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 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 382 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 383 384 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 385 Format: { "0" | "1" } 386 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 387 0 -- disable. 388 1 -- enable. 389 Default value is set via kernel config option. 390 391 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 392 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 393 394 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 395 Identification support 396 397 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 398 support 399 400 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 401 support 402 403 arm64.nosve [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector 404 Extension support 405 406 arm64.nosme [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix 407 Extension support 408 409 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 410 411 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 412 413 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 414 EzKey and similar keyboards 415 416 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 417 418 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 419 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 420 421 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 422 keyboards 423 424 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 425 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 426 427 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 428 Use software keyboard repeat 429 430 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 431 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 432 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 433 enabled until the next reboot 434 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 435 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 436 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 437 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 438 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 439 userspace auditd. 440 Default: unset 441 442 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 443 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 444 Default: 64 445 446 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 447 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 448 Format: { "0" | "1" } 449 0 - Disable the BAU. 450 1 - Enable the BAU. 451 unset - Disable the BAU. 452 453 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 454 Format: <io>,<mode> 455 456 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 457 Format: <io>,<mode> 458 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 459 460 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 461 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 462 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 463 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 464 465 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 466 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 467 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 468 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 469 470 bert_disable [ACPI] 471 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 472 473 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] 474 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 475 476 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 477 embedded devices based on command line input. 478 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 479 480 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 481 Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled, 482 and you may also have to specify "lpj=". Boot_delay 483 values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed 484 erroneous and ignored. 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 nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting. 561 562 checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 563 Format: { "0" | "1" } 564 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 565 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 566 any implied execute protection). 567 1 -- check protection requested by application. 568 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 569 Value can be changed at runtime via 570 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 571 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 572 573 cio_ignore= [S390] 574 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 575 576 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] 577 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 578 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 579 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily 580 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific 581 ones should be. 582 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line 583 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above 584 instability issue. However, not all features have names 585 in /proc/cpuinfo. 586 Note that using this option will taint your kernel. 587 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 588 or using the feature without checking anything 589 will still see it. This just prevents it from 590 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 591 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 592 some critical bits. 593 594 clk_ignore_unused 595 [CLK] 596 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 597 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 598 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 599 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 600 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 601 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 602 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 603 platform with proper driver support. For more 604 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 605 606 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 607 [Deprecated] 608 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 609 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 610 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 611 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 612 613 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 614 Format: <string> 615 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 616 with the name specified. 617 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 618 the platform: 619 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 620 [ACPI] acpi_pm 621 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 622 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 623 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 624 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 625 [MIPS] MIPS 626 [PARISC] cr16 627 [S390] tod 628 [SH] SuperH 629 [SPARC64] tick 630 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 631 632 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 633 [ARM,ARM64] 634 Format: <bool> 635 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 636 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 637 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 638 systems. 639 640 clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL] 641 Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to 642 external delays before the clock will be marked 643 unstable. Defaults to two retries, that is, 644 three attempts to read the clock under test. 645 646 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 647 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 648 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 649 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 650 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 651 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 652 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 653 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 654 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 655 656 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 657 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 658 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 659 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 660 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 661 662 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 663 [KNL,CMA] 664 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 665 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 666 placement constraint by the physical address range of 667 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 668 altogether. For more information, see 669 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 670 671 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 672 [ARM64,KNL,CMA] 673 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 674 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 675 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 676 specified, the default value is 0. 677 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 678 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 679 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 680 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 681 682 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 683 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 684 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 685 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 686 a hypervisor. 687 Default: yes 688 689 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 690 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 691 allocations, by default set to 256K. 692 693 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 694 Format: 695 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 696 697 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 698 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 699 700 com90xx= [HW,NET] 701 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 702 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 703 704 condev= [HW,S390] console device 705 conmode= 706 707 con3215_drop= [S390] 3215 console drop mode. 708 Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0 709 When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when 710 the console buffer is full. In this case the 711 operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example 712 x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the 713 console output to advance and the kernel to continue. 714 This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270 715 terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal 716 emulator is used, this parameter has no effect. 717 718 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 719 720 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 721 722 ttyS<n>[,options] 723 ttyUSB0[,options] 724 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 725 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 726 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 727 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 728 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 729 730 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 731 information. See 732 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 733 alternative. 734 735 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 736 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 737 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 738 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 739 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 740 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 741 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 742 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 743 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 744 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 745 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 746 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 747 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 748 the h/w is not re-initialized. 749 750 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 751 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 752 753 { null | "" } 754 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 755 console messages discarded. 756 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 757 kernel command line. 758 759 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 760 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 761 console=brl,ttyS0 762 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 763 764 console_msg_format= 765 [KNL] Change console messages format 766 default 767 By default we print messages on consoles in 768 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 769 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 770 `printk_time' param). 771 syslog 772 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 773 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 774 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 775 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 776 from /proc/kmsg. 777 778 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 779 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 780 Defaults to 0. 781 782 coredump_filter= 783 [KNL] Change the default value for 784 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 785 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 786 787 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 788 [ARM,ARM64] 789 Format: <bool> 790 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 791 0: default value, disable debugging 792 1: enable debugging at boot time 793 794 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 795 Format: 796 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 797 798 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 799 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 800 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 801 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 802 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 803 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 804 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 805 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 806 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 807 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 808 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 809 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 810 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 811 812 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 813 disable the cpuidle sub-system 814 815 cpuidle.governor= 816 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 817 818 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 819 disable the cpufreq sub-system 820 821 cpufreq.default_governor= 822 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 823 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 824 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 825 826 cpu_init_udelay=N 827 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 828 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 829 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 830 Default: 10000 831 832 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 833 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 834 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 835 succeeds in any situation. 836 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 837 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 838 kernel more unstable. 839 840 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 841 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 842 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 843 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 844 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 845 is selected automatically. 846 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64] Select a region under 4G first, and 847 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 848 hasn't been specified. 849 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 850 851 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 852 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 853 in the running system. The syntax of range is 854 start-[end] where start and end are both 855 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 856 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 857 858 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 859 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 860 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 861 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 862 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 863 available. 864 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 865 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 866 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 867 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 868 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 869 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 870 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 871 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 872 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate 873 default size of memory below 4G automatically. The default 874 size is platform dependent. 875 --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB) 876 --> arm64: 128MiB 877 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G 878 for second kernel instead. 879 0: to disable low allocation. 880 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 881 or memory reserved is below 4G. 882 883 cryptomgr.notests 884 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 885 886 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 887 Format: <dma> 888 889 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 890 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 891 892 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call 893 handling. When switched on, additional debug data is 894 printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is 895 detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try 896 to resolve the hang situation. 897 0: disable csdlock debugging (default) 898 1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact) 899 ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact, 900 but more data) 901 902 dasd= [HW,NET] 903 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 904 905 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 906 (one device per port) 907 Format: <port#>,<type> 908 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 909 910 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 911 912 debug_boot_weak_hash 913 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 914 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 915 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 916 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 917 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 918 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 919 920 debug_locks_verbose= 921 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 922 Format: <int> 923 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 924 self-tests. 925 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 926 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 927 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 928 useful to lockdep developers. 929 930 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 931 932 no_debug_objects 933 [KNL] Disable object debugging 934 935 debug_guardpage_minorder= 936 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 937 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 938 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 939 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 940 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 941 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 942 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 943 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 944 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 945 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 946 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 947 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 948 F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA (basically when 949 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 950 bypassed) which are not detectable by 951 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 952 tracking down these problems. 953 954 debug_pagealloc= 955 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 956 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 957 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 958 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 959 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 960 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 961 on: enable the feature 962 963 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 964 and debugfs internal clients. 965 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 966 on: All functions are enabled. 967 no-mount: 968 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 969 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 970 its content. There is nothing to mount. 971 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 972 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 973 or directories within debugfs. 974 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 975 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 976 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 977 978 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 979 980 default_hugepagesz= 981 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 982 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 983 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 984 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 985 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 986 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 987 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 988 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 989 Format: size[KMG] 990 991 deferred_probe_timeout= 992 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 993 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 994 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 995 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout 996 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time 997 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each 998 successful driver registration. This option will also 999 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 1000 retrying. 1001 1002 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 1003 1004 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 1005 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1006 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1007 hardware. 1008 1009 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 1010 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 1011 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 1012 blacklisted features. 1013 1014 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 1015 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1016 (disabled by default). 1017 1018 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 1019 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1020 capability is set. 1021 1022 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 1023 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 1024 1025 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 1026 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 1027 1028 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 1029 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 1030 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 1031 level 1 and decompression (default) 1032 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 1033 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 1034 only (compression on level 1) 1035 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 1036 only (decompression) 1037 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 1038 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 1039 1040 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1041 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1042 1043 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 1044 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1045 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1046 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1047 miss to occur. 1048 1049 disable= [IPV6] 1050 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1051 1052 disable_radix [PPC] 1053 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1054 1055 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1056 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1057 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1058 1059 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 1060 Format: <int> 1061 The number of initial APIC ID for the 1062 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 1063 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 1064 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 1065 causing system reset or hang due to sending 1066 INIT from AP to BSP. 1067 1068 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 1069 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1070 to workaround buggy firmware. 