the feature. 144 145 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 146 kernels. 147 148 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 149 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 150 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 151 installed automatically and they will appear under 152 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 153 This option turns off this feature. 154 Note that specifying this option does not affect 155 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 156 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 157 158 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 159 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 160 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 161 162 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC,EARLY] 163 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 164 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 165 second kernel for kdump. 166 167 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 168 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 169 170 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 171 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 172 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 173 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 174 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 175 176 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 177 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 178 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 179 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 180 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 181 strings 182 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 183 strings 184 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 185 186 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 187 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 188 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 189 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 190 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 191 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 192 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 193 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 194 care about the state of the feature group strings which 195 should be controlled by the OSPM. 196 Examples: 197 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 198 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 199 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 200 201 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 202 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 203 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 204 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 205 multiple times through kernel command line is also 206 meaningless. 207 Examples: 208 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 209 FALSE. 210 211 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 212 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 213 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 214 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 215 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 216 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 217 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 218 there are quirks related to this string. This command 219 is useful when one want to control the state of the 220 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 221 the OSPM features. 222 Examples: 223 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 224 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 225 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 226 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 227 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 228 equivalent to 229 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 230 and 231 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 232 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 233 234 acpi_pm_good [X86] 235 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 236 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 237 and always returns good values. 238 239 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI,EARLY] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 240 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 241 242 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 243 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 244 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 245 246 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 247 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig, 248 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs, 249 sci_force_enable, nobl } 250 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 251 s3_bios and s3_mode. 252 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 253 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 254 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware 255 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully 256 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with 257 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since 258 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it 259 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume 260 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the 261 s4_hwsig option is enabled. 262 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 263 used (or even warned about) during resume. 264 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 265 control method, with respect to putting devices into 266 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 267 of _PTS is used by default). 268 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 269 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 270 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 271 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 272 but some broken systems don't work without it). 273 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 274 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 275 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 276 277 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 278 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 279 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 280 281 add_efi_memmap [EFI,X86,EARLY] Include EFI memory map in 282 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 283 284 agp= [AGP] 285 { off | try_unsupported } 286 off: disable AGP support 287 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 288 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 289 290 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 291 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 292 293 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 294 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 295 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 296 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 297 298 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 299 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 300 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 301 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 302 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 303 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 304 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 305 306 32: only for 32-bit processes 307 64: only for 64-bit processes 308 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 309 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 310 311 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 312 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 313 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 314 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 315 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 316 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 317 318 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64,EARLY] 319 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the 320 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict 321 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this 322 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit 323 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0 324 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted. 325 326 See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more 327 information. 328 329 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 330 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 331 Possible values are: 332 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1 333 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 334 the system 335 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 336 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 337 allowed anymore to lift isolation 338 requirements as needed. This option 339 does not override iommu=pt 340 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known 341 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this 342 option with care. 343 pgtbl_v1 - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default). 344 pgtbl_v2 - Use v2 page table for DMA-API. 345 irtcachedis - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching. 346 nohugepages - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables 347 to 4 KiB. 348 v2_pgsizes_only - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables 349 to 4KiB/2Mib/1GiB. 350 351 352 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 353 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 354 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 355 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 356 IOMMU initialization. 357 358 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 359 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 360 remapping modes: 361 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 362 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 363 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 364 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 365 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 366 367 amd_pstate= [X86,EARLY] 368 disable 369 Do not enable amd_pstate as the default 370 scaling driver for the supported processors 371 passive 372 Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver. 373 In this mode autonomous selection is disabled. 374 Driver requests a desired performance level and platform 375 tries to match the same performance level if it is 376 satisfied by guaranteed performance level. 377 active 378 Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver, 379 driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants 380 to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff) 381 to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will 382 calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores 383 frequency. 384 guided 385 Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and 386 maximum performance level and the platform autonomously 387 selects a performance level in this range and appropriate 388 to the current workload. 389 390 amd_prefcore= 391 [X86] 392 disable 393 Disable amd-pstate preferred core. 394 395 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 396 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 397 Format: <a>,<b> 398 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 399 400 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 401 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 402 connected to one of 16 gameports 403 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 404 405 apc= [HW,SPARC] 406 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 407 Format: noidle 408 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 409 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 410 APC and your system crashes randomly. 411 412 apic [APIC,X86-64] Use IO-APIC. Default. 413 414 apic= [APIC,X86,EARLY] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 415 Change the output verbosity while booting 416 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 417 Change the amount of debugging information output 418 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 419 420 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86,EARLY] External NMI delivery setting 421 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 422 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 423 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 424 backup of CPU 0 425 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 426 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 427 shot down by NMI 428 429 apicpmtimer Do APIC timer calibration using the pmtimer. Implies 430 apicmaintimer. Useful when your PIT timer is totally 431 broken. 432 433 autoconf= [IPV6] 434 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 435 436 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 437 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 438 439 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 440 Format: { "0" | "1" } 441 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 442 0 -- disable. 443 1 -- enable. 444 Default value is set via kernel config option. 445 446 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 447 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 448 449 arm64.no32bit_el0 [ARM64] Unconditionally disable the execution of 450 32 bit applications. 451 452 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 453 Identification support 454 455 arm64.nogcs [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Guarded Control Stack 456 support 457 458 arm64.nomops [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory 459 Set instructions support 460 461 arm64.nompam [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Partitioning And 462 Monitoring support 463 464 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 465 support 466 467 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 468 support 469 470 arm64.nosme [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix 471 Extension support 472 473 arm64.nosve [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector 474 Extension support 475 476 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 477 478 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 479 480 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 481 EzKey and similar keyboards 482 483 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 484 485 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 486 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 487 488 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 489 keyboards 490 491 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 492 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 493 494 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 495 Use software keyboard repeat 496 497 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 498 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 499 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 500 enabled until the next reboot 501 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 502 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 503 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 504 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 505 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 506 userspace auditd. 507 Default: unset 508 509 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 510 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 511 Default: 64 512 513 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 514 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 515 Format: { "0" | "1" } 516 0 - Disable the BAU. 517 1 - Enable the BAU. 518 unset - Disable the BAU. 519 520 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 521 Format: <io>,<mode> 522 523 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 524 Format: <io>,<mode> 525 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 526 527 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 528 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 529 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 530 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 531 532 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 533 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 534 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 535 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 536 537 bdev_allow_write_mounted= 538 Format: <bool> 539 Control the ability to open a mounted block device 540 for writing, i.e., allow / disallow writes that bypass 541 the FS. This was implemented as a means to prevent 542 fuzzers from crashing the kernel by overwriting the 543 metadata underneath a mounted FS without its awareness. 544 This also prevents destructive formatting of mounted 545 filesystems by naive storage tooling that don't use 546 O_EXCL. Default is Y and can be changed through the 547 Kconfig option CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED. 548 549 bert_disable [ACPI] 550 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 551 552 bgrt_disable [ACPI,X86,EARLY] 553 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 554 555 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 556 embedded devices based on command line input. 557 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 558 559 boot_delay= [KNL,EARLY] 560 Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 561 Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled, 562 and you may also have to specify "lpj=". Boot_delay 563 values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed 564 erroneous and ignored. 565 Format: integer 566 567 bootconfig [KNL,EARLY] 568 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 569 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 570 571 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 572 573 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 574 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 575 kernel args too. 576 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 577 bttv.tuner= 578 579 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 580 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 581 at a time. 582 583 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 584 585 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 586 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 587 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 588 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 589 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 590 This option provides an override for these situations. 591 592 carrier_timeout= 593 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 594 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 595 it waits 120 seconds. 596 597 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 598 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 599 trust validation. 600 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 601 602 cca= [MIPS,EARLY] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 603 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 604 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 605 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 606 others). 607 608 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 609 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 610 611 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 612 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 613 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 614 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 615 a single hierarchy 616 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 617 subsystem 618 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 619 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 620 created 621 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 622 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 623 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 624 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 625 stall information accounting feature 626 627 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 628 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 629 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 630 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 631 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 632 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 633 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 634 all v1 hierarchies. 635 636 cgroup_v1_proc= [KNL] Show also missing controllers in /proc/cgroups 637 Format: { "true" | "false" } 638 /proc/cgroups lists only v1 controllers by default. 639 This compatibility option enables listing also v2 640 controllers (whose v1 code is not compiled!), so that 641 semi-legacy software can check this file to decide 642 about usage of v2 (sic) controllers. 643 644 cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods. 645 Format: { "true" | "false" } 646 Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS. 647 648 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 649 Format: <string> 650 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 651 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 652 nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting. 653 654 checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 655 Format: { "0" | "1" } 656 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 657 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 658 any implied execute protection). 659 1 -- check protection requested by application. 660 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 661 Value can be changed at runtime via 662 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 663 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 664 665 cio_ignore= [S390] 666 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 667 668 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] 669 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 670 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 671 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily 672 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific 673 ones should be. 674 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line 675 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above 676 instability issue. However, not all features have names 677 in /proc/cpuinfo. 678 Note that using this option will taint your kernel. 679 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 680 or using the feature without checking anything 681 will still see it. This just prevents it from 682 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 683 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 684 some critical bits. 685 686 clk_ignore_unused 687 [CLK] 688 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 689 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 690 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 691 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 692 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 693 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 694 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 695 platform with proper driver support. For more 696 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 697 698 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 699 [Deprecated] 700 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 701 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 702 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 703 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 704 705 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 706 Format: <string> 707 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 708 with the name specified. 709 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 710 the platform: 711 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 712 [ACPI] acpi_pm 713 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 714 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 715 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 716 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 717 [MIPS] MIPS 718 [PARISC] cr16 719 [S390] tod 720 [SH] SuperH 721 [SPARC64] tick 722 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 723 724 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 725 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 726 Format: <bool> 727 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 728 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 729 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 730 systems. 731 732 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 733 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 734 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 735 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 736 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 737 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 738 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 739 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 740 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 741 742 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 743 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 744 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 745 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 746 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 747 748 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 749 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 750 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 751 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 752 placement constraint by the physical address range of 753 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 754 altogether. For more information, see 755 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 756 757 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 758 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 759 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 760 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 761 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 762 specified, the default value is 0. 763 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 764 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 765 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 766 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 767 768 numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]] 769 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 770 Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for 771 contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA 772 area for the specified node. 773 774 With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 775 first try to allocate buffer from the numa area 776 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 777 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 778 779 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 780 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 781 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 782 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 783 a hypervisor. 784 Default: yes 785 786 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL,EARLY] 787 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 788 allocations, by default set to 256K. 789 790 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 791 Format: 792 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 793 794 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 795 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 796 797 com90xx= [HW,NET] 798 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 799 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 800 801 condev= [HW,S390] console device 802 conmode= 803 804 con3215_drop= [S390,EARLY] 3215 console drop mode. 805 Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0 806 When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when 807 the console buffer is full. In this case the 808 operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example 809 x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the 810 console output to advance and the kernel to continue. 811 This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270 812 terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal 813 emulator is used, this parameter has no effect. 814 815 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 816 817 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 818 819 ttyS<n>[,options] 820 ttyUSB0[,options] 821 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 822 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 823 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 824 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 825 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 826 827 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 828 information. See 829 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 830 alternative. 831 832 <DEVNAME>:<n>.<n>[,options] 833 Use the specified serial port on the serial core bus. 834 The addressing uses DEVNAME of the physical serial port 835 device, followed by the serial core controller instance, 836 and the serial port instance. The options are the same 837 as documented for the ttyS addressing above. 838 839 The mapping of the serial ports to the tty instances 840 can be viewed with: 841 842 $ ls -d /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/*:*.*/tty/* 843 /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/00:04:0.0/tty/ttyS0 844 845 In the above example, the console can be addressed with 846 console=00:04:0.0. Note that a console addressed this 847 way will only get added when the related device driver 848 is ready. The use of an earlycon parameter in addition to 849 the console may be desired for console output early on. 850 851 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 852 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 853 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 854 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 855 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 856 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 857 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 858 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 859 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 860 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 861 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 862 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 863 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 864 the h/w is not re-initialized. 865 866 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 867 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 868 869 { null | "" } 870 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 871 console messages discarded. 872 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 873 kernel command line. 874 875 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 876 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 877 console=brl,ttyS0 878 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 879 880 console_msg_format= 881 [KNL] Change console messages format 882 default 883 By default we print messages on consoles in 884 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 885 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 886 `printk_time' param). 887 syslog 888 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 889 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 890 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 891 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 892 from /proc/kmsg. 893 894 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 895 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 896 Defaults to 0. 897 898 coredump_filter= 899 [KNL] Change the default value for 900 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 901 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 902 903 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 904 [ARM,ARM64] 905 Format: <bool> 906 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 907 0: default value, disable debugging 908 1: enable debugging at boot time 909 910 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 911 Format: 912 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 913 914 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 915 disable the cpuidle sub-system 916 917 cpuidle.governor= 918 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 919 920 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 921 disable the cpufreq sub-system 922 923 cpufreq.default_governor= 924 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 925 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 926 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 927 928 cpu_init_udelay=N 929 [X86,EARLY] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 930 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 931 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 932 Default: 10000 933 934 cpuhp.parallel= 935 [SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs 936 Format: <bool> 937 Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise 938 the parameter has no effect. 939 940 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 941 Only jump to kdump kernel after running the panic 942 notifiers and dumping kmsg. This option increases 943 the risks of a kdump failure, since some panic 944 notifiers can make the crashed kernel more unstable. 945 In configurations where kdump may not be reliable, 946 running the panic notifiers could allow collecting 947 more data on dmesg, like stack traces from other CPUS 948 or extra data dumped by panic_print. Note that some 949 configurations enable this option unconditionally, 950 like Hyper-V, PowerPC (fadump) and AMD SEV-SNP. 951 952 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 953 [KNL,EARLY] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 954 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 955 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 956 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 957 is selected automatically. 958 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] Select a region 959 under 4G first, and fall back to reserve region above 960 4G when '@offset' hasn't been specified. 961 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 962 963 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 964 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 965 in the running system. The syntax of range is 966 start-[end] where start and end are both 967 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 968 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 969 970 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 971 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range could be 972 above 4G. 973 Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top, 974 so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram 975 installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated 976 below 4G, if available. 977 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 978 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 979 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range under 4G. 980 When crashkernel=X,high is passed, kernel could allocate 981 physical memory region above 4G, that cause second kernel 982 crash on system that require some amount of low memory, 983 e.g. swiotlb requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also 984 enough extra low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers 985 for 32-bit devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate 986 default size of memory below 4G automatically. The default 987 size is platform dependent. 988 --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB) 989 --> arm64: 128MiB 990 --> riscv: 128MiB 991 --> loongarch: 128MiB 992 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G 993 for second kernel instead. 994 0: to disable low allocation. 995 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 996 or memory reserved is below 4G. 997 crashkernel=size[KMG],cma 998 [KNL, X86] Reserve additional crash kernel memory from 999 CMA. This reservation is usable by the first system's 1000 userspace memory and kernel movable allocations (memory 1001 balloon, zswap). Pages allocated from this memory range 1002 will not be included in the vmcore so this should not 1003 be used if dumping of userspace memory is intended and 1004 it has to be expected that some movable kernel pages 1005 may be missing from the dump. 1006 1007 A standard crashkernel reservation, as described above, 1008 is still needed to hold the crash kernel and initrd. 1009 1010 This option increases the risk of a kdump failure: DMA 1011 transfers configured by the first kernel may end up 1012 corrupting the second kernel's memory. 1013 1014 This reservation method is intended for systems that 1015 can't afford to sacrifice enough memory for standard 1016 crashkernel reservation and where less reliable and 1017 possibly incomplete kdump is preferable to no kdump at 1018 all. 1019 1020 cryptomgr.notests 1021 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 1022 1023 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 1024 Format: <dma> 1025 1026 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 1027 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 1028 1029 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU 1030 function call handling. When switched on, 1031 additional debug data is printed to the console 1032 in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that 1033 CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve 1034 the hang situation. The default value of this 1035 option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT 1036 Kconfig option. 1037 1038 dasd= [HW,NET] 1039 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 1040 1041 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 1042 (one device per port) 1043 Format: <port#>,<type> 1044 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1045 1046 debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 1047 1048 debug_boot_weak_hash 1049 [KNL,EARLY] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 1050 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 1051 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 1052 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 1053 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 1054 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 1055 1056 debug_locks_verbose= 1057 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 1058 Format: <int> 1059 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 1060 self-tests. 1061 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 1062 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 1063 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 1064 useful to lockdep developers. 1065 1066 debug_objects [KNL,EARLY] Enable object debugging 1067 1068 debug_guardpage_minorder= 1069 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 1070 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 1071 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 1072 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 1073 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 1074 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 1075 possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2. Setting this 1076 parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most 1077 random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in 1078 kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads 1079 from) a random memory location. Note that there exists 1080 a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy 1081 H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA 1082 (basically when memory is written at bus level and the 1083 CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by 1084 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not 1085 help tracking down these problems. 1086 1087 debug_pagealloc= 1088 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 1089 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 1090 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 1091 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 1092 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 1093 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 1094 on: enable the feature 1095 1096 debugfs= [KNL,EARLY] This parameter enables what is exposed to 1097 userspace and debugfs internal clients. 1098 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 1099 on: All functions are enabled. 1100 no-mount: 1101 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 1102 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 1103 its content. There is nothing to mount. 1104 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 1105 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 1106 or directories within debugfs. 1107 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 1108 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 1109 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 1110 1111 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 1112 1113 default_hugepagesz= 1114 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 1115 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 1116 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 1117 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 1118 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 1119 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 1120 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 1121 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1122 Format: size[KMG] 1123 1124 deferred_probe_timeout= 1125 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 1126 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 1127 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 1128 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout 1129 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time 1130 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each 1131 successful driver registration. This option will also 1132 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 1133 retrying. 1134 1135 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 1136 1137 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 1138 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1139 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1140 hardware. 1141 1142 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 1143 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 1144 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 1145 blacklisted features. 1146 1147 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 1148 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1149 (disabled by default). 