1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64] 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 4 copy_dsdt } 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64] 7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 14 are available 15 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 17 18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 19 Format: <int> 20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 21 1,0: use 1st APIC table 22 default: 0 23 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 25 { vendor | video | native | none } 26 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver 27 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 28 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 29 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. 31 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. 32 33 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 34 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 35 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 36 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 37 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 38 39 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 40 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 41 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 42 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 43 This option is useful for developers to identify the 44 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 45 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 46 47 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 48 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 49 Format: <int> 50 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 51 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 52 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 53 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS 54 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 55 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 56 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 57 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 58 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 59 debug layers and levels. 60 61 Enable processor driver info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list> 117 118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 122 auto-serialization feature. 123 This feature is enabled by default. 124 This option allows to turn off the feature. 125 126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 127 kernels. 128 129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 132 installed automatically and they will appear under 133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 134 This option turns off this feature. 135 Note that specifying this option does not affect 136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 138 139 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 140 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 141 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 142 143 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 144 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 145 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 146 second kernel for kdump. 147 148 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 149 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 150 151 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 152 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 153 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 154 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 155 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 156 157 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 158 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 159 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 160 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 161 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 162 strings 163 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 164 strings 165 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 166 167 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 168 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 169 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 170 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 171 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 172 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 173 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 174 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 175 care about the state of the feature group strings which 176 should be controlled by the OSPM. 177 Examples: 178 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 179 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 180 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 181 182 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 183 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 184 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 185 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 186 multiple times through kernel command line is also 187 meaningless. 188 Examples: 189 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 190 FALSE. 191 192 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 193 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 194 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 195 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 196 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 197 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 198 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 199 there are quirks related to this string. This command 200 is useful when one want to control the state of the 201 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 202 the OSPM features. 203 Examples: 204 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 205 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 206 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 207 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 208 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 209 equivalent to 210 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 211 and 212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 213 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 214 215 acpi_pm_good [X86] 216 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 217 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 218 and always returns good values. 219 220 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 221 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 222 223 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 224 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 225 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 226 227 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 228 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig, 229 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs, 230 sci_force_enable, nobl } 231 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 232 s3_bios and s3_mode. 233 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 234 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 235 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware 236 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully 237 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with 238 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since 239 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it 240 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume 241 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the 242 s4_hwsig option is enabled. 243 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 244 used (or even warned about) during resume. 245 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 246 control method, with respect to putting devices into 247 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 248 of _PTS is used by default). 249 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 250 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 251 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 252 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 253 but some broken systems don't work without it). 254 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 255 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 256 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 257 258 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 259 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 260 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 261 262 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 263 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 264 265 agp= [AGP] 266 { off | try_unsupported } 267 off: disable AGP support 268 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 269 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 270 271 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 272 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 273 274 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 275 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 276 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 277 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 278 279 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 280 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 281 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 282 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 283 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 284 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 285 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 286 287 32: only for 32-bit processes 288 64: only for 64-bit processes 289 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 290 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 291 292 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 293 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 294 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 295 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 296 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 297 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 298 299 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64] 300 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the 301 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict 302 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this 303 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit 304 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0 305 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted. 306 307 See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more 308 information. 309 310 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 311 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 312 Possible values are: 313 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1 314 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 315 the system 316 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 317 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 318 allowed anymore to lift isolation 319 requirements as needed. This option 320 does not override iommu=pt 321 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known 322 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this 323 option with care. 324 325 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 326 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 327 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 328 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 329 IOMMU initialization. 330 331 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 332 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 333 remapping modes: 334 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 335 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 336 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 337 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 338 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 339 340 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 341 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 342 Format: <a>,<b> 343 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 344 345 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 346 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 347 connected to one of 16 gameports 348 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 349 350 apc= [HW,SPARC] 351 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 352 Format: noidle 353 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 354 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 355 APC and your system crashes randomly. 356 357 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 358 Change the output verbosity while booting 359 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 360 Change the amount of debugging information output 361 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 362 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 363 driver name. 364 Format: apic=driver_name 365 Examples: apic=bigsmp 366 367 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 368 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 369 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 370 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 371 backup of CPU 0 372 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 373 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 374 shot down by NMI 375 376 autoconf= [IPV6] 377 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 378 379 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 380 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 381 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 382 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 383 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 384 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 385 apic=verbose is specified. 386 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 387 388 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 389 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 390 391 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 392 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 393 394 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 395 Identification support 396 397 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 398 support 399 400 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 401 support 402 403 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 404 405 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 406 407 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 408 EzKey and similar keyboards 409 410 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 411 412 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 413 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 414 415 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 416 keyboards 417 418 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 419 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 420 421 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 422 Use software keyboard repeat 423 424 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 425 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 426 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 427 enabled until the next reboot 428 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 429 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 430 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 431 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 432 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 433 userspace auditd. 434 Default: unset 435 436 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 437 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 438 Default: 64 439 440 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 441 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 442 Format: { "0" | "1" } 443 0 - Disable the BAU. 444 1 - Enable the BAU. 445 unset - Disable the BAU. 446 447 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 448 Format: <io>,<mode> 449 450 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 451 Format: <io>,<mode> 452 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 453 454 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 455 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 456 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 457 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 458 459 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 460 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 461 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 462 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 463 464 bert_disable [ACPI] 465 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 466 467 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] 468 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 469 470 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 471 embedded devices based on command line input. 472 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 473 474 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 475 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 476 no delay (0). 477 Format: integer 478 479 bootconfig [KNL] 480 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 481 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 482 483 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 484 485 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 486 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 487 kernel args too. 488 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 489 bttv.tuner= 490 491 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 492 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 493 at a time. 494 495 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 496 497 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 498 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 499 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 500 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 501 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 502 This option provides an override for these situations. 503 504 carrier_timeout= 505 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 506 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 507 it waits 120 seconds. 508 509 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 510 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 511 trust validation. 512 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 513 514 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 515 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 516 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 517 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 518 others). 519 520 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 521 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 522 523 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 524 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 525 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 526 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 527 a single hierarchy 528 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 529 subsystem 530 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 531 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 532 created 533 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 534 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 535 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 536 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 537 stall information accounting feature 538 539 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 540 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 541 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 542 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 543 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 544 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 545 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 546 all v1 hierarchies. 547 548 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 549 Format: <string> 550 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 551 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 552 553 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 554 Format: { "0" | "1" } 555 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 556 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 557 any implied execute protection). 558 1 -- check protection requested by application. 559 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 560 Value can be changed at runtime via 561 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 562 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 563 564 cio_ignore= [S390] 565 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 566 567 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] 568 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 569 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 570 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily 571 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific 572 ones should be. 573 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line 574 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above 575 instability issue. However, not all features have names 576 in /proc/cpuinfo. 577 Note that using this option will taint your kernel. 578 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 579 or using the feature without checking anything 580 will still see it. This just prevents it from 581 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 582 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 583 some critical bits. 584 585 clk_ignore_unused 586 [CLK] 587 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 588 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 589 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 590 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 591 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 592 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 593 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 594 platform with proper driver support. For more 595 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 596 597 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 598 [Deprecated] 599 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 600 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 601 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 602 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 603 604 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 605 Format: <string> 606 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 607 with the name specified. 608 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 609 the platform: 610 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 611 [ACPI] acpi_pm 612 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 613 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 614 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 615 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 616 [MIPS] MIPS 617 [PARISC] cr16 618 [S390] tod 619 [SH] SuperH 620 [SPARC64] tick 621 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 622 623 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 624 [ARM,ARM64] 625 Format: <bool> 626 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 627 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 628 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 629 systems. 630 631 clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL] 632 Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to 633 external delays before the clock will be marked 634 unstable. Defaults to two retries, that is, 635 three attempts to read the clock under test. 636 637 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 638 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 639 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 640 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 641 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 642 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 643 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 644 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 645 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 646 647 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 648 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 649 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 650 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 651 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 652 653 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 654 [KNL,CMA] 655 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 656 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 657 placement constraint by the physical address range of 658 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 659 altogether. For more information, see 660 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 661 662 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 663 [ARM64,KNL,CMA] 664 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 665 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 666 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 667 specificed, the default value is 0. 668 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 669 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 670 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 671 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 672 673 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 674 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 675 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 676 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 677 a hypervisor. 678 Default: yes 679 680 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 681 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 682 allocations, by default set to 256K. 683 684 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 685 Format: 686 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 687 688 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 689 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 690 691 com90xx= [HW,NET] 692 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 693 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 694 695 condev= [HW,S390] console device 696 conmode= 697 698 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 699 700 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 701 702 ttyS<n>[,options] 703 ttyUSB0[,options] 704 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 705 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 706 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 707 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 708 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 709 710 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 711 information. See 712 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 713 alternative. 714 715 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 716 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 717 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 718 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 719 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 720 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 721 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 722 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 723 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 724 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 725 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 726 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 727 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 728 the h/w is not re-initialized. 729 730 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 731 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 732 733 { null | "" } 734 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 735 console messages discarded. 736 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 737 kernel command line. 738 739 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 740 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 741 console=brl,ttyS0 742 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 743 744 console_msg_format= 745 [KNL] Change console messages format 746 default 747 By default we print messages on consoles in 748 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 749 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 750 `printk_time' param). 751 syslog 752 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 753 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 754 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 755 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 756 from /proc/kmsg. 757 758 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 759 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 760 Defaults to 0. 761 762 coredump_filter= 763 [KNL] Change the default value for 764 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 765 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 766 767 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 768 [ARM,ARM64] 769 Format: <bool> 770 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 771 0: default value, disable debugging 772 1: enable debugging at boot time 773 774 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 775 Format: 776 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 777 778 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 779 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 780 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 781 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 782 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 783 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 784 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 785 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 786 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 787 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 788 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 789 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 790 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 791 792 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 793 disable the cpuidle sub-system 794 795 cpuidle.governor= 796 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 797 798 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 799 disable the cpufreq sub-system 800 801 cpufreq.default_governor= 802 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 803 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 804 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 805 806 cpu_init_udelay=N 807 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 808 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 809 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 810 Default: 10000 811 812 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 813 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 814 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 815 succeeds in any situation. 816 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 817 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 818 kernel more unstable. 819 820 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 821 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 822 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 823 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 824 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 825 is selected automatically. 826 [KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and 827 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 828 hasn't been specified. 829 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 830 831 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 832 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 833 in the running system. The syntax of range is 834 start-[end] where start and end are both 835 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 836 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 837 838 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 839 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 840 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 841 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 842 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 843 available. 844 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 845 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 846 [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 847 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 848 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 849 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 850 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 851 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 852 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate 853 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 854 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G 855 for second kernel instead. 856 0: to disable low allocation. 857 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 858 or memory reserved is below 4G. 859 860 [KNL, ARM64] range in low memory. 861 This one lets the user specify a low range in the 862 DMA zone for the crash dump kernel. 863 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 864 or memory reserved is located in the DMA zones. 865 866 cryptomgr.notests 867 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 868 869 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 870 Format: <dma> 871 872 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 873 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 874 875 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call 876 handling. When switched on, additional debug data is 877 printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is 878 detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try 879 to resolve the hang situation. 880 0: disable csdlock debugging (default) 881 1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact) 882 ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact, 883 but more data) 884 885 dasd= [HW,NET] 886 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 887 888 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 889 (one device per port) 890 Format: <port#>,<type> 891 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 892 893 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 894 895 debug_boot_weak_hash 896 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 897 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 898 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 899 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 900 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 901 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 902 903 debug_locks_verbose= 904 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 905 Format: <int> 906 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 907 self-tests. 