1071 1072 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1073 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1074 1075 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1076 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1077 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1078 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1079 1080 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 1081 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1082 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1083 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1084 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1085 1086 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1087 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1088 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1089 1090 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1091 1092 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1093 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1094 1095 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1096 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1097 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1098 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1099 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1100 architectural default is too low. 1101 1102 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1103 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1104 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1105 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1106 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1107 driver later using sysfs. 1108 1109 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1110 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * 1111 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the 1112 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT 1113 match the *. 1114 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1115 1116 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1117 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1118 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1119 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1120 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1121 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 1122 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 1123 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 1124 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 1125 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 1126 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID 1127 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 1128 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 1129 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 1130 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1131 data set with no connector name will be used for 1132 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1133 1134 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1135 1136 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1137 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1138 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1139 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1140 exists). 1141 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1142 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1143 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1144 1145 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1146 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1147 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1148 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1149 1150 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1151 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1152 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1153 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1154 for details. 1155 1156 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1157 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1158 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1159 which are not unmapped. 1160 1161 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1162 1163 When used with no options, the early console is 1164 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1165 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1166 the platform. 1167 1168 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1169 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1170 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1171 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1172 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1173 configured. 1174 1175 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1176 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1177 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1178 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1179 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1180 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1181 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1182 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1183 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1184 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1185 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1186 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1187 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is 1188 the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set 1189 to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16. 1190 1191 pl011,<addr> 1192 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1193 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1194 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1195 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1196 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1197 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1198 the device registers. 1199 1200 liteuart,<addr> 1201 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1202 specified address. The serial port must already be 1203 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1204 1205 meson,<addr> 1206 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1207 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1208 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1209 supported. 1210 1211 msm_serial,<addr> 1212 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1213 port at the specified address. The serial port 1214 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1215 yet supported. 1216 1217 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1218 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1219 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1220 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1221 yet supported. 1222 1223 owl,<addr> 1224 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1225 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1226 specified address. The serial port must already be 1227 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1228 1229 rda,<addr> 1230 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1231 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1232 specified address. The serial port must already be 1233 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1234 1235 sbi 1236 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1237 console. 1238 1239 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1240 1241 s3c2410,<addr> 1242 s3c2412,<addr> 1243 s3c2440,<addr> 1244 s3c6400,<addr> 1245 s5pv210,<addr> 1246 exynos4210,<addr> 1247 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1248 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1249 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1250 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1251 Options are not yet supported. 1252 1253 lantiq,<addr> 1254 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1255 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1256 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1257 yet supported. 1258 1259 lpuart,<addr> 1260 lpuart32,<addr> 1261 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1262 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1263 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1264 port must already be setup and configured. 1265 1266 ec_imx21,<addr> 1267 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1268 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1269 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1270 must already be setup and configured. 1271 1272 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1273 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1274 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1275 address. The serial port must already be setup 1276 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1277 1278 qcom_geni,<addr> 1279 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1280 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1281 specified address. The serial port must already be 1282 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1283 1284 efifb,[options] 1285 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1286 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1287 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1288 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1289 mapped with the correct attributes. 1290 1291 linflex,<addr> 1292 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1293 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1294 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1295 already be setup and configured. 1296 1297 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1298 earlyprintk=vga 1299 earlyprintk=sclp 1300 earlyprintk=xen 1301 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1302 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1303 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1304 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1305 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1306 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1307 1308 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1309 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1310 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1311 1312 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1313 takes over. 1314 1315 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can 1316 be used at a time. 1317 1318 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1319 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1320 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1321 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1322 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1323 You can find the port for a given device in 1324 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1325 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1326 1327 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1328 very good. 1329 1330 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by 1331 the real console. 1332 1333 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1334 1335 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1336 1337 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1338 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1339 UART class. 1340 1341 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1342 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1343 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1344 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1345 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1346 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1347 default: on. 1348 1349 edd= [EDD] 1350 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1351 1352 efi= [EFI] 1353 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1354 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1355 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1356 debug: enable misc debug output. 1357 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1358 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1359 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1360 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1361 firmware implementations. 1362 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1363 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1364 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1365 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1366 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1367 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1368 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1369 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1370 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1371 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1372 1373 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1374 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1375 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1376 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1377 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1378 1379 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1380 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1381 updating original EFI memory map. 1382 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1383 from ss to ss+nn. 1384 1385 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1386 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1387 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1388 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1389 1390 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1391 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1392 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1393 1394 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1395 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1396 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1397 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1398 "soft reserved". 1399 1400 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1401 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1402 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1403 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1404 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1405 1406 1407 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1408 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1409 1410 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1411 Format: ekgdboc=kbd 1412 1413 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1414 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1415 1416 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1417 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1418 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1419 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1420 1421 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1422 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1423 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1424 1425 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1426 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1427 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1428 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1429 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1430 1431 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1432 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1433 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1434 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1435 1436 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1437 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1438 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1439 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1440 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1441 1442 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1443 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1444 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1445 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1446 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1447 Default value is 0. 1448 Value can be changed at runtime via 1449 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1450 1451 erst_disable [ACPI] 1452 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1453 support. 1454 1455 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1456 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1457 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1458 1459 evm= [EVM] 1460 Format: { "fix" } 1461 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1462 current integrity status. 1463 1464 early_page_ext [KNL] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier 1465 stages so cover more early boot allocations. 1466 Please note that as side effect some optimizations 1467 might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized 1468 memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process 1469 might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of 1470 memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y. 1471 1472 failslab= 1473 fail_usercopy= 1474 fail_page_alloc= 1475 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1476 General fault injection mechanism. 1477 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1478 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1479 1480 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1481 Format: { initns | none } 1482 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1483 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1484 1485 floppy= [HW] 1486 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1487 1488 force_pal_cache_flush 1489 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1490 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1491 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1492 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1493 1494 forcepae [X86-32] 1495 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1496 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1497 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1498 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1499 and may cause unknown problems. 1500 1501 ftrace=[tracer] 1502 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1503 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1504 boot debugging. 1505 1506 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1507 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1508 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1509 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1510 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1511 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1512 start up functionality. 1513 1514 Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing 1515 instance that was created by the trace_instance= command 1516 line parameter. 1517 1518 trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo 1519 1520 The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger 1521 a snapshot at the end of boot up. 1522 1523 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1524 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1525 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1526 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1527 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1528 oops. 1529 1530 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1531 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1532 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1533 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1534 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1535 tracing directory. 1536 1537 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1538 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1539 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1540 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1541 tracing directory. 1542 1543 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1544 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1545 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1546 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1547 that can be changed at run time by the 1548 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1549 1550 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1551 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1552 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1553 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1554 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1555 1556 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1557 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1558 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1559 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1560 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1561 1562 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1563 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1564 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1565 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1566 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1567 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1568 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1569 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1570 suppliers). 1571 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1572 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1573 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1574 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1575 up (sync_state() calls). 1576 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1577 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1578 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1579 1580 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1581 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1582 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1583 Format: <bool> 1584 1585 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1586 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1587 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1588 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1589 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1590 1591 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1592 1593 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1594 Format: off | on 1595 default: on 1596 1597 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1598 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1599 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1600 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1601 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1602 1603 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1604 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1605 android emulator 1606 1607 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1608 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1609 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1610 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1611 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1612 1613 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1614 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1615 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1616 GPT to be used instead. 1617 1618 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1619 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1620 Format: 0 | 1 1621 Default: 0 1622 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1623 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1624 Format: 0 | 1 1625 Default: 0 1626 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1627 Format: 0 | 1 1628 Default: 0 1629 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1630 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1631 Default: 1024 1632 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1633 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1634 Default: 1024 1635 1636 hardened_usercopy= 1637 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1638 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1639 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1640 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1641 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1642 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1643 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1644 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 1645 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1646 1647 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1648 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1649 backtraces on all cpus. 1650 Format: 0 | 1 1651 1652 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1653 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1654 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1655 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1656 1657 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1658 1659 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1660 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1661 1662 hest_disable [ACPI] 1663 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1664 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1665 logic will be disabled. 1666 1667 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 1668 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 1669 present during boot. 1670 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 1671 no Disable hibernation and resume. 1672 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 1673 (that will set all pages holding image data 1674 during restoration read-only). 1675 1676 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1677 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1678 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1679 size on bigger boxes. 1680 1681 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1682 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1683 Default: "on" 1684 1685 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1686 1687 hostname= [KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename). 