1 accept_memory= [MM] 2 Format: { eager | lazy } 3 default: lazy 4 By default, unaccepted memory is accepted lazily to 5 avoid prolonged boot times. The lazy option will add 6 some runtime overhead until all memory is eventually 7 accepted. In most cases the overhead is negligible. 8 For some workloads or for debugging purposes 9 accept_memory=eager can be used to accept all memory 10 at once during boot. 11 12 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64,EARLY] 13 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 14 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 15 copy_dsdt | nospcr } 16 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 17 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64,riscv64] 18 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 19 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 20 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 21 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 22 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 23 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 24 nospcr -- disable console in ACPI SPCR table as 25 default _serial_ console on ARM64 26 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on", "acpi=force" or 27 "acpi=nospcr" are available 28 For RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 29 are available 30 31 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 32 33 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI,IOAPIC,EARLY] 34 Format: <int> 35 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 36 1,0: use 1st APIC table 37 default: 0 38 39 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 40 { vendor | video | native | none } 41 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver 42 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 43 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 44 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. 45 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. 46 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. 47 48 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr [ACPI,EARLY] 49 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 50 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 51 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 52 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 53 54 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 55 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 56 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 57 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 58 This option is useful for developers to identify the 59 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 60 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 61 62 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 63 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 64 Format: <int> 65 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 66 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 67 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 68 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS 69 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 70 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 71 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 72 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 73 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 74 debug layers and levels. 75 76 Enable processor driver info messages: 77 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 78 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 79 object while interpreting AML: 80 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 81 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 82 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 83 84 Some values produce so much output that the system is 85 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 86 if you need to capture more output. 87 88 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 89 { strict | lax | no } 90 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 91 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 92 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 93 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 94 can interfere with legacy drivers. 95 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 96 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 97 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 98 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 99 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 100 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 101 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 102 no further checks are performed. 103 104 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 105 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 106 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 107 size limitation. 108 109 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 110 ACPI will balance active IRQs 111 default in APIC mode 112 113 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 114 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 115 default in PIC mode 116 117 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 118 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 119 120 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 121 use by PCI 122 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 123 124 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 125 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 126 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 127 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 128 the GPE dispatcher. 129 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 130 GPE floodings. 131 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list> 132 133 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 134 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 135 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 136 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 137 auto-serialization feature. 138 This feature is enabled by default. 139 This option allows to turn off the feature. 140 141 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 142 kernels. 143 144 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 145 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 146 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 147 installed automatically and they will appear under 148 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 149 This option turns off this feature. 150 Note that specifying this option does not affect 151 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 152 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 153 154 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 155 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 156 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 157 158 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC,EARLY] 159 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 160 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 161 second kernel for kdump. 162 163 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 164 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 165 166 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 167 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 168 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 169 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 170 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 171 172 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 173 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 174 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 175 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 176 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 177 strings 178 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 179 strings 180 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 181 182 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 183 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 184 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 185 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 186 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 187 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 188 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 189 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 190 care about the state of the feature group strings which 191 should be controlled by the OSPM. 192 Examples: 193 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 194 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 195 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 196 197 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 198 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 199 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 200 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 201 multiple times through kernel command line is also 202 meaningless. 203 Examples: 204 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 205 FALSE. 206 207 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 208 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 209 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 210 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 211 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 212 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 213 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 214 there are quirks related to this string. This command 215 is useful when one want to control the state of the 216 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 217 the OSPM features. 218 Examples: 219 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 220 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 221 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 222 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 223 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 224 equivalent to 225 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 226 and 227 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 228 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 229 230 acpi_pm_good [X86] 231 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 232 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 233 and always returns good values. 234 235 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI,EARLY] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 236 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 237 238 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 239 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 240 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 241 242 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 243 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig, 244 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs, 245 sci_force_enable, nobl } 246 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 247 s3_bios and s3_mode. 248 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 249 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 250 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware 251 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully 252 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with 253 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since 254 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it 255 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume 256 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the 257 s4_hwsig option is enabled. 258 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 259 used (or even warned about) during resume. 260 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 261 control method, with respect to putting devices into 262 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 263 of _PTS is used by default). 264 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 265 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 266 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 267 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 268 but some broken systems don't work without it). 269 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 270 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 271 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 272 273 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 274 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 275 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 276 277 add_efi_memmap [EFI,X86,EARLY] Include EFI memory map in 278 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 279 280 agp= [AGP] 281 { off | try_unsupported } 282 off: disable AGP support 283 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 284 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 285 286 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 287 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 288 289 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 290 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 291 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 292 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 293 294 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 295 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 296 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 297 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 298 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 299 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 300 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 301 302 32: only for 32-bit processes 303 64: only for 64-bit processes 304 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 305 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 306 307 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 308 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 309 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 310 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 311 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 312 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 313 314 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64,EARLY] 315 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the 316 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict 317 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this 318 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit 319 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0 320 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted. 321 322 See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more 323 information. 324 325 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 326 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 327 Possible values are: 328 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1 329 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 330 the system 331 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 332 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 333 allowed anymore to lift isolation 334 requirements as needed. This option 335 does not override iommu=pt 336 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known 337 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this 338 option with care. 339 pgtbl_v1 - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default). 340 pgtbl_v2 - Use v2 page table for DMA-API. 341 irtcachedis - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching. 342 343 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 344 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 345 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 346 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 347 IOMMU initialization. 348 349 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 350 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 351 remapping modes: 352 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 353 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 354 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 355 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 356 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 357 358 amd_pstate= [X86,EARLY] 359 disable 360 Do not enable amd_pstate as the default 361 scaling driver for the supported processors 362 passive 363 Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver. 364 In this mode autonomous selection is disabled. 365 Driver requests a desired performance level and platform 366 tries to match the same performance level if it is 367 satisfied by guaranteed performance level. 368 active 369 Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver, 370 driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants 371 to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff) 372 to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will 373 calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores 374 frequency. 375 guided 376 Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and 377 maximum performance level and the platform autonomously 378 selects a performance level in this range and appropriate 379 to the current workload. 380 381 amd_prefcore= 382 [X86] 383 disable 384 Disable amd-pstate preferred core. 385 386 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 387 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 388 Format: <a>,<b> 389 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 390 391 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 392 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 393 connected to one of 16 gameports 394 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 395 396 apc= [HW,SPARC] 397 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 398 Format: noidle 399 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 400 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 401 APC and your system crashes randomly. 402 403 apic= [APIC,X86,EARLY] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 404 Change the output verbosity while booting 405 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 406 Change the amount of debugging information output 407 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 408 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 409 driver name. 410 Format: apic=driver_name 411 Examples: apic=bigsmp 412 413 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86,EARLY] External NMI delivery setting 414 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 415 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 416 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 417 backup of CPU 0 418 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 419 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 420 shot down by NMI 421 422 autoconf= [IPV6] 423 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 424 425 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 426 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 427 428 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 429 Format: { "0" | "1" } 430 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 431 0 -- disable. 432 1 -- enable. 433 Default value is set via kernel config option. 434 435 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 436 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 437 438 arm64.no32bit_el0 [ARM64] Unconditionally disable the execution of 439 32 bit applications. 440 441 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 442 Identification support 443 444 arm64.nomops [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory 445 Set instructions support 446 447 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 448 support 449 450 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 451 support 452 453 arm64.nosme [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix 454 Extension support 455 456 arm64.nosve [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector 457 Extension support 458 459 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 460 461 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 462 463 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 464 EzKey and similar keyboards 465 466 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 467 468 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 469 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 470 471 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 472 keyboards 473 474 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 475 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 476 477 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 478 Use software keyboard repeat 479 480 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 481 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 482 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 483 enabled until the next reboot 484 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 485 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 486 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 487 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 488 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 489 userspace auditd. 490 Default: unset 491 492 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 493 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 494 Default: 64 495 496 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 497 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 498 Format: { "0" | "1" } 499 0 - Disable the BAU. 500 1 - Enable the BAU. 501 unset - Disable the BAU. 502 503 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 504 Format: <io>,<mode> 505 506 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 507 Format: <io>,<mode> 508 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 509 510 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 511 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 512 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 513 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 514 515 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 516 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 517 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 518 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 519 520 bert_disable [ACPI] 521 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 522 523 bgrt_disable [ACPI,X86,EARLY] 524 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 525 526 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 527 embedded devices based on command line input. 528 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 529 530 boot_delay= [KNL,EARLY] 531 Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 532 Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled, 533 and you may also have to specify "lpj=". Boot_delay 534 values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed 535 erroneous and ignored. 536 Format: integer 537 538 bootconfig [KNL,EARLY] 539 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 540 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 541 542 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 543 544 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 545 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 546 kernel args too. 547 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 548 bttv.tuner= 549 550 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 551 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 552 at a time. 553 554 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 555 556 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 557 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 558 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 559 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 560 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 561 This option provides an override for these situations. 562 563 carrier_timeout= 564 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 565 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 566 it waits 120 seconds. 567 568 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 569 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 570 trust validation. 571 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 572 573 cca= [MIPS,EARLY] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 574 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 575 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 576 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 577 others). 578 579 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 580 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 581 582 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 583 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 584 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 585 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 586 a single hierarchy 587 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 588 subsystem 589 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 590 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 591 created 592 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 593 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 594 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 595 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 596 stall information accounting feature 597 598 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 599 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 600 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 601 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 602 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 603 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 604 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 605 all v1 hierarchies. 606 607 cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods. 608 Format: { "true" | "false" } 609 Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS. 610 611 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 612 Format: <string> 613 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 614 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 615 nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting. 616 617 checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 618 Format: { "0" | "1" } 619 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 620 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 621 any implied execute protection). 622 1 -- check protection requested by application. 623 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 624 Value can be changed at runtime via 625 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 626 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 627 628 cio_ignore= [S390] 629 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 630 631 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] 632 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 633 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 634 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily 635 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific 636 ones should be. 637 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line 638 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above 639 instability issue. However, not all features have names 640 in /proc/cpuinfo. 641 Note that using this option will taint your kernel. 642 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 643 or using the feature without checking anything 644 will still see it. This just prevents it from 645 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 646 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 647 some critical bits. 648 649 clk_ignore_unused 650 [CLK] 651 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 652 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 653 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 654 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 655 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 656 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 657 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 658 platform with proper driver support. For more 659 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 660 661 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 662 [Deprecated] 663 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 664 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 665 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 666 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 667 668 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 669 Format: <string> 670 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 671 with the name specified. 672 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 673 the platform: 674 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 675 [ACPI] acpi_pm 676 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 677 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 678 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 679 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 680 [MIPS] MIPS 681 [PARISC] cr16 682 [S390] tod 683 [SH] SuperH 684 [SPARC64] tick 685 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 686 687 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 688 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 689 Format: <bool> 690 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 691 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 692 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 693 systems. 694 695 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 696 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 697 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 698 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 699 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 700 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 701 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 702 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 703 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 704 705 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 706 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 707 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 708 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 709 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 710 711 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 712 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 713 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 714 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 715 placement constraint by the physical address range of 716 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 717 altogether. For more information, see 718 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 719 720 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 721 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 722 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 723 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 724 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 725 specified, the default value is 0. 726 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 727 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 728 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 729 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 730 731 numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]] 732 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 733 Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for 734 contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA 735 area for the specified node. 736 737 With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 738 first try to allocate buffer from the numa area 739 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 740 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 741 742 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 743 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 744 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 745 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 746 a hypervisor. 747 Default: yes 748 749 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL,EARLY] 750 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 751 allocations, by default set to 256K. 752 753 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 754 Format: 755 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 756 757 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 758 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 759 760 com90xx= [HW,NET] 761 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 762 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 763 764 condev= [HW,S390] console device 765 conmode= 766 767 con3215_drop= [S390,EARLY] 3215 console drop mode. 768 Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0 769 When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when 770 the console buffer is full. In this case the 771 operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example 772 x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the 773 console output to advance and the kernel to continue. 774 This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270 775 terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal 776 emulator is used, this parameter has no effect. 777 778 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 779 780 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 781 782 ttyS<n>[,options] 783 ttyUSB0[,options] 784 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 785 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 786 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 787 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 788 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 789 790 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 791 information. See 792 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 793 alternative. 794 795 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 796 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 797 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 798 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 799 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 800 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 801 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 802 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 803 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 804 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 805 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 806 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 807 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 808 the h/w is not re-initialized. 809 810 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 811 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 812 813 { null | "" } 814 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 815 console messages discarded. 816 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 817 kernel command line. 818 819 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 820 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 821 console=brl,ttyS0 822 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 823 824 console_msg_format= 825 [KNL] Change console messages format 826 default 827 By default we print messages on consoles in 828 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 829 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 830 `printk_time' param). 831 syslog 832 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 833 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 834 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 835 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 836 from /proc/kmsg. 837 838 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 839 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 840 Defaults to 0. 841 842 coredump_filter= 843 [KNL] Change the default value for 844 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 845 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 846 847 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 848 [ARM,ARM64] 849 Format: <bool> 850 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 851 0: default value, disable debugging 852 1: enable debugging at boot time 853 854 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 855 Format: 856 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 857 858 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 859 disable the cpuidle sub-system 860 861 cpuidle.governor= 862 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 863 864 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 865 disable the cpufreq sub-system 866 867 cpufreq.default_governor= 868 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 869 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 870 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 871 872 cpu_init_udelay=N 873 [X86,EARLY] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 874 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 875 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 876 Default: 10000 877 878 cpuhp.parallel= 879 [SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs 880 Format: <bool> 881 Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise 882 the parameter has no effect. 883 884 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 885 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 886 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 887 succeeds in any situation. 888 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 889 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 890 kernel more unstable. 891 892 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 893 [KNL,EARLY] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 894 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 895 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 896 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 897 is selected automatically. 898 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] Select a region 899 under 4G first, and fall back to reserve region above 900 4G when '@offset' hasn't been specified. 901 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 902 903 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 904 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 905 in the running system. The syntax of range is 906 start-[end] where start and end are both 907 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 908 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 909 910 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 911 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range could be 912 above 4G. 913 Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top, 914 so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram 915 installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated 916 below 4G, if available. 917 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 918 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 919 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range under 4G. 920 When crashkernel=X,high is passed, kernel could allocate 921 physical memory region above 4G, that cause second kernel 922 crash on system that require some amount of low memory, 923 e.g. swiotlb requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also 924 enough extra low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers 925 for 32-bit devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate 926 default size of memory below 4G automatically. The default 927 size is platform dependent. 928 --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB) 929 --> arm64: 128MiB 930 --> riscv: 128MiB 931 --> loongarch: 128MiB 932 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G 933 for second kernel instead. 934 0: to disable low allocation. 