1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64] 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 4 copy_dsdt } 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64] 7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 14 are available 15 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 17 18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 19 Format: <int> 20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 21 1,0: use 1st APIC table 22 default: 0 23 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 25 { vendor | video | native | none } 26 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver 27 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 28 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 29 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. 31 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. 32 33 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 34 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 35 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 36 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 37 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 38 39 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 40 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 41 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 42 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 43 This option is useful for developers to identify the 44 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 45 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 46 47 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 48 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 49 Format: <int> 50 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 51 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 52 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 53 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS 54 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 55 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 56 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 57 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 58 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 59 debug layers and levels. 60 61 Enable processor driver info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list> 117 118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 122 auto-serialization feature. 123 This feature is enabled by default. 124 This option allows to turn off the feature. 125 126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 127 kernels. 128 129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 132 installed automatically and they will appear under 133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 134 This option turns off this feature. 135 Note that specifying this option does not affect 136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 138 139 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 140 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 141 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 142 143 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 144 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 145 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 146 second kernel for kdump. 147 148 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 149 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 150 151 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 152 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 153 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 154 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 155 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 156 157 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 158 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 159 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 160 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 161 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 162 strings 163 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 164 strings 165 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 166 167 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 168 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 169 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 170 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 171 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 172 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 173 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 174 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 175 care about the state of the feature group strings which 176 should be controlled by the OSPM. 177 Examples: 178 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 179 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 180 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 181 182 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 183 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 184 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 185 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 186 multiple times through kernel command line is also 187 meaningless. 188 Examples: 189 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 190 FALSE. 191 192 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 193 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 194 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 195 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 196 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 197 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 198 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 199 there are quirks related to this string. This command 200 is useful when one want to control the state of the 201 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 202 the OSPM features. 203 Examples: 204 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 205 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 206 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 207 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 208 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 209 equivalent to 210 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 211 and 212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 213 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 214 215 acpi_pm_good [X86] 216 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 217 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 218 and always returns good values. 219 220 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 221 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 222 223 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 224 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 225 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 226 227 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 228 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig, 229 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs, 230 sci_force_enable, nobl } 231 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 232 s3_bios and s3_mode. 233 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 234 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 235 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware 236 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully 237 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with 238 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since 239 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it 240 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume 241 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the 242 s4_hwsig option is enabled. 243 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 244 used (or even warned about) during resume. 245 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 246 control method, with respect to putting devices into 247 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 248 of _PTS is used by default). 249 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 250 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 251 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 252 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 253 but some broken systems don't work without it). 254 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 255 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 256 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 257 258 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 259 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 260 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 261 262 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 263 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 264 265 agp= [AGP] 266 { off | try_unsupported } 267 off: disable AGP support 268 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 269 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 270 271 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 272 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 273 274 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 275 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 276 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 277 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 278 279 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 280 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 281 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 282 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 283 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 284 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 285 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 286 287 32: only for 32-bit processes 288 64: only for 64-bit processes 289 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 290 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 291 292 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 293 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 294 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 295 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 296 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 297 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 298 299 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64] 300 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the 301 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict 302 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this 303 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit 304 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0 305 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted. 306 307 See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more 308 information. 309 310 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 311 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 312 Possible values are: 313 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1 314 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 315 the system 316 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 317 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 318 allowed anymore to lift isolation 319 requirements as needed. This option 320 does not override iommu=pt 321 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known 322 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this 323 option with care. 324 pgtbl_v1 - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default). 325 pgtbl_v2 - Use v2 page table for DMA-API. 326 327 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 328 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 329 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 330 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 331 IOMMU initialization. 332 333 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 334 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 335 remapping modes: 336 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 337 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 338 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 339 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 340 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 341 342 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 343 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 344 Format: <a>,<b> 345 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 346 347 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 348 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 349 connected to one of 16 gameports 350 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 351 352 apc= [HW,SPARC] 353 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 354 Format: noidle 355 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 356 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 357 APC and your system crashes randomly. 358 359 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 360 Change the output verbosity while booting 361 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 362 Change the amount of debugging information output 363 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 364 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 365 driver name. 366 Format: apic=driver_name 367 Examples: apic=bigsmp 368 369 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 370 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 371 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 372 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 373 backup of CPU 0 374 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 375 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 376 shot down by NMI 377 378 autoconf= [IPV6] 379 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 380 381 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 382 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 383 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 384 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 385 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 386 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 387 apic=verbose is specified. 388 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 389 390 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 391 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 392 393 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 394 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 395 396 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 397 Identification support 398 399 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 400 support 401 402 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 403 support 404 405 arm64.nosve [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector 406 Extension support 407 408 arm64.nosme [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix 409 Extension support 410 411 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 412 413 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 414 415 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 416 EzKey and similar keyboards 417 418 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 419 420 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 421 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 422 423 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 424 keyboards 425 426 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 427 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 428 429 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 430 Use software keyboard repeat 431 432 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 433 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 434 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 435 enabled until the next reboot 436 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 437 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 438 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 439 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 440 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 441 userspace auditd. 442 Default: unset 443 444 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 445 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 446 Default: 64 447 448 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 449 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 450 Format: { "0" | "1" } 451 0 - Disable the BAU. 452 1 - Enable the BAU. 453 unset - Disable the BAU. 454 455 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 456 Format: <io>,<mode> 457 458 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 459 Format: <io>,<mode> 460 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 461 462 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 463 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 464 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 465 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 466 467 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 468 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 469 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 470 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 471 472 bert_disable [ACPI] 473 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 474 475 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] 476 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 477 478 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 479 embedded devices based on command line input. 480 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 481 482 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 483 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 484 no delay (0). 485 Format: integer 486 487 bootconfig [KNL] 488 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 489 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 490 491 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 492 493 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 494 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 495 kernel args too. 496 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 497 bttv.tuner= 498 499 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 500 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 501 at a time. 502 503 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 504 505 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 506 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 507 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 508 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 509 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 510 This option provides an override for these situations. 511 512 carrier_timeout= 513 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 514 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 515 it waits 120 seconds. 516 517 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 518 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 519 trust validation. 520 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 521 522 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 523 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 524 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 525 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 526 others). 527 528 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 529 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 530 531 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 532 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 533 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 534 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 535 a single hierarchy 536 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 537 subsystem 538 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 539 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 540 created 541 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 542 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 543 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 544 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 545 stall information accounting feature 546 547 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 548 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 549 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 550 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 551 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 552 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 553 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 554 all v1 hierarchies. 555 556 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 557 Format: <string> 558 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 559 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 560 561 checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 562 Format: { "0" | "1" } 563 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 564 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 565 any implied execute protection). 566 1 -- check protection requested by application. 567 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 568 Value can be changed at runtime via 569 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 570 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 571 572 cio_ignore= [S390] 573 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 574 575 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] 576 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 577 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 578 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily 579 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific 580 ones should be. 581 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line 582 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above 583 instability issue. However, not all features have names 584 in /proc/cpuinfo. 585 Note that using this option will taint your kernel. 586 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 587 or using the feature without checking anything 588 will still see it. This just prevents it from 589 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 590 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 591 some critical bits. 592 593 clk_ignore_unused 594 [CLK] 595 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 596 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 597 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 598 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 599 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 600 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 601 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 602 platform with proper driver support. For more 603 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 604 605 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 606 [Deprecated] 607 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 608 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 609 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 610 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 611 612 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 613 Format: <string> 614 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 615 with the name specified. 616 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 617 the platform: 618 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 619 [ACPI] acpi_pm 620 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 621 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 622 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 623 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 624 [MIPS] MIPS 625 [PARISC] cr16 626 [S390] tod 627 [SH] SuperH 628 [SPARC64] tick 629 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 630 631 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 632 [ARM,ARM64] 633 Format: <bool> 634 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 635 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 636 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 637 systems. 638 639 clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL] 640 Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to 641 external delays before the clock will be marked 642 unstable. Defaults to two retries, that is, 643 three attempts to read the clock under test. 644 645 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 646 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 647 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 648 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 649 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 650 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 651 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 652 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 653 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 654 655 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 656 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 657 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 658 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 659 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 660 661 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 662 [KNL,CMA] 663 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 664 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 665 placement constraint by the physical address range of 666 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 667 altogether. For more information, see 668 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 669 670 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 671 [ARM64,KNL,CMA] 672 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 673 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 674 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 675 specificed, the default value is 0. 676 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 677 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 678 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 679 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 680 681 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 682 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 683 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 684 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 685 a hypervisor. 686 Default: yes 687 688 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 689 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 690 allocations, by default set to 256K. 691 692 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 693 Format: 694 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 695 696 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 697 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 698 699 com90xx= [HW,NET] 700 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 701 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 702 703 condev= [HW,S390] console device 704 conmode= 705 706 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 707 708 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 709 710 ttyS<n>[,options] 711 ttyUSB0[,options] 712 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 713 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 714 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 715 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 716 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 717 718 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 719 information. See 720 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 721 alternative. 722 723 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 724 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 725 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 726 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 727 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 728 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 729 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 730 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 731 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 732 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 733 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 734 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 735 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 736 the h/w is not re-initialized. 737 738 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 739 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 740 741 { null | "" } 742 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 743 console messages discarded. 744 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 745 kernel command line. 746 747 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 748 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 749 console=brl,ttyS0 750 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 751 752 console_msg_format= 753 [KNL] Change console messages format 754 default 755 By default we print messages on consoles in 756 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 757 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 758 `printk_time' param). 759 syslog 760 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 761 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 762 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 763 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 764 from /proc/kmsg. 765 766 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 767 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 768 Defaults to 0. 769 770 coredump_filter= 771 [KNL] Change the default value for 772 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 773 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 774 775 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 776 [ARM,ARM64] 777 Format: <bool> 778 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 779 0: default value, disable debugging 780 1: enable debugging at boot time 781 782 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 783 Format: 784 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 785 786 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 787 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 788 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 789 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 790 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 791 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 792 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 793 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 794 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 795 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 796 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 797 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 798 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 799 800 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 801 disable the cpuidle sub-system 802 803 cpuidle.governor= 804 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 805 806 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 807 disable the cpufreq sub-system 808 809 cpufreq.default_governor= 810 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 811 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 812 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 813 814 cpu_init_udelay=N 815 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 816 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 817 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 818 Default: 10000 819 820 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 821 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 822 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 823 succeeds in any situation. 824 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 825 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 826 kernel more unstable. 827 828 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 829 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 830 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 831 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 832 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 833 is selected automatically. 834 [KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and 835 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 836 hasn't been specified. 837 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 838 839 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 840 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 841 in the running system. The syntax of range is 842 start-[end] where start and end are both 843 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 844 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 845 846 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 847 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 848 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 849 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 850 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 851 available. 852 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 853 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 854 [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 855 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 856 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 857 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 858 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 859 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 860 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate 861 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 862 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G 863 for second kernel instead. 864 0: to disable low allocation. 865 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 866 or memory reserved is below 4G. 867 868 [KNL, ARM64] range in low memory. 869 This one lets the user specify a low range in the 870 DMA zone for the crash dump kernel. 871 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 872 or memory reserved is located in the DMA zones. 873 874 cryptomgr.notests 875 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 876 877 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 878 Format: <dma> 879 880 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 881 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 882 883 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call 884 handling. When switched on, additional debug data is 885 printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is 886 detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try 887 to resolve the hang situation. 888 0: disable csdlock debugging (default) 889 1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact) 890 ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact, 891 but more data) 892 893 dasd= [HW,NET] 894 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 895 896 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 897 (one device per port) 898 Format: <port#>,<type> 899 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 900 901 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 902 903 debug_boot_weak_hash 904 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 905 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 906 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 907 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 908 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 909 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 910 911 debug_locks_verbose= 912 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 913 Format: <int> 914 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 915 self-tests. 916 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 917 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 918 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 919 useful to lockdep developers. 