1688 Format: <string> 1689 This allows setting the system's hostname during early 1690 startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname. 1691 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it 1692 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before 1693 any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility 1694 that a process may call gethostname before the hostname 1695 has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling 1696 process getting an incorrect result. The string must 1697 not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually 1698 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise. 1699 1700 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1701 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1702 verbose } 1703 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1704 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1705 VIA, nVidia) 1706 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1707 1708 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1709 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1710 1711 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1712 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1713 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1714 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1715 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1716 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1717 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1718 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1719 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1720 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1721 1722 hugepagesz= 1723 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1724 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1725 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1726 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1727 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1728 architecture dependent. See also 1729 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1730 Format: size[KMG] 1731 1732 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1733 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1734 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1735 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1736 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1737 1738 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1739 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1740 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1741 1742 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1743 [KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 1744 enabled. 1745 Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled. 1746 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1747 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1748 Format: { on | off (default) } 1749 1750 on: enable HVO 1751 off: disable HVO 1752 1753 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1754 the default is on. 1755 1756 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added 1757 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is 1758 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this 1759 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from 1760 the added memory block itself do not be affected. 1761 1762 hung_task_panic= 1763 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1764 Format: 0 | 1 1765 1766 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1767 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1768 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1769 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1770 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1771 1772 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1773 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1774 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1775 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1776 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1777 1778 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1779 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1780 guest on lock contention. 1781 1782 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1783 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1784 registered from board initialization code. 1785 Format: 1786 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1787 1788 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1789 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1790 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1791 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1792 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1793 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1794 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1795 keyboard and cannot control its state 1796 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1797 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1798 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1799 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1800 for the AUX port 1801 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1802 controller 1803 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1804 controllers 1805 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1806 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1807 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1808 transitions, or never reset 1809 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1810 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1811 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1812 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1813 architectures force reset to be always executed 1814 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1815 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1816 i8042.probe_defer 1817 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1818 1819 i810= [HW,DRM] 1820 1821 i915.invert_brightness= 1822 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1823 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1824 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1825 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1826 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1827 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1828 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1829 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1830 value switches the backlight off. 1831 -1 -- never invert brightness 1832 0 -- machine default 1833 1 -- force brightness inversion 1834 1835 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1836 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1837 1838 1839 idle= [X86] 1840 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1841 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1842 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1843 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1844 Not recommended. 1845 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1846 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1847 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1848 1849 idxd.sva= [HW] 1850 Format: <bool> 1851 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1852 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1853 true (1). 1854 1855 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 1856 Format: <bool> 1857 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 1858 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 1859 1860 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1861 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1862 Default: strict 1863 1864 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1865 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1866 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1867 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1868 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1869 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1870 encoding mode. 1871 1872 Available settings are as follows: 1873 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1874 supported by the FPU 1875 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1876 by the FPU 1877 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1878 by the FPU 1879 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1880 supported by the FPU 1881 1882 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1883 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1884 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1885 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1886 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1887 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1888 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1889 MIPS64 CPUs. 1890 1891 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1892 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1893 except where unsupported by hardware. 1894 1895 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1896 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1897 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1898 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1899 could change it dynamically, usually by 1900 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1901 1902 ignore_rlimit_data 1903 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1904 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1905 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1906 1907 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1908 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1909 1910 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1911 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1912 default: "enforce" 1913 1914 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1915 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1916 owned by uid=0. 1917 1918 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1919 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1920 measurements, instead of host native format. 1921 1922 ima_hash= [IMA] 1923 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1924 | sha512 | ... } 1925 default: "sha1" 1926 1927 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1928 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1929 1930 ima_policy= [IMA] 1931 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1932 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1933 fail_securely | critical_data" 1934 1935 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1936 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1937 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1938 uid=0. 1939 1940 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1941 all files owned by root. 1942 1943 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1944 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1945 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1946 1947 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1948 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1949 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1950 flag. 1951 1952 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 1953 critical data. 1954 1955 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1956 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1957 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1958 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1959 opened for read by uid=0. 1960 1961 ima_template= [IMA] 1962 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1963 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 1964 "ima-sigv2" } 1965 Default: "ima-ng" 1966 1967 ima_template_fmt= 1968 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1969 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1970 1971 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1972 Format: <min_file_size> 1973 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1974 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1975 1976 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1977 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1978 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1979 1980 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1981 Format: <bufsize> 1982 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1983 1984 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1985 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1986 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1987 1988 init= [KNL] 1989 Format: <full_path> 1990 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1991 process. 1992 1993 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1994 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1995 startup. 1996 1997 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1998 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1999 modules and initcalls. 2000 2001 initramfs_async= [KNL] 2002 Format: <bool> 2003 Default: 1 2004 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 2005 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 2006 with devices being probed and 2007 initialized. This should normally just work, 2008 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 2009 historical behaviour of the initramfs 2010 unpacking being completed before device_ and 2011 late_ initcalls. 2012 2013 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 2014 2015 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 2016 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 2017 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 2018 setting. 2019 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 2020 Default is 0, 0 2021 2022 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 2023 zeroes. 2024 Format: 0 | 1 2025 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 2026 2027 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2028 Format: 0 | 1 2029 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2030 2031 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2032 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2033 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2034 override in debugfs after boot. 2035 2036 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2037 Format: <irq> 2038 2039 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2040 2041 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2042 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2043 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2044 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2045 2046 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2047 on 2048 Enable intel iommu driver. 2049 off 2050 Disable intel iommu driver. 2051 igfx_off [Default Off] 2052 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2053 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2054 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2055 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2056 DMA. 2057 strict [Default Off] 2058 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2059 sp_off [Default Off] 2060 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2061 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2062 not be supported. 2063 sm_on 2064 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2065 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2066 translation. 2067 sm_off 2068 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2069 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2070 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2071 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2072 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2073 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2074 mapping is enabled. 2075 Note that using this option lowers the security 2076 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2077 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2078 2079 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2080 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2081 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2082 2083 intel_pstate= [X86] 2084 disable 2085 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2086 scaling driver for the supported processors 2087 passive 2088 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2089 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2090 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2091 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2092 feature. 2093 force 2094 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2095 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2096 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2097 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2098 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2099 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2100 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2101 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2102 no_hwp 2103 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2104 if available. 2105 hwp_only 2106 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2107 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2108 support_acpi_ppc 2109 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2110 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2111 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2112 then this feature is turned on by default. 2113 per_cpu_perf_limits 2114 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2115 cpufreq sysfs interface 2116 2117 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 2118 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2119 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2120 nosid disable Source ID checking 2121 no_x2apic_optout 2122 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2123 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2124 2125 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2126 strict regions from userspace. 2127 relaxed 2128 2129 iommu= [X86] 2130 off 2131 force 2132 noforce 2133 biomerge 2134 panic 2135 nopanic 2136 merge 2137 nomerge 2138 soft 2139 pt [X86] 2140 nopt [X86] 2141 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2142 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2143 2144 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2145 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2146 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2147 falling back to the full range if needed. 2148 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2149 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2150 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2151 2152 iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2153 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2154 0 - Lazy mode. 2155 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2156 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2157 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2158 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2159 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2160 1 - Strict mode. 2161 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2162 synchronously. 2163 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2164 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2165 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2166 2167 iommu.passthrough= 2168 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2169 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2170 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2171 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2172 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2173 2174 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2175 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2176 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2177 2178 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 2179 0x80 2180 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2181 0xed 2182 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2183 udelay 2184 Simple two microseconds delay 2185 none 2186 No delay 2187 2188 ip= [IP_PNP] 2189 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2190 2191 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2192 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2193 2194 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2195 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2196 2197 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2198 [ARM, ARM64] 2199 Format: <bool> 2200 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2201 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2202 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2203 2204 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2205 [ARM, ARM64] 2206 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2207 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2208 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2209 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2210 LPIs. 2211 2212 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2213 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2214 requires the kernel to be built with 2215 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2216 2217 irqfixup [HW] 2218 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2219 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2220 firmware running. 2221 2222 irqpoll [HW] 2223 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2224 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2225 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2226 firmware running. 2227 2228 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2229 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2230 2231 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2232 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2233 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2234 2235 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2236 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2237 2238 nohz 2239 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2240 2241 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2242 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2243 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2244 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2245 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2246 2247 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2248 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2249 be configured manually after bootup. 2250 2251 domain 2252 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2253 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2254 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2255 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2256 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2257 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2258 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2259 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2260 2261 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2262 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2263 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2264 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2265 2266 managed_irq 2267 2268 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2269 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2270 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2271 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2272 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2273 2274 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2275 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2276 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2277 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2278 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2279 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2280 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2281 2282 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2283 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2284 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2285 only delivered when tasks running on those 2286 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2287 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2288 queues. 2289 2290 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2291 2292 iucv= [HW,NET] 2293 2294 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2295 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2296 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2297 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2298 2299 For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2300 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2301 write the parameter as: 2302 ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0 2303 2304 Deprecated formats: 2305 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2306 write the parameter as: 2307 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2308 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2309 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2310 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2311 2312 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2313 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2314 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2315 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2316 2317 For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to 2318 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2319 write the parameter as: 2320 ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0 2321 2322 Deprecated formats: 2323 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2324 write the parameter as: 2325 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2326 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2327 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2328 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2329 2330 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2331 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2332 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2333 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2334 2335 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2336 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2337 write the parameter as: 2338 ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5 2339 2340 Deprecated formats: 2341 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0, 2342 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2343 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2344 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2345 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2346 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2347 2348 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2349 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2350 2351 kasan_multi_shot 2352 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2353 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2354 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2355 invalid access. 