935 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 936 or memory reserved is below 4G. 937 938 cryptomgr.notests 939 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 940 941 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 942 Format: <dma> 943 944 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 945 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 946 947 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU 948 function call handling. When switched on, 949 additional debug data is printed to the console 950 in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that 951 CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve 952 the hang situation. The default value of this 953 option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT 954 Kconfig option. 955 956 dasd= [HW,NET] 957 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 958 959 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 960 (one device per port) 961 Format: <port#>,<type> 962 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 963 964 debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 965 966 debug_boot_weak_hash 967 [KNL,EARLY] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 968 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 969 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 970 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 971 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 972 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 973 974 debug_locks_verbose= 975 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 976 Format: <int> 977 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 978 self-tests. 979 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 980 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 981 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 982 useful to lockdep developers. 983 984 debug_objects [KNL,EARLY] Enable object debugging 985 986 debug_guardpage_minorder= 987 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 988 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 989 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 990 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 991 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 992 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 993 possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2. Setting this 994 parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most 995 random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in 996 kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads 997 from) a random memory location. Note that there exists 998 a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy 999 H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA 1000 (basically when memory is written at bus level and the 1001 CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by 1002 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not 1003 help tracking down these problems. 1004 1005 debug_pagealloc= 1006 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 1007 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 1008 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 1009 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 1010 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 1011 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 1012 on: enable the feature 1013 1014 debugfs= [KNL,EARLY] This parameter enables what is exposed to 1015 userspace and debugfs internal clients. 1016 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 1017 on: All functions are enabled. 1018 no-mount: 1019 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 1020 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 1021 its content. There is nothing to mount. 1022 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 1023 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 1024 or directories within debugfs. 1025 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 1026 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 1027 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 1028 1029 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 1030 1031 default_hugepagesz= 1032 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 1033 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 1034 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 1035 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 1036 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 1037 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 1038 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 1039 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1040 Format: size[KMG] 1041 1042 deferred_probe_timeout= 1043 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 1044 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 1045 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 1046 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout 1047 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time 1048 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each 1049 successful driver registration. This option will also 1050 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 1051 retrying. 1052 1053 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 1054 1055 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 1056 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1057 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1058 hardware. 1059 1060 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 1061 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 1062 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 1063 blacklisted features. 1064 1065 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 1066 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1067 (disabled by default). 1068 1069 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 1070 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1071 capability is set. 1072 1073 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 1074 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 1075 1076 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 1077 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 1078 1079 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 1080 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 1081 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 1082 level 1 and decompression (default) 1083 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 1084 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 1085 only (compression on level 1) 1086 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 1087 only (decompression) 1088 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 1089 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 1090 1091 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1092 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1093 1094 disable_1tb_segments [PPC,EARLY] 1095 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1096 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1097 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1098 miss to occur. 1099 1100 disable= [IPV6] 1101 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1102 1103 disable_radix [PPC,EARLY] 1104 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1105 1106 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1107 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1108 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1109 1110 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES,EARLY] 1111 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1112 to workaround buggy firmware. 1113 1114 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1115 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1116 1117 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY] 1118 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1119 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1120 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1121 1122 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only,EARLY] 1123 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1124 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1125 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1126 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1127 1128 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86,EARLY] 1129 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1130 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1131 1132 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1133 1134 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1135 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1136 1137 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1138 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1139 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1140 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1141 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1142 architectural default is too low. 1143 1144 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1145 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1146 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1147 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1148 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1149 driver later using sysfs. 1150 1151 reg_file_data_sampling= 1152 [X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data 1153 Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability. RFDS is a CPU 1154 vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer 1155 kernel data values previously stored in floating point 1156 registers, vector registers, or integer registers. 1157 RFDS only affects Intel Atom processors. 1158 1159 on: Turns ON the mitigation. 1160 off: Turns OFF the mitigation. 1161 1162 This parameter overrides the compile time default set 1163 by CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS. Mitigation cannot be 1164 disabled when other VERW based mitigations (like MDS) 1165 are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all 1166 VERW based mitigations need to be disabled. 1167 1168 For details see: 1169 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst 1170 1171 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1172 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * 1173 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the 1174 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT 1175 match the *. 1176 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1177 1178 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1179 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1180 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1181 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1182 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1183 An EDID data set will only be used for a particular 1184 connector, if its name and a colon are prepended to 1185 the EDID name. Each connector may use a unique EDID 1186 data set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1187 data set with no connector name will be used for 1188 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1189 1190 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1191 1192 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC,EARLY] 1193 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1194 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1195 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1196 exists). 1197 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1198 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1199 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1200 1201 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1202 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1203 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1204 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1205 1206 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1207 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1208 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1209 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1210 for details. 1211 1212 early_ioremap_debug [KNL,EARLY] 1213 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1214 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1215 which are not unmapped. 1216 1217 earlycon= [KNL,EARLY] Output early console device and options. 1218 1219 When used with no options, the early console is 1220 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1221 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1222 the platform. 1223 1224 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1225 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1226 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1227 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1228 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1229 configured. 1230 1231 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1232 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1233 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1234 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1235 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1236 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1237 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1238 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1239 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1240 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1241 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1242 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1243 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is 1244 the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set 1245 to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16. 1246 1247 pl011,<addr> 1248 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1249 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1250 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1251 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1252 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1253 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1254 the device registers. 1255 1256 liteuart,<addr> 1257 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1258 specified address. The serial port must already be 1259 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1260 1261 meson,<addr> 1262 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1263 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1264 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1265 supported. 1266 1267 msm_serial,<addr> 1268 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1269 port at the specified address. The serial port 1270 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1271 yet supported. 1272 1273 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1274 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1275 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1276 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1277 yet supported. 1278 1279 owl,<addr> 1280 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1281 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1282 specified address. The serial port must already be 1283 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1284 1285 rda,<addr> 1286 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1287 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1288 specified address. The serial port must already be 1289 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1290 1291 sbi 1292 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1293 console. 1294 1295 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1296 1297 s3c2410,<addr> 1298 s3c2412,<addr> 1299 s3c2440,<addr> 1300 s3c6400,<addr> 1301 s5pv210,<addr> 1302 exynos4210,<addr> 1303 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1304 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1305 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1306 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1307 Options are not yet supported. 1308 1309 lantiq,<addr> 1310 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1311 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1312 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1313 yet supported. 1314 1315 lpuart,<addr> 1316 lpuart32,<addr> 1317 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1318 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1319 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1320 port must already be setup and configured. 1321 1322 ec_imx21,<addr> 1323 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1324 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1325 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1326 must already be setup and configured. 1327 1328 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1329 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1330 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1331 address. The serial port must already be setup 1332 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1333 1334 qcom_geni,<addr> 1335 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1336 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1337 specified address. The serial port must already be 1338 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1339 1340 efifb,[options] 1341 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1342 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1343 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1344 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1345 mapped with the correct attributes. 1346 1347 linflex,<addr> 1348 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1349 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1350 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1351 already be setup and configured. 1352 1353 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390,UM,EARLY] 1354 earlyprintk=vga 1355 earlyprintk=sclp 1356 earlyprintk=xen 1357 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1358 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1359 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1360 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1361 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1362 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1363 earlyprintk=bios 1364 1365 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1366 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1367 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1368 1369 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1370 takes over. 1371 1372 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can 1373 be used at a time. 1374 1375 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1376 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1377 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1378 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1379 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1380 You can find the port for a given device in 1381 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1382 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1383 1384 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1385 very good. 1386 1387 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by 1388 the real console. 1389 1390 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1391 1392 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1393 1394 The bios output can only be used on SuperH. 1395 1396 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1397 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1398 UART class. 1399 1400 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1401 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1402 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1403 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1404 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1405 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1406 default: on. 1407 1408 edd= [EDD] 1409 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1410 1411 efi= [EFI,EARLY] 1412 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1413 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1414 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1415 debug: enable misc debug output. 1416 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1417 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1418 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1419 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1420 firmware implementations. 1421 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1422 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1423 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1424 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1425 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1426 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1427 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1428 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1429 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1430 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1431 1432 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI,X86,EARLY] 1433 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1434 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1435 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1436 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1437 1438 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1439 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1440 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1441 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1442 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1443 1444 1445 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1446 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1447 1448 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB,EARLY] Allow early kernel console debugging 1449 Format: ekgdboc=kbd 1450 1451 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1452 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1453 1454 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1455 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1456 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1457 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1458 1459 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1460 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1461 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1462 1463 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390,EARLY] 1464 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1465 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1466 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1467 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1468 1469 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY] 1470 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1471 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1472 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1473 1474 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1475 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1476 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1477 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1478 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1479 1480 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1481 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1482 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1483 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1484 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1485 Default value is 0. 1486 Value can be changed at runtime via 1487 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1488 1489 erst_disable [ACPI] 1490 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1491 support. 1492 1493 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1494 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1495 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1496 1497 evm= [EVM] 1498 Format: { "fix" } 1499 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1500 current integrity status. 1501 1502 early_page_ext [KNL,EARLY] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier 1503 stages so cover more early boot allocations. 1504 Please note that as side effect some optimizations 1505 might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized 1506 memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process 1507 might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of 1508 memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y. 1509 1510 failslab= 1511 fail_usercopy= 1512 fail_page_alloc= 1513 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1514 General fault injection mechanism. 1515 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1516 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1517 1518 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1519 Format: { initns | none } 1520 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1521 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1522 1523 floppy= [HW] 1524 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1525 1526 forcepae [X86-32] 1527 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1528 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1529 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1530 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1531 and may cause unknown problems. 1532 1533 fred= [X86-64] 1534 Enable/disable Flexible Return and Event Delivery. 1535 Format: { on | off } 1536 on: enable FRED when it's present. 1537 off: disable FRED, the default setting. 1538 1539 ftrace=[tracer] 1540 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1541 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1542 boot debugging. 1543 1544 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1545 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1546 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1547 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1548 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1549 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1550 start up functionality. 1551 1552 Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing 1553 instance that was created by the trace_instance= command 1554 line parameter. 1555 1556 trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo 1557 1558 The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger 1559 a snapshot at the end of boot up. 1560 1561 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=2(orig_cpu) | =<instance>][,<instance> | 1562 ,<instance>=2(orig_cpu)] 1563 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1564 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump global 1565 buffers of all CPUs, if you pass 2 or orig_cpu, it 1566 will dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered 1567 the oops, or the specific instance will be dumped if 1568 its name is passed. Multiple instance dump is also 1569 supported, and instances are separated by commas. Each 1570 instance supports only dump on CPU that triggered the 1571 oops by passing 2 or orig_cpu to it. 1572 1573 ftrace_dump_on_oops=foo=orig_cpu 1574 1575 The above will dump only the buffer of "foo" instance 1576 on CPU that triggered the oops. 1577 1578 ftrace_dump_on_oops,foo,bar=orig_cpu 1579 1580 The above will dump global buffer on all CPUs, the 1581 buffer of "foo" instance on all CPUs and the buffer 1582 of "bar" instance on CPU that triggered the oops. 1583 1584 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1585 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1586 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1587 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1588 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1589 tracing directory. 1590 1591 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1592 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1593 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1594 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1595 tracing directory. 1596 1597 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1598 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1599 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1600 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1601 that can be changed at run time by the 1602 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1603 1604 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1605 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1606 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1607 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1608 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1609 1610 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1611 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1612 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1613 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1614 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1615 1616 fw_devlink= [KNL,EARLY] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1617 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1618 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1619 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1620 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1621 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1622 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1623 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1624 suppliers). 1625 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1626 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1627 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1628 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1629 up (sync_state() calls). 1630 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1631 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1632 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1633 1634 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1635 [KNL,EARLY] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1636 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1637 Format: <bool> 1638 1639 fw_devlink.sync_state = 1640 [KNL,EARLY] When all devices that could probe have finished 1641 probing, this parameter controls what to do with 1642 devices that haven't yet received their sync_state() 1643 calls. 1644 Format: { strict | timeout } 1645 strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to 1646 probe successfully. 1647 timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call 1648 sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet 1649 received their sync_state() calls after 1650 deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by 1651 late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES. 1652 1653 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1654 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1655 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1656 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1657 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1658 1659 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1660 1661 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64,EARLY] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1662 Format: off | on 1663 default: on 1664 1665 gather_data_sampling= 1666 [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS) 1667 mitigation. 1668 1669 Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which 1670 allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was 1671 previously stored in vector registers. 1672 1673 This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode. 1674 The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be 1675 disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation 1676 disabling AVX serves as a mitigation. 1677 1678 force: Disable AVX to mitigate systems without 1679 microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode 1680 mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in 1681 userspace with buggy AVX enumeration. 1682 1683 off: Disable GDS mitigation. 1684 1685 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1686 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1687 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1688 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1689 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1690 1691 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1692 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1693 android emulator 1694 1695 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1696 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1697 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1698 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1699 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1700 1701 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1702 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1703 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1704 GPT to be used instead. 1705 1706 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1707 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1708 Format: 0 | 1 1709 Default: 0 1710 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1711 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1712 Format: 0 | 1 1713 Default: 0 1714 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1715 Format: 0 | 1 1716 Default: 0 1717 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1718 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1719 Default: 1024 1720 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1721 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1722 Default: 1024 1723 1724 hardened_usercopy= 1725 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1726 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1727 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1728 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1729 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1730 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1731 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1732 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 1733 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1734 1735 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1736 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1737 backtraces on all cpus. 1738 Format: 0 | 1 1739 1740 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1741 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1742 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1743 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1744 1745 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1746 1747 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1748 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1749 1750 hest_disable [ACPI] 1751 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1752 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1753 logic will be disabled. 1754 1755 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 1756 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 1757 present during boot. 1758 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 1759 no Disable hibernation and resume. 1760 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 1761 (that will set all pages holding image data 1762 during restoration read-only). 1763 1764 hibernate.compressor= [HIBERNATION] Compression algorithm to be 1765 used with hibernation. 1766 Format: { lzo | lz4 } 1767 Default: lzo 1768 1769 lzo: Select LZO compression algorithm to 1770 compress/decompress hibernation image. 1771 1772 lz4: Select LZ4 compression algorithm to 1773 compress/decompress hibernation image. 1774 1775 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1776 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1777 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1778 size on bigger boxes. 1779 1780 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1781 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1782 Default: "on" 1783 1784 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1785 1786 hostname= [KNL,EARLY] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename). 1787 Format: <string> 1788 This allows setting the system's hostname during early 1789 startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname. 1790 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it 1791 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before 1792 any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility 1793 that a process may call gethostname before the hostname 1794 has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling 1795 process getting an incorrect result. The string must 1796 not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually 1797 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise. 1798 1799 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1800 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1801 verbose } 1802 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1803 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1804 VIA, nVidia) 1805 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1806 1807 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1808 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1809 1810 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1811 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1812 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1813 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1814 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1815 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1816 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1817 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1818 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1819 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1820 1821 hugepagesz= 1822 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1823 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1824 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1825 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1826 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1827 architecture dependent. See also 1828 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1829 Format: size[KMG] 1830 1831 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA,EARLY] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1832 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1833 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1834 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1835 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1836 1837 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1838 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1839 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1840 1841 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1842 [KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 1843 enabled. 1844 Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled. 1845 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1846 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1847 Format: { on | off (default) } 1848 1849 on: enable HVO 1850 off: disable HVO 1851 1852 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1853 the default is on. 1854 1855 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added 1856 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is 1857 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this 1858 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from 1859 the added memory block itself do not be affected. 