920 921 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 922 923 no_debug_objects 924 [KNL] Disable object debugging 925 926 debug_guardpage_minorder= 927 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 928 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 929 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 930 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 931 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 932 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 933 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 934 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 935 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 936 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 937 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 938 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 939 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 940 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 941 bypassed) which are not detectable by 942 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 943 tracking down these problems. 944 945 debug_pagealloc= 946 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 947 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 948 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 949 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 950 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 951 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 952 on: enable the feature 953 954 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 955 and debugfs internal clients. 956 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 957 on: All functions are enabled. 958 no-mount: 959 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 960 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 961 its content. There is nothing to mount. 962 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 963 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 964 or directories within debugfs. 965 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 966 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 967 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 968 969 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 970 971 default_hugepagesz= 972 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 973 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 974 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 975 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 976 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 977 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 978 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 979 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 980 Format: size[KMG] 981 982 deferred_probe_timeout= 983 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 984 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 985 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 986 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout 987 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time 988 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each 989 successful driver registration. This option will also 990 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 991 retrying. 992 993 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 994 995 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 996 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 997 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 998 hardware. 999 1000 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 1001 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 1002 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 1003 blacklisted features. 1004 1005 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 1006 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1007 (disabled by default). 1008 1009 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 1010 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1011 capability is set. 1012 1013 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 1014 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 1015 1016 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 1017 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 1018 1019 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 1020 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 1021 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 1022 level 1 and decompression (default) 1023 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 1024 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 1025 only (compression on level 1) 1026 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 1027 only (decompression) 1028 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 1029 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 1030 1031 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1032 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1033 1034 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 1035 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1036 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1037 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1038 miss to occur. 1039 1040 stress_slb [PPC] 1041 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 1042 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 1043 on kernel addresses. 1044 1045 stress_hpt [PPC] 1046 Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash 1047 page table to increase the rate of hash page table 1048 faults on kernel addresses. 1049 1050 disable= [IPV6] 1051 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1052 1053 disable_radix [PPC] 1054 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1055 1056 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 1057 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 1058 invalidate. 1059 1060 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1061 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1062 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1063 1064 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 1065 Format: <int> 1066 The number of initial APIC ID for the 1067 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 1068 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 1069 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 1070 causing system reset or hang due to sending 1071 INIT from AP to BSP. 1072 1073 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 1074 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1075 to workaround buggy firmware. 1076 1077 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1078 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1079 1080 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1081 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1082 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1083 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1084 1085 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 1086 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1087 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1088 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1089 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1090 1091 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1092 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1093 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1094 1095 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1096 1097 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1098 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1099 1100 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1101 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1102 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1103 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1104 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1105 architectural default is too low. 1106 1107 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1108 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1109 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1110 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1111 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1112 driver later using sysfs. 1113 1114 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1115 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * 1116 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the 1117 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT 1118 match the *. 1119 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1120 1121 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1122 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1123 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1124 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1125 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1126 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 1127 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 1128 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 1129 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 1130 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 1131 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID 1132 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 1133 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 1134 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 1135 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1136 data set with no connector name will be used for 1137 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1138 1139 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1140 1141 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1142 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1143 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1144 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1145 exists). 1146 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1147 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1148 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1149 1150 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1151 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1152 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1153 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1154 1155 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1156 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1157 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1158 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1159 for details. 1160 1161 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 1162 in some Intel CPUs. 1163 1164 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL] 1165 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value 1166 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous 1167 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable 1168 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the 1169 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe 1170 1171 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1172 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1173 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1174 which are not unmapped. 1175 1176 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1177 1178 When used with no options, the early console is 1179 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1180 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1181 the platform. 1182 1183 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1184 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1185 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1186 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1187 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1188 configured. 1189 1190 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 1191 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 1192 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 1193 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 1194 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1195 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1196 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1197 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1198 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1199 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1200 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1201 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1202 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 1203 1204 pl011,<addr> 1205 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1206 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1207 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1208 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1209 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1210 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1211 the device registers. 1212 1213 liteuart,<addr> 1214 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1215 specified address. The serial port must already be 1216 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1217 1218 meson,<addr> 1219 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1220 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1221 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1222 supported. 1223 1224 msm_serial,<addr> 1225 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1226 port at the specified address. The serial port 1227 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1228 yet supported. 1229 1230 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1231 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1232 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1233 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1234 yet supported. 1235 1236 owl,<addr> 1237 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1238 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1239 specified address. The serial port must already be 1240 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1241 1242 rda,<addr> 1243 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1244 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1245 specified address. The serial port must already be 1246 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1247 1248 sbi 1249 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1250 console. 1251 1252 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1253 1254 s3c2410,<addr> 1255 s3c2412,<addr> 1256 s3c2440,<addr> 1257 s3c6400,<addr> 1258 s5pv210,<addr> 1259 exynos4210,<addr> 1260 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1261 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1262 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1263 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1264 Options are not yet supported. 1265 1266 lantiq,<addr> 1267 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1268 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1269 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1270 yet supported. 1271 1272 lpuart,<addr> 1273 lpuart32,<addr> 1274 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1275 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1276 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1277 port must already be setup and configured. 1278 1279 ec_imx21,<addr> 1280 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1281 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1282 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1283 must already be setup and configured. 1284 1285 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1286 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1287 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1288 address. The serial port must already be setup 1289 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1290 1291 qcom_geni,<addr> 1292 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1293 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1294 specified address. The serial port must already be 1295 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1296 1297 efifb,[options] 1298 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1299 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1300 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1301 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1302 mapped with the correct attributes. 1303 1304 linflex,<addr> 1305 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1306 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1307 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1308 already be setup and configured. 1309 1310 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1311 earlyprintk=vga 1312 earlyprintk=sclp 1313 earlyprintk=xen 1314 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1315 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1316 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1317 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1318 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1319 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1320 1321 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1322 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1323 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1324 1325 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1326 takes over. 1327 1328 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can 1329 be used at a time. 1330 1331 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1332 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1333 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1334 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1335 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1336 You can find the port for a given device in 1337 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1338 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1339 1340 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1341 very good. 1342 1343 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by 1344 the real console. 1345 1346 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1347 1348 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1349 1350 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1351 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1352 UART class. 1353 1354 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1355 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1356 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1357 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1358 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1359 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1360 default: on. 1361 1362 edd= [EDD] 1363 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1364 1365 efi= [EFI] 1366 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1367 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1368 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1369 debug: enable misc debug output. 1370 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1371 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1372 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1373 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1374 firmware implementations. 1375 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1376 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1377 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1378 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1379 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1380 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1381 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1382 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1383 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1384 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1385 1386 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1387 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1388 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1389 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1390 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1391 1392 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1393 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1394 updating original EFI memory map. 1395 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1396 from ss to ss+nn. 1397 1398 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1399 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1400 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1401 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1402 1403 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1404 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1405 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1406 1407 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1408 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1409 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1410 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1411 "soft reserved". 1412 1413 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1414 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1415 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1416 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1417 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1418 1419 1420 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1421 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1422 1423 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1424 Format: ekgdboc=kbd 1425 1426 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1427 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1428 1429 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1430 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1431 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1432 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1433 1434 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1435 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1436 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1437 1438 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1439 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1440 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1441 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1442 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1443 1444 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1445 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1446 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1447 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1448 1449 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1450 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1451 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1452 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1453 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1454 1455 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1456 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1457 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1458 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1459 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1460 Default value is 0. 1461 Value can be changed at runtime via 1462 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1463 1464 erst_disable [ACPI] 1465 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1466 support. 1467 1468 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1469 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1470 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1471 1472 evm= [EVM] 1473 Format: { "fix" } 1474 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1475 current integrity status. 1476 1477 early_page_ext [KNL] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier 1478 stages so cover more early boot allocations. 1479 Please note that as side effect some optimizations 1480 might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized 1481 memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process 1482 might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of 1483 memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y. 1484 1485 failslab= 1486 fail_usercopy= 1487 fail_page_alloc= 1488 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1489 General fault injection mechanism. 1490 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1491 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1492 1493 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1494 Format: { initns | none } 1495 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1496 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1497 1498 floppy= [HW] 1499 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1500 1501 force_pal_cache_flush 1502 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1503 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1504 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1505 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1506 1507 forcepae [X86-32] 1508 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1509 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1510 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1511 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1512 and may cause unknown problems. 1513 1514 ftrace=[tracer] 1515 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1516 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1517 boot debugging. 1518 1519 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1520 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1521 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1522 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1523 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1524 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1525 start up functionality. 1526 1527 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1528 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1529 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1530 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1531 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1532 oops. 1533 1534 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1535 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1536 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1537 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1538 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1539 tracing directory. 1540 1541 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1542 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1543 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1544 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1545 tracing directory. 1546 1547 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1548 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1549 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1550 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1551 that can be changed at run time by the 1552 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1553 1554 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1555 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1556 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1557 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1558 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1559 1560 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1561 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1562 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1563 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1564 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1565 1566 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1567 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1568 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1569 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1570 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1571 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1572 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1573 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1574 suppliers). 1575 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1576 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1577 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1578 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1579 up (sync_state() calls). 1580 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1581 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1582 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1583 1584 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1585 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1586 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1587 Format: <bool> 1588 1589 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1590 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1591 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1592 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1593 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1594 1595 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1596 1597 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1598 Format: off | on 1599 default: on 1600 1601 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1602 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1603 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1604 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1605 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1606 1607 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1608 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1609 android emulator 1610 1611 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1612 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1613 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1614 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1615 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1616 1617 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1618 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1619 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1620 GPT to be used instead. 1621 1622 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1623 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1624 Format: 0 | 1 1625 Default: 0 1626 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1627 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1628 Format: 0 | 1 1629 Default: 0 1630 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1631 Format: 0 | 1 1632 Default: 0 1633 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1634 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1635 Default: 1024 1636 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1637 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1638 Default: 1024 1639 1640 hardened_usercopy= 1641 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1642 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1643 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1644 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1645 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1646 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1647 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1648 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 1649 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1650 1651 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1652 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1653 backtraces on all cpus. 1654 Format: 0 | 1 1655 1656 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1657 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1658 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1659 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1660 1661 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1662 1663 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1664 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1665 1666 hest_disable [ACPI] 1667 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1668 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1669 logic will be disabled. 1670 1671 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 1672 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 1673 present during boot. 1674 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 1675 no Disable hibernation and resume. 1676 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 1677 (that will set all pages holding image data 1678 during restoration read-only). 1679 1680 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1681 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1682 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1683 size on bigger boxes. 1684 1685 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1686 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1687 Default: "on" 1688 1689 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1690 1691 hostname= [KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename). 1692 Format: <string> 1693 This allows setting the system's hostname during early 1694 startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname. 1695 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it 1696 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before 1697 any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility 1698 that a process may call gethostname before the hostname 1699 has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling 1700 process getting an incorrect result. The string must 1701 not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually 1702 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise. 1703 1704 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1705 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1706 verbose } 1707 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1708 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1709 VIA, nVidia) 1710 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1711 1712 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1713 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1714 1715 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1716 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1717 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1718 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1719 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1720 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1721 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1722 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1723 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1724 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1725 1726 hugepagesz= 1727 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1728 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1729 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1730 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1731 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1732 architecture dependent. See also 1733 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1734 Format: size[KMG] 1735 1736 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1737 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1738 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1739 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1740 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1741 1742 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1743 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1744 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1745 1746 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1747 [KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 1748 enabled. 1749 Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled. 1750 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1751 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1752 Format: { on | off (default) } 1753 1754 on: enable HVO 1755 off: disable HVO 1756 1757 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1758 the default is on. 1759 1760 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added 1761 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is 1762 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this 1763 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from 1764 the added memory block itself do not be affected. 1765 1766 hung_task_panic= 1767 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1768 Format: 0 | 1 1769 1770 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1771 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1772 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1773 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1774 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1775 1776 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1777 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1778 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1779 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1780 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1781 1782 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1783 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1784 guest on lock contention. 