2356 2357 keep_bootcon [KNL] 2358 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 2359 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 2360 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 2361 the real console. 2362 2363 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2364 2365 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2366 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2367 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2368 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2369 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2370 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2371 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2372 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2373 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2374 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2375 2376 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2377 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2378 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2379 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2380 zone if it does not. 2381 2382 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2383 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2384 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2385 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2386 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2387 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2388 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2389 2390 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2391 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2392 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2393 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2394 optional and is the number seconds in between 2395 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2396 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2397 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2398 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2399 the kernel debugger. 2400 2401 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2402 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2403 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2404 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2405 keyboard only format: kbd 2406 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2407 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2408 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2409 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2410 2411 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2412 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2413 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2414 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2415 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2416 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2417 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2418 2419 The name of the early console should be specified 2420 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2421 the early console might be different than the tty 2422 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2423 blank and the first boot console that implements 2424 read() will be picked. 2425 2426 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2427 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2428 2429 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2430 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2431 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2432 2433 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2434 Valid arguments: on, off 2435 Default: on 2436 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2437 the default is off. 2438 2439 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2440 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2441 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2442 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2443 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2444 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2445 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2446 2447 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2448 2449 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2450 Boot Parameter" section. 2451 2452 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2453 and kernel address spaces. 2454 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2455 0: force disabled 2456 1: force enabled 2457 2458 kunit.enable= [KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires 2459 CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The 2460 default value can be overridden via 2461 KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED. 2462 Default is 1 (enabled) 2463 2464 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2465 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2466 2467 kvm.eager_page_split= 2468 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2469 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2470 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2471 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2472 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2473 required to split huge pages lazily. 2474 2475 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2476 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2477 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2478 still be used for reads. 2479 2480 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2481 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2482 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2483 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2484 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2485 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2486 cleared. 2487 2488 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y. 2489 2490 Default is Y (on). 2491 2492 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2493 Default is false (don't support). 2494 2495 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2496 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2497 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2498 force : Always deploy workaround. 2499 off : Never deploy workaround. 2500 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2501 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2502 2503 Default is 'auto'. 2504 2505 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2506 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2507 2508 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2509 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2510 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2511 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2512 period (see below). The default is 60. 2513 2514 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2515 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2516 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2517 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2518 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2519 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2520 2521 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2522 Default is 1 (enabled) 2523 2524 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2525 for all guests. 2526 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2527 2528 kvm-arm.mode= 2529 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2530 2531 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2532 2533 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2534 protected guests. 2535 2536 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2537 state is kept private from the host. 2538 2539 nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested 2540 virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3 2541 hardware. 2542 2543 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2544 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2545 for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be 2546 used with extreme caution. 2547 2548 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2549 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2550 system registers 2551 2552 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2553 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2554 system registers 2555 2556 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2557 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2558 system registers 2559 2560 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2561 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2562 LPIs. 2563 2564 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2565 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2566 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2567 allocation. 2568 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2569 Format: <integer> 2570 Default: 5 2571 2572 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2573 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2574 Default is 1 (enabled) 2575 2576 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2577 [KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state. 2578 Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as 2579 guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests. 2580 This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM 2581 never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2582 Default is 1 (enabled) 2583 2584 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2585 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2586 Default is 1 (enabled) 2587 2588 kvm-intel.nested= 2589 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2590 Default is 0 (disabled) 2591 2592 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2593 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2594 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2595 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2596 2597 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2598 CVE-2018-3620. 2599 2600 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2601 2602 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2603 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2604 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2605 never: Disables the mitigation 2606 2607 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2608 2609 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2610 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2611 Default is 1 (enabled) 2612 2613 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL] 2614 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2615 2616 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2617 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2618 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2619 2620 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2621 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2622 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2623 not have direct access. 2624 2625 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2626 options are: 2627 2628 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2629 2630 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2631 affected CPUs 2632 2633 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2634 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2635 2636 full 2637 Provides all available mitigations for the 2638 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2639 enables all mitigations in the 2640 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2641 2642 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2643 sysfs interface is still possible after 2644 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2645 when the first VM is started in a 2646 potentially insecure configuration, 2647 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2648 2649 full,force 2650 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2651 flush runtime control. Implies the 2652 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2653 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2654 2655 flush 2656 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2657 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2658 L1D flush. 2659 2660 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2661 sysfs interface is still possible after 2662 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2663 when the first VM is started in a 2664 potentially insecure configuration, 2665 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2666 2667 flush,nosmt 2668 2669 Disables SMT and enables the default 2670 hypervisor mitigation. 2671 2672 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2673 sysfs interface is still possible after 2674 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2675 when the first VM is started in a 2676 potentially insecure configuration, 2677 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2678 2679 flush,nowarn 2680 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2681 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2682 insecure configuration. 2683 2684 off 2685 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2686 emit any warnings. 2687 It also drops the swap size and available 2688 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2689 bare metal. 2690 2691 Default is 'flush'. 2692 2693 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2694 2695 l2cr= [PPC] 2696 2697 l3cr= [PPC] 2698 2699 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2700 disabled it. 2701 2702 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2703 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2704 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2705 Format: notscdeadline 2706 2707 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2708 in C2 power state. 2709 2710 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2711 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2712 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2713 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2714 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2715 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2716 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2717 2718 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2719 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2720 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2721 2722 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2723 when set. 2724 Format: <int> 2725 2726 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 2727 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 2728 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 2729 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 2730 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 2731 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 2732 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 2733 to all ports, links and devices. 2734 2735 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2736 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2737 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2738 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2739 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2740 host link and device attached to it. 2741 2742 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2743 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 2744 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2745 The following configurations can be forced. 2746 2747 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2748 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2749 2750 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2751 2752 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2753 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2754 allowed. 2755 2756 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 2757 resets. 2758 2759 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 2760 link recovery. 2761 2762 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 2763 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 2764 detection. 2765 2766 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2767 2768 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 2769 2770 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 2771 2772 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 2773 2774 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 2775 2776 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 2777 2778 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 2779 2780 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 2781 2782 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 2783 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 2784 2785 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 2786 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 2787 2788 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 2789 identify device data log. 2790 2791 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 2792 purpose log directory. 2793 2794 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 2795 2796 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2797 1024 sectors. 2798 2799 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2800 65535 sectors. 2801 2802 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 2803 2804 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 2805 should be skipped. 2806 2807 * [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access) 2808 support for devices supporting this feature. 2809 2810 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 2811 2812 * disable: Disable this device. 2813 2814 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2815 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2816 2817 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2818 2819 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2820 Format: <integer> 2821 2822 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2823 Format: <integer> 2824 2825 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2826 Format: <integer> 2827 2828 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2829 Format: <integer> 2830 2831 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2832 { integrity | confidentiality } 2833 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2834 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2835 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2836 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2837 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2838 are also disabled. 2839 2840 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2841 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2842 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2843 number of online CPUs. 2844 2845 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2846 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2847 2848 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2849 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2850 2851 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2852 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2853 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2854 2855 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2856 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2857 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2858 mode during the locktorture test. 2859 2860 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2861 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2862 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2863 2864 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2865 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2866 2867 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2868 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2869 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2870 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2871 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2872 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2873 2874 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2875 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2876 2877 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2878 Enable additional printk() statements. 2879 2880 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2881 Format: <irq> 2882 2883 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2884 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2885 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2886 loglevels are defined as follows: 2887 2888 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2889 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2890 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2891 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2892 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2893 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2894 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2895 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2896 2897 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2898 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2899 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2900 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2901 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2902 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2903 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2904 2905 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2906 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2907 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2908 kernel boot problems. 2909 2910 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2911 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2912 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2913 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2914 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2915 attached printers to be reset. Using 2916 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2917 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2918 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2919 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2920 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2921 port specification list means that device IDs 2922 from each port should be examined, to see if 2923 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2924 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2925 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2926 2927 lpj=n [KNL] 2928 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2929 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2930 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2931 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2932 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2933 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2934 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2935 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2936 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2937 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2938 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2939 hardware. 2940 2941 ltpc= [NET] 2942 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2943 2944 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2945 2946 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2947 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2948 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2949 2950 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2951 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2952 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2953 2954 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 2955 different yeeloong laptops. 2956 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2957 2958 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater 2959 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2960 2961 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2962 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2963 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2964 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2965 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2966 only takes effect during system bootup. 2967 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2968 which also disables the IO APIC. 2969 2970 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2971 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2972 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2973 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2974 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2975 /dev/loop-control interface. 