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 mminit_loglevel= 3801 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3802 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3803 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3804 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3805 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3806 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3807 3808 mmio_stale_data= 3809 [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the Processor 3810 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3811 3812 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3813 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3814 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3815 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3816 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3817 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3818 3819 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3820 options are: 3821 3822 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3823 3824 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3825 vulnerable CPUs. 3826 3827 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3828 3829 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3830 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3831 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3832 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3833 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3834 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3835 3836 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3837 mmio_stale_data=full. 3838 3839 For details see: 3840 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3841 3842 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL] 3843 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value 3844 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous 3845 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable 3846 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the 3847 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe 3848 3849 module.async_probe=<bool> 3850 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing 3851 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a 3852 specific module, use the module specific control that 3853 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both 3854 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are 3855 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for 3856 the specific module. 3857 3858 module.enable_dups_trace 3859 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set, 3860 this means that duplicate request_module() calls will 3861 trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that 3862 if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s 3863 will always be issued and this option does nothing. 3864 module.sig_enforce 3865 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3866 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3867 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3868 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3869 3870 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3871 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3872 3873 mousedev.tap_time= 3874 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3875 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3876 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3877 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3878 Format: <msecs> 3879 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3880 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3881 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3882 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3883 3884 movablecore= [KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY] 3885 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3886 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3887 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3888 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3889 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3890 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3891 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3892 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3893 is not too small. 3894 3895 movable_node [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3896 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3897 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3898 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3899 allocations. Use with caution! 3900 3901 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3902 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3903 3904 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3905 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3906 3907 mtdparts= [MTD] 3908 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3909 3910 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3911 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3912 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3913 3914 mtrr=debug [X86,EARLY] 3915 Enable printing debug information related to MTRR 3916 registers at boot time. 3917 3918 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY] 3919 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3920 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3921 3922 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY] 3923 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3924 Default is 1. 3925 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3926 using up MTRRs. 3927 3928 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86,EARLY] 3929 Format: <integer> 3930 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3931 Default : 1 3932 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3933 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3934 3935 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3936 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3937 at a time. 3938 3939 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3940 3941 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3942 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3943 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3944 something different and driver-specific. 3945 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3946 file if at all. 3947 3948 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3949 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3950 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3951 waits 4 seconds. 3952 3953 nf_conntrack.acct= 3954 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3955 0 to disable accounting 3956 1 to enable accounting 3957 Default value is 0. 3958 3959 nfs.cache_getent= 3960 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3961 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3962 3963 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3964 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3965 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3966 3967 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3968 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3969 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3970 requests. 3971 3972 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3973 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3974 channel should listen. 3975 3976 nfs.delay_retrans= 3977 [NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client 3978 retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error, 3979 after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server. 3980 Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled, 3981 and the specified value is >= 0. 3982 3983 nfs.enable_ino64= 3984 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3985 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3986 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3987 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3988 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3989 3990 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3991 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3992 entries. 3993 3994 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3995 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3996 slots the client will assign to the callback 3997 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3998 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3999 a particular server. 4000 4001 nfs.max_session_slots= 4002 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 4003 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 4004 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 4005 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 4006 Note that there is little point in setting this 4007 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 4008 4009 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 4010 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 4011 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 4012 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 4013 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 4014 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 4015 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 4016 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 4017 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 4018 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 4019 back to using the idmapper. 4020 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 4021 4022 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 4023 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 4024 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 4025 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 4026 UUID that is generated at system install time. 4027 4028 nfs.recover_lost_locks= 4029 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 4030 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 4031 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 4032 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 4033 after the locks are lost. 4034 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 4035 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 4036 parameter to '1'. 4037 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 4038 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 4039 4040 nfs.send_implementation_id= 4041 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 4042 information in exchange_id requests. 4043 If zero, no implementation identification information 4044 will be sent. 4045 The default is to send the implementation identification 4046 information. 4047 4048 nfs4.layoutstats_timer= 4049 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 4050 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 4051 4052 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 4053 whatever value is the default set by the layout 4054 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 4055 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 4056 4057 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable= 4058 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 4059 server-to-server copies for which this server is 4060 the destination of the copy. 4061 4062 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 4063 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 4064 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 4065 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 4066 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 4067 migration from NFSv2/v3. 4068 4069 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout= 4070 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 4071 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 4072 the source server. It caches the mount in case 4073 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 4074 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 4075 this parameter. 4076 4077 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 4078 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 4079 4080 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 4081 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 4082 4083 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 4084 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 4085 4086 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 4087 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 4088 NMI stack-backtrace request. 4089 4090 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 4091 when a NMI is triggered. 4092 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 4093 4094 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 4095 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][rNNN,][num] 4096 Valid num: 0 or 1 4097 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 4098 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 4099 rNNN - configure the watchdog with raw perf event 0xNNN 4100 4101 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 4102 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 4103 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 4104 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 4105 please see 'nowatchdog'. 4106 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 4107 need the box quickly up again. 4108 4109 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 4110 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 4111 4112 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 4113 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 4114 is present. 4115 4116 no4lvl [RISCV,EARLY] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes. 4117 Forces kernel to use 3-level paging instead. 4118 4119 no5lvl [X86-64,RISCV,EARLY] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 4120 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 4121 4122 noalign [KNL,ARM] 4123 4124 noapic [SMP,APIC,EARLY] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 4125 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 4126 4127 noapictimer [APIC,X86] Don't set up the APIC timer 4128 4129 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 4130 4131 nocache [ARM,EARLY] 4132 4133 no_console_suspend 4134 [HW] Never suspend the console 4135 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 4136 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 4137 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 4138 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 4139 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 4140 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 4141 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 4142 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 4143 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 4144 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 4145 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 4146 turn on/off it dynamically. 4147 4148 no_debug_objects 4149 [KNL,EARLY] Disable object debugging 4150 4151 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 4152 4153 noefi [EFI,EARLY] Disable EFI runtime services support. 4154 4155 no_entry_flush [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 4156 4157 noexec32 [X86-64] 4158 This affects only 32-bit executables. 4159 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 4160 read doesn't imply executable mappings 4161 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 4162 read implies executable mappings 4163 4164 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 4165 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 4166 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 4167 4168 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 4169 4170 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 4171 4172 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 4173 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 4174 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 4175 4176 nogbpages [X86] Do not use GB pages for kernel direct mappings. 4177 4178 no_hash_pointers 4179 [KNL,EARLY] 4180 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 4181 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 4182 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 4183 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 4184 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 4185 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 4186 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 4187 compared. However, if this command-line option is 4188 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 4189 value printed. This option should only be specified when 4190 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 4191 kernels. 4192 4193 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 4194 4195 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,RISCV,SH] Forces the kernel to 4196 busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 4197 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 4198 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 4199 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 4200 correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate 4201 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 4202 useful when using JTAG debugger. 4203 4204 nohpet [X86] Don't use the HPET timer. 4205 4206 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 4207 4208 nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 4209 4210 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 4211 Valid arguments: on, off 4212 Default: on 4213 4214 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 4215 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 4216 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 4217 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 4218 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 4219 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 4220 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 4221 just as if they had also been called out in the 4222 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 4223 4224 Note that this argument takes precedence over 4225 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 4226 4227 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 4228 initial RAM disk. 4229 4230 nointremap [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] Do not enable interrupt 4231 remapping. 4232 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 4233 4234 noinvpcid [X86,EARLY] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 4235 4236 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 4237 4238 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 4239 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 4240 4241 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 4242 4243 nokaslr [KNL,EARLY] 4244 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 4245 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 4246 Layout Randomization). 4247 4248 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 4249 fault handling. 4250 4251 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 4252 4253 nolapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 4254 4255 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not use the local APIC timer. 4256 4257 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 4258 4259 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 4260 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 4261 4262 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware 4263 sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory 4264 for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will 4265 not load if they could possibly displace the pre- 4266 initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will 4267 be available for use. The respective drivers will not 4268 perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. 4269 4270 Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging. 4271 4272 nomodule Disable module load 4273 4274 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 4275 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 4276 irq. 4277 4278 nopat [X86,EARLY] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 4279 pagetables) support. 4280 4281 nopcid [X86-64,EARLY] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 4282 4283 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 4284 in some Intel CPUs. 4285 4286 nopti [X86-64,EARLY] 4287 Equivalent to pti=off 4288 4289 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE,EARLY] 4290 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 4291 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 4292 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 4293 4294 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM,EARLY] 4295 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 4296 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 4297 contention. 4298 4299 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 4300 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 4301 4302 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 4303 with UP alternatives 4304 4305 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 4306 space. 4307 4308 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 4309 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 4310 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 4311 4312 nosgx [X86-64,SGX,EARLY] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 4313 4314 nosmap [PPC,EARLY] 4315 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 4316 even if it is supported by processor. 4317 4318 nosmep [PPC64s,EARLY] 4319 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 4320 even if it is supported by processor. 4321 4322 nosmp [SMP,EARLY] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 4323 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 4324 4325 nosmt [KNL,MIPS,PPC,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 4326 Equivalent to smt=1. 4327 4328 [KNL,X86,PPC,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 4329 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 4330 via the sysfs control file. 4331 4332 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 4333 4334 nospec_store_bypass_disable 4335 [HW,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative 4336 Store Bypass vulnerability 4337 4338 nospectre_bhb [ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch 4339 history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks 4340 with this option. 4341 4342 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC,EARLY] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 4343 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 4344 possible in the system. 4345 4346 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_E500,ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations 4347 for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch 4348 prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data 4349 leaks with this option. 4350 4351 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES,RISCV,LOONGARCH,EARLY] 4352 Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. steal time 4353 is computed, but won't influence scheduler behaviour 4354 4355 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 4356 4357 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for broken 4358 timer IRQ sources, i.e., the IO-APIC timer. This can 4359 work around problems with incorrect timer 4360 initialization on some boards. 