1860 1861 hung_task_panic= 1862 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1863 Format: 0 | 1 1864 1865 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1866 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1867 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1868 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1869 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1870 1871 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1872 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1873 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1874 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1875 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1876 1877 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V,EARLY] 1878 Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1879 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest 1880 on lock contention. 1881 1882 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1883 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1884 registered from board initialization code. 1885 Format: 1886 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1887 1888 i2c_touchscreen_props= [HW,ACPI,X86] 1889 Set device-properties for ACPI-enumerated I2C-attached 1890 touchscreen, to e.g. fix coordinates of upside-down 1891 mounted touchscreens. If you need this option please 1892 submit a drivers/platform/x86/touchscreen_dmi.c patch 1893 adding a DMI quirk for this. 1894 1895 Format: 1896 <ACPI_HW_ID>:<prop_name>=<val>[:prop_name=val][:...] 1897 Where <val> is one of: 1898 Omit "=<val>" entirely Set a boolean device-property 1899 Unsigned number Set a u32 device-property 1900 Anything else Set a string device-property 1901 1902 Examples (split over multiple lines): 1903 i2c_touchscreen_props=GDIX1001:touchscreen-inverted-x: 1904 touchscreen-inverted-y 1905 1906 i2c_touchscreen_props=MSSL1680:touchscreen-size-x=1920: 1907 touchscreen-size-y=1080:touchscreen-inverted-y: 1908 firmware-name=gsl1680-vendor-model.fw:silead,home-button 1909 1910 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1911 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1912 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1913 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1914 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1915 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1916 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1917 keyboard and cannot control its state 1918 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1919 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1920 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1921 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1922 for the AUX port 1923 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1924 controller 1925 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1926 controllers 1927 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1928 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1929 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1930 transitions, or never reset 1931 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1932 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1933 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1934 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1935 architectures force reset to be always executed 1936 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1937 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1938 i8042.probe_defer 1939 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1940 1941 i810= [HW,DRM] 1942 1943 i915.invert_brightness= 1944 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1945 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1946 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1947 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1948 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1949 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1950 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1951 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1952 value switches the backlight off. 1953 -1 -- never invert brightness 1954 0 -- machine default 1955 1 -- force brightness inversion 1956 1957 ia32_emulation= [X86-64] 1958 Format: <bool> 1959 When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit 1960 syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at 1961 boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation. 1962 1963 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1964 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1965 1966 1967 idle= [X86,EARLY] 1968 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1969 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1970 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1971 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1972 Not recommended. 1973 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1974 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1975 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1976 1977 idxd.sva= [HW] 1978 Format: <bool> 1979 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1980 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1981 true (1). 1982 1983 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 1984 Format: <bool> 1985 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 1986 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 1987 1988 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1989 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1990 Default: strict 1991 1992 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1993 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1994 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1995 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1996 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1997 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1998 encoding mode. 1999 2000 Available settings are as follows: 2001 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 2002 supported by the FPU 2003 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 2004 by the FPU 2005 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 2006 by the FPU 2007 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 2008 supported by the FPU 2009 2010 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 2011 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 2012 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 2013 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 2014 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 2015 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 2016 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 2017 MIPS64 CPUs. 2018 2019 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 2020 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 2021 except where unsupported by hardware. 2022 2023 ignore_loglevel [KNL,EARLY] 2024 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 2025 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 2026 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 2027 could change it dynamically, usually by 2028 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 2029 2030 ignore_rlimit_data 2031 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 2032 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 2033 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 2034 2035 ihash_entries= [KNL] 2036 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 2037 2038 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 2039 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 2040 default: "enforce" 2041 2042 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 2043 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 2044 owned by uid=0. 2045 2046 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 2047 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 2048 measurements, instead of host native format. 2049 2050 ima_hash= [IMA] 2051 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 2052 | sha512 | ... } 2053 default: "sha1" 2054 2055 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 2056 in crypto/hash_info.h. 2057 2058 ima_policy= [IMA] 2059 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 2060 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 2061 fail_securely | critical_data" 2062 2063 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 2064 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 2065 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 2066 uid=0. 2067 2068 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 2069 all files owned by root. 2070 2071 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 2072 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 2073 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 2074 2075 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 2076 verification failure also on privileged mounted 2077 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 2078 flag. 2079 2080 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 2081 critical data. 2082 2083 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 2084 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 2085 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 2086 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 2087 opened for read by uid=0. 2088 2089 ima_template= [IMA] 2090 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 2091 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 2092 "ima-sigv2" } 2093 Default: "ima-ng" 2094 2095 ima_template_fmt= 2096 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 2097 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 2098 2099 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 2100 Format: <min_file_size> 2101 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 2102 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 2103 2104 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 2105 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2106 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 2107 2108 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 2109 Format: <bufsize> 2110 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 2111 2112 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 2113 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2114 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 2115 2116 init= [KNL] 2117 Format: <full_path> 2118 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 2119 process. 2120 2121 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 2122 for working out where the kernel is dying during 2123 startup. 2124 2125 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 2126 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 2127 modules and initcalls. 2128 2129 initramfs_async= [KNL] 2130 Format: <bool> 2131 Default: 1 2132 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 2133 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 2134 with devices being probed and 2135 initialized. This should normally just work, 2136 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 2137 historical behaviour of the initramfs 2138 unpacking being completed before device_ and 2139 late_ initcalls. 2140 2141 initrd= [BOOT,EARLY] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 2142 2143 initrdmem= [KNL,EARLY] Specify a physical address and size from which to 2144 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 2145 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 2146 setting. 2147 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 2148 Default is 0, 0 2149 2150 init_on_alloc= [MM,EARLY] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 2151 zeroes. 2152 Format: 0 | 1 2153 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 2154 2155 init_on_free= [MM,EARLY] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2156 Format: 0 | 1 2157 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2158 2159 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2160 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2161 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2162 override in debugfs after boot. 2163 2164 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2165 Format: <irq> 2166 2167 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2168 2169 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2170 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2171 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2172 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2173 2174 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2175 on 2176 Enable intel iommu driver. 2177 off 2178 Disable intel iommu driver. 2179 igfx_off [Default Off] 2180 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2181 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2182 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2183 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2184 DMA. 2185 strict [Default Off] 2186 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2187 sp_off [Default Off] 2188 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2189 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2190 not be supported. 2191 sm_on 2192 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2193 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2194 translation. 2195 sm_off 2196 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2197 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2198 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2199 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2200 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2201 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2202 mapping is enabled. 2203 Note that using this option lowers the security 2204 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2205 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2206 2207 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2208 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2209 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2210 2211 intel_pstate= [X86,EARLY] 2212 disable 2213 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2214 scaling driver for the supported processors 2215 active 2216 Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling 2217 governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own 2218 algorithms for p-state selection. There are two 2219 P-state selection algorithms provided by 2220 intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and 2221 performance. The way they both operate depends 2222 on whether or not the hardware managed P-states 2223 (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor 2224 and possibly on the processor model. 2225 passive 2226 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2227 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2228 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2229 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2230 feature. 2231 force 2232 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2233 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2234 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2235 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2236 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2237 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2238 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2239 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2240 no_hwp 2241 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2242 if available. 2243 hwp_only 2244 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2245 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2246 support_acpi_ppc 2247 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2248 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2249 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2250 then this feature is turned on by default. 2251 per_cpu_perf_limits 2252 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2253 cpufreq sysfs interface 2254 2255 intremap= [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] 2256 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2257 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2258 nosid disable Source ID checking 2259 no_x2apic_optout 2260 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2261 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2262 posted_msi 2263 enable MSIs delivered as posted interrupts 2264 2265 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2266 strict regions from userspace. 2267 relaxed 2268 2269 iommu= [X86,EARLY] 2270 off 2271 force 2272 noforce 2273 biomerge 2274 panic 2275 nopanic 2276 merge 2277 nomerge 2278 soft 2279 pt [X86] 2280 nopt [X86] 2281 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2282 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2283 2284 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2285 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2286 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2287 falling back to the full range if needed. 2288 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2289 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2290 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2291 2292 iommu.strict= [ARM64,X86,S390,EARLY] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2293 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2294 0 - Lazy mode. 2295 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2296 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2297 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2298 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2299 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2300 1 - Strict mode. 2301 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2302 synchronously. 2303 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2304 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2305 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2306 2307 iommu.passthrough= 2308 [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2309 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2310 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2311 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2312 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2313 2314 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2315 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2316 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2317 2318 io_delay= [X86,EARLY] I/O delay method 2319 0x80 2320 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2321 0xed 2322 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2323 udelay 2324 Simple two microseconds delay 2325 none 2326 No delay 2327 2328 ip= [IP_PNP] 2329 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2330 2331 ipcmni_extend [KNL,EARLY] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2332 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2333 2334 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2335 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2336 2337 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2338 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 2339 Format: <bool> 2340 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2341 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2342 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2343 2344 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2345 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 2346 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2347 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2348 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2349 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2350 LPIs. 2351 2352 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64,EARLY] 2353 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2354 requires the kernel to be built with 2355 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2356 2357 irqfixup [HW] 2358 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2359 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2360 firmware running. 2361 2362 irqpoll [HW] 2363 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2364 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2365 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2366 firmware running. 2367 2368 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2369 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2370 2371 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2372 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2373 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2374 2375 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2376 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2377 2378 nohz 2379 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2380 2381 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2382 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2383 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2384 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2385 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2386 2387 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2388 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2389 be configured manually after bootup. 2390 2391 domain 2392 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2393 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2394 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2395 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2396 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2397 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2398 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2399 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2400 2401 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2402 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2403 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2404 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2405 2406 managed_irq 2407 2408 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2409 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2410 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2411 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2412 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2413 2414 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2415 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2416 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2417 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2418 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2419 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2420 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2421 2422 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2423 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2424 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2425 only delivered when tasks running on those 2426 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2427 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2428 queues. 2429 2430 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2431 2432 iucv= [HW,NET] 2433 2434 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2435 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2436 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2437 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2438 2439 For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2440 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2441 write the parameter as: 2442 ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0 2443 2444 Deprecated formats: 2445 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2446 write the parameter as: 2447 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2448 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2449 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2450 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2451 2452 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2453 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2454 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2455 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2456 2457 For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to 2458 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2459 write the parameter as: 2460 ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0 2461 2462 Deprecated formats: 2463 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2464 write the parameter as: 2465 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2466 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2467 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2468 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2469 2470 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2471 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2472 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2473 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2474 2475 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2476 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2477 write the parameter as: 2478 ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5 2479 2480 Deprecated formats: 2481 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0, 2482 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2483 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2484 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2485 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2486 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2487 2488 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2489 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2490 2491 kasan_multi_shot 2492 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2493 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2494 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2495 invalid access. 2496 2497 keep_bootcon [KNL,EARLY] 2498 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 2499 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 2500 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 2501 the real console. 2502 2503 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] See retain_initrd. 2504 2505 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC,EARLY] 2506 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2507 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2508 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2509 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2510 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2511 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2512 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2513 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2514 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2515 2516 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2517 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2518 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2519 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2520 zone if it does not. 2521 2522 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2523 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2524 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2525 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2526 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2527 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2528 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2529 2530 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW,EARLY] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2531 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2532 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2533 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2534 optional and is the number seconds in between 2535 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2536 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2537 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2538 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2539 the kernel debugger. 2540 2541 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2542 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2543 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2544 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2545 keyboard only format: kbd 2546 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2547 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2548 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2549 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2550 2551 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW,EARLY] 2552 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2553 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2554 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2555 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2556 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2557 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2558 2559 The name of the early console should be specified 2560 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2561 the early console might be different than the tty 2562 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2563 blank and the first boot console that implements 2564 read() will be picked. 2565 2566 kgdbwait [KGDB,EARLY] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2567 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2568 2569 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2570 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2571 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2572 2573 kmemleak= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2574 Valid arguments: on, off 2575 Default: on 2576 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2577 the default is off. 2578 2579 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2580 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2581 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2582 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2583 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2584 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2585 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2586 2587 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2588 2589 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2590 Boot Parameter" section. 2591 2592 kpti= [ARM64,EARLY] Control page table isolation of 2593 user and kernel address spaces. 2594 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2595 0: force disabled 2596 1: force enabled 2597 2598 kunit.enable= [KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires 2599 CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The 2600 default value can be overridden via 2601 KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED. 2602 Default is 1 (enabled) 2603 2604 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2605 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2606 2607 kvm.eager_page_split= 2608 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2609 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2610 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2611 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2612 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2613 required to split huge pages lazily. 2614 2615 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2616 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2617 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2618 still be used for reads. 2619 2620 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2621 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2622 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2623 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2624 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2625 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2626 cleared. 2627 2628 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y. 2629 2630 Default is Y (on). 2631 2632 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2633 Default is false (don't support). 2634 2635 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2636 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2637 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2638 force : Always deploy workaround. 2639 off : Never deploy workaround. 2640 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2641 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2642 2643 Default is 'auto'. 2644 2645 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2646 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2647 2648 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2649 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2650 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2651 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2652 period (see below). The default is 60. 2653 2654 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2655 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2656 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2657 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2658 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2659 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2660 2661 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in 2662 KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled). 2663 2664 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables, 2665 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 2666 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2667 for NPT. 2668 2669 kvm-arm.mode= 2670 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of 2671 operation. 2672 2673 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2674 2675 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2676 protected guests. 2677 2678 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2679 state is kept private from the host. 2680 2681 nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested 2682 virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3 2683 hardware. 2684 2685 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2686 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2687 for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be 2688 used with extreme caution. 2689 2690 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2691 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2692 system registers 2693 2694 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2695 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2696 system registers 2697 2698 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2699 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2700 system registers 2701 2702 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2703 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Allow use of GICv4 for direct 2704 injection of LPIs. 2705 2706 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC,EARLY] 2707 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2708 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2709 allocation. 2710 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2711 Format: <integer> 2712 Default: 5 2713 2714 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables, 2715 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 2716 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2717 for EPT. 2718 2719 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2720 [KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest 2721 state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, 2722 as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted 2723 guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), 2724 as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2725 Default is 1 (enabled). 2726 2727 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2728 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature 2729 (TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if 2730 hardware lacks support for it. 2731 2732 kvm-intel.nested= 2733 [KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in 2734 KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled). 2735 2736 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2737 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest 2738 feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default 2739 is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or 2740 hardware lacks support for it. 2741 2742 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2743 CVE-2018-3620. 2744 2745 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2746 2747 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2748 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2749 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2750 never: Disables the mitigation 2751 2752 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2753 2754 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor 2755 Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1 2756 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2757 for it. 2758 2759 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 2760 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2761 2762 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2763 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2764 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2765 2766 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2767 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2768 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2769 not have direct access. 2770 2771 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2772 options are: 2773 2774 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2775 2776 l1tf= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2777 affected CPUs 2778 2779 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2780 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2781 2782 full 2783 Provides all available mitigations for the 2784 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2785 enables all mitigations in the 2786 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2787 2788 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2789 sysfs interface is still possible after 2790 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2791 when the first VM is started in a 2792 potentially insecure configuration, 2793 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2794 2795 full,force 2796 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2797 flush runtime control. Implies the 2798 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2799 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2800 2801 flush 2802 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2803 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2804 L1D flush. 2805 2806 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2807 sysfs interface is still possible after 2808 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2809 when the first VM is started in a 2810 potentially insecure configuration, 2811 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2812 2813 flush,nosmt 2814 2815 Disables SMT and enables the default 2816 hypervisor mitigation. 2817 2818 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2819 sysfs interface is still possible after 2820 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2821 when the first VM is started in a 2822 potentially insecure configuration, 2823 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2824 2825 flush,nowarn 2826 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2827 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2828 insecure configuration. 2829 2830 off 2831 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2832 emit any warnings. 2833 It also drops the swap size and available 2834 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2835 bare metal. 2836 2837 Default is 'flush'. 2838 2839 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2840 2841 l2cr= [PPC] 2842 2843 l3cr= [PPC] 2844 2845 lapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2846 disabled it. 2847 2848 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2849 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2850 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2851 Format: notscdeadline 2852 2853 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC,EARLY] trust the local apic timer 2854 in C2 power state. 