1785 1786 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1787 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1788 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1789 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1790 the real console. 1791 1792 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1793 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1794 registered from board initialization code. 1795 Format: 1796 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1797 1798 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1799 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1800 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1801 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1802 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1803 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1804 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1805 keyboard and cannot control its state 1806 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1807 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1808 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1809 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1810 for the AUX port 1811 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1812 controller 1813 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1814 controllers 1815 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1816 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1817 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1818 transitions, or never reset 1819 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1820 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1821 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1822 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1823 architectures force reset to be always executed 1824 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1825 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1826 i8042.probe_defer 1827 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1828 1829 i810= [HW,DRM] 1830 1831 i915.invert_brightness= 1832 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1833 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1834 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1835 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1836 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1837 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1838 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1839 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1840 value switches the backlight off. 1841 -1 -- never invert brightness 1842 0 -- machine default 1843 1 -- force brightness inversion 1844 1845 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1846 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1847 1848 1849 idle= [X86] 1850 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1851 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1852 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1853 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1854 Not recommended. 1855 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1856 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1857 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1858 1859 idxd.sva= [HW] 1860 Format: <bool> 1861 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1862 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1863 true (1). 1864 1865 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 1866 Format: <bool> 1867 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 1868 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 1869 1870 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1871 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1872 Default: strict 1873 1874 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1875 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1876 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1877 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1878 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1879 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1880 encoding mode. 1881 1882 Available settings are as follows: 1883 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1884 supported by the FPU 1885 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1886 by the FPU 1887 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1888 by the FPU 1889 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1890 supported by the FPU 1891 1892 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1893 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1894 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1895 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1896 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1897 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1898 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1899 MIPS64 CPUs. 1900 1901 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1902 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1903 except where unsupported by hardware. 1904 1905 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1906 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1907 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1908 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1909 could change it dynamically, usually by 1910 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1911 1912 ignore_rlimit_data 1913 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1914 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1915 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1916 1917 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1918 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1919 1920 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1921 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1922 default: "enforce" 1923 1924 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1925 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1926 owned by uid=0. 1927 1928 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1929 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1930 measurements, instead of host native format. 1931 1932 ima_hash= [IMA] 1933 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1934 | sha512 | ... } 1935 default: "sha1" 1936 1937 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1938 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1939 1940 ima_policy= [IMA] 1941 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1942 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1943 fail_securely | critical_data" 1944 1945 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1946 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1947 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1948 uid=0. 1949 1950 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1951 all files owned by root. 1952 1953 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1954 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1955 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1956 1957 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1958 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1959 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1960 flag. 1961 1962 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 1963 critical data. 1964 1965 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1966 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1967 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1968 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1969 opened for read by uid=0. 1970 1971 ima_template= [IMA] 1972 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1973 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 1974 "ima-sigv2" } 1975 Default: "ima-ng" 1976 1977 ima_template_fmt= 1978 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1979 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1980 1981 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1982 Format: <min_file_size> 1983 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1984 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1985 1986 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1987 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1988 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1989 1990 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1991 Format: <bufsize> 1992 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1993 1994 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1995 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1996 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1997 1998 init= [KNL] 1999 Format: <full_path> 2000 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 2001 process. 2002 2003 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 2004 for working out where the kernel is dying during 2005 startup. 2006 2007 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 2008 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 2009 modules and initcalls. 2010 2011 initramfs_async= [KNL] 2012 Format: <bool> 2013 Default: 1 2014 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 2015 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 2016 with devices being probed and 2017 initialized. This should normally just work, 2018 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 2019 historical behaviour of the initramfs 2020 unpacking being completed before device_ and 2021 late_ initcalls. 2022 2023 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 2024 2025 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 2026 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 2027 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 2028 setting. 2029 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 2030 Default is 0, 0 2031 2032 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 2033 zeroes. 2034 Format: 0 | 1 2035 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 2036 2037 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2038 Format: 0 | 1 2039 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2040 2041 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2042 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2043 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2044 override in debugfs after boot. 2045 2046 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2047 Format: <irq> 2048 2049 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2050 2051 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2052 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2053 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2054 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2055 2056 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2057 on 2058 Enable intel iommu driver. 2059 off 2060 Disable intel iommu driver. 2061 igfx_off [Default Off] 2062 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2063 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2064 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2065 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2066 DMA. 2067 strict [Default Off] 2068 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2069 sp_off [Default Off] 2070 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2071 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2072 not be supported. 2073 sm_on 2074 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2075 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2076 translation. 2077 sm_off 2078 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2079 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2080 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2081 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2082 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2083 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2084 mapping is enabled. 2085 Note that using this option lowers the security 2086 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2087 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2088 2089 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2090 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2091 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2092 2093 intel_pstate= [X86] 2094 disable 2095 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2096 scaling driver for the supported processors 2097 passive 2098 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2099 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2100 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2101 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2102 feature. 2103 force 2104 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2105 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2106 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2107 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2108 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2109 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2110 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2111 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2112 no_hwp 2113 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2114 if available. 2115 hwp_only 2116 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2117 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2118 support_acpi_ppc 2119 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2120 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2121 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2122 then this feature is turned on by default. 2123 per_cpu_perf_limits 2124 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2125 cpufreq sysfs interface 2126 2127 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 2128 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2129 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2130 nosid disable Source ID checking 2131 no_x2apic_optout 2132 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2133 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2134 2135 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2136 strict regions from userspace. 2137 relaxed 2138 2139 iommu= [X86] 2140 off 2141 force 2142 noforce 2143 biomerge 2144 panic 2145 nopanic 2146 merge 2147 nomerge 2148 soft 2149 pt [X86] 2150 nopt [X86] 2151 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2152 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2153 2154 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2155 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2156 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2157 falling back to the full range if needed. 2158 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2159 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2160 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2161 2162 iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2163 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2164 0 - Lazy mode. 2165 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2166 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2167 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2168 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2169 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2170 1 - Strict mode. 2171 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2172 synchronously. 2173 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2174 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2175 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2176 2177 iommu.passthrough= 2178 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2179 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2180 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2181 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2182 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2183 2184 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2185 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2186 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2187 2188 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 2189 0x80 2190 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2191 0xed 2192 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2193 udelay 2194 Simple two microseconds delay 2195 none 2196 No delay 2197 2198 ip= [IP_PNP] 2199 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2200 2201 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2202 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2203 2204 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2205 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2206 2207 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2208 [ARM, ARM64] 2209 Format: <bool> 2210 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2211 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2212 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2213 2214 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2215 [ARM, ARM64] 2216 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2217 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2218 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2219 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2220 LPIs. 2221 2222 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2223 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2224 requires the kernel to be built with 2225 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2226 2227 irqfixup [HW] 2228 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2229 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2230 firmware running. 2231 2232 irqpoll [HW] 2233 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2234 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2235 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2236 firmware running. 2237 2238 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2239 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2240 2241 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2242 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2243 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2244 2245 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2246 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2247 2248 nohz 2249 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2250 2251 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2252 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2253 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2254 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2255 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2256 2257 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2258 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2259 be configured manually after bootup. 2260 2261 domain 2262 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2263 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2264 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2265 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2266 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2267 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2268 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2269 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2270 2271 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2272 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2273 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2274 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2275 2276 managed_irq 2277 2278 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2279 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2280 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2281 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2282 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2283 2284 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2285 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2286 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2287 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2288 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2289 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2290 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2291 2292 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2293 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2294 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2295 only delivered when tasks running on those 2296 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2297 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2298 queues. 2299 2300 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2301 2302 iucv= [HW,NET] 2303 2304 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2305 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2306 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2307 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2308 For example: 2309 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2310 write the parameter as: 2311 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2312 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2313 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2314 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2315 2316 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2317 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2318 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2319 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2320 For example: 2321 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2322 write the parameter as: 2323 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2324 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2325 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2326 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2327 2328 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2329 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2330 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2331 2332 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2333 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2334 write the parameter as: 2335 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2336 2337 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2338 For example, PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 2339 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2340 2341 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2342 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2343 2344 nokaslr [KNL] 2345 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 2346 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 2347 Layout Randomization). 2348 2349 kasan_multi_shot 2350 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2351 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2352 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2353 invalid access. 2354 2355 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2356 2357 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2358 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2359 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2360 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2361 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2362 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2363 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2364 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2365 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2366 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2367 2368 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2369 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2370 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2371 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2372 zone if it does not. 2373 2374 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2375 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2376 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2377 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2378 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2379 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2380 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2381 2382 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2383 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2384 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2385 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2386 optional and is the number seconds in between 2387 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2388 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2389 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2390 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2391 the kernel debugger. 2392 2393 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2394 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2395 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2396 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2397 keyboard only format: kbd 2398 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2399 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2400 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2401 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2402 2403 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2404 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2405 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2406 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2407 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2408 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2409 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2410 2411 The name of the early console should be specified 2412 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2413 the early console might be different than the tty 2414 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2415 blank and the first boot console that implements 2416 read() will be picked. 2417 2418 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2419 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2420 2421 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2422 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2423 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2424 2425 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2426 Valid arguments: on, off 2427 Default: on 2428 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2429 the default is off. 2430 2431 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2432 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2433 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2434 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2435 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2436 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2437 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2438 2439 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2440 2441 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2442 Boot Parameter" section. 2443 2444 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2445 and kernel address spaces. 2446 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2447 0: force disabled 2448 1: force enabled 2449 2450 kunit.enable= [KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires 2451 CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The 2452 default value can be overridden via 2453 KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED. 2454 Default is 1 (enabled) 2455 2456 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2457 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2458 2459 kvm.eager_page_split= 2460 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2461 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2462 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2463 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2464 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2465 required to split huge pages lazily. 2466 2467 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2468 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2469 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2470 still be used for reads. 2471 2472 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2473 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2474 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2475 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2476 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2477 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2478 cleared. 2479 2480 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y. 2481 2482 Default is Y (on). 2483 2484 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2485 Default is false (don't support). 2486 2487 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2488 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2489 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2490 force : Always deploy workaround. 2491 off : Never deploy workaround. 2492 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2493 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2494 2495 Default is 'auto'. 2496 2497 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2498 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2499 2500 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2501 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2502 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2503 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2504 period (see below). The default is 60. 2505 2506 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2507 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2508 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2509 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2510 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2511 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2512 2513 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2514 Default is 1 (enabled) 2515 2516 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2517 for all guests. 2518 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2519 2520 kvm-arm.mode= 2521 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2522 2523 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2524 2525 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2526 protected guests. 2527 2528 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2529 state is kept private from the host. 2530 2531 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2532 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2533 for the host. 2534 2535 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2536 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2537 system registers 2538 2539 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2540 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2541 system registers 2542 2543 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2544 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2545 system registers 2546 2547 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2548 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2549 LPIs. 2550 2551 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2552 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2553 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2554 allocation. 2555 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2556 Format: <integer> 2557 Default: 5 2558 2559 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2560 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2561 Default is 1 (enabled) 2562 2563 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2564 [KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state. 2565 Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as 2566 guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests. 2567 This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM 2568 never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2569 Default is 1 (enabled) 2570 2571 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2572 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2573 Default is 1 (enabled) 2574 2575 kvm-intel.nested= 2576 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2577 Default is 0 (disabled) 2578 2579 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2580 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2581 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2582 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2583 2584 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2585 CVE-2018-3620. 2586 2587 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2588 2589 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2590 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2591 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2592 never: Disables the mitigation 2593 2594 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2595 2596 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2597 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2598 Default is 1 (enabled) 2599 2600 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL] 2601 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2602 2603 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2604 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2605 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2606 2607 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2608 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2609 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2610 not have direct access. 2611 2612 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2613 options are: 2614 2615 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2616 2617 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2618 affected CPUs 2619 2620 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2621 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2622 2623 full 2624 Provides all available mitigations for the 2625 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2626 enables all mitigations in the 2627 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2628 2629 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2630 sysfs interface is still possible after 2631 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2632 when the first VM is started in a 2633 potentially insecure configuration, 2634 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2635 2636 full,force 2637 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2638 flush runtime control. Implies the 2639 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2640 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2641 2642 flush 2643 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2644 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2645 L1D flush. 2646 2647 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2648 sysfs interface is still possible after 2649 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2650 when the first VM is started in a 2651 potentially insecure configuration, 2652 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2653 2654 flush,nosmt 2655 2656 Disables SMT and enables the default 2657 hypervisor mitigation. 2658 2659 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2660 sysfs interface is still possible after 2661 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2662 when the first VM is started in a 2663 potentially insecure configuration, 2664 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2665 2666 flush,nowarn 2667 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2668 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2669 insecure configuration. 2670 2671 off 2672 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2673 emit any warnings. 2674 It also drops the swap size and available 2675 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2676 bare metal. 2677 2678 Default is 'flush'. 