4361 4362 no_uaccess_flush 4363 [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 4364 4365 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 4366 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 4367 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 4368 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 4369 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 4370 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 4371 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 4372 data will be no longer available. This parameter 4373 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 4374 is set. 4375 4376 no-vmw-sched-clock 4377 [X86,PV_OPS,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized VMware 4378 scheduler clock and use the default one. 4379 4380 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 4381 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 4382 4383 nowb [ARM,EARLY] 4384 4385 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 4386 4387 NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the 4388 LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the 4389 IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR. 4390 4391 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 4392 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 4393 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 4394 4395 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 4396 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 4397 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 4398 performance of saving the states is degraded because 4399 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 4400 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 4401 4402 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 4403 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 4404 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 4405 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 4406 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 4407 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 4408 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 4409 4410 nr_cpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 4411 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 4412 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 4413 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 4414 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 4415 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 4416 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 4417 hot plugging. 4418 4419 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 4420 4421 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86, EARLY] 4422 Disable NUMA, Only set up a single NUMA node 4423 spanning all memory. 4424 4425 numa=fake=<size>[MG] 4426 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY] 4427 If given as a memory unit, fills all system RAM with 4428 nodes of size interleaved over physical nodes. 4429 4430 numa=fake=<N> 4431 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY] 4432 If given as an integer, fills all system RAM with N 4433 fake nodes interleaved over physical nodes. 4434 4435 numa=fake=<N>U 4436 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY] 4437 If given as an integer followed by 'U', it will 4438 divide each physical node into N emulated nodes. 4439 4440 numa=noacpi [X86] Don't parse the SRAT table for NUMA setup 4441 4442 numa=nohmat [X86] Don't parse the HMAT table for NUMA setup, or 4443 soft-reserved memory partitioning. 4444 4445 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 4446 NUMA balancing. 4447 Allowed values are enable and disable 4448 4449 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 4450 'node', 'default' can be specified 4451 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 4452 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 4453 4454 ohci1394_dma=early [HW,EARLY] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 4455 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 4456 info. 4457 4458 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 4459 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 4460 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 4461 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 4462 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 4463 interrupts *may* be lost! 4464 4465 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 4466 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 4467 For example, to override I2C bus2: 4468 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 4469 4470 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 4471 4472 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 4473 4474 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 4475 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 4476 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 4477 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 4478 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 4479 4480 oops=panic [KNL,EARLY] 4481 Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 4482 process, but there is a small probability of 4483 deadlocking the machine. 4484 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 4485 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 4486 4487 page_alloc.shuffle= 4488 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 4489 should randomize its free lists. This parameter can be 4490 used to enable/disable page randomization. The state of 4491 the flag can be read from sysfs at: 4492 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 4493 This parameter is only available if CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y. 4494 4495 page_owner= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 4496 Storage of the information about who allocated 4497 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 4498 we can turn it on. 4499 on: enable the feature 4500 4501 page_poison= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 4502 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 4503 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 4504 off: turn off poisoning (default) 4505 on: turn on poisoning 4506 4507 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 4508 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 4509 Format: <integer> 4510 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 4511 reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER. 4512 4513 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 4514 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 4515 timeout = 0: wait forever 4516 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 4517 Format: <timeout> 4518 4519 panic_on_taint= [KNL,EARLY] 4520 Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 4521 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 4522 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 4523 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 4524 called with any of the flags in this set. 4525 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 4526 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 4527 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 4528 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 4529 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 4530 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 4531 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 4532 4533 panic_on_warn=1 panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 4534 on a WARN(). 4535 4536 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 4537 User can chose combination of the following bits: 4538 bit 0: print all tasks info 4539 bit 1: print system memory info 4540 bit 2: print timer info 4541 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 4542 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 4543 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 4544 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 4545 bit 7: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state 4546 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 4547 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 4548 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 4549 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 4550 4551 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 4552 connected to, default is 0. 4553 Format: <parport#> 4554 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 4555 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 4556 Format: <mode> 4557 4558 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 4559 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 4560 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 4561 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 4562 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 4563 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 4564 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 4565 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 4566 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 4567 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 4568 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 4569 are specified on the command line, starting 4570 with parport0. 4571 4572 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 4573 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 4574 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 4575 computer where firmware has no options for setting 4576 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 4577 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 4578 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 4579 4580 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 4581 Format: <int> 4582 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 4583 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 4584 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 4585 4586 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 4587 Format: <int> 4588 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 4589 changes. Disabled by default. 4590 4591 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 4592 Format: <int> 4593 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 4594 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4595 Disabled by default. 4596 4597 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 4598 Format: <int> 4599 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 4600 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4601 Disabled by default. 4602 4603 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4604 Format: <int> 4605 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 4606 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 4607 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 4608 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 4609 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 4610 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 4611 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 4612 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 4613 all channels. 4614 4615 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 4616 Format: <int> 4617 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 4618 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4619 respectively. Disabled by default. 4620 4621 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 4622 Format: <int> 4623 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 4624 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4625 respectively. Disabled by default. 4626 4627 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4628 Format: <int> 4629 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 4630 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 4631 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 4632 All modes allowed by default. 4633 4634 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 4635 Format: <int> 4636 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4637 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4638 4639 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4640 Format: <int> 4641 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4642 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4643 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4644 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4645 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4646 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4647 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4648 By default all supported ports are probed. 4649 4650 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4651 Format: <int> 4652 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4653 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4654 4655 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4656 Format: <int> 4657 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4658 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4659 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4660 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4661 0 otherwise. 4662 4663 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4664 Format: <int> 4665 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4666 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4667 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4668 allowed by default. 4669 4670 pause_on_oops=<int> 4671 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4672 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4673 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4674 4675 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4676 4677 pci=option[,option...] [PCI,EARLY] various PCI subsystem options. 4678 4679 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4680 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4681 specified in one of the following formats: 4682 4683 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4684 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4685 4686 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4687 bus/device/function address which may change 4688 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4689 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4690 by other kernel parameters. If the 4691 domain is left unspecified, it is 4692 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4693 to a device through multiple device/function 4694 addresses can be specified after the base 4695 address (this is more robust against 4696 renumbering issues). The second format 4697 selects devices using IDs from the 4698 configuration space which may match multiple 4699 devices in the system. 4700 4701 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4702 changes anything 4703 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4704 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4705 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4706 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4707 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4708 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4709 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4710 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4711 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4712 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4713 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4714 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4715 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4716 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4717 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4718 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4719 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4720 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4721 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4722 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4723 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4724 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4725 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4726 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4727 Configuration 4728 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4729 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4730 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4731 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4732 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4733 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4734 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4735 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4736 should never be necessary. 4737 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4738 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4739 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4740 when the system masks IRQs. 4741 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4742 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4743 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4744 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4745 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4746 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4747 on several machines and they hang the machine 4748 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4749 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4750 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4751 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4752 motherboard. 4753 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4754 Use with caution as certain devices share 4755 address decoders between ROMs and other 4756 resources. 4757 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4758 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4759 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4760 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4761 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4762 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4763 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4764 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4765 this way. 4766 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4767 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4768 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4769 F0000h-100000h range. 4770 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4771 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4772 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4773 explicitly which ones they are. 4774 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4775 numbers ourselves, overriding 4776 whatever the firmware may have done. 4777 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4778 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4779 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4780 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4781 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4782 IRQ routing is enabled. 4783 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4784 or for PCI scanning. 4785 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4786 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4787 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4788 please report a bug. 4789 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4790 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4791 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4792 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4793 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4794 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4795 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4796 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4797 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4798 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4799 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4800 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4801 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4802 so this option is a temporary workaround 4803 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4804 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4805 handle more pci cards 4806 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4807 This might help on some broken boards which 4808 machine check when some devices' config space 4809 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4810 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4811 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4812 This sorting is done to get a device 4813 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4814 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4815 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4816 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4817 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4818 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4819 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4820 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4821 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4822 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4823 or bus can support) for best performance. 4824 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4825 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4826 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4827 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4828 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4829 that hot-added devices will work. 4830 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4831 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4832 The default value is 256 bytes. 4833 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4834 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4835 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4836 resource_alignment= 4837 Format: 4838 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4839 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4840 aligned memory resources. How to 4841 specify the device is described above. 4842 If <order of align> is not specified, 4843 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4844 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4845 windows need to be expanded. 4846 To specify the alignment for several 4847 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4848 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4849 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4850 for 4096-byte alignment. 4851 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4852 end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if 4853 OS has native AER control (either granted by 4854 ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native") 4855 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4856 the default. 4857 off: Turn ECRC off 4858 on: Turn ECRC on. 4859 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4860 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4861 Default size is 256 bytes. 4862 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4863 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4864 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4865 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4866 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4867 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4868 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4869 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4870 MMIO_PREF window. 4871 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4872 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4873 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4874 Default is 1. 4875 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4876 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4877 accommodate resources required by all child 4878 devices. 