1150 1151 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 1152 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1153 capability is set. 1154 1155 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 1156 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 1157 1158 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 1159 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 1160 1161 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 1162 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 1163 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 1164 level 1 and decompression (default) 1165 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 1166 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 1167 only (compression on level 1) 1168 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 1169 only (decompression) 1170 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 1171 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 1172 1173 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1174 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1175 1176 disable_1tb_segments [PPC,EARLY] 1177 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1178 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1179 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1180 miss to occur. 1181 1182 disable= [IPV6] 1183 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1184 1185 disable_radix [PPC,EARLY] 1186 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1187 1188 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1189 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1190 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1191 1192 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES,EARLY] 1193 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1194 to workaround buggy firmware. 1195 1196 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1197 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1198 1199 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY] 1200 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1201 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1202 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1203 1204 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only,EARLY] 1205 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1206 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1207 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1208 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1209 1210 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86,EARLY] 1211 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1212 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1213 1214 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1215 1216 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1217 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1218 1219 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1220 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1221 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1222 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1223 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1224 architectural default is too low. 1225 1226 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1227 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1228 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1229 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1230 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1231 driver later using sysfs. 1232 1233 reg_file_data_sampling= 1234 [X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data 1235 Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability. RFDS is a CPU 1236 vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer 1237 kernel data values previously stored in floating point 1238 registers, vector registers, or integer registers. 1239 RFDS only affects Intel Atom processors. 1240 1241 on: Turns ON the mitigation. 1242 off: Turns OFF the mitigation. 1243 1244 This parameter overrides the compile time default set 1245 by CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS. Mitigation cannot be 1246 disabled when other VERW based mitigations (like MDS) 1247 are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all 1248 VERW based mitigations need to be disabled. 1249 1250 For details see: 1251 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst 1252 1253 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1254 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * 1255 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the 1256 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT 1257 match the *. 1258 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1259 1260 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1261 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1262 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1263 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1264 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1265 An EDID data set will only be used for a particular 1266 connector, if its name and a colon are prepended to 1267 the EDID name. Each connector may use a unique EDID 1268 data set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1269 data set with no connector name will be used for 1270 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1271 1272 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1273 1274 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC,EARLY] 1275 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1276 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1277 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1278 exists). 1279 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1280 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1281 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1282 1283 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1284 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1285 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1286 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1287 1288 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1289 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1290 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1291 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1292 for details. 1293 1294 early_ioremap_debug [KNL,EARLY] 1295 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1296 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1297 which are not unmapped. 1298 1299 earlycon= [KNL,EARLY] Output early console device and options. 1300 1301 When used with no options, the early console is 1302 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1303 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1304 the platform. 1305 1306 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1307 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1308 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1309 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1310 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1311 configured. 1312 1313 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1314 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1315 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1316 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1317 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1318 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1319 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1320 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1321 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1322 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1323 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1324 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1325 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is 1326 the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set 1327 to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16. 1328 1329 pl011,<addr> 1330 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1331 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1332 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1333 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1334 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1335 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1336 the device registers. 1337 1338 liteuart,<addr> 1339 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1340 specified address. The serial port must already be 1341 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1342 1343 meson,<addr> 1344 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1345 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1346 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1347 supported. 1348 1349 msm_serial,<addr> 1350 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1351 port at the specified address. The serial port 1352 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1353 yet supported. 1354 1355 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1356 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1357 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1358 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1359 yet supported. 1360 1361 owl,<addr> 1362 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1363 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1364 specified address. The serial port must already be 1365 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1366 1367 rda,<addr> 1368 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1369 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1370 specified address. The serial port must already be 1371 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1372 1373 sbi 1374 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1375 console. 1376 1377 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1378 1379 s3c2410,<addr> 1380 s3c2412,<addr> 1381 s3c2440,<addr> 1382 s3c6400,<addr> 1383 s5pv210,<addr> 1384 exynos4210,<addr> 1385 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1386 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1387 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1388 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1389 Options are not yet supported. 1390 1391 lantiq,<addr> 1392 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1393 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1394 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1395 yet supported. 1396 1397 lpuart,<addr> 1398 lpuart32,<addr> 1399 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1400 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1401 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1402 port must already be setup and configured. 1403 1404 ec_imx21,<addr> 1405 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1406 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1407 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1408 must already be setup and configured. 1409 1410 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1411 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1412 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1413 address. The serial port must already be setup 1414 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1415 1416 qcom_geni,<addr> 1417 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1418 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1419 specified address. The serial port must already be 1420 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1421 1422 efifb,[options] 1423 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1424 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1425 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1426 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1427 mapped with the correct attributes. 1428 1429 linflex,<addr> 1430 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1431 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1432 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1433 already be setup and configured. 1434 1435 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390,UM,EARLY] 1436 earlyprintk=vga 1437 earlyprintk=sclp 1438 earlyprintk=xen 1439 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1440 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1441 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1442 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1443 earlyprintk=mmio32,membase[,{nocfg|baudrate}] 1444 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,{nocfg|baudrate}] 1445 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1446 earlyprintk=bios 1447 1448 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1449 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1450 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1451 1452 Use "nocfg" to skip UART configuration, assume 1453 BIOS/firmware has configured UART correctly. 1454 1455 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1456 takes over. 1457 1458 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can 1459 be used at a time. 1460 1461 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1462 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1463 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1464 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1465 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1466 You can find the port for a given device in 1467 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1468 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1469 1470 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1471 very good. 1472 1473 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by 1474 the real console. 1475 1476 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1477 1478 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1479 1480 The bios output can only be used on SuperH. 1481 1482 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1483 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1484 UART class. 1485 1486 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1487 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1488 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1489 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1490 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1491 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1492 default: on. 1493 1494 edd= [EDD] 1495 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1496 1497 efi= [EFI,EARLY] 1498 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1499 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1500 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1501 debug: enable misc debug output. 1502 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1503 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1504 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1505 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1506 firmware implementations. 1507 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1508 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1509 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1510 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1511 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1512 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1513 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1514 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1515 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1516 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1517 1518 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI,X86,EARLY] 1519 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1520 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1521 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1522 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1523 1524 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1525 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1526 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1527 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1528 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1529 1530 1531 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1532 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1533 1534 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB,EARLY] Allow early kernel console debugging 1535 Format: ekgdboc=kbd 1536 1537 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1538 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1539 1540 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1541 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1542 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1543 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1544 1545 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1546 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1547 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1548 1549 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390,EARLY] 1550 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1551 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1552 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1553 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1554 1555 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY] 1556 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1557 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1558 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1559 1560 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1561 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1562 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1563 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1564 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1565 1566 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1567 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1568 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1569 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1570 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1571 Default value is 0. 1572 Value can be changed at runtime via 1573 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1574 1575 erst_disable [ACPI] 1576 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1577 support. 1578 1579 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1580 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1581 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1582 1583 evm= [EVM] 1584 Format: { "fix" } 1585 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1586 current integrity status. 1587 1588 early_page_ext [KNL,EARLY] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier 1589 stages so cover more early boot allocations. 1590 Please note that as side effect some optimizations 1591 might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized 1592 memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process 1593 might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of 1594 memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y. 1595 1596 failslab= 1597 fail_usercopy= 1598 fail_page_alloc= 1599 fail_skb_realloc= 1600 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1601 General fault injection mechanism. 1602 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1603 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1604 1605 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1606 Format: { initns | none } 1607 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1608 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1609 1610 floppy= [HW] 1611 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1612 1613 forcepae [X86-32] 1614 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1615 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1616 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1617 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1618 and may cause unknown problems. 1619 1620 fred= [X86-64] 1621 Enable/disable Flexible Return and Event Delivery. 1622 Format: { on | off } 1623 on: enable FRED when it's present. 1624 off: disable FRED, the default setting. 1625 1626 ftrace=[tracer] 1627 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1628 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1629 boot debugging. 1630 1631 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1632 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1633 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1634 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1635 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1636 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1637 start up functionality. 1638 1639 Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing 1640 instance that was created by the trace_instance= command 1641 line parameter. 1642 1643 trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo 1644 1645 The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger 1646 a snapshot at the end of boot up. 1647 1648 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=2(orig_cpu) | =<instance>][,<instance> | 1649 ,<instance>=2(orig_cpu)] 1650 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1651 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump global 1652 buffers of all CPUs, if you pass 2 or orig_cpu, it 1653 will dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered 1654 the oops, or the specific instance will be dumped if 1655 its name is passed. Multiple instance dump is also 1656 supported, and instances are separated by commas. Each 1657 instance supports only dump on CPU that triggered the 1658 oops by passing 2 or orig_cpu to it. 1659 1660 ftrace_dump_on_oops=foo=orig_cpu 1661 1662 The above will dump only the buffer of "foo" instance 1663 on CPU that triggered the oops. 1664 1665 ftrace_dump_on_oops,foo,bar=orig_cpu 1666 1667 The above will dump global buffer on all CPUs, the 1668 buffer of "foo" instance on all CPUs and the buffer 1669 of "bar" instance on CPU that triggered the oops. 1670 1671 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1672 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1673 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1674 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1675 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1676 tracing directory. 1677 1678 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1679 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1680 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1681 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1682 tracing directory. 1683 1684 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1685 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1686 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1687 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1688 that can be changed at run time by the 1689 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1690 1691 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1692 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1693 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1694 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1695 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1696 1697 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1698 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1699 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1700 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1701 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1702 1703 fw_devlink= [KNL,EARLY] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1704 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1705 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1706 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1707 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1708 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1709 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1710 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1711 suppliers). 1712 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1713 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1714 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1715 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1716 up (sync_state() calls). 1717 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1718 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1719 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1720 1721 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1722 [KNL,EARLY] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1723 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1724 Format: <bool> 1725 1726 fw_devlink.sync_state = 1727 [KNL,EARLY] When all devices that could probe have finished 1728 probing, this parameter controls what to do with 1729 devices that haven't yet received their sync_state() 1730 calls. 1731 Format: { strict | timeout } 1732 strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to 1733 probe successfully. 1734 timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call 1735 sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet 1736 received their sync_state() calls after 1737 deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by 1738 late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES. 1739 1740 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1741 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1742 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1743 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1744 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1745 1746 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1747 1748 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64,EARLY] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1749 Format: off | on 1750 default: on 1751 1752 gather_data_sampling= 1753 [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS) 1754 mitigation. 1755 1756 Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which 1757 allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was 1758 previously stored in vector registers. 1759 1760 This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode. 1761 The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be 1762 disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation 1763 disabling AVX serves as a mitigation. 1764 1765 force: Disable AVX to mitigate systems without 1766 microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode 1767 mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in 1768 userspace with buggy AVX enumeration. 1769 1770 off: Disable GDS mitigation. 1771 1772 gbpages [X86] Use GB pages for kernel direct mappings. 1773 1774 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1775 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1776 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1777 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1778 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1779 1780 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1781 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1782 android emulator 1783 1784 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1785 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1786 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1787 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1788 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1789 1790 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1791 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1792 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1793 GPT to be used instead. 1794 1795 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1796 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1797 Format: 0 | 1 1798 Default: 0 1799 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1800 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1801 Format: 0 | 1 1802 Default: 0 1803 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1804 Format: 0 | 1 1805 Default: 0 1806 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1807 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1808 Default: 1024 1809 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1810 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1811 Default: 1024 1812 1813 hardened_usercopy= 1814 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1815 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1816 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1817 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1818 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1819 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1820 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1821 The default is determined by 1822 CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY_DEFAULT_ON. 1823 on Perform hardened usercopy checks. 1824 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1825 1826 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1827 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1828 backtraces on all cpus. 1829 Format: 0 | 1 1830 1831 hash_pointers= 1832 [KNL,EARLY] 1833 By default, when pointers are printed to the console 1834 or buffers via the %p format string, that pointer is 1835 "hashed", i.e. obscured by hashing the pointer value. 1836 This is a security feature that hides actual kernel 1837 addresses from unprivileged users, but it also makes 1838 debugging the kernel more difficult since unequal 1839 pointers can no longer be compared. The choices are: 1840 Format: { auto | always | never } 1841 Default: auto 1842 1843 auto - Hash pointers unless slab_debug is enabled. 1844 always - Always hash pointers (even if slab_debug is 1845 enabled). 1846 never - Never hash pointers. This option should only 1847 be specified when debugging the kernel. Do 1848 not use on production kernels. The boot 1849 param "no_hash_pointers" is an alias for 1850 this mode. 1851 1852 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1853 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1854 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1855 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1856 1857 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1858 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1859 1860 hest_disable [ACPI] 1861 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1862 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1863 logic will be disabled. 1864 1865 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 1866 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 1867 present during boot. 1868 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 1869 no Disable hibernation and resume. 1870 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 1871 (that will set all pages holding image data 1872 during restoration read-only). 1873 1874 hibernate.compressor= [HIBERNATION] Compression algorithm to be 1875 used with hibernation. 1876 Format: { lzo | lz4 } 1877 Default: lzo 1878 1879 lzo: Select LZO compression algorithm to 1880 compress/decompress hibernation image. 1881 1882 lz4: Select LZ4 compression algorithm to 1883 compress/decompress hibernation image. 1884 1885 hibernate.pm_test_delay= 1886 [HIBERNATION] 1887 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a hibernation test 1888 mode before resuming the system (see 1889 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 1890 is set. Default value is 5. 1891 1892 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1893 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1894 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1895 size on bigger boxes. 1896 1897 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1898 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1899 Default: "on" 1900 1901 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1902 1903 hostname= [KNL,EARLY] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename). 1904 Format: <string> 1905 This allows setting the system's hostname during early 1906 startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname. 1907 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it 1908 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before 1909 any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility 1910 that a process may call gethostname before the hostname 1911 has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling 1912 process getting an incorrect result. The string must 1913 not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually 1914 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise. 1915 1916 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1917 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1918 verbose } 1919 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1920 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1921 VIA, nVidia) 1922 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1923 1924 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1925 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1926 1927 hugepages= [HW,EARLY] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1928 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1929 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1930 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1931 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1932 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1933 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1934 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1935 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1936 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1937 1938 hugepagesz= 1939 [HW,EARLY] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is 1940 used in conjunction with hugepages (above) to 1941 allocate huge pages of a specific size at boot. The 1942 pair hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once 1943 for each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes 1944 are architecture dependent. See also 1945 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1946 Format: size[KMG] 1947 1948 hugepage_alloc_threads= 1949 [HW] The number of threads that should be used to 1950 allocate hugepages during boot. This option can be 1951 used to improve system bootup time when allocating 1952 a large amount of huge pages. 1953 The default value is 25% of the available hardware threads. 1954 1955 Note that this parameter only applies to non-gigantic huge pages. 1956 1957 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA,EARLY] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1958 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1959 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1960 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1961 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1962 1963 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1964 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1965 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1966 1967 hugetlb_cma_only= 1968 [HW,CMA,EARLY] When allocating new HugeTLB pages, only 1969 try to allocate from the CMA areas. 1970 1971 This option does nothing if hugetlb_cma= is not also 1972 specified. 1973 1974 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1975 [KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 1976 enabled. 1977 Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled. 1978 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1979 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1980 Format: { on | off (default) } 1981 1982 on: enable HVO 1983 off: disable HVO 1984 1985 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1986 the default is on. 1987 1988 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added 1989 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is 1990 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this 1991 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from 1992 the added memory block itself do not be affected. 1993 1994 hung_task_panic= 1995 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1996 Format: 0 | 1 1997 1998 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1999 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 2000 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 2001 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 2002 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 2003 2004 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 2005 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 2006 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 2007 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 2008 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 2009 2010 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V,EARLY] 2011 Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 2012 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest 2013 on lock contention. 2014 2015 hw_protection= [HW] 2016 Format: reboot | shutdown 2017 2018 Hardware protection action taken on critical events like 2019 overtemperature or imminent voltage loss. 2020 2021 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 2022 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 2023 registered from board initialization code. 2024 Format: 2025 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 2026 2027 i2c_touchscreen_props= [HW,ACPI,X86] 2028 Set device-properties for ACPI-enumerated I2C-attached 2029 touchscreen, to e.g. fix coordinates of upside-down 2030 mounted touchscreens. If you need this option please 2031 submit a drivers/platform/x86/touchscreen_dmi.c patch 2032 adding a DMI quirk for this. 2033 2034 Format: 2035 <ACPI_HW_ID>:<prop_name>=<val>[:prop_name=val][:...] 2036 Where <val> is one of: 2037 Omit "=<val>" entirely Set a boolean device-property 2038 Unsigned number Set a u32 device-property 2039 Anything else Set a string device-property 2040 2041 Examples (split over multiple lines): 2042 i2c_touchscreen_props=GDIX1001:touchscreen-inverted-x: 2043 touchscreen-inverted-y 2044 2045 i2c_touchscreen_props=MSSL1680:touchscreen-size-x=1920: 2046 touchscreen-size-y=1080:touchscreen-inverted-y: 2047 firmware-name=gsl1680-vendor-model.fw:silead,home-button 2048 2049 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 2050 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 2051 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 2052 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 2053 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 2054 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 2055 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 2056 keyboard and cannot control its state 2057 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 2058 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 2059 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 2060 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 2061 for the AUX port 2062 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 2063 controller 2064 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 2065 controllers 2066 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 2067 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 2068 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 2069 transitions, or never reset 2070 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 2071 1, Y, y: always reset controller 2072 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 2073 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 2074 architectures force reset to be always executed 2075 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 2076 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 2077 i8042.probe_defer 2078 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 2079 2080 i810= [HW,DRM] 2081 2082 i915.invert_brightness= 2083 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 2084 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 2085 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 2086 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 2087 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 2088 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 2089 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 2090 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 2091 value switches the backlight off. 2092 -1 -- never invert brightness 2093 0 -- machine default 2094 1 -- force brightness inversion 2095 2096 ia32_emulation= [X86-64] 2097 Format: <bool> 2098 When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit 2099 syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at 2100 boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation. 2101 2102 icn= [HW,ISDN] 2103 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 2104 2105 2106 idle= [X86,EARLY] 2107 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 2108 2109 idle=poll: Don't do power saving in the idle loop 2110 using HLT, but poll for rescheduling event. This will 2111 make the CPUs eat a lot more power, but may be useful 2112 to get slightly better performance in multiprocessor 2113 benchmarks. It also makes some profiling using 2114 performance counters more accurate. Please note that 2115 on systems with MONITOR/MWAIT support (like Intel 2116 EM64T CPUs) this option has no performance advantage 2117 over the normal idle loop. It may also interact badly 2118 with hyperthreading. 2119 2120 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 2121 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 2122 2123 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 2124 2125 idxd.sva= [HW] 2126 Format: <bool> 2127 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 2128 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 2129 true (1). 2130 2131 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 2132 Format: <bool> 2133 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 2134 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 2135 2136 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 2137 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed | emulated } 2138 Default: strict 2139 2140 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 2141 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 2142 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 2143 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 2144 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 2145 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 2146 encoding mode. 2147 2148 Available settings are as follows: 2149 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 2150 supported by the FPU 2151 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 2152 by the FPU 2153 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 2154 by the FPU 2155 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 2156 supported by the FPU 2157 emulated accept any binaries but enable FPU emulator 2158 if binary mode is unsupported by the FPU. 2159 2160 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 2161 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 2162 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 2163 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 2164 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 2165 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 2166 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 2167 MIPS64 CPUs. 2168 2169 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 2170 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 2171 except where unsupported by hardware. 