2976 2977 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2978 2979 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2980 2981 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2982 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2983 2984 mdacon= [MDA] 2985 Format: <first>,<last> 2986 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2987 2988 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2989 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2990 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2991 2992 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2993 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2994 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2995 2996 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2997 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2998 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2999 not have direct access. 3000 3001 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 3002 options are: 3003 3004 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3005 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 3006 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 3007 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 3008 3009 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 3010 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 3011 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 3012 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 3013 too. 3014 3015 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3016 mds=full. 3017 3018 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 3019 3020 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON] Set the memory size. 3021 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 3022 3023 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 3024 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 3025 3026 1 for test; 3027 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 3028 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 3029 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 3030 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 3031 3032 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 3033 high memory is not affected. 3034 3035 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 3036 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 3037 3038 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 3039 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 3040 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 3041 belonging to unused RAM. 3042 3043 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 3044 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 3045 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 3046 3047 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3048 [ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by 3049 firmware. 3050 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 3051 ss[KMG]. 3052 Multiple different regions can be specified with 3053 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 3054 3055 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 3056 memory. 3057 3058 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 3059 3060 memchunk=nn[KMG] 3061 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 3062 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 3063 3064 memhp_default_state=online/offline 3065 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 3066 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 3067 set according to the 3068 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 3069 option. 3070 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 3071 3072 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 3073 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3074 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3075 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3076 option description. 3077 3078 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3079 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3080 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3081 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3082 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3083 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3084 comma delimited. 3085 Example: 3086 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3087 3088 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3089 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3090 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3091 3092 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3093 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3094 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3095 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3096 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3097 or 3098 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3099 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3100 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3101 will be eaten. 3102 3103 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 3104 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3105 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3106 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3107 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3108 3109 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3110 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 3111 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3112 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3113 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3114 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3115 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3116 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3117 3118 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 3119 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3120 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3121 Setting this option will scan the memory 3122 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3123 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3124 from using the memory being corrupted. 3125 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3126 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3127 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3128 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3129 3130 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 3131 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3132 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3133 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3134 corruption in more or less memory. 3135 3136 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 3137 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3138 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3139 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3140 3141 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3142 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3143 Format: {on | off (default)} 3144 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3145 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages, 3146 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even 3147 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the 3148 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a 3149 lot of memory without requiring additional 3150 memory to do so. 3151 This feature is disabled by default because it 3152 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3153 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3154 memory blocks). 3155 The state of the flag can be read in 3156 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3157 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3158 the feature is not effective. 3159 3160 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest 3161 Format: <integer> 3162 default : 0 <disable> 3163 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3164 performed. Each pass selects another test 3165 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3166 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3167 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3168 regions that are detected. 3169 3170 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3171 Valid arguments: on, off 3172 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 3173 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 3174 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 3175 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3176 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3177 3178 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3179 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3180 3181 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3182 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3183 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3184 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3185 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3186 3187 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 3188 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst. 3189 3190 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 3191 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 3192 platforms. 3193 3194 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3195 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3196 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3197 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3198 3199 mga= [HW,DRM] 3200 3201 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this 3202 physical address is ignored. 3203 3204 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3205 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3206 Default: "0tb" 3207 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3208 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3209 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3210 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3211 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3212 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3213 unconfigured. 3214 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3215 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3216 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3217 VGA shield. 3218 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3219 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3220 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3221 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3222 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3223 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3224 3225 mitigations= 3226 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 3227 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3228 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3229 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3230 3231 off 3232 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3233 improves system performance, but it may also 3234 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3235 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 3236 if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] 3237 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3238 nobp=0 [S390] 3239 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3240 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3241 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3242 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3243 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] 3244 l1tf=off [X86] 3245 mds=off [X86] 3246 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3247 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3248 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3249 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3250 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3251 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 3252 retbleed=off [X86] 3253 3254 Exceptions: 3255 This does not have any effect on 3256 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3257 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3258 3259 auto (default) 3260 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3261 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3262 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3263 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3264 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3265 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3266 3267 auto,nosmt 3268 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3269 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3270 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3271 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3272 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3273 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3274 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 3275 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] 3276 3277 mminit_loglevel= 3278 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3279 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3280 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3281 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3282 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3283 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3284 3285 mmio_stale_data= 3286 [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor 3287 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3288 3289 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3290 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3291 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3292 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3293 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3294 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3295 3296 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3297 options are: 3298 3299 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3300 3301 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3302 vulnerable CPUs. 3303 3304 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3305 3306 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3307 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3308 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3309 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3310 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3311 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3312 3313 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3314 mmio_stale_data=full. 3315 3316 For details see: 3317 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3318 3319 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL] 3320 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value 3321 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous 3322 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable 3323 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the 3324 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe 3325 3326 module.async_probe=<bool> 3327 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing 3328 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a 3329 specific module, use the module specific control that 3330 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both 3331 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are 3332 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for 3333 the specific module. 3334 3335 module.sig_enforce 3336 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3337 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3338 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3339 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3340 3341 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3342 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3343 3344 mousedev.tap_time= 3345 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3346 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3347 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3348 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3349 Format: <msecs> 3350 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3351 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3352 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3353 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3354 3355 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 3356 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3357 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3358 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3359 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3360 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3361 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3362 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3363 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3364 is not too small. 3365 3366 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3367 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3368 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3369 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3370 allocations. Use with caution! 3371 3372 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3373 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3374 3375 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3376 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3377 3378 mtdparts= [MTD] 3379 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3380 3381 mtdset= [ARM] 3382 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 3383 3384 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 3385 3386 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3387 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3388 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3389 3390 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3391 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3392 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3393 3394 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3395 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3396 Default is 1. 3397 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3398 using up MTRRs. 3399 3400 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 3401 Format: <integer> 3402 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3403 Default : 1 3404 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3405 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3406 3407 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3408 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3409 at a time. 3410 3411 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3412 3413 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3414 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3415 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3416 something different and driver-specific. 3417 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3418 file if at all. 3419 3420 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3421 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3422 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3423 waits 4 seconds. 3424 3425 nf_conntrack.acct= 3426 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3427 0 to disable accounting 3428 1 to enable accounting 3429 Default value is 0. 3430 3431 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3432 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3433 3434 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3435 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3436 3437 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3438 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3439 3440 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3441 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3442 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3443 requests. 3444 3445 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3446 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3447 channel should listen. 3448 3449 nfs.cache_getent= 3450 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3451 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3452 3453 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3454 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3455 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3456 3457 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3458 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3459 entries. 3460 3461 nfs.enable_ino64= 3462 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3463 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3464 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3465 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3466 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3467 3468 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3469 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3470 slots the client will assign to the callback 3471 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3472 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3473 a particular server. 3474 3475 nfs.max_session_slots= 3476 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3477 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3478 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3479 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3480 Note that there is little point in setting this 3481 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3482 3483 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3484 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3485 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3486 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3487 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3488 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3489 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3490 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3491 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3492 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3493 back to using the idmapper. 3494 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3495 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3496 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3497 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3498 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3499 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3500 3501 nfs.send_implementation_id = 3502 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3503 information in exchange_id requests. 3504 If zero, no implementation identification information 3505 will be sent. 3506 The default is to send the implementation identification 3507 information. 3508 3509 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 3510 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3511 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3512 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3513 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3514 after the locks are lost. 3515 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3516 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3517 parameter to '1'. 3518 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3519 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3520 3521 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 3522 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3523 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3524 3525 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3526 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3527 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3528 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3529 3530 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable = 3531 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3532 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3533 the destination of the copy. 3534 3535 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout = 3536 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3537 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3538 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3539 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3540 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3541 this parameter. 3542 3543 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3544 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3545 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3546 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3547 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3548 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3549 3550 3551 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3552 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3553 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3554 3555 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3556 when a NMI is triggered. 3557 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3558 3559 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3560 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3561 Valid num: 0 or 1 3562 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3563 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3564 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3565 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3566 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3567 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3568 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3569 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3570 need the box quickly up again. 3571 3572 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3573 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3574 3575 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3576 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3577 is present. 3578 3579 no4lvl [RISCV] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes. Forces 3580 kernel to use 3-level paging instead. 