4879 off: Turn realloc off 4880 on: Turn realloc on 4881 realloc same as realloc=on 4882 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4883 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4884 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4885 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4886 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4887 port. 4888 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4889 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4890 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4891 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4892 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4893 taints the kernel. 4894 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4895 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4896 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4897 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4898 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4899 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4900 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4901 this removes isolation between devices and 4902 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4903 config_acs= 4904 Format: 4905 <ACS flags>@<pci_dev>[; ...] 4906 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4907 specified above) optionally prepended with flags 4908 and separated by semicolons. The respective 4909 capabilities will be enabled, disabled or 4910 unchanged based on what is specified in 4911 flags. 4912 4913 ACS Flags is defined as follows: 4914 bit-0 : ACS Source Validation 4915 bit-1 : ACS Translation Blocking 4916 bit-2 : ACS P2P Request Redirect 4917 bit-3 : ACS P2P Completion Redirect 4918 bit-4 : ACS Upstream Forwarding 4919 bit-5 : ACS P2P Egress Control 4920 bit-6 : ACS Direct Translated P2P 4921 Each bit can be marked as: 4922 '0' – force disabled 4923 '1' – force enabled 4924 'x' – unchanged 4925 For example, 4926 pci=config_acs=10x@pci:0:0 4927 would configure all devices that support 4928 ACS to enable P2P Request Redirect, disable 4929 Translation Blocking, and leave Source 4930 Validation unchanged from whatever power-up 4931 or firmware set it to. 4932 4933 Note: this may remove isolation between devices 4934 and may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4935 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4936 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4937 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4938 one PCI domain per PCI function 4939 notph [PCIE] If the PCIE_TPH kernel config parameter 4940 is enabled, this kernel boot option can be used 4941 to disable PCIe TLP Processing Hints support 4942 system-wide. 4943 4944 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or ignore PCIe Active State Power 4945 Management. 4946 off Don't touch ASPM configuration at all. Leave any 4947 configuration done by firmware unchanged. 4948 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4949 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4950 4951 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4952 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4953 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4954 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4955 also tries to use these services. 4956 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4957 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4958 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4959 hotplug). 4960 4961 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4962 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4963 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4964 4965 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4966 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4967 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4968 4969 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4970 4971 pd_ignore_unused 4972 [PM] 4973 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4974 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4975 for debug and development, but should not be 4976 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4977 4978 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4979 boot time. 4980 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4981 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4982 4983 percpu_alloc= [MM,EARLY] 4984 Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4985 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4986 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4987 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4988 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4989 and performance comparison. 4990 4991 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4992 See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4993 4994 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4995 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4996 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4997 4998 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4999 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 5000 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 5001 5002 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 5003 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 5004 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 5005 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 5006 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 5007 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 5008 remains 0. 5009 5010 pm_async= [PM] 5011 Format: off 5012 This parameter sets the initial value of the 5013 /sys/power/pm_async sysfs knob at boot time. 5014 If set to "off", disables asynchronous suspend and 5015 resume of devices during system-wide power transitions. 5016 This can be useful on platforms where device 5017 dependencies are not well-defined, or for debugging 5018 power management issues. Asynchronous operations are 5019 enabled by default. 5020 5021 5022 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 5023 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 5024 5025 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 5026 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 5027 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 5028 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 5029 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 5030 possible settings and some assignment information. 5031 5032 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 5033 { off } 5034 5035 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 5036 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 5037 5038 pnp_reserve_irq= 5039 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 5040 5041 pnp_reserve_dma= 5042 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 5043 5044 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 5045 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 5046 5047 pnp_reserve_mem= 5048 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 5049 autoconfiguration. 5050 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 5051 5052 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 5053 Default is 21. 5054 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 5055 may be specified. 5056 Format: <port>,<port>.... 5057 5058 possible_cpus= [SMP,S390,X86] 5059 Format: <unsigned int> 5060 Set the number of possible CPUs, overriding the 5061 regular discovery mechanisms (such as ACPI/FW, etc). 5062 5063 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 5064 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 5065 platform machine description specific power_save 5066 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 5067 execution priority. 5068 5069 ppc_strict_facility_enable 5070 [PPC,ENABLE] This option catches any kernel floating point, 5071 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 5072 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 5073 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 5074 5075 ppc_tm= [PPC,EARLY] 5076 Format: {"off"} 5077 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 5078 5079 preempt= [KNL] 5080 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 5081 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 5082 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 5083 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 5084 can be preempted anytime. Tasks will also yield 5085 contended spinlocks (if the critical section isn't 5086 explicitly preempt disabled beyond the lock itself). 5087 lazy - Scheduler controlled. Similar to full but instead 5088 of preempting the task immediately, the task gets 5089 one HZ tick time to yield itself before the 5090 preemption will be forced. One preemption is when the 5091 task returns to user space. 5092 5093 print-fatal-signals= 5094 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 5095 5096 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 5097 related application anomalies: too many signals, 5098 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 5099 coredump - etc. 5100 5101 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 5102 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 5103 5104 default: off. 5105 5106 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 5107 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 5108 panics 5109 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 5110 default: disabled 5111 5112 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 5113 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 5114 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 5115 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 5116 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 5117 in order to provide more debug information. 5118 Format: <bool> 5119 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 5120 5121 printk.debug_non_panic_cpus= 5122 Allows storing messages from non-panic CPUs into 5123 the printk log buffer during panic(). They are 5124 flushed to consoles by the panic-CPU on 5125 a best-effort basis. 5126 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 5127 Default: disabled 5128 5129 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 5130 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 5131 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 5132 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 5133 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 5134 Default: ratelimit 5135 5136 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 5137 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 5138 5139 proc_mem.force_override= [KNL] 5140 Format: {always | ptrace | never} 5141 Traditionally /proc/pid/mem allows memory permissions to be 5142 overridden without restrictions. This option may be set to 5143 restrict that. Can be one of: 5144 - 'always': traditional behavior always allows mem overrides. 5145 - 'ptrace': only allow mem overrides for active ptracers. 5146 - 'never': never allow mem overrides. 5147 If not specified, default is the CONFIG_PROC_MEM_* choice. 5148 5149 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 5150 Limit processor to maximum C-state 5151 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 5152 5153 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 5154 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 5155 instead using the legacy FADT method 5156 5157 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 5158 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 5159 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule" or "kvm" 5160 [defaults to kernel profiling] 5161 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 5162 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 5163 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 5164 statistical time based profiling. 5165 5166 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 5167 5168 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 5169 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 5170 that). If enabled, the default kernel base address 5171 might be overridden even when Kernel Address Space 5172 Layout Randomization is disabled. 5173 Format: <bool> 5174 5175 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 5176 tracking. 5177 Format: <bool> 5178 5179 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 5180 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 5181 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 5182 per second. 5183 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 5184 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 5185 (0 = never). 5186 psmouse.resolution= 5187 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 5188 psmouse.smartscroll= 5189 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 5190 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 5191 5192 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 5193 5194 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 5195 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 5196 removes hardening, but improves performance of 5197 system calls and interrupts. 5198 5199 on - unconditionally enable 5200 off - unconditionally disable 5201 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5202 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 5203 5204 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 5205 5206 pty.legacy_count= 5207 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 5208 default number. 5209 5210 quiet [KNL,EARLY] Disable most log messages 5211 5212 r128= [HW,DRM] 5213 5214 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 5215 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 5216 invalidate. 5217 5218 raid= [HW,RAID] 5219 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 5220 5221 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 5222 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 5223 5224 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 5225 5226 random.trust_cpu=off 5227 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's 5228 random number generator (if available) to 5229 initialize the kernel's RNG. 5230 5231 random.trust_bootloader=off 5232 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the a seed 5233 passed by the bootloader (if available) to 5234 initialize the kernel's RNG. 5235 5236 randomize_kstack_offset= 5237 [KNL,EARLY] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 5238 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 5239 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 5240 that depend on stack address determinism or 5241 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 5242 available on architectures that have defined 5243 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 5244 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 5245 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 5246 5247 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 5248 5249 cec_disable [X86] 5250 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 5251 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 5252 5253 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 5254 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 5255 as described above. 5256 5257 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 5258 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 5259 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 5260 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 5261 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 5262 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 5263 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 5264 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 5265 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 5266 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 5267 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 5268 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 5269 5270 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 5271 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 5272 5273 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 5274 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 5275 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 5276 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 5277 5278 Note that this argument takes precedence over 5279 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 5280 5281 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 5282 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 5283 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 5284 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 5285 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 5286 This improves the real-time response for the 5287 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 5288 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 5289 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 5290 periodically wake up to do the polling. 5291 5292 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 5293 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 5294 process in one batch. 5295 5296 rcutree.csd_lock_suppress_rcu_stall= [KNL] 5297 Do only a one-line RCU CPU stall warning when 5298 there is an ongoing too-long CSD-lock wait. 5299 5300 rcutree.do_rcu_barrier= [KNL] 5301 Request a call to rcu_barrier(). This is 5302 throttled so that userspace tests can safely 5303 hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose. 5304 If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery 5305 is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN. 5306 5307 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 5308 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 5309 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 5310 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 5311 5312 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 5313 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 5314 RCU grace-period cleanup. 5315 5316 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 5317 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 5318 RCU grace-period initialization. 5319 5320 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 5321 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 5322 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 5323 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 5324 the rcu_node combining tree. 5325 5326 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 5327 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 5328 first attempt to force quiescent states. 5329 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 5330 and maximum value is HZ. 5331 5332 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 5333 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 5334 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 5335 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 5336 5337 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 5338 Set required age in jiffies for a 5339 given grace period before RCU starts 5340 soliciting quiescent-state help from 5341 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 5342 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 5343 a value based on the most recent settings 5344 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 5345 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 5346 This calculated value may be viewed in 5347 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 5348 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 5349 overwritten. 5350 5351 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 5352 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 5353 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 5354 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 5355 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 5356 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 5357 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 5358 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 5359 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 5360 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 5361 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 5362 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 5363 5364 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] 5365 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, 5366 RCU reduces the lock contention that would 5367 otherwise be caused by callback floods through 5368 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the 5369 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to 5370 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra 5371 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. 5372 But if there are too many callbacks queued during 5373 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into 5374 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too 5375 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. 5376 5377 rcutree.nohz_full_patience_delay= [KNL] 5378 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, avoid 5379 disturbing RCU unless the grace period has 5380 reached the specified age in milliseconds. 5381 Defaults to zero. Large values will be capped 5382 at five seconds. All values will be rounded down 5383 to the nearest value representable by jiffies. 5384 5385 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 5386 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 5387 batch limiting is disabled. 5388 5389 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 5390 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 5391 batch limiting is re-enabled. 5392 5393 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 5394 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 5395 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 5396 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 5397 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 5398 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 5399 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 5400 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 5401 5402 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 5403 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 5404 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 5405 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 5406 5407 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] 5408 Set the shift-right count to use to compute 5409 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from 5410 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. 5411 The result will be bounded below by the value of 5412 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl 5413 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in 5414 order to allow the CPU to do other work. 5415 5416 Please note that this callback-invocation batch 5417 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback 5418 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead 5419 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which 5420 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. 5421 5422 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 5423 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 5424 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 5425 possibly be useful for architectures having high 5426 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 5427 5428 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 5429 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 5430 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 5431 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 5432 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 5433 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 5434 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 5435 5436 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 5437 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 5438 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 5439 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 5440 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 5441 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 5442 condition. 