2679 2680 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2681 2682 l2cr= [PPC] 2683 2684 l3cr= [PPC] 2685 2686 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2687 disabled it. 2688 2689 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2690 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2691 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2692 Format: notscdeadline 2693 2694 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2695 in C2 power state. 2696 2697 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2698 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2699 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2700 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2701 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2702 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2703 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2704 2705 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2706 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2707 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2708 2709 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2710 when set. 2711 Format: <int> 2712 2713 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 2714 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 2715 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 2716 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 2717 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 2718 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 2719 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 2720 to all ports, links and devices. 2721 2722 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2723 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2724 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2725 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2726 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2727 host link and device attached to it. 2728 2729 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2730 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 2731 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2732 The following configurations can be forced. 2733 2734 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2735 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2736 2737 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2738 2739 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2740 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2741 allowed. 2742 2743 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 2744 resets. 2745 2746 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 2747 link recovery. 2748 2749 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 2750 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 2751 detection. 2752 2753 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2754 2755 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 2756 2757 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 2758 2759 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 2760 2761 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 2762 2763 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 2764 2765 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 2766 2767 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 2768 2769 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 2770 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 2771 2772 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 2773 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 2774 2775 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 2776 identify device data log. 2777 2778 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 2779 purpose log directory. 2780 2781 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 2782 2783 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2784 1024 sectors. 2785 2786 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2787 65535 sectors. 2788 2789 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 2790 2791 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 2792 should be skipped. 2793 2794 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 2795 2796 * disable: Disable this device. 2797 2798 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2799 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2800 2801 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2802 2803 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2804 Format: <integer> 2805 2806 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2807 Format: <integer> 2808 2809 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2810 Format: <integer> 2811 2812 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2813 Format: <integer> 2814 2815 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2816 { integrity | confidentiality } 2817 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2818 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2819 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2820 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2821 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2822 are also disabled. 2823 2824 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2825 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2826 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2827 number of online CPUs. 2828 2829 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2830 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2831 2832 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2833 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2834 2835 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2836 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2837 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2838 2839 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2840 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2841 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2842 mode during the locktorture test. 2843 2844 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2845 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2846 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2847 2848 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2849 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2850 2851 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2852 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2853 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2854 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2855 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2856 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2857 2858 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2859 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2860 2861 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2862 Enable additional printk() statements. 2863 2864 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2865 Format: <irq> 2866 2867 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2868 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2869 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2870 loglevels are defined as follows: 2871 2872 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2873 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2874 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2875 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2876 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2877 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2878 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2879 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2880 2881 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2882 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2883 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2884 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2885 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2886 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2887 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2888 2889 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2890 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2891 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2892 kernel boot problems. 2893 2894 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2895 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2896 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2897 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2898 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2899 attached printers to be reset. Using 2900 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2901 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2902 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2903 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2904 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2905 port specification list means that device IDs 2906 from each port should be examined, to see if 2907 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2908 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2909 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2910 2911 lpj=n [KNL] 2912 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2913 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2914 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2915 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2916 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2917 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2918 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2919 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2920 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2921 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2922 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2923 hardware. 2924 2925 ltpc= [NET] 2926 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2927 2928 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2929 2930 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2931 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2932 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2933 2934 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2935 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2936 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2937 2938 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 2939 different yeeloong laptops. 2940 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2941 2942 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater 2943 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2944 2945 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2946 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2947 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2948 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2949 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2950 only takes effect during system bootup. 2951 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2952 which also disables the IO APIC. 2953 2954 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2955 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2956 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2957 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2958 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2959 /dev/loop-control interface. 2960 2961 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2962 2963 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2964 2965 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2966 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2967 2968 mdacon= [MDA] 2969 Format: <first>,<last> 2970 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2971 2972 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2973 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2974 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2975 2976 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2977 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2978 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2979 2980 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2981 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2982 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2983 not have direct access. 2984 2985 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2986 options are: 2987 2988 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2989 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2990 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2991 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2992 2993 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 2994 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 2995 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 2996 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 2997 too. 2998 2999 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3000 mds=full. 3001 3002 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 3003 3004 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON] Set the memory size. 3005 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 3006 3007 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 3008 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 3009 3010 1 for test; 3011 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 3012 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 3013 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 3014 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 3015 3016 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 3017 high memory is not affected. 3018 3019 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 3020 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 3021 3022 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 3023 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 3024 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 3025 belonging to unused RAM. 3026 3027 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 3028 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 3029 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 3030 3031 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3032 [ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by 3033 firmware. 3034 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 3035 ss[KMG]. 3036 Multiple different regions can be specified with 3037 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 3038 3039 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 3040 memory. 3041 3042 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 3043 3044 memchunk=nn[KMG] 3045 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 3046 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 3047 3048 memhp_default_state=online/offline 3049 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 3050 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 3051 set according to the 3052 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 3053 option. 3054 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 3055 3056 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 3057 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3058 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3059 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3060 option description. 3061 3062 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3063 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3064 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3065 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3066 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3067 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3068 comma delimited. 3069 Example: 3070 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3071 3072 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3073 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3074 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3075 3076 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3077 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3078 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3079 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3080 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3081 or 3082 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3083 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3084 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3085 will be eaten. 3086 3087 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 3088 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3089 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3090 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3091 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3092 3093 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3094 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 3095 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3096 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3097 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3098 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3099 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3100 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3101 3102 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 3103 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3104 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3105 Setting this option will scan the memory 3106 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3107 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3108 from using the memory being corrupted. 3109 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3110 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3111 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3112 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3113 3114 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 3115 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3116 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3117 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3118 corruption in more or less memory. 3119 3120 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 3121 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3122 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3123 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3124 3125 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3126 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3127 Format: {on | off (default)} 3128 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3129 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages, 3130 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even 3131 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the 3132 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a 3133 lot of memory without requiring additional 3134 memory to do so. 3135 This feature is disabled by default because it 3136 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3137 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3138 memory blocks). 3139 The state of the flag can be read in 3140 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3141 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3142 the feature is not effective. 3143 3144 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest 3145 Format: <integer> 3146 default : 0 <disable> 3147 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3148 performed. Each pass selects another test 3149 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3150 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3151 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3152 regions that are detected. 3153 3154 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3155 Valid arguments: on, off 3156 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 3157 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 3158 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 3159 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3160 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3161 3162 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3163 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3164 3165 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3166 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3167 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3168 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3169 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3170 3171 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 3172 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst. 3173 3174 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 3175 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 3176 platforms. 3177 3178 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3179 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3180 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3181 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3182 3183 mga= [HW,DRM] 3184 3185 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this 3186 physical address is ignored. 3187 3188 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3189 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3190 Default: "0tb" 3191 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3192 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3193 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3194 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3195 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3196 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3197 unconfigured. 3198 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3199 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3200 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3201 VGA shield. 3202 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3203 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3204 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3205 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3206 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3207 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3208 3209 mitigations= 3210 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 3211 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3212 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3213 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3214 3215 off 3216 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3217 improves system performance, but it may also 3218 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3219 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 3220 if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] 3221 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3222 nobp=0 [S390] 3223 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3224 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3225 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3226 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3227 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] 3228 l1tf=off [X86] 3229 mds=off [X86] 3230 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3231 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3232 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3233 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3234 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3235 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 3236 retbleed=off [X86] 3237 3238 Exceptions: 3239 This does not have any effect on 3240 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3241 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3242 3243 auto (default) 3244 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3245 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3246 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3247 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3248 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3249 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3250 3251 auto,nosmt 3252 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3253 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3254 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3255 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3256 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3257 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3258 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 3259 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] 3260 3261 mminit_loglevel= 3262 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3263 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3264 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3265 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3266 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3267 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3268 3269 mmio_stale_data= 3270 [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor 3271 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3272 3273 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3274 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3275 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3276 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3277 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3278 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3279 3280 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3281 options are: 3282 3283 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3284 3285 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3286 vulnerable CPUs. 3287 3288 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3289 3290 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3291 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3292 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3293 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3294 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3295 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3296 3297 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3298 mmio_stale_data=full. 3299 3300 For details see: 3301 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3302 3303 module.async_probe=<bool> 3304 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing 3305 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a 3306 specific module, use the module specific control that 3307 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both 3308 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are 3309 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for 3310 the specific module. 3311 3312 module.sig_enforce 3313 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3314 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3315 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3316 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3317 3318 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3319 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3320 3321 mousedev.tap_time= 3322 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3323 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3324 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3325 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3326 Format: <msecs> 3327 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3328 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3329 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3330 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3331 3332 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 3333 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3334 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3335 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3336 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3337 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3338 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3339 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3340 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3341 is not too small. 3342 3343 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3344 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3345 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3346 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3347 allocations. Use with caution! 3348 3349 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3350 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3351 3352 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3353 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3354 3355 mtdparts= [MTD] 3356 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3357 3358 mtdset= [ARM] 3359 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 3360 3361 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 3362 3363 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3364 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3365 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3366 3367 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3368 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3369 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3370 3371 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3372 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3373 Default is 1. 3374 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3375 using up MTRRs. 3376 3377 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 3378 Format: <integer> 3379 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3380 Default : 1 3381 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3382 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3383 3384 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3385 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3386 at a time. 3387 3388 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3389 3390 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3391 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3392 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3393 something different and driver-specific. 3394 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3395 file if at all. 3396 3397 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3398 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3399 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3400 waits 4 seconds. 3401 3402 nf_conntrack.acct= 3403 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3404 0 to disable accounting 3405 1 to enable accounting 3406 Default value is 0. 3407 3408 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3409 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3410 3411 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3412 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3413 3414 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3415 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3416 3417 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3418 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3419 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3420 requests. 3421 3422 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3423 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3424 channel should listen. 3425 3426 nfs.cache_getent= 3427 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3428 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3429 3430 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3431 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3432 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3433 3434 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3435 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3436 entries. 3437 3438 nfs.enable_ino64= 3439 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3440 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3441 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3442 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3443 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3444 3445 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3446 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3447 slots the client will assign to the callback 3448 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3449 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3450 a particular server. 3451 3452 nfs.max_session_slots= 3453 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3454 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3455 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3456 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3457 Note that there is little point in setting this 3458 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3459 3460 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3461 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3462 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3463 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3464 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3465 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3466 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3467 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3468 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3469 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3470 back to using the idmapper. 3471 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3472 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3473 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3474 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3475 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3476 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3477 3478 nfs.send_implementation_id = 3479 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3480 information in exchange_id requests. 3481 If zero, no implementation identification information 3482 will be sent. 3483 The default is to send the implementation identification 3484 information. 3485 3486 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 3487 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3488 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3489 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3490 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3491 after the locks are lost. 3492 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3493 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3494 parameter to '1'. 3495 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3496 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3497 3498 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 3499 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3500 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3501 3502 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3503 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3504 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3505 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3506 3507 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable = 3508 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3509 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3510 the destination of the copy. 3511 3512 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout = 3513 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3514 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3515 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3516 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3517 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3518 this parameter. 3519 3520 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3521 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3522 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3523 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3524 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3525 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3526 3527 3528 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3529 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3530 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3531 3532 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3533 when a NMI is triggered. 3534 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3535 3536 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3537 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3538 Valid num: 0 or 1 3539 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3540 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3541 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3542 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3543 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3544 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3545 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3546 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3547 need the box quickly up again. 