2172 2173 ignore_loglevel [KNL,EARLY] 2174 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 2175 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 2176 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 2177 could change it dynamically, usually by 2178 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 2179 2180 ignore_rlimit_data 2181 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 2182 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 2183 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 2184 2185 ihash_entries= [KNL] 2186 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 2187 2188 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 2189 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 2190 default: "enforce" 2191 2192 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 2193 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 2194 owned by uid=0. 2195 2196 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 2197 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 2198 measurements, instead of host native format. 2199 2200 ima_hash= [IMA] 2201 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 2202 | sha512 | ... } 2203 default: "sha1" 2204 2205 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 2206 in crypto/hash_info.h. 2207 2208 ima_policy= [IMA] 2209 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 2210 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 2211 fail_securely | critical_data" 2212 2213 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 2214 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 2215 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 2216 uid=0. 2217 2218 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 2219 all files owned by root. 2220 2221 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 2222 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 2223 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 2224 2225 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 2226 verification failure also on privileged mounted 2227 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 2228 flag. 2229 2230 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 2231 critical data. 2232 2233 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 2234 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 2235 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 2236 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 2237 opened for read by uid=0. 2238 2239 ima_template= [IMA] 2240 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 2241 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 2242 "ima-sigv2" } 2243 Default: "ima-ng" 2244 2245 ima_template_fmt= 2246 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 2247 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 2248 2249 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 2250 Format: <min_file_size> 2251 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 2252 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 2253 2254 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 2255 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2256 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 2257 2258 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 2259 Format: <bufsize> 2260 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 2261 2262 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 2263 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2264 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 2265 2266 ima= [IMA] Enable or disable IMA 2267 Format: { "off" | "on" } 2268 Default: "on" 2269 Note that disabling IMA is limited to kdump kernel. 2270 2271 indirect_target_selection= [X86,Intel] Mitigation control for Indirect 2272 Target Selection(ITS) bug in Intel CPUs. Updated 2273 microcode is also required for a fix in IBPB. 2274 2275 on: Enable mitigation (default). 2276 off: Disable mitigation. 2277 force: Force the ITS bug and deploy default 2278 mitigation. 2279 vmexit: Only deploy mitigation if CPU is affected by 2280 guest/host isolation part of ITS. 2281 stuff: Deploy RSB-fill mitigation when retpoline is 2282 also deployed. Otherwise, deploy the default 2283 mitigation. 2284 2285 For details see: 2286 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/indirect-target-selection.rst 2287 2288 init= [KNL] 2289 Format: <full_path> 2290 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 2291 process. 2292 2293 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 2294 for working out where the kernel is dying during 2295 startup. 2296 2297 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 2298 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 2299 modules and initcalls. 2300 2301 initramfs_async= [KNL] 2302 Format: <bool> 2303 Default: 1 2304 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 2305 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 2306 with devices being probed and 2307 initialized. This should normally just work, 2308 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 2309 historical behaviour of the initramfs 2310 unpacking being completed before device_ and 2311 late_ initcalls. 2312 2313 initrd= [BOOT,EARLY] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 2314 2315 initrdmem= [KNL,EARLY] Specify a physical address and size from which to 2316 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 2317 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 2318 setting. 2319 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 2320 Default is 0, 0 2321 2322 init_on_alloc= [MM,EARLY] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 2323 zeroes. 2324 Format: 0 | 1 2325 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 2326 2327 init_on_free= [MM,EARLY] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2328 Format: 0 | 1 2329 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2330 2331 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2332 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2333 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2334 override in debugfs after boot. 2335 2336 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2337 Format: <irq> 2338 2339 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2340 2341 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2342 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2343 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2344 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2345 2346 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2347 on 2348 Enable intel iommu driver. 2349 off 2350 Disable intel iommu driver. 2351 igfx_off [Default Off] 2352 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2353 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2354 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2355 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2356 DMA. 2357 strict [Default Off] 2358 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2359 sp_off [Default Off] 2360 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2361 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2362 not be supported. 2363 sm_on 2364 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2365 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2366 translation. 2367 sm_off 2368 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2369 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2370 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2371 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2372 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2373 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2374 mapping is enabled. 2375 Note that using this option lowers the security 2376 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2377 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2378 2379 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2380 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2381 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2382 2383 intel_pstate= [X86,EARLY] 2384 disable 2385 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2386 scaling driver for the supported processors 2387 active 2388 Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling 2389 governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own 2390 algorithms for p-state selection. There are two 2391 P-state selection algorithms provided by 2392 intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and 2393 performance. The way they both operate depends 2394 on whether or not the hardware managed P-states 2395 (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor 2396 and possibly on the processor model. 2397 passive 2398 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2399 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2400 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2401 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2402 feature. 2403 force 2404 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2405 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2406 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2407 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2408 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2409 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2410 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2411 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2412 no_hwp 2413 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2414 if available. 2415 hwp_only 2416 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2417 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2418 support_acpi_ppc 2419 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2420 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2421 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2422 then this feature is turned on by default. 2423 per_cpu_perf_limits 2424 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2425 cpufreq sysfs interface 2426 no_cas 2427 Do not enable capacity-aware scheduling (CAS) on 2428 hybrid systems 2429 2430 intremap= [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] 2431 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2432 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2433 nosid disable Source ID checking 2434 no_x2apic_optout 2435 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2436 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2437 posted_msi 2438 enable MSIs delivered as posted interrupts 2439 2440 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2441 strict regions from userspace. 2442 relaxed 2443 2444 iommu= [X86,EARLY] 2445 2446 off 2447 Don't initialize and use any kind of IOMMU. 2448 2449 force 2450 Force the use of the hardware IOMMU even when 2451 it is not actually needed (e.g. because < 3 GB 2452 memory). 2453 2454 noforce 2455 Don't force hardware IOMMU usage when it is not 2456 needed. (default). 2457 2458 biomerge 2459 panic 2460 nopanic 2461 merge 2462 nomerge 2463 2464 soft 2465 Use software bounce buffering (SWIOTLB) (default for 2466 Intel machines). This can be used to prevent the usage 2467 of an available hardware IOMMU. 2468 2469 [X86] 2470 pt 2471 [X86] 2472 nopt 2473 [PPC/POWERNV] 2474 nobypass 2475 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2476 2477 [X86] 2478 AMD Gart HW IOMMU-specific options: 2479 2480 <size> 2481 Set the size of the remapping area in bytes. 2482 2483 allowed 2484 Overwrite iommu off workarounds for specific chipsets 2485 2486 fullflush 2487 Flush IOMMU on each allocation (default). 2488 2489 nofullflush 2490 Don't use IOMMU fullflush. 2491 2492 memaper[=<order>] 2493 Allocate an own aperture over RAM with size 2494 32MB<<order. (default: order=1, i.e. 64MB) 2495 2496 merge 2497 Do scatter-gather (SG) merging. Implies "force" 2498 (experimental). 2499 2500 nomerge 2501 Don't do scatter-gather (SG) merging. 2502 2503 noaperture 2504 Ask the IOMMU not to touch the aperture for AGP. 2505 2506 noagp 2507 Don't initialize the AGP driver and use full aperture. 2508 2509 panic 2510 Always panic when IOMMU overflows. 2511 2512 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2513 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2514 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2515 falling back to the full range if needed. 2516 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2517 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2518 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2519 2520 iommu.strict= [ARM64,X86,S390,EARLY] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2521 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2522 0 - Lazy mode. 2523 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2524 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2525 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2526 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2527 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2528 1 - Strict mode. 2529 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2530 synchronously. 2531 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2532 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2533 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2534 2535 iommu.passthrough= 2536 [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2537 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2538 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2539 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2540 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2541 2542 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2543 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2544 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2545 2546 io_delay= [X86,EARLY] I/O delay method 2547 0x80 2548 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2549 0xed 2550 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2551 udelay 2552 Simple two microseconds delay 2553 none 2554 No delay 2555 2556 ip= [IP_PNP] 2557 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2558 2559 ipcmni_extend [KNL,EARLY] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2560 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2561 2562 ipe.enforce= [IPE] 2563 Format: <bool> 2564 Determine whether IPE starts in permissive (0) or 2565 enforce (1) mode. The default is enforce. 2566 2567 ipe.success_audit= 2568 [IPE] 2569 Format: <bool> 2570 Start IPE with success auditing enabled, emitting 2571 an audit event when a binary is allowed. The default 2572 is 0. 2573 2574 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2575 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2576 2577 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2578 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 2579 Format: <bool> 2580 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2581 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2582 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2583 2584 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2585 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 2586 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2587 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2588 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2589 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2590 LPIs. 2591 2592 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64,EARLY] 2593 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2594 requires the kernel to be built with 2595 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2596 2597 irqchip.riscv_imsic_noipi 2598 [RISC-V,EARLY] 2599 Force the kernel to not use IMSIC software injected MSIs 2600 as IPIs. Intended for system where IMSIC is trap-n-emulated, 2601 and thus want to reduce MMIO traps when triggering IPIs 2602 to multiple harts. 2603 2604 irqfixup [HW] 2605 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2606 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2607 firmware running. 2608 2609 irqhandler.duration_warn_us= [KNL] 2610 Warn if an IRQ handler exceeds the specified duration 2611 threshold in microseconds. Useful for identifying 2612 long-running IRQs in the system. 2613 2614 irqpoll [HW] 2615 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2616 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2617 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2618 firmware running. 2619 2620 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2621 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2622 2623 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2624 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2625 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2626 2627 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2628 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2629 2630 nohz 2631 Disable the tick when a single task runs as well as 2632 disabling other kernel noises like having RCU callbacks 2633 offloaded. This is equivalent to the nohz_full parameter. 2634 2635 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2636 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2637 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2638 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2639 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2640 2641 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2642 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2643 be configured manually after bootup. 2644 2645 domain 2646 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2647 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2648 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2649 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2650 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2651 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2652 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2653 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2654 2655 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2656 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2657 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2658 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2659 2660 managed_irq 2661 2662 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2663 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2664 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2665 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2666 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2667 2668 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2669 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2670 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2671 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2672 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2673 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2674 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2675 2676 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2677 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2678 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2679 only delivered when tasks running on those 2680 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2681 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2682 queues. 2683 2684 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2685 2686 iucv= [HW,NET] 2687 2688 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2689 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2690 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2691 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2692 2693 For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2694 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2695 write the parameter as: 2696 ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0 2697 2698 Deprecated formats: 2699 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2700 write the parameter as: 2701 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2702 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2703 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2704 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2705 2706 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2707 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2708 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2709 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2710 2711 For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to 2712 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2713 write the parameter as: 2714 ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0 2715 2716 Deprecated formats: 2717 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2718 write the parameter as: 2719 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2720 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2721 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2722 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2723 2724 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2725 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2726 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2727 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2728 2729 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2730 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2731 write the parameter as: 2732 ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5 2733 2734 Deprecated formats: 2735 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0, 2736 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2737 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2738 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2739 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2740 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2741 2742 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2743 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2744 2745 kasan_multi_shot 2746 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2747 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2748 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2749 invalid access. 2750 2751 keep_bootcon [KNL,EARLY] 2752 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 2753 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 2754 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 2755 the real console. 2756 2757 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] See retain_initrd. 2758 2759 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY] 2760 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2761 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2762 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2763 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2764 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2765 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2766 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2767 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2768 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2769 2770 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2771 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2772 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2773 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2774 zone if it does not. 2775 2776 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2777 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2778 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2779 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2780 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2781 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2782 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2783 2784 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW,EARLY] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2785 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2786 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2787 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2788 optional and is the number seconds in between 2789 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2790 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2791 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2792 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2793 the kernel debugger. 2794 2795 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2796 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2797 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2798 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2799 keyboard only format: kbd 2800 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2801 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2802 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2803 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2804 2805 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW,EARLY] 2806 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2807 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2808 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2809 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2810 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2811 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2812 2813 The name of the early console should be specified 2814 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2815 the early console might be different than the tty 2816 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2817 blank and the first boot console that implements 2818 read() will be picked. 2819 2820 kgdbwait [KGDB,EARLY] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2821 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2822 2823 kho= [KEXEC,EARLY] 2824 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" | "y" | "n" } 2825 Enables or disables Kexec HandOver. 2826 "0" | "off" | "n" - kexec handover is disabled 2827 "1" | "on" | "y" - kexec handover is enabled 2828 2829 kho_scratch= [KEXEC,EARLY] 2830 Format: ll[KMG],mm[KMG],nn[KMG] | nn% 2831 Defines the size of the KHO scratch region. The KHO 2832 scratch regions are physically contiguous memory 2833 ranges that can only be used for non-kernel 2834 allocations. That way, even when memory is heavily 2835 fragmented with handed over memory, the kexeced 2836 kernel will always have enough contiguous ranges to 2837 bootstrap itself. 2838 2839 It is possible to specify the exact amount of 2840 memory in the form of "ll[KMG],mm[KMG],nn[KMG]" 2841 where the first parameter defines the size of a low 2842 memory scratch area, the second parameter defines 2843 the size of a global scratch area and the third 2844 parameter defines the size of additional per-node 2845 scratch areas. The form "nn%" defines scale factor 2846 (in percents) of memory that was used during boot. 2847 2848 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2849 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2850 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2851 2852 kmemleak= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2853 Valid arguments: on, off 2854 Default: on 2855 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2856 the default is off. 2857 2858 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2859 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2860 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2861 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2862 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2863 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2864 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2865 2866 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2867 2868 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2869 Boot Parameter" section. 2870 2871 kpti= [ARM64,EARLY] Control page table isolation of 2872 user and kernel address spaces. 2873 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2874 0: force disabled 2875 1: force enabled 2876 2877 kunit.enable= [KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires 2878 CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The 2879 default value can be overridden via 2880 KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED. 2881 Default is 1 (enabled) 2882 2883 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2884 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2885 2886 kvm.eager_page_split= 2887 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2888 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2889 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2890 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2891 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2892 required to split huge pages lazily. 2893 2894 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2895 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2896 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2897 still be used for reads. 2898 2899 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2900 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2901 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2902 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2903 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2904 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2905 cleared. 2906 2907 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y. 2908 2909 Default is Y (on). 2910 2911 kvm.enable_virt_at_load=[KVM,ARM64,LOONGARCH,MIPS,RISCV,X86] 2912 If enabled, KVM will enable virtualization in hardware 2913 when KVM is loaded, and disable virtualization when KVM 2914 is unloaded (if KVM is built as a module). 2915 2916 If disabled, KVM will dynamically enable and disable 2917 virtualization on-demand when creating and destroying 2918 VMs, i.e. on the 0=>1 and 1=>0 transitions of the 2919 number of VMs. 2920 2921 Enabling virtualization at module load avoids potential 2922 latency for creation of the 0=>1 VM, as KVM serializes 2923 virtualization enabling across all online CPUs. The 2924 "cost" of enabling virtualization when KVM is loaded, 2925 is that doing so may interfere with using out-of-tree 2926 hypervisors that want to "own" virtualization hardware. 2927 2928 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2929 Default is false (don't support). 2930 2931 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2932 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2933 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2934 force : Always deploy workaround. 2935 off : Never deploy workaround. 2936 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2937 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2938 2939 Default is 'auto'. 2940 2941 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2942 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2943 2944 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2945 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2946 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2947 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2948 period (see below). The default is 60. 2949 2950 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2951 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2952 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2953 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2954 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2955 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2956 2957 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in 2958 KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled). 2959 2960 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables, 2961 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 2962 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2963 for NPT. 2964 2965 kvm-arm.mode= 2966 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of 2967 operation. 2968 2969 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2970 2971 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2972 protected guests. 2973 2974 protected: Mode with support for guests whose state is 2975 kept private from the host, using VHE or 2976 nVHE depending on HW support. 2977 2978 nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested 2979 virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.4 2980 hardware (with FEAT_NV2). 2981 2982 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2983 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2984 for the host. To force nVHE on VHE hardware, add 2985 "arm64_sw.hvhe=0 id_aa64mmfr1.vh=0" to the 2986 command-line. 2987 "nested" is experimental and should be used with 2988 extreme caution. 2989 2990 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2991 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2992 system registers 2993 2994 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2995 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2996 system registers 2997 2998 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2999 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 3000 system registers 3001 3002 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 3003 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Allow use of GICv4 for direct 3004 injection of LPIs. 3005 3006 kvm-arm.wfe_trap_policy= 3007 [KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFE instruction trap for 3008 KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the 3009 CPU architecture. 3010 3011 trap: set WFE instruction trap 3012 3013 notrap: clear WFE instruction trap 3014 3015 kvm-arm.wfi_trap_policy= 3016 [KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFI instruction trap for 3017 KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the 3018 CPU architecture. 3019 3020 trap: set WFI instruction trap 3021 3022 notrap: clear WFI instruction trap 3023 3024 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC,EARLY] 3025 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 3026 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 3027 allocation. 3028 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 3029 Format: <integer> 3030 Default: 5 3031 3032 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables, 3033 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 3034 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 3035 for EPT. 3036 3037 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 3038 [KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest 3039 state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, 3040 as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted 3041 guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), 3042 as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 3043 Default is 1 (enabled). 3044 3045 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 3046 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature 3047 (TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if 3048 hardware lacks support for it. 3049 3050 kvm-intel.nested= 3051 [KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in 3052 KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled). 3053 3054 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 3055 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest 3056 feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default 3057 is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or 3058 hardware lacks support for it. 3059 3060 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 3061 CVE-2018-3620. 3062 3063 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 3064 3065 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 3066 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 3067 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 3068 never: Disables the mitigation 3069 3070 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 3071 3072 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor 3073 Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1 3074 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 3075 for it. 3076 3077 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 3078 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 3079 3080 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 3081 internal buffers which can forward information to a 3082 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 3083 3084 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 3085 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 3086 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 3087 not have direct access. 3088 3089 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3090 options are: 3091 3092 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 3093 3094 l1tf= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 3095 affected CPUs 3096 3097 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 3098 enabled and cannot be disabled. 3099 3100 full 3101 Provides all available mitigations for the 3102 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 3103 enables all mitigations in the 3104 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 3105 3106 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 3107 sysfs interface is still possible after 3108 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 3109 when the first VM is started in a 3110 potentially insecure configuration, 3111 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 3112 3113 full,force 3114 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 3115 flush runtime control. Implies the 3116 'nosmt=force' command line option. 3117 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 3118 3119 flush 3120 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 3121 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 3122 L1D flush. 3123 3124 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 3125 sysfs interface is still possible after 3126 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 3127 when the first VM is started in a 3128 potentially insecure configuration, 3129 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 3130 3131 flush,nosmt 3132 3133 Disables SMT and enables the default 3134 hypervisor mitigation. 3135 3136 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 3137 sysfs interface is still possible after 3138 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 3139 when the first VM is started in a 3140 potentially insecure configuration, 3141 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 3142 3143 flush,nowarn 3144 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 3145 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 3146 insecure configuration. 3147 3148 off 3149 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 3150 emit any warnings. 3151 It also drops the swap size and available 3152 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 3153 bare metal. 3154 3155 Default is 'flush'. 3156 3157 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 3158 3159 l2cr= [PPC] 3160 3161 l3cr= [PPC] 3162 3163 lapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 3164 disabled it. 3165 3166 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 3167 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 3168 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 3169 Format: notscdeadline 3170 3171 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC,EARLY] trust the local apic timer 3172 in C2 power state. 3173 3174 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 3175 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 3176 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 3177 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 3178 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 3179 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 3180 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 3181 3182 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 3183 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 3184 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 3185 3186 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 3187 when set. 3188 Format: <int> 3189 3190 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 3191 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 3192 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 3193 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 3194 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 3195 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 3196 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 3197 to all ports, links and devices. 3198 3199 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 3200 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 3201 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 3202 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 3203 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 3204 host link and device attached to it. 3205 3206 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 3207 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 3208 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 3209 The following configurations can be forced. 3210 3211 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 3212 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 3213 3214 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 3215 3216 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 3217 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 3218 allowed. 3219 3220 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 3221 resets. 3222 3223 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 3224 link recovery. 3225 3226 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 3227 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 3228 detection. 3229 3230 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 3231 3232 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 3233 3234 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 3235 3236 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 3237 3238 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 3239 3240 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 3241 3242 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 3243 3244 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 3245 3246 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 3247 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 3248 3249 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 3250 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 3251 3252 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 3253 identify device data log. 3254 3255 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 3256 purpose log directory. 3257 3258 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 3259 3260 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 3261 1024 sectors. 3262 3263 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 3264 65535 sectors. 3265 3266 * external: Mark port as external (hotplug-capable). 3267 3268 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 3269 3270 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 3271 should be skipped. 3272 3273 * [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access) 3274 support for devices supporting this feature. 3275 3276 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 3277 3278 * disable: Disable this device. 