5443 5444 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 5445 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 5446 each group, which defaults to the square root 5447 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 5448 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 5449 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 5450 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 5451 5452 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 5453 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 5454 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 5455 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 5456 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 5457 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 5458 5459 rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL] 5460 Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU 5461 callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds. 5462 By default, this limit is checked only once 5463 every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain 5464 inflicted by local_clock() overhead. 5465 5466 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 5467 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 5468 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 5469 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 5470 Larger delays increase the probability of 5471 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 5472 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 5473 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 5474 5475 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 5476 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 5477 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 5478 why a new grace period has not yet started. 5479 5480 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 5481 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 5482 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 5483 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 5484 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 5485 5486 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 5487 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 5488 to zero. 5489 5490 rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy= [KNL] 5491 To save power, batch RCU callbacks and flush after 5492 delay, memory pressure or callback list growing too 5493 big. 5494 5495 rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp= [KNL] 5496 Reduces a latency of synchronize_rcu() call. This approach 5497 maintains its own track of synchronize_rcu() callers, so it 5498 does not interact with regular callbacks because it does not 5499 use a call_rcu[_hurry]() path. Please note, this is for a 5500 normal grace period. 5501 5502 How to enable it: 5503 5504 echo 1 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp 5505 or pass a boot parameter "rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=1" 5506 5507 Default is 0. 5508 5509 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 5510 Measure performance of asynchronous 5511 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 5512 5513 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 5514 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 5515 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 5516 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 5517 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 5518 previously posted callbacks to drain. 5519 5520 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 5521 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 5522 grace-period primitives. 5523 5524 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5525 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5526 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5527 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5528 interference. 5529 5530 rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL] 5531 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test 5532 call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu(). 5533 5534 rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL] 5535 Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj, 5536 allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj). 5537 Defaults to 1. 5538 5539 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 5540 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 5541 5542 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 5543 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5544 If this parameter has the same value as 5545 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 5546 and double-argument variants are tested. 5547 5548 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 5549 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5550 If this parameter has the same value as 5551 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 5552 and double-argument variants are tested. 5553 5554 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 5555 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 5556 5557 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 5558 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 5559 5560 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 5561 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 5562 of allocations and frees. 5563 5564 rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL] 5565 Set the minimum test run time in seconds. This 5566 does not affect the data-collection interval, 5567 but instead allows better measurement of things 5568 like CPU consumption. 5569 5570 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5571 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5572 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5573 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 5574 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5575 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5576 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 5577 a single reader. 5578 5579 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 5580 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 5581 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 5582 N, where N is the number of CPUs 5583 5584 rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5585 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5586 5587 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5588 Shut the system down after performance tests 5589 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 5590 testing. 5591 5592 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 5593 Enable additional printk() statements. 5594 5595 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 5596 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 5597 in microseconds. The default of zero says 5598 no holdoff. 5599 5600 rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL] 5601 Additional write-side holdoff between grace 5602 periods, but in jiffies. The default of zero 5603 says no holdoff. 5604 5605 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 5606 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 5607 in microseconds. 5608 5609 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 5610 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 5611 in microseconds. 5612 5613 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 5614 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 5615 in seconds. 5616 5617 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 5618 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 5619 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 5620 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 5621 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 5622 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 5623 of CPUs to be used. 5624 5625 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 5626 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 5627 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 5628 5629 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 5630 Number of seconds to wait between successive 5631 forward-progress tests. 5632 5633 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 5634 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 5635 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 5636 testing. 5637 5638 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 5639 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 5640 normal-grace-period primitives, if available. 5641 5642 rcutorture.gp_cond_exp= [KNL] 5643 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 5644 expedited-grace-period primitives, if available. 5645 5646 rcutorture.gp_cond_full= [KNL] 5647 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 5648 normal-grace-period primitives that also take 5649 concurrent expedited grace periods into account, 5650 if available. 5651 5652 rcutorture.gp_cond_exp_full= [KNL] 5653 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 5654 expedited-grace-period primitives that also take 5655 concurrent normal grace periods into account, 5656 if available. 5657 5658 rcutorture.gp_cond_wi= [KNL] 5659 Nominal wait interval for normal conditional 5660 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's 5661 gp_cond and gp_cond_full module parameters), 5662 in microseconds. The actual wait interval will 5663 be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up 5664 to this wait interval. Defaults to 16 jiffies, 5665 for example, 16,000 microseconds on a system 5666 with HZ=1000. 5667 5668 rcutorture.gp_cond_wi_exp= [KNL] 5669 Nominal wait interval for expedited conditional 5670 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's 5671 gp_cond_exp and gp_cond_exp_full module 5672 parameters), in microseconds. The actual wait 5673 interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond 5674 granularity up to this wait interval. Defaults to 5675 128 microseconds. 5676 5677 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 5678 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 5679 5680 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 5681 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 5682 update-side primitives, if available. 5683 5684 rcutorture.gp_poll= [KNL] 5685 Use polled update-side normal-grace-period 5686 primitives, if available. 5687 5688 rcutorture.gp_poll_exp= [KNL] 5689 Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period 5690 primitives, if available. 5691 5692 rcutorture.gp_poll_full= [KNL] 5693 Use polled update-side normal-grace-period 5694 primitives that also take concurrent expedited 5695 grace periods into account, if available. 5696 5697 rcutorture.gp_poll_exp_full= [KNL] 5698 Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period 5699 primitives that also take concurrent normal 5700 grace periods into account, if available. 5701 5702 rcutorture.gp_poll_wi= [KNL] 5703 Nominal wait interval for normal conditional 5704 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's 5705 gp_poll and gp_poll_full module parameters), 5706 in microseconds. The actual wait interval will 5707 be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up 5708 to this wait interval. Defaults to 16 jiffies, 5709 for example, 16,000 microseconds on a system 5710 with HZ=1000. 5711 5712 rcutorture.gp_poll_wi_exp= [KNL] 5713 Nominal wait interval for expedited conditional 5714 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's 5715 gp_poll_exp and gp_poll_exp_full module 5716 parameters), in microseconds. The actual wait 5717 interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond 5718 granularity up to this wait interval. Defaults to 5719 128 microseconds. 5720 5721 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 5722 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 5723 update-side primitives, if available. If all 5724 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 5725 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 5726 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 5727 they are all non-zero. 5728 5729 rcutorture.gpwrap_lag= [KNL] 5730 Enable grace-period wrap lag testing. Setting 5731 to false prevents the gpwrap lag test from 5732 running. Default is true. 5733 5734 rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_gps= [KNL] 5735 Set the value for grace-period wrap lag during 5736 active lag testing periods. This controls how many 5737 grace periods differences we tolerate between 5738 rdp and rnp's gp_seq before setting overflow flag. 5739 The default is always set to 8. 5740 5741 rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_cycle_mins= [KNL] 5742 Set the total cycle duration for gpwrap lag 5743 testing in minutes. This is the total time for 5744 one complete cycle of active and inactive 5745 testing periods. Default is 30 minutes. 5746 5747 rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_active_mins= [KNL] 5748 Set the duration for which gpwrap lag is active 5749 within each cycle, in minutes. During this time, 5750 the grace-period wrap lag will be set to the 5751 value specified by gpwrap_lag_gps. Default is 5752 5 minutes. 5753 5754 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 5755 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 5756 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 5757 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 5758 5759 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 5760 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 5761 This can of course result in splats, and is 5762 intended to test the ability of things like 5763 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 5764 such leaks. 5765 5766 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 5767 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 5768 5769 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 5770 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 5771 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 5772 test, hence the "fake". 5773 5774 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 5775 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 5776 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 5777 5778 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 5779 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 5780 callback-offload toggling attempts. 5781 5782 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 5783 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5784 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5785 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 5786 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5787 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5788 5789 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 5790 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 5791 5792 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5793 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 5794 5795 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5796 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 5797 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 5798 5799 rcutorture.preempt_duration= [KNL] 5800 Set duration (in milliseconds) of preemptions 5801 by a high-priority FIFO real-time task. Set to 5802 zero (the default) to disable. The CPUs to 5803 preempt are selected randomly from the set that 5804 are online at a given point in time. Races with 5805 CPUs going offline are ignored, with that attempt 5806 at preemption skipped. 5807 5808 rcutorture.preempt_interval= [KNL] 5809 Set interval (in milliseconds, defaulting to one 5810 second) between preemptions by a high-priority 5811 FIFO real-time task. This delay is mediated 5812 by an hrtimer and is further fuzzed to avoid 5813 inadvertent synchronizations. 5814 5815 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 5816 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 5817 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 5818 is spawned. 5819 5820 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 5821 The delay, in seconds, between successive 5822 read-then-exit testing episodes. 5823 5824 rcutorture.reader_flavor= [KNL] 5825 A bit mask indicating which readers to use. 5826 If there is more than one bit set, the readers 5827 are entered from low-order bit up, and are 5828 exited in the opposite order. For SRCU, the 5829 0x1 bit is normal readers, 0x2 NMI-safe readers, 5830 and 0x4 light-weight readers. 5831 5832 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 5833 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 5834 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 5835 during the rcutorture test. 5836 5837 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5838 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 5839 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 5840 5841 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 5842 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 5843 warnings, zero to disable. 5844 5845 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 5846 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 5847 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to 5848 any other stall-related activity. Note that 5849 in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and 5850 CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will 5851 cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state. 5852 Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress 5853 RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result 5854 in scheduling-while-atomic splats. 5855 5856 Use of this module parameter results in splats. 5857 5858 5859 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 5860 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 5861 5862 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 5863 Disable interrupts while stalling if set, but only 5864 on the first stall in the set. 5865 5866 rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat= [KNL] 5867 Number of times to repeat the stall sequence, 5868 so that rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat=3 will result 5869 in four stall sequences. 5870 5871 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 5872 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 5873 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 5874 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 5875 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 5876 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 5877 5878 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5879 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 5880 5881 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 5882 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 5883 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 5884 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 5885 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 5886 5887 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 5888 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 5889 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 5890 under test support RCU priority boosting. 5891 5892 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 5893 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 5894 5895 rcutorture.test_boost_holdoff= [KNL] 5896 Holdoff time (s) from start of test to the start 5897 of RCU priority-boost testing. Defaults to zero, 5898 that is, no holdoff. 5899 5900 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 5901 Interval (s) between each boost test. 5902 5903 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 5904 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 5905 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 5906 5907 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 5908 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5909 5910 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 5911 Enable additional printk() statements. 5912 5913 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 5914 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 5915 stall warning. 5916 5917 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL] 5918 Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the 5919 warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig 5920 option's help text. TL;DR: You almost certainly 5921 do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers. 5922 5923 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 5924 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5925 5926 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 5927 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 5928 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 5929 during early boot, that is, during the time 5930 before the init task is spawned. 5931 5932 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5933 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5934 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 5935 value is 300 seconds. 5936 5937 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5938 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 5939 messages. The value is in milliseconds 5940 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 5941 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 5942 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 5943 Setting this to zero causes the value from 5944 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 5945 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 5946 5947 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL] 5948 Provide statistics on the cputime and count of 5949 interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For 5950 multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods 5951 begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout. 5952 5953 rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL] 5954 Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the 5955 current expedited RCU grace period during an 5956 expedited RCU CPU stall warning. 5957 5958 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 5959 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 5960 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 5961 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 5962 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 5963 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 5964 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5965 5966 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 5967 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 5968 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 5969 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 5970 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 5971 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 5972 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 5973 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 5974 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5975 5976 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 5977 Once boot has completed (that is, after 5978 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 5979 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 5980 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5981 5982 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 5983 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 5984 it to the value one, that is, converting any 5985 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 5986 period to instead use normal non-expedited 5987 grace-period processing. 