3548 3549 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3550 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3551 3552 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3553 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3554 is present. 3555 3556 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3557 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3558 3559 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3560 3561 no_console_suspend 3562 [HW] Never suspend the console 3563 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3564 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3565 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3566 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3567 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3568 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3569 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3570 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3571 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3572 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3573 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3574 turn on/off it dynamically. 3575 3576 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3577 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3578 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3579 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3580 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3581 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3582 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3583 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3584 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3585 is set. 3586 3587 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3588 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3589 but will impact performance. 3590 3591 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3592 3593 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3594 (CPU alternatives feature). 3595 3596 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3597 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3598 3599 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3600 3601 nocache [ARM] 3602 3603 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3604 3605 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3606 3607 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3608 3609 noexec [IA-64] 3610 3611 nosmap [PPC] 3612 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3613 even if it is supported by processor. 3614 3615 nosmep [PPC64s] 3616 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3617 even if it is supported by processor. 3618 3619 noexec32 [X86-64] 3620 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3621 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3622 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3623 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3624 read implies executable mappings 3625 3626 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3627 3628 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3629 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3630 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3631 3632 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3633 3634 nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3635 3636 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3637 Equivalent to smt=1. 3638 3639 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3640 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3641 via the sysfs control file. 3642 3643 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3644 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3645 possible in the system. 3646 3647 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_E500,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3648 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3649 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3650 option. 3651 3652 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch 3653 history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks 3654 with this option. 3655 3656 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3657 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3658 3659 no_uaccess_flush 3660 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 3661 3662 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3663 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3664 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3665 3666 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3667 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3668 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3669 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3670 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3671 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3672 3673 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3674 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3675 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3676 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3677 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3678 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3679 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3680 3681 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait 3682 in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3683 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3684 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3685 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3686 correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute 3687 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3688 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3689 3690 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3691 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3692 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3693 3694 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3695 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3696 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3697 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3698 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3699 real-time systems. 3700 3701 no_hash_pointers 3702 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3703 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3704 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3705 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3706 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3707 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3708 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3709 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3710 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3711 value printed. This option should only be specified when 3712 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3713 kernels. 3714 3715 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3716 3717 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3718 Valid arguments: on, off 3719 Default: on 3720 3721 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3722 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3723 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3724 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3725 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3726 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3727 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3728 just as if they had also been called out in the 3729 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3730 3731 Note that this argument takes precedence over 3732 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 3733 3734 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3735 3736 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3737 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3738 3739 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3740 broken timer IRQ sources. 3741 3742 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3743 3744 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3745 initial RAM disk. 3746 3747 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3748 remapping. 3749 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3750 3751 nointroute [IA-64] 3752 3753 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3754 3755 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3756 3757 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3758 3759 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3760 fault handling. 3761 3762 no-vmw-sched-clock 3763 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3764 clock and use the default one. 3765 3766 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES] Disable paravirtualized 3767 steal time accounting. steal time is computed, but 3768 won't influence scheduler behaviour 3769 3770 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3771 3772 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3773 3774 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3775 3776 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3777 3778 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3779 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3780 3781 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3782 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3783 irq. 3784 3785 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. DRM drivers will not perform 3786 display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. Only the 3787 system framebuffer will be available for use if this was 3788 set-up by the firmware or boot loader. 3789 3790 Useful as fallback, or for testing and debugging. 3791 3792 nomodule Disable module load 3793 3794 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3795 pagetables) support. 3796 3797 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3798 3799 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3800 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3801 3802 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3803 with UP alternatives 3804 3805 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3806 space. 3807 3808 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3809 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3810 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3811 3812 nosbagart [IA-64] 3813 3814 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 3815 3816 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3817 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3818 3819 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3820 3821 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3822 3823 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3824 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3825 3826 nowb [ARM] 3827 3828 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3829 3830 NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the 3831 LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the 3832 IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR. 3833 3834 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3835 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3836 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3837 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3838 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3839 parameter's value. 3840 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3841 Default: 255 3842 3843 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3844 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3845 SAL PALO. 3846 3847 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3848 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3849 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3850 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3851 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3852 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3853 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3854 hot plugging. 3855 3856 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3857 3858 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only 3859 set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. 3860 3861 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 3862 NUMA balancing. 3863 Allowed values are enable and disable 3864 3865 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3866 'node', 'default' can be specified 3867 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3868 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3869 3870 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3871 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 3872 info. 3873 3874 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3875 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3876 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3877 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3878 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3879 interrupts *may* be lost! 3880 3881 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3882 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3883 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3884 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3885 3886 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 3887 3888 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 3889 3890 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 3891 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 3892 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 3893 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 3894 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 3895 3896 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3897 process, but there is a small probability of 3898 deadlocking the machine. 3899 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3900 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3901 3902 page_alloc.shuffle= 3903 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3904 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3905 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3906 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3907 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3908 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3909 can be read from sysfs at: 3910 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3911 3912 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3913 Storage of the information about who allocated 3914 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3915 we can turn it on. 3916 on: enable the feature 3917 3918 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3919 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3920 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3921 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3922 on: turn on poisoning 3923 3924 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 3925 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 3926 Format: <integer> 3927 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 3928 reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1). 3929 3930 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3931 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3932 timeout = 0: wait forever 3933 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3934 Format: <timeout> 3935 3936 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3937 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3938 bit 0: print all tasks info 3939 bit 1: print system memory info 3940 bit 2: print timer info 3941 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3942 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3943 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3944 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 3945 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 3946 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 3947 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 3948 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 3949 3950 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 3951 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 3952 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 3953 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 3954 called with any of the flags in this set. 3955 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 3956 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 3957 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 3958 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 3959 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 3960 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 3961 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 3962 3963 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3964 on a WARN(). 3965 3966 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3967 connected to, default is 0. 3968 Format: <parport#> 3969 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3970 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3971 Format: <mode> 3972 3973 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3974 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3975 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3976 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3977 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3978 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3979 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3980 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3981 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3982 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3983 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3984 are specified on the command line, starting 3985 with parport0. 3986 3987 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3988 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3989 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3990 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3991 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3992 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3993 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3994 3995 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 3996 Format: <int> 3997 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 3998 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 3999 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 4000 4001 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 4002 Format: <int> 4003 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 4004 changes. Disabled by default. 4005 4006 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 4007 Format: <int> 4008 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 4009 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4010 Disabled by default. 4011 4012 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 4013 Format: <int> 4014 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 4015 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4016 Disabled by default. 4017 4018 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4019 Format: <int> 4020 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 4021 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 4022 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 4023 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 4024 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 4025 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 4026 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 4027 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 4028 all channels. 4029 4030 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 4031 Format: <int> 4032 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 4033 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4034 respectively. Disabled by default. 4035 4036 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 4037 Format: <int> 4038 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 4039 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4040 respectively. Disabled by default. 4041 4042 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4043 Format: <int> 4044 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 4045 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 4046 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 4047 All modes allowed by default. 4048 4049 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 4050 Format: <int> 4051 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4052 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4053 4054 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4055 Format: <int> 4056 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4057 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4058 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4059 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4060 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4061 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4062 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4063 By default all supported ports are probed. 4064 4065 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4066 Format: <int> 4067 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4068 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4069 4070 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4071 Format: <int> 4072 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4073 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4074 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4075 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4076 0 otherwise. 4077 4078 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4079 Format: <int> 4080 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4081 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4082 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4083 allowed by default. 4084 4085 pause_on_oops= 4086 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4087 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4088 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4089 4090 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4091 4092 pcd. [PARIDE] 4093 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 4094 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4095 4096 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 4097 4098 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4099 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4100 specified in one of the following formats: 4101 4102 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4103 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4104 4105 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4106 bus/device/function address which may change 4107 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4108 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4109 by other kernel parameters. If the 4110 domain is left unspecified, it is 4111 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4112 to a device through multiple device/function 4113 addresses can be specified after the base 4114 address (this is more robust against 4115 renumbering issues). The second format 4116 selects devices using IDs from the 4117 configuration space which may match multiple 4118 devices in the system. 4119 4120 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4121 changes anything 4122 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4123 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4124 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4125 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4126 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4127 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4128 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4129 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4130 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4131 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4132 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4133 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4134 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4135 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4136 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4137 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4138 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4139 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4140 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4141 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4142 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4143 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4144 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4145 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4146 Configuration 4147 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4148 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4149 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4150 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4151 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4152 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4153 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4154 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4155 should never be necessary. 4156 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4157 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4158 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4159 when the system masks IRQs. 4160 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4161 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4162 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4163 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4164 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4165 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4166 on several machines and they hang the machine 4167 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4168 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4169 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4170 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4171 motherboard. 4172 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4173 Use with caution as certain devices share 4174 address decoders between ROMs and other 4175 resources. 4176 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4177 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4178 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4179 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4180 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4181 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4182 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4183 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4184 this way. 4185 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4186 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4187 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4188 F0000h-100000h range. 4189 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4190 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4191 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4192 explicitly which ones they are. 4193 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4194 numbers ourselves, overriding 4195 whatever the firmware may have done. 4196 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4197 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4198 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4199 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4200 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4201 IRQ routing is enabled. 4202 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4203 or for PCI scanning. 4204 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4205 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4206 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4207 please report a bug. 4208 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4209 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4210 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4211 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4212 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4213 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4214 <[email protected]>. 4215 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4216 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4217 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4218 a bug to <[email protected]>. 4219 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4220 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4221 so this option is a temporary workaround 4222 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4223 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4224 handle more pci cards 4225 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4226 This might help on some broken boards which 4227 machine check when some devices' config space 4228 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4229 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4230 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4231 This sorting is done to get a device 4232 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4233 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4234 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4235 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4236 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4237 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4238 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4239 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4240 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4241 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4242 or bus can support) for best performance. 4243 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4244 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4245 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4246 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4247 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4248 that hot-added devices will work. 4249 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4250 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4251 The default value is 256 bytes. 4252 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4253 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4254 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4255 resource_alignment= 4256 Format: 4257 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4258 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4259 aligned memory resources. How to 4260 specify the device is described above. 4261 If <order of align> is not specified, 4262 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4263 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4264 windows need to be expanded. 4265 To specify the alignment for several 4266 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4267 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4268 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4269 for 4096-byte alignment. 4270 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4271 end-to-end CRC checking). 4272 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4273 the default. 4274 off: Turn ECRC off 4275 on: Turn ECRC on. 4276 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4277 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4278 Default size is 256 bytes. 4279 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4280 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4281 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4282 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4283 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4284 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4285 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4286 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4287 MMIO_PREF window. 4288 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4289 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4290 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4291 Default is 1. 4292 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4293 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4294 accommodate resources required by all child 4295 devices. 4296 off: Turn realloc off 4297 on: Turn realloc on 4298 realloc same as realloc=on 4299 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4300 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4301 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4302 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4303 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4304 port. 4305 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4306 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4307 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4308 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4309 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4310 taints the kernel. 4311 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4312 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4313 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4314 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4315 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4316 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4317 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4318 this removes isolation between devices and 4319 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4320 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4321 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4322 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4323 one PCI domain per PCI function 4324 4325 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 4326 Management. 4327 off Disable ASPM. 4328 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4329 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4330 4331 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4332 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4333 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4334 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4335 also tries to use these services. 4336 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4337 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4338 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4339 hotplug). 4340 4341 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4342 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4343 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4344 4345 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4346 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4347 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4348 4349 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4350 4351 pd_ignore_unused 4352 [PM] 4353 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4354 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4355 for debug and development, but should not be 4356 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4357 4358 pd. [PARIDE] 4359 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4360 4361 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4362 boot time. 4363 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4364 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4365 4366 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4367 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4368 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4369 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4370 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4371 and performance comparison. 