3279 3280 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 3281 the same attribute, the last one is used. 3282 3283 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 3284 3285 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 3286 Format: <integer> 3287 3288 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 3289 Format: <integer> 3290 3291 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 3292 Format: <integer> 3293 3294 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 3295 Format: <integer> 3296 3297 lockdown= [SECURITY,EARLY] 3298 { integrity | confidentiality } 3299 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 3300 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 3301 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 3302 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 3303 to extract confidential information from the kernel 3304 are also disabled. 3305 3306 locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL] 3307 Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock 3308 acquisition. Acquisitions exceeding this limit 3309 will result in a splat once they do complete. 3310 3311 locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL] 3312 Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are 3313 to be bound. 3314 3315 locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL] 3316 Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are 3317 to be bound. 3318 3319 locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL] 3320 Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu() 3321 chains to set up. These are used to ensure that 3322 there is a high probability of an RCU grace period 3323 in progress at any given time. Defaults to 0, 3324 which disables these call_rcu() chains. 3325 3326 locktorture.long_hold= [KNL] 3327 Specify the duration in milliseconds for the 3328 occasional long-duration lock hold time. Defaults 3329 to 100 milliseconds. Select 0 to disable. 3330 3331 locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL] 3332 Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that 3333 locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8 3334 (MAX_NESTED_LOCKS). Specify zero to disable. 3335 Note that this parameter is ineffective on types 3336 of locks that do not support nested acquisition. 3337 3338 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 3339 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 3340 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 3341 number of online CPUs. 3342 3343 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 3344 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 3345 3346 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 3347 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 3348 3349 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 3350 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 3351 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 3352 3353 locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL] 3354 Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority 3355 boosting. Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost 3356 only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally. 3357 Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an 3358 odd choice, but which should be harmless for 3359 non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling 3360 of preemption. Note that non-realtime mutexes 3361 disable boosting. 3362 3363 locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL] 3364 Number that determines how often and for how 3365 long priority boosting is exercised. This is 3366 scaled down by the number of writers, so that the 3367 number of boosts per unit time remains roughly 3368 constant as the number of writers increases. 3369 On the other hand, the duration of each boost 3370 increases with the number of writers. 3371 3372 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 3373 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 3374 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 3375 mode during the locktorture test. 3376 3377 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 3378 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 3379 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 3380 3381 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 3382 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 3383 3384 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 3385 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 3386 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 3387 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 3388 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 3389 transition abruptly to and from idle. 3390 3391 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 3392 Specify the locking implementation to test. 3393 3394 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 3395 Enable additional printk() statements. 3396 3397 locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL] 3398 Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at 3399 sched_set_fifo() real-time priority. 3400 3401 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 3402 Format: <irq> 3403 3404 loglevel= [KNL,EARLY] 3405 All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 3406 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 3407 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 3408 loglevels are defined as follows: 3409 3410 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 3411 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 3412 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 3413 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 3414 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 3415 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 3416 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 3417 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 3418 3419 log_buf_len=n[KMG] [KNL,EARLY] 3420 Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes. 3421 n must be a power of two and greater than the 3422 minimal size. The minimal size is defined by 3423 LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There 3424 is also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 3425 parameter that allows to increase the default size 3426 depending on the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig 3427 for more details. 3428 3429 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 3430 This may be used to provide more screen space for 3431 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 3432 kernel boot problems. 3433 3434 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 3435 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 3436 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 3437 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 3438 specified in addition to the ports) causes 3439 attached printers to be reset. Using 3440 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 3441 to associate lp devices with, starting with 3442 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 3443 that lp device, or a parport name such as 3444 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 3445 port specification list means that device IDs 3446 from each port should be examined, to see if 3447 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 3448 so, the driver will manage that printer. 3449 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 3450 3451 lpj=n [KNL] 3452 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 3453 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 3454 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 3455 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 3456 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 3457 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 3458 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 3459 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 3460 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 3461 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 3462 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 3463 hardware. 3464 3465 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 3466 3467 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 3468 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 3469 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 3470 3471 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 3472 different yeeloong laptops. 3473 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 3474 3475 maxcpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3476 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 3477 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 3478 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 3479 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 3480 only takes effect during system bootup. 3481 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 3482 which also disables the IO APIC. 3483 3484 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 3485 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 3486 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 3487 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 3488 devices can be requested on-demand with the 3489 /dev/loop-control interface. 3490 3491 mce= [X86-{32,64}] 3492 3493 Please see Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/machinecheck.rst for sysfs runtime tunables. 3494 3495 off 3496 disable machine check 3497 3498 no_cmci 3499 disable CMCI(Corrected Machine Check Interrupt) that 3500 Intel processor supports. Usually this disablement is 3501 not recommended, but it might be handy if your 3502 hardware is misbehaving. 3503 3504 Note that you'll get more problems without CMCI than 3505 with due to the shared banks, i.e. you might get 3506 duplicated error logs. 3507 3508 dont_log_ce 3509 don't make logs for corrected errors. All events 3510 reported as corrected are silently cleared by OS. This 3511 option will be useful if you have no interest in any 3512 of corrected errors. 3513 3514 ignore_ce 3515 disable features for corrected errors, e.g. 3516 polling timer and CMCI. All events reported as 3517 corrected are not cleared by OS and remained in its 3518 error banks. 3519 3520 Usually this disablement is not recommended, however 3521 if there is an agent checking/clearing corrected 3522 errors (e.g. BIOS or hardware monitoring 3523 applications), conflicting with OS's error handling, 3524 and you cannot deactivate the agent, then this option 3525 will be a help. 3526 3527 no_lmce 3528 do not opt-in to Local MCE delivery. Use legacy method 3529 to broadcast MCEs. 3530 3531 bootlog 3532 enable logging of machine checks left over from 3533 booting. Disabled by default on AMD Fam10h and older 3534 because some BIOS leave bogus ones. 3535 3536 If your BIOS doesn't do that it's a good idea to 3537 enable though to make sure you log even machine check 3538 events that result in a reboot. On Intel systems it is 3539 enabled by default. 3540 3541 nobootlog 3542 disable boot machine check logging. 3543 3544 monarchtimeout (number) 3545 sets the time in us to wait for other CPUs on machine 3546 checks. 0 to disable. 3547 3548 bios_cmci_threshold 3549 don't overwrite the bios-set CMCI threshold. This boot 3550 option prevents Linux from overwriting the CMCI 3551 threshold set by the bios. Without this option, Linux 3552 always sets the CMCI threshold to 1. Enabling this may 3553 make memory predictive failure analysis less effective 3554 if the bios sets thresholds for memory errors since we 3555 will not see details for all errors. 3556 3557 recovery 3558 force-enable recoverable machine check code paths 3559 3560 Everything else is in sysfs now. 3561 3562 3563 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 3564 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3565 3566 mdacon= [MDA] 3567 Format: <first>,<last> 3568 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 3569 3570 mds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 3571 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 3572 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 3573 3574 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 3575 internal buffers which can forward information to a 3576 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 3577 3578 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 3579 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 3580 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 3581 not have direct access. 3582 3583 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 3584 options are: 3585 3586 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3587 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 3588 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 3589 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 3590 3591 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 3592 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 3593 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 3594 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 3595 too. 3596 3597 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3598 mds=full. 3599 3600 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 3601 3602 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON,EARLY] Set the memory size. 3603 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 3604 3605 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Force usage of a specific amount 3606 of memory Amount of memory to be used in cases 3607 as follows: 3608 3609 1 for test; 3610 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 3611 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 3612 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 3613 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 3614 3615 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 3616 high memory is not affected. 3617 3618 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 3619 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 3620 3621 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 3622 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 3623 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 3624 belonging to unused RAM. 3625 3626 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 3627 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 3628 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 3629 3630 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3631 [ARM,MIPS,EARLY] - override the memory layout 3632 reported by firmware. 3633 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 3634 ss[KMG]. 3635 Multiple different regions can be specified with 3636 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 3637 3638 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 3639 memory. 3640 3641 memblock=debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable memblock debug messages. 3642 3643 memchunk=nn[KMG] 3644 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 3645 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 3646 3647 memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable 3648 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 3649 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 3650 set according to the 3651 CONFIG_MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE kernel config 3652 options. 3653 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 3654 3655 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86,EARLY] Enable setting of an exact 3656 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3657 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3658 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3659 option description. 3660 3661 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3662 [KNL, X86,MIPS,XTENSA,EARLY] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3663 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3664 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3665 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3666 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3667 comma delimited. 3668 Example: 3669 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3670 3671 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3672 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3673 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3674 3675 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3676 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3677 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3678 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3679 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3680 or 3681 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3682 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3683 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3684 will be eaten. 3685 3686 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG,EARLY] 3687 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3688 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3689 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3690 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3691 3692 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3693 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Convert memory within the specified region 3694 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3695 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3696 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3697 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3698 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3699 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3700 3701 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86,EARLY] 3702 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3703 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3704 Setting this option will scan the memory 3705 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3706 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3707 from using the memory being corrupted. 3708 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3709 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3710 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3711 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3712 3713 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86,EARLY] 3714 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3715 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3716 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3717 corruption in more or less memory. 3718 3719 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86,EARLY] 3720 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3721 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3722 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3723 3724 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3725 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3726 Format: {on | off (default)} 3727 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3728 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages, 3729 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even 3730 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the 3731 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a 3732 lot of memory without requiring additional 3733 memory to do so. 3734 This feature is disabled by default because it 3735 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3736 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3737 memory blocks). 3738 The state of the flag can be read in 3739 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3740 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3741 the feature is not effective. 3742 3743 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV,EARLY] Enable memtest 3744 Format: <integer> 3745 default : 0 <disable> 3746 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3747 performed. Each pass selects another test 3748 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3749 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3750 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3751 regions that are detected. 3752 3753 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3754 Valid arguments: on, off 3755 Default: off 3756 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3757 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3758 3759 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3760 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3761 3762 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3763 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3764 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3765 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3766 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3767 3768 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3769 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3770 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3771 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3772 3773 mga= [HW,DRM] 3774 3775 microcode= [X86] Control the behavior of the microcode loader. 3776 Available options, comma separated: 3777 3778 base_rev=X - with <X> with format: <u32> 3779 Set the base microcode revision of each thread when in 3780 debug mode. 3781 3782 dis_ucode_ldr: disable the microcode loader 3783 3784 force_minrev: 3785 Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision 3786 enforcement for the runtime microcode loader. 3787 3788 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3789 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3790 Default: "0tb" 3791 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3792 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3793 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3794 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3795 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3796 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3797 unconfigured. 3798 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3799 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3800 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3801 VGA shield. 3802 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3803 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3804 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3805 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3806 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3807 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3808 3809 mitigations= 3810 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64,EARLY] Control optional mitigations for 3811 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3812 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3813 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3814 3815 Note, "mitigations" is supported if and only if the 3816 kernel was built with CPU_MITIGATIONS=y. 3817 3818 off 3819 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3820 improves system performance, but it may also 3821 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3822 Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] 3823 gather_data_sampling=off [X86] 3824 indirect_target_selection=off [X86] 3825 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3826 l1tf=off [X86] 3827 mds=off [X86] 3828 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 3829 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3830 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3831 nobp=0 [S390] 3832 nopti [X86,PPC] 3833 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] 3834 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3835 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3836 reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86] 3837 retbleed=off [X86] 3838 spec_rstack_overflow=off [X86] 3839 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3840 spectre_bhi=off [X86] 3841 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3842 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3843 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3844 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3845 vmscape=off [X86] 3846 3847 Exceptions: 3848 This does not have any effect on 3849 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3850 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3851 3852 auto (default) 3853 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3854 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3855 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3856 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3857 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3858 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3859 3860 auto,nosmt 3861 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3862 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3863 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3864 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3865 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3866 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3867 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 3868 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] 3869 3870 [X86] After one of the above options, additionally 3871 supports attack-vector based controls as documented in 3872 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/attack_vector_controls.rst 3873 3874 mminit_loglevel= 3875 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3876 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3877 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3878 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3879 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3880 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3881 3882 mmio_stale_data= 3883 [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the Processor 3884 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3885 3886 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3887 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3888 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3889 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3890 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3891 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3892 3893 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3894 options are: 3895 3896 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3897 3898 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3899 vulnerable CPUs. 3900 3901 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3902 3903 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3904 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3905 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3906 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3907 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3908 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3909 3910 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3911 mmio_stale_data=full. 3912 3913 For details see: 3914 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3915 3916 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL] 3917 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value 3918 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous 3919 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable 3920 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the 3921 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe 3922 3923 module.async_probe=<bool> 3924 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing 3925 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a 3926 specific module, use the module specific control that 3927 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both 3928 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are 3929 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for 3930 the specific module. 3931 3932 module.enable_dups_trace 3933 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set, 3934 this means that duplicate request_module() calls will 3935 trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that 3936 if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s 3937 will always be issued and this option does nothing. 3938 module.sig_enforce 3939 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3940 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3941 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3942 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3943 3944 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3945 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3946 3947 mousedev.tap_time= 3948 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3949 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3950 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3951 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3952 Format: <msecs> 3953 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3954 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3955 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3956 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3957 3958 movablecore= [KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY] 3959 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3960 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3961 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3962 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3963 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3964 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3965 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3966 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3967 is not too small. 3968 3969 movable_node [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3970 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3971 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3972 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3973 allocations. Use with caution! 3974 3975 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3976 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3977 3978 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3979 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3980 3981 mtdparts= [MTD] 3982 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3983 3984 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3985 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3986 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3987 3988 mtrr=debug [X86,EARLY] 3989 Enable printing debug information related to MTRR 3990 registers at boot time. 3991 3992 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY] 3993 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3994 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3995 3996 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY] 3997 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3998 Default is 1. 3999 Large value could prevent small alignment from 4000 using up MTRRs. 4001 4002 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86,EARLY] 4003 Format: <integer> 4004 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 4005 Default : 1 4006 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 4007 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 4008 4009 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 4010 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 4011 at a time. 4012 4013 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 4014 4015 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 4016 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 4017 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 4018 something different and driver-specific. 4019 This usage is only documented in each driver source 4020 file if at all. 4021 4022 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 4023 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 4024 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 4025 waits 4 seconds. 4026 4027 nf_conntrack.acct= 4028 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 4029 0 to disable accounting 4030 1 to enable accounting 4031 Default value is 0. 4032 4033 nfs.cache_getent= 4034 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 4035 to update the NFS client cache entries. 4036 4037 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 4038 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 4039 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 4040 4041 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 4042 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 4043 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 4044 requests. 4045 4046 nfs.callback_tcpport= 4047 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 4048 channel should listen. 4049 4050 nfs.delay_retrans= 4051 [NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client 4052 retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error, 4053 after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server. 4054 Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled, 4055 and the specified value is >= 0. 4056 4057 nfs.enable_ino64= 4058 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 4059 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 4060 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 4061 of returning the full 64-bit number. 4062 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 4063 4064 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 4065 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 4066 entries. 4067 4068 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 4069 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 4070 slots the client will assign to the callback 4071 channel. This determines the maximum number of 4072 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 4073 a particular server. 4074 4075 nfs.max_session_slots= 4076 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 4077 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 4078 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 4079 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 4080 Note that there is little point in setting this 4081 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 4082 4083 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 4084 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 4085 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 4086 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 4087 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 4088 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 4089 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 4090 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 4091 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 4092 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 4093 back to using the idmapper. 4094 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 4095 4096 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 4097 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 4098 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 4099 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 4100 UUID that is generated at system install time. 4101 4102 nfs.recover_lost_locks= 4103 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 4104 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 4105 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 4106 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 4107 after the locks are lost. 4108 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 4109 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 4110 parameter to '1'. 4111 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 4112 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 4113 4114 nfs.send_implementation_id= 4115 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 4116 information in exchange_id requests. 4117 If zero, no implementation identification information 4118 will be sent. 4119 The default is to send the implementation identification 4120 information. 4121 4122 nfs4.layoutstats_timer= 4123 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 4124 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 4125 4126 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 4127 whatever value is the default set by the layout 4128 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 4129 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 4130 4131 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable= 4132 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 4133 server-to-server copies for which this server is 4134 the destination of the copy. 4135 4136 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 4137 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 4138 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 4139 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 4140 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 4141 migration from NFSv2/v3. 4142 4143 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout= 4144 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 4145 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 4146 the source server. It caches the mount in case 4147 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 4148 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 4149 this parameter. 4150 4151 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 4152 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 4153 4154 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 4155 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 4156 4157 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 4158 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 4159 4160 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 4161 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 4162 NMI stack-backtrace request. 4163 4164 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 4165 when a NMI is triggered. 4166 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 4167 4168 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 4169 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][rNNN,][num] 4170 Valid num: 0 or 1 4171 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 4172 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 4173 rNNN - configure the watchdog with raw perf event 0xNNN 4174 4175 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 4176 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 4177 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 4178 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 4179 please see 'nowatchdog'. 4180 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 4181 need the box quickly up again. 4182 4183 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 4184 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 4185 4186 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 4187 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 4188 is present. 4189 4190 no4lvl [RISCV,EARLY] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes. 4191 Forces kernel to use 3-level paging instead. 4192 4193 no5lvl [X86-64,RISCV,EARLY] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 4194 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 4195 4196 noalign [KNL,ARM] 4197 4198 noapic [SMP,APIC,EARLY] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 4199 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 4200 4201 noapictimer [APIC,X86] Don't set up the APIC timer 4202 4203 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 4204 4205 nocache [ARM,EARLY] 4206 4207 no_console_suspend 4208 [HW] Never suspend the console 4209 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 4210 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 4211 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 4212 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 4213 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 4214 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 4215 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 4216 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 4217 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 4218 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 4219 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 4220 turn on/off it dynamically. 4221 4222 no_debug_objects 4223 [KNL,EARLY] Disable object debugging 4224 4225 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 4226 4227 noefi [EFI,EARLY] Disable EFI runtime services support. 4228 4229 no_entry_flush [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 4230 4231 noexec32 [X86-64] 4232 This affects only 32-bit executables. 4233 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 4234 read doesn't imply executable mappings 4235 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 4236 read implies executable mappings 4237 4238 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 4239 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 4240 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 4241 4242 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 4243 4244 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 4245 4246 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 4247 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 4248 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 4249 4250 nogbpages [X86] Do not use GB pages for kernel direct mappings. 4251 4252 no_hash_pointers 4253 [KNL,EARLY] 4254 Alias for "hash_pointers=never". 4255 4256 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 4257 4258 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,RISCV,SH] Forces the kernel to 4259 busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 4260 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 4261 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 4262 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 4263 correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate 4264 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 4265 useful when using JTAG debugger. 4266 4267 nohpet [X86] Don't use the HPET timer. 4268 4269 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 4270 4271 nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 4272 4273 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 4274 Valid arguments: on, off 4275 Default: on 4276 4277 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 4278 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 4279 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 4280 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 4281 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 4282 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 4283 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 4284 just as if they had also been called out in the 4285 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 4286 4287 Note that this argument takes precedence over 4288 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 4289 4290 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 4291 initial RAM disk. 4292 4293 nointremap [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] Do not enable interrupt 4294 remapping. 4295 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 4296 4297 noinvpcid [X86,EARLY] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 4298 4299 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 4300 4301 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 4302 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 4303 4304 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 4305 4306 nokaslr [KNL,EARLY] 4307 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 4308 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 4309 Layout Randomization). 