3581 3582 no5lvl [X86-64,RISCV] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3583 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3584 3585 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3586 3587 no_console_suspend 3588 [HW] Never suspend the console 3589 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3590 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3591 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3592 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3593 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3594 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3595 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3596 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3597 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3598 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3599 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3600 turn on/off it dynamically. 3601 3602 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3603 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3604 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3605 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3606 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3607 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3608 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3609 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3610 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3611 is set. 3612 3613 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3614 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3615 but will impact performance. 3616 3617 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3618 3619 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3620 (CPU alternatives feature). 3621 3622 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3623 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3624 3625 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3626 3627 nocache [ARM] 3628 3629 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3630 3631 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3632 3633 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3634 3635 noexec [IA-64] 3636 3637 nosmap [PPC] 3638 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3639 even if it is supported by processor. 3640 3641 nosmep [PPC64s] 3642 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3643 even if it is supported by processor. 3644 3645 noexec32 [X86-64] 3646 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3647 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3648 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3649 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3650 read implies executable mappings 3651 3652 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3653 3654 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3655 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3656 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3657 3658 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3659 3660 nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3661 3662 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3663 Equivalent to smt=1. 3664 3665 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3666 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3667 via the sysfs control file. 3668 3669 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3670 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3671 possible in the system. 3672 3673 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_E500,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3674 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3675 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3676 option. 3677 3678 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch 3679 history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks 3680 with this option. 3681 3682 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3683 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3684 3685 no_uaccess_flush 3686 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 3687 3688 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3689 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3690 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3691 3692 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3693 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3694 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3695 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3696 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3697 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3698 3699 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3700 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3701 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3702 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3703 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3704 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3705 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3706 3707 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait 3708 in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3709 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3710 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3711 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3712 correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate 3713 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3714 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3715 3716 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3717 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3718 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3719 3720 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3721 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3722 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3723 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3724 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3725 real-time systems. 3726 3727 no_hash_pointers 3728 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3729 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3730 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3731 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3732 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3733 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3734 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3735 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3736 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3737 value printed. This option should only be specified when 3738 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3739 kernels. 3740 3741 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3742 3743 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3744 Valid arguments: on, off 3745 Default: on 3746 3747 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3748 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3749 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3750 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3751 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3752 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3753 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3754 just as if they had also been called out in the 3755 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3756 3757 Note that this argument takes precedence over 3758 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 3759 3760 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3761 3762 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3763 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3764 3765 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3766 broken timer IRQ sources. 3767 3768 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3769 3770 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3771 initial RAM disk. 3772 3773 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3774 remapping. 3775 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3776 3777 nointroute [IA-64] 3778 3779 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3780 3781 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3782 3783 nokaslr [KNL] 3784 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 3785 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 3786 Layout Randomization). 3787 3788 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3789 3790 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3791 fault handling. 3792 3793 no-vmw-sched-clock 3794 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3795 clock and use the default one. 3796 3797 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES] Disable paravirtualized 3798 steal time accounting. steal time is computed, but 3799 won't influence scheduler behaviour 3800 3801 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3802 3803 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3804 3805 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3806 3807 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3808 3809 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3810 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3811 3812 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3813 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3814 irq. 3815 3816 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware 3817 sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory 3818 for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will 3819 not load if they could possibly displace the pre- 3820 initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will 3821 be available for use. The respective drivers will not 3822 perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. 3823 3824 Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging. 3825 3826 nomodule Disable module load 3827 3828 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3829 pagetables) support. 3830 3831 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3832 3833 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 3834 in some Intel CPUs. 3835 3836 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 3837 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 3838 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 3839 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 3840 3841 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 3842 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 3843 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 3844 contention. 3845 3846 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3847 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3848 3849 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3850 with UP alternatives 3851 3852 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3853 space. 3854 3855 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3856 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3857 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3858 3859 nosbagart [IA-64] 3860 3861 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 3862 3863 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3864 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3865 3866 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3867 3868 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3869 3870 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3871 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3872 3873 nowb [ARM] 3874 3875 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3876 3877 NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the 3878 LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the 3879 IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR. 3880 3881 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3882 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3883 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3884 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3885 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3886 parameter's value. 3887 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3888 Default: 255 3889 3890 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3891 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3892 SAL PALO. 3893 3894 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3895 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3896 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3897 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3898 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3899 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3900 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3901 hot plugging. 3902 3903 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3904 3905 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only 3906 set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. 3907 3908 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 3909 NUMA balancing. 3910 Allowed values are enable and disable 3911 3912 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3913 'node', 'default' can be specified 3914 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3915 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3916 3917 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3918 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 3919 info. 3920 3921 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3922 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3923 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3924 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3925 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3926 interrupts *may* be lost! 3927 3928 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3929 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3930 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3931 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3932 3933 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 3934 3935 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 3936 3937 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 3938 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 3939 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 3940 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 3941 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 3942 3943 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3944 process, but there is a small probability of 3945 deadlocking the machine. 3946 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3947 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3948 3949 page_alloc.shuffle= 3950 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3951 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3952 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3953 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3954 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3955 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3956 can be read from sysfs at: 3957 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3958 3959 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3960 Storage of the information about who allocated 3961 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3962 we can turn it on. 3963 on: enable the feature 3964 3965 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3966 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3967 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3968 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3969 on: turn on poisoning 3970 3971 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 3972 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 3973 Format: <integer> 3974 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 3975 reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1). 3976 3977 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3978 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3979 timeout = 0: wait forever 3980 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3981 Format: <timeout> 3982 3983 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3984 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3985 bit 0: print all tasks info 3986 bit 1: print system memory info 3987 bit 2: print timer info 3988 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3989 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3990 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3991 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 3992 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 3993 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 3994 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 3995 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 3996 3997 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 3998 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 3999 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 4000 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 4001 called with any of the flags in this set. 4002 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 4003 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 4004 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 4005 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 4006 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 4007 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 4008 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 4009 4010 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 4011 on a WARN(). 4012 4013 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 4014 connected to, default is 0. 4015 Format: <parport#> 4016 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 4017 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 4018 Format: <mode> 4019 4020 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 4021 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 4022 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 4023 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 4024 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 4025 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 4026 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 4027 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 4028 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 4029 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 4030 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 4031 are specified on the command line, starting 4032 with parport0. 4033 4034 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 4035 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 4036 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 4037 computer where firmware has no options for setting 4038 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 4039 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 4040 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 4041 4042 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 4043 Format: <int> 4044 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 4045 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 4046 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 4047 4048 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 4049 Format: <int> 4050 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 4051 changes. Disabled by default. 4052 4053 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 4054 Format: <int> 4055 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 4056 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4057 Disabled by default. 4058 4059 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 4060 Format: <int> 4061 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 4062 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4063 Disabled by default. 4064 4065 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4066 Format: <int> 4067 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 4068 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 4069 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 4070 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 4071 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 4072 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 4073 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 4074 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 4075 all channels. 4076 4077 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 4078 Format: <int> 4079 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 4080 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4081 respectively. Disabled by default. 4082 4083 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 4084 Format: <int> 4085 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 4086 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4087 respectively. Disabled by default. 4088 4089 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4090 Format: <int> 4091 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 4092 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 4093 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 4094 All modes allowed by default. 4095 4096 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 4097 Format: <int> 4098 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4099 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4100 4101 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4102 Format: <int> 4103 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4104 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4105 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4106 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4107 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4108 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4109 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4110 By default all supported ports are probed. 4111 4112 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4113 Format: <int> 4114 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4115 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4116 4117 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4118 Format: <int> 4119 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4120 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4121 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4122 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4123 0 otherwise. 4124 4125 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4126 Format: <int> 4127 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4128 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4129 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4130 allowed by default. 4131 4132 pause_on_oops= 4133 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4134 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4135 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4136 4137 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4138 4139 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 4140 4141 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4142 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4143 specified in one of the following formats: 4144 4145 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4146 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4147 4148 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4149 bus/device/function address which may change 4150 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4151 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4152 by other kernel parameters. If the 4153 domain is left unspecified, it is 4154 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4155 to a device through multiple device/function 4156 addresses can be specified after the base 4157 address (this is more robust against 4158 renumbering issues). The second format 4159 selects devices using IDs from the 4160 configuration space which may match multiple 4161 devices in the system. 4162 4163 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4164 changes anything 4165 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4166 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4167 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4168 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4169 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4170 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4171 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4172 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4173 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4174 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4175 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4176 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4177 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4178 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4179 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4180 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4181 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4182 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4183 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4184 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4185 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4186 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4187 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4188 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4189 Configuration 4190 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4191 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4192 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4193 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4194 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4195 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4196 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4197 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4198 should never be necessary. 