5988 5989 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 5990 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 5991 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 5992 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 5993 a single callback queue. This switching only 5994 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 5995 set to the default value of -1. 5996 5997 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 5998 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 5999 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 6000 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 6001 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 6002 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 6003 the default value of -1. 6004 6005 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 6006 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 6007 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 6008 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 6009 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 6010 for use in testing. 6011 6012 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 6013 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 6014 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 6015 of a given grace period. Setting a large 6016 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 6017 but lengthens grace periods. 6018 6019 rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL] 6020 Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will 6021 cancel laziness on that CPU. Use -1 to disable 6022 cancellation of laziness, but be advised that 6023 doing so increases the danger of OOM due to 6024 callback flooding. 6025 6026 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 6027 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 6028 informational messages, which give some indication 6029 of the problem for those not patient enough to 6030 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 6031 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 6032 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 6033 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 6034 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 6035 until the beginning of the next grace period. 6036 6037 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 6038 Multiplier for time interval between successive 6039 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 6040 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 6041 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 6042 the value three, so that the first informational 6043 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 6044 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 6045 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 6046 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 6047 6048 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 6049 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 6050 warning messages. Disable with a value less 6051 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 6052 A change in value does not take effect until 6053 the beginning of the next grace period. 6054 6055 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL] 6056 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous 6057 callback batching for call_rcu_tasks(). 6058 A negative value will take the default. A value 6059 of zero will disable batching. Batching is 6060 always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks(). 6061 6062 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL] 6063 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks 6064 Trace asynchronous callback batching for 6065 call_rcu_tasks_trace(). A negative value 6066 will take the default. A value of zero will 6067 disable batching. Batching is always disabled 6068 for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace(). 6069 6070 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 6071 Run the RCU early boot self tests 6072 6073 rdinit= [KNL] 6074 Format: <full_path> 6075 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 6076 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 6077 6078 rdrand= [X86,EARLY] 6079 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 6080 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 6081 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 6082 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 6083 path). 6084 6085 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 6086 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 6087 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 6088 mba, smba, bmec. 6089 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 6090 rdt=cmt,!mba 6091 6092 reboot= [KNL] 6093 Format (x86 or x86_64): 6094 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 6095 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 6096 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 6097 [[,]f[orce] 6098 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 6099 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 6100 reboot only), 6101 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 6102 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 6103 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 6104 to be used for rebooting. 6105 6106 acpi 6107 Use the ACPI RESET_REG in the FADT. If ACPI is not 6108 configured or the ACPI reset does not work, the reboot 6109 path attempts the reset using the keyboard controller. 6110 6111 bios 6112 Use the CPU reboot vector for warm reset 6113 6114 cold 6115 Set the cold reboot flag 6116 6117 default 6118 There are some built-in platform specific "quirks" 6119 - you may see: "reboot: <name> series board detected. 6120 Selecting <type> for reboots." In the case where you 6121 think the quirk is in error (e.g. you have newer BIOS, 6122 or newer board) using this option will ignore the 6123 built-in quirk table, and use the generic default 6124 reboot actions. 6125 6126 efi 6127 Use efi reset_system runtime service. If EFI is not 6128 configured or the EFI reset does not work, the reboot 6129 path attempts the reset using the keyboard controller. 6130 6131 force 6132 Don't stop other CPUs on reboot. This can make reboot 6133 more reliable in some cases. 6134 6135 kbd 6136 Use the keyboard controller. cold reset (default) 6137 6138 pci 6139 Use a write to the PCI config space register 0xcf9 to 6140 trigger reboot. 6141 6142 triple 6143 Force a triple fault (init) 6144 6145 warm 6146 Don't set the cold reboot flag 6147 6148 Using warm reset will be much faster especially on big 6149 memory systems because the BIOS will not go through 6150 the memory check. Disadvantage is that not all 6151 hardware will be completely reinitialized on reboot so 6152 there may be boot problems on some systems. 6153 6154 6155 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 6156 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 6157 this parameter is to delay the start of the 6158 test until boot completes in order to avoid 6159 interference. 6160 6161 refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL] 6162 Number of data elements to use for the forms of 6163 SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing. A negative number 6164 is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while 6165 zero specifies nr_cpu_ids. 6166 6167 refscale.loops= [KNL] 6168 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 6169 primitive under test. Increasing this number 6170 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 6171 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 6172 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 6173 x86 laptops. 6174 6175 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 6176 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 6177 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 6178 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 6179 6180 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 6181 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 6182 the console log. 6183 6184 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 6185 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 6186 measured in microseconds. 6187 6188 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 6189 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 6190 6191 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 6192 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 6193 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 6194 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 6195 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 6196 6197 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 6198 Enable additional printk() statements. 6199 6200 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 6201 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 6202 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 6203 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 6204 specified. 6205 6206 regulator_ignore_unused 6207 [REGULATOR] 6208 Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators 6209 that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may 6210 be useful for debug and development, but should not be 6211 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 6212 6213 relax_domain_level= 6214 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 6215 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 6216 6217 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 6218 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 6219 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 6220 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 6221 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 6222 6223 reserve_mem= [RAM] 6224 Format: nn[KMG]:<align>:<label> 6225 Reserve physical memory and label it with a name that 6226 other subsystems can use to access it. This is typically 6227 used for systems that do not wipe the RAM, and this command 6228 line will try to reserve the same physical memory on 6229 soft reboots. Note, it is not guaranteed to be the same 6230 location. For example, if anything about the system changes 6231 or if booting a different kernel. It can also fail if KASLR 6232 places the kernel at the location of where the RAM reservation 6233 was from a previous boot, the new reservation will be at a 6234 different location. 6235 Any subsystem using this feature must add a way to verify 6236 that the contents of the physical memory is from a previous 6237 boot, as there may be cases where the memory will not be 6238 located at the same location. 6239 6240 The format is size:align:label for example, to request 6241 12 megabytes of 4096 alignment for ramoops: 6242 6243 reserve_mem=12M:4096:oops ramoops.mem_name=oops 6244 6245 reservetop= [X86-32,EARLY] 6246 Format: nn[KMG] 6247 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 6248 address space. 6249 6250 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 6251 during initialization. 6252 6253 resume= [SWSUSP] 6254 Specify the partition device for software suspend 6255 Format: 6256 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 6257 6258 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 6259 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 6260 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 6261 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 6262 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 6263 6264 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 6265 read the resume files 6266 6267 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 6268 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 6269 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 6270 6271 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction. After boot, it will 6272 be accessible via /sys/firmware/initrd. 6273 6274 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 6275 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 6276 vulnerability. 6277 6278 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop 6279 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other 6280 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- 6281 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors 6282 that don't. 6283 6284 off - no mitigation 6285 auto - automatically select a migitation 6286 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 6287 disabling SMT if necessary for 6288 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 6289 and older without STIBP). 6290 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation 6291 windows on basic block boundaries too. 6292 Safe, highest perf impact. It also 6293 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable 6294 on Intel. 6295 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT 6296 when STIBP is not available. This is 6297 the alternative for systems which do not 6298 have STIBP. 6299 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, 6300 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based 6301 systems. 6302 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP 6303 is not available. This is the alternative for 6304 systems which do not have STIBP. 6305 6306 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 6307 time according to the CPU. 6308 6309 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 6310 6311 rfkill.default_state= 6312 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 6313 etc. communication is blocked by default. 6314 1 Unblocked. 6315 6316 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 6317 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 6318 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 6319 blocked and the previous configuration. 6320 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 6321 blocked and everything unblocked. 6322 6323 ring3mwait=disable 6324 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 6325 CPUs. 6326 6327 riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV,EARLY] 6328 When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit 6329 falling back to detecting extension support by parsing 6330 "riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the 6331 replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig 6332 entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK. 6333 6334 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 6335 6336 rodata= [KNL,EARLY] 6337 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 6338 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 6339 full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only 6340 [arm64] 6341 6342 rockchip.usb_uart 6343 [EARLY] 6344 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 6345 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 6346 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 6347 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 6348 6349 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 6350 Usually this is a block device specifier of some kind, 6351 see the early_lookup_bdev comment in 6352 block/early-lookup.c for details. 6353 Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial 6354 ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file 6355 system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash. 6356 6357 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 6358 mount the root filesystem 6359 6360 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 6361 6362 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 6363 6364 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 6365 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 6366 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 6367 6368 rootwait= [KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device 6369 to show up before attempting to mount the root 6370 filesystem. 6371 6372 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 6373 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 6374 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 6375 managed by CMA. 6376 6377 rt_group_sched= [KNL] Enable or disable SCHED_RR/FIFO group scheduling 6378 when CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=y. Defaults to 6379 !CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED_DEFAULT_DISABLED. 6380 Format: <bool> 6381 6382 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 6383 6384 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 6385 6386 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 6387 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 6388 strict 6389 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result 6390 in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before 6391 reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to 6392 iommu.strict=1. 6393 6394 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 6395 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 6396 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 6397 factor of the size of main memory. 6398 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 6399 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 6400 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 6401 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 6402 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 6403 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 6404 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 6405 6406 sa1100ir [NET] 6407 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 6408 6409 sched_verbose [KNL,EARLY] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 6410 6411 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 6412 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 6413 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 6414 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 6415 6416 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 6417 [Deprecated] 6418 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 6419 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 6420 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 6421 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 6422 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 6423 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 6424 value. 6425 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 6426 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 6427 1 64 ms 6428 2 128 ms 6429 and so on. 6430 Format: integer between 0 and 10 6431 Default is 0. 6432 6433 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 6434 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 6435 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 6436 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 6437 tests. 6438 6439 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 6440 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 6441 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 6442 default) disables this feature. Please note 6443 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 6444 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 6445 softlockup complaints, and so on. 6446 6447 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 6448 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 6449 smp_call_function() family of functions. 6450 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 6451 equal to the number of CPUs. 6452 6453 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 6454 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 6455 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 6456 6457 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 6458 Number seconds to wait between successive 6459 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 6460 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 6461 6462 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 6463 The number of seconds following the start of the 6464 test after which to shut down the system. The 6465 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 6466 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 6467 6468 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 6469 The number of seconds between outputting the 6470 current test statistics to the console. A value 6471 of zero disables statistics output. 6472 6473 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 6474 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 6475 to the set of CPUs under test. 6476 6477 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 6478 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 6479 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 6480 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 6481 functions. 6482 6483 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 6484 Enable additional printk() statements. 6485 6486 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 6487 The probability weighting to use for the 6488 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 6489 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 6490 default if all other weights are -1. However, 6491 if at least one weight has some other value, a 6492 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 6493 6494 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 6495 The probability weighting to use for the 6496 smp_call_function_single() function with a 6497 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 6498 6499 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 6500 The probability weighting to use for the 6501 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 6502 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 6503 Note well that setting a high probability for 6504 this weighting can place serious IPI load 6505 on the system. 6506 6507 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 6508 The probability weighting to use for the 6509 smp_call_function_many() function with a 6510 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 6511 and weight_many. 6512 6513 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 6514 The probability weighting to use for the 6515 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 6516 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 6517 weight_many. 6518 6519 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 6520 The probability weighting to use for the 6521 smp_call_function_all() function with a 6522 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 6523 and weight_many. 6524 6525 sdw_mclk_divider=[SDW] 6526 Specify the MCLK divider for Intel SoundWire buses in 6527 case the BIOS does not provide the clock rate properly. 6528 6529 skew_tick= [KNL,EARLY] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 6530 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 6531 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 6532 Format: { "0" | "1" } 6533 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 6534 1 -- enable. 6535 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 6536 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 6537 6538 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 6539 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 6540 "lsm=" parameter. 6541 6542 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 6543 Format: { "0" | "1" } 6544 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 6545 0 -- disable. 6546 1 -- enable. 6547 Default value is 1. 6548 6549 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 6550 6551 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] 6552 6553 debug 6554 Enable debug messages. 