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