908 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 909 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 910 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 911 useful to lockdep developers. 912 913 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 914 915 no_debug_objects 916 [KNL] Disable object debugging 917 918 debug_guardpage_minorder= 919 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 920 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 921 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 922 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 923 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 924 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 925 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 926 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 927 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 928 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 929 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 930 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 931 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 932 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 933 bypassed) which are not detectable by 934 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 935 tracking down these problems. 936 937 debug_pagealloc= 938 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 939 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 940 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 941 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 942 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 943 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 944 on: enable the feature 945 946 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 947 and debugfs internal clients. 948 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 949 on: All functions are enabled. 950 no-mount: 951 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 952 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 953 its content. There is nothing to mount. 954 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 955 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 956 or directories within debugfs. 957 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 958 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 959 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 960 961 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 962 963 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 964 Format: <area>[,<node>] 965 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst. 966 967 default_hugepagesz= 968 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 969 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 970 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 971 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 972 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 973 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 974 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 975 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 976 Format: size[KMG] 977 978 deferred_probe_timeout= 979 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 980 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 981 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 982 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout 983 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time 984 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each 985 successful driver registration. This option will also 986 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 987 retrying. 988 989 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 990 991 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 992 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 993 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 994 hardware. 995 996 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 997 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 998 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 999 blacklisted features. 1000 1001 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 1002 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1003 (disabled by default). 1004 1005 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 1006 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1007 capability is set. 1008 1009 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 1010 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 1011 1012 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 1013 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 1014 1015 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 1016 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 1017 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 1018 level 1 and decompression (default) 1019 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 1020 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 1021 only (compression on level 1) 1022 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 1023 only (decompression) 1024 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 1025 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 1026 1027 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1028 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1029 1030 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 1031 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1032 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1033 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1034 miss to occur. 1035 1036 stress_slb [PPC] 1037 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 1038 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 1039 on kernel addresses. 1040 1041 disable= [IPV6] 1042 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1043 1044 disable_radix [PPC] 1045 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1046 1047 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 1048 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 1049 invalidate. 1050 1051 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1052 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1053 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1054 1055 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 1056 Format: <int> 1057 The number of initial APIC ID for the 1058 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 1059 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 1060 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 1061 causing system reset or hang due to sending 1062 INIT from AP to BSP. 1063 1064 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 1065 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1066 to workaround buggy firmware. 1067 1068 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1069 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1070 1071 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1072 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1073 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1074 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1075 1076 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 1077 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1078 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1079 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1080 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1081 1082 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1083 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1084 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1085 1086 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1087 1088 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1089 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1090 1091 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1092 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1093 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1094 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1095 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1096 architectural default is too low. 1097 1098 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1099 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1100 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1101 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1102 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1103 driver later using sysfs. 1104 1105 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1106 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * 1107 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the 1108 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT 1109 match the *. 1110 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1111 1112 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1113 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1114 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1115 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1116 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1117 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 1118 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 1119 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 1120 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 1121 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 1122 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID 1123 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 1124 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 1125 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 1126 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1127 data set with no connector name will be used for 1128 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1129 1130 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1131 1132 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1133 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1134 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1135 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1136 exists). 1137 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1138 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1139 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1140 1141 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1142 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1143 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1144 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1145 1146 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1147 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1148 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1149 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1150 for details. 1151 1152 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 1153 in some Intel CPUs. 1154 1155 <module>.async_probe [KNL] 1156 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 1157 1158 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1159 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1160 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1161 which are not unmapped. 1162 1163 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1164 1165 When used with no options, the early console is 1166 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1167 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1168 the platform. 1169 1170 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1171 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1172 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1173 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1174 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1175 configured. 1176 1177 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 1178 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 1179 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 1180 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 1181 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1182 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1183 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1184 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1185 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1186 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1187 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1188 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1189 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 1190 1191 pl011,<addr> 1192 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1193 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1194 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1195 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1196 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1197 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1198 the device registers. 1199 1200 liteuart,<addr> 1201 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1202 specified address. The serial port must already be 1203 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1204 1205 meson,<addr> 1206 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1207 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1208 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1209 supported. 1210 1211 msm_serial,<addr> 1212 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1213 port at the specified address. The serial port 1214 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1215 yet supported. 1216 1217 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1218 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1219 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1220 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1221 yet supported. 1222 1223 owl,<addr> 1224 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1225 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1226 specified address. The serial port must already be 1227 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1228 1229 rda,<addr> 1230 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1231 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1232 specified address. The serial port must already be 1233 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1234 1235 sbi 1236 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1237 console. 1238 1239 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1240 1241 s3c2410,<addr> 1242 s3c2412,<addr> 1243 s3c2440,<addr> 1244 s3c6400,<addr> 1245 s5pv210,<addr> 1246 exynos4210,<addr> 1247 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1248 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1249 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1250 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1251 Options are not yet supported. 1252 1253 lantiq,<addr> 1254 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1255 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1256 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1257 yet supported. 1258 1259 lpuart,<addr> 1260 lpuart32,<addr> 1261 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1262 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1263 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1264 port must already be setup and configured. 1265 1266 ec_imx21,<addr> 1267 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1268 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1269 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1270 must already be setup and configured. 1271 1272 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1273 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1274 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1275 address. The serial port must already be setup 1276 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1277 1278 qcom_geni,<addr> 1279 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1280 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1281 specified address. The serial port must already be 1282 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1283 1284 efifb,[options] 1285 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1286 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1287 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1288 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1289 mapped with the correct attributes. 1290 1291 linflex,<addr> 1292 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1293 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1294 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1295 already be setup and configured. 1296 1297 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1298 earlyprintk=vga 1299 earlyprintk=sclp 1300 earlyprintk=xen 1301 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1302 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1303 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1304 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1305 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1306 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1307 1308 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1309 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1310 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1311 1312 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1313 takes over. 1314 1315 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can 1316 be used at a time. 1317 1318 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1319 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1320 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1321 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1322 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1323 You can find the port for a given device in 1324 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1325 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1326 1327 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1328 very good. 1329 1330 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by 1331 the real console. 1332 1333 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1334 1335 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1336 1337 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1338 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1339 UART class. 1340 1341 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1342 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1343 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1344 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1345 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1346 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1347 default: on. 1348 1349 edd= [EDD] 1350 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1351 1352 efi= [EFI] 1353 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1354 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1355 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1356 debug: enable misc debug output. 1357 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1358 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1359 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1360 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1361 firmware implementations. 1362 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1363 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1364 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1365 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1366 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1367 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1368 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1369 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1370 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1371 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1372 1373 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1374 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1375 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1376 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1377 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1378 1379 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1380 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1381 updating original EFI memory map. 1382 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1383 from ss to ss+nn. 1384 1385 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1386 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1387 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1388 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1389 1390 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1391 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1392 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1393 1394 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1395 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1396 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1397 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1398 "soft reserved". 1399 1400 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1401 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1402 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1403 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1404 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1405 1406 1407 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1408 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1409 1410 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1411 Format: ekgdboc=kbd 1412 1413 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1414 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1415 1416 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1417 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1418 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1419 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1420 1421 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1422 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1423 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1424 1425 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1426 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1427 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1428 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1429 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1430 1431 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1432 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1433 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1434 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1435 1436 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1437 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1438 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1439 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1440 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1441 1442 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1443 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1444 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1445 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1446 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1447 Default value is 0. 1448 Value can be changed at runtime via 1449 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1450 1451 erst_disable [ACPI] 1452 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1453 support. 1454 1455 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1456 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1457 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1458 1459 evm= [EVM] 1460 Format: { "fix" } 1461 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1462 current integrity status. 1463 1464 failslab= 1465 fail_usercopy= 1466 fail_page_alloc= 1467 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1468 General fault injection mechanism. 1469 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1470 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1471 1472 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1473 Format: { initns | none } 1474 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1475 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1476 1477 floppy= [HW] 1478 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1479 1480 force_pal_cache_flush 1481 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1482 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1483 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1484 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1485 1486 forcepae [X86-32] 1487 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1488 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1489 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1490 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1491 and may cause unknown problems. 1492 1493 ftrace=[tracer] 1494 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1495 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1496 boot debugging. 1497 1498 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1499 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1500 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1501 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1502 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1503 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1504 start up functionality. 1505 1506 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1507 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1508 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1509 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1510 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1511 oops. 1512 1513 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1514 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1515 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1516 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1517 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1518 tracing directory. 1519 1520 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1521 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1522 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1523 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1524 tracing directory. 1525 1526 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1527 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1528 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1529 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1530 that can be changed at run time by the 1531 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1532 1533 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1534 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1535 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1536 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1537 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1538 1539 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1540 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1541 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1542 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1543 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1544 1545 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1546 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1547 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1548 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1549 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1550 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1551 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1552 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1553 suppliers). 1554 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1555 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1556 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1557 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1558 up (sync_state() calls). 1559 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1560 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1561 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1562 1563 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1564 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1565 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1566 Format: <bool> 1567 1568 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1569 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1570 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1571 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1572 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1573 1574 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1575 1576 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1577 Format: off | on 1578 default: on 1579 1580 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1581 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1582 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1583 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1584 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1585 1586 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1587 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1588 android emulator 1589 1590 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1591 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1592 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1593 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1594 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1595 1596 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1597 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1598 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1599 GPT to be used instead. 1600 1601 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1602 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1603 Format: 0 | 1 1604 Default: 0 1605 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1606 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1607 Format: 0 | 1 1608 Default: 0 1609 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1610 Format: 0 | 1 1611 Default: 0 1612 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1613 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1614 Default: 1024 1615 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1616 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1617 Default: 1024 1618 1619 hardened_usercopy= 1620 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1621 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1622 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1623 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1624 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1625 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1626 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1627 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 1628 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1629 1630 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1631 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1632 backtraces on all cpus. 1633 Format: 0 | 1 1634 1635 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1636 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1637 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1638 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1639 1640 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1641 1642 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1643 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1644 1645 hest_disable [ACPI] 1646 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1647 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1648 logic will be disabled. 1649 1650 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 1651 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 1652 present during boot. 1653 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 1654 no Disable hibernation and resume. 1655 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 1656 (that will set all pages holding image data 1657 during restoration read-only). 1658 1659 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1660 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1661 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1662 size on bigger boxes. 1663 1664 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1665 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1666 Default: "on" 1667 1668 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1669 1670 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1671 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1672 verbose } 1673 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1674 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1675 VIA, nVidia) 1676 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1677 1678 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1679 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1680 1681 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1682 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1683 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1684 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1685 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1686 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1687 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1688 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1689 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1690 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1691 1692 hugepagesz= 1693 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1694 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1695 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1696 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1697 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1698 architecture dependent. See also 1699 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1700 Format: size[KMG] 1701 1702 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1703 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1704 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1705 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1706 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1707 1708 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1709 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1710 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1711 1712 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1713 [KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 1714 enabled. 