2855 2856 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2857 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2858 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2859 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2860 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2861 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2862 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2863 2864 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2865 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2866 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2867 2868 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2869 when set. 2870 Format: <int> 2871 2872 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 2873 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 2874 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 2875 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 2876 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 2877 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 2878 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 2879 to all ports, links and devices. 2880 2881 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2882 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2883 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2884 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2885 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2886 host link and device attached to it. 2887 2888 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2889 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 2890 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2891 The following configurations can be forced. 2892 2893 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2894 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2895 2896 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2897 2898 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2899 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2900 allowed. 2901 2902 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 2903 resets. 2904 2905 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 2906 link recovery. 2907 2908 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 2909 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 2910 detection. 2911 2912 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2913 2914 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 2915 2916 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 2917 2918 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 2919 2920 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 2921 2922 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 2923 2924 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 2925 2926 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 2927 2928 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 2929 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 2930 2931 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 2932 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 2933 2934 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 2935 identify device data log. 2936 2937 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 2938 purpose log directory. 2939 2940 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 2941 2942 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2943 1024 sectors. 2944 2945 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2946 65535 sectors. 2947 2948 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 2949 2950 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 2951 should be skipped. 2952 2953 * [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access) 2954 support for devices supporting this feature. 2955 2956 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 2957 2958 * disable: Disable this device. 2959 2960 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2961 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2962 2963 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2964 2965 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2966 Format: <integer> 2967 2968 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2969 Format: <integer> 2970 2971 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2972 Format: <integer> 2973 2974 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2975 Format: <integer> 2976 2977 lockdown= [SECURITY,EARLY] 2978 { integrity | confidentiality } 2979 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2980 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2981 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2982 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2983 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2984 are also disabled. 2985 2986 locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL] 2987 Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock 2988 acquisition. Acquisitions exceeding this limit 2989 will result in a splat once they do complete. 2990 2991 locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL] 2992 Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are 2993 to be bound. 2994 2995 locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL] 2996 Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are 2997 to be bound. 2998 2999 locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL] 3000 Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu() 3001 chains to set up. These are used to ensure that 3002 there is a high probability of an RCU grace period 3003 in progress at any given time. Defaults to 0, 3004 which disables these call_rcu() chains. 3005 3006 locktorture.long_hold= [KNL] 3007 Specify the duration in milliseconds for the 3008 occasional long-duration lock hold time. Defaults 3009 to 100 milliseconds. Select 0 to disable. 3010 3011 locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL] 3012 Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that 3013 locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8 3014 (MAX_NESTED_LOCKS). Specify zero to disable. 3015 Note that this parameter is ineffective on types 3016 of locks that do not support nested acquisition. 3017 3018 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 3019 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 3020 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 3021 number of online CPUs. 3022 3023 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 3024 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 3025 3026 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 3027 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 3028 3029 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 3030 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 3031 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 3032 3033 locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL] 3034 Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority 3035 boosting. Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost 3036 only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally. 3037 Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an 3038 odd choice, but which should be harmless for 3039 non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling 3040 of preemption. Note that non-realtime mutexes 3041 disable boosting. 3042 3043 locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL] 3044 Number that determines how often and for how 3045 long priority boosting is exercised. This is 3046 scaled down by the number of writers, so that the 3047 number of boosts per unit time remains roughly 3048 constant as the number of writers increases. 3049 On the other hand, the duration of each boost 3050 increases with the number of writers. 3051 3052 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 3053 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 3054 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 3055 mode during the locktorture test. 3056 3057 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 3058 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 3059 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 3060 3061 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 3062 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 3063 3064 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 3065 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 3066 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 3067 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 3068 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 3069 transition abruptly to and from idle. 3070 3071 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 3072 Specify the locking implementation to test. 3073 3074 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 3075 Enable additional printk() statements. 3076 3077 locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL] 3078 Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at 3079 sched_set_fifo() real-time priority. 3080 3081 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 3082 Format: <irq> 3083 3084 loglevel= [KNL,EARLY] 3085 All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 3086 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 3087 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 3088 loglevels are defined as follows: 3089 3090 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 3091 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 3092 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 3093 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 3094 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 3095 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 3096 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 3097 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 3098 3099 log_buf_len=n[KMG] [KNL,EARLY] 3100 Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes. 3101 n must be a power of two and greater than the 3102 minimal size. The minimal size is defined by 3103 LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There 3104 is also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 3105 parameter that allows to increase the default size 3106 depending on the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig 3107 for more details. 3108 3109 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 3110 This may be used to provide more screen space for 3111 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 3112 kernel boot problems. 3113 3114 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 3115 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 3116 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 3117 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 3118 specified in addition to the ports) causes 3119 attached printers to be reset. Using 3120 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 3121 to associate lp devices with, starting with 3122 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 3123 that lp device, or a parport name such as 3124 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 3125 port specification list means that device IDs 3126 from each port should be examined, to see if 3127 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 3128 so, the driver will manage that printer. 3129 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 3130 3131 lpj=n [KNL] 3132 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 3133 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 3134 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 3135 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 3136 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 3137 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 3138 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 3139 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 3140 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 3141 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 3142 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 3143 hardware. 3144 3145 ltpc= [NET] 3146 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 3147 3148 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 3149 3150 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 3151 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 3152 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 3153 3154 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 3155 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 3156 Example: machvec=hpzx1 3157 3158 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 3159 different yeeloong laptops. 3160 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 3161 3162 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater 3163 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 3164 3165 maxcpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3166 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 3167 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 3168 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 3169 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 3170 only takes effect during system bootup. 3171 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 3172 which also disables the IO APIC. 3173 3174 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 3175 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 3176 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 3177 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 3178 devices can be requested on-demand with the 3179 /dev/loop-control interface. 3180 3181 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 3182 3183 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 3184 3185 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 3186 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3187 3188 mdacon= [MDA] 3189 Format: <first>,<last> 3190 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 3191 3192 mds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 3193 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 3194 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 3195 3196 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 3197 internal buffers which can forward information to a 3198 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 3199 3200 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 3201 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 3202 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 3203 not have direct access. 3204 3205 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 3206 options are: 3207 3208 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3209 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 3210 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 3211 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 3212 3213 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 3214 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 3215 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 3216 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 3217 too. 3218 3219 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3220 mds=full. 3221 3222 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 3223 3224 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON,EARLY] Set the memory size. 3225 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 3226 3227 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Force usage of a specific amount 3228 of memory Amount of memory to be used in cases 3229 as follows: 3230 3231 1 for test; 3232 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 3233 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 3234 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 3235 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 3236 3237 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 3238 high memory is not affected. 3239 3240 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 3241 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 3242 3243 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 3244 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 3245 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 3246 belonging to unused RAM. 3247 3248 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 3249 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 3250 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 3251 3252 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3253 [ARM,MIPS,EARLY] - override the memory layout 3254 reported by firmware. 3255 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 3256 ss[KMG]. 3257 Multiple different regions can be specified with 3258 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 3259 3260 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 3261 memory. 3262 3263 memblock=debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable memblock debug messages. 3264 3265 memchunk=nn[KMG] 3266 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 3267 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 3268 3269 memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable 3270 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 3271 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 3272 set according to the 3273 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 3274 option. 3275 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 3276 3277 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86,EARLY] Enable setting of an exact 3278 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3279 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3280 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3281 option description. 3282 3283 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3284 [KNL, X86,MIPS,XTENSA,EARLY] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3285 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3286 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3287 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3288 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3289 comma delimited. 3290 Example: 3291 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3292 3293 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3294 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3295 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3296 3297 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3298 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3299 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3300 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3301 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3302 or 3303 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3304 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3305 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3306 will be eaten. 3307 3308 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG,EARLY] 3309 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3310 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3311 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3312 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3313 3314 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3315 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Convert memory within the specified region 3316 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3317 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3318 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3319 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3320 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3321 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3322 3323 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86,EARLY] 3324 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3325 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3326 Setting this option will scan the memory 3327 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3328 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3329 from using the memory being corrupted. 3330 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3331 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3332 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3333 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3334 3335 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86,EARLY] 3336 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3337 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3338 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3339 corruption in more or less memory. 3340 3341 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86,EARLY] 3342 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3343 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3344 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3345 3346 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3347 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3348 Format: {on | off (default)} 3349 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3350 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages, 3351 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even 3352 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the 3353 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a 3354 lot of memory without requiring additional 3355 memory to do so. 3356 This feature is disabled by default because it 3357 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3358 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3359 memory blocks). 3360 The state of the flag can be read in 3361 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3362 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3363 the feature is not effective. 3364 3365 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV,EARLY] Enable memtest 3366 Format: <integer> 3367 default : 0 <disable> 3368 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3369 performed. Each pass selects another test 3370 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3371 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3372 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3373 regions that are detected. 3374 3375 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3376 Valid arguments: on, off 3377 Default: off 3378 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3379 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3380 3381 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3382 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3383 3384 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3385 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3386 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3387 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3388 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3389 3390 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3391 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3392 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3393 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3394 3395 mga= [HW,DRM] 3396 3397 microcode.force_minrev= [X86] 3398 Format: <bool> 3399 Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision 3400 enforcement for the runtime microcode loader. 3401 3402 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this 3403 physical address is ignored. 3404 3405 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3406 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3407 Default: "0tb" 3408 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3409 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3410 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3411 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3412 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3413 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3414 unconfigured. 3415 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3416 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3417 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3418 VGA shield. 3419 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3420 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3421 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3422 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3423 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3424 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3425 3426 mitigations= 3427 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64,EARLY] Control optional mitigations for 3428 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3429 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3430 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3431 3432 Note, "mitigations" is supported if and only if the 3433 kernel was built with CPU_MITIGATIONS=y. 3434 3435 off 3436 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3437 improves system performance, but it may also 3438 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3439 Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] 3440 gather_data_sampling=off [X86] 3441 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3442 l1tf=off [X86] 3443 mds=off [X86] 3444 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 3445 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3446 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3447 nobp=0 [S390] 3448 nopti [X86,PPC] 3449 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] 3450 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3451 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3452 reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86] 3453 retbleed=off [X86] 3454 spec_rstack_overflow=off [X86] 3455 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3456 spectre_bhi=off [X86] 3457 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3458 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3459 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3460 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3461 3462 Exceptions: 3463 This does not have any effect on 3464 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3465 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3466 3467 auto (default) 3468 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3469 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3470 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3471 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3472 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3473 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3474 3475 auto,nosmt 3476 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3477 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3478 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3479 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3480 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3481 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3482 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 3483 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] 3484 3485 mminit_loglevel= 3486 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3487 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3488 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3489 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3490 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3491 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3492 3493 mmio_stale_data= 3494 [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the Processor 3495 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3496 3497 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3498 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3499 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3500 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3501 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3502 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3503 3504 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3505 options are: 3506 3507 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3508 3509 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3510 vulnerable CPUs. 3511 3512 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3513 3514 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3515 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3516 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3517 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3518 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3519 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3520 3521 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3522 mmio_stale_data=full. 3523 3524 For details see: 3525 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3526 3527 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL] 3528 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value 3529 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous 3530 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable 3531 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the 3532 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe 3533 3534 module.async_probe=<bool> 3535 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing 3536 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a 3537 specific module, use the module specific control that 3538 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both 3539 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are 3540 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for 3541 the specific module. 3542 3543 module.enable_dups_trace 3544 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set, 3545 this means that duplicate request_module() calls will 3546 trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that 3547 if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s 3548 will always be issued and this option does nothing. 3549 module.sig_enforce 3550 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3551 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3552 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3553 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3554 3555 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3556 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3557 3558 mousedev.tap_time= 3559 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3560 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3561 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3562 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3563 Format: <msecs> 3564 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3565 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3566 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3567 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3568 3569 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC,EARLY] 3570 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3571 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3572 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3573 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3574 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3575 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3576 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3577 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3578 is not too small. 3579 3580 movable_node [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3581 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3582 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3583 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3584 allocations. Use with caution! 3585 3586 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3587 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3588 3589 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3590 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3591 3592 mtdparts= [MTD] 3593 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3594 3595 mtdset= [ARM] 3596 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 3597 3598 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 3599 3600 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3601 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3602 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3603 3604 mtrr=debug [X86,EARLY] 3605 Enable printing debug information related to MTRR 3606 registers at boot time. 3607 3608 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY] 3609 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3610 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3611 3612 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY] 3613 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3614 Default is 1. 3615 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3616 using up MTRRs. 3617 3618 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86,EARLY] 3619 Format: <integer> 3620 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3621 Default : 1 3622 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3623 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3624 3625 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3626 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3627 at a time. 3628 3629 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3630 3631 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3632 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3633 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3634 something different and driver-specific. 3635 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3636 file if at all. 3637 3638 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3639 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3640 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3641 waits 4 seconds. 3642 3643 nf_conntrack.acct= 3644 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3645 0 to disable accounting 3646 1 to enable accounting 3647 Default value is 0. 3648 3649 nfs.cache_getent= 3650 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3651 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3652 3653 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3654 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3655 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3656 3657 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3658 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3659 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3660 requests. 3661 3662 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3663 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3664 channel should listen. 3665 3666 nfs.delay_retrans= 3667 [NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client 3668 retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error, 3669 after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server. 3670 Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled, 3671 and the specified value is >= 0. 3672 3673 nfs.enable_ino64= 3674 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3675 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3676 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3677 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3678 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3679 3680 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3681 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3682 entries. 3683 3684 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3685 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3686 slots the client will assign to the callback 3687 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3688 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3689 a particular server. 3690 3691 nfs.max_session_slots= 3692 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3693 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3694 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3695 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3696 Note that there is little point in setting this 3697 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3698 3699 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3700 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3701 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3702 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3703 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3704 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3705 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3706 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3707 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3708 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3709 back to using the idmapper. 3710 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3711 3712 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3713 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3714 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3715 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3716 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3717 3718 nfs.recover_lost_locks= 3719 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3720 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3721 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3722 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3723 after the locks are lost. 3724 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3725 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3726 parameter to '1'. 3727 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3728 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3729 3730 nfs.send_implementation_id= 3731 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3732 information in exchange_id requests. 3733 If zero, no implementation identification information 3734 will be sent. 3735 The default is to send the implementation identification 3736 information. 3737 3738 nfs4.layoutstats_timer= 3739 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3740 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3741 3742 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3743 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3744 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3745 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3746 3747 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable= 3748 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3749 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3750 the destination of the copy. 3751 3752 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3753 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3754 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3755 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3756 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3757 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3758 3759 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout= 3760 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3761 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3762 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3763 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3764 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3765 this parameter. 3766 3767 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3768 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3769 3770 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3771 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3772 3773 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3774 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3775 3776 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3777 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3778 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3779 3780 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3781 when a NMI is triggered. 3782 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3783 3784 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3785 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][rNNN,][num] 3786 Valid num: 0 or 1 3787 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3788 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3789 rNNN - configure the watchdog with raw perf event 0xNNN 3790 3791 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3792 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3793 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3794 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3795 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3796 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3797 need the box quickly up again. 