6555 6556 nosnp 6557 Do not enable SEV-SNP (applies to host/hypervisor 6558 only). Setting 'nosnp' avoids the RMP check overhead 6559 in memory accesses when users do not want to run 6560 SEV-SNP guests. 6561 6562 shapers= [NET] 6563 Maximal number of shapers. 6564 6565 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 6566 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 6567 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 6568 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 6569 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 6570 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 6571 apic=verbose is specified. 6572 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 6573 6574 slab_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM] 6575 Enabling slab_debug allows one to determine the 6576 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 6577 slab_debug can create guard zones around objects and 6578 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 6579 last alloc / free. For more information see 6580 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6581 (slub_debug legacy name also accepted for now) 6582 6583 slab_max_order= [MM] 6584 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 6585 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 6586 fragmentation. For more information see 6587 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6588 (slub_max_order legacy name also accepted for now) 6589 6590 slab_merge [MM] 6591 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 6592 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 6593 (slub_merge legacy name also accepted for now) 6594 6595 slab_min_objects= [MM] 6596 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 6597 increase the slab order up to slab_max_order to 6598 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 6599 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 6600 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 6601 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 6602 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6603 (slub_min_objects legacy name also accepted for now) 6604 6605 slab_min_order= [MM] 6606 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 6607 lower or equal to slab_max_order. For more information see 6608 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6609 (slub_min_order legacy name also accepted for now) 6610 6611 slab_nomerge [MM] 6612 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 6613 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 6614 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 6615 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 6616 layout control by attackers can usually be 6617 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 6618 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 6619 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 6620 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 6621 own. 6622 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6623 (slub_nomerge legacy name also accepted for now) 6624 6625 slab_strict_numa [MM] 6626 Support memory policies on a per object level 6627 in the slab allocator. The default is for memory 6628 policies to be applied at the folio level when 6629 a new folio is needed or a partial folio is 6630 retrieved from the lists. Increases overhead 6631 in the slab fastpaths but gains more accurate 6632 NUMA kernel object placement which helps with slow 6633 interconnects in NUMA systems. 6634 6635 slram= [HW,MTD] 6636 6637 smart2= [HW] 6638 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 6639 6640 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 6641 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 6642 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 6643 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 6644 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 6645 disabling interrupts for extended periods 6646 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 6647 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 6648 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 6649 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 6650 6651 smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL] 6652 If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than 6653 the specified number of milliseconds, panic the 6654 system. By default, let CSD-lock acquisition 6655 take as long as they take. Specifying 300,000 6656 for this value provides a 5-minute timeout. 6657 6658 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 6659 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 6660 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 6661 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 6662 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 6663 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 6664 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 6665 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 6666 1: Fast pin select (default) 6667 2: ATC IRMode 6668 6669 smt= [KNL,MIPS,S390,EARLY] Set the maximum number of threads 6670 (logical CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems 6671 capable of symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will 6672 be capped to the actual hardware limit. 6673 Format: <integer> 6674 Default: -1 (no limit) 6675 6676 softlockup_panic= 6677 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 6678 Format: 0 | 1 6679 6680 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 6681 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 6682 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 6683 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 6684 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 6685 6686 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 6687 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 6688 backtraces on all cpus. 6689 Format: 0 | 1 6690 6691 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 6692 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 6693 6694 spectre_bhi= [X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection 6695 (BHI) vulnerability. This setting affects the 6696 deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB 6697 clearing sequence. 6698 6699 on - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation as 6700 needed. This protects the kernel from 6701 both syscalls and VMs. 6702 vmexit - On systems which don't have the HW mitigation 6703 available, enable the SW mitigation on vmexit 6704 ONLY. On such systems, the host kernel is 6705 protected from VM-originated BHI attacks, but 6706 may still be vulnerable to syscall attacks. 6707 off - Disable the mitigation. 6708 6709 spectre_v2= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 6710 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 6711 The default operation protects the kernel from 6712 user space attacks. 6713 6714 on - unconditionally enable, implies 6715 spectre_v2_user=on 6716 off - unconditionally disable, implies 6717 spectre_v2_user=off 6718 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 6719 vulnerable 6720 6721 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 6722 mitigation method at run time according to the 6723 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 6724 CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE configuration option, 6725 and the compiler with which the kernel was built. 6726 6727 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 6728 against user space to user space task attacks. 6729 Selecting specific mitigation does not force enable 6730 user mitigations. 6731 6732 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 6733 the user space protections. 6734 6735 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 6736 6737 retpoline - replace indirect branches 6738 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 6739 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 6740 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 6741 eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS 6742 eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines 6743 eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE 6744 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 6745 6746 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6747 spectre_v2=auto. 6748 6749 spectre_v2_user= 6750 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 6751 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 6752 user space tasks 6753 6754 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 6755 enforced by spectre_v2=on 6756 6757 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 6758 enforced by spectre_v2=off 6759 6760 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 6761 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 6762 per thread. The mitigation control state 6763 is inherited on fork. 6764 6765 prctl,ibpb 6766 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 6767 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6768 always when switching between different user 6769 space processes. 6770 6771 seccomp 6772 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 6773 threads will enable the mitigation unless 6774 they explicitly opt out. 6775 6776 seccomp,ibpb 6777 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 6778 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6779 always when switching between different 6780 user space processes. 6781 6782 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 6783 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 6784 6785 Default mitigation: "prctl" 6786 6787 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6788 spectre_v2_user=auto. 6789 6790 spec_rstack_overflow= 6791 [X86,EARLY] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs 6792 6793 off - Disable mitigation 6794 microcode - Enable microcode mitigation only 6795 safe-ret - Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default) 6796 ibpb - Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on 6797 kernel entry 6798 ibpb-vmexit - Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT 6799 (cloud-specific mitigation) 6800 6801 spec_store_bypass_disable= 6802 [HW,EARLY] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 6803 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 6804 6805 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 6806 a common industry wide performance optimization known 6807 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 6808 to the same memory location may not be observed by 6809 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 6810 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 6811 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 6812 end of a particular speculation execution window. 6813 6814 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6815 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 6816 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 6817 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 6818 6819 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 6820 Bypass optimization is used. 6821 6822 On x86 the options are: 6823 6824 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 6825 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 6826 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 6827 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 6828 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 6829 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 6830 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 6831 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 6832 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 6833 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 6834 for a process by default. The state of the control 6835 is inherited on fork. 6836 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 6837 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 6838 6839 Default mitigations: 6840 X86: "prctl" 6841 6842 On powerpc the options are: 6843 6844 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 6845 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 6846 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 6847 exit. 6848 off - No action. 6849 6850 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6851 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 6852 6853 split_lock_detect= 6854 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 6855 6856 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 6857 instructions that access data across cache line 6858 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 6859 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 6860 bus lock detection. 6861 6862 off - not enabled 6863 6864 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 6865 about applications triggering the #AC 6866 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 6867 the default on CPUs that support split lock 6868 detection or bus lock detection. Default 6869 behavior is by #AC if both features are 6870 enabled in hardware. 6871 6872 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 6873 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 6874 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 6875 both features are enabled in hardware. 6876 6877 ratelimit:N - 6878 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 6879 per second for bus lock detection. 6880 0 < N <= 1000. 6881 6882 N/A for split lock detection. 6883 6884 6885 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 6886 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 6887 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 6888 mode. 6889 6890 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 6891 CPL > 0. 6892 6893 srbds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 6894 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 6895 (SRBDS) mitigation. 6896 6897 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 6898 exploit which can leak bits from the random 6899 number generator. 6900 6901 By default, this issue is mitigated by 6902 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 6903 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 6904 much slower. Among other effects, this will 6905 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 6906 6907 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 6908 the following option: 6909 6910 off: Disable mitigation and remove 6911 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 6912 6913 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 6914 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 6915 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 6916 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 6917 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 6918 but takes effect only when the low-order four 6919 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 6920 (decide at boot). 6921 6922 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 6923 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 6924 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 6925 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 6926 6927 0: Never. 6928 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 6929 2: When rcutorture decides to. 6930 3: Decide at boot time (default). 6931 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 6932 6933 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 6934 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 6935 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 6936 6937 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 6938 Specifies how frequently to check for 6939 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 6940 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 6941 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 6942 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 6943 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 6944 are ignored. 6945 6946 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 6947 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 6948 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 6949 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 6950 grace period will be considered for automatic 6951 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 6952 expediting. 6953 6954 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] 6955 Specifies the number of no-delay instances 6956 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period 6957 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero 6958 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will 6959 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. 6960 6961 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] 6962 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of 6963 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, 6964 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled 6965 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each 6966 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. 6967 6968 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] 6969 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping 6970 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. 6971 6972 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 6973 Specifies the number of update-side contention 6974 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 6975 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 6976 structure to big form. Note that the value of 6977 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 6978 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 6979 6980 ssbd= [ARM64,HW,EARLY] 6981 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 6982 6983 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 6984 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 6985 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 6986 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 6987 6988 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 6989 for both kernel and userspace 6990 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 6991 for both kernel and userspace 6992 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 6993 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 6994 to allow userspace to register its 6995 interest in being mitigated too. 6996 6997 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 6998 override the default stack gap protection. The value 6999 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 7000 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 7001 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 7002 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 7003 7004 stack_depot_disable= [KNL,EARLY] 7005 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 7006 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 7007 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 7008 to false. 7009 7010 stacktrace [FTRACE] 7011 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 7012 7013 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 7014 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 7015 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 7016 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 7017 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 7018 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 7019 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 7020 7021 sti= [PARISC,HW] 7022 Format: <num> 7023 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 7024 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 7025 as the initial boot-console. 7026 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 7027 7028 sti_font= [HW] 7029 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 7030 7031 stifb= [HW] 7032 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 7033 7034 strict_sas_size= 7035 [X86] 7036 Format: <bool> 7037 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 7038 against the required signal frame size which 7039 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 7040 be used to filter out binaries which have 7041 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 7042 7043 stress_hpt [PPC,EARLY] 7044 Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash 7045 page table to increase the rate of hash page table 7046 faults on kernel addresses. 7047 7048 stress_slb [PPC,EARLY] 7049 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 7050 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 7051 on kernel addresses. 7052 7053 sunrpc.min_resvport= 7054 sunrpc.max_resvport= 7055 [NFS,SUNRPC] 7056 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 7057 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 7058 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 7059 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 7060 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 7061 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 7062 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 7063 maximum port values. 7064 7065 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 7066 [NFS,SUNRPC] 7067 Limit the number of requests that the server will 7068 process in parallel from a single connection. 7069 The default value is 0 (no limit). 7070 7071 sunrpc.pool_mode= 7072 [NFS] 7073 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 7074 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 7075 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 7076 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 7077 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 7078 NFS server is running. 7079 7080 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 7081 automatically using heuristics 7082 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 7083 percpu one pool for each CPU 7084 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 7085 to global on non-NUMA machines) 7086 7087 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 7088 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 7089 [NFS,SUNRPC] 7090 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 7091 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 7092 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 7093 improve throughput, but will also increase the 7094 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 7095 7096 suspend.pm_test_delay= 7097 [SUSPEND] 7098 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 7099 mode before resuming the system (see 7100 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 7101 is set. Default value is 5. 7102 7103 svm= [PPC] 7104 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 7105 This parameter controls use of the Protected 7106 Execution Facility on pSeries. 7107 7108 swiotlb= [ARM,PPC,MIPS,X86,S390,EARLY] 7109 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } 7110 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 7111 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb 7112 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up 7113 to a power of 2. 7114 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 7115 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 7116 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 7117 7118 switches= [HW,M68k,EARLY] 7119 7120 sysctl.*= [KNL] 7121 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 7122 process, as if the value was written to the respective 7123 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 7124 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 7125 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 7126 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 7127 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 7128 7129 sysrq_always_enabled 7130 [KNL] 7131 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 7132 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 7133 Useful for debugging. 