1715 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1716 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1717 Format: { [oO][Nn]/Y/y/1 | [oO][Ff]/N/n/0 (default) } 1718 1719 [oO][Nn]/Y/y/1: enable the feature 1720 [oO][Ff]/N/n/0: disable the feature 1721 1722 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1723 the default is on. 1724 1725 This is not compatible with memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory. 1726 If both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes 1727 precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory. 1728 1729 hung_task_panic= 1730 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1731 Format: 0 | 1 1732 1733 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1734 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1735 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1736 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1737 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1738 1739 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1740 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1741 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1742 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1743 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1744 1745 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1746 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1747 guest on lock contention. 1748 1749 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1750 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1751 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1752 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1753 the real console. 1754 1755 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1756 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1757 registered from board initialization code. 1758 Format: 1759 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1760 1761 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1762 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1763 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1764 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1765 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1766 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1767 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1768 keyboard and cannot control its state 1769 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1770 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1771 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1772 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1773 for the AUX port 1774 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1775 controller 1776 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1777 controllers 1778 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1779 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1780 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1781 transitions, or never reset 1782 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1783 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1784 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1785 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1786 architectures force reset to be always executed 1787 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1788 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1789 i8042.probe_defer 1790 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1791 1792 i810= [HW,DRM] 1793 1794 i915.invert_brightness= 1795 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1796 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1797 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1798 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1799 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1800 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1801 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1802 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1803 value switches the backlight off. 1804 -1 -- never invert brightness 1805 0 -- machine default 1806 1 -- force brightness inversion 1807 1808 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1809 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1810 1811 1812 idle= [X86] 1813 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1814 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1815 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1816 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1817 Not recommended. 1818 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1819 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1820 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1821 1822 idxd.sva= [HW] 1823 Format: <bool> 1824 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1825 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1826 true (1). 1827 1828 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 1829 Format: <bool> 1830 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 1831 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 1832 1833 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1834 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1835 Default: strict 1836 1837 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1838 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1839 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1840 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1841 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1842 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1843 encoding mode. 1844 1845 Available settings are as follows: 1846 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1847 supported by the FPU 1848 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1849 by the FPU 1850 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1851 by the FPU 1852 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1853 supported by the FPU 1854 1855 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1856 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1857 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1858 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1859 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1860 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1861 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1862 MIPS64 CPUs. 1863 1864 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1865 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1866 except where unsupported by hardware. 1867 1868 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1869 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1870 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1871 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1872 could change it dynamically, usually by 1873 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1874 1875 ignore_rlimit_data 1876 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1877 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1878 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1879 1880 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1881 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1882 1883 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1884 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1885 default: "enforce" 1886 1887 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1888 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1889 owned by uid=0. 1890 1891 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1892 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1893 measurements, instead of host native format. 1894 1895 ima_hash= [IMA] 1896 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1897 | sha512 | ... } 1898 default: "sha1" 1899 1900 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1901 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1902 1903 ima_policy= [IMA] 1904 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1905 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1906 fail_securely | critical_data" 1907 1908 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1909 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1910 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1911 uid=0. 1912 1913 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1914 all files owned by root. 1915 1916 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1917 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1918 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1919 1920 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1921 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1922 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1923 flag. 1924 1925 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 1926 critical data. 1927 1928 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1929 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1930 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1931 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1932 opened for read by uid=0. 1933 1934 ima_template= [IMA] 1935 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1936 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 1937 "ima-sigv2" } 1938 Default: "ima-ng" 1939 1940 ima_template_fmt= 1941 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1942 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1943 1944 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1945 Format: <min_file_size> 1946 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1947 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1948 1949 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1950 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1951 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1952 1953 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1954 Format: <bufsize> 1955 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1956 1957 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1958 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1959 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1960 1961 init= [KNL] 1962 Format: <full_path> 1963 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1964 process. 1965 1966 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1967 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1968 startup. 1969 1970 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1971 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1972 modules and initcalls. 1973 1974 initramfs_async= [KNL] 1975 Format: <bool> 1976 Default: 1 1977 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 1978 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 1979 with devices being probed and 1980 initialized. This should normally just work, 1981 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 1982 historical behaviour of the initramfs 1983 unpacking being completed before device_ and 1984 late_ initcalls. 1985 1986 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1987 1988 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 1989 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 1990 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 1991 setting. 1992 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 1993 Default is 0, 0 1994 1995 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 1996 zeroes. 1997 Format: 0 | 1 1998 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 1999 2000 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2001 Format: 0 | 1 2002 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2003 2004 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2005 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2006 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2007 override in debugfs after boot. 2008 2009 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2010 Format: <irq> 2011 2012 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2013 2014 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2015 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2016 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2017 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2018 2019 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2020 on 2021 Enable intel iommu driver. 2022 off 2023 Disable intel iommu driver. 2024 igfx_off [Default Off] 2025 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2026 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2027 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2028 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2029 DMA. 2030 strict [Default Off] 2031 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2032 sp_off [Default Off] 2033 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2034 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2035 not be supported. 2036 sm_on 2037 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2038 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2039 translation. 2040 sm_off 2041 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2042 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2043 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2044 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2045 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2046 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2047 mapping is enabled. 2048 Note that using this option lowers the security 2049 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2050 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2051 2052 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2053 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2054 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2055 2056 intel_pstate= [X86] 2057 disable 2058 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2059 scaling driver for the supported processors 2060 passive 2061 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2062 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2063 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2064 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2065 feature. 2066 force 2067 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2068 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2069 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2070 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2071 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2072 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2073 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2074 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2075 no_hwp 2076 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2077 if available. 2078 hwp_only 2079 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2080 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2081 support_acpi_ppc 2082 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2083 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2084 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2085 then this feature is turned on by default. 2086 per_cpu_perf_limits 2087 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2088 cpufreq sysfs interface 2089 2090 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 2091 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2092 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2093 nosid disable Source ID checking 2094 no_x2apic_optout 2095 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2096 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2097 2098 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2099 strict regions from userspace. 2100 relaxed 2101 2102 iommu= [X86] 2103 off 2104 force 2105 noforce 2106 biomerge 2107 panic 2108 nopanic 2109 merge 2110 nomerge 2111 soft 2112 pt [X86] 2113 nopt [X86] 2114 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2115 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2116 2117 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2118 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2119 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2120 falling back to the full range if needed. 2121 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2122 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2123 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2124 2125 iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2126 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2127 0 - Lazy mode. 2128 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2129 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2130 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2131 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2132 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2133 1 - Strict mode. 2134 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2135 synchronously. 2136 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2137 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2138 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2139 2140 iommu.passthrough= 2141 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2142 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2143 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2144 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2145 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2146 2147 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2148 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2149 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2150 2151 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 2152 0x80 2153 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2154 0xed 2155 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2156 udelay 2157 Simple two microseconds delay 2158 none 2159 No delay 2160 2161 ip= [IP_PNP] 2162 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2163 2164 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2165 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2166 2167 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2168 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2169 2170 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2171 [ARM, ARM64] 2172 Format: <bool> 2173 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2174 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2175 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2176 2177 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2178 [ARM, ARM64] 2179 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2180 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2181 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2182 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2183 LPIs. 2184 2185 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2186 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2187 requires the kernel to be built with 2188 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2189 2190 irqfixup [HW] 2191 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2192 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2193 firmware running. 2194 2195 irqpoll [HW] 2196 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2197 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2198 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2199 firmware running. 2200 2201 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2202 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2203 2204 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2205 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2206 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2207 2208 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2209 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2210 2211 nohz 2212 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2213 2214 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2215 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2216 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2217 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2218 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2219 2220 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2221 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2222 be configured manually after bootup. 2223 2224 domain 2225 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2226 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2227 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2228 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2229 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2230 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2231 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2232 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2233 2234 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2235 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2236 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2237 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2238 2239 managed_irq 2240 2241 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2242 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2243 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2244 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2245 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2246 2247 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2248 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2249 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2250 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2251 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2252 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2253 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2254 2255 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2256 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2257 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2258 only delivered when tasks running on those 2259 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2260 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2261 queues. 2262 2263 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2264 2265 iucv= [HW,NET] 2266 2267 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2268 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2269 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2270 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2271 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2272 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2273 2274 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2275 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2276 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2277 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 2278 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2279 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2280 2281 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2282 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2283 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2284 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2285 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 2286 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2287 2288 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2289 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2290 2291 nokaslr [KNL] 2292 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 2293 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 2294 Layout Randomization). 2295 2296 kasan_multi_shot 2297 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2298 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2299 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2300 invalid access. 2301 2302 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2303 2304 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2305 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2306 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2307 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2308 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2309 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2310 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2311 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2312 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2313 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2314 2315 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2316 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2317 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2318 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2319 zone if it does not. 2320 2321 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2322 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2323 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2324 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2325 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2326 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2327 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2328 2329 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2330 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2331 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2332 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2333 optional and is the number seconds in between 2334 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2335 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2336 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2337 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2338 the kernel debugger. 2339 2340 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2341 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2342 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2343 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2344 keyboard only format: kbd 2345 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2346 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2347 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2348 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2349 2350 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2351 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2352 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2353 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2354 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2355 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2356 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2357 2358 The name of the early console should be specified 2359 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2360 the early console might be different than the tty 2361 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2362 blank and the first boot console that implements 2363 read() will be picked. 2364 2365 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2366 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2367 2368 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2369 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2370 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2371 2372 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2373 Valid arguments: on, off 2374 Default: on 2375 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2376 the default is off. 2377 2378 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2379 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2380 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2381 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2382 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2383 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2384 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2385 2386 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2387 2388 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2389 Boot Parameter" section. 2390 2391 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2392 and kernel address spaces. 2393 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2394 0: force disabled 2395 1: force enabled 2396 2397 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2398 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2399 2400 kvm.eager_page_split= 2401 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2402 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2403 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2404 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2405 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2406 required to split huge pages lazily. 2407 2408 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2409 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2410 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2411 still be used for reads. 2412 2413 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2414 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2415 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2416 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2417 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2418 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2419 cleared. 2420 2421 Eager page splitting currently only supports splitting 2422 huge pages mapped by the TDP MMU. 2423 2424 Default is Y (on). 2425 2426 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2427 Default is false (don't support). 2428 2429 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2430 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2431 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2432 force : Always deploy workaround. 2433 off : Never deploy workaround. 2434 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2435 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2436 2437 Default is 'auto'. 2438 2439 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2440 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2441 2442 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2443 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2444 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2445 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2446 period (see below). The default is 60. 2447 2448 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2449 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2450 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2451 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2452 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2453 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2454 2455 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2456 Default is 1 (enabled) 2457 2458 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2459 for all guests. 2460 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2461 2462 kvm-arm.mode= 2463 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2464 2465 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2466 2467 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2468 protected guests. 2469 2470 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2471 state is kept private from the host. 2472 Not valid if the kernel is running in EL2. 2473 2474 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2475 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2476 for the host. 2477 2478 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2479 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2480 system registers 2481 2482 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2483 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2484 system registers 2485 2486 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2487 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2488 system registers 2489 2490 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2491 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2492 LPIs. 2493 2494 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2495 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2496 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2497 allocation. 2498 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2499 Format: <integer> 2500 Default: 5 2501 2502 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2503 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2504 Default is 1 (enabled) 2505 2506 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2507 [KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state. 2508 Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as 2509 guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests. 2510 This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM 2511 never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2512 Default is 1 (enabled) 2513 2514 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2515 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2516 Default is 1 (enabled) 2517 2518 kvm-intel.nested= 2519 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2520 Default is 0 (disabled) 2521 2522 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2523 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2524 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2525 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2526 2527 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2528 CVE-2018-3620. 2529 2530 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2531 2532 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2533 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2534 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2535 never: Disables the mitigation 2536 2537 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2538 2539 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2540 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2541 Default is 1 (enabled) 2542 2543 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL] 2544 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2545 2546 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2547 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2548 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2549 2550 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2551 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2552 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2553 not have direct access. 2554 2555 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2556 options are: 2557 2558 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2559 2560 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2561 affected CPUs 2562 2563 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2564 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2565 2566 full 2567 Provides all available mitigations for the 2568 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2569 enables all mitigations in the 2570 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2571 2572 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2573 sysfs interface is still possible after 2574 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2575 when the first VM is started in a 2576 potentially insecure configuration, 2577 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2578 2579 full,force 2580 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2581 flush runtime control. Implies the 2582 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2583 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2584 2585 flush 2586 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2587 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2588 L1D flush. 2589 2590 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2591 sysfs interface is still possible after 2592 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2593 when the first VM is started in a 2594 potentially insecure configuration, 2595 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2596 2597 flush,nosmt 2598 2599 Disables SMT and enables the default 2600 hypervisor mitigation. 