3798 3799 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3800 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3801 3802 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3803 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3804 is present. 3805 3806 no4lvl [RISCV,EARLY] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes. 3807 Forces kernel to use 3-level paging instead. 3808 3809 no5lvl [X86-64,RISCV,EARLY] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3810 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3811 3812 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3813 3814 noaltinstr [S390,EARLY] Disables alternative instructions 3815 patching (CPU alternatives feature). 3816 3817 noapic [SMP,APIC,EARLY] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3818 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3819 3820 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3821 3822 nocache [ARM,EARLY] 3823 3824 no_console_suspend 3825 [HW] Never suspend the console 3826 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3827 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3828 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3829 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3830 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3831 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3832 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3833 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3834 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3835 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3836 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3837 turn on/off it dynamically. 3838 3839 no_debug_objects 3840 [KNL,EARLY] Disable object debugging 3841 3842 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3843 3844 noefi [EFI,EARLY] Disable EFI runtime services support. 3845 3846 no_entry_flush [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3847 3848 noexec [IA-64] 3849 3850 noexec32 [X86-64] 3851 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3852 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3853 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3854 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3855 read implies executable mappings 3856 3857 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3858 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3859 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3860 3861 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3862 3863 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3864 3865 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3866 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3867 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3868 3869 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3870 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3871 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3872 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3873 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3874 real-time systems. 3875 3876 no_hash_pointers 3877 [KNL,EARLY] 3878 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3879 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3880 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3881 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3882 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3883 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3884 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3885 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3886 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3887 value printed. This option should only be specified when 3888 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3889 kernels. 3890 3891 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3892 3893 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,SH] Forces the kernel to 3894 busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3895 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3896 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3897 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3898 correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate 3899 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3900 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3901 3902 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3903 3904 nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3905 3906 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3907 Valid arguments: on, off 3908 Default: on 3909 3910 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3911 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3912 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3913 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3914 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3915 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3916 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3917 just as if they had also been called out in the 3918 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3919 3920 Note that this argument takes precedence over 3921 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 3922 3923 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3924 initial RAM disk. 3925 3926 nointremap [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] Do not enable interrupt 3927 remapping. 3928 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3929 3930 nointroute [IA-64] 3931 3932 noinvpcid [X86,EARLY] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3933 3934 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3935 3936 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3937 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3938 3939 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3940 3941 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3942 3943 nokaslr [KNL,EARLY] 3944 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 3945 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 3946 Layout Randomization). 3947 3948 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3949 fault handling. 3950 3951 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3952 3953 nolapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3954 3955 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3956 3957 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3958 3959 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3960 3961 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3962 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3963 3964 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware 3965 sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory 3966 for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will 3967 not load if they could possibly displace the pre- 3968 initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will 3969 be available for use. The respective drivers will not 3970 perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. 3971 3972 Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging. 3973 3974 nomodule Disable module load 3975 3976 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3977 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3978 irq. 3979 3980 nopat [X86,EARLY] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3981 pagetables) support. 3982 3983 nopcid [X86-64,EARLY] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3984 3985 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 3986 in some Intel CPUs. 3987 3988 nopti [X86-64,EARLY] 3989 Equivalent to pti=off 3990 3991 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE,EARLY] 3992 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 3993 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 3994 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 3995 3996 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM,EARLY] 3997 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 3998 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 3999 contention. 4000 4001 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 4002 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 4003 4004 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 4005 with UP alternatives 4006 4007 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 4008 space. 4009 4010 nosbagart [IA-64] 4011 4012 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 4013 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 4014 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 4015 4016 nosgx [X86-64,SGX,EARLY] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 4017 4018 nosmap [PPC,EARLY] 4019 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 4020 even if it is supported by processor. 4021 4022 nosmep [PPC64s,EARLY] 4023 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 4024 even if it is supported by processor. 4025 4026 nosmp [SMP,EARLY] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 4027 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 4028 4029 nosmt [KNL,MIPS,PPC,S390,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 4030 Equivalent to smt=1. 4031 4032 [KNL,X86,PPC] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 4033 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 4034 via the sysfs control file. 4035 4036 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 4037 4038 nospec_store_bypass_disable 4039 [HW,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative 4040 Store Bypass vulnerability 4041 4042 nospectre_bhb [ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch 4043 history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks 4044 with this option. 4045 4046 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC,EARLY] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 4047 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 4048 possible in the system. 4049 4050 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_E500,ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations 4051 for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch 4052 prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data 4053 leaks with this option. 4054 4055 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES,RISCV,EARLY] Disable 4056 paravirtualized steal time accounting. steal time is 4057 computed, but won't influence scheduler behaviour 4058 4059 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 4060 4061 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 4062 broken timer IRQ sources. 4063 4064 no_uaccess_flush 4065 [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 4066 4067 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 4068 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 4069 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 4070 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 4071 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 4072 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 4073 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 4074 data will be no longer available. This parameter 4075 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 4076 is set. 4077 4078 no-vmw-sched-clock 4079 [X86,PV_OPS,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized VMware 4080 scheduler clock and use the default one. 4081 4082 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 4083 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 4084 4085 nowb [ARM,EARLY] 4086 4087 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 4088 4089 NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the 4090 LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the 4091 IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR. 4092 4093 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 4094 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 4095 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 4096 4097 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 4098 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 4099 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 4100 performance of saving the states is degraded because 4101 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 4102 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 4103 4104 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 4105 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 4106 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 4107 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 4108 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 4109 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 4110 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 4111 4112 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 4113 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 4114 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 4115 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 4116 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 4117 parameter's value. 4118 Format: integer between 1 and 255 4119 Default: 255 4120 4121 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 4122 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 4123 SAL PALO. 4124 4125 nr_cpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 4126 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 4127 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 4128 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 4129 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 4130 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 4131 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 4132 hot plugging. 4133 4134 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 4135 4136 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86, EARLY] 4137 Disable NUMA, Only set up a single NUMA node 4138 spanning all memory. 4139 4140 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 4141 NUMA balancing. 4142 Allowed values are enable and disable 4143 4144 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 4145 'node', 'default' can be specified 4146 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 4147 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 4148 4149 ohci1394_dma=early [HW,EARLY] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 4150 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 4151 info. 4152 4153 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 4154 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 4155 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 4156 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 4157 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 4158 interrupts *may* be lost! 4159 4160 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 4161 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 4162 For example, to override I2C bus2: 4163 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 4164 4165 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 4166 4167 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 4168 4169 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 4170 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 4171 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 4172 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 4173 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 4174 4175 oops=panic [KNL,EARLY] 4176 Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 4177 process, but there is a small probability of 4178 deadlocking the machine. 4179 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 4180 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 4181 4182 page_alloc.shuffle= 4183 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 4184 should randomize its free lists. This parameter can be 4185 used to enable/disable page randomization. The state of 4186 the flag can be read from sysfs at: 4187 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 4188 This parameter is only available if CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y. 4189 4190 page_owner= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 4191 Storage of the information about who allocated 4192 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 4193 we can turn it on. 4194 on: enable the feature 4195 4196 page_poison= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 4197 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 4198 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 4199 off: turn off poisoning (default) 4200 on: turn on poisoning 4201 4202 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 4203 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 4204 Format: <integer> 4205 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 4206 reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER. 4207 4208 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 4209 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 4210 timeout = 0: wait forever 4211 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 4212 Format: <timeout> 4213 4214 panic_on_taint= [KNL,EARLY] 4215 Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 4216 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 4217 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 4218 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 4219 called with any of the flags in this set. 4220 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 4221 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 4222 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 4223 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 4224 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 4225 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 4226 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 4227 4228 panic_on_warn=1 panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 4229 on a WARN(). 4230 4231 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 4232 User can chose combination of the following bits: 4233 bit 0: print all tasks info 4234 bit 1: print system memory info 4235 bit 2: print timer info 4236 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 4237 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 4238 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 4239 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 4240 bit 7: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state 4241 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 4242 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 4243 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 4244 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 4245 4246 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 4247 connected to, default is 0. 4248 Format: <parport#> 4249 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 4250 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 4251 Format: <mode> 4252 4253 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 4254 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 4255 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 4256 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 4257 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 4258 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 4259 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 4260 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 4261 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 4262 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 4263 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 4264 are specified on the command line, starting 4265 with parport0. 4266 4267 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 4268 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 4269 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 4270 computer where firmware has no options for setting 4271 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 4272 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 4273 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 4274 4275 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 4276 Format: <int> 4277 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 4278 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 4279 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 4280 4281 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 4282 Format: <int> 4283 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 4284 changes. Disabled by default. 4285 4286 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 4287 Format: <int> 4288 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 4289 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4290 Disabled by default. 4291 4292 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 4293 Format: <int> 4294 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 4295 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4296 Disabled by default. 4297 4298 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4299 Format: <int> 4300 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 4301 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 4302 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 4303 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 4304 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 4305 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 4306 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 4307 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 4308 all channels. 4309 4310 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 4311 Format: <int> 4312 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 4313 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4314 respectively. Disabled by default. 4315 4316 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 4317 Format: <int> 4318 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 4319 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4320 respectively. Disabled by default. 4321 4322 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4323 Format: <int> 4324 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 4325 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 4326 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 4327 All modes allowed by default. 4328 4329 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 4330 Format: <int> 4331 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4332 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4333 4334 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4335 Format: <int> 4336 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4337 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4338 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4339 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4340 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4341 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4342 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4343 By default all supported ports are probed. 4344 4345 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4346 Format: <int> 4347 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4348 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4349 4350 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4351 Format: <int> 4352 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4353 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4354 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4355 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4356 0 otherwise. 4357 4358 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4359 Format: <int> 4360 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4361 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4362 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4363 allowed by default. 4364 4365 pause_on_oops=<int> 4366 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4367 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4368 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4369 4370 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4371 4372 pci=option[,option...] [PCI,EARLY] various PCI subsystem options. 4373 4374 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4375 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4376 specified in one of the following formats: 4377 4378 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4379 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4380 4381 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4382 bus/device/function address which may change 4383 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4384 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4385 by other kernel parameters. If the 4386 domain is left unspecified, it is 4387 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4388 to a device through multiple device/function 4389 addresses can be specified after the base 4390 address (this is more robust against 4391 renumbering issues). The second format 4392 selects devices using IDs from the 4393 configuration space which may match multiple 4394 devices in the system. 4395 4396 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4397 changes anything 4398 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4399 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4400 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4401 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4402 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4403 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4404 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4405 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4406 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4407 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4408 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4409 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4410 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4411 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4412 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4413 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4414 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4415 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4416 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4417 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4418 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4419 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4420 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4421 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4422 Configuration 4423 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4424 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4425 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4426 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4427 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4428 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4429 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4430 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4431 should never be necessary. 4432 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4433 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4434 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4435 when the system masks IRQs. 4436 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4437 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4438 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4439 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4440 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4441 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4442 on several machines and they hang the machine 4443 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4444 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4445 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4446 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4447 motherboard. 4448 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4449 Use with caution as certain devices share 4450 address decoders between ROMs and other 4451 resources. 4452 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4453 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4454 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4455 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4456 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4457 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4458 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4459 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4460 this way. 4461 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4462 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4463 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4464 F0000h-100000h range. 4465 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4466 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4467 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4468 explicitly which ones they are. 4469 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4470 numbers ourselves, overriding 4471 whatever the firmware may have done. 4472 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4473 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4474 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4475 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4476 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4477 IRQ routing is enabled. 4478 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4479 or for PCI scanning. 4480 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4481 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4482 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4483 please report a bug. 4484 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4485 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4486 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4487 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4488 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4489 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4490 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4491 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4492 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4493 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4494 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4495 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4496 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4497 so this option is a temporary workaround 4498 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4499 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4500 handle more pci cards 4501 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4502 This might help on some broken boards which 4503 machine check when some devices' config space 4504 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4505 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4506 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4507 This sorting is done to get a device 4508 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4509 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4510 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4511 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4512 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4513 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4514 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4515 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4516 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4517 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4518 or bus can support) for best performance. 4519 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4520 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4521 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4522 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4523 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4524 that hot-added devices will work. 4525 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4526 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4527 The default value is 256 bytes. 4528 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4529 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4530 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4531 resource_alignment= 4532 Format: 4533 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4534 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4535 aligned memory resources. How to 4536 specify the device is described above. 4537 If <order of align> is not specified, 4538 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4539 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4540 windows need to be expanded. 4541 To specify the alignment for several 4542 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4543 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4544 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4545 for 4096-byte alignment. 4546 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4547 end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if 4548 OS has native AER control (either granted by 4549 ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native") 4550 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4551 the default. 4552 off: Turn ECRC off 4553 on: Turn ECRC on. 4554 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4555 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4556 Default size is 256 bytes. 4557 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4558 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4559 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4560 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4561 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4562 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4563 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4564 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4565 MMIO_PREF window. 4566 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4567 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4568 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4569 Default is 1. 4570 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4571 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4572 accommodate resources required by all child 4573 devices. 4574 off: Turn realloc off 4575 on: Turn realloc on 4576 realloc same as realloc=on 4577 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4578 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4579 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4580 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4581 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4582 port. 4583 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4584 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4585 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4586 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4587 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4588 taints the kernel. 4589 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4590 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4591 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4592 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4593 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4594 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4595 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4596 this removes isolation between devices and 4597 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4598 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4599 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4600 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4601 one PCI domain per PCI function 4602 4603 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or ignore PCIe Active State Power 4604 Management. 4605 off Don't touch ASPM configuration at all. Leave any 4606 configuration done by firmware unchanged. 4607 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4608 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4609 4610 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4611 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4612 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4613 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4614 also tries to use these services. 4615 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4616 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4617 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4618 hotplug). 4619 4620 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4621 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4622 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4623 4624 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4625 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4626 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4627 4628 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4629 4630 pd_ignore_unused 4631 [PM] 4632 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4633 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4634 for debug and development, but should not be 4635 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4636 4637 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4638 boot time. 4639 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4640 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4641 4642 percpu_alloc= [MM,EARLY] 4643 Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4644 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4645 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4646 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4647 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4648 and performance comparison. 4649 4650 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4651 See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4652 4653 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4654 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4655 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4656 4657 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4658 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4659 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4660 4661 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4662 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4663 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4664 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4665 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4666 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4667 remains 0. 4668 4669 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4670 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4671 4672 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4673 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4674 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4675 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4676 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4677 possible settings and some assignment information. 4678 4679 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4680 { off } 4681 4682 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4683 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4684 4685 pnp_reserve_irq= 4686 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4687 4688 pnp_reserve_dma= 4689 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4690 4691 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4692 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4693 4694 pnp_reserve_mem= 4695 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4696 autoconfiguration. 4697 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4698 4699 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4700 Default is 21. 4701 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4702 may be specified. 