7134 7135 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 7136 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 7137 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 7138 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 7139 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 7140 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 7141 7142 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 7143 7144 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 7145 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 7146 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 7147 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 7148 as the system sleep state during system startup with 7149 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 7150 The system is woken from this state using a 7151 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 7152 7153 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 7154 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 7155 7156 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 7157 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 7158 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 7159 7160 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 7161 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 7162 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 7163 7164 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 7165 1: disable ACPI thermal control 7166 7167 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 7168 -1: disable all passive trip points 7169 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 7170 value 7171 7172 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 7173 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 7174 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 7175 0: no polling (default) 7176 7177 thp_anon= [KNL] 7178 Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<state>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<state> 7179 state is one of "always", "madvise", "never" or "inherit". 7180 Control the default behavior of the system with respect 7181 to anonymous transparent hugepages. 7182 Can be used multiple times for multiple anon THP sizes. 7183 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more 7184 details. 7185 7186 threadirqs [KNL,EARLY] 7187 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 7188 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 7189 7190 thp_shmem= [KNL] 7191 Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<policy>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<policy> 7192 Control the default policy of each hugepage size for the 7193 internal shmem mount. <policy> is one of policies available 7194 for the shmem mount ("always", "inherit", "never", "within_size", 7195 and "advise"). 7196 It can be used multiple times for multiple shmem THP sizes. 7197 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more 7198 details. 7199 7200 topology= [S390,EARLY] 7201 Format: {off | on} 7202 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 7203 topology information if the hardware supports this. 7204 The scheduler will make use of this information and 7205 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 7206 Default is on. 7207 7208 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 7209 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 7210 until after init has spawned. 7211 7212 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 7213 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 7214 even if there were no errors. This can be a 7215 very costly operation when many torture tests 7216 are running concurrently, especially on systems 7217 with rotating-rust storage. 7218 7219 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 7220 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 7221 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 7222 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 7223 7224 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 7225 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 7226 7227 tpm.disable_pcr_integrity= [HW,TPM] 7228 Do not protect PCR registers from unintended physical 7229 access, or interposers in the bus by the means of 7230 having an integrity protected session wrapped around 7231 TPM2_PCR_Extend command. Consider this in a situation 7232 where TPM is heavily utilized by IMA, thus protection 7233 causing a major performance hit, and the space where 7234 machines are deployed is by other means guarded. 7235 7236 tpm_crb_ffa.busy_timeout_ms= [ARM64,TPM] 7237 Maximum time in milliseconds to retry sending a message 7238 to the TPM service before giving up. This parameter controls 7239 how long the system will continue retrying when the TPM 7240 service is busy. 7241 Format: <unsigned int> 7242 Default: 2000 (2 seconds) 7243 7244 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 7245 Format: integer pcr id 7246 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 7247 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 7248 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 7249 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 7250 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 7251 are saved. 7252 7253 tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM] 7254 Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer 7255 for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false 7256 (0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces 7257 defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see 7258 https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/ 7259 7260 tp_printk [FTRACE] 7261 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 7262 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 7263 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 7264 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 7265 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 7266 7267 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 7268 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 7269 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 7270 tp_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 7271 7272 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 7273 to stop the printing of events to console at 7274 late_initcall_sync. 7275 7276 ** CAUTION ** 7277 7278 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 7279 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 7280 the system to live lock. 7281 7282 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 7283 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 7284 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 7285 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 7286 make the system inoperable. 7287 7288 This command line option will stop the printing of events 7289 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 7290 7291 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 7292 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 7293 7294 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 7295 at boot up. 7296 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 7297 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 7298 depending on the architecture, may not be 7299 in sync between CPUs. 7300 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 7301 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 7302 but better for some race conditions. 7303 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 7304 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 7305 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 7306 once per event. 7307 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 7308 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 7309 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 7310 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 7311 stamps. 7312 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 7313 Architectures may add more clocks. See 7314 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 7315 7316 trace_event=[event-list] 7317 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 7318 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 7319 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 7320 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 7321 7322 To enable modules, use :mod: keyword: 7323 7324 trace_event=:mod:<module> 7325 7326 The value before :mod: will only enable specific events 7327 that are part of the module. See the above mentioned 7328 document for more information. 7329 7330 trace_instance=[instance-info] 7331 [FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up. 7332 This will be listed in: 7333 7334 /sys/kernel/tracing/instances 7335 7336 Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created 7337 via: 7338 7339 trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2> 7340 7341 Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is 7342 unique. 7343 7344 trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall 7345 7346 will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and 7347 the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry 7348 event, and all events under the "initcall" system. 7349 7350 Flags can be added to the instance to modify its behavior when it is 7351 created. The flags are separated by '^'. 7352 7353 The available flags are: 7354 7355 traceoff - Have the tracing instance tracing disabled after it is created. 7356 traceprintk - Have trace_printk() write into this trace instance 7357 (note, "printk" and "trace_printk" can also be used) 7358 7359 trace_instance=foo^traceoff^traceprintk,sched,irq 7360 7361 The flags must come before the defined events. 7362 7363 If memory has been reserved (see memmap for x86), the instance 7364 can use that memory: 7365 7366 memmap=12M$0x284500000 trace_instance=boot_map@0x284500000:12M 7367 7368 The above will create a "boot_map" instance that uses the physical 7369 memory at 0x284500000 that is 12Megs. The per CPU buffers of that 7370 instance will be split up accordingly. 7371 7372 Alternatively, the memory can be reserved by the reserve_mem option: 7373 7374 reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map@trace 7375 7376 This will reserve 12 megabytes at boot up with a 4096 byte alignment 7377 and place the ring buffer in this memory. Note that due to KASLR, the 7378 memory may not be the same location each time, which will not preserve 7379 the buffer content. 7380 7381 Also note that the layout of the ring buffer data may change between 7382 kernel versions where the validator will fail and reset the ring buffer 7383 if the layout is not the same as the previous kernel. 7384 7385 If the ring buffer is used for persistent bootups and has events enabled, 7386 it is recommend to disable tracing so that events from a previous boot do not 7387 mix with events of the current boot (unless you are debugging a random crash 7388 at boot up). 7389 7390 reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map^traceoff^traceprintk@trace,sched,irq 7391 7392 Note, saving the trace buffer across reboots does require that the system 7393 is set up to not wipe memory. For instance, CONFIG_RESET_ATTACK_MITIGATION 7394 can force a memory reset on boot which will clear any trace that was stored. 7395 This is just one of many ways that can clear memory. Make sure your system 7396 keeps the content of memory across reboots before relying on this option. 7397 7398 NB: Both the mapped address and size must be page aligned for the architecture. 7399 7400 See also Documentation/trace/debugging.rst 7401 7402 7403 trace_options=[option-list] 7404 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 7405 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 7406 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 7407 to echo the option name into 7408 7409 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options 7410 7411 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 7412 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 7413 7414 trace_options=stacktrace 7415 7416 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 7417 section. 7418 7419 trace_trigger=[trigger-list] 7420 [FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events. 7421 Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional 7422 filter. 7423 7424 The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..." 7425 Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated. 7426 7427 For example: 7428 7429 trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2" 7430 7431 The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch" 7432 event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch" 7433 event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE). 7434 7435 See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst 7436 7437 7438 traceoff_after_boot 7439 [FTRACE] Sometimes tracing is used to debug issues 7440 during the boot process. Since the trace buffer has a 7441 limited amount of storage, it may be prudent to 7442 disable tracing after the boot is finished, otherwise 7443 the critical information may be overwritten. With this 7444 option, the main tracing buffer will be turned off at 7445 the end of the boot process. 7446 7447 traceoff_on_warning 7448 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 7449 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 7450 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 7451 file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/ 7452 7453 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 7454 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 7455 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 7456 7457 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 7458 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 7459 7460 transparent_hugepage= 7461 [KNL] 7462 Format: [always|madvise|never] 7463 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 7464 with respect to transparent hugepages. 7465 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 7466 for more details. 7467 7468 transparent_hugepage_shmem= [KNL] 7469 Format: [always|within_size|advise|never|deny|force] 7470 Can be used to control the hugepage allocation policy for 7471 the internal shmem mount. 7472 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 7473 for more details. 7474 7475 transparent_hugepage_tmpfs= [KNL] 7476 Format: [always|within_size|advise|never] 7477 Can be used to control the default hugepage allocation policy 7478 for the tmpfs mount. 7479 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 7480 for more details. 7481 7482 trusted.source= [KEYS] 7483 Format: <string> 7484 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 7485 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 7486 sources: 7487 - "tpm" 7488 - "tee" 7489 - "caam" 7490 - "dcp" 7491 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 7492 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 7493 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 7494 successfully during iteration. 7495 7496 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 7497 Format: <string> 7498 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 7499 Can be one of: 7500 - "kernel" 7501 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 7502 - "default" 7503 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 7504 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 7505 7506 trusted.dcp_use_otp_key 7507 This is intended to be used in combination with 7508 trusted.source=dcp and will select the DCP OTP key 7509 instead of the DCP UNIQUE key blob encryption. 7510 7511 trusted.dcp_skip_zk_test 7512 This is intended to be used in combination with 7513 trusted.source=dcp and will disable the check if the 7514 blob key is all zeros. This is helpful for situations where 7515 having this key zero'ed is acceptable. E.g. in testing 7516 scenarios. 7517 7518 tsa= [X86] Control mitigation for Transient Scheduler 7519 Attacks on AMD CPUs. Search the following in your 7520 favourite search engine for more details: 7521 7522 "Technical guidance for mitigating transient scheduler 7523 attacks". 7524 7525 off - disable the mitigation 7526 on - enable the mitigation (default) 7527 user - mitigate only user/kernel transitions 7528 vm - mitigate only guest/host transitions 7529 7530 7531 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 7532 Format: <string> 7533 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 7534 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 7535 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 7536 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 7537 virtualized environment. 7538 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 7539 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 7540 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 7541 can add overhead. 7542 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 7543 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 7544 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 7545 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 7546 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 7547 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 7548 acceptable). 7549 [x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer 7550 (HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was 7551 obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15). 7552 Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm. 7553 [x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with 7554 which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but 7555 only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy. 7556 This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and 7557 can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog. A console 7558 message will flag any such suppression or overriding. 7559 7560 tsc_early_khz= [X86,EARLY] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 7561 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 7562 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 7563 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 7564 Format: <unsigned int> 7565 7566 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 7567 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 7568 support TSX control. 7569 7570 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 7571 7572 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 7573 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 7574 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 7575 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 7576 so there may be unknown security risks associated 7577 with leaving it enabled. 7578 7579 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 7580 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 7581 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 7582 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 7583 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 7584 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 7585 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 7586 7587 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 7588 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 7589 7590 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 7591 7592 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 7593 for more details. 7594 7595 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 7596 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 7597 7598 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 7599 certain CPUs that support Transactional 7600 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 7601 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 7602 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 7603 conditions. 7604 7605 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 7606 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 7607 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 7608 access. 7609 7610 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 7611 options are: 7612 7613 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 7614 if TSX is enabled. 7615 7616 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 7617 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 7618 is not disabled because CPU is not 7619 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 7620 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 7621 7622 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 7623 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 7624 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 7625 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 7626 7627 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 7628 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 7629 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 7630 required and doesn't provide any additional 7631 mitigation. 7632 7633 For details see: 7634 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 7635 7636 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 7637 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 7638 Format: 7639 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 7640 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 7641 7642 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 7643 happen after console_init() and before a proper 7644 console driver takes over, this boot options might 7645 help "seeing" what's going on. 7646 7647 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 7648 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 7649 7650 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 7651 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 7652 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 7653 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 7654 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 7655 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 7656 reported either. 7657 7658 unaligned_scalar_speed= 7659 [RISCV] 7660 Format: {slow | fast | unsupported} 7661 Allow skipping scalar unaligned access speed tests. This 7662 is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip 7663 the tests in environments where they run too slowly. All 7664 CPUs must have the same scalar unaligned access speed. 7665 7666 unaligned_vector_speed= 7667 [RISCV] 7668 Format: {slow | fast | unsupported} 7669 Allow skipping vector unaligned access speed tests. This 7670 is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip 7671 the tests in environments where they run too slowly. All 7672 CPUs must have the same vector unaligned access speed. 7673 7674 unknown_nmi_panic 7675 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 7676 7677 unwind_debug [X86-64,EARLY] 7678 Enable unwinder debug output. This can be 7679 useful for debugging certain unwinder error 7680 conditions, including corrupt stacks and 7681 bad/missing unwinder metadata. 7682 7683 usbcore.authorized_default= 7684 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 7685 (default -1 = authorized (same as 1), 7686 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 7687 if device connected to internal port) 7688 7689 usbcore.autosuspend= 7690 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 7691 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 7692 is the time required before an idle device will be 7693 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 7694 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 7695 7696 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 7697 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 7698 7699 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 7700 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 7701 (default = 65536). 