4372 4373 pf. [PARIDE] 4374 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4375 4376 pg. [PARIDE] 4377 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4378 4379 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4380 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4381 4382 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4383 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4384 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4385 4386 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4387 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4388 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4389 4390 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4391 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4392 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4393 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4394 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4395 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4396 remains 0. 4397 4398 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4399 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4400 4401 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4402 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4403 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4404 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4405 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4406 possible settings and some assignment information. 4407 4408 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4409 { off } 4410 4411 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4412 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4413 4414 pnp_reserve_irq= 4415 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4416 4417 pnp_reserve_dma= 4418 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4419 4420 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4421 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4422 4423 pnp_reserve_mem= 4424 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4425 autoconfiguration. 4426 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4427 4428 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4429 Default is 21. 4430 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4431 may be specified. 4432 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4433 4434 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4435 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4436 platform machine description specific power_save 4437 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4438 execution priority. 4439 4440 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4441 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4442 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4443 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4444 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4445 4446 ppc_tm= [PPC] 4447 Format: {"off"} 4448 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4449 4450 preempt= [KNL] 4451 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4452 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4453 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4454 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4455 can be preempted anytime. 4456 4457 print-fatal-signals= 4458 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4459 4460 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4461 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4462 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4463 coredump - etc. 4464 4465 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4466 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4467 4468 default: off. 4469 4470 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4471 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4472 panics 4473 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4474 default: disabled 4475 4476 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4477 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4478 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4479 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4480 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4481 in order to provide more debug information. 4482 Format: <bool> 4483 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4484 4485 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4486 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4487 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4488 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4489 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4490 Default: ratelimit 4491 4492 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4493 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4494 4495 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4496 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4497 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4498 4499 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4500 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4501 instead using the legacy FADT method 4502 4503 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4504 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4505 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4506 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4507 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4508 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4509 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4510 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4511 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4512 statistical time based profiling. 4513 4514 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4515 4516 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4517 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4518 that). 4519 Format: <bool> 4520 4521 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4522 tracking. 4523 Format: <bool> 4524 4525 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4526 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4527 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4528 per second. 4529 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4530 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4531 (0 = never). 4532 psmouse.resolution= 4533 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4534 psmouse.smartscroll= 4535 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4536 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4537 4538 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4539 4540 pt. [PARIDE] 4541 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4542 4543 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4544 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4545 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4546 system calls and interrupts. 4547 4548 on - unconditionally enable 4549 off - unconditionally disable 4550 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4551 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4552 4553 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4554 4555 nopti [X86-64] 4556 Equivalent to pti=off 4557 4558 pty.legacy_count= 4559 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4560 default number. 4561 4562 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4563 4564 r128= [HW,DRM] 4565 4566 raid= [HW,RAID] 4567 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4568 4569 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4570 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4571 4572 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4573 4574 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 4575 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 4576 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 4577 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4578 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 4579 4580 random.trust_bootloader={on,off} 4581 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of a 4582 seed passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4583 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4584 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER. 4585 4586 randomize_kstack_offset= 4587 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4588 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4589 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4590 that depend on stack address determinism or 4591 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4592 available on architectures that have defined 4593 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4594 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4595 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4596 4597 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4598 4599 cec_disable [X86] 4600 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4601 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4602 4603 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 4604 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 4605 as described above. 4606 4607 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 4608 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 4609 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 4610 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 4611 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 4612 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 4613 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 4614 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 4615 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 4616 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 4617 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 4618 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4619 4620 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 4621 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 4622 4623 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 4624 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 4625 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 4626 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 4627 4628 Note that this argument takes precedence over 4629 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 4630 4631 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4632 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4633 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4634 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4635 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4636 This improves the real-time response for the 4637 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4638 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4639 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4640 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4641 4642 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4643 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4644 process in one batch. 4645 4646 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4647 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4648 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4649 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4650 4651 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4652 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4653 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4654 4655 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4656 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4657 RCU grace-period initialization. 4658 4659 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4660 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4661 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4662 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4663 the rcu_node combining tree. 4664 4665 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 4666 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 4667 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 4668 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 4669 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 4670 4671 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 4672 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 4673 to zero. 4674 4675 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4676 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4677 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4678 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4679 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4680 4681 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4682 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4683 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4684 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4685 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4686 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4687 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4688 4689 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4690 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4691 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4692 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4693 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4694 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4695 condition. 4696 4697 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 4698 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 4699 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 4700 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 4701 4702 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4703 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4704 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4705 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4706 and maximum value is HZ. 4707 4708 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4709 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4710 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4711 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4712 4713 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4714 Set required age in jiffies for a 4715 given grace period before RCU starts 4716 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4717 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4718 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4719 a value based on the most recent settings 4720 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4721 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4722 This calculated value may be viewed in 4723 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4724 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4725 overwritten. 4726 4727 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4728 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4729 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4730 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4731 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4732 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4733 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4734 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4735 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4736 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4737 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 4738 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 4739 4740 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] 4741 Set the shift-right count to use to compute 4742 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from 4743 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. 4744 The result will be bounded below by the value of 4745 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl 4746 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in 4747 order to allow the CPU to do other work. 4748 4749 Please note that this callback-invocation batch 4750 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback 4751 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead 4752 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which 4753 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. 4754 4755 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] 4756 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, 4757 RCU reduces the lock contention that would 4758 otherwise be caused by callback floods through 4759 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the 4760 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to 4761 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra 4762 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. 4763 But if there are too many callbacks queued during 4764 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into 4765 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too 4766 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. 4767 4768 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4769 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4770 each group, which defaults to the square root 4771 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4772 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4773 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4774 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4775 4776 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4777 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4778 batch limiting is disabled. 4779 4780 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4781 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4782 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4783 4784 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4785 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4786 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4787 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4788 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4789 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4790 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4791 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4792 4793 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4794 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4795 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4796 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4797 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4798 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4799 4800 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 4801 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 4802 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 4803 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 4804 Larger delays increase the probability of 4805 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 4806 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 4807 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 4808 4809 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4810 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4811 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4812 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4813 4814 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 4815 Measure performance of asynchronous 4816 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4817 4818 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4819 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4820 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4821 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4822 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4823 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4824 4825 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 4826 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4827 grace-period primitives. 4828 4829 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4830 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4831 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4832 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4833 interference. 4834 4835 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4836 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4837 4838 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 4839 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4840 If this parameter has the same value as 4841 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 4842 and double-argument variants are tested. 4843 4844 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 4845 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4846 If this parameter has the same value as 4847 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 4848 and double-argument variants are tested. 4849 4850 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4851 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4852 4853 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4854 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4855 4856 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4857 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 4858 of allocations and frees. 4859 4860 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4861 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4862 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4863 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4864 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4865 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4866 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4867 a single reader. 4868 4869 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 4870 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4871 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 4872 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4873 4874 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL] 4875 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4876 4877 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4878 Shut the system down after performance tests 4879 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4880 testing. 4881 4882 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 4883 Enable additional printk() statements. 4884 4885 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4886 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4887 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4888 no holdoff. 4889 4890 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4891 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4892 in microseconds. 4893 4894 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4895 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4896 in microseconds. 4897 4898 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4899 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4900 in seconds. 4901 4902 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4903 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 4904 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4905 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4906 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 4907 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 4908 of CPUs to be used. 4909 4910 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4911 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4912 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4913 4914 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4915 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4916 forward-progress tests. 4917 4918 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4919 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4920 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4921 testing. 4922 4923 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4924 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4925 primitives, if available. 4926 4927 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4928 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4929 4930 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4931 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4932 update-side primitives, if available. 4933 4934 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4935 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4936 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4937 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4938 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4939 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4940 they are all non-zero. 4941 4942 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 4943 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 4944 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 4945 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 4946 4947 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 4948 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 4949 This can of course result in splats, and is 4950 intended to test the ability of things like 4951 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 4952 such leaks. 4953 4954 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 4955 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 4956 4957 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 4958 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 4959 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 4960 test, hence the "fake". 4961 4962 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 4963 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 4964 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 4965 4966 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 4967 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 4968 callback-offload toggling attempts. 4969 4970 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 4971 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4972 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4973 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 4974 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4975 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4976 4977 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 4978 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 4979 4980 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4981 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 4982 4983 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4984 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 4985 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 4986 4987 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 4988 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 4989 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 4990 task-exit processing. 4991 4992 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 4993 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 4994 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 4995 is spawned. 4996 4997 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 4998 The delay, in seconds, between successive 4999 read-then-exit testing episodes. 5000 5001 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 5002 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 5003 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 5004 during the rcutorture test. 5005 5006 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5007 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 5008 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 5009 5010 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 5011 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 5012 warnings, zero to disable. 5013 5014 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 5015 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 5016 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition 5017 to any other stall-related activity. 5018 5019 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 5020 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 5021 5022 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 5023 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 5024 5025 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 5026 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 5027 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 5028 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 5029 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 5030 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 5031 5032 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5033 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 5034 5035 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 5036 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 5037 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 5038 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 5039 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 5040 5041 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 5042 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 5043 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 5044 under test support RCU priority boosting. 5045 5046 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 5047 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 5048 5049 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 5050 Interval (s) between each boost test. 5051 5052 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 5053 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 5054 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 5055 5056 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 5057 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5058 5059 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 5060 Enable additional printk() statements. 5061 5062 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 5063 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 5064 stall warning. 5065 5066 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 5067 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5068 5069 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 5070 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 5071 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 5072 during early boot, that is, during the time 5073 before the init task is spawned. 5074 5075 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5076 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5077 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 5078 value is 300 seconds. 5079 5080 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5081 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 5082 messages. The value is in milliseconds 5083 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 5084 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 5085 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 5086 Setting this to zero causes the value from 5087 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 5088 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 5089 5090 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 5091 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 5092 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 5093 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 5094 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 5095 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 5096 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5097 5098 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 5099 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 5100 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 5101 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 5102 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 5103 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 5104 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 5105 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 5106 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5107 5108 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 5109 Once boot has completed (that is, after 5110 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 5111 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 5112 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5113 5114 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 5115 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 5116 it to the value one, that is, converting any 5117 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 5118 period to instead use normal non-expedited 5119 grace-period processing. 5120 5121 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 5122 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 5123 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 5124 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 5125 a single callback queue. This switching only 5126 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 5127 set to the default value of -1. 5128 5129 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 5130 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 5131 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 5132 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 5133 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 5134 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 5135 the default value of -1. 5136 5137 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 5138 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 5139 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 5140 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 5141 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 5142 for use in testing. 5143 5144 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 5145 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 5146 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 5147 of a given grace period. Setting a large 5148 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 5149 but lengthens grace periods. 5150 5151 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 5152 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5153 informational messages, which give some indication 5154 of the problem for those not patient enough to 5155 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 5156 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 5157 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 5158 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 5159 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 5160 until the beginning of the next grace period. 5161 5162 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 5163 Multiplier for time interval between successive 5164 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 5165 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 5166 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 5167 the value three, so that the first informational 5168 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 5169 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 5170 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 5171 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 5172 5173 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5174 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5175 warning messages. Disable with a value less 5176 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 5177 A change in value does not take effect until 5178 the beginning of the next grace period. 5179 5180 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 5181 Run the RCU early boot self tests 5182 5183 rdinit= [KNL] 5184 Format: <full_path> 5185 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 5186 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 5187 5188 rdrand= [X86] 5189 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 5190 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 5191 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 5192 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 5193 path). 5194 5195 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 5196 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 5197 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 5198 mba. 5199 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 5200 rdt=cmt,!mba 5201 5202 reboot= [KNL] 5203 Format (x86 or x86_64): 5204 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 5205 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 5206 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 5207 [[,]f[orce] 5208 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 5209 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 5210 reboot only), 5211 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 5212 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 5213 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 5214 to be used for rebooting. 