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