4703 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4704 4705 possible_cpus= [SMP,S390,X86] 4706 Format: <unsigned int> 4707 Set the number of possible CPUs, overriding the 4708 regular discovery mechanisms (such as ACPI/FW, etc). 4709 4710 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4711 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4712 platform machine description specific power_save 4713 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4714 execution priority. 4715 4716 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4717 [PPC,ENABLE] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4718 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4719 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4720 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4721 4722 ppc_tm= [PPC,EARLY] 4723 Format: {"off"} 4724 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4725 4726 preempt= [KNL] 4727 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4728 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4729 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4730 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4731 can be preempted anytime. Tasks will also yield 4732 contended spinlocks (if the critical section isn't 4733 explicitly preempt disabled beyond the lock itself). 4734 4735 print-fatal-signals= 4736 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4737 4738 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4739 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4740 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4741 coredump - etc. 4742 4743 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4744 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4745 4746 default: off. 4747 4748 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4749 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4750 panics 4751 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4752 default: disabled 4753 4754 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4755 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4756 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4757 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4758 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4759 in order to provide more debug information. 4760 Format: <bool> 4761 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4762 4763 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4764 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4765 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4766 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4767 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4768 Default: ratelimit 4769 4770 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4771 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4772 4773 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4774 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4775 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4776 4777 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4778 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4779 instead using the legacy FADT method 4780 4781 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4782 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4783 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4784 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4785 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4786 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4787 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4788 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4789 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4790 statistical time based profiling. 4791 4792 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4793 4794 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4795 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4796 that). If enabled, the default kernel base address 4797 might be overridden even when Kernel Address Space 4798 Layout Randomization is disabled. 4799 Format: <bool> 4800 4801 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4802 tracking. 4803 Format: <bool> 4804 4805 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4806 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4807 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4808 per second. 4809 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4810 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4811 (0 = never). 4812 psmouse.resolution= 4813 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4814 psmouse.smartscroll= 4815 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4816 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4817 4818 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4819 4820 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4821 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4822 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4823 system calls and interrupts. 4824 4825 on - unconditionally enable 4826 off - unconditionally disable 4827 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4828 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4829 4830 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4831 4832 pty.legacy_count= 4833 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4834 default number. 4835 4836 quiet [KNL,EARLY] Disable most log messages 4837 4838 r128= [HW,DRM] 4839 4840 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 4841 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 4842 invalidate. 4843 4844 raid= [HW,RAID] 4845 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4846 4847 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4848 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4849 4850 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4851 4852 random.trust_cpu=off 4853 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's 4854 random number generator (if available) to 4855 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4856 4857 random.trust_bootloader=off 4858 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the a seed 4859 passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4860 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4861 4862 randomize_kstack_offset= 4863 [KNL,EARLY] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4864 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4865 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4866 that depend on stack address determinism or 4867 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4868 available on architectures that have defined 4869 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4870 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4871 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4872 4873 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4874 4875 cec_disable [X86] 4876 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4877 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4878 4879 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 4880 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 4881 as described above. 4882 4883 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 4884 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 4885 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 4886 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 4887 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 4888 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 4889 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 4890 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 4891 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 4892 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 4893 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 4894 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4895 4896 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 4897 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 4898 4899 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 4900 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 4901 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 4902 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 4903 4904 Note that this argument takes precedence over 4905 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 4906 4907 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4908 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4909 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4910 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4911 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4912 This improves the real-time response for the 4913 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4914 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4915 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4916 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4917 4918 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4919 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4920 process in one batch. 4921 4922 rcutree.do_rcu_barrier= [KNL] 4923 Request a call to rcu_barrier(). This is 4924 throttled so that userspace tests can safely 4925 hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose. 4926 If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery 4927 is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN. 4928 4929 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4930 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4931 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4932 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4933 4934 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4935 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4936 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4937 4938 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4939 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4940 RCU grace-period initialization. 4941 4942 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4943 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4944 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4945 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4946 the rcu_node combining tree. 4947 4948 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4949 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4950 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4951 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4952 and maximum value is HZ. 4953 4954 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4955 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4956 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4957 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4958 4959 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4960 Set required age in jiffies for a 4961 given grace period before RCU starts 4962 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4963 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4964 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4965 a value based on the most recent settings 4966 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4967 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4968 This calculated value may be viewed in 4969 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4970 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4971 overwritten. 4972 4973 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4974 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4975 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4976 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4977 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4978 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4979 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4980 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4981 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4982 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4983 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 4984 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 4985 4986 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] 4987 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, 4988 RCU reduces the lock contention that would 4989 otherwise be caused by callback floods through 4990 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the 4991 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to 4992 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra 4993 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. 4994 But if there are too many callbacks queued during 4995 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into 4996 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too 4997 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. 4998 4999 rcutree.nohz_full_patience_delay= [KNL] 5000 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, avoid 5001 disturbing RCU unless the grace period has 5002 reached the specified age in milliseconds. 5003 Defaults to zero. Large values will be capped 5004 at five seconds. All values will be rounded down 5005 to the nearest value representable by jiffies. 5006 5007 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 5008 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 5009 batch limiting is disabled. 5010 5011 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 5012 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 5013 batch limiting is re-enabled. 5014 5015 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 5016 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 5017 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 5018 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 5019 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 5020 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 5021 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 5022 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 5023 5024 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 5025 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 5026 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 5027 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 5028 5029 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] 5030 Set the shift-right count to use to compute 5031 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from 5032 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. 5033 The result will be bounded below by the value of 5034 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl 5035 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in 5036 order to allow the CPU to do other work. 5037 5038 Please note that this callback-invocation batch 5039 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback 5040 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead 5041 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which 5042 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. 5043 5044 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 5045 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 5046 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 5047 possibly be useful for architectures having high 5048 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 5049 5050 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 5051 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 5052 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 5053 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 5054 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 5055 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 5056 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 5057 5058 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 5059 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 5060 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 5061 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 5062 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 5063 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 5064 condition. 5065 5066 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 5067 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 5068 each group, which defaults to the square root 5069 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 5070 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 5071 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 5072 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 5073 5074 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 5075 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 5076 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 5077 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 5078 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 5079 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 5080 5081 rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL] 5082 Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU 5083 callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds. 5084 By default, this limit is checked only once 5085 every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain 5086 inflicted by local_clock() overhead. 5087 5088 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 5089 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 5090 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 5091 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 5092 Larger delays increase the probability of 5093 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 5094 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 5095 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 5096 5097 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 5098 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 5099 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 5100 why a new grace period has not yet started. 5101 5102 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 5103 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 5104 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 5105 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 5106 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 5107 5108 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 5109 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 5110 to zero. 5111 5112 rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy= [KNL] 5113 To save power, batch RCU callbacks and flush after 5114 delay, memory pressure or callback list growing too 5115 big. 5116 5117 rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp= [KNL] 5118 Reduces a latency of synchronize_rcu() call. This approach 5119 maintains its own track of synchronize_rcu() callers, so it 5120 does not interact with regular callbacks because it does not 5121 use a call_rcu[_hurry]() path. Please note, this is for a 5122 normal grace period. 5123 5124 How to enable it: 5125 5126 echo 1 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp 5127 or pass a boot parameter "rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=1" 5128 5129 Default is 0. 5130 5131 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 5132 Measure performance of asynchronous 5133 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 5134 5135 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 5136 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 5137 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 5138 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 5139 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 5140 previously posted callbacks to drain. 5141 5142 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 5143 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 5144 grace-period primitives. 5145 5146 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5147 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5148 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5149 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5150 interference. 5151 5152 rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL] 5153 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test 5154 call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu(). 5155 5156 rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL] 5157 Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj, 5158 allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj). 5159 Defaults to 1. 5160 5161 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 5162 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 5163 5164 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 5165 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5166 If this parameter has the same value as 5167 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 5168 and double-argument variants are tested. 5169 5170 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 5171 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5172 If this parameter has the same value as 5173 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 5174 and double-argument variants are tested. 5175 5176 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 5177 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 5178 5179 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 5180 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 5181 5182 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 5183 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 5184 of allocations and frees. 5185 5186 rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL] 5187 Set the minimum test run time in seconds. This 5188 does not affect the data-collection interval, 5189 but instead allows better measurement of things 5190 like CPU consumption. 5191 5192 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5193 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5194 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5195 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 5196 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5197 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5198 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 5199 a single reader. 5200 5201 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 5202 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 5203 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 5204 N, where N is the number of CPUs 5205 5206 rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5207 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5208 5209 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5210 Shut the system down after performance tests 5211 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 5212 testing. 5213 5214 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 5215 Enable additional printk() statements. 5216 5217 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 5218 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 5219 in microseconds. The default of zero says 5220 no holdoff. 5221 5222 rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL] 5223 Additional write-side holdoff between grace 5224 periods, but in jiffies. The default of zero 5225 says no holdoff. 5226 5227 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 5228 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 5229 in microseconds. 5230 5231 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 5232 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 5233 in microseconds. 5234 5235 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 5236 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 5237 in seconds. 5238 5239 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 5240 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 5241 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 5242 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 5243 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 5244 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 5245 of CPUs to be used. 5246 5247 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 5248 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 5249 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 5250 5251 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 5252 Number of seconds to wait between successive 5253 forward-progress tests. 5254 5255 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 5256 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 5257 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 5258 testing. 5259 5260 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 5261 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 5262 primitives, if available. 5263 5264 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 5265 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 5266 5267 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 5268 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 5269 update-side primitives, if available. 5270 5271 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 5272 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 5273 update-side primitives, if available. If all 5274 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 5275 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 5276 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 5277 they are all non-zero. 5278 5279 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 5280 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 5281 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 5282 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 5283 5284 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 5285 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 5286 This can of course result in splats, and is 5287 intended to test the ability of things like 5288 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 5289 such leaks. 5290 5291 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 5292 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 5293 5294 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 5295 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 5296 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 5297 test, hence the "fake". 5298 5299 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 5300 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 5301 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 5302 5303 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 5304 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 5305 callback-offload toggling attempts. 5306 5307 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 5308 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5309 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5310 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 5311 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5312 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5313 5314 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 5315 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 5316 5317 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5318 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 5319 5320 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5321 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 5322 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 5323 5324 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 5325 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 5326 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 5327 task-exit processing. 5328 5329 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 5330 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 5331 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 5332 is spawned. 5333 5334 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 5335 The delay, in seconds, between successive 5336 read-then-exit testing episodes. 5337 5338 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 5339 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 5340 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 5341 during the rcutorture test. 5342 5343 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5344 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 5345 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 5346 5347 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 5348 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 5349 warnings, zero to disable. 5350 5351 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 5352 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 5353 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to 5354 any other stall-related activity. Note that 5355 in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and 5356 CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will 5357 cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state. 5358 Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress 5359 RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result 5360 in scheduling-while-atomic splats. 5361 5362 Use of this module parameter results in splats. 5363 5364 5365 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 5366 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 5367 5368 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 5369 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 5370 5371 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 5372 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 5373 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 5374 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 5375 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 5376 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 5377 5378 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5379 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 5380 5381 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 5382 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 5383 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 5384 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 5385 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 5386 5387 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 5388 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 5389 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 5390 under test support RCU priority boosting. 5391 5392 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 5393 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 5394 5395 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 5396 Interval (s) between each boost test. 5397 5398 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 5399 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 5400 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 5401 5402 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 5403 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5404 5405 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 5406 Enable additional printk() statements. 5407 5408 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 5409 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 5410 stall warning. 5411 5412 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL] 5413 Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the 5414 warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig 5415 option's help text. TL;DR: You almost certainly 5416 do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers. 5417 5418 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 5419 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5420 5421 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 5422 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 5423 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 5424 during early boot, that is, during the time 5425 before the init task is spawned. 5426 5427 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5428 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5429 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 5430 value is 300 seconds. 5431 5432 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5433 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 5434 messages. The value is in milliseconds 5435 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 5436 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 5437 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 5438 Setting this to zero causes the value from 5439 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 5440 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 5441 5442 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL] 5443 Provide statistics on the cputime and count of 5444 interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For 5445 multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods 5446 begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout. 5447 5448 rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL] 5449 Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the 5450 current expedited RCU grace period during an 5451 expedited RCU CPU stall warning. 5452 5453 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 5454 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 5455 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 5456 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 5457 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 5458 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 5459 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5460 5461 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 5462 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 5463 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 5464 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 5465 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 5466 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 5467 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 5468 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 5469 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5470 5471 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 5472 Once boot has completed (that is, after 5473 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 5474 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 5475 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5476 5477 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 5478 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 5479 it to the value one, that is, converting any 5480 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 5481 period to instead use normal non-expedited 5482 grace-period processing. 5483 5484 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 5485 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 5486 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 5487 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 5488 a single callback queue. This switching only 5489 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 5490 set to the default value of -1. 5491 5492 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 5493 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 5494 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 5495 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 5496 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 5497 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 5498 the default value of -1. 5499 5500 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 5501 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 5502 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 5503 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 5504 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 5505 for use in testing. 5506 5507 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 5508 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 5509 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 5510 of a given grace period. Setting a large 5511 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 5512 but lengthens grace periods. 5513 5514 rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL] 5515 Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will 5516 cancel laziness on that CPU. Use -1 to disable 5517 cancellation of laziness, but be advised that 5518 doing so increases the danger of OOM due to 5519 callback flooding. 5520 5521 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 5522 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5523 informational messages, which give some indication 5524 of the problem for those not patient enough to 5525 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 5526 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 5527 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 5528 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 5529 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 5530 until the beginning of the next grace period. 5531 5532 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 5533 Multiplier for time interval between successive 5534 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 5535 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 5536 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 5537 the value three, so that the first informational 5538 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 5539 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 5540 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 5541 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 5542 5543 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5544 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5545 warning messages. Disable with a value less 5546 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 5547 A change in value does not take effect until 5548 the beginning of the next grace period. 5549 5550 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5551 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous 5552 callback batching for call_rcu_tasks(). 5553 A negative value will take the default. A value 5554 of zero will disable batching. Batching is 5555 always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks(). 5556 5557 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_rude_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5558 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks 5559 Rude asynchronous callback batching for 5560 call_rcu_tasks_rude(). A negative value 5561 will take the default. A value of zero will 5562 disable batching. Batching is always disabled 5563 for synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude(). 5564 5565 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5566 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks 5567 Trace asynchronous callback batching for 5568 call_rcu_tasks_trace(). A negative value 5569 will take the default. A value of zero will 5570 disable batching. Batching is always disabled 5571 for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace(). 5572 5573 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 5574 Run the RCU early boot self tests 5575 5576 rdinit= [KNL] 5577 Format: <full_path> 5578 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 5579 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 5580 5581 rdrand= [X86,EARLY] 5582 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 5583 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 5584 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 5585 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 5586 path). 5587 5588 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 5589 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 5590 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 5591 mba, smba, bmec. 5592 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 5593 rdt=cmt,!mba 5594 5595 reboot= [KNL] 5596 Format (x86 or x86_64): 5597 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 5598 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 5599 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 5600 [[,]f[orce] 5601 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 5602 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 5603 reboot only), 5604 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 5605 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 5606 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 5607 to be used for rebooting. 