5215 5216 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5217 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5218 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5219 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5220 interference. 5221 5222 refscale.loops= [KNL] 5223 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 5224 primitive under test. Increasing this number 5225 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 5226 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 5227 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 5228 x86 laptops. 5229 5230 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5231 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 5232 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 5233 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 5234 5235 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 5236 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 5237 the console log. 5238 5239 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 5240 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 5241 measured in microseconds. 5242 5243 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5244 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 5245 5246 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5247 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 5248 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 5249 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 5250 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 5251 5252 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 5253 Enable additional printk() statements. 5254 5255 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 5256 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 5257 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 5258 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 5259 specified. 5260 5261 relax_domain_level= 5262 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 5263 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 5264 5265 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 5266 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 5267 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 5268 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 5269 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 5270 5271 reservetop= [X86-32] 5272 Format: nn[KMG] 5273 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 5274 address space. 5275 5276 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 5277 during initialization. 5278 5279 resume= [SWSUSP] 5280 Specify the partition device for software suspend 5281 Format: 5282 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 5283 5284 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 5285 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 5286 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 5287 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 5288 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 5289 5290 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5291 read the resume files 5292 5293 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 5294 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5295 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5296 5297 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 5298 5299 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 5300 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 5301 vulnerability. 5302 5303 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop 5304 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other 5305 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- 5306 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors 5307 that don't. 5308 5309 off - no mitigation 5310 auto - automatically select a migitation 5311 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 5312 disabling SMT if necessary for 5313 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 5314 and older without STIBP). 5315 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation 5316 windows on basic block boundaries too. 5317 Safe, highest perf impact. It also 5318 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable 5319 on Intel. 5320 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT 5321 when STIBP is not available. This is 5322 the alternative for systems which do not 5323 have STIBP. 5324 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, 5325 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based 5326 systems. 5327 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP 5328 is not available. This is the alternative for 5329 systems which do not have STIBP. 5330 5331 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 5332 time according to the CPU. 5333 5334 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 5335 5336 rfkill.default_state= 5337 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 5338 etc. communication is blocked by default. 5339 1 Unblocked. 5340 5341 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 5342 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 5343 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5344 blocked and the previous configuration. 5345 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5346 blocked and everything unblocked. 5347 5348 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5349 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 5350 5351 ring3mwait=disable 5352 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 5353 CPUs. 5354 5355 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 5356 5357 rodata= [KNL] 5358 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 5359 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 5360 full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only 5361 [arm64] 5362 5363 rockchip.usb_uart 5364 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 5365 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 5366 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 5367 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 5368 5369 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 5370 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 5371 5372 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5373 mount the root filesystem 5374 5375 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 5376 5377 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 5378 5379 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 5380 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5381 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5382 5383 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 5384 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 5385 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 5386 managed by CMA. 5387 5388 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 5389 5390 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5391 5392 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5393 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5394 strict 5395 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 5396 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 5397 which is faster. 5398 5399 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5400 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5401 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5402 factor of the size of main memory. 5403 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5404 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5405 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5406 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5407 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5408 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5409 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5410 5411 sa1100ir [NET] 5412 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5413 5414 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5415 5416 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5417 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5418 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5419 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5420 5421 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5422 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5423 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5424 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5425 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5426 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5427 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5428 value. 5429 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5430 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5431 1 64 ms 5432 2 128 ms 5433 and so on. 5434 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5435 Default is 0. 5436 5437 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5438 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5439 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5440 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5441 tests. 5442 5443 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5444 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5445 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5446 default) disables this feature. Please note 5447 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5448 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5449 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5450 5451 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5452 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5453 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5454 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5455 equal to the number of CPUs. 5456 5457 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5458 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5459 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 5460 5461 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5462 Number seconds to wait between successive 5463 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 5464 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 5465 5466 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5467 The number of seconds following the start of the 5468 test after which to shut down the system. The 5469 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 5470 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 5471 5472 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5473 The number of seconds between outputting the 5474 current test statistics to the console. A value 5475 of zero disables statistics output. 5476 5477 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 5478 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 5479 to the set of CPUs under test. 5480 5481 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 5482 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 5483 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 5484 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 5485 functions. 5486 5487 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 5488 Enable additional printk() statements. 5489 5490 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 5491 The probability weighting to use for the 5492 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 5493 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 5494 default if all other weights are -1. However, 5495 if at least one weight has some other value, a 5496 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 5497 5498 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 5499 The probability weighting to use for the 5500 smp_call_function_single() function with a 5501 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5502 5503 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 5504 The probability weighting to use for the 5505 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 5506 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5507 Note well that setting a high probability for 5508 this weighting can place serious IPI load 5509 on the system. 5510 5511 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 5512 The probability weighting to use for the 5513 smp_call_function_many() function with a 5514 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5515 and weight_many. 5516 5517 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 5518 The probability weighting to use for the 5519 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 5520 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 5521 weight_many. 5522 5523 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 5524 The probability weighting to use for the 5525 smp_call_function_all() function with a 5526 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5527 and weight_many. 5528 5529 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 5530 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 5531 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 5532 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5533 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 5534 1 -- enable. 5535 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 5536 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 5537 5538 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 5539 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 5540 "lsm=" parameter. 5541 5542 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 5543 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5544 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 5545 0 -- disable. 5546 1 -- enable. 5547 Default value is 1. 5548 5549 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 5550 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5551 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 5552 0 -- disable. 5553 1 -- enable. 5554 Default value is set via kernel config option. 5555 5556 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 5557 5558 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 5559 5560 shapers= [NET] 5561 Maximal number of shapers. 5562 5563 simeth= [IA-64] 5564 simscsi= 5565 5566 slram= [HW,MTD] 5567 5568 slab_merge [MM] 5569 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 5570 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 5571 5572 slab_nomerge [MM] 5573 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 5574 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 5575 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 5576 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 5577 layout control by attackers can usually be 5578 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 5579 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 5580 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 5581 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 5582 own. 5583 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5584 5585 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 5586 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5587 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5588 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 5589 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 5590 5591 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 5592 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 5593 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5594 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5595 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5596 last alloc / free. For more information see 5597 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5598 5599 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 5600 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5601 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5602 fragmentation. For more information see 5603 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5604 5605 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 5606 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 5607 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 5608 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 5609 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 5610 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 5611 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 5612 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5613 5614 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 5615 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 5616 lower than slub_max_order. 5617 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5618 5619 slub_merge [MM, SLUB] 5620 Same with slab_merge. 5621 5622 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 5623 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 5624 See slab_nomerge for more information. 5625 5626 smart2= [HW] 5627 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 5628 5629 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 5630 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 5631 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 5632 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 5633 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 5634 disabling interrupts for extended periods 5635 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 5636 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 5637 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 5638 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 5639 5640 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 5641 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 5642 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 5643 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 5644 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 5645 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 5646 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 5647 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 5648 1: Fast pin select (default) 5649 2: ATC IRMode 5650 5651 smt= [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 5652 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 5653 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 5654 actual hardware limit. 5655 Format: <integer> 5656 Default: -1 (no limit) 5657 5658 softlockup_panic= 5659 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 5660 Format: 0 | 1 5661 5662 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 5663 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 5664 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 5665 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 5666 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 5667 5668 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 5669 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 5670 backtraces on all cpus. 5671 Format: 0 | 1 5672 5673 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 5674 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 5675 5676 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5677 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 5678 The default operation protects the kernel from 5679 user space attacks. 5680 5681 on - unconditionally enable, implies 5682 spectre_v2_user=on 5683 off - unconditionally disable, implies 5684 spectre_v2_user=off 5685 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5686 vulnerable 5687 5688 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 5689 mitigation method at run time according to the 5690 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 5691 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 5692 compiler with which the kernel was built. 5693 5694 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 5695 against user space to user space task attacks. 5696 5697 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 5698 the user space protections. 5699 5700 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 5701 5702 retpoline - replace indirect branches 5703 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 5704 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 5705 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 5706 eibrs - enhanced IBRS 5707 eibrs,retpoline - enhanced IBRS + Retpolines 5708 eibrs,lfence - enhanced IBRS + LFENCE 5709 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 5710 5711 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5712 spectre_v2=auto. 5713 5714 spectre_v2_user= 5715 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5716 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 5717 user space tasks 5718 5719 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 5720 enforced by spectre_v2=on 5721 5722 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 5723 enforced by spectre_v2=off 5724 5725 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 5726 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 5727 per thread. The mitigation control state 5728 is inherited on fork. 5729 5730 prctl,ibpb 5731 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 5732 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5733 always when switching between different user 5734 space processes. 5735 5736 seccomp 5737 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 5738 threads will enable the mitigation unless 5739 they explicitly opt out. 5740 5741 seccomp,ibpb 5742 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 5743 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5744 always when switching between different 5745 user space processes. 5746 5747 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 5748 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 5749 5750 Default mitigation: "prctl" 5751 5752 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5753 spectre_v2_user=auto. 5754 5755 spec_store_bypass_disable= 5756 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 5757 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 5758 5759 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 5760 a common industry wide performance optimization known 5761 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 5762 to the same memory location may not be observed by 5763 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 5764 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 5765 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 5766 end of a particular speculation execution window. 5767 5768 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5769 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 5770 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 5771 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 5772 5773 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 5774 Bypass optimization is used. 5775 5776 On x86 the options are: 5777 5778 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 5779 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 5780 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 5781 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 5782 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 5783 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 5784 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 5785 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 5786 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 5787 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 5788 for a process by default. The state of the control 5789 is inherited on fork. 5790 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 5791 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 5792 5793 Default mitigations: 5794 X86: "prctl" 5795 5796 On powerpc the options are: 5797 5798 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 5799 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 5800 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 5801 exit. 5802 off - No action. 5803 5804 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5805 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 5806 5807 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 5808 spia_fio_base= 5809 spia_pedr= 5810 spia_peddr= 5811 5812 split_lock_detect= 5813 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 5814 5815 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 5816 instructions that access data across cache line 5817 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 5818 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 5819 bus lock detection. 5820 5821 off - not enabled 5822 5823 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 5824 about applications triggering the #AC 5825 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 5826 the default on CPUs that support split lock 5827 detection or bus lock detection. Default 5828 behavior is by #AC if both features are 5829 enabled in hardware. 5830 5831 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 5832 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 5833 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 5834 both features are enabled in hardware. 5835 5836 ratelimit:N - 5837 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 5838 per second for bus lock detection. 5839 0 < N <= 1000. 5840 5841 N/A for split lock detection. 5842 5843 5844 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 5845 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 5846 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 5847 mode. 5848 5849 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 5850 CPL > 0. 5851 5852 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 5853 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 5854 (SRBDS) mitigation. 5855 5856 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 5857 exploit which can leak bits from the random 5858 number generator. 5859 5860 By default, this issue is mitigated by 5861 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 5862 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 5863 much slower. Among other effects, this will 5864 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 5865 5866 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 5867 the following option: 5868 5869 off: Disable mitigation and remove 5870 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 5871 5872 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 5873 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 5874 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 5875 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 5876 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 5877 but takes effect only when the low-order four 5878 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 5879 (decide at boot). 5880 5881 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 5882 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 5883 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 5884 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 5885 5886 0: Never. 5887 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 5888 2: When rcutorture decides to. 5889 3: Decide at boot time (default). 5890 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 5891 5892 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 5893 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 5894 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 5895 5896 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 5897 Specifies how frequently to check for 5898 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 5899 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 5900 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 5901 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 5902 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 5903 are ignored. 5904 5905 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 5906 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 5907 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 5908 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 5909 grace period will be considered for automatic 5910 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 5911 expediting. 5912 5913 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] 5914 Specifies the number of no-delay instances 5915 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period 5916 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero 5917 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will 5918 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. 5919 5920 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] 5921 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of 5922 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, 5923 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled 5924 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each 5925 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. 5926 5927 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] 5928 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping 5929 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. 5930 5931 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 5932 Specifies the number of update-side contention 5933 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 5934 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 5935 structure to big form. Note that the value of 5936 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 5937 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 5938 5939 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 5940 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 5941 5942 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 5943 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 5944 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 5945 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 5946 5947 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 5948 for both kernel and userspace 5949 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 5950 for both kernel and userspace 5951 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 5952 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 5953 to allow userspace to register its 5954 interest in being mitigated too. 5955 5956 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 5957 override the default stack gap protection. The value 5958 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 5959 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 5960 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 5961 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 5962 5963 stack_depot_disable= [KNL] 5964 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 5965 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 5966 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 5967 to false. 5968 5969 stacktrace [FTRACE] 5970 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 5971 5972 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 5973 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 5974 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 5975 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 5976 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 5977 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 5978 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 5979 5980 sti= [PARISC,HW] 5981 Format: <num> 5982 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 5983 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 5984 as the initial boot-console. 5985 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5986 5987 sti_font= [HW] 5988 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5989 5990 stifb= [HW] 5991 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 5992 5993 strict_sas_size= 5994 [X86] 5995 Format: <bool> 5996 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 5997 against the required signal frame size which 5998 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 5999 be used to filter out binaries which have 6000 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 6001 6002 sunrpc.min_resvport= 6003 sunrpc.max_resvport= 6004 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6005 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 6006 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 6007 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 6008 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 6009 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 6010 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 6011 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 6012 maximum port values. 6013 6014 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 6015 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6016 Limit the number of requests that the server will 6017 process in parallel from a single connection. 6018 The default value is 0 (no limit). 6019 6020 sunrpc.pool_mode= 6021 [NFS] 6022 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 6023 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 6024 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 6025 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 6026 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 6027 NFS server is running. 6028 6029 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 6030 automatically using heuristics 6031 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 6032 percpu one pool for each CPU 6033 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 6034 to global on non-NUMA machines) 6035 6036 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 6037 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 6038 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6039 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 6040 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 6041 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 6042 improve throughput, but will also increase the 6043 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 6044 6045 suspend.pm_test_delay= 6046 [SUSPEND] 6047 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 6048 mode before resuming the system (see 6049 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 6050 is set. Default value is 5. 6051 6052 svm= [PPC] 6053 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 6054 This parameter controls use of the Protected 6055 Execution Facility on pSeries. 6056 6057 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 6058 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } 6059 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 6060 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb 6061 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up 6062 to a power of 2. 6063 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 6064 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 6065 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 6066 6067 switches= [HW,M68k] 6068 6069 sysctl.*= [KNL] 6070 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 6071 process, as if the value was written to the respective 6072 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 6073 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 6074 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 6075 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 6076 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 6077 6078 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 6079 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 6080 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 6081 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 6082 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 6083 in older udev will not work anymore. 6084 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 6085 the kernel configuration. 6086 6087 sysrq_always_enabled 6088 [KNL] 6089 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 6090 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 6091 Useful for debugging. 