2601 2602 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2603 sysfs interface is still possible after 2604 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2605 when the first VM is started in a 2606 potentially insecure configuration, 2607 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2608 2609 flush,nowarn 2610 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2611 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2612 insecure configuration. 2613 2614 off 2615 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2616 emit any warnings. 2617 It also drops the swap size and available 2618 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2619 bare metal. 2620 2621 Default is 'flush'. 2622 2623 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2624 2625 l2cr= [PPC] 2626 2627 l3cr= [PPC] 2628 2629 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2630 disabled it. 2631 2632 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2633 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2634 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2635 Format: notscdeadline 2636 2637 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2638 in C2 power state. 2639 2640 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2641 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2642 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2643 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2644 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2645 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2646 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2647 2648 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2649 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2650 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2651 2652 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2653 when set. 2654 Format: <int> 2655 2656 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 2657 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 2658 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 2659 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 2660 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 2661 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 2662 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 2663 to all ports, links and devices. 2664 2665 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2666 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2667 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2668 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2669 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2670 host link and device attached to it. 2671 2672 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2673 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 2674 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2675 The following configurations can be forced. 2676 2677 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2678 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2679 2680 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2681 2682 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2683 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2684 allowed. 2685 2686 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 2687 resets. 2688 2689 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 2690 link recovery. 2691 2692 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 2693 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 2694 detection. 2695 2696 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2697 2698 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 2699 2700 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 2701 2702 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 2703 2704 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 2705 2706 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 2707 2708 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 2709 2710 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 2711 2712 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 2713 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 2714 2715 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 2716 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 2717 2718 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 2719 identify device data log. 2720 2721 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 2722 purpose log directory. 2723 2724 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 2725 2726 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2727 1024 sectors. 2728 2729 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2730 65535 sectors. 2731 2732 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 2733 2734 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 2735 should be skipped. 2736 2737 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 2738 2739 * disable: Disable this device. 2740 2741 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2742 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2743 2744 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2745 2746 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2747 Format: <integer> 2748 2749 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2750 Format: <integer> 2751 2752 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2753 Format: <integer> 2754 2755 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2756 Format: <integer> 2757 2758 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2759 { integrity | confidentiality } 2760 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2761 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2762 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2763 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2764 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2765 are also disabled. 2766 2767 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2768 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2769 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2770 number of online CPUs. 2771 2772 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2773 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2774 2775 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2776 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2777 2778 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2779 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2780 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2781 2782 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2783 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2784 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2785 mode during the locktorture test. 2786 2787 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2788 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2789 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2790 2791 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2792 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2793 2794 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2795 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2796 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2797 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2798 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2799 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2800 2801 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2802 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2803 2804 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2805 Enable additional printk() statements. 2806 2807 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2808 Format: <irq> 2809 2810 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2811 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2812 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2813 loglevels are defined as follows: 2814 2815 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2816 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2817 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2818 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2819 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2820 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2821 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2822 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2823 2824 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2825 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2826 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2827 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2828 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2829 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2830 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2831 2832 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2833 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2834 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2835 kernel boot problems. 2836 2837 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2838 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2839 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2840 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2841 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2842 attached printers to be reset. Using 2843 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2844 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2845 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2846 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2847 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2848 port specification list means that device IDs 2849 from each port should be examined, to see if 2850 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2851 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2852 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2853 2854 lpj=n [KNL] 2855 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2856 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2857 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2858 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2859 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2860 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2861 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2862 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2863 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2864 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2865 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2866 hardware. 2867 2868 ltpc= [NET] 2869 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2870 2871 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2872 2873 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2874 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2875 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2876 2877 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2878 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2879 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2880 2881 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 2882 different yeeloong laptops. 2883 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2884 2885 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater 2886 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2887 2888 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2889 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2890 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2891 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2892 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2893 only takes effect during system bootup. 2894 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2895 which also disables the IO APIC. 2896 2897 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2898 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2899 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2900 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2901 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2902 /dev/loop-control interface. 2903 2904 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2905 2906 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2907 2908 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2909 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2910 2911 mdacon= [MDA] 2912 Format: <first>,<last> 2913 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2914 2915 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2916 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2917 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2918 2919 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2920 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2921 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2922 2923 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2924 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2925 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2926 not have direct access. 2927 2928 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2929 options are: 2930 2931 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2932 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2933 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2934 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2935 2936 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 2937 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 2938 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 2939 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 2940 too. 2941 2942 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 2943 mds=full. 2944 2945 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 2946 2947 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON] Set the memory size. 2948 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 2949 2950 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2951 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 2952 2953 1 for test; 2954 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 2955 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 2956 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 2957 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 2958 2959 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 2960 high memory is not affected. 2961 2962 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 2963 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 2964 2965 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2966 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2967 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2968 belonging to unused RAM. 2969 2970 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 2971 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 2972 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 2973 2974 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2975 [ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by 2976 firmware. 2977 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 2978 ss[KMG]. 2979 Multiple different regions can be specified with 2980 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 2981 2982 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2983 memory. 2984 2985 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 2986 2987 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2988 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2989 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2990 2991 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2992 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2993 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2994 set according to the 2995 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2996 option. 2997 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 2998 2999 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 3000 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3001 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3002 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3003 option description. 3004 3005 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3006 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3007 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3008 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3009 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3010 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3011 comma delimited. 3012 Example: 3013 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3014 3015 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3016 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3017 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3018 3019 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3020 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3021 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3022 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3023 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3024 or 3025 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3026 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3027 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3028 will be eaten. 3029 3030 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 3031 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3032 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3033 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3034 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3035 3036 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3037 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 3038 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3039 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3040 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3041 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3042 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3043 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3044 3045 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 3046 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3047 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3048 Setting this option will scan the memory 3049 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3050 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3051 from using the memory being corrupted. 3052 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3053 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3054 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3055 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3056 3057 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 3058 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3059 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3060 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3061 corruption in more or less memory. 3062 3063 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 3064 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3065 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3066 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3067 3068 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3069 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3070 Format: {on | off (default)} 3071 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3072 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages) 3073 from the hotadded memory which will allow to 3074 hotadd a lot of memory without requiring 3075 additional memory to do so. 3076 This feature is disabled by default because it 3077 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3078 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3079 memory blocks). 3080 The state of the flag can be read in 3081 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3082 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3083 the feature is not effective. 3084 3085 This is not compatible with hugetlb_free_vmemmap. If 3086 both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes 3087 precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory. 3088 3089 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest 3090 Format: <integer> 3091 default : 0 <disable> 3092 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3093 performed. Each pass selects another test 3094 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3095 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3096 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3097 regions that are detected. 3098 3099 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3100 Valid arguments: on, off 3101 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 3102 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 3103 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 3104 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3105 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3106 3107 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3108 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3109 3110 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3111 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3112 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3113 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3114 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3115 3116 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 3117 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst. 3118 3119 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 3120 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 3121 platforms. 3122 3123 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3124 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3125 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3126 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3127 3128 mga= [HW,DRM] 3129 3130 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this 3131 physical address is ignored. 3132 3133 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3134 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3135 Default: "0tb" 3136 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3137 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3138 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3139 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3140 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3141 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3142 unconfigured. 3143 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3144 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3145 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3146 VGA shield. 3147 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3148 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3149 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3150 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3151 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3152 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3153 3154 mitigations= 3155 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 3156 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3157 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3158 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3159 3160 off 3161 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3162 improves system performance, but it may also 3163 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3164 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 3165 kpti=0 [ARM64] 3166 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3167 nobp=0 [S390] 3168 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3169 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3170 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3171 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3172 l1tf=off [X86] 3173 mds=off [X86] 3174 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3175 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3176 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3177 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3178 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3179 3180 Exceptions: 3181 This does not have any effect on 3182 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3183 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3184 3185 auto (default) 3186 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3187 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3188 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3189 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3190 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3191 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3192 3193 auto,nosmt 3194 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3195 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3196 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3197 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3198 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3199 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3200 3201 mminit_loglevel= 3202 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3203 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3204 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3205 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3206 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3207 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3208 3209 module.sig_enforce 3210 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3211 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3212 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3213 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3214 3215 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3216 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3217 3218 mousedev.tap_time= 3219 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3220 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3221 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3222 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3223 Format: <msecs> 3224 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3225 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3226 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3227 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3228 3229 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 3230 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3231 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3232 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3233 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3234 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3235 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3236 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3237 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3238 is not too small. 3239 3240 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3241 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3242 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3243 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3244 allocations. Use with caution! 3245 3246 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3247 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3248 3249 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3250 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3251 3252 mtdparts= [MTD] 3253 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3254 3255 mtdset= [ARM] 3256 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 3257 3258 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 3259 3260 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3261 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3262 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3263 3264 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3265 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3266 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3267 3268 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3269 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3270 Default is 1. 3271 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3272 using up MTRRs. 3273 3274 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 3275 Format: <integer> 3276 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3277 Default : 1 3278 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3279 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3280 3281 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3282 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3283 at a time. 3284 3285 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3286 3287 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3288 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3289 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3290 something different and driver-specific. 3291 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3292 file if at all. 3293 3294 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3295 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3296 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3297 waits 4 seconds. 3298 3299 nf_conntrack.acct= 3300 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3301 0 to disable accounting 3302 1 to enable accounting 3303 Default value is 0. 3304 3305 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3306 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3307 3308 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3309 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3310 3311 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3312 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3313 3314 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3315 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3316 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3317 requests. 3318 3319 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3320 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3321 channel should listen. 3322 3323 nfs.cache_getent= 3324 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3325 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3326 3327 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3328 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3329 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3330 3331 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3332 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3333 entries. 3334 3335 nfs.enable_ino64= 3336 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3337 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3338 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3339 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3340 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3341 3342 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3343 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3344 slots the client will assign to the callback 3345 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3346 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3347 a particular server. 3348 3349 nfs.max_session_slots= 3350 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3351 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3352 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3353 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3354 Note that there is little point in setting this 3355 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3356 3357 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3358 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3359 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3360 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3361 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3362 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3363 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3364 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3365 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3366 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3367 back to using the idmapper. 3368 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3369 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3370 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3371 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3372 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3373 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3374 3375 nfs.send_implementation_id = 3376 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3377 information in exchange_id requests. 3378 If zero, no implementation identification information 3379 will be sent. 3380 The default is to send the implementation identification 3381 information. 3382 3383 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 3384 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3385 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3386 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3387 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3388 after the locks are lost. 3389 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3390 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3391 parameter to '1'. 3392 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3393 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3394 3395 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 3396 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3397 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3398 3399 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3400 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3401 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3402 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3403 3404 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable = 3405 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3406 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3407 the destination of the copy. 3408 3409 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout = 3410 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3411 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3412 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3413 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3414 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3415 this parameter. 3416 3417 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3418 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3419 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3420 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3421 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3422 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3423 3424 3425 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3426 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3427 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3428 3429 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3430 when a NMI is triggered. 3431 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3432 3433 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3434 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3435 Valid num: 0 or 1 3436 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3437 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3438 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3439 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3440 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3441 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3442 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3443 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3444 need the box quickly up again. 