4310 4311 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 4312 fault handling. 4313 4314 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 4315 4316 nolapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 4317 4318 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not use the local APIC timer. 4319 4320 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 4321 4322 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 4323 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 4324 4325 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware 4326 sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory 4327 for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will 4328 not load if they could possibly displace the pre- 4329 initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will 4330 be available for use. The respective drivers will not 4331 perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. 4332 4333 Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging. 4334 4335 nomodule Disable module load 4336 4337 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 4338 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 4339 irq. 4340 4341 nopat [X86,EARLY] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 4342 pagetables) support. 4343 4344 nopcid [X86-64,EARLY] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 4345 4346 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 4347 in some Intel CPUs. 4348 4349 nopti [X86-64,EARLY] 4350 Equivalent to pti=off 4351 4352 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE,EARLY] 4353 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 4354 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 4355 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 4356 4357 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM,EARLY] 4358 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 4359 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 4360 contention. 4361 4362 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 4363 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 4364 4365 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 4366 with UP alternatives 4367 4368 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 4369 space. 4370 4371 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 4372 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 4373 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 4374 4375 nosgx [X86-64,SGX,EARLY] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 4376 4377 nosmap [PPC,EARLY] 4378 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 4379 even if it is supported by processor. 4380 4381 nosmep [PPC64s,EARLY] 4382 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 4383 even if it is supported by processor. 4384 4385 nosmp [SMP,EARLY] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 4386 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 4387 4388 nosmt [KNL,MIPS,PPC,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 4389 Equivalent to smt=1. 4390 4391 [KNL,X86,PPC,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 4392 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 4393 via the sysfs control file. 4394 4395 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 4396 4397 nospec_store_bypass_disable 4398 [HW,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative 4399 Store Bypass vulnerability 4400 4401 nospectre_bhb [ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch 4402 history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks 4403 with this option. 4404 4405 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC,EARLY] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 4406 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 4407 possible in the system. 4408 4409 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_E500,ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations 4410 for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch 4411 prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data 4412 leaks with this option. 4413 4414 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES,RISCV,LOONGARCH,EARLY] 4415 Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. steal time 4416 is computed, but won't influence scheduler behaviour 4417 4418 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 4419 4420 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for broken 4421 timer IRQ sources, i.e., the IO-APIC timer. This can 4422 work around problems with incorrect timer 4423 initialization on some boards. 4424 4425 no_uaccess_flush 4426 [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 4427 4428 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 4429 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 4430 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 4431 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 4432 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 4433 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 4434 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 4435 data will be no longer available. This parameter 4436 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 4437 is set. 4438 4439 no-vmw-sched-clock 4440 [X86,PV_OPS,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized VMware 4441 scheduler clock and use the default one. 4442 4443 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 4444 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 4445 4446 nowb [ARM,EARLY] 4447 4448 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 4449 4450 NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the 4451 LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the 4452 IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR. 4453 4454 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 4455 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 4456 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 4457 4458 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 4459 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 4460 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 4461 performance of saving the states is degraded because 4462 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 4463 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 4464 4465 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 4466 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 4467 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 4468 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 4469 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 4470 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 4471 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 4472 4473 nr_cpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 4474 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 4475 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 4476 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 4477 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 4478 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 4479 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 4480 hot plugging. 4481 4482 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 4483 4484 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86, EARLY] 4485 Disable NUMA, Only set up a single NUMA node 4486 spanning all memory. 4487 4488 numa=fake=<size>[MG] 4489 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY] 4490 If given as a memory unit, fills all system RAM with 4491 nodes of size interleaved over physical nodes. 4492 4493 numa=fake=<N> 4494 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY] 4495 If given as an integer, fills all system RAM with N 4496 fake nodes interleaved over physical nodes. 4497 4498 numa=fake=<N>U 4499 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY] 4500 If given as an integer followed by 'U', it will 4501 divide each physical node into N emulated nodes. 4502 4503 numa=noacpi [X86] Don't parse the SRAT table for NUMA setup 4504 4505 numa=nohmat [X86] Don't parse the HMAT table for NUMA setup, or 4506 soft-reserved memory partitioning. 4507 4508 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 4509 NUMA balancing. 4510 Allowed values are enable and disable 4511 4512 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 4513 'node', 'default' can be specified 4514 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 4515 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 4516 4517 ohci1394_dma=early [HW,EARLY] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 4518 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 4519 info. 4520 4521 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 4522 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 4523 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 4524 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 4525 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 4526 interrupts *may* be lost! 4527 4528 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 4529 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 4530 For example, to override I2C bus2: 4531 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 4532 4533 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 4534 4535 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 4536 4537 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 4538 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 4539 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 4540 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 4541 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 4542 4543 oops=panic [KNL,EARLY] 4544 Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 4545 process, but there is a small probability of 4546 deadlocking the machine. 4547 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 4548 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 4549 4550 page_alloc.shuffle= 4551 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 4552 should randomize its free lists. This parameter can be 4553 used to enable/disable page randomization. The state of 4554 the flag can be read from sysfs at: 4555 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 4556 This parameter is only available if CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y. 4557 4558 page_owner= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 4559 Storage of the information about who allocated 4560 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 4561 we can turn it on. 4562 on: enable the feature 4563 4564 page_poison= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 4565 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 4566 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 4567 off: turn off poisoning (default) 4568 on: turn on poisoning 4569 4570 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 4571 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 4572 Format: <integer> 4573 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 4574 reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER. 4575 4576 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 4577 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 4578 timeout = 0: wait forever 4579 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 4580 Format: <timeout> 4581 4582 panic_on_taint= [KNL,EARLY] 4583 Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 4584 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 4585 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 4586 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 4587 called with any of the flags in this set. 4588 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 4589 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 4590 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 4591 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 4592 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 4593 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 4594 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 4595 4596 panic_on_warn=1 panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 4597 on a WARN(). 4598 4599 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 4600 User can chose combination of the following bits: 4601 bit 0: print all tasks info 4602 bit 1: print system memory info 4603 bit 2: print timer info 4604 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 4605 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 4606 bit 5: replay all kernel messages on consoles at the end of panic 4607 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 4608 bit 7: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state 4609 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 4610 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 4611 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 4612 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 4613 4614 panic_sys_info= A comma separated list of extra information to be dumped 4615 on panic. 4616 Format: val[,val...] 4617 Where @val can be any of the following: 4618 4619 tasks: print all tasks info 4620 mem: print system memory info 4621 timers: print timers info 4622 locks: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 4623 ftrace: print ftrace buffer 4624 all_bt: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 4625 blocked_tasks: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state 4626 4627 This is a human readable alternative to the 'panic_print' option. 4628 4629 panic_console_replay 4630 When panic happens, replay all kernel messages on 4631 consoles at the end of panic. 4632 4633 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 4634 connected to, default is 0. 4635 Format: <parport#> 4636 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 4637 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 4638 Format: <mode> 4639 4640 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 4641 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 4642 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 4643 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 4644 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 4645 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 4646 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 4647 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 4648 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 4649 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 4650 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 4651 are specified on the command line, starting 4652 with parport0. 4653 4654 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 4655 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 4656 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 4657 computer where firmware has no options for setting 4658 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 4659 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 4660 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 4661 4662 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 4663 Format: <int> 4664 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 4665 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 4666 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 4667 4668 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 4669 Format: <int> 4670 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 4671 changes. Disabled by default. 4672 4673 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 4674 Format: <int> 4675 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 4676 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4677 Disabled by default. 4678 4679 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 4680 Format: <int> 4681 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 4682 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4683 Disabled by default. 4684 4685 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4686 Format: <int> 4687 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 4688 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 4689 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 4690 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 4691 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 4692 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 4693 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 4694 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 4695 all channels. 4696 4697 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 4698 Format: <int> 4699 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 4700 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4701 respectively. Disabled by default. 4702 4703 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 4704 Format: <int> 4705 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 4706 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4707 respectively. Disabled by default. 4708 4709 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4710 Format: <int> 4711 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 4712 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 4713 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 4714 All modes allowed by default. 4715 4716 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 4717 Format: <int> 4718 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4719 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4720 4721 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4722 Format: <int> 4723 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4724 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4725 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4726 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4727 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4728 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4729 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4730 By default all supported ports are probed. 4731 4732 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4733 Format: <int> 4734 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4735 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4736 4737 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4738 Format: <int> 4739 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4740 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4741 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4742 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4743 0 otherwise. 4744 4745 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4746 Format: <int> 4747 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4748 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4749 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4750 allowed by default. 4751 4752 pause_on_oops=<int> 4753 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4754 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4755 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4756 4757 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4758 4759 pci=option[,option...] [PCI,EARLY] various PCI subsystem options. 4760 4761 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4762 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4763 specified in one of the following formats: 4764 4765 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4766 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4767 4768 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4769 bus/device/function address which may change 4770 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4771 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4772 by other kernel parameters. If the 4773 domain is left unspecified, it is 4774 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4775 to a device through multiple device/function 4776 addresses can be specified after the base 4777 address (this is more robust against 4778 renumbering issues). The second format 4779 selects devices using IDs from the 4780 configuration space which may match multiple 4781 devices in the system. 4782 4783 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4784 changes anything 4785 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4786 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4787 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4788 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4789 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4790 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4791 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4792 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4793 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4794 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4795 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4796 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4797 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4798 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4799 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4800 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4801 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4802 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4803 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4804 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4805 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4806 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4807 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4808 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4809 Configuration 4810 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4811 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4812 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4813 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4814 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4815 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4816 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4817 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4818 should never be necessary. 4819 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4820 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4821 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4822 when the system masks IRQs. 4823 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4824 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4825 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4826 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4827 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4828 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4829 on several machines and they hang the machine 4830 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4831 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4832 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4833 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4834 motherboard. 4835 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4836 Use with caution as certain devices share 4837 address decoders between ROMs and other 4838 resources. 4839 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4840 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4841 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4842 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4843 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4844 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4845 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4846 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4847 this way. 4848 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4849 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4850 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4851 F0000h-100000h range. 4852 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4853 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4854 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4855 explicitly which ones they are. 4856 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4857 numbers ourselves, overriding 4858 whatever the firmware may have done. 4859 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4860 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4861 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4862 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4863 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4864 IRQ routing is enabled. 4865 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4866 or for PCI scanning. 4867 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4868 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4869 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4870 please report a bug. 4871 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4872 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4873 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4874 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4875 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4876 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4877 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4878 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4879 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4880 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4881 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4882 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4883 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4884 so this option is a temporary workaround 4885 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4886 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4887 handle more pci cards 4888 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4889 This might help on some broken boards which 4890 machine check when some devices' config space 4891 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4892 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4893 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4894 This sorting is done to get a device 4895 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4896 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4897 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4898 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4899 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4900 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4901 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4902 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4903 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4904 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4905 or bus can support) for best performance. 4906 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4907 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4908 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4909 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4910 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4911 that hot-added devices will work. 4912 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4913 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4914 The default value is 256 bytes. 4915 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4916 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4917 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4918 resource_alignment= 4919 Format: 4920 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4921 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4922 aligned memory resources. How to 4923 specify the device is described above. 4924 If <order of align> is not specified, 4925 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4926 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4927 windows need to be expanded. 4928 To specify the alignment for several 4929 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4930 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4931 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4932 for 4096-byte alignment. 4933 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4934 end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if 4935 OS has native AER control (either granted by 4936 ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native") 4937 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4938 the default. 4939 off: Turn ECRC off 4940 on: Turn ECRC on. 4941 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4942 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4943 Default size is 256 bytes. 4944 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4945 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4946 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4947 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4948 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4949 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4950 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4951 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4952 MMIO_PREF window. 4953 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4954 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4955 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4956 Default is 1. 4957 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4958 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4959 accommodate resources required by all child 4960 devices. 4961 off: Turn realloc off 4962 on: Turn realloc on 4963 realloc same as realloc=on 4964 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4965 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4966 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4967 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4968 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4969 port. 4970 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4971 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4972 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4973 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4974 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4975 taints the kernel. 4976 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4977 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4978 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4979 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4980 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4981 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4982 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4983 this removes isolation between devices and 4984 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4985 config_acs= 4986 Format: 4987 <ACS flags>@<pci_dev>[; ...] 4988 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4989 specified above) optionally prepended with flags 4990 and separated by semicolons. The respective 4991 capabilities will be enabled, disabled or 4992 unchanged based on what is specified in 4993 flags. 4994 4995 ACS Flags is defined as follows: 4996 bit-0 : ACS Source Validation 4997 bit-1 : ACS Translation Blocking 4998 bit-2 : ACS P2P Request Redirect 4999 bit-3 : ACS P2P Completion Redirect 5000 bit-4 : ACS Upstream Forwarding 5001 bit-5 : ACS P2P Egress Control 5002 bit-6 : ACS Direct Translated P2P 5003 Each bit can be marked as: 5004 '0' – force disabled 5005 '1' – force enabled 5006 'x' – unchanged 5007 For example, 5008 pci=config_acs=10x@pci:0:0 5009 would configure all devices that support 5010 ACS to enable P2P Request Redirect, disable 5011 Translation Blocking, and leave Source 5012 Validation unchanged from whatever power-up 5013 or firmware set it to. 5014 5015 Note: this may remove isolation between devices 5016 and may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 5017 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 5018 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 5019 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 5020 one PCI domain per PCI function 5021 notph [PCIE] If the PCIE_TPH kernel config parameter 5022 is enabled, this kernel boot option can be used 5023 to disable PCIe TLP Processing Hints support 5024 system-wide. 5025 5026 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or ignore PCIe Active State Power 5027 Management. 5028 off Don't touch ASPM configuration at all. Leave any 5029 configuration done by firmware unchanged. 5030 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 5031 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 5032 5033 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 5034 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 5035 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 5036 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 5037 also tries to use these services. 5038 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 5039 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 5040 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 5041 hotplug). 5042 5043 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 5044 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 5045 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 5046 5047 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 5048 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 5049 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 5050 5051 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 5052 5053 pd_ignore_unused 5054 [PM] 5055 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 5056 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 5057 for debug and development, but should not be 5058 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 5059 5060 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 5061 boot time. 5062 Format: { 0 | 1 } 5063 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 5064 5065 percpu_alloc= [MM,EARLY] 5066 Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 5067 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 5068 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 5069 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 5070 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 5071 and performance comparison. 5072 5073 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 5074 See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 5075 5076 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 5077 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 5078 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 5079 5080 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 5081 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 5082 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 5083 5084 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 5085 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 5086 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 5087 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 5088 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 5089 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 5090 remains 0. 5091 5092 pm_async= [PM] 5093 Format: off 5094 This parameter sets the initial value of the 5095 /sys/power/pm_async sysfs knob at boot time. 5096 If set to "off", disables asynchronous suspend and 5097 resume of devices during system-wide power transitions. 5098 This can be useful on platforms where device 5099 dependencies are not well-defined, or for debugging 5100 power management issues. Asynchronous operations are 5101 enabled by default. 5102 5103 5104 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 5105 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 5106 5107 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 5108 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 5109 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 5110 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 5111 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 5112 possible settings and some assignment information. 5113 5114 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 5115 { off } 5116 5117 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 5118 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 5119 5120 pnp_reserve_irq= 5121 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 5122 5123 pnp_reserve_dma= 5124 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 5125 5126 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 5127 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 5128 5129 pnp_reserve_mem= 5130 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 5131 autoconfiguration. 5132 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 5133 5134 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 5135 Default is 21. 5136 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 5137 may be specified. 5138 Format: <port>,<port>.... 5139 5140 possible_cpus= [SMP,S390,X86] 5141 Format: <unsigned int> 5142 Set the number of possible CPUs, overriding the 5143 regular discovery mechanisms (such as ACPI/FW, etc). 5144 5145 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 5146 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 5147 platform machine description specific power_save 5148 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 5149 execution priority. 5150 5151 ppc_strict_facility_enable 5152 [PPC,ENABLE] This option catches any kernel floating point, 5153 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 5154 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 5155 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 5156 5157 ppc_tm= [PPC,EARLY] 5158 Format: {"off"} 5159 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 5160 5161 preempt= [KNL] 5162 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 5163 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 5164 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 5165 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 5166 can be preempted anytime. Tasks will also yield 5167 contended spinlocks (if the critical section isn't 5168 explicitly preempt disabled beyond the lock itself). 5169 lazy - Scheduler controlled. Similar to full but instead 5170 of preempting the task immediately, the task gets 5171 one HZ tick time to yield itself before the 5172 preemption will be forced. One preemption is when the 5173 task returns to user space. 5174 5175 print-fatal-signals= 5176 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 5177 5178 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 5179 related application anomalies: too many signals, 5180 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 5181 coredump - etc. 5182 5183 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 5184 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 5185 5186 default: off. 5187 5188 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 5189 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 5190 panics 5191 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 5192 default: disabled 5193 5194 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 5195 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 5196 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 5197 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 5198 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 5199 in order to provide more debug information. 5200 Format: <bool> 5201 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 5202 5203 printk.debug_non_panic_cpus= 5204 Allows storing messages from non-panic CPUs into 5205 the printk log buffer during panic(). They are 5206 flushed to consoles by the panic-CPU on 5207 a best-effort basis. 5208 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 5209 Default: disabled 5210 5211 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 5212 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 5213 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 5214 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 5215 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 5216 Default: ratelimit 5217 5218 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 5219 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 5220 5221 proc_mem.force_override= [KNL] 5222 Format: {always | ptrace | never} 5223 Traditionally /proc/pid/mem allows memory permissions to be 5224 overridden without restrictions. This option may be set to 5225 restrict that. Can be one of: 5226 - 'always': traditional behavior always allows mem overrides. 5227 - 'ptrace': only allow mem overrides for active ptracers. 5228 - 'never': never allow mem overrides. 5229 If not specified, default is the CONFIG_PROC_MEM_* choice. 5230 5231 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 5232 Limit processor to maximum C-state 5233 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 5234 5235 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 5236 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 5237 instead using the legacy FADT method 5238 5239 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 5240 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 5241 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule" or "kvm" 5242 [defaults to kernel profiling] 5243 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 5244 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 5245 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 5246 statistical time based profiling. 5247 5248 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 5249 5250 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 5251 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 5252 that). If enabled, the default kernel base address 5253 might be overridden even when Kernel Address Space 5254 Layout Randomization is disabled. 5255 Format: <bool> 5256 5257 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 5258 tracking. 5259 Format: <bool> 5260 5261 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 5262 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 5263 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 5264 per second. 5265 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 5266 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 5267 (0 = never). 5268 psmouse.resolution= 5269 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 5270 psmouse.smartscroll= 5271 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 5272 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 5273 5274 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 5275 5276 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 5277 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 5278 removes hardening, but improves performance of 5279 system calls and interrupts. 5280 5281 on - unconditionally enable 5282 off - unconditionally disable 5283 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5284 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 5285 5286 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 5287 5288 pty.legacy_count= 5289 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 5290 default number. 5291 5292 quiet [KNL,EARLY] Disable most log messages 5293 5294 r128= [HW,DRM] 5295 5296 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 5297 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 5298 invalidate. 