5608 5609 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5610 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5611 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5612 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5613 interference. 5614 5615 refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL] 5616 Number of data elements to use for the forms of 5617 SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing. A negative number 5618 is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while 5619 zero specifies nr_cpu_ids. 5620 5621 refscale.loops= [KNL] 5622 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 5623 primitive under test. Increasing this number 5624 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 5625 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 5626 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 5627 x86 laptops. 5628 5629 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5630 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 5631 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 5632 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 5633 5634 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 5635 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 5636 the console log. 5637 5638 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 5639 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 5640 measured in microseconds. 5641 5642 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5643 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 5644 5645 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5646 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 5647 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 5648 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 5649 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 5650 5651 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 5652 Enable additional printk() statements. 5653 5654 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 5655 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 5656 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 5657 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 5658 specified. 5659 5660 regulator_ignore_unused 5661 [REGULATOR] 5662 Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators 5663 that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may 5664 be useful for debug and development, but should not be 5665 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 5666 5667 relax_domain_level= 5668 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 5669 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 5670 5671 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 5672 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 5673 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 5674 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 5675 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 5676 5677 reservetop= [X86-32,EARLY] 5678 Format: nn[KMG] 5679 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 5680 address space. 5681 5682 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 5683 during initialization. 5684 5685 resume= [SWSUSP] 5686 Specify the partition device for software suspend 5687 Format: 5688 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 5689 5690 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 5691 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 5692 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 5693 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 5694 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 5695 5696 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5697 read the resume files 5698 5699 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 5700 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5701 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5702 5703 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction. After boot, it will 5704 be accessible via /sys/firmware/initrd. 5705 5706 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 5707 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 5708 vulnerability. 5709 5710 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop 5711 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other 5712 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- 5713 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors 5714 that don't. 5715 5716 off - no mitigation 5717 auto - automatically select a migitation 5718 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 5719 disabling SMT if necessary for 5720 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 5721 and older without STIBP). 5722 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation 5723 windows on basic block boundaries too. 5724 Safe, highest perf impact. It also 5725 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable 5726 on Intel. 5727 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT 5728 when STIBP is not available. This is 5729 the alternative for systems which do not 5730 have STIBP. 5731 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, 5732 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based 5733 systems. 5734 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP 5735 is not available. This is the alternative for 5736 systems which do not have STIBP. 5737 5738 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 5739 time according to the CPU. 5740 5741 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 5742 5743 rfkill.default_state= 5744 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 5745 etc. communication is blocked by default. 5746 1 Unblocked. 5747 5748 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 5749 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 5750 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5751 blocked and the previous configuration. 5752 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5753 blocked and everything unblocked. 5754 5755 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5756 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 5757 5758 ring3mwait=disable 5759 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 5760 CPUs. 5761 5762 riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV,EARLY] 5763 When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit 5764 falling back to detecting extension support by parsing 5765 "riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the 5766 replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig 5767 entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK. 5768 5769 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 5770 5771 rodata= [KNL,EARLY] 5772 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 5773 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 5774 full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only 5775 [arm64] 5776 5777 rockchip.usb_uart 5778 [EARLY] 5779 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 5780 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 5781 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 5782 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 5783 5784 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 5785 Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind, 5786 see the early_lookup_bdev comment in 5787 block/early-lookup.c for details. 5788 Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial 5789 ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file 5790 system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash. 5791 5792 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5793 mount the root filesystem 5794 5795 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 5796 5797 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 5798 5799 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 5800 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5801 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5802 5803 rootwait= [KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device 5804 to show up before attempting to mount the root 5805 filesystem. 5806 5807 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 5808 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 5809 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 5810 managed by CMA. 5811 5812 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 5813 5814 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5815 5816 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5817 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5818 strict 5819 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result 5820 in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before 5821 reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to 5822 iommu.strict=1. 5823 5824 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5825 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5826 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5827 factor of the size of main memory. 5828 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5829 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5830 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5831 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5832 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5833 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5834 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5835 5836 sa1100ir [NET] 5837 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5838 5839 sched_verbose [KNL,EARLY] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5840 5841 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5842 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5843 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5844 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5845 5846 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5847 [Deprecated] 5848 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5849 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5850 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5851 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5852 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5853 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5854 value. 5855 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5856 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5857 1 64 ms 5858 2 128 ms 5859 and so on. 5860 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5861 Default is 0. 5862 5863 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5864 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5865 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5866 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5867 tests. 5868 5869 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5870 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5871 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5872 default) disables this feature. Please note 5873 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5874 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5875 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5876 5877 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5878 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5879 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5880 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5881 equal to the number of CPUs. 5882 5883 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5884 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5885 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 5886 5887 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5888 Number seconds to wait between successive 5889 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 5890 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 5891 5892 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5893 The number of seconds following the start of the 5894 test after which to shut down the system. The 5895 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 5896 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 5897 5898 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5899 The number of seconds between outputting the 5900 current test statistics to the console. A value 5901 of zero disables statistics output. 5902 5903 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 5904 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 5905 to the set of CPUs under test. 5906 5907 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 5908 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 5909 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 5910 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 5911 functions. 5912 5913 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 5914 Enable additional printk() statements. 5915 5916 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 5917 The probability weighting to use for the 5918 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 5919 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 5920 default if all other weights are -1. However, 5921 if at least one weight has some other value, a 5922 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 5923 5924 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 5925 The probability weighting to use for the 5926 smp_call_function_single() function with a 5927 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5928 5929 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 5930 The probability weighting to use for the 5931 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 5932 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5933 Note well that setting a high probability for 5934 this weighting can place serious IPI load 5935 on the system. 5936 5937 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 5938 The probability weighting to use for the 5939 smp_call_function_many() function with a 5940 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5941 and weight_many. 5942 5943 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 5944 The probability weighting to use for the 5945 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 5946 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 5947 weight_many. 5948 5949 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 5950 The probability weighting to use for the 5951 smp_call_function_all() function with a 5952 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5953 and weight_many. 5954 5955 skew_tick= [KNL,EARLY] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 5956 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 5957 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 5958 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5959 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 5960 1 -- enable. 5961 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 5962 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 5963 5964 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 5965 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 5966 "lsm=" parameter. 5967 5968 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 5969 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5970 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 5971 0 -- disable. 5972 1 -- enable. 5973 Default value is 1. 5974 5975 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 5976 5977 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 5978 5979 shapers= [NET] 5980 Maximal number of shapers. 5981 5982 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 5983 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 5984 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 5985 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 5986 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 5987 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 5988 apic=verbose is specified. 5989 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 5990 5991 simeth= [IA-64] 5992 simscsi= 5993 5994 slab_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM] 5995 Enabling slab_debug allows one to determine the 5996 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5997 slab_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5998 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5999 last alloc / free. For more information see 6000 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6001 (slub_debug legacy name also accepted for now) 6002 6003 slab_max_order= [MM] 6004 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 6005 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 6006 fragmentation. For more information see 6007 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6008 (slub_max_order legacy name also accepted for now) 6009 6010 slab_merge [MM] 6011 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 6012 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 6013 (slub_merge legacy name also accepted for now) 6014 6015 slab_min_objects= [MM] 6016 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 6017 increase the slab order up to slab_max_order to 6018 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 6019 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 6020 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 6021 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 6022 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6023 (slub_min_objects legacy name also accepted for now) 6024 6025 slab_min_order= [MM] 6026 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 6027 lower or equal to slab_max_order. For more information see 6028 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6029 (slub_min_order legacy name also accepted for now) 6030 6031 slab_nomerge [MM] 6032 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 6033 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 6034 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 6035 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 6036 layout control by attackers can usually be 6037 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 6038 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 6039 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 6040 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 6041 own. 6042 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6043 (slub_nomerge legacy name also accepted for now) 6044 6045 slram= [HW,MTD] 6046 6047 smart2= [HW] 6048 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 6049 6050 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 6051 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 6052 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 6053 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 6054 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 6055 disabling interrupts for extended periods 6056 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 6057 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 6058 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 6059 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 6060 6061 smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL] 6062 If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than 6063 the specified number of milliseconds, panic the 6064 system. By default, let CSD-lock acquisition 6065 take as long as they take. Specifying 300,000 6066 for this value provides a 5-minute timeout. 6067 6068 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 6069 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 6070 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 6071 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 6072 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 6073 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 6074 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 6075 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 6076 1: Fast pin select (default) 6077 2: ATC IRMode 6078 6079 smt= [KNL,MIPS,S390,EARLY] Set the maximum number of threads 6080 (logical CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems 6081 capable of symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will 6082 be capped to the actual hardware limit. 6083 Format: <integer> 6084 Default: -1 (no limit) 6085 6086 softlockup_panic= 6087 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 6088 Format: 0 | 1 6089 6090 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 6091 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 6092 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 6093 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 6094 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 6095 6096 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 6097 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 6098 backtraces on all cpus. 6099 Format: 0 | 1 6100 6101 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 6102 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 6103 6104 spectre_bhi= [X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection 6105 (BHI) vulnerability. This setting affects the 6106 deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB 6107 clearing sequence. 6108 6109 on - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation as 6110 needed. This protects the kernel from 6111 both syscalls and VMs. 6112 vmexit - On systems which don't have the HW mitigation 6113 available, enable the SW mitigation on vmexit 6114 ONLY. On such systems, the host kernel is 6115 protected from VM-originated BHI attacks, but 6116 may still be vulnerable to syscall attacks. 6117 off - Disable the mitigation. 6118 6119 spectre_v2= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 6120 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 6121 The default operation protects the kernel from 6122 user space attacks. 6123 6124 on - unconditionally enable, implies 6125 spectre_v2_user=on 6126 off - unconditionally disable, implies 6127 spectre_v2_user=off 6128 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 6129 vulnerable 6130 6131 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 6132 mitigation method at run time according to the 6133 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 6134 CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE configuration option, 6135 and the compiler with which the kernel was built. 6136 6137 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 6138 against user space to user space task attacks. 6139 6140 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 6141 the user space protections. 6142 6143 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 6144 6145 retpoline - replace indirect branches 6146 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 6147 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 6148 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 6149 eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS 6150 eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines 6151 eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE 6152 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 6153 6154 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6155 spectre_v2=auto. 6156 6157 spectre_v2_user= 6158 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 6159 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 6160 user space tasks 6161 6162 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 6163 enforced by spectre_v2=on 6164 6165 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 6166 enforced by spectre_v2=off 6167 6168 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 6169 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 6170 per thread. The mitigation control state 6171 is inherited on fork. 6172 6173 prctl,ibpb 6174 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 6175 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6176 always when switching between different user 6177 space processes. 6178 6179 seccomp 6180 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 6181 threads will enable the mitigation unless 6182 they explicitly opt out. 6183 6184 seccomp,ibpb 6185 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 6186 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6187 always when switching between different 6188 user space processes. 6189 6190 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 6191 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 6192 6193 Default mitigation: "prctl" 6194 6195 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6196 spectre_v2_user=auto. 6197 6198 spec_rstack_overflow= 6199 [X86,EARLY] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs 6200 6201 off - Disable mitigation 6202 microcode - Enable microcode mitigation only 6203 safe-ret - Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default) 6204 ibpb - Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on 6205 kernel entry 6206 ibpb-vmexit - Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT 6207 (cloud-specific mitigation) 6208 6209 spec_store_bypass_disable= 6210 [HW,EARLY] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 6211 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 6212 6213 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 6214 a common industry wide performance optimization known 6215 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 6216 to the same memory location may not be observed by 6217 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 6218 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 6219 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 6220 end of a particular speculation execution window. 6221 6222 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6223 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 6224 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 6225 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 6226 6227 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 6228 Bypass optimization is used. 6229 6230 On x86 the options are: 6231 6232 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 6233 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 6234 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 6235 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 6236 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 6237 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 6238 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 6239 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 6240 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 6241 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 6242 for a process by default. The state of the control 6243 is inherited on fork. 6244 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 6245 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 6246 6247 Default mitigations: 6248 X86: "prctl" 6249 6250 On powerpc the options are: 6251 6252 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 6253 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 6254 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 6255 exit. 6256 off - No action. 6257 6258 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6259 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 6260 6261 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 6262 spia_fio_base= 6263 spia_pedr= 6264 spia_peddr= 6265 6266 split_lock_detect= 6267 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 6268 6269 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 6270 instructions that access data across cache line 6271 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 6272 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 6273 bus lock detection. 6274 6275 off - not enabled 6276 6277 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 6278 about applications triggering the #AC 6279 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 6280 the default on CPUs that support split lock 6281 detection or bus lock detection. Default 6282 behavior is by #AC if both features are 6283 enabled in hardware. 6284 6285 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 6286 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 6287 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 6288 both features are enabled in hardware. 6289 6290 ratelimit:N - 6291 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 6292 per second for bus lock detection. 6293 0 < N <= 1000. 6294 6295 N/A for split lock detection. 6296 6297 6298 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 6299 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 6300 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 6301 mode. 6302 6303 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 6304 CPL > 0. 6305 6306 srbds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 6307 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 6308 (SRBDS) mitigation. 6309 6310 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 6311 exploit which can leak bits from the random 6312 number generator. 6313 6314 By default, this issue is mitigated by 6315 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 6316 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 6317 much slower. Among other effects, this will 6318 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 6319 6320 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 6321 the following option: 6322 6323 off: Disable mitigation and remove 6324 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 6325 6326 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 6327 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 6328 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 6329 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 6330 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 6331 but takes effect only when the low-order four 6332 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 6333 (decide at boot). 6334 6335 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 6336 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 6337 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 6338 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 6339 6340 0: Never. 6341 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 6342 2: When rcutorture decides to. 6343 3: Decide at boot time (default). 6344 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 6345 6346 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 6347 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 6348 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 6349 6350 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 6351 Specifies how frequently to check for 6352 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 6353 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 6354 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 6355 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 6356 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 6357 are ignored. 6358 6359 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 6360 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 6361 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 6362 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 6363 grace period will be considered for automatic 6364 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 6365 expediting. 6366 6367 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] 6368 Specifies the number of no-delay instances 6369 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period 6370 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero 6371 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will 6372 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. 6373 6374 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] 6375 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of 6376 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, 6377 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled 6378 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each 6379 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. 6380 6381 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] 6382 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping 6383 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. 6384 6385 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 6386 Specifies the number of update-side contention 6387 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 6388 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 6389 structure to big form. Note that the value of 6390 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 6391 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 6392 6393 ssbd= [ARM64,HW,EARLY] 6394 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 6395 6396 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 6397 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 6398 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 6399 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 6400 6401 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 6402 for both kernel and userspace 6403 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 6404 for both kernel and userspace 6405 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 6406 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 6407 to allow userspace to register its 6408 interest in being mitigated too. 6409 6410 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 6411 override the default stack gap protection. The value 6412 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 6413 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 6414 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 6415 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 6416 6417 stack_depot_disable= [KNL,EARLY] 6418 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 6419 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 6420 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 6421 to false. 6422 6423 stacktrace [FTRACE] 6424 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 6425 6426 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 6427 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 6428 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 6429 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 6430 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 6431 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 6432 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 6433 6434 sti= [PARISC,HW] 6435 Format: <num> 6436 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 6437 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 6438 as the initial boot-console. 6439 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6440 6441 sti_font= [HW] 6442 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6443 6444 stifb= [HW] 6445 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 6446 6447 strict_sas_size= 6448 [X86] 6449 Format: <bool> 6450 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 6451 against the required signal frame size which 6452 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 6453 be used to filter out binaries which have 6454 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 6455 6456 stress_hpt [PPC,EARLY] 6457 Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash 6458 page table to increase the rate of hash page table 6459 faults on kernel addresses. 6460 6461 stress_slb [PPC,EARLY] 6462 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 6463 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 6464 on kernel addresses. 6465 6466 sunrpc.min_resvport= 6467 sunrpc.max_resvport= 6468 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6469 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 6470 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 6471 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 6472 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 6473 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 6474 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 6475 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 6476 maximum port values. 6477 6478 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 6479 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6480 Limit the number of requests that the server will 6481 process in parallel from a single connection. 6482 The default value is 0 (no limit). 6483 6484 sunrpc.pool_mode= 6485 [NFS] 6486 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 6487 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 6488 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 6489 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 6490 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 6491 NFS server is running. 6492 6493 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 6494 automatically using heuristics 6495 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 6496 percpu one pool for each CPU 6497 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 6498 to global on non-NUMA machines) 6499 6500 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 6501 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 6502 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6503 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 6504 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 6505 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 6506 improve throughput, but will also increase the 6507 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 6508 6509 suspend.pm_test_delay= 6510 [SUSPEND] 6511 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 6512 mode before resuming the system (see 6513 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 6514 is set. Default value is 5. 6515 6516 svm= [PPC] 6517 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 6518 This parameter controls use of the Protected 6519 Execution Facility on pSeries. 6520 6521 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86,EARLY] 6522 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } 6523 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 6524 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb 6525 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up 6526 to a power of 2. 6527 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 6528 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 6529 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 6530 6531 switches= [HW,M68k,EARLY] 6532 6533 sysctl.*= [KNL] 6534 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 6535 process, as if the value was written to the respective 6536 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 6537 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 6538 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 6539 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 6540 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 6541 6542 sysrq_always_enabled 6543 [KNL] 6544 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 6545 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 6546 Useful for debugging. 