4199 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4200 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4201 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4202 when the system masks IRQs. 4203 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4204 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4205 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4206 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4207 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4208 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4209 on several machines and they hang the machine 4210 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4211 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4212 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4213 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4214 motherboard. 4215 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4216 Use with caution as certain devices share 4217 address decoders between ROMs and other 4218 resources. 4219 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4220 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4221 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4222 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4223 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4224 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4225 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4226 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4227 this way. 4228 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4229 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4230 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4231 F0000h-100000h range. 4232 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4233 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4234 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4235 explicitly which ones they are. 4236 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4237 numbers ourselves, overriding 4238 whatever the firmware may have done. 4239 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4240 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4241 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4242 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4243 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4244 IRQ routing is enabled. 4245 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4246 or for PCI scanning. 4247 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4248 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4249 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4250 please report a bug. 4251 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4252 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4253 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4254 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4255 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4256 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4257 <[email protected]>. 4258 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4259 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4260 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4261 a bug to <[email protected]>. 4262 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4263 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4264 so this option is a temporary workaround 4265 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4266 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4267 handle more pci cards 4268 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4269 This might help on some broken boards which 4270 machine check when some devices' config space 4271 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4272 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4273 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4274 This sorting is done to get a device 4275 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4276 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4277 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4278 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4279 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4280 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4281 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4282 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4283 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4284 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4285 or bus can support) for best performance. 4286 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4287 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4288 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4289 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4290 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4291 that hot-added devices will work. 4292 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4293 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4294 The default value is 256 bytes. 4295 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4296 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4297 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4298 resource_alignment= 4299 Format: 4300 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4301 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4302 aligned memory resources. How to 4303 specify the device is described above. 4304 If <order of align> is not specified, 4305 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4306 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4307 windows need to be expanded. 4308 To specify the alignment for several 4309 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4310 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4311 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4312 for 4096-byte alignment. 4313 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4314 end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if 4315 OS has native AER control (either granted by 4316 ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native") 4317 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4318 the default. 4319 off: Turn ECRC off 4320 on: Turn ECRC on. 4321 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4322 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4323 Default size is 256 bytes. 4324 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4325 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4326 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4327 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4328 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4329 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4330 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4331 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4332 MMIO_PREF window. 4333 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4334 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4335 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4336 Default is 1. 4337 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4338 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4339 accommodate resources required by all child 4340 devices. 4341 off: Turn realloc off 4342 on: Turn realloc on 4343 realloc same as realloc=on 4344 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4345 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4346 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4347 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4348 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4349 port. 4350 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4351 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4352 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4353 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4354 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4355 taints the kernel. 4356 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4357 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4358 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4359 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4360 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4361 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4362 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4363 this removes isolation between devices and 4364 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4365 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4366 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4367 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4368 one PCI domain per PCI function 4369 4370 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 4371 Management. 4372 off Disable ASPM. 4373 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4374 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4375 4376 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4377 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4378 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4379 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4380 also tries to use these services. 4381 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4382 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4383 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4384 hotplug). 4385 4386 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4387 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4388 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4389 4390 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4391 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4392 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4393 4394 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4395 4396 pd_ignore_unused 4397 [PM] 4398 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4399 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4400 for debug and development, but should not be 4401 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4402 4403 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4404 boot time. 4405 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4406 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4407 4408 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4409 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4410 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4411 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4412 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4413 and performance comparison. 4414 4415 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4416 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4417 4418 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4419 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4420 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4421 4422 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4423 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4424 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4425 4426 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4427 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4428 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4429 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4430 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4431 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4432 remains 0. 4433 4434 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4435 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4436 4437 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4438 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4439 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4440 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4441 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4442 possible settings and some assignment information. 4443 4444 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4445 { off } 4446 4447 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4448 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4449 4450 pnp_reserve_irq= 4451 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4452 4453 pnp_reserve_dma= 4454 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4455 4456 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4457 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4458 4459 pnp_reserve_mem= 4460 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4461 autoconfiguration. 4462 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4463 4464 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4465 Default is 21. 4466 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4467 may be specified. 4468 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4469 4470 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4471 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4472 platform machine description specific power_save 4473 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4474 execution priority. 4475 4476 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4477 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4478 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4479 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4480 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4481 4482 ppc_tm= [PPC] 4483 Format: {"off"} 4484 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4485 4486 preempt= [KNL] 4487 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4488 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4489 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4490 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4491 can be preempted anytime. 4492 4493 print-fatal-signals= 4494 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4495 4496 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4497 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4498 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4499 coredump - etc. 4500 4501 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4502 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4503 4504 default: off. 4505 4506 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4507 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4508 panics 4509 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4510 default: disabled 4511 4512 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4513 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4514 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4515 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4516 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4517 in order to provide more debug information. 4518 Format: <bool> 4519 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4520 4521 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4522 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4523 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4524 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4525 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4526 Default: ratelimit 4527 4528 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4529 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4530 4531 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4532 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4533 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4534 4535 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4536 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4537 instead using the legacy FADT method 4538 4539 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4540 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4541 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4542 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4543 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4544 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4545 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4546 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4547 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4548 statistical time based profiling. 4549 4550 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4551 4552 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4553 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4554 that). 4555 Format: <bool> 4556 4557 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4558 tracking. 4559 Format: <bool> 4560 4561 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4562 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4563 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4564 per second. 4565 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4566 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4567 (0 = never). 4568 psmouse.resolution= 4569 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4570 psmouse.smartscroll= 4571 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4572 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4573 4574 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4575 4576 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4577 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4578 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4579 system calls and interrupts. 4580 4581 on - unconditionally enable 4582 off - unconditionally disable 4583 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4584 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4585 4586 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4587 4588 nopti [X86-64] 4589 Equivalent to pti=off 4590 4591 pty.legacy_count= 4592 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4593 default number. 4594 4595 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4596 4597 r128= [HW,DRM] 4598 4599 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 4600 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 4601 invalidate. 4602 4603 raid= [HW,RAID] 4604 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4605 4606 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4607 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4608 4609 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4610 4611 random.trust_cpu=off 4612 [KNL] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's 4613 random number generator (if available) to 4614 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4615 4616 random.trust_bootloader=off 4617 [KNL] Disable trusting the use of the a seed 4618 passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4619 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4620 4621 randomize_kstack_offset= 4622 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4623 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4624 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4625 that depend on stack address determinism or 4626 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4627 available on architectures that have defined 4628 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4629 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4630 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4631 4632 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4633 4634 cec_disable [X86] 4635 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4636 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4637 4638 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 4639 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 4640 as described above. 4641 4642 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 4643 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 4644 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 4645 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 4646 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 4647 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 4648 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 4649 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 4650 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 4651 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 4652 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 4653 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4654 4655 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 4656 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 4657 4658 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 4659 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 4660 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 4661 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 4662 4663 Note that this argument takes precedence over 4664 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 4665 4666 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4667 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4668 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4669 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4670 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4671 This improves the real-time response for the 4672 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4673 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4674 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4675 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4676 4677 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4678 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4679 process in one batch. 4680 4681 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4682 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4683 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4684 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4685 4686 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4687 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4688 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4689 4690 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4691 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4692 RCU grace-period initialization. 4693 4694 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4695 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4696 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4697 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4698 the rcu_node combining tree. 4699 4700 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 4701 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 4702 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 4703 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 4704 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 4705 4706 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 4707 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 4708 to zero. 4709 4710 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4711 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4712 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4713 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4714 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4715 4716 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4717 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4718 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4719 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4720 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4721 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4722 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4723 4724 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4725 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4726 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4727 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4728 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4729 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4730 condition. 4731 4732 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 4733 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 4734 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 4735 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 4736 4737 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4738 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4739 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4740 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4741 and maximum value is HZ. 4742 4743 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4744 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4745 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4746 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4747 4748 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4749 Set required age in jiffies for a 4750 given grace period before RCU starts 4751 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4752 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4753 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4754 a value based on the most recent settings 4755 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4756 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4757 This calculated value may be viewed in 4758 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4759 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4760 overwritten. 4761 4762 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4763 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4764 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4765 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4766 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4767 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4768 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4769 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4770 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4771 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4772 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 4773 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 4774 4775 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] 4776 Set the shift-right count to use to compute 4777 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from 4778 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. 4779 The result will be bounded below by the value of 4780 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl 4781 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in 4782 order to allow the CPU to do other work. 4783 4784 Please note that this callback-invocation batch 4785 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback 4786 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead 4787 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which 4788 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. 