6092 6093 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6094 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 6095 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 6096 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 6097 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 6098 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 6099 6100 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 6101 6102 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 6103 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 6104 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 6105 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 6106 as the system sleep state during system startup with 6107 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 6108 The system is woken from this state using a 6109 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 6110 6111 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6112 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 6113 6114 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 6115 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 6116 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 6117 6118 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 6119 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 6120 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 6121 6122 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 6123 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 6124 critical and hot trip points. 6125 6126 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 6127 1: disable ACPI thermal control 6128 6129 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 6130 -1: disable all passive trip points 6131 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 6132 value 6133 6134 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 6135 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 6136 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 6137 0: no polling (default) 6138 6139 threadirqs [KNL] 6140 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 6141 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 6142 6143 topology= [S390] 6144 Format: {off | on} 6145 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 6146 topology information if the hardware supports this. 6147 The scheduler will make use of this information and 6148 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 6149 Default is on. 6150 6151 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 6152 Format: {off} 6153 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 6154 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 6155 LPAR. 6156 6157 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 6158 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 6159 until after init has spawned. 6160 6161 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 6162 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 6163 even if there were no errors. This can be a 6164 very costly operation when many torture tests 6165 are running concurrently, especially on systems 6166 with rotating-rust storage. 6167 6168 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 6169 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 6170 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 6171 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 6172 6173 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 6174 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 6175 6176 tp720= [HW,PS2] 6177 6178 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 6179 Format: integer pcr id 6180 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 6181 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 6182 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 6183 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 6184 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 6185 are saved. 6186 6187 tp_printk [FTRACE] 6188 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 6189 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 6190 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 6191 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 6192 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 6193 6194 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 6195 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 6196 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 6197 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 6198 6199 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 6200 to stop the printing of events to console at 6201 late_initcall_sync. 6202 6203 ** CAUTION ** 6204 6205 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 6206 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 6207 the system to live lock. 6208 6209 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 6210 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 6211 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 6212 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 6213 make the system inoperable. 6214 6215 This command line option will stop the printing of events 6216 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 6217 6218 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 6219 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 6220 6221 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 6222 at boot up. 6223 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 6224 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 6225 depending on the architecture, may not be 6226 in sync between CPUs. 6227 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 6228 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 6229 but better for some race conditions. 6230 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 6231 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 6232 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 6233 once per event. 6234 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 6235 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 6236 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6237 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 6238 stamps. 6239 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6240 Architectures may add more clocks. See 6241 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 6242 6243 trace_event=[event-list] 6244 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 6245 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 6246 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 6247 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 6248 6249 trace_options=[option-list] 6250 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 6251 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 6252 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 6253 to echo the option name into 6254 6255 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 6256 6257 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 6258 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 6259 6260 trace_options=stacktrace 6261 6262 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 6263 section. 6264 6265 traceoff_on_warning 6266 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 6267 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 6268 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 6269 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 6270 6271 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 6272 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 6273 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 6274 6275 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 6276 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 6277 6278 transparent_hugepage= 6279 [KNL] 6280 Format: [always|madvise|never] 6281 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 6282 with respect to transparent hugepages. 6283 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 6284 for more details. 6285 6286 trusted.source= [KEYS] 6287 Format: <string> 6288 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 6289 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 6290 sources: 6291 - "tpm" 6292 - "tee" 6293 - "caam" 6294 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 6295 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 6296 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 6297 successfully during iteration. 6298 6299 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 6300 Format: <string> 6301 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 6302 Can be one of: 6303 - "kernel" 6304 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 6305 - "default" 6306 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 6307 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 6308 6309 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 6310 Format: <string> 6311 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 6312 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 6313 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 6314 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 6315 virtualized environment. 6316 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 6317 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 6318 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 6319 can add overhead. 6320 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 6321 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 6322 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 6323 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 6324 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 6325 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 6326 acceptable). 6327 6328 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 6329 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 6330 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 6331 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 6332 Format: <unsigned int> 6333 6334 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 6335 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 6336 support TSX control. 6337 6338 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 6339 6340 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 6341 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 6342 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 6343 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 6344 so there may be unknown security risks associated 6345 with leaving it enabled. 6346 6347 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 6348 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 6349 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 6350 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 6351 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 6352 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 6353 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 6354 6355 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 6356 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 6357 6358 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 6359 6360 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6361 for more details. 6362 6363 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 6364 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 6365 6366 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 6367 certain CPUs that support Transactional 6368 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 6369 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 6370 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 6371 conditions. 6372 6373 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6374 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 6375 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 6376 access. 6377 6378 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 6379 options are: 6380 6381 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 6382 if TSX is enabled. 6383 6384 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 6385 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 6386 is not disabled because CPU is not 6387 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 6388 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 6389 6390 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 6391 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 6392 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 6393 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 6394 6395 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6396 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 6397 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 6398 required and doesn't provide any additional 6399 mitigation. 6400 6401 For details see: 6402 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6403 6404 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 6405 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 6406 Format: 6407 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 6408 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 6409 6410 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 6411 happen after console_init() and before a proper 6412 console driver takes over, this boot options might 6413 help "seeing" what's going on. 6414 6415 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6416 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 6417 6418 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 6419 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 6420 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 6421 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 6422 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 6423 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 6424 reported either. 6425 6426 unknown_nmi_panic 6427 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 6428 6429 usbcore.authorized_default= 6430 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 6431 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 6432 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 6433 if device connected to internal port) 6434 6435 usbcore.autosuspend= 6436 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 6437 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 6438 is the time required before an idle device will be 6439 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 6440 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 6441 6442 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 6443 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 6444 6445 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 6446 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 6447 (default = 65536). 6448 6449 usbcore.blinkenlights= 6450 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 6451 6452 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 6453 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 6454 scheme (default 0 = off). 6455 6456 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 6457 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 6458 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 6459 6460 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 6461 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 6462 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 6463 6464 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 6465 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 6466 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 6467 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 6468 6469 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 6470 6471 usbcore.quirks= 6472 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 6473 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 6474 commas. Each entry has the form 6475 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 6476 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 6477 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 6478 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 6479 the following meanings: 6480 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 6481 descriptors must not be fetched using 6482 a 255-byte read); 6483 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 6484 correctly so reset it instead); 6485 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 6486 Set-Interface requests); 6487 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 6488 handle its Configuration or Interface 6489 strings); 6490 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 6491 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 6492 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 6493 more interface descriptions than the 6494 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 6495 talking to these interfaces); 6496 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 6497 during initialization, after we read 6498 the device descriptor); 6499 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 6500 high speed and super speed interrupt 6501 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 6502 require the interval in microframes (1 6503 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 6504 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 6505 (bInterval-1). 6506 Devices with this quirk report their 6507 bInterval as the result of this 6508 calculation instead of the exponent 6509 variable used in the calculation); 6510 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 6511 handle device_qualifier descriptor 6512 requests); 6513 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 6514 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 6515 remote wakeup capability); 6516 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 6517 Power Management); 6518 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 6519 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 6520 frames instead of the USB 2.0 6521 calculation); 6522 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 6523 to be disconnected before suspend to 6524 prevent spurious wakeup); 6525 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 6526 pause after every control message); 6527 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 6528 delay after resetting its port); 6529 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 6530 6531 usbhid.mousepoll= 6532 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 6533 6534 usbhid.jspoll= 6535 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 6536 6537 usbhid.kbpoll= 6538 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 6539 6540 usb-storage.delay_use= 6541 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 6542 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 6543 6544 usb-storage.quirks= 6545 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 6546 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 6547 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 6548 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 6549 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 6550 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 6551 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 6552 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 6553 of sense data, not on uas); 6554 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 6555 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 6556 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 6557 device capacity by one sector); 6558 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 6559 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 6560 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 6561 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 6562 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 6563 command, uas only); 6564 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 6565 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 6566 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 6567 reported device capacity by one 6568 sector if the number is odd); 6569 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 6570 device); 6571 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 6572 command, uas only); 6573 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 6574 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 6575 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 6576 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 6577 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 6578 not on uas); 6579 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 6580 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 6581 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 6582 reported by the device, not on uas); 6583 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 6584 by default, not on uas); 6585 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 6586 bogus residue values, not on uas); 6587 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 6588 Logical Unit); 6589 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 6590 commands, uas only); 6591 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 6592 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 6593 medium is write-protected). 6594 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 6595 even if the device claims no cache, 6596 not on uas) 6597 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 6598 6599 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 6600 Format: <int> 6601 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 6602 1 - undefined instruction events 6603 2 - system calls 6604 4 - invalid data aborts 6605 8 - SIGSEGV faults 6606 16 - SIGBUS faults 6607 Example: user_debug=31 6608 6609 userpte= 6610 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 6611 6612 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 6613 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 6614 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 6615 6616 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 6617 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 6618 6619 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 6620 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 6621 6622 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 6623 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 6624 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 6625 6626 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 6627 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 6628 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 6629 6630 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 6631 alias for vdso32=0. 6632 6633 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 6634 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 6635 6636 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 6637 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 6638 6639 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 6640 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 6641 6642 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 6643 Format: [0|1] 6644 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 6645 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 6646 level and then send out the event to user space through 6647 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 6648 will only send out the event without touching backlight 6649 brightness level. 6650 default: 1 6651 6652 virtio_mmio.device= 6653 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 6654 6655 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 6656 where: 6657 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 6658 like K, M and G) 6659 <baseaddr> := physical base address 6660 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 6661 request_irq()) 6662 <id> := (optional) platform device id 6663 example: 6664 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 6665 6666 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 6667 6668 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 6669 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 6670 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 6671 Use vga=ask for menu. 6672 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 6673 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 6674 6675 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 6676 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 6677 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 6678 All options are enabled by default, and this 6679 interface is meant to allow for selectively 6680 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 6681 debugging features. 6682 6683 Available options are: 6684 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 6685 - Disable all of the above options 6686 6687 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 6688 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 6689 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 6690 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 6691 mapped kernel RAM. 6692 6693 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 6694 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 6695 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 6696 6697 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 6698 Format: <command> 6699 6700 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 6701 Format: <command> 6702 6703 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 6704 Format: <command> 6705 6706 vsyscall= [X86-64] 6707 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 6708 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 6709 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 6710 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 6711 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 6712 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 6713 6714 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6715 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6716 page is readable. 6717 6718 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6719 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6720 page is not readable. 6721 6722 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 6723 them quite hard to use for exploits but 6724 might break your system. 6725 6726 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 6727 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 6728 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 6729 6730 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 6731 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 6732 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 6733 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 6734 6735 vt.default_blu= [VT] 6736 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 6737 Change the default blue palette of the console. 6738 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6739 ranging from 0-255. 6740 6741 vt.default_grn= [VT] 6742 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 6743 Change the default green palette of the console. 6744 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6745 ranging from 0-255. 6746 6747 vt.default_red= [VT] 6748 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 6749 Change the default red palette of the console. 6750 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6751 ranging from 0-255. 6752 6753 vt.default_utf8= 6754 [VT] 6755 Format=<0|1> 6756 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 6757 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 6758 newly opened terminals. 6759 6760 vt.global_cursor_default= 6761 [VT] 6762 Format=<-1|0|1> 6763 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 6764 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 6765 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 6766 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 6767 cursors, 1 will display them. 6768 6769 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 6770 Default: 2 = green. 6771 6772 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 6773 Default: 3 = cyan. 6774 6775 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 6776 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 6777 or other driver-specific files in the 6778 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 6779 6780 watchdog_thresh= 6781 [KNL] 6782 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 6783 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 6784 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 6785 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 6786 seconds. 6787 6788 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 6789 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 6790 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 6791 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 6792 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 6793 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 6794 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 6795 corresponding sysfs file. 6796 6797 workqueue.disable_numa 6798 By default, all work items queued to unbound 6799 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 6800 issued on, which results in better behavior in 6801 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 6802 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 6803 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 6804 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 6805 6806 workqueue.power_efficient 6807 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 6808 they show better performance thanks to cache 6809 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 6810 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 6811 6812 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 6813 were observed to contribute significantly to power 6814 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 6815 power usage at the cost of small performance 6816 overhead. 6817 6818 The default value of this parameter is determined by 6819 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 6820 6821 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 6822 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 6823 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 6824 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 6825 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 6826 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 6827 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 6828 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 6829 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 6830 impacted. 6831 6832 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 6833 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 6834 supporting x2apic. 6835 6836 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 6837 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 6838 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 6839 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 6840 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 6841 domains. 6842 6843 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 6844 Unplug Xen emulated devices 6845 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 6846 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 6847 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 6848 nics -- unplug network devices 6849 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 6850 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 6851 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 6852 the unplug protocol 6853 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 6854 6855 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 6856 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 6857 panic() code such as dumping handler. 6858 6859 xen_msr_safe= [X86,XEN] 6860 Format: <bool> 6861 Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR 6862 access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The 6863 default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE. 6864 6865 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 6866 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 6867 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 6868 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6869 6870 xen_nopv [X86] 6871 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 6872 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 6873 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 6874 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6875 6876 xen_no_vector_callback 6877 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 6878 event channel interrupts. 6879 6880 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 6881 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 6882 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 6883 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 6884 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 6885 6886 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 6887 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 6888 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 6889 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 6890 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 6891 more timer interrupts. 6892 6893 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 6894 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 6895 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 6896 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 6897 started with less memory configured than allowed at 6898 max. Default is 180. 6899 6900 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 6901 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 6902 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 6903 6904 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 6905 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 6906 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 6907 6908 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 6909 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 6910 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 6911 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 6912 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 6913 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 6914 6915 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 6916 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 6917 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 6918 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 6919 6920 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 6921 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 6922 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 6923 contention. 6924 6925 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 6926 Format: 6927 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 6928 6929 xive= [PPC] 6930 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 6931 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 6932 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 6933 6934 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 6935 controller on both pseries and powernv 6936 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 6937 6938 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 6939 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 6940 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 6941 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 6942 loads instead, as on POWER9. 6943 6944 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 6945 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 6946 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 6947 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 6948 6949 xmon [PPC] 6950 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 6951 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 6952 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 6953 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 6954 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 6955 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6956 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 6957 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 6958 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 6959 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6960 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 6961 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 6962 can be written using xmon commands. 6963 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 6964 memory, and other data can't be written using 6965 xmon commands. 6966 off xmon is disabled. 6967