5299 5300 raid= [HW,RAID] 5301 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 5302 5303 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 5304 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 5305 5306 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 5307 5308 random.trust_cpu=off 5309 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's 5310 random number generator (if available) to 5311 initialize the kernel's RNG. 5312 5313 random.trust_bootloader=off 5314 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the a seed 5315 passed by the bootloader (if available) to 5316 initialize the kernel's RNG. 5317 5318 randomize_kstack_offset= 5319 [KNL,EARLY] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 5320 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 5321 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 5322 that depend on stack address determinism or 5323 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 5324 available on architectures that have defined 5325 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 5326 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 5327 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 5328 5329 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 5330 5331 cec_disable [X86] 5332 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 5333 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 5334 5335 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 5336 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 5337 as described above. 5338 5339 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 5340 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 5341 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 5342 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 5343 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 5344 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 5345 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 5346 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 5347 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 5348 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 5349 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 5350 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 5351 5352 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 5353 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 5354 5355 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 5356 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 5357 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 5358 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 5359 5360 Note that this argument takes precedence over 5361 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 5362 5363 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 5364 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 5365 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 5366 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 5367 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 5368 This improves the real-time response for the 5369 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 5370 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 5371 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 5372 periodically wake up to do the polling. 5373 5374 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 5375 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 5376 process in one batch. 5377 5378 rcutree.csd_lock_suppress_rcu_stall= [KNL] 5379 Do only a one-line RCU CPU stall warning when 5380 there is an ongoing too-long CSD-lock wait. 5381 5382 rcutree.do_rcu_barrier= [KNL] 5383 Request a call to rcu_barrier(). This is 5384 throttled so that userspace tests can safely 5385 hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose. 5386 If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery 5387 is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN. 5388 5389 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 5390 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 5391 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 5392 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 5393 5394 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 5395 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 5396 RCU grace-period cleanup. 5397 5398 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 5399 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 5400 RCU grace-period initialization. 5401 5402 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 5403 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 5404 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 5405 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 5406 the rcu_node combining tree. 5407 5408 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 5409 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 5410 first attempt to force quiescent states. 5411 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 5412 and maximum value is HZ. 5413 5414 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 5415 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 5416 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 5417 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 5418 5419 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 5420 Set required age in jiffies for a 5421 given grace period before RCU starts 5422 soliciting quiescent-state help from 5423 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 5424 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 5425 a value based on the most recent settings 5426 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 5427 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 5428 This calculated value may be viewed in 5429 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 5430 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 5431 overwritten. 5432 5433 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 5434 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 5435 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 5436 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 5437 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 5438 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 5439 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 5440 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 5441 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 5442 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 5443 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 5444 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 5445 5446 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] 5447 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, 5448 RCU reduces the lock contention that would 5449 otherwise be caused by callback floods through 5450 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the 5451 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to 5452 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra 5453 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. 5454 But if there are too many callbacks queued during 5455 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into 5456 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too 5457 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. 5458 5459 rcutree.nohz_full_patience_delay= [KNL] 5460 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, avoid 5461 disturbing RCU unless the grace period has 5462 reached the specified age in milliseconds. 5463 Defaults to zero. Large values will be capped 5464 at five seconds. All values will be rounded down 5465 to the nearest value representable by jiffies. 5466 5467 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 5468 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 5469 batch limiting is disabled. 5470 5471 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 5472 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 5473 batch limiting is re-enabled. 5474 5475 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 5476 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 5477 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 5478 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 5479 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 5480 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 5481 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 5482 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 5483 5484 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 5485 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 5486 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 5487 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 5488 5489 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] 5490 Set the shift-right count to use to compute 5491 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from 5492 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. 5493 The result will be bounded below by the value of 5494 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl 5495 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in 5496 order to allow the CPU to do other work. 5497 5498 Please note that this callback-invocation batch 5499 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback 5500 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead 5501 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which 5502 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. 5503 5504 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 5505 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 5506 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 5507 possibly be useful for architectures having high 5508 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 5509 5510 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 5511 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 5512 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 5513 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 5514 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 5515 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 5516 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 5517 5518 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 5519 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 5520 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 5521 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 5522 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 5523 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 5524 condition. 5525 5526 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 5527 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 5528 each group, which defaults to the square root 5529 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 5530 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 5531 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 5532 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 5533 5534 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 5535 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 5536 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 5537 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 5538 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 5539 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 5540 5541 rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL] 5542 Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU 5543 callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds. 5544 By default, this limit is checked only once 5545 every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain 5546 inflicted by local_clock() overhead. 5547 5548 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 5549 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 5550 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 5551 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 5552 Larger delays increase the probability of 5553 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 5554 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 5555 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 5556 5557 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 5558 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 5559 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 5560 why a new grace period has not yet started. 5561 5562 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 5563 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 5564 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 5565 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 5566 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 5567 5568 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 5569 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 5570 to zero. 5571 5572 rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy= [KNL] 5573 To save power, batch RCU callbacks and flush after 5574 delay, memory pressure or callback list growing too 5575 big. 5576 5577 rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp= [KNL] 5578 Reduces a latency of synchronize_rcu() call. This approach 5579 maintains its own track of synchronize_rcu() callers, so it 5580 does not interact with regular callbacks because it does not 5581 use a call_rcu[_hurry]() path. Please note, this is for a 5582 normal grace period. 5583 5584 How to enable it: 5585 5586 echo 1 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp 5587 or pass a boot parameter "rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=1" 5588 5589 Default is 1 if num_possible_cpus() <= 16 and it is not explicitly 5590 disabled by the boot parameter passing 0. 5591 5592 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 5593 Measure performance of asynchronous 5594 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 5595 5596 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 5597 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 5598 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 5599 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 5600 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 5601 previously posted callbacks to drain. 5602 5603 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 5604 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 5605 grace-period primitives. 5606 5607 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5608 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5609 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5610 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5611 interference. 5612 5613 rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL] 5614 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test 5615 call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu(). 5616 5617 rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL] 5618 Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj, 5619 allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj). 5620 Defaults to 1. 5621 5622 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 5623 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 5624 5625 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 5626 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5627 If this parameter has the same value as 5628 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 5629 and double-argument variants are tested. 5630 5631 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 5632 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5633 If this parameter has the same value as 5634 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 5635 and double-argument variants are tested. 5636 5637 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 5638 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 5639 5640 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 5641 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 5642 5643 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 5644 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 5645 of allocations and frees. 5646 5647 rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL] 5648 Set the minimum test run time in seconds. This 5649 does not affect the data-collection interval, 5650 but instead allows better measurement of things 5651 like CPU consumption. 5652 5653 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5654 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5655 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5656 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 5657 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5658 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5659 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 5660 a single reader. 5661 5662 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 5663 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 5664 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 5665 N, where N is the number of CPUs 5666 5667 rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5668 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5669 5670 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5671 Shut the system down after performance tests 5672 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 5673 testing. 5674 5675 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 5676 Enable additional printk() statements. 5677 5678 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 5679 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 5680 in microseconds. The default of zero says 5681 no holdoff. 5682 5683 rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL] 5684 Additional write-side holdoff between grace 5685 periods, but in jiffies. The default of zero 5686 says no holdoff. 5687 5688 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 5689 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 5690 in microseconds. 5691 5692 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 5693 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 5694 in microseconds. 5695 5696 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 5697 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 5698 in seconds. 5699 5700 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 5701 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 5702 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 5703 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 5704 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 5705 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 5706 of CPUs to be used. 5707 5708 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 5709 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 5710 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 5711 5712 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 5713 Number of seconds to wait between successive 5714 forward-progress tests. 5715 5716 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 5717 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 5718 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 5719 testing. 5720 5721 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 5722 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 5723 normal-grace-period primitives, if available. 5724 5725 rcutorture.gp_cond_exp= [KNL] 5726 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 5727 expedited-grace-period primitives, if available. 5728 5729 rcutorture.gp_cond_full= [KNL] 5730 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 5731 normal-grace-period primitives that also take 5732 concurrent expedited grace periods into account, 5733 if available. 5734 5735 rcutorture.gp_cond_exp_full= [KNL] 5736 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 5737 expedited-grace-period primitives that also take 5738 concurrent normal grace periods into account, 5739 if available. 5740 5741 rcutorture.gp_cond_wi= [KNL] 5742 Nominal wait interval for normal conditional 5743 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's 5744 gp_cond and gp_cond_full module parameters), 5745 in microseconds. The actual wait interval will 5746 be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up 5747 to this wait interval. Defaults to 16 jiffies, 5748 for example, 16,000 microseconds on a system 5749 with HZ=1000. 5750 5751 rcutorture.gp_cond_wi_exp= [KNL] 5752 Nominal wait interval for expedited conditional 5753 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's 5754 gp_cond_exp and gp_cond_exp_full module 5755 parameters), in microseconds. The actual wait 5756 interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond 5757 granularity up to this wait interval. Defaults to 5758 128 microseconds. 5759 5760 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 5761 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 5762 5763 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 5764 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 5765 update-side primitives, if available. 5766 5767 rcutorture.gp_poll= [KNL] 5768 Use polled update-side normal-grace-period 5769 primitives, if available. 5770 5771 rcutorture.gp_poll_exp= [KNL] 5772 Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period 5773 primitives, if available. 5774 5775 rcutorture.gp_poll_full= [KNL] 5776 Use polled update-side normal-grace-period 5777 primitives that also take concurrent expedited 5778 grace periods into account, if available. 5779 5780 rcutorture.gp_poll_exp_full= [KNL] 5781 Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period 5782 primitives that also take concurrent normal 5783 grace periods into account, if available. 5784 5785 rcutorture.gp_poll_wi= [KNL] 5786 Nominal wait interval for normal conditional 5787 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's 5788 gp_poll and gp_poll_full module parameters), 5789 in microseconds. The actual wait interval will 5790 be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up 5791 to this wait interval. Defaults to 16 jiffies, 5792 for example, 16,000 microseconds on a system 5793 with HZ=1000. 5794 5795 rcutorture.gp_poll_wi_exp= [KNL] 5796 Nominal wait interval for expedited conditional 5797 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's 5798 gp_poll_exp and gp_poll_exp_full module 5799 parameters), in microseconds. The actual wait 5800 interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond 5801 granularity up to this wait interval. Defaults to 5802 128 microseconds. 5803 5804 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 5805 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 5806 update-side primitives, if available. If all 5807 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 5808 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 5809 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 5810 they are all non-zero. 5811 5812 rcutorture.gpwrap_lag= [KNL] 5813 Enable grace-period wrap lag testing. Setting 5814 to false prevents the gpwrap lag test from 5815 running. Default is true. 5816 5817 rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_gps= [KNL] 5818 Set the value for grace-period wrap lag during 5819 active lag testing periods. This controls how many 5820 grace periods differences we tolerate between 5821 rdp and rnp's gp_seq before setting overflow flag. 5822 The default is always set to 8. 5823 5824 rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_cycle_mins= [KNL] 5825 Set the total cycle duration for gpwrap lag 5826 testing in minutes. This is the total time for 5827 one complete cycle of active and inactive 5828 testing periods. Default is 30 minutes. 5829 5830 rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_active_mins= [KNL] 5831 Set the duration for which gpwrap lag is active 5832 within each cycle, in minutes. During this time, 5833 the grace-period wrap lag will be set to the 5834 value specified by gpwrap_lag_gps. Default is 5835 5 minutes. 5836 5837 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 5838 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 5839 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 5840 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 5841 5842 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 5843 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 5844 This can of course result in splats, and is 5845 intended to test the ability of things like 5846 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 5847 such leaks. 5848 5849 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 5850 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 5851 5852 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 5853 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 5854 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 5855 test, hence the "fake". 5856 5857 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 5858 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 5859 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 5860 5861 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 5862 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 5863 callback-offload toggling attempts. 5864 5865 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 5866 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5867 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5868 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 5869 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5870 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5871 5872 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 5873 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 5874 5875 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5876 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 5877 5878 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5879 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 5880 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 5881 5882 rcutorture.preempt_duration= [KNL] 5883 Set duration (in milliseconds) of preemptions 5884 by a high-priority FIFO real-time task. Set to 5885 zero (the default) to disable. The CPUs to 5886 preempt are selected randomly from the set that 5887 are online at a given point in time. Races with 5888 CPUs going offline are ignored, with that attempt 5889 at preemption skipped. 5890 5891 rcutorture.preempt_interval= [KNL] 5892 Set interval (in milliseconds, defaulting to one 5893 second) between preemptions by a high-priority 5894 FIFO real-time task. This delay is mediated 5895 by an hrtimer and is further fuzzed to avoid 5896 inadvertent synchronizations. 5897 5898 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 5899 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 5900 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 5901 is spawned. 5902 5903 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 5904 The delay, in seconds, between successive 5905 read-then-exit testing episodes. 5906 5907 rcutorture.reader_flavor= [KNL] 5908 A bit mask indicating which readers to use. 5909 If there is more than one bit set, the readers 5910 are entered from low-order bit up, and are 5911 exited in the opposite order. For SRCU, the 5912 0x1 bit is normal readers, 0x2 NMI-safe readers, 5913 and 0x4 light-weight readers. 5914 5915 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 5916 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 5917 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 5918 during the rcutorture test. 5919 5920 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5921 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 5922 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 5923 5924 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 5925 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 5926 warnings, zero to disable. 5927 5928 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 5929 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 5930 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to 5931 any other stall-related activity. Note that 5932 in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and 5933 CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will 5934 cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state. 5935 Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress 5936 RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result 5937 in scheduling-while-atomic splats. 5938 5939 Use of this module parameter results in splats. 5940 5941 5942 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 5943 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 5944 5945 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 5946 Disable interrupts while stalling if set, but only 5947 on the first stall in the set. 5948 5949 rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat= [KNL] 5950 Number of times to repeat the stall sequence, 5951 so that rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat=3 will result 5952 in four stall sequences. 5953 5954 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 5955 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 5956 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 5957 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 5958 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 5959 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 5960 5961 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5962 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 5963 5964 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 5965 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 5966 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 5967 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 5968 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 5969 5970 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 5971 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 5972 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 5973 under test support RCU priority boosting. 5974 5975 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 5976 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 5977 5978 rcutorture.test_boost_holdoff= [KNL] 5979 Holdoff time (s) from start of test to the start 5980 of RCU priority-boost testing. Defaults to zero, 5981 that is, no holdoff. 5982 5983 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 5984 Interval (s) between each boost test. 5985 5986 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 5987 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 5988 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 5989 5990 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 5991 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5992 5993 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 5994 Enable additional printk() statements. 5995 5996 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 5997 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 5998 stall warning. 5999 6000 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL] 6001 Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the 6002 warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig 6003 option's help text. TL;DR: You almost certainly 6004 do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers. 6005 6006 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 6007 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 6008 6009 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 6010 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 6011 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 6012 during early boot, that is, during the time 6013 before the init task is spawned. 6014 6015 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 6016 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 6017 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 6018 value is 300 seconds. 6019 6020 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 6021 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 6022 messages. The value is in milliseconds 6023 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 6024 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 6025 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 6026 Setting this to zero causes the value from 6027 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 6028 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 6029 6030 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL] 6031 Provide statistics on the cputime and count of 6032 interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For 6033 multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods 6034 begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout. 6035 6036 rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL] 6037 Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the 6038 current expedited RCU grace period during an 6039 expedited RCU CPU stall warning. 6040 6041 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 6042 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 6043 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 6044 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 6045 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 6046 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 6047 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 6048 6049 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 6050 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 6051 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 6052 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 6053 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 6054 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 6055 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 6056 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 6057 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 6058 6059 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 6060 Once boot has completed (that is, after 6061 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 6062 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 6063 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 6064 6065 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 6066 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 6067 it to the value one, that is, converting any 6068 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 6069 period to instead use normal non-expedited 6070 grace-period processing. 6071 6072 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 6073 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 6074 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 6075 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 6076 a single callback queue. This switching only 6077 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 6078 set to the default value of -1. 6079 6080 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 6081 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 6082 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 6083 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 6084 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 6085 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 6086 the default value of -1. 6087 6088 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 6089 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 6090 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 6091 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 6092 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 6093 for use in testing. 6094 6095 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 6096 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 6097 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 6098 of a given grace period. Setting a large 6099 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 6100 but lengthens grace periods. 6101 6102 rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL] 6103 Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will 6104 cancel laziness on that CPU. Use -1 to disable 6105 cancellation of laziness, but be advised that 6106 doing so increases the danger of OOM due to 6107 callback flooding. 6108 6109 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 6110 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 6111 informational messages, which give some indication 6112 of the problem for those not patient enough to 6113 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 6114 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 6115 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 6116 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 6117 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 6118 until the beginning of the next grace period. 6119 6120 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 6121 Multiplier for time interval between successive 6122 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 6123 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 6124 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 6125 the value three, so that the first informational 6126 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 6127 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 6128 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 6129 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 6130 6131 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 6132 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 6133 warning messages. Disable with a value less 6134 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 6135 A change in value does not take effect until 6136 the beginning of the next grace period. 6137 6138 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL] 6139 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous 6140 callback batching for call_rcu_tasks(). 6141 A negative value will take the default. A value 6142 of zero will disable batching. Batching is 6143 always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks(). 6144 6145 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL] 6146 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks 6147 Trace asynchronous callback batching for 6148 call_rcu_tasks_trace(). A negative value 6149 will take the default. A value of zero will 6150 disable batching. Batching is always disabled 6151 for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace(). 6152 6153 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 6154 Run the RCU early boot self tests 6155 6156 rdinit= [KNL] 6157 Format: <full_path> 6158 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 6159 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 6160 6161 rdrand= [X86,EARLY] 6162 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 6163 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 6164 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 6165 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 6166 path). 6167 6168 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 6169 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 6170 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 6171 mba, smba, bmec, abmc. 6172 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 6173 rdt=cmt,!mba 6174 6175 reboot= [KNL] 6176 Format (x86 or x86_64): 6177 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 6178 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 6179 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 6180 [[,]f[orce] 6181 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 6182 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 6183 reboot only), 6184 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 6185 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 6186 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 6187 to be used for rebooting. 6188 6189 acpi 6190 Use the ACPI RESET_REG in the FADT. If ACPI is not 6191 configured or the ACPI reset does not work, the reboot 6192 path attempts the reset using the keyboard controller. 6193 6194 bios 6195 Use the CPU reboot vector for warm reset 6196 6197 cold 6198 Set the cold reboot flag 6199 6200 default 6201 There are some built-in platform specific "quirks" 6202 - you may see: "reboot: <name> series board detected. 6203 Selecting <type> for reboots." In the case where you 6204 think the quirk is in error (e.g. you have newer BIOS, 6205 or newer board) using this option will ignore the 6206 built-in quirk table, and use the generic default 6207 reboot actions. 6208 6209 efi 6210 Use efi reset_system runtime service. If EFI is not 6211 configured or the EFI reset does not work, the reboot 6212 path attempts the reset using the keyboard controller. 6213 6214 force 6215 Don't stop other CPUs on reboot. This can make reboot 6216 more reliable in some cases. 6217 6218 kbd 6219 Use the keyboard controller. cold reset (default) 6220 6221 pci 6222 Use a write to the PCI config space register 0xcf9 to 6223 trigger reboot. 6224 6225 triple 6226 Force a triple fault (init) 6227 6228 warm 6229 Don't set the cold reboot flag 6230 6231 Using warm reset will be much faster especially on big 6232 memory systems because the BIOS will not go through 6233 the memory check. Disadvantage is that not all 6234 hardware will be completely reinitialized on reboot so 6235 there may be boot problems on some systems. 6236 6237 6238 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 6239 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 6240 this parameter is to delay the start of the 6241 test until boot completes in order to avoid 6242 interference. 6243 6244 refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL] 6245 Number of data elements to use for the forms of 6246 SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing. A negative number 6247 is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while 6248 zero specifies nr_cpu_ids. 6249 6250 refscale.loops= [KNL] 6251 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 6252 primitive under test. Increasing this number 6253 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 6254 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 6255 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 6256 x86 laptops. 6257 6258 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 6259 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 6260 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 6261 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 6262 6263 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 6264 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 6265 the console log. 6266 6267 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 6268 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 6269 measured in microseconds. 6270 6271 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 6272 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 6273 6274 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 6275 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 6276 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 6277 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 6278 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 6279 6280 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 6281 Enable additional printk() statements. 6282 6283 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 6284 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 6285 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 6286 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 6287 specified. 