7702 7703 usbcore.blinkenlights= 7704 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 7705 7706 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 7707 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 7708 scheme (default 0 = off). 7709 7710 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 7711 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 7712 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 7713 7714 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 7715 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 7716 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 7717 7718 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 7719 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 7720 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 7721 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 7722 7723 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 7724 7725 usbcore.quirks= 7726 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 7727 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 7728 commas. Each entry has the form 7729 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 7730 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 7731 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 7732 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 7733 the following meanings: 7734 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 7735 descriptors must not be fetched using 7736 a 255-byte read); 7737 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 7738 correctly so reset it instead); 7739 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 7740 Set-Interface requests); 7741 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 7742 handle its Configuration or Interface 7743 strings); 7744 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 7745 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 7746 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 7747 more interface descriptions than the 7748 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 7749 talking to these interfaces); 7750 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 7751 during initialization, after we read 7752 the device descriptor); 7753 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 7754 high speed and super speed interrupt 7755 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 7756 require the interval in microframes (1 7757 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 7758 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 7759 (bInterval-1). 7760 Devices with this quirk report their 7761 bInterval as the result of this 7762 calculation instead of the exponent 7763 variable used in the calculation); 7764 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 7765 handle device_qualifier descriptor 7766 requests); 7767 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 7768 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 7769 remote wakeup capability); 7770 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 7771 Power Management); 7772 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 7773 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 7774 frames instead of the USB 2.0 7775 calculation); 7776 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 7777 to be disconnected before suspend to 7778 prevent spurious wakeup); 7779 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 7780 pause after every control message); 7781 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 7782 delay after resetting its port); 7783 p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT 7784 (Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS 7785 request from 5000 ms to 500 ms); 7786 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 7787 7788 usbhid.mousepoll= 7789 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 7790 7791 usbhid.jspoll= 7792 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 7793 7794 usbhid.kbpoll= 7795 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 7796 7797 usb-storage.delay_use= 7798 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 7799 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 7800 Optionally the delay in milliseconds if the value has 7801 suffix with "ms". 7802 Example: delay_use=2567ms 7803 7804 usb-storage.quirks= 7805 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 7806 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 7807 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 7808 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 7809 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 7810 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 7811 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 7812 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 7813 of sense data, not on uas); 7814 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 7815 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 7816 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 7817 device capacity by one sector); 7818 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 7819 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 7820 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 7821 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 7822 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 7823 command, uas only); 7824 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 7825 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 7826 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 7827 reported device capacity by one 7828 sector if the number is odd); 7829 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 7830 device); 7831 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 7832 command, uas only); 7833 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 7834 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 7835 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 7836 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 7837 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 7838 not on uas); 7839 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 7840 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 7841 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 7842 reported by the device, not on uas); 7843 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 7844 by default, not on uas); 7845 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 7846 bogus residue values, not on uas); 7847 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 7848 Logical Unit); 7849 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 7850 commands, uas only); 7851 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 7852 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 7853 medium is write-protected). 7854 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 7855 even if the device claims no cache, 7856 not on uas) 7857 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 7858 7859 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 7860 Format: <int> 7861 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 7862 1 - undefined instruction events 7863 2 - system calls 7864 4 - invalid data aborts 7865 8 - SIGSEGV faults 7866 16 - SIGBUS faults 7867 Example: user_debug=31 7868 7869 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 7870 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 7871 7872 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 7873 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 7874 7875 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 7876 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 7877 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 7878 7879 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 7880 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 7881 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 7882 7883 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 7884 alias for vdso32=0. 7885 7886 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 7887 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 7888 7889 video= [FB,EARLY] Frame buffer configuration 7890 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 7891 7892 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 7893 Format: [0|1] 7894 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 7895 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 7896 level and then send out the event to user space through 7897 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 7898 will only send out the event without touching backlight 7899 brightness level. 7900 default: 1 7901 7902 virtio_mmio.device= 7903 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 7904 7905 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 7906 where: 7907 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 7908 like K, M and G) 7909 <baseaddr> := physical base address 7910 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 7911 request_irq()) 7912 <id> := (optional) platform device id 7913 example: 7914 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 7915 7916 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 7917 7918 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 7919 See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and 7920 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 7921 Use vga=ask for menu. 7922 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 7923 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 7924 7925 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 7926 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 7927 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 7928 All options are enabled by default, and this 7929 interface is meant to allow for selectively 7930 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 7931 debugging features. 7932 7933 Available options are: 7934 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 7935 - Disable all of the above options 7936 7937 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Forces the vmalloc area to have an 7938 exact size of <nn>. This can be used to increase 7939 the minimum size (128MB on x86, arm32 platforms). 7940 It can also be used to decrease the size and leave more room 7941 for directly mapped kernel RAM. Note that this parameter does 7942 not exist on many other platforms (including arm64, alpha, 7943 loongarch, arc, csky, hexagon, microblaze, mips, nios2, openrisc, 7944 parisc, m64k, powerpc, riscv, sh, um, xtensa, s390, sparc). 7945 7946 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390,EARLY] 7947 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 7948 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 7949 7950 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 7951 Format: <command> 7952 7953 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 7954 Format: <command> 7955 7956 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 7957 Format: <command> 7958 7959 vsyscall= [X86-64,EARLY] 7960 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 7961 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 7962 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 7963 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 7964 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 7965 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 7966 7967 emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated 7968 reasonably safely. The vsyscall page is 7969 readable. 7970 7971 xonly [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 7972 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 7973 page is not readable. 7974 7975 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 7976 them quite hard to use for exploits but 7977 might break your system. 7978 7979 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 7980 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 7981 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 7982 7983 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 7984 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 7985 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 7986 see vga-softcursor.rst. Default: 2 = underline. 7987 7988 vt.default_blu= [VT] 7989 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 7990 Change the default blue palette of the console. 7991 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7992 ranging from 0-255. 7993 7994 vt.default_grn= [VT] 7995 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 7996 Change the default green palette of the console. 7997 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7998 ranging from 0-255. 7999 8000 vt.default_red= [VT] 8001 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 8002 Change the default red palette of the console. 8003 This is a 16-member array composed of values 8004 ranging from 0-255. 8005 8006 vt.default_utf8= 8007 [VT] 8008 Format=<0|1> 8009 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 8010 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 8011 newly opened terminals. 8012 8013 vt.global_cursor_default= 8014 [VT] 8015 Format=<-1|0|1> 8016 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 8017 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 8018 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 8019 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 8020 cursors, 1 will display them. 8021 8022 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 8023 Default: 2 = green. 8024 8025 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 8026 Default: 3 = cyan. 8027 8028 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 8029 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 8030 or other driver-specific files in the 8031 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 8032 8033 watchdog_thresh= 8034 [KNL] 8035 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 8036 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 8037 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 8038 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 8039 seconds. 8040 8041 workqueue.unbound_cpus= 8042 [KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs 8043 to use in unbound workqueues. 8044 Format: <cpu-list> 8045 By default, all online CPUs are available for 8046 unbound workqueues. 8047 8048 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 8049 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 8050 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 8051 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 8052 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 8053 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 8054 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 8055 corresponding sysfs file. 8056 8057 workqueue.panic_on_stall=<uint> 8058 Panic when workqueue stall is detected by 8059 CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG. It sets the number times of the 8060 stall to trigger panic. 8061 8062 The default is 0, which disables the panic on stall. 8063 8064 workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us= 8065 Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this 8066 threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive 8067 and excluded from concurrency management to prevent 8068 them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work 8069 items. Default is 10000 (10ms). 8070 8071 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel 8072 will report the work functions which violate this 8073 threshold repeatedly. They are likely good 8074 candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead. 8075 8076 workqueue.cpu_intensive_warning_thresh=<uint> 8077 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel 8078 will report the work functions which violate the 8079 intensive_threshold_us repeatedly. In order to prevent 8080 spurious warnings, start printing only after a work 8081 function has violated this threshold number of times. 8082 8083 The default is 4 times. 0 disables the warning. 8084 8085 workqueue.power_efficient 8086 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 8087 they show better performance thanks to cache 8088 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 8089 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 8090 8091 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 8092 were observed to contribute significantly to power 8093 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 8094 power usage at the cost of small performance 8095 overhead. 8096 8097 The default value of this parameter is determined by 8098 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 8099 8100 workqueue.default_affinity_scope= 8101 Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound 8102 workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache", 8103 "numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more 8104 information, see the Affinity Scopes section in 8105 Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst. 8106 8107 This can be changed after boot by writing to the 8108 matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All 8109 workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be 8110 updated accordingly. 8111 8112 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 8113 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 8114 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 8115 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 8116 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 8117 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 8118 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 8119 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 8120 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 8121 impacted. 8122 8123 writecombine= [LOONGARCH,EARLY] Control the MAT (Memory Access 8124 Type) of ioremap_wc(). 8125 8126 on - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc() 8127 off - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc() 8128 8129 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 8130 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 8131 supporting x2apic. 8132 8133 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 8134 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 8135 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 8136 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 8137 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 8138 domains. 8139 8140 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN,EARLY] 8141 Unplug Xen emulated devices 8142 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 8143 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 8144 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 8145 nics -- unplug network devices 8146 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 8147 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 8148 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 8149 the unplug protocol 8150 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 8151 8152 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN,EARLY] 8153 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 8154 panic() code such as dumping handler. 8155 8156 xen_mc_debug [X86,XEN,EARLY] 8157 Enable multicall debugging when running as a Xen PV guest. 8158 Enabling this feature will reduce performance a little 8159 bit, so it should only be enabled for obtaining extended 8160 debug data in case of multicall errors. 8161 8162 xen_msr_safe= [X86,XEN,EARLY] 8163 Format: <bool> 8164 Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR 8165 access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The 8166 default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE. 8167 8168 xen_nopv [X86] 8169 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 8170 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 8171 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 8172 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 8173 8174 xen_no_vector_callback 8175 [KNL,X86,XEN,EARLY] Disable the vector callback for Xen 8176 event channel interrupts. 8177 8178 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 8179 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 8180 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 8181 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 8182 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 8183 8184 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN,EARLY] 8185 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 8186 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 8187 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 8188 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 8189 more timer interrupts. 8190 8191 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 8192 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 8193 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 8194 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 8195 started with less memory configured than allowed at 8196 max. Default is 180. 8197 8198 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 8199 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 8200 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 8201 8202 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 8203 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 8204 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 8205 8206 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 8207 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 8208 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 8209 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 8210 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 8211 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 8212 8213 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 8214 Format: 8215 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 8216 8217 xive= [PPC] 8218 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 8219 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 8220 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 8221 8222 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 8223 controller on both pseries and powernv 8224 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 8225 8226 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 8227 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 8228 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 8229 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 8230 loads instead, as on POWER9. 8231 8232 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 8233 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 8234 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 8235 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 8236 8237 xmon [PPC,EARLY] 8238 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 8239 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 8240 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 8241 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 8242 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 8243 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 8244 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 8245 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 8246 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 8247 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 8248 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 8249 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 8250 can be written using xmon commands. 8251 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 8252 memory, and other data can't be written using 8253 xmon commands. 8254 off xmon is disabled. 8255