4789 4790 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] 4791 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, 4792 RCU reduces the lock contention that would 4793 otherwise be caused by callback floods through 4794 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the 4795 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to 4796 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra 4797 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. 4798 But if there are too many callbacks queued during 4799 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into 4800 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too 4801 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. 4802 4803 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4804 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4805 each group, which defaults to the square root 4806 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4807 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4808 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4809 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4810 4811 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4812 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4813 batch limiting is disabled. 4814 4815 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4816 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4817 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4818 4819 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4820 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4821 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4822 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4823 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4824 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4825 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4826 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4827 4828 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4829 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4830 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4831 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4832 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4833 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4834 4835 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 4836 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 4837 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 4838 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 4839 Larger delays increase the probability of 4840 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 4841 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 4842 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 4843 4844 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4845 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4846 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4847 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4848 4849 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 4850 Measure performance of asynchronous 4851 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4852 4853 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4854 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4855 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4856 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4857 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4858 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4859 4860 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 4861 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4862 grace-period primitives. 4863 4864 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4865 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4866 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4867 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4868 interference. 4869 4870 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4871 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4872 4873 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 4874 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4875 If this parameter has the same value as 4876 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 4877 and double-argument variants are tested. 4878 4879 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 4880 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4881 If this parameter has the same value as 4882 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 4883 and double-argument variants are tested. 4884 4885 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4886 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4887 4888 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4889 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4890 4891 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4892 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 4893 of allocations and frees. 4894 4895 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4896 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4897 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4898 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4899 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4900 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4901 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4902 a single reader. 4903 4904 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 4905 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4906 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 4907 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4908 4909 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL] 4910 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4911 4912 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4913 Shut the system down after performance tests 4914 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4915 testing. 4916 4917 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 4918 Enable additional printk() statements. 4919 4920 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4921 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4922 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4923 no holdoff. 4924 4925 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4926 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4927 in microseconds. 4928 4929 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4930 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4931 in microseconds. 4932 4933 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4934 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4935 in seconds. 4936 4937 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4938 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 4939 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4940 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4941 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 4942 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 4943 of CPUs to be used. 4944 4945 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4946 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4947 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4948 4949 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4950 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4951 forward-progress tests. 4952 4953 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4954 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4955 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4956 testing. 4957 4958 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4959 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4960 primitives, if available. 4961 4962 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4963 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4964 4965 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4966 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4967 update-side primitives, if available. 4968 4969 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4970 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4971 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4972 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4973 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4974 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4975 they are all non-zero. 4976 4977 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 4978 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 4979 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 4980 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 4981 4982 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 4983 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 4984 This can of course result in splats, and is 4985 intended to test the ability of things like 4986 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 4987 such leaks. 4988 4989 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 4990 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 4991 4992 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 4993 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 4994 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 4995 test, hence the "fake". 4996 4997 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 4998 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 4999 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 5000 5001 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 5002 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 5003 callback-offload toggling attempts. 5004 5005 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 5006 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5007 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5008 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 5009 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5010 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5011 5012 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 5013 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 5014 5015 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5016 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 5017 5018 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5019 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 5020 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 5021 5022 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 5023 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 5024 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 5025 task-exit processing. 5026 5027 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 5028 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 5029 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 5030 is spawned. 5031 5032 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 5033 The delay, in seconds, between successive 5034 read-then-exit testing episodes. 5035 5036 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 5037 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 5038 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 5039 during the rcutorture test. 5040 5041 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5042 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 5043 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 5044 5045 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 5046 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 5047 warnings, zero to disable. 5048 5049 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 5050 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 5051 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition 5052 to any other stall-related activity. 5053 5054 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 5055 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 5056 5057 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 5058 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 5059 5060 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 5061 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 5062 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 5063 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 5064 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 5065 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 5066 5067 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5068 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 5069 5070 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 5071 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 5072 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 5073 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 5074 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 5075 5076 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 5077 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 5078 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 5079 under test support RCU priority boosting. 5080 5081 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 5082 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 5083 5084 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 5085 Interval (s) between each boost test. 5086 5087 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 5088 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 5089 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 5090 5091 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 5092 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5093 5094 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 5095 Enable additional printk() statements. 5096 5097 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 5098 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 5099 stall warning. 5100 5101 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 5102 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5103 5104 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 5105 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 5106 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 5107 during early boot, that is, during the time 5108 before the init task is spawned. 5109 5110 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5111 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5112 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 5113 value is 300 seconds. 5114 5115 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5116 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 5117 messages. The value is in milliseconds 5118 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 5119 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 5120 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 5121 Setting this to zero causes the value from 5122 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 5123 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 5124 5125 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL] 5126 Provide statistics on the cputime and count of 5127 interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For 5128 multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods 5129 begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout. 5130 5131 rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL] 5132 Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the 5133 current expedited RCU grace period during an 5134 expedited RCU CPU stall warning. 5135 5136 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 5137 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 5138 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 5139 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 5140 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 5141 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 5142 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5143 5144 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 5145 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 5146 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 5147 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 5148 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 5149 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 5150 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 5151 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 5152 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5153 5154 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 5155 Once boot has completed (that is, after 5156 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 5157 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 5158 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5159 5160 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 5161 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 5162 it to the value one, that is, converting any 5163 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 5164 period to instead use normal non-expedited 5165 grace-period processing. 5166 5167 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 5168 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 5169 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 5170 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 5171 a single callback queue. This switching only 5172 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 5173 set to the default value of -1. 5174 5175 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 5176 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 5177 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 5178 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 5179 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 5180 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 5181 the default value of -1. 5182 5183 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 5184 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 5185 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 5186 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 5187 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 5188 for use in testing. 5189 5190 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 5191 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 5192 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 5193 of a given grace period. Setting a large 5194 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 5195 but lengthens grace periods. 5196 5197 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 5198 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5199 informational messages, which give some indication 5200 of the problem for those not patient enough to 5201 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 5202 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 5203 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 5204 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 5205 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 5206 until the beginning of the next grace period. 5207 5208 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 5209 Multiplier for time interval between successive 5210 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 5211 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 5212 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 5213 the value three, so that the first informational 5214 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 5215 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 5216 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 5217 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 5218 5219 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5220 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5221 warning messages. Disable with a value less 5222 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 5223 A change in value does not take effect until 5224 the beginning of the next grace period. 5225 5226 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 5227 Run the RCU early boot self tests 5228 5229 rdinit= [KNL] 5230 Format: <full_path> 5231 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 5232 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 5233 5234 rdrand= [X86] 5235 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 5236 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 5237 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 5238 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 5239 path). 5240 5241 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 5242 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 5243 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 5244 mba, smba, bmec. 5245 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 5246 rdt=cmt,!mba 5247 5248 reboot= [KNL] 5249 Format (x86 or x86_64): 5250 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 5251 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 5252 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 5253 [[,]f[orce] 5254 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 5255 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 5256 reboot only), 5257 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 5258 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 5259 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 5260 to be used for rebooting. 5261 5262 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5263 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5264 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5265 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5266 interference. 5267 5268 refscale.loops= [KNL] 5269 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 5270 primitive under test. Increasing this number 5271 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 5272 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 5273 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 5274 x86 laptops. 5275 5276 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5277 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 5278 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 5279 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 5280 5281 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 5282 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 5283 the console log. 5284 5285 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 5286 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 5287 measured in microseconds. 5288 5289 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5290 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 5291 5292 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5293 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 5294 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 5295 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 5296 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 5297 5298 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 5299 Enable additional printk() statements. 5300 5301 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 5302 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 5303 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 5304 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 5305 specified. 5306 5307 relax_domain_level= 5308 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 5309 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 5310 5311 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 5312 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 5313 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 5314 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 5315 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 5316 5317 reservetop= [X86-32] 5318 Format: nn[KMG] 5319 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 5320 address space. 5321 5322 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 5323 during initialization. 5324 5325 resume= [SWSUSP] 5326 Specify the partition device for software suspend 5327 Format: 5328 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 5329 5330 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 5331 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 5332 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 5333 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 5334 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 5335 5336 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5337 read the resume files 5338 5339 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 5340 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5341 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5342 5343 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 5344 5345 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 5346 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 5347 vulnerability. 5348 5349 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop 5350 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other 5351 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- 5352 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors 5353 that don't. 5354 5355 off - no mitigation 5356 auto - automatically select a migitation 5357 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 5358 disabling SMT if necessary for 5359 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 5360 and older without STIBP). 5361 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation 5362 windows on basic block boundaries too. 5363 Safe, highest perf impact. It also 5364 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable 5365 on Intel. 5366 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT 5367 when STIBP is not available. This is 5368 the alternative for systems which do not 5369 have STIBP. 5370 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, 5371 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based 5372 systems. 5373 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP 5374 is not available. This is the alternative for 5375 systems which do not have STIBP. 5376 5377 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 5378 time according to the CPU. 5379 5380 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 5381 5382 rfkill.default_state= 5383 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 5384 etc. communication is blocked by default. 5385 1 Unblocked. 5386 5387 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 5388 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 5389 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5390 blocked