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