3445 3446 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3447 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3448 3449 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3450 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3451 is present. 3452 3453 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3454 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3455 3456 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3457 3458 no_console_suspend 3459 [HW] Never suspend the console 3460 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3461 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3462 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3463 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3464 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3465 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3466 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3467 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3468 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3469 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3470 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3471 turn on/off it dynamically. 3472 3473 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3474 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3475 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3476 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3477 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3478 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3479 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3480 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3481 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3482 is set. 3483 3484 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3485 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3486 but will impact performance. 3487 3488 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3489 3490 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3491 (CPU alternatives feature). 3492 3493 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3494 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3495 3496 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3497 3498 nocache [ARM] 3499 3500 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3501 3502 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3503 3504 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3505 3506 noexec [IA-64] 3507 3508 nosmap [PPC] 3509 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3510 even if it is supported by processor. 3511 3512 nosmep [PPC64s] 3513 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3514 even if it is supported by processor. 3515 3516 noexec32 [X86-64] 3517 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3518 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3519 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3520 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3521 read implies executable mappings 3522 3523 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3524 3525 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3526 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3527 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3528 3529 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3530 3531 nohugevmalloc [PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3532 3533 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3534 Equivalent to smt=1. 3535 3536 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3537 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3538 via the sysfs control file. 3539 3540 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3541 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3542 possible in the system. 3543 3544 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3545 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3546 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3547 option. 3548 3549 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3550 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3551 3552 no_uaccess_flush 3553 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 3554 3555 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3556 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3557 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3558 3559 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3560 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3561 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3562 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3563 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3564 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3565 3566 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3567 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3568 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3569 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3570 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3571 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3572 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3573 3574 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait 3575 in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3576 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3577 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3578 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3579 correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute 3580 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3581 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3582 3583 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3584 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3585 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3586 3587 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3588 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3589 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3590 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3591 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3592 real-time systems. 3593 3594 no_hash_pointers 3595 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3596 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3597 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3598 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3599 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3600 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3601 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3602 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3603 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3604 value printed. This option should only be specified when 3605 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3606 kernels. 3607 3608 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3609 3610 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3611 Valid arguments: on, off 3612 Default: on 3613 3614 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3615 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3616 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3617 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3618 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3619 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3620 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3621 just as if they had also been called out in the 3622 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3623 3624 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3625 3626 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3627 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3628 3629 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3630 broken timer IRQ sources. 3631 3632 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3633 3634 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3635 initial RAM disk. 3636 3637 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3638 remapping. 3639 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3640 3641 nointroute [IA-64] 3642 3643 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3644 3645 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3646 3647 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3648 3649 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3650 fault handling. 3651 3652 no-vmw-sched-clock 3653 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3654 clock and use the default one. 3655 3656 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time 3657 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't 3658 influence scheduler behaviour 3659 3660 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3661 3662 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3663 3664 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3665 3666 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3667 3668 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3669 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3670 3671 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3672 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3673 irq. 3674 3675 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. DRM drivers will not perform 3676 display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. Only the 3677 system framebuffer will be available for use if this was 3678 set-up by the firmware or boot loader. 3679 3680 Useful as fallback, or for testing and debugging. 3681 3682 nomodule Disable module load 3683 3684 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3685 pagetables) support. 3686 3687 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3688 3689 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3690 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3691 3692 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3693 with UP alternatives 3694 3695 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 3696 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 3697 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 3698 available to user space applications. 3699 3700 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3701 space. 3702 3703 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3704 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3705 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3706 3707 nosbagart [IA-64] 3708 3709 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 3710 3711 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3712 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3713 3714 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3715 3716 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3717 3718 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3719 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3720 3721 nowb [ARM] 3722 3723 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3724 3725 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3726 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3727 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3728 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3729 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3730 parameter's value. 3731 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3732 Default: 255 3733 3734 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3735 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3736 SAL PALO. 3737 3738 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3739 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3740 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3741 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3742 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3743 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3744 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3745 hot plugging. 3746 3747 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3748 3749 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only 3750 set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. 3751 3752 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 3753 NUMA balancing. 3754 Allowed values are enable and disable 3755 3756 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3757 'node', 'default' can be specified 3758 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3759 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3760 3761 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3762 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 3763 info. 3764 3765 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3766 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3767 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3768 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3769 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3770 interrupts *may* be lost! 3771 3772 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3773 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3774 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3775 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3776 3777 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 3778 3779 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 3780 3781 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 3782 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 3783 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 3784 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 3785 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 3786 3787 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3788 process, but there is a small probability of 3789 deadlocking the machine. 3790 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3791 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3792 3793 page_alloc.shuffle= 3794 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3795 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3796 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3797 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3798 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3799 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3800 can be read from sysfs at: 3801 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3802 3803 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3804 Storage of the information about who allocated 3805 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3806 we can turn it on. 3807 on: enable the feature 3808 3809 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3810 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3811 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3812 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3813 on: turn on poisoning 3814 3815 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 3816 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 3817 Format: <integer> 3818 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 3819 reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1). 3820 3821 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3822 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3823 timeout = 0: wait forever 3824 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3825 Format: <timeout> 3826 3827 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3828 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3829 bit 0: print all tasks info 3830 bit 1: print system memory info 3831 bit 2: print timer info 3832 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3833 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3834 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3835 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 3836 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 3837 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 3838 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 3839 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 3840 3841 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 3842 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 3843 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 3844 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 3845 called with any of the flags in this set. 3846 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 3847 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 3848 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 3849 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 3850 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 3851 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 3852 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 3853 3854 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3855 on a WARN(). 3856 3857 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3858 connected to, default is 0. 3859 Format: <parport#> 3860 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3861 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3862 Format: <mode> 3863 3864 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3865 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3866 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3867 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3868 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3869 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3870 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3871 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3872 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3873 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3874 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3875 are specified on the command line, starting 3876 with parport0. 3877 3878 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3879 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3880 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3881 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3882 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3883 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3884 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3885 3886 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 3887 Format: <int> 3888 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 3889 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 3890 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 3891 3892 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 3893 Format: <int> 3894 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 3895 changes. Disabled by default. 3896 3897 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 3898 Format: <int> 3899 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 3900 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3901 Disabled by default. 3902 3903 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 3904 Format: <int> 3905 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 3906 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3907 Disabled by default. 3908 3909 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3910 Format: <int> 3911 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 3912 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 3913 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 3914 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 3915 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 3916 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 3917 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 3918 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 3919 all channels. 3920 3921 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 3922 Format: <int> 3923 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 3924 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 3925 respectively. Disabled by default. 3926 3927 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 3928 Format: <int> 3929 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 3930 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 3931 respectively. Disabled by default. 3932 3933 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3934 Format: <int> 3935 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 3936 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 3937 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 3938 All modes allowed by default. 3939 3940 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 3941 Format: <int> 3942 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 3943 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 3944 3945 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3946 Format: <int> 3947 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 3948 platform configuration and the use of other driver 3949 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 3950 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 3951 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 3952 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 3953 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 3954 By default all supported ports are probed. 3955 3956 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 3957 Format: <int> 3958 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 3959 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 3960 3961 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 3962 Format: <int> 3963 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 3964 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 3965 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 3966 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 3967 0 otherwise. 3968 3969 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3970 Format: <int> 3971 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 3972 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 3973 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 3974 allowed by default. 3975 3976 pause_on_oops= 3977 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 3978 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 3979 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 3980 3981 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 3982 3983 pcd. [PARIDE] 3984 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 3985 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3986 3987 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 3988 3989 Some options herein operate on a specific device 3990 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 3991 specified in one of the following formats: 3992 3993 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 3994 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 3995 3996 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 3997 bus/device/function address which may change 3998 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 3999 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4000 by other kernel parameters. If the 4001 domain is left unspecified, it is 4002 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4003 to a device through multiple device/function 4004 addresses can be specified after the base 4005 address (this is more robust against 4006 renumbering issues). The second format 4007 selects devices using IDs from the 4008 configuration space which may match multiple 4009 devices in the system. 4010 4011 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4012 changes anything 4013 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4014 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4015 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4016 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4017 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4018 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4019 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4020 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4021 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4022 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4023 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4024 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4025 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4026 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4027 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4028 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4029 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4030 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4031 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4032 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4033 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4034 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4035 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4036 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4037 Configuration 4038 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4039 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4040 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4041 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4042 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4043 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4044 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4045 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4046 should never be necessary. 4047 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4048 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4049 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4050 when the system masks IRQs. 4051 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4052 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4053 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4054 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4055 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4056 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4057 on several machines and they hang the machine 4058 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4059 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4060 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4061 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4062 motherboard. 4063 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4064 Use with caution as certain devices share 4065 address decoders between ROMs and other 4066 resources. 4067 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4068 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4069 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4070 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4071 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4072 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4073 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4074 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4075 this way. 4076 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4077 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4078 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4079 F0000h-100000h range. 4080 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4081 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4082 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4083 explicitly which ones they are. 4084 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4085 numbers ourselves, overriding 4086 whatever the firmware may have done. 4087 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4088 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4089 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4090 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4091 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4092 IRQ routing is enabled. 4093 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4094 or for PCI scanning. 4095 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4096 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4097 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4098 please report a bug. 4099 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4100 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4101 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4102 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4103 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4104 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4105 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4106 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4107 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4108 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4109 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4110 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4111 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4112 so this option is a temporary workaround 4113 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4114 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4115 handle more pci cards 4116 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4117 This might help on some broken boards which 4118 machine check when some devices' config space 4119 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4120 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4121 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4122 This sorting is done to get a device 4123 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4124 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4125 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4126 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4127 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4128 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4129 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4130 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4131 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4132 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4133 or bus can support) for best performance. 4134 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4135 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4136 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4137 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4138 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4139 that hot-added devices will work. 4140 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4141 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4142 The default value is 256 bytes. 4143 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4144 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4145 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4146 resource_alignment= 4147 Format: 4148 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4149 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4150 aligned memory resources. How to 4151 specify the device is described above. 4152 If <order of align> is not specified, 4153 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4154 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4155 windows need to be expanded. 4156 To specify the alignment for several 4157 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4158 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4159 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4160 for 4096-byte alignment. 4161 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4162 end-to-end CRC checking). 4163 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4164 the default. 4165 off: Turn ECRC off 4166 on: Turn ECRC on. 4167 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4168 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4169 Default size is 256 bytes. 4170 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4171 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4172 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4173 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4174 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4175 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4176 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4177 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4178 MMIO_PREF window. 4179 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4180 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4181 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4182 Default is 1. 4183 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4184 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4185 accommodate resources required by all child 4186 devices. 4187 off: Turn realloc off 4188 on: Turn realloc on 4189 realloc same as realloc=on 4190 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4191 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4192 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4193 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4194 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4195 port. 4196 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4197 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4198 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4199 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4200 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4201 taints the kernel. 4202 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4203 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4204 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4205 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4206 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4207 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4208 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4209 this removes isolation between devices and 4210 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4211 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4212 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4213 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4214 one PCI domain per PCI function 4215 4216 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 4217 Management. 4218 off Disable ASPM. 4219 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4220 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4221 4222 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4223 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4224 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4225 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4226 also tries to use these services. 4227 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4228 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4229 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4230 hotplug). 4231 4232 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4233 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4234 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4235 4236 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4237 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4238 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4239 4240 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4241 4242 pd_ignore_unused 4243 [PM] 4244 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4245 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4246 for debug and development, but should not be 4247 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4248 4249 pd. [PARIDE] 4250 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4251 4252 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4253 boot time. 4254 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4255 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4256 4257 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4258 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4259 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4260 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4261 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4262 and performance comparison. 