6547 6548 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6549 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 6550 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 6551 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 6552 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 6553 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 6554 6555 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 6556 6557 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 6558 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 6559 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 6560 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 6561 as the system sleep state during system startup with 6562 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 6563 The system is woken from this state using a 6564 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 6565 6566 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6567 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 6568 6569 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 6570 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 6571 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 6572 6573 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 6574 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 6575 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 6576 6577 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 6578 1: disable ACPI thermal control 6579 6580 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 6581 -1: disable all passive trip points 6582 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 6583 value 6584 6585 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 6586 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 6587 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 6588 0: no polling (default) 6589 6590 threadirqs [KNL,EARLY] 6591 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 6592 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 6593 6594 topology= [S390,EARLY] 6595 Format: {off | on} 6596 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 6597 topology information if the hardware supports this. 6598 The scheduler will make use of this information and 6599 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 6600 Default is on. 6601 6602 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 6603 Format: {off} 6604 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 6605 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 6606 LPAR. 6607 6608 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 6609 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 6610 until after init has spawned. 6611 6612 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 6613 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 6614 even if there were no errors. This can be a 6615 very costly operation when many torture tests 6616 are running concurrently, especially on systems 6617 with rotating-rust storage. 6618 6619 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 6620 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 6621 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 6622 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 6623 6624 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 6625 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 6626 6627 tp720= [HW,PS2] 6628 6629 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 6630 Format: integer pcr id 6631 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 6632 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 6633 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 6634 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 6635 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 6636 are saved. 6637 6638 tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM] 6639 Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer 6640 for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false 6641 (0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces 6642 defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see 6643 https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/ 6644 6645 tp_printk [FTRACE] 6646 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 6647 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 6648 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 6649 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 6650 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 6651 6652 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 6653 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 6654 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 6655 tp_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 6656 6657 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 6658 to stop the printing of events to console at 6659 late_initcall_sync. 6660 6661 ** CAUTION ** 6662 6663 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 6664 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 6665 the system to live lock. 6666 6667 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 6668 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 6669 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 6670 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 6671 make the system inoperable. 6672 6673 This command line option will stop the printing of events 6674 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 6675 6676 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 6677 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 6678 6679 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 6680 at boot up. 6681 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 6682 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 6683 depending on the architecture, may not be 6684 in sync between CPUs. 6685 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 6686 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 6687 but better for some race conditions. 6688 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 6689 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 6690 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 6691 once per event. 6692 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 6693 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 6694 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6695 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 6696 stamps. 6697 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6698 Architectures may add more clocks. See 6699 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 6700 6701 trace_event=[event-list] 6702 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 6703 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 6704 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 6705 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 6706 6707 trace_instance=[instance-info] 6708 [FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up. 6709 This will be listed in: 6710 6711 /sys/kernel/tracing/instances 6712 6713 Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created 6714 via: 6715 6716 trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2> 6717 6718 Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is 6719 unique. 6720 6721 trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall 6722 6723 will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and 6724 the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry 6725 event, and all events under the "initcall" system. 6726 6727 trace_options=[option-list] 6728 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 6729 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 6730 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 6731 to echo the option name into 6732 6733 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options 6734 6735 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 6736 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 6737 6738 trace_options=stacktrace 6739 6740 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 6741 section. 6742 6743 trace_trigger=[trigger-list] 6744 [FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events. 6745 Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional 6746 filter. 6747 6748 The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..." 6749 Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated. 6750 6751 For example: 6752 6753 trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2" 6754 6755 The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch" 6756 event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch" 6757 event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE). 6758 6759 See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst 6760 6761 6762 traceoff_on_warning 6763 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 6764 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 6765 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 6766 file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/ 6767 6768 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 6769 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 6770 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 6771 6772 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 6773 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 6774 6775 transparent_hugepage= 6776 [KNL] 6777 Format: [always|madvise|never] 6778 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 6779 with respect to transparent hugepages. 6780 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 6781 for more details. 6782 6783 trusted.source= [KEYS] 6784 Format: <string> 6785 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 6786 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 6787 sources: 6788 - "tpm" 6789 - "tee" 6790 - "caam" 6791 - "dcp" 6792 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 6793 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 6794 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 6795 successfully during iteration. 6796 6797 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 6798 Format: <string> 6799 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 6800 Can be one of: 6801 - "kernel" 6802 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 6803 - "default" 6804 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 6805 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 6806 6807 trusted.dcp_use_otp_key 6808 This is intended to be used in combination with 6809 trusted.source=dcp and will select the DCP OTP key 6810 instead of the DCP UNIQUE key blob encryption. 6811 6812 trusted.dcp_skip_zk_test 6813 This is intended to be used in combination with 6814 trusted.source=dcp and will disable the check if the 6815 blob key is all zeros. This is helpful for situations where 6816 having this key zero'ed is acceptable. E.g. in testing 6817 scenarios. 6818 6819 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 6820 Format: <string> 6821 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 6822 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 6823 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 6824 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 6825 virtualized environment. 6826 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 6827 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 6828 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 6829 can add overhead. 6830 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 6831 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 6832 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 6833 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 6834 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 6835 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 6836 acceptable). 6837 [x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer 6838 (HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was 6839 obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15). 6840 Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm. 6841 [x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with 6842 which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but 6843 only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy. 6844 This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and 6845 can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog. A console 6846 message will flag any such suppression or overriding. 6847 6848 tsc_early_khz= [X86,EARLY] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 6849 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 6850 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 6851 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 6852 Format: <unsigned int> 6853 6854 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 6855 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 6856 support TSX control. 6857 6858 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 6859 6860 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 6861 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 6862 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 6863 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 6864 so there may be unknown security risks associated 6865 with leaving it enabled. 6866 6867 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 6868 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 6869 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 6870 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 6871 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 6872 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 6873 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 6874 6875 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 6876 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 6877 6878 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 6879 6880 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6881 for more details. 6882 6883 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 6884 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 6885 6886 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 6887 certain CPUs that support Transactional 6888 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 6889 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 6890 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 6891 conditions. 6892 6893 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6894 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 6895 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 6896 access. 6897 6898 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 6899 options are: 6900 6901 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 6902 if TSX is enabled. 6903 6904 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 6905 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 6906 is not disabled because CPU is not 6907 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 6908 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 6909 6910 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 6911 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 6912 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 6913 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 6914 6915 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6916 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 6917 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 6918 required and doesn't provide any additional 6919 mitigation. 6920 6921 For details see: 6922 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6923 6924 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 6925 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 6926 Format: 6927 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 6928 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 6929 6930 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 6931 happen after console_init() and before a proper 6932 console driver takes over, this boot options might 6933 help "seeing" what's going on. 6934 6935 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6936 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 6937 6938 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 6939 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 6940 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 6941 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 6942 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 6943 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 6944 reported either. 6945 6946 unknown_nmi_panic 6947 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 6948 6949 unwind_debug [X86-64,EARLY] 6950 Enable unwinder debug output. This can be 6951 useful for debugging certain unwinder error 6952 conditions, including corrupt stacks and 6953 bad/missing unwinder metadata. 6954 6955 usbcore.authorized_default= 6956 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 6957 (default -1 = authorized (same as 1), 6958 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 6959 if device connected to internal port) 6960 6961 usbcore.autosuspend= 6962 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 6963 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 6964 is the time required before an idle device will be 6965 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 6966 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 6967 6968 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 6969 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 6970 6971 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 6972 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 6973 (default = 65536). 6974 6975 usbcore.blinkenlights= 6976 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 6977 6978 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 6979 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 6980 scheme (default 0 = off). 6981 6982 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 6983 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 6984 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 6985 6986 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 6987 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 6988 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 6989 6990 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 6991 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 6992 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 6993 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 6994 6995 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 6996 6997 usbcore.quirks= 6998 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 6999 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 7000 commas. Each entry has the form 7001 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 7002 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 7003 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 7004 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 7005 the following meanings: 7006 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 7007 descriptors must not be fetched using 7008 a 255-byte read); 7009 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 7010 correctly so reset it instead); 7011 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 7012 Set-Interface requests); 7013 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 7014 handle its Configuration or Interface 7015 strings); 7016 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 7017 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 7018 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 7019 more interface descriptions than the 7020 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 7021 talking to these interfaces); 7022 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 7023 during initialization, after we read 7024 the device descriptor); 7025 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 7026 high speed and super speed interrupt 7027 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 7028 require the interval in microframes (1 7029 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 7030 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 7031 (bInterval-1). 7032 Devices with this quirk report their 7033 bInterval as the result of this 7034 calculation instead of the exponent 7035 variable used in the calculation); 7036 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 7037 handle device_qualifier descriptor 7038 requests); 7039 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 7040 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 7041 remote wakeup capability); 7042 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 7043 Power Management); 7044 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 7045 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 7046 frames instead of the USB 2.0 7047 calculation); 7048 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 7049 to be disconnected before suspend to 7050 prevent spurious wakeup); 7051 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 7052 pause after every control message); 7053 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 7054 delay after resetting its port); 7055 p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT 7056 (Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS 7057 request from 5000 ms to 500 ms); 7058 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 7059 7060 usbhid.mousepoll= 7061 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 7062 7063 usbhid.jspoll= 7064 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 7065 7066 usbhid.kbpoll= 7067 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 7068 7069 usb-storage.delay_use= 7070 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 7071 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 7072 7073 usb-storage.quirks= 7074 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 7075 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 7076 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 7077 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 7078 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 7079 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 7080 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 7081 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 7082 of sense data, not on uas); 7083 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 7084 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 7085 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 7086 device capacity by one sector); 7087 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 7088 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 7089 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 7090 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 7091 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 7092 command, uas only); 7093 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 7094 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 7095 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 7096 reported device capacity by one 7097 sector if the number is odd); 7098 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 7099 device); 7100 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 7101 command, uas only); 7102 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 7103 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 7104 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 7105 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 7106 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 7107 not on uas); 7108 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 7109 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 7110 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 7111 reported by the device, not on uas); 7112 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 7113 by default, not on uas); 7114 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 7115 bogus residue values, not on uas); 7116 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 7117 Logical Unit); 7118 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 7119 commands, uas only); 7120 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 7121 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 7122 medium is write-protected). 7123 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 7124 even if the device claims no cache, 7125 not on uas) 7126 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 7127 7128 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 7129 Format: <int> 7130 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 7131 1 - undefined instruction events 7132 2 - system calls 7133 4 - invalid data aborts 7134 8 - SIGSEGV faults 7135 16 - SIGBUS faults 7136 Example: user_debug=31 7137 7138 userpte= 7139 [X86,EARLY] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 7140 7141 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 7142 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 7143 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 7144 7145 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 7146 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 7147 7148 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 7149 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 7150 7151 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 7152 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 7153 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 7154 7155 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 7156 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 7157 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 7158 7159 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 7160 alias for vdso32=0. 7161 7162 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 7163 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 7164 7165 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 7166 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 7167 7168 video= [FB,EARLY] Frame buffer configuration 7169 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 7170 7171 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 7172 Format: [0|1] 7173 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 7174 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 7175 level and then send out the event to user space through 7176 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 7177 will only send out the event without touching backlight 7178 brightness level. 7179 default: 1 7180 7181 virtio_mmio.device= 7182 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 7183 7184 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 7185 where: 7186 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 7187 like K, M and G) 7188 <baseaddr> := physical base address 7189 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 7190 request_irq()) 7191 <id> := (optional) platform device id 7192 example: 7193 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 7194 7195 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 7196 7197 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 7198 See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and 7199 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 7200 Use vga=ask for menu. 7201 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 7202 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 7203 7204 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 7205 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 7206 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 7207 All options are enabled by default, and this 7208 interface is meant to allow for selectively 7209 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 7210 debugging features. 7211 7212 Available options are: 7213 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 7214 - Disable all of the above options 7215 7216 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Forces the vmalloc area to have an 7217 exact size of <nn>. This can be used to increase 7218 the minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be 7219 used to decrease the size and leave more room 7220 for directly mapped kernel RAM. 7221 7222 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390,EARLY] 7223 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 7224 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 7225 7226 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 7227 Format: <command> 7228 7229 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 7230 Format: <command> 7231 7232 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 7233 Format: <command> 7234 7235 vsyscall= [X86-64,EARLY] 7236 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 7237 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 7238 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 7239 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 7240 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 7241 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 7242 7243 emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated 7244 reasonably safely. The vsyscall page is 7245 readable. 7246 7247 xonly [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 7248 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 7249 page is not readable. 7250 7251 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 7252 them quite hard to use for exploits but 7253 might break your system. 7254 7255 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 7256 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 7257 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 7258 7259 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 7260 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 7261 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 7262 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 7263 7264 vt.default_blu= [VT] 7265 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 7266 Change the default blue palette of the console. 7267 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7268 ranging from 0-255. 7269 7270 vt.default_grn= [VT] 7271 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 7272 Change the default green palette of the console. 7273 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7274 ranging from 0-255. 7275 7276 vt.default_red= [VT] 7277 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 7278 Change the default red palette of the console. 7279 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7280 ranging from 0-255. 7281 7282 vt.default_utf8= 7283 [VT] 7284 Format=<0|1> 7285 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 7286 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 7287 newly opened terminals. 7288 7289 vt.global_cursor_default= 7290 [VT] 7291 Format=<-1|0|1> 7292 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 7293 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 7294 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 7295 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 7296 cursors, 1 will display them. 7297 7298 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 7299 Default: 2 = green. 7300 7301 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 7302 Default: 3 = cyan. 7303 7304 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 7305 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 7306 or other driver-specific files in the 7307 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 7308 7309 watchdog_thresh= 7310 [KNL] 7311 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 7312 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 7313 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 7314 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 7315 seconds. 7316 7317 workqueue.unbound_cpus= 7318 [KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs 7319 to use in unbound workqueues. 7320 Format: <cpu-list> 7321 By default, all online CPUs are available for 7322 unbound workqueues. 7323 7324 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 7325 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 7326 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 7327 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 7328 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 7329 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 7330 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 7331 corresponding sysfs file. 7332 7333 workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us= 7334 Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this 7335 threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive 7336 and excluded from concurrency management to prevent 7337 them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work 7338 items. Default is 10000 (10ms). 7339 7340 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel 7341 will report the work functions which violate this 7342 threshold repeatedly. They are likely good 7343 candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead. 7344 7345 workqueue.cpu_intensive_warning_thresh=<uint> 7346 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel 7347 will report the work functions which violate the 7348 intensive_threshold_us repeatedly. In order to prevent 7349 spurious warnings, start printing only after a work 7350 function has violated this threshold number of times. 7351 7352 The default is 4 times. 0 disables the warning. 7353 7354 workqueue.power_efficient 7355 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 7356 they show better performance thanks to cache 7357 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 7358 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 7359 7360 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 7361 were observed to contribute significantly to power 7362 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 7363 power usage at the cost of small performance 7364 overhead. 7365 7366 The default value of this parameter is determined by 7367 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 7368 7369 workqueue.default_affinity_scope= 7370 Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound 7371 workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache", 7372 "numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more 7373 information, see the Affinity Scopes section in 7374 Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst. 7375 7376 This can be changed after boot by writing to the 7377 matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All 7378 workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be 7379 updated accordingly. 7380 7381 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 7382 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 7383 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 7384 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 7385 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 7386 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 7387 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 7388 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 7389 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 7390 impacted. 7391 7392 writecombine= [LOONGARCH,EARLY] Control the MAT (Memory Access 7393 Type) of ioremap_wc(). 7394 7395 on - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc() 7396 off - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc() 7397 7398 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 7399 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 7400 supporting x2apic. 7401 7402 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 7403 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 7404 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 7405 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 7406 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 7407 domains. 7408 7409 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN,EARLY] 7410 Unplug Xen emulated devices 7411 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 7412 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 7413 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 7414 nics -- unplug network devices 7415 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 7416 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 7417 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 7418 the unplug protocol 7419 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 7420 7421 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN,EARLY] 7422 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 7423 panic() code such as dumping handler. 7424 7425 xen_mc_debug [X86,XEN,EARLY] 7426 Enable multicall debugging when running as a Xen PV guest. 7427 Enabling this feature will reduce performance a little 7428 bit, so it should only be enabled for obtaining extended 7429 debug data in case of multicall errors. 7430 7431 xen_msr_safe= [X86,XEN,EARLY] 7432 Format: <bool> 7433 Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR 7434 access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The 7435 default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE. 7436 7437 xen_nopv [X86] 7438 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 7439 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 7440 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 7441 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 7442 7443 xen_no_vector_callback 7444 [KNL,X86,XEN,EARLY] Disable the vector callback for Xen 7445 event channel interrupts. 7446 7447 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 7448 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 7449 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 7450 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 7451 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 7452 7453 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN,EARLY] 7454 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 7455 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 7456 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 7457 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 7458 more timer interrupts. 7459 7460 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 7461 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 7462 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 7463 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 7464 started with less memory configured than allowed at 7465 max. Default is 180. 7466 7467 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 7468 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 7469 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 7470 7471 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 7472 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 7473 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 7474 7475 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 7476 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 7477 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 7478 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 7479 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 7480 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 7481 7482 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 7483 Format: 7484 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 7485 7486 xive= [PPC] 7487 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 7488 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 7489 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 7490 7491 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 7492 controller on both pseries and powernv 7493 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 7494 7495 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 7496 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 7497 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 7498 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 7499 loads instead, as on POWER9. 7500 7501 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 7502 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 7503 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 7504 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 7505 7506 xmon [PPC,EARLY] 7507 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 7508 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 7509 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 7510 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 7511 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 7512 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7513 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 7514 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 7515 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 7516 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7517 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 7518 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 7519 can be written using xmon commands. 7520 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 7521 memory, and other data can't be written using 7522 xmon commands. 7523 off xmon is disabled. 7524