6288 6289 regulator_ignore_unused 6290 [REGULATOR] 6291 Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators 6292 that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may 6293 be useful for debug and development, but should not be 6294 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 6295 6296 relax_domain_level= 6297 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 6298 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 6299 6300 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 6301 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 6302 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 6303 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 6304 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 6305 6306 reserve_mem= [RAM] 6307 Format: nn[KMG]:<align>:<label> 6308 Reserve physical memory and label it with a name that 6309 other subsystems can use to access it. This is typically 6310 used for systems that do not wipe the RAM, and this command 6311 line will try to reserve the same physical memory on 6312 soft reboots. Note, it is not guaranteed to be the same 6313 location. For example, if anything about the system changes 6314 or if booting a different kernel. It can also fail if KASLR 6315 places the kernel at the location of where the RAM reservation 6316 was from a previous boot, the new reservation will be at a 6317 different location. 6318 Any subsystem using this feature must add a way to verify 6319 that the contents of the physical memory is from a previous 6320 boot, as there may be cases where the memory will not be 6321 located at the same location. 6322 6323 The format is size:align:label for example, to request 6324 12 megabytes of 4096 alignment for ramoops: 6325 6326 reserve_mem=12M:4096:oops ramoops.mem_name=oops 6327 6328 reservetop= [X86-32,EARLY] 6329 Format: nn[KMG] 6330 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 6331 address space. 6332 6333 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 6334 during initialization. 6335 6336 resume= [SWSUSP] 6337 Specify the partition device for software suspend 6338 Format: 6339 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 6340 6341 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 6342 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 6343 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 6344 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 6345 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 6346 6347 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 6348 read the resume files 6349 6350 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 6351 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 6352 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 6353 6354 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction. After boot, it will 6355 be accessible via /sys/firmware/initrd. 6356 6357 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 6358 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 6359 vulnerability. 6360 6361 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop 6362 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other 6363 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- 6364 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors 6365 that don't. 6366 6367 off - no mitigation 6368 auto - automatically select a migitation 6369 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 6370 disabling SMT if necessary for 6371 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 6372 and older without STIBP). 6373 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation 6374 windows on basic block boundaries too. 6375 Safe, highest perf impact. It also 6376 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable 6377 on Intel. 6378 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT 6379 when STIBP is not available. This is 6380 the alternative for systems which do not 6381 have STIBP. 6382 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, 6383 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based 6384 systems. 6385 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP 6386 is not available. This is the alternative for 6387 systems which do not have STIBP. 6388 6389 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 6390 time according to the CPU. 6391 6392 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 6393 6394 rfkill.default_state= 6395 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 6396 etc. communication is blocked by default. 6397 1 Unblocked. 6398 6399 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 6400 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 6401 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 6402 blocked and the previous configuration. 6403 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 6404 blocked and everything unblocked. 6405 6406 ring3mwait=disable 6407 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 6408 CPUs. 6409 6410 riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV,EARLY] 6411 When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit 6412 falling back to detecting extension support by parsing 6413 "riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the 6414 replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig 6415 entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK. 6416 6417 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 6418 6419 rodata= [KNL,EARLY] 6420 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 6421 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 6422 noalias Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only but retain 6423 writable aliases in the direct map for regions outside 6424 of the kernel image. [arm64] 6425 6426 rockchip.usb_uart 6427 [EARLY] 6428 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 6429 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 6430 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 6431 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 6432 6433 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 6434 Usually this is a block device specifier of some kind, 6435 see the early_lookup_bdev comment in 6436 block/early-lookup.c for details. 6437 Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial 6438 ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file 6439 system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash. 6440 6441 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 6442 mount the root filesystem 6443 6444 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 6445 6446 initramfs_options= [KNL] 6447 Specify mount options for for the initramfs mount. 6448 6449 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 6450 6451 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 6452 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 6453 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 6454 6455 rootwait= [KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device 6456 to show up before attempting to mount the root 6457 filesystem. 6458 6459 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 6460 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 6461 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 6462 managed by CMA. 6463 6464 rt_group_sched= [KNL] Enable or disable SCHED_RR/FIFO group scheduling 6465 when CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=y. Defaults to 6466 !CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED_DEFAULT_DISABLED. 6467 Format: <bool> 6468 6469 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 6470 6471 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 6472 6473 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 6474 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 6475 strict 6476 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result 6477 in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before 6478 reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to 6479 iommu.strict=1. 6480 6481 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 6482 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 6483 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 6484 factor of the size of main memory. 6485 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 6486 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 6487 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 6488 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 6489 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 6490 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 6491 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 6492 6493 sa1100ir [NET] 6494 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 6495 6496 sched_proxy_exec= [KNL] 6497 Enables or disables "proxy execution" style 6498 solution to mutex-based priority inversion. 6499 Format: <bool> 6500 6501 sched_verbose [KNL,EARLY] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 6502 6503 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 6504 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 6505 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 6506 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 6507 6508 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 6509 [Deprecated] 6510 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 6511 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 6512 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 6513 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 6514 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 6515 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 6516 value. 6517 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 6518 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 6519 1 64 ms 6520 2 128 ms 6521 and so on. 6522 Format: integer between 0 and 10 6523 Default is 0. 6524 6525 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 6526 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 6527 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 6528 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 6529 tests. 6530 6531 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 6532 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 6533 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 6534 default) disables this feature. Please note 6535 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 6536 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 6537 softlockup complaints, and so on. 6538 6539 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 6540 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 6541 smp_call_function() family of functions. 6542 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 6543 equal to the number of CPUs. 6544 6545 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 6546 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 6547 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 6548 6549 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 6550 Number seconds to wait between successive 6551 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 6552 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 6553 6554 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 6555 The number of seconds following the start of the 6556 test after which to shut down the system. The 6557 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 6558 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 6559 6560 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 6561 The number of seconds between outputting the 6562 current test statistics to the console. A value 6563 of zero disables statistics output. 6564 6565 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 6566 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 6567 to the set of CPUs under test. 6568 6569 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 6570 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 6571 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 6572 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 6573 functions. 6574 6575 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 6576 Enable additional printk() statements. 6577 6578 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 6579 The probability weighting to use for the 6580 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 6581 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 6582 default if all other weights are -1. However, 6583 if at least one weight has some other value, a 6584 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 6585 6586 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 6587 The probability weighting to use for the 6588 smp_call_function_single() function with a 6589 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 6590 6591 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 6592 The probability weighting to use for the 6593 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 6594 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 6595 Note well that setting a high probability for 6596 this weighting can place serious IPI load 6597 on the system. 6598 6599 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 6600 The probability weighting to use for the 6601 smp_call_function_many() function with a 6602 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 6603 and weight_many. 6604 6605 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 6606 The probability weighting to use for the 6607 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 6608 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 6609 weight_many. 6610 6611 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 6612 The probability weighting to use for the 6613 smp_call_function_all() function with a 6614 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 6615 and weight_many. 6616 6617 sdw_mclk_divider=[SDW] 6618 Specify the MCLK divider for Intel SoundWire buses in 6619 case the BIOS does not provide the clock rate properly. 6620 6621 skew_tick= [KNL,EARLY] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 6622 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 6623 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 6624 Format: { "0" | "1" } 6625 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 6626 1 -- enable. 6627 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 6628 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 6629 6630 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 6631 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 6632 "lsm=" parameter. 6633 6634 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 6635 Format: { "0" | "1" } 6636 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 6637 0 -- disable. 6638 1 -- enable. 6639 Default value is 1. 6640 6641 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 6642 6643 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] 6644 6645 debug 6646 Enable debug messages. 6647 6648 nosnp 6649 Do not enable SEV-SNP (applies to host/hypervisor 6650 only). Setting 'nosnp' avoids the RMP check overhead 6651 in memory accesses when users do not want to run 6652 SEV-SNP guests. 6653 6654 shapers= [NET] 6655 Maximal number of shapers. 6656 6657 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 6658 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 6659 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 6660 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 6661 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 6662 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 6663 apic=verbose is specified. 6664 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 6665 6666 slab_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM] 6667 Enabling slab_debug allows one to determine the 6668 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 6669 slab_debug can create guard zones around objects and 6670 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 6671 last alloc / free. For more information see 6672 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst. 6673 (slub_debug legacy name also accepted for now) 6674 6675 Using this option implies the "no_hash_pointers" 6676 option which can be undone by adding the 6677 "hash_pointers=always" option. 6678 6679 slab_max_order= [MM] 6680 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 6681 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 6682 fragmentation. For more information see 6683 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst. 6684 (slub_max_order legacy name also accepted for now) 6685 6686 slab_merge [MM] 6687 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 6688 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 6689 (slub_merge legacy name also accepted for now) 6690 6691 slab_min_objects= [MM] 6692 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 6693 increase the slab order up to slab_max_order to 6694 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 6695 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 6696 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 6697 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 6698 For more information see 6699 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst. 6700 (slub_min_objects legacy name also accepted for now) 6701 6702 slab_min_order= [MM] 6703 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 6704 lower or equal to slab_max_order. For more information see 6705 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst. 6706 (slub_min_order legacy name also accepted for now) 6707 6708 slab_nomerge [MM] 6709 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 6710 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 6711 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 6712 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 6713 layout control by attackers can usually be 6714 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 6715 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 6716 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 6717 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 6718 own. 6719 For more information see 6720 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst. 6721 (slub_nomerge legacy name also accepted for now) 6722 6723 slab_strict_numa [MM] 6724 Support memory policies on a per object level 6725 in the slab allocator. The default is for memory 6726 policies to be applied at the folio level when 6727 a new folio is needed or a partial folio is 6728 retrieved from the lists. Increases overhead 6729 in the slab fastpaths but gains more accurate 6730 NUMA kernel object placement which helps with slow 6731 interconnects in NUMA systems. 6732 6733 slram= [HW,MTD] 6734 6735 smart2= [HW] 6736 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 6737 6738 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 6739 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 6740 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 6741 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 6742 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 6743 disabling interrupts for extended periods 6744 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 6745 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 6746 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 6747 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 6748 6749 smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL] 6750 If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than 6751 the specified number of milliseconds, panic the 6752 system. By default, let CSD-lock acquisition 6753 take as long as they take. Specifying 300,000 6754 for this value provides a 5-minute timeout. 6755 6756 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 6757 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 6758 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 6759 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 6760 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 6761 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 6762 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 6763 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 6764 1: Fast pin select (default) 6765 2: ATC IRMode 6766 6767 smt= [KNL,MIPS,S390,EARLY] Set the maximum number of threads 6768 (logical CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems 6769 capable of symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will 6770 be capped to the actual hardware limit. 6771 Format: <integer> 6772 Default: -1 (no limit) 6773 6774 softlockup_panic= 6775 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 6776 Format: 0 | 1 6777 6778 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 6779 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 6780 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 6781 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 6782 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 6783 6784 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 6785 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 6786 backtraces on all cpus. 6787 Format: 0 | 1 6788 6789 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 6790 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 6791 6792 spectre_bhi= [X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection 6793 (BHI) vulnerability. This setting affects the 6794 deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB 6795 clearing sequence. 6796 6797 on - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation as 6798 needed. This protects the kernel from 6799 both syscalls and VMs. 6800 vmexit - On systems which don't have the HW mitigation 6801 available, enable the SW mitigation on vmexit 6802 ONLY. On such systems, the host kernel is 6803 protected from VM-originated BHI attacks, but 6804 may still be vulnerable to syscall attacks. 6805 off - Disable the mitigation. 6806 6807 spectre_v2= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 6808 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 6809 The default operation protects the kernel from 6810 user space attacks. 6811 6812 on - unconditionally enable, implies 6813 spectre_v2_user=on 6814 off - unconditionally disable, implies 6815 spectre_v2_user=off 6816 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 6817 vulnerable 6818 6819 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 6820 mitigation method at run time according to the 6821 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 6822 CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE configuration option, 6823 and the compiler with which the kernel was built. 6824 6825 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 6826 against user space to user space task attacks. 6827 Selecting specific mitigation does not force enable 6828 user mitigations. 6829 6830 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 6831 the user space protections. 6832 6833 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 6834 6835 retpoline - replace indirect branches 6836 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 6837 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 6838 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 6839 eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS 6840 eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines 6841 eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE 6842 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 6843 6844 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6845 spectre_v2=auto. 6846 6847 spectre_v2_user= 6848 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 6849 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 6850 user space tasks 6851 6852 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 6853 enforced by spectre_v2=on 6854 6855 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 6856 enforced by spectre_v2=off 6857 6858 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 6859 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 6860 per thread. The mitigation control state 6861 is inherited on fork. 6862 6863 prctl,ibpb 6864 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 6865 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6866 always when switching between different user 6867 space processes. 6868 6869 seccomp 6870 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 6871 threads will enable the mitigation unless 6872 they explicitly opt out. 6873 6874 seccomp,ibpb 6875 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 6876 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6877 always when switching between different 6878 user space processes. 6879 6880 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 6881 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 6882 6883 Default mitigation: "prctl" 6884 6885 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6886 spectre_v2_user=auto. 6887 6888 spec_rstack_overflow= 6889 [X86,EARLY] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs 6890 6891 off - Disable mitigation 6892 microcode - Enable microcode mitigation only 6893 safe-ret - Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default) 6894 ibpb - Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on 6895 kernel entry 6896 ibpb-vmexit - Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT 6897 (cloud-specific mitigation) 6898 6899 spec_store_bypass_disable= 6900 [HW,EARLY] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 6901 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 6902 6903 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 6904 a common industry wide performance optimization known 6905 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 6906 to the same memory location may not be observed by 6907 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 6908 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 6909 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 6910 end of a particular speculation execution window. 6911 6912 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6913 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 6914 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 6915 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 6916 6917 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 6918 Bypass optimization is used. 6919 6920 On x86 the options are: 6921 6922 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 6923 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 6924 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 6925 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 6926 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 6927 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 6928 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 6929 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 6930 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 6931 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 6932 for a process by default. The state of the control 6933 is inherited on fork. 6934 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 6935 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 6936 6937 Default mitigations: 6938 X86: "prctl" 6939 6940 On powerpc the options are: 6941 6942 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 6943 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 6944 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 6945 exit. 6946 off - No action. 6947 6948 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6949 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 6950 6951 split_lock_detect= 6952 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 6953 6954 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 6955 instructions that access data across cache line 6956 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 6957 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 6958 bus lock detection. 6959 6960 off - not enabled 6961 6962 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 6963 about applications triggering the #AC 6964 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 6965 the default on CPUs that support split lock 6966 detection or bus lock detection. Default 6967 behavior is by #AC if both features are 6968 enabled in hardware. 6969 6970 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 6971 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 6972 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 6973 both features are enabled in hardware. 6974 6975 ratelimit:N - 6976 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 6977 per second for bus lock detection. 6978 0 < N <= 1000. 6979 6980 N/A for split lock detection. 6981 6982 6983 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 6984 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 6985 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 6986 mode. 6987 6988 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 6989 CPL > 0. 6990 6991 srbds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 6992 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 6993 (SRBDS) mitigation. 6994 6995 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 6996 exploit which can leak bits from the random 6997 number generator. 6998 6999 By default, this issue is mitigated by 7000 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 7001 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 7002 much slower. Among other effects, this will 7003 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 7004 7005 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 7006 the following option: 7007 7008 off: Disable mitigation and remove 7009 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 7010 7011 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 7012 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 7013 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 7014 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 7015 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 7016 but takes effect only when the low-order four 7017 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 7018 (decide at boot). 7019 7020 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 7021 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 7022 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 7023 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 7024 7025 0: Never. 7026 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 7027 2: When rcutorture decides to. 7028 3: Decide at boot time (default). 7029 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 7030 7031 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 7032 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 7033 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 7034 7035 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 7036 Specifies how frequently to check for 7037 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 7038 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 7039 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 7040 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 7041 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 7042 are ignored. 7043 7044 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 7045 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 7046 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 7047 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 7048 grace period will be considered for automatic 7049 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 7050 expediting. 7051 7052 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] 7053 Specifies the number of no-delay instances 7054 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period 7055 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero 7056 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will 7057 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. 7058 7059 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] 7060 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of 7061 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, 7062 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled 7063 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each 7064 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. 7065 7066 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] 7067 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping 7068 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. 7069 7070 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 7071 Specifies the number of update-side contention 7072 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 7073 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 7074 structure to big form. Note that the value of 7075 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 7076 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 7077 7078 ssbd= [ARM64,HW,EARLY] 7079 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 7080 7081 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 7082 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 7083 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 7084 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 7085 7086 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 7087 for both kernel and userspace 7088 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 7089 for both kernel and userspace 7090 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 7091 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 7092 to allow userspace to register its 7093 interest in being mitigated too. 7094 7095 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 7096 override the default stack gap protection. The value 7097 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 7098 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 7099 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 7100 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 7101 7102 stack_depot_disable= [KNL,EARLY] 7103 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 7104 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 7105 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 7106 to false. 7107 7108 stack_depot_max_pools= [KNL,EARLY] 7109 Specify the maximum number of pools to use for storing 7110 stack traces. Pools are allocated on-demand up to this 7111 limit. Default value is 8191 pools. 7112 7113 stacktrace [FTRACE] 7114 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 7115 7116 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 7117 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 7118 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 7119 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 7120 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 7121 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 7122 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 7123 7124 sti= [PARISC,HW] 7125 Format: <num> 7126 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 7127 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 7128 as the initial boot-console. 7129 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 7130 7131 sti_font= [HW] 7132 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 7133 7134 stifb= [HW] 7135 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 7136 7137 strict_sas_size= 7138 [X86] 7139 Format: <bool> 7140 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 7141 against the required signal frame size which 7142 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 7143 be used to filter out binaries which have 7144 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 7145 7146 stress_hpt [PPC,EARLY] 7147 Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash 7148 page table to increase the rate of hash page table 7149 faults on kernel addresses. 7150 7151 stress_slb [PPC,EARLY] 7152 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 7153 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 7154 on kernel addresses. 7155 7156 sunrpc.min_resvport= 7157 sunrpc.max_resvport= 7158 [NFS,SUNRPC] 7159 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 7160 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 7161 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 7162 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 7163 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 7164 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 7165 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 7166 maximum port values. 7167 7168 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 7169 [NFS,SUNRPC] 7170 Limit the number of requests that the server will 7171 process in parallel from a single connection. 7172 The default value is 0 (no limit). 7173 7174 sunrpc.pool_mode= 7175 [NFS] 7176 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 7177 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 7178 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 7179 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 7180 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 7181 NFS server is running. 7182 7183 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 7184 automatically using heuristics 7185 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 7186 percpu one pool for each CPU 7187 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 7188 to global on non-NUMA machines) 7189 7190 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 7191 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 7192 [NFS,SUNRPC] 7193 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 7194 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 7195 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 7196 improve throughput, but will also increase the 7197 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 7198 7199 suspend.pm_test_delay= 7200 [SUSPEND] 7201 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 7202 mode before resuming the system (see 7203 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 7204 is set. Default value is 5. 7205 7206 svm= [PPC] 7207 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 7208 This parameter controls use of the Protected 7209 Execution Facility on pSeries. 7210 7211 swiotlb= [ARM,PPC,MIPS,X86,S390,EARLY] 7212 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } 7213 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 7214 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb 7215 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up 7216 to a power of 2. 7217 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 7218 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 7219 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 7220 7221 switches= [HW,M68k,EARLY] 7222 7223 sysctl.*= [KNL] 7224 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 7225 process, as if the value was written to the respective 7226 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 7227 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 7228 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 7229 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 7230 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 7231 7232 sysrq_always_enabled 7233 [KNL] 7234 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 7235 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 7236 Useful for debugging. 7237 7238 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 7239 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 7240 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 7241 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 7242 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 7243 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 7244 7245 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 7246 7247 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 7248 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 7249 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 7250 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 7251 as the system sleep state during system startup with 7252 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 7253 The system is woken from this state using a 7254 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 7255 7256 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 7257 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 7258 7259 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 7260 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 7261 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 7262 7263 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 7264 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 7265 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 7266 7267 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 7268 1: disable ACPI thermal control 7269 7270 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 7271 -1: disable all passive trip points 7272 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 7273 value 7274 7275 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 7276 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 7277 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 7278 0: no polling (default) 7279 7280 thp_anon= [KNL] 7281 Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<state>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<state> 7282 state is one of "always", "madvise", "never" or "inherit". 7283 Control the default behavior of the system with respect 7284 to anonymous transparent hugepages. 7285 Can be used multiple times for multiple anon THP sizes. 7286 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more 7287 details. 7288 7289 threadirqs [KNL,EARLY] 7290 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 7291 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 7292 7293 thp_shmem= [KNL] 7294 Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<policy>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<policy> 7295 Control the default policy of each hugepage size for the 7296 internal shmem mount. <policy> is one of policies available 7297 for the shmem mount ("always", "inherit", "never", "within_size", 7298 and "advise"). 7299 It can be used multiple times for multiple shmem THP sizes. 7300 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more 7301 details. 7302 7303 topology= [S390,EARLY] 7304 Format: {off | on} 7305 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 7306 topology information if the hardware supports this. 7307 The scheduler will make use of this information and 7308 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 7309 Default is on. 7310 7311 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 7312 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 7313 until after init has spawned. 7314 7315 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 7316 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 7317 even if there were no errors. This can be a 7318 very costly operation when many torture tests 7319 are running concurrently, especially on systems 7320 with rotating-rust storage. 7321 7322 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 7323 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 7324 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 7325 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 7326 7327 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 7328 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 7329 7330 tpm.disable_pcr_integrity= [HW,TPM] 7331 Do not protect PCR registers from unintended physical 7332 access, or interposers in the bus by the means of 7333 having an integrity protected session wrapped around 7334 TPM2_PCR_Extend command. Consider this in a situation 7335 where TPM is heavily utilized by IMA, thus protection 7336 causing a major performance hit, and the space where 7337 machines are deployed is by other means guarded. 