4263 4264 pf. [PARIDE] 4265 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4266 4267 pg. [PARIDE] 4268 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4269 4270 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4271 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4272 4273 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4274 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4275 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4276 4277 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4278 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4279 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4280 4281 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4282 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4283 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4284 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4285 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4286 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4287 remains 0. 4288 4289 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4290 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4291 4292 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4293 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4294 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4295 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4296 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4297 possible settings and some assignment information. 4298 4299 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4300 { off } 4301 4302 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4303 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4304 4305 pnp_reserve_irq= 4306 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4307 4308 pnp_reserve_dma= 4309 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4310 4311 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4312 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4313 4314 pnp_reserve_mem= 4315 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4316 autoconfiguration. 4317 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4318 4319 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4320 Default is 21. 4321 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4322 may be specified. 4323 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4324 4325 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4326 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4327 platform machine description specific power_save 4328 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4329 execution priority. 4330 4331 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4332 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4333 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4334 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4335 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4336 4337 ppc_tm= [PPC] 4338 Format: {"off"} 4339 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4340 4341 preempt= [KNL] 4342 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4343 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4344 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4345 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4346 can be preempted anytime. 4347 4348 print-fatal-signals= 4349 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4350 4351 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4352 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4353 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4354 coredump - etc. 4355 4356 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4357 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4358 4359 default: off. 4360 4361 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4362 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4363 panics 4364 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4365 default: disabled 4366 4367 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4368 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4369 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4370 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4371 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4372 in order to provide more debug information. 4373 Format: <bool> 4374 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4375 4376 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4377 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4378 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4379 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4380 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4381 Default: ratelimit 4382 4383 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4384 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4385 4386 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4387 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4388 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4389 4390 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4391 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4392 instead using the legacy FADT method 4393 4394 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4395 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4396 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4397 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4398 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4399 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4400 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4401 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4402 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4403 statistical time based profiling. 4404 4405 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4406 4407 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4408 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4409 that). 4410 Format: <bool> 4411 4412 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4413 tracking. 4414 Format: <bool> 4415 4416 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4417 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4418 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4419 per second. 4420 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4421 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4422 (0 = never). 4423 psmouse.resolution= 4424 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4425 psmouse.smartscroll= 4426 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4427 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4428 4429 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4430 4431 pt. [PARIDE] 4432 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4433 4434 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4435 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4436 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4437 system calls and interrupts. 4438 4439 on - unconditionally enable 4440 off - unconditionally disable 4441 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4442 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4443 4444 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4445 4446 nopti [X86-64] 4447 Equivalent to pti=off 4448 4449 pty.legacy_count= 4450 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4451 default number. 4452 4453 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4454 4455 r128= [HW,DRM] 4456 4457 raid= [HW,RAID] 4458 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4459 4460 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4461 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4462 4463 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4464 4465 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 4466 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 4467 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 4468 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4469 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 4470 4471 random.trust_bootloader={on,off} 4472 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of a 4473 seed passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4474 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4475 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER. 4476 4477 randomize_kstack_offset= 4478 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4479 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4480 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4481 that depend on stack address determinism or 4482 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4483 available on architectures that have defined 4484 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4485 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4486 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4487 4488 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4489 4490 cec_disable [X86] 4491 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4492 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4493 4494 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 4495 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 4496 as described above. 4497 4498 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 4499 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 4500 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 4501 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 4502 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 4503 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 4504 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 4505 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 4506 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 4507 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 4508 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 4509 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4510 4511 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 4512 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 4513 4514 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 4515 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 4516 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 4517 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 4518 4519 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4520 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4521 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4522 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4523 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4524 This improves the real-time response for the 4525 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4526 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4527 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4528 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4529 4530 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4531 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4532 process in one batch. 4533 4534 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4535 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4536 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4537 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4538 4539 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4540 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4541 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4542 4543 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4544 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4545 RCU grace-period initialization. 4546 4547 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4548 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4549 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4550 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4551 the rcu_node combining tree. 4552 4553 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 4554 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 4555 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 4556 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 4557 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 4558 4559 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 4560 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 4561 to zero. 4562 4563 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4564 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4565 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4566 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4567 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4568 4569 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4570 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4571 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4572 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4573 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4574 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4575 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4576 4577 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4578 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4579 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4580 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4581 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4582 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4583 condition. 4584 4585 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 4586 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 4587 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 4588 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 4589 4590 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4591 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4592 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4593 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4594 and maximum value is HZ. 4595 4596 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4597 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4598 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4599 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4600 4601 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4602 Set required age in jiffies for a 4603 given grace period before RCU starts 4604 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4605 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4606 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4607 a value based on the most recent settings 4608 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4609 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4610 This calculated value may be viewed in 4611 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4612 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4613 overwritten. 4614 4615 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4616 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4617 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4618 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4619 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4620 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4621 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4622 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4623 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4624 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4625 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 4626 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 4627 4628 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4629 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4630 each group, which defaults to the square root 4631 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4632 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4633 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4634 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4635 4636 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4637 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4638 batch limiting is disabled. 4639 4640 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4641 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4642 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4643 4644 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4645 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4646 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4647 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4648 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4649 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4650 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4651 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4652 4653 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4654 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4655 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4656 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4657 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4658 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4659 4660 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 4661 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 4662 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 4663 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 4664 Larger delays increase the probability of 4665 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 4666 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 4667 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 4668 4669 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4670 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4671 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4672 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4673 4674 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 4675 Measure performance of asynchronous 4676 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4677 4678 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4679 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4680 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4681 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4682 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4683 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4684 4685 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 4686 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4687 grace-period primitives. 4688 4689 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4690 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4691 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4692 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4693 interference. 4694 4695 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4696 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4697 4698 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 4699 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4700 If this parameter has the same value as 4701 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 4702 and double-argument variants are tested. 4703 4704 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 4705 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4706 If this parameter has the same value as 4707 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 4708 and double-argument variants are tested. 4709 4710 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4711 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4712 4713 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4714 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4715 4716 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4717 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 4718 of allocations and frees. 4719 4720 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4721 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4722 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4723 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4724 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4725 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4726 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4727 a single reader. 4728 4729 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 4730 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4731 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 4732 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4733 4734 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL] 4735 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4736 4737 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4738 Shut the system down after performance tests 4739 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4740 testing. 4741 4742 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 4743 Enable additional printk() statements. 4744 4745 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4746 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4747 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4748 no holdoff. 4749 4750 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4751 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4752 in microseconds. 4753 4754 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4755 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4756 in microseconds. 4757 4758 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4759 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4760 in seconds. 4761 4762 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4763 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 4764 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4765 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4766 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 4767 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 4768 of CPUs to be used. 4769 4770 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4771 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4772 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4773 4774 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4775 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4776 forward-progress tests. 4777 4778 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4779 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4780 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4781 testing. 4782 4783 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4784 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4785 primitives, if available. 4786 4787 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4788 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4789 4790 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4791 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4792 update-side primitives, if available. 4793 4794 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4795 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4796 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4797 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4798 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4799 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4800 they are all non-zero. 4801 4802 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 4803 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 4804 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 4805 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 4806 4807 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 4808 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 4809 This can of course result in splats, and is 4810 intended to test the ability of things like 4811 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 4812 such leaks. 4813 4814 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 4815 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 4816 4817 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 4818 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 4819 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 4820 test, hence the "fake". 4821 4822 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 4823 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 4824 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 4825 4826 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 4827 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 4828 callback-offload toggling attempts. 4829 4830 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 4831 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4832 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4833 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 4834 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4835 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4836 4837 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 4838 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 4839 4840 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4841 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 4842 4843 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4844 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 4845 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 4846 4847 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 4848 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 4849 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 4850 task-exit processing. 4851 4852 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 4853 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 4854 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 4855 is spawned. 4856 4857 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 4858 The delay, in seconds, between successive 4859 read-then-exit testing episodes. 4860 4861 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 4862 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 4863 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 4864 during the rcutorture test. 4865 4866 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4867 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 4868 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 4869 4870 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 4871 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 4872 warnings, zero to disable. 4873 4874 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 4875 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 4876 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition 4877 to any other stall-related activity. 4878 4879 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 4880 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 4881 4882 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 4883 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 4884 4885 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 4886 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 4887 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 4888 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 4889 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 4890 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 4891 4892 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 4893 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 4894 4895 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 4896 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 4897 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 4898 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 4899 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 4900 4901 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 4902 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 4903 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 4904 under test support RCU priority boosting. 4905 4906 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 4907 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 4908 4909 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 4910 Interval (s) between each boost test. 4911 4912 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 4913 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 4914 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 4915 4916 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 4917 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4918 4919 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 4920 Enable additional printk() statements. 4921 4922 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 4923 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 4924 stall warning. 4925 4926 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 4927 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4928 4929 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 4930 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 4931 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 4932 during early boot, that is, during the time 4933 before the init task is spawned. 4934 4935 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4936 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4937 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 4938 value is 300 seconds. 4939 4940 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4941 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 4942 messages. The value is in milliseconds 4943 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 4944 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 4945 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 4946 Setting this to zero causes the value from 4947 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 4948 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 4949 4950 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 4951 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 4952 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 4953 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 4954 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 4955 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 4956 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4957 4958 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 4959 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 4960 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 4961 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 4962 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 4963 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 4964 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 4965 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 4966 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4967 4968 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 4969 Once boot has completed (that is, after 4970 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 4971 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 4972 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4973 4974 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 4975 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 4976 it to the value one, that is, converting any 4977 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 4978 period to instead use normal non-expedited 4979 grace-period processing. 4980 4981 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 4982 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 4983 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 4984 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 4985 a single callback queue. This switching only 4986 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 4987 set to the default value of -1. 4988 4989 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 4990 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 4991 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 4992 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 4993 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 4994 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 4995 the default value of -1. 4996 4997 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 4998 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 4999 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 5000 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 5001 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 5002 for use in testing. 5003 5004 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 5005 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 5006 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 5007 of a given grace period. Setting a large 5008 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 5009 but lengthens grace periods. 5010 5011 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 5012 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5013 informational messages, which give some indication 5014 of the problem for those not patient enough to 5015 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 5016 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 5017 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 5018 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 5019 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 5020 until the beginning of the next grace period. 5021 5022 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 5023 Multiplier for time interval between successive 5024 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 5025 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 5026 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 5027 the value three, so that the first informational 5028 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 5029 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 5030 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 5031 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 5032 5033 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5034 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5035 warning messages. Disable with a value less 5036 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 5037 A change in value does not take effect until 5038 the beginning of the next grace period. 5039 5040 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 5041 Run the RCU early boot self tests 5042 5043 rdinit= [KNL] 5044 Format: <full_path> 5045 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 5046 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 5047 5048 rdrand= [X86] 5049 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 5050 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 5051 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 5052 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 5053 path). 