7338 7339 tpm_crb_ffa.busy_timeout_ms= [ARM64,TPM] 7340 Maximum time in milliseconds to retry sending a message 7341 to the TPM service before giving up. This parameter controls 7342 how long the system will continue retrying when the TPM 7343 service is busy. 7344 Format: <unsigned int> 7345 Default: 2000 (2 seconds) 7346 7347 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 7348 Format: integer pcr id 7349 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 7350 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 7351 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 7352 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 7353 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 7354 are saved. 7355 7356 tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM] 7357 Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer 7358 for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false 7359 (0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces 7360 defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see 7361 https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/ 7362 7363 tp_printk [FTRACE] 7364 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 7365 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 7366 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 7367 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 7368 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 7369 7370 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 7371 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 7372 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 7373 tp_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 7374 7375 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 7376 to stop the printing of events to console at 7377 late_initcall_sync. 7378 7379 ** CAUTION ** 7380 7381 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 7382 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 7383 the system to live lock. 7384 7385 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 7386 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 7387 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 7388 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 7389 make the system inoperable. 7390 7391 This command line option will stop the printing of events 7392 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 7393 7394 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 7395 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 7396 7397 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 7398 at boot up. 7399 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 7400 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 7401 depending on the architecture, may not be 7402 in sync between CPUs. 7403 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 7404 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 7405 but better for some race conditions. 7406 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 7407 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 7408 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 7409 once per event. 7410 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 7411 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 7412 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 7413 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 7414 stamps. 7415 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 7416 Architectures may add more clocks. See 7417 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 7418 7419 trace_event=[event-list] 7420 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 7421 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 7422 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 7423 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 7424 7425 To enable modules, use :mod: keyword: 7426 7427 trace_event=:mod:<module> 7428 7429 The value before :mod: will only enable specific events 7430 that are part of the module. See the above mentioned 7431 document for more information. 7432 7433 trace_instance=[instance-info] 7434 [FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up. 7435 This will be listed in: 7436 7437 /sys/kernel/tracing/instances 7438 7439 Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created 7440 via: 7441 7442 trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2> 7443 7444 Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is 7445 unique. 7446 7447 trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall 7448 7449 will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and 7450 the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry 7451 event, and all events under the "initcall" system. 7452 7453 Flags can be added to the instance to modify its behavior when it is 7454 created. The flags are separated by '^'. 7455 7456 The available flags are: 7457 7458 traceoff - Have the tracing instance tracing disabled after it is created. 7459 traceprintk - Have trace_printk() write into this trace instance 7460 (note, "printk" and "trace_printk" can also be used) 7461 7462 trace_instance=foo^traceoff^traceprintk,sched,irq 7463 7464 The flags must come before the defined events. 7465 7466 If memory has been reserved (see memmap for x86), the instance 7467 can use that memory: 7468 7469 memmap=12M$0x284500000 trace_instance=boot_map@0x284500000:12M 7470 7471 The above will create a "boot_map" instance that uses the physical 7472 memory at 0x284500000 that is 12Megs. The per CPU buffers of that 7473 instance will be split up accordingly. 7474 7475 Alternatively, the memory can be reserved by the reserve_mem option: 7476 7477 reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map@trace 7478 7479 This will reserve 12 megabytes at boot up with a 4096 byte alignment 7480 and place the ring buffer in this memory. Note that due to KASLR, the 7481 memory may not be the same location each time, which will not preserve 7482 the buffer content. 7483 7484 Also note that the layout of the ring buffer data may change between 7485 kernel versions where the validator will fail and reset the ring buffer 7486 if the layout is not the same as the previous kernel. 7487 7488 If the ring buffer is used for persistent bootups and has events enabled, 7489 it is recommend to disable tracing so that events from a previous boot do not 7490 mix with events of the current boot (unless you are debugging a random crash 7491 at boot up). 7492 7493 reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map^traceoff^traceprintk@trace,sched,irq 7494 7495 Note, saving the trace buffer across reboots does require that the system 7496 is set up to not wipe memory. For instance, CONFIG_RESET_ATTACK_MITIGATION 7497 can force a memory reset on boot which will clear any trace that was stored. 7498 This is just one of many ways that can clear memory. Make sure your system 7499 keeps the content of memory across reboots before relying on this option. 7500 7501 NB: Both the mapped address and size must be page aligned for the architecture. 7502 7503 See also Documentation/trace/debugging.rst 7504 7505 7506 trace_options=[option-list] 7507 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 7508 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 7509 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 7510 to echo the option name into 7511 7512 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options 7513 7514 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 7515 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 7516 7517 trace_options=stacktrace 7518 7519 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 7520 section. 7521 7522 trace_trigger=[trigger-list] 7523 [FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events. 7524 Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional 7525 filter. 7526 7527 The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..." 7528 Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated. 7529 7530 For example: 7531 7532 trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2" 7533 7534 The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch" 7535 event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch" 7536 event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE). 7537 7538 See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst 7539 7540 7541 traceoff_after_boot 7542 [FTRACE] Sometimes tracing is used to debug issues 7543 during the boot process. Since the trace buffer has a 7544 limited amount of storage, it may be prudent to 7545 disable tracing after the boot is finished, otherwise 7546 the critical information may be overwritten. With this 7547 option, the main tracing buffer will be turned off at 7548 the end of the boot process. 7549 7550 traceoff_on_warning 7551 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 7552 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 7553 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 7554 file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/ 7555 7556 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 7557 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 7558 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 7559 7560 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 7561 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 7562 7563 transparent_hugepage= 7564 [KNL] 7565 Format: [always|madvise|never] 7566 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 7567 with respect to transparent hugepages. 7568 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 7569 for more details. 7570 7571 transparent_hugepage_shmem= [KNL] 7572 Format: [always|within_size|advise|never|deny|force] 7573 Can be used to control the hugepage allocation policy for 7574 the internal shmem mount. 7575 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 7576 for more details. 7577 7578 transparent_hugepage_tmpfs= [KNL] 7579 Format: [always|within_size|advise|never] 7580 Can be used to control the default hugepage allocation policy 7581 for the tmpfs mount. 7582 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 7583 for more details. 7584 7585 trusted.source= [KEYS] 7586 Format: <string> 7587 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 7588 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 7589 sources: 7590 - "tpm" 7591 - "tee" 7592 - "caam" 7593 - "dcp" 7594 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 7595 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 7596 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 7597 successfully during iteration. 7598 7599 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 7600 Format: <string> 7601 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 7602 Can be one of: 7603 - "kernel" 7604 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 7605 - "default" 7606 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 7607 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 7608 7609 trusted.dcp_use_otp_key 7610 This is intended to be used in combination with 7611 trusted.source=dcp and will select the DCP OTP key 7612 instead of the DCP UNIQUE key blob encryption. 7613 7614 trusted.dcp_skip_zk_test 7615 This is intended to be used in combination with 7616 trusted.source=dcp and will disable the check if the 7617 blob key is all zeros. This is helpful for situations where 7618 having this key zero'ed is acceptable. E.g. in testing 7619 scenarios. 7620 7621 tsa= [X86] Control mitigation for Transient Scheduler 7622 Attacks on AMD CPUs. Search the following in your 7623 favourite search engine for more details: 7624 7625 "Technical guidance for mitigating transient scheduler 7626 attacks". 7627 7628 off - disable the mitigation 7629 on - enable the mitigation (default) 7630 user - mitigate only user/kernel transitions 7631 vm - mitigate only guest/host transitions 7632 7633 7634 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 7635 Format: <string> 7636 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 7637 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 7638 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 7639 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 7640 virtualized environment. 7641 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 7642 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 7643 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 7644 can add overhead. 7645 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 7646 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 7647 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 7648 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 7649 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 7650 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 7651 acceptable). 7652 [x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer 7653 (HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was 7654 obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15). 7655 Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm. 7656 [x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with 7657 which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but 7658 only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy. 7659 This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and 7660 can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog. A console 7661 message will flag any such suppression or overriding. 7662 7663 tsc_early_khz= [X86,EARLY] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 7664 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 7665 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 7666 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 7667 Format: <unsigned int> 7668 7669 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 7670 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 7671 support TSX control. 7672 7673 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 7674 7675 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 7676 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 7677 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 7678 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 7679 so there may be unknown security risks associated 7680 with leaving it enabled. 7681 7682 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 7683 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 7684 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 7685 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 7686 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 7687 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 7688 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 7689 7690 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 7691 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 7692 7693 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 7694 7695 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 7696 for more details. 7697 7698 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 7699 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 7700 7701 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 7702 certain CPUs that support Transactional 7703 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 7704 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 7705 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 7706 conditions. 7707 7708 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 7709 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 7710 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 7711 access. 7712 7713 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 7714 options are: 7715 7716 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 7717 if TSX is enabled. 7718 7719 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 7720 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 7721 is not disabled because CPU is not 7722 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 7723 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 7724 7725 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 7726 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 7727 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 7728 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 7729 7730 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 7731 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 7732 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 7733 required and doesn't provide any additional 7734 mitigation. 7735 7736 For details see: 7737 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 7738 7739 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 7740 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 7741 Format: 7742 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 7743 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 7744 7745 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 7746 happen after console_init() and before a proper 7747 console driver takes over, this boot options might 7748 help "seeing" what's going on. 7749 7750 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 7751 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 7752 7753 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 7754 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 7755 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 7756 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 7757 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 7758 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 7759 reported either. 7760 7761 unaligned_scalar_speed= 7762 [RISCV] 7763 Format: {slow | fast | unsupported} 7764 Allow skipping scalar unaligned access speed tests. This 7765 is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip 7766 the tests in environments where they run too slowly. All 7767 CPUs must have the same scalar unaligned access speed. 7768 7769 unaligned_vector_speed= 7770 [RISCV] 7771 Format: {slow | fast | unsupported} 7772 Allow skipping vector unaligned access speed tests. This 7773 is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip 7774 the tests in environments where they run too slowly. All 7775 CPUs must have the same vector unaligned access speed. 7776 7777 unknown_nmi_panic 7778 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 7779 7780 unwind_debug [X86-64,EARLY] 7781 Enable unwinder debug output. This can be 7782 useful for debugging certain unwinder error 7783 conditions, including corrupt stacks and 7784 bad/missing unwinder metadata. 7785 7786 usbcore.authorized_default= 7787 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 7788 (default -1 = authorized (same as 1), 7789 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 7790 if device connected to internal port) 7791 7792 usbcore.autosuspend= 7793 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 7794 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 7795 is the time required before an idle device will be 7796 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 7797 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 7798 7799 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 7800 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 7801 7802 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 7803 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 7804 (default = 65536). 7805 7806 usbcore.blinkenlights= 7807 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 7808 7809 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 7810 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 7811 scheme (default 0 = off). 7812 7813 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 7814 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 7815 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 7816 7817 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 7818 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 7819 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 7820 7821 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 7822 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 7823 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 7824 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 7825 7826 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 7827 7828 usbcore.quirks= 7829 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 7830 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 7831 commas. Each entry has the form 7832 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 7833 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 7834 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 7835 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 7836 the following meanings: 7837 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 7838 descriptors must not be fetched using 7839 a 255-byte read); 7840 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 7841 correctly so reset it instead); 7842 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 7843 Set-Interface requests); 7844 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 7845 handle its Configuration or Interface 7846 strings); 7847 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 7848 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 7849 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 7850 more interface descriptions than the 7851 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 7852 talking to these interfaces); 7853 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 7854 during initialization, after we read 7855 the device descriptor); 7856 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 7857 high speed and super speed interrupt 7858 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 7859 require the interval in microframes (1 7860 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 7861 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 7862 (bInterval-1). 7863 Devices with this quirk report their 7864 bInterval as the result of this 7865 calculation instead of the exponent 7866 variable used in the calculation); 7867 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 7868 handle device_qualifier descriptor 7869 requests); 7870 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 7871 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 7872 remote wakeup capability); 7873 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 7874 Power Management); 7875 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 7876 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 7877 frames instead of the USB 2.0 7878 calculation); 7879 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 7880 to be disconnected before suspend to 7881 prevent spurious wakeup); 7882 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 7883 pause after every control message); 7884 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 7885 delay after resetting its port); 7886 p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT 7887 (Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS 7888 request from 5000 ms to 500 ms); 7889 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 7890 7891 usbhid.mousepoll= 7892 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 7893 7894 usbhid.jspoll= 7895 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 7896 7897 usbhid.kbpoll= 7898 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 7899 7900 usb-storage.delay_use= 7901 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 7902 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 7903 Optionally the delay in milliseconds if the value has 7904 suffix with "ms". 7905 Example: delay_use=2567ms 7906 7907 usb-storage.quirks= 7908 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 7909 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 7910 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 7911 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 7912 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 7913 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 7914 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 7915 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 7916 of sense data, not on uas); 7917 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 7918 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 7919 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 7920 device capacity by one sector); 7921 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 7922 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 7923 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 7924 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 7925 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 7926 command, uas only); 7927 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 7928 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 7929 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 7930 reported device capacity by one 7931 sector if the number is odd); 7932 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 7933 device); 7934 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 7935 command, uas only); 7936 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 7937 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 7938 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 7939 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 7940 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 7941 not on uas); 7942 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 7943 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 7944 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 7945 reported by the device, not on uas); 7946 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 7947 by default, not on uas); 7948 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 7949 bogus residue values, not on uas); 7950 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 7951 Logical Unit); 7952 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 7953 commands, uas only); 7954 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 7955 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 7956 medium is write-protected). 7957 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 7958 even if the device claims no cache, 7959 not on uas) 7960 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 7961 7962 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 7963 Format: <int> 7964 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 7965 1 - undefined instruction events 7966 2 - system calls 7967 4 - invalid data aborts 7968 8 - SIGSEGV faults 7969 16 - SIGBUS faults 7970 Example: user_debug=31 7971 7972 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 7973 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 7974 7975 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 7976 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 7977 7978 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 7979 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 7980 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 7981 7982 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 7983 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 7984 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 7985 7986 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 7987 alias for vdso32=0. 7988 7989 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 7990 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 7991 7992 video= [FB,EARLY] Frame buffer configuration 7993 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 7994 7995 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 7996 Format: [0|1] 7997 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 7998 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 7999 level and then send out the event to user space through 8000 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 8001 will only send out the event without touching backlight 8002 brightness level. 8003 default: 1 8004 8005 virtio_mmio.device= 8006 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 8007 8008 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 8009 where: 8010 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 8011 like K, M and G) 8012 <baseaddr> := physical base address 8013 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 8014 request_irq()) 8015 <id> := (optional) platform device id 8016 example: 8017 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 8018 8019 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 8020 8021 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 8022 See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and 8023 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 8024 Use vga=ask for menu. 8025 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 8026 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 8027 8028 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 8029 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 8030 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 8031 All options are enabled by default, and this 8032 interface is meant to allow for selectively 8033 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 8034 debugging features. 8035 8036 Available options are: 8037 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 8038 - Disable all of the above options 8039 8040 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Forces the vmalloc area to have an 8041 exact size of <nn>. This can be used to increase 8042 the minimum size (128MB on x86, arm32 platforms). 8043 It can also be used to decrease the size and leave more room 8044 for directly mapped kernel RAM. Note that this parameter does 8045 not exist on many other platforms (including arm64, alpha, 8046 loongarch, arc, csky, hexagon, microblaze, mips, nios2, openrisc, 8047 parisc, m64k, powerpc, riscv, sh, um, xtensa, s390, sparc). 8048 8049 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390,EARLY] 8050 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 8051 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 8052 8053 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 8054 Format: <command> 8055 8056 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 8057 Format: <command> 8058 8059 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 8060 Format: <command> 8061 8062 vmscape= [X86] Controls mitigation for VMscape attacks. 8063 VMscape attacks can leak information from a userspace 8064 hypervisor to a guest via speculative side-channels. 8065 8066 off - disable the mitigation 8067 ibpb - use Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier 8068 (IBPB) mitigation (default) 8069 force - force vulnerability detection even on 8070 unaffected processors 8071 8072 vsyscall= [X86-64,EARLY] 8073 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 8074 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 8075 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 8076 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 8077 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 8078 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 8079 8080 emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated 8081 reasonably safely. The vsyscall page is 8082 readable. 8083 8084 xonly [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 8085 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 8086 page is not readable. 8087 8088 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 8089 them quite hard to use for exploits but 8090 might break your system. 8091 8092 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 8093 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 8094 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 8095 8096 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 8097 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 8098 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 8099 see vga-softcursor.rst. Default: 2 = underline. 8100 8101 vt.default_blu= [VT] 8102 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 8103 Change the default blue palette of the console. 8104 This is a 16-member array composed of values 8105 ranging from 0-255. 8106 8107 vt.default_grn= [VT] 8108 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 8109 Change the default green palette of the console. 8110 This is a 16-member array composed of values 8111 ranging from 0-255. 8112 8113 vt.default_red= [VT] 8114 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 8115 Change the default red palette of the console. 8116 This is a 16-member array composed of values 8117 ranging from 0-255. 8118 8119 vt.default_utf8= 8120 [VT] 8121 Format=<0|1> 8122 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 8123 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 8124 newly opened terminals. 8125 8126 vt.global_cursor_default= 8127 [VT] 8128 Format=<-1|0|1> 8129 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 8130 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 8131 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 8132 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 8133 cursors, 1 will display them. 8134 8135 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 8136 Default: 2 = green. 8137 8138 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 8139 Default: 3 = cyan. 8140 8141 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 8142 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 8143 or other driver-specific files in the 8144 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 8145 8146 watchdog_thresh= 8147 [KNL] 8148 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 8149 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 8150 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 8151 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 8152 seconds. 8153 8154 workqueue.unbound_cpus= 8155 [KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs 8156 to use in unbound workqueues. 8157 Format: <cpu-list> 8158 By default, all online CPUs are available for 8159 unbound workqueues. 8160 8161 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 8162 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 8163 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 8164 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 8165 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 8166 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 8167 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 8168 corresponding sysfs file. 8169 8170 workqueue.panic_on_stall=<uint> 8171 Panic when workqueue stall is detected by 8172 CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG. It sets the number times of the 8173 stall to trigger panic. 8174 8175 The default is 0, which disables the panic on stall. 8176 8177 workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us= 8178 Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this 8179 threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive 8180 and excluded from concurrency management to prevent 8181 them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work 8182 items. Default is 10000 (10ms). 8183 8184 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel 8185 will report the work functions which violate this 8186 threshold repeatedly. They are likely good 8187 candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead. 8188 8189 workqueue.cpu_intensive_warning_thresh=<uint> 8190 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel 8191 will report the work functions which violate the 8192 intensive_threshold_us repeatedly. In order to prevent 8193 spurious warnings, start printing only after a work 8194 function has violated this threshold number of times. 8195 8196 The default is 4 times. 0 disables the warning. 8197 8198 workqueue.power_efficient 8199 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 8200 they show better performance thanks to cache 8201 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 8202 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 8203 8204 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 8205 were observed to contribute significantly to power 8206 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 8207 power usage at the cost of small performance 8208 overhead. 8209 8210 The default value of this parameter is determined by 8211 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 8212 8213 workqueue.default_affinity_scope= 8214 Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound 8215 workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache", 8216 "numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more 8217 information, see the Affinity Scopes section in 8218 Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst. 8219 8220 This can be changed after boot by writing to the 8221 matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All 8222 workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be 8223 updated accordingly. 8224 8225 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 8226 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 8227 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 8228 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 8229 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 8230 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 8231 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 8232 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 8233 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 8234 impacted. 8235 8236 writecombine= [LOONGARCH,EARLY] Control the MAT (Memory Access 8237 Type) of ioremap_wc(). 8238 8239 on - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc() 8240 off - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc() 8241 8242 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 8243 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 8244 supporting x2apic. 8245 8246 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 8247 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 8248 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 8249 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 8250 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 8251 domains. 8252 8253 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN,EARLY] 8254 Unplug Xen emulated devices 8255 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 8256 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 8257 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 8258 nics -- unplug network devices 8259 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 8260 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 8261 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 8262 the unplug protocol 8263 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 8264 8265 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN,EARLY] 8266 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 8267 panic() code such as dumping handler. 8268 8269 xen_mc_debug [X86,XEN,EARLY] 8270 Enable multicall debugging when running as a Xen PV guest. 8271 Enabling this feature will reduce performance a little 8272 bit, so it should only be enabled for obtaining extended 8273 debug data in case of multicall errors. 8274 8275 xen_msr_safe= [X86,XEN,EARLY] 8276 Format: <bool> 8277 Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR 8278 access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The 8279 default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE. 8280 8281 xen_nopv [X86] 8282 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 8283 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 8284 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 8285 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 8286 8287 xen_no_vector_callback 8288 [KNL,X86,XEN,EARLY] Disable the vector callback for Xen 8289 event channel interrupts. 8290 8291 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 8292 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 8293 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 8294 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 8295 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 8296 8297 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN,EARLY] 8298 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 8299 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 8300 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 8301 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 8302 more timer interrupts. 8303 8304 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 8305 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 8306 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 8307 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 8308 started with less memory configured than allowed at 8309 max. Default is 180. 8310 8311 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 8312 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 8313 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 8314 8315 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 8316 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 8317 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 8318 8319 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 8320 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 8321 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 8322 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 8323 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 8324 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 8325 8326 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 8327 Format: 8328 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 8329 8330 xive= [PPC] 8331 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 8332 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 8333 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 8334 8335 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 8336 controller on both pseries and powernv 8337 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 8338 8339 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 8340 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 8341 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 8342 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 8343 loads instead, as on POWER9. 8344 8345 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 8346 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 8347 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 8348 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 8349 8350 xmon [PPC,EARLY] 8351 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 8352 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 8353 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 8354 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 8355 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 8356 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 8357 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 8358 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 8359 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 8360 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 8361 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 8362 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 8363 can be written using xmon commands. 8364 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 8365 memory, and other data can't be written using 8366 xmon commands. 8367 off xmon is disabled. 8368