5054 5055 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 5056 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 5057 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 5058 mba. 5059 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 5060 rdt=cmt,!mba 5061 5062 reboot= [KNL] 5063 Format (x86 or x86_64): 5064 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 5065 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 5066 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 5067 [[,]f[orce] 5068 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 5069 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 5070 reboot only), 5071 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 5072 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 5073 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 5074 to be used for rebooting. 5075 5076 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5077 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5078 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5079 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5080 interference. 5081 5082 refscale.loops= [KNL] 5083 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 5084 primitive under test. Increasing this number 5085 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 5086 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 5087 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 5088 x86 laptops. 5089 5090 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5091 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 5092 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 5093 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 5094 5095 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 5096 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 5097 the console log. 5098 5099 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 5100 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 5101 measured in microseconds. 5102 5103 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5104 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 5105 5106 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5107 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 5108 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 5109 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 5110 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 5111 5112 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 5113 Enable additional printk() statements. 5114 5115 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 5116 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 5117 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 5118 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 5119 specified. 5120 5121 relax_domain_level= 5122 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 5123 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 5124 5125 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 5126 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 5127 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 5128 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 5129 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 5130 5131 reservetop= [X86-32] 5132 Format: nn[KMG] 5133 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 5134 address space. 5135 5136 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 5137 during initialization. 5138 5139 resume= [SWSUSP] 5140 Specify the partition device for software suspend 5141 Format: 5142 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 5143 5144 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 5145 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 5146 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 5147 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 5148 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 5149 5150 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5151 read the resume files 5152 5153 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 5154 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5155 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5156 5157 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 5158 5159 rfkill.default_state= 5160 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 5161 etc. communication is blocked by default. 5162 1 Unblocked. 5163 5164 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 5165 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 5166 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5167 blocked and the previous configuration. 5168 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5169 blocked and everything unblocked. 5170 5171 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5172 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 5173 5174 ring3mwait=disable 5175 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 5176 CPUs. 5177 5178 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 5179 5180 rodata= [KNL] 5181 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 5182 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 5183 5184 rockchip.usb_uart 5185 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 5186 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 5187 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 5188 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 5189 5190 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 5191 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 5192 5193 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5194 mount the root filesystem 5195 5196 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 5197 5198 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 5199 5200 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 5201 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5202 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5203 5204 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 5205 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 5206 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 5207 managed by CMA. 5208 5209 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 5210 5211 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5212 5213 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5214 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5215 strict 5216 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 5217 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 5218 which is faster. 5219 5220 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5221 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5222 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5223 factor of the size of main memory. 5224 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5225 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5226 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5227 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5228 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5229 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5230 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5231 5232 sa1100ir [NET] 5233 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5234 5235 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5236 5237 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5238 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5239 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5240 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5241 5242 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5243 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5244 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5245 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5246 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5247 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5248 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5249 value. 5250 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5251 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5252 1 64 ms 5253 2 128 ms 5254 and so on. 5255 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5256 Default is 0. 5257 5258 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5259 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5260 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5261 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5262 tests. 5263 5264 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5265 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5266 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5267 default) disables this feature. Please note 5268 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5269 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5270 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5271 5272 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5273 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5274 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5275 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5276 equal to the number of CPUs. 5277 5278 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5279 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5280 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 5281 5282 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5283 Number seconds to wait between successive 5284 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 5285 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 5286 5287 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5288 The number of seconds following the start of the 5289 test after which to shut down the system. The 5290 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 5291 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 5292 5293 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5294 The number of seconds between outputting the 5295 current test statistics to the console. A value 5296 of zero disables statistics output. 5297 5298 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 5299 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 5300 to the set of CPUs under test. 5301 5302 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 5303 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 5304 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 5305 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 5306 functions. 5307 5308 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 5309 Enable additional printk() statements. 5310 5311 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 5312 The probability weighting to use for the 5313 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 5314 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 5315 default if all other weights are -1. However, 5316 if at least one weight has some other value, a 5317 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 5318 5319 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 5320 The probability weighting to use for the 5321 smp_call_function_single() function with a 5322 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5323 5324 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 5325 The probability weighting to use for the 5326 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 5327 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5328 Note well that setting a high probability for 5329 this weighting can place serious IPI load 5330 on the system. 5331 5332 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 5333 The probability weighting to use for the 5334 smp_call_function_many() function with a 5335 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5336 and weight_many. 5337 5338 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 5339 The probability weighting to use for the 5340 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 5341 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 5342 weight_many. 5343 5344 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 5345 The probability weighting to use for the 5346 smp_call_function_all() function with a 5347 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5348 and weight_many. 5349 5350 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 5351 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 5352 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 5353 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5354 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 5355 1 -- enable. 5356 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 5357 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 5358 5359 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 5360 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 5361 "lsm=" parameter. 5362 5363 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 5364 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5365 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 5366 0 -- disable. 5367 1 -- enable. 5368 Default value is 1. 5369 5370 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 5371 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5372 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 5373 0 -- disable. 5374 1 -- enable. 5375 Default value is set via kernel config option. 5376 5377 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 5378 5379 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 5380 5381 shapers= [NET] 5382 Maximal number of shapers. 5383 5384 simeth= [IA-64] 5385 simscsi= 5386 5387 slram= [HW,MTD] 5388 5389 slab_merge [MM] 5390 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 5391 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 5392 5393 slab_nomerge [MM] 5394 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 5395 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 5396 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 5397 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 5398 layout control by attackers can usually be 5399 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 5400 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 5401 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 5402 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 5403 own. 5404 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5405 5406 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 5407 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5408 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5409 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 5410 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 5411 5412 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 5413 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 5414 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5415 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5416 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5417 last alloc / free. For more information see 5418 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5419 5420 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 5421 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5422 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5423 fragmentation. For more information see 5424 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5425 5426 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 5427 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 5428 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 5429 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 5430 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 5431 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 5432 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 5433 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5434 5435 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 5436 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 5437 lower than slub_max_order. 5438 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5439 5440 slub_merge [MM, SLUB] 5441 Same with slab_merge. 5442 5443 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 5444 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 5445 See slab_nomerge for more information. 5446 5447 smart2= [HW] 5448 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 5449 5450 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 5451 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 5452 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 5453 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 5454 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 5455 disabling interrupts for extended periods 5456 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 5457 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 5458 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 5459 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 5460 5461 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 5462 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 5463 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 5464 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 5465 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 5466 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 5467 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 5468 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 5469 1: Fast pin select (default) 5470 2: ATC IRMode 5471 5472 smt= [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 5473 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 5474 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 5475 actual hardware limit. 5476 Format: <integer> 5477 Default: -1 (no limit) 5478 5479 softlockup_panic= 5480 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 5481 Format: 0 | 1 5482 5483 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 5484 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 5485 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 5486 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 5487 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 5488 5489 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 5490 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 5491 backtraces on all cpus. 5492 Format: 0 | 1 5493 5494 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 5495 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 5496 5497 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5498 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 5499 The default operation protects the kernel from 5500 user space attacks. 5501 5502 on - unconditionally enable, implies 5503 spectre_v2_user=on 5504 off - unconditionally disable, implies 5505 spectre_v2_user=off 5506 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5507 vulnerable 5508 5509 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 5510 mitigation method at run time according to the 5511 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 5512 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 5513 compiler with which the kernel was built. 5514 5515 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 5516 against user space to user space task attacks. 5517 5518 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 5519 the user space protections. 5520 5521 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 5522 5523 retpoline - replace indirect branches 5524 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 5525 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 5526 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 5527 eibrs - enhanced IBRS 5528 eibrs,retpoline - enhanced IBRS + Retpolines 5529 eibrs,lfence - enhanced IBRS + LFENCE 5530 5531 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5532 spectre_v2=auto. 5533 5534 spectre_v2_user= 5535 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5536 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 5537 user space tasks 5538 5539 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 5540 enforced by spectre_v2=on 5541 5542 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 5543 enforced by spectre_v2=off 5544 5545 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 5546 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 5547 per thread. The mitigation control state 5548 is inherited on fork. 5549 5550 prctl,ibpb 5551 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 5552 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5553 always when switching between different user 5554 space processes. 5555 5556 seccomp 5557 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 5558 threads will enable the mitigation unless 5559 they explicitly opt out. 5560 5561 seccomp,ibpb 5562 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 5563 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5564 always when switching between different 5565 user space processes. 5566 5567 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 5568 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 5569 5570 Default mitigation: "prctl" 5571 5572 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5573 spectre_v2_user=auto. 5574 5575 spec_store_bypass_disable= 5576 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 5577 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 5578 5579 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 5580 a common industry wide performance optimization known 5581 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 5582 to the same memory location may not be observed by 5583 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 5584 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 5585 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 5586 end of a particular speculation execution window. 5587 5588 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5589 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 5590 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 5591 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 5592 5593 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 5594 Bypass optimization is used. 5595 5596 On x86 the options are: 5597 5598 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 5599 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 5600 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 5601 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 5602 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 5603 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 5604 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 5605 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 5606 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 5607 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 5608 for a process by default. The state of the control 5609 is inherited on fork. 5610 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 5611 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 5612 5613 Default mitigations: 5614 X86: "prctl" 5615 5616 On powerpc the options are: 5617 5618 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 5619 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 5620 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 5621 exit. 5622 off - No action. 5623 5624 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5625 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 5626 5627 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 5628 spia_fio_base= 5629 spia_pedr= 5630 spia_peddr= 5631 5632 split_lock_detect= 5633 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 5634 5635 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 5636 instructions that access data across cache line 5637 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 5638 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 5639 bus lock detection. 5640 5641 off - not enabled 5642 5643 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 5644 about applications triggering the #AC 5645 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 5646 the default on CPUs that support split lock 5647 detection or bus lock detection. Default 5648 behavior is by #AC if both features are 5649 enabled in hardware. 5650 5651 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 5652 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 5653 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 5654 both features are enabled in hardware. 5655 5656 ratelimit:N - 5657 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 5658 per second for bus lock detection. 5659 0 < N <= 1000. 5660 5661 N/A for split lock detection. 5662 5663 5664 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 5665 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 5666 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 5667 mode. 5668 5669 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 5670 CPL > 0. 5671 5672 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 5673 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 5674 (SRBDS) mitigation. 5675 5676 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 5677 exploit which can leak bits from the random 5678 number generator. 5679 5680 By default, this issue is mitigated by 5681 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 5682 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 5683 much slower. Among other effects, this will 5684 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 5685 5686 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 5687 the following option: 5688 5689 off: Disable mitigation and remove 5690 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 5691 5692 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 5693 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 5694 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 5695 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 5696 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 5697 but takes effect only when the low-order four 5698 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 5699 (decide at boot). 5700 5701 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 5702 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 5703 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 5704 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 5705 5706 0: Never. 5707 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 5708 2: When rcutorture decides to. 5709 3: Decide at boot time (default). 5710 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 5711 5712 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 5713 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 5714 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 5715 5716 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 5717 Specifies how frequently to check for 5718 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 5719 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 5720 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 5721 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 5722 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 5723 are ignored. 5724 5725 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 5726 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 5727 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 5728 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 5729 grace period will be considered for automatic 5730 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 5731 expediting. 5732 5733 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 5734 Specifies the number of update-side contention 5735 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 5736 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 5737 structure to big form. Note that the value of 5738 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 5739 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 5740 5741 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 5742 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 5743 5744 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 5745 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 5746 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 5747 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 5748 5749 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 5750 for both kernel and userspace 5751 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 5752 for both kernel and userspace 5753 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 5754 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 5755 to allow userspace to register its 5756 interest in being mitigated too. 5757 5758 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 5759 override the default stack gap protection. The value 5760 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 5761 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 5762 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 5763 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 5764 5765 stack_depot_disable= [KNL] 5766 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 5767 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 5768 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 5769 to false. 5770 5771 stacktrace [FTRACE] 5772 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 5773 5774 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 5775 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 5776 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 5777 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 5778 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 5779 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 5780 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 5781 5782 sti= [PARISC,HW] 5783 Format: <num> 5784 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 5785 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 5786 as the initial boot-console. 5787 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5788 5789 sti_font= [HW] 5790 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5791 5792 stifb= [HW] 5793 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 5794 5795 strict_sas_size= 5796 [X86] 5797 Format: <bool> 5798 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 5799 against the required signal frame size which 5800 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 5801 be used to filter out binaries which have 5802 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 5803 5804 sunrpc.min_resvport= 5805 sunrpc.max_resvport= 5806 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5807 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 5808 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 5809 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 5810 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 5811 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 5812 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 5813 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 5814 maximum port values. 5815 5816 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 5817 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5818 Limit the number of requests that the server will 5819 process in parallel from a single connection. 5820 The default value is 0 (no limit). 5821 5822 sunrpc.pool_mode= 5823 [NFS] 5824 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 5825 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 5826 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 5827 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 5828 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 5829 NFS server is running. 5830 5831 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 5832 automatically using heuristics 5833 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 5834 percpu one pool for each CPU 5835 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 5836 to global on non-NUMA machines) 5837 5838 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 5839 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 5840 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5841 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 5842 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 5843 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 5844 improve throughput, but will also increase the 5845 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 5846 5847 suspend.pm_test_delay= 5848 [SUSPEND] 5849 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 5850 mode before resuming the system (see 5851 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 5852 is set. Default value is 5. 5853 5854 svm= [PPC] 5855 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 5856 This parameter controls use of the Protected 5857 Execution Facility on pSeries. 5858 5859 swapaccount= [KNL] 5860 Format: [0|1] 5861 Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 5862 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 5863 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) 5864 5865 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 5866 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 5867 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 5868 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 5869 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 5870 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 5871 5872 switches= [HW,M68k] 5873 5874 sysctl.*= [KNL] 5875 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 5876 process, as if the value was written to the respective 5877 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 5878 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 5879 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 5880 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 5881 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 5882 5883 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 5884 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 5885 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 5886 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 5887 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 5888 in older udev will not work anymore. 5889 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 5890 the kernel configuration. 5891 5892 sysrq_always_enabled 5893 [KNL] 5894 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 5895 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 5896 Useful for debugging. 5897 5898 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5899 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 5900 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 5901 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 5902 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 5903 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 5904 5905 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 5906 5907 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 5908 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 5909 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 5910 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 5911 as the system sleep state during system startup with 5912 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 5913 The system is woken from this state using a 5914 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 5915 5916 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5917 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 5918 5919 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 5920 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 5921 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 5922 5923 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 5924 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 5925 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 5926 5927 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 5928 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 5929 critical and hot trip points. 5930 5931 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 5932 1: disable ACPI thermal control 5933 5934 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 5935 -1: disable all passive trip points 5936 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 5937 value 5938 5939 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 5940 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 5941 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 5942 0: no polling (default) 5943 5944 threadirqs [KNL] 5945 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 5946 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 5947 5948 topology= [S390] 5949 Format: {off | on} 5950 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 5951 topology information if the hardware supports this. 5952 The scheduler will make use of this information and 5953 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 5954 Default is on. 5955 5956 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 5957 Format: {off} 5958 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 5959 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 5960 LPAR. 5961 5962 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 5963 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 5964 until after init has spawned. 5965 5966 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 5967 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 5968 even if there were no errors. This can be a 5969 very costly operation when many torture tests 5970 are running concurrently, especially on systems 5971 with rotating-rust storage. 5972 5973 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 5974 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 5975 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 5976 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 5977 5978 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 5979 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 5980 5981 tp720= [HW,PS2] 5982 5983 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 5984 Format: integer pcr id 5985 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 5986 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 5987 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 5988 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 5989 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 5990 are saved. 5991 5992 tp_printk [FTRACE] 5993 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 5994 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 5995 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 5996 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 5997 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 5998 5999 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 6000 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 6001 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 6002 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 6003 6004 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 6005 to stop the printing of events to console at 6006 late_initcall_sync. 6007 6008 ** CAUTION ** 6009 6010 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 6011 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 6012 the system to live lock. 6013 6014 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 6015 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 6016 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 6017 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 6018 make the system inoperable. 6019 6020 This command line option will stop the printing of events 6021 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 6022 6023 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 6024 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 6025 6026 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 6027 at boot up. 6028 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 6029 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 6030 depending on the architecture, may not be 6031 in sync between CPUs. 6032 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 6033 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 6034 but better for some race conditions. 6035 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 6036 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 6037 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 6038 once per event. 6039 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 6040 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 6041 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6042 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 6043 stamps. 6044 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6045 Architectures may add more clocks. See 6046 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 6047 6048 trace_event=[event-list] 6049 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 6050 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 6051 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 6052 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 6053 6054 trace_options=[option-list] 6055 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 6056 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 6057 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 6058 to echo the option name into 6059 6060 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 6061 6062 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 6063 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 6064 6065 trace_options=stacktrace 6066 6067 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 6068 section. 6069 6070 traceoff_on_warning 6071 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 6072 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 6073 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 6074 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 6075 6076 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 6077 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 6078 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 6079 6080 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 6081 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 6082 6083 transparent_hugepage= 6084 [KNL] 6085 Format: [always|madvise|never] 6086 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 6087 with respect to transparent hugepages. 6088 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 6089 for more details. 6090 6091 trusted.source= [KEYS] 6092 Format: <string> 6093 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 6094 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 6095 sources: 6096 - "tpm" 6097 - "tee" 6098 - "caam" 6099 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 6100 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 6101 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 6102 successfully during iteration. 6103 6104 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 6105 Format: <string> 6106 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 6107 Can be one of: 6108 - "kernel" 6109 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 6110 - "default" 6111 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 6112 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 6113 6114 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 6115 Format: <string> 6116 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 6117 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 6118 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 6119 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 6120 virtualized environment. 6121 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 6122 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 6123 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 6124 can add overhead. 6125 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 6126 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 6127 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 6128 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 6129 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 6130 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 6131 acceptable). 6132 6133 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 6134 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 6135 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 6136 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 6137 Format: <unsigned int> 6138 6139 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 6140 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 6141 support TSX control. 6142 6143 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 6144 6145 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 6146 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 6147 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 6148 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 6149 so there may be unknown security risks associated 6150 with leaving it enabled. 6151 6152 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 6153 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 6154 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 6155 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 6156 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 6157 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 6158 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 6159 6160 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 6161 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 6162 6163 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 6164 6165 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6166 for more details. 6167 6168 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 6169 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 6170 6171 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 6172 certain CPUs that support Transactional 6173 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 6174 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 6175 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 6176 conditions. 6177 6178 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6179 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 6180 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 6181 access. 6182 6183 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 6184 options are: 6185 6186 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 6187 if TSX is enabled. 6188 6189 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 6190 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 6191 is not disabled because CPU is not 6192 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 6193 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 6194 6195 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 6196 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 6197 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 6198 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 6199 6200 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6201 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 6202 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 6203 required and doesn't provide any additional 6204 mitigation. 6205 6206 For details see: 6207 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6208 6209 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 6210 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 6211 Format: 6212 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 6213 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 6214 6215 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 6216 happen after console_init() and before a proper 6217 console driver takes over, this boot options might 6218 help "seeing" what's going on. 6219 6220 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6221 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 6222 6223 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 6224 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 6225 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 6226 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 6227 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 6228 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 6229 reported either. 6230 6231 unknown_nmi_panic 6232 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 6233 6234 usbcore.authorized_default= 6235 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 6236 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 6237 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 6238 if device connected to internal port) 6239 6240 usbcore.autosuspend= 6241 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 6242 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 6243 is the time required before an idle device will be 6244 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 6245 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 6246 6247 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 6248 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 6249 6250 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 6251 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 6252 (default = 65536). 6253 6254 usbcore.blinkenlights= 6255 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 6256 6257 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 6258 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 6259 scheme (default 0 = off). 6260 6261 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 6262 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 6263 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 6264 6265 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 6266 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 6267 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 6268 6269 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 6270 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 6271 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 6272 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 6273 6274 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 6275 6276 usbcore.quirks= 6277 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 6278 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 6279 commas. Each entry has the form 6280 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 6281 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 6282 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 6283 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 6284 the following meanings: 6285 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 6286 descriptors must not be fetched using 6287 a 255-byte read); 6288 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 6289 correctly so reset it instead); 6290 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 6291 Set-Interface requests); 6292 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 6293 handle its Configuration or Interface 6294 strings); 6295 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 6296 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 6297 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 6298 more interface descriptions than the 6299 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 6300 talking to these interfaces); 6301 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 6302 during initialization, after we read 6303 the device descriptor); 6304 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 6305 high speed and super speed interrupt 6306 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 6307 require the interval in microframes (1 6308 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 6309 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 6310 (bInterval-1). 6311 Devices with this quirk report their 6312 bInterval as the result of this 6313 calculation instead of the exponent 6314 variable used in the calculation); 6315 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 6316 handle device_qualifier descriptor 6317 requests); 6318 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 6319 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 6320 remote wakeup capability); 6321 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 6322 Power Management); 6323 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 6324 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 6325 frames instead of the USB 2.0 6326 calculation); 6327 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 6328 to be disconnected before suspend to 6329 prevent spurious wakeup); 6330 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 6331 pause after every control message); 6332 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 6333 delay after resetting its port); 6334 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 6335 6336 usbhid.mousepoll= 6337 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 6338 6339 usbhid.jspoll= 6340 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 6341 6342 usbhid.kbpoll= 6343 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 6344 6345 usb-storage.delay_use= 6346 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 6347 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 6348 6349 usb-storage.quirks= 6350 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 6351 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 6352 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 6353 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 6354 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 6355 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 6356 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 6357 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 6358 of sense data, not on uas); 6359 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 6360 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 6361 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 6362 device capacity by one sector); 6363 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 6364 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 6365 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 6366 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 6367 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 6368 command, uas only); 6369 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 6370 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 6371 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 6372 reported device capacity by one 6373 sector if the number is odd); 6374 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 6375 device); 6376 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 6377 command, uas only); 6378 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 6379 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 6380 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 6381 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 6382 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 6383 not on uas); 6384 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 6385 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 6386 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 6387 reported by the device, not on uas); 6388 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 6389 by default, not on uas); 6390 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 6391 bogus residue values, not on uas); 6392 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 6393 Logical Unit); 6394 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 6395 commands, uas only); 6396 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 6397 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 6398 medium is write-protected). 6399 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 6400 even if the device claims no cache, 6401 not on uas) 6402 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 6403 6404 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 6405 Format: <int> 6406 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 6407 1 - undefined instruction events 6408 2 - system calls 6409 4 - invalid data aborts 6410 8 - SIGSEGV faults 6411 16 - SIGBUS faults 6412 Example: user_debug=31 6413 6414 userpte= 6415 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 6416 6417 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 6418 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 6419 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 6420 6421 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 6422 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 6423 6424 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 6425 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 6426 6427 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 6428 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 6429 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 6430 6431 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 6432 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 6433 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 6434 6435 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 6436 alias for vdso32=0. 6437 6438 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 6439 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 6440 6441 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 6442 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 6443 6444 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 6445 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 6446 6447 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 6448 Format: [0|1] 6449 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 6450 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 6451 level and then send out the event to user space through 6452 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 6453 will only send out the event without touching backlight 6454 brightness level. 6455 default: 1 6456 6457 virtio_mmio.device= 6458 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 6459 6460 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 6461 where: 6462 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 6463 like K, M and G) 6464 <baseaddr> := physical base address 6465 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 6466 request_irq()) 6467 <id> := (optional) platform device id 6468 example: 6469 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 6470 6471 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 6472 6473 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 6474 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 6475 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 6476 Use vga=ask for menu. 6477 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 6478 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 6479 6480 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 6481 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 6482 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 6483 All options are enabled by default, and this 6484 interface is meant to allow for selectively 6485 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 6486 debugging features. 6487 6488 Available options are: 6489 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 6490 - Disable all of the above options 6491 6492 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 6493 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 6494 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 6495 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 6496 mapped kernel RAM. 6497 6498 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 6499 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 6500 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 6501 6502 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 6503 Format: <command> 6504 6505 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 6506 Format: <command> 6507 6508 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 6509 Format: <command> 6510 6511 vsyscall= [X86-64] 6512 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 6513 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 6514 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 6515 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 6516 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 6517 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 6518 6519 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6520 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6521 page is readable. 6522 6523 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6524 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6525 page is not readable. 6526 6527 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 6528 them quite hard to use for exploits but 6529 might break your system. 6530 6531 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 6532 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 6533 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 6534 6535 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 6536 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 6537 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 6538 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 6539 6540 vt.default_blu= [VT] 6541 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 6542 Change the default blue palette of the console. 6543 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6544 ranging from 0-255. 6545 6546 vt.default_grn= [VT] 6547 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 6548 Change the default green palette of the console. 6549 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6550 ranging from 0-255. 6551 6552 vt.default_red= [VT] 6553 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 6554 Change the default red palette of the console. 6555 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6556 ranging from 0-255. 6557 6558 vt.default_utf8= 6559 [VT] 6560 Format=<0|1> 6561 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 6562 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 6563 newly opened terminals. 6564 6565 vt.global_cursor_default= 6566 [VT] 6567 Format=<-1|0|1> 6568 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 6569 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 6570 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 6571 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 6572 cursors, 1 will display them. 6573 6574 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 6575 Default: 2 = green. 6576 6577 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 6578 Default: 3 = cyan. 6579 6580 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 6581 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 6582 or other driver-specific files in the 6583 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 6584 6585 watchdog_thresh= 6586 [KNL] 6587 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 6588 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 6589 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 6590 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 6591 seconds. 6592 6593 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 6594 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 6595 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 6596 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 6597 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 6598 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 6599 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 6600 corresponding sysfs file. 6601 6602 workqueue.disable_numa 6603 By default, all work items queued to unbound 6604 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 6605 issued on, which results in better behavior in 6606 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 6607 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 6608 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 6609 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 6610 6611 workqueue.power_efficient 6612 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 6613 they show better performance thanks to cache 6614 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 6615 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 6616 6617 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 6618 were observed to contribute significantly to power 6619 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 6620 power usage at the cost of small performance 6621 overhead. 6622 6623 The default value of this parameter is determined by 6624 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 6625 6626 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 6627 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 6628 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 6629 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 6630 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 6631 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 6632 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 6633 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 6634 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 6635 impacted. 6636 6637 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 6638 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 6639 supporting x2apic. 6640 6641 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 6642 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 6643 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 6644 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 6645 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 6646 domains. 6647 6648 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 6649 Unplug Xen emulated devices 6650 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 6651 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 6652 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 6653 nics -- unplug network devices 6654 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 6655 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 6656 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 6657 the unplug protocol 6658 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 6659 6660 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 6661 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 6662 panic() code such as dumping handler. 6663 6664 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 6665 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 6666 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 6667 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6668 6669 xen_nopv [X86] 6670 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 6671 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 6672 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 6673 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6674 6675 xen_no_vector_callback 6676 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 6677 event channel interrupts. 6678 6679 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 6680 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 6681 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 6682 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 6683 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 6684 6685 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 6686 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 6687 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 6688 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 6689 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 6690 more timer interrupts. 6691 6692 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 6693 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 6694 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 6695 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 6696 started with less memory configured than allowed at 6697 max. Default is 180. 6698 6699 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 6700 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 6701 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 6702 6703 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 6704 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 6705 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 6706 6707 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 6708 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 6709 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 6710 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 6711 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 6712 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 6713 6714 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 6715 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 6716 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 6717 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 6718 6719 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 6720 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 6721 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 6722 contention. 6723 6724 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 6725 Format: 6726 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 6727 6728 xive= [PPC] 6729 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 6730 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 6731 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 6732 6733 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 6734 controller on both pseries and powernv 6735 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 6736 6737 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 6738 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 6739 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 6740 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 6741 loads instead, as on POWER9. 6742 6743 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 6744 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 6745 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 6746 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 6747 6748 xmon [PPC] 6749 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 6750 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 6751 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 6752 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 6753 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 6754 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6755 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 6756 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 6757 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 6758 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6759 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 6760 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 6761 can be written using xmon commands. 6762 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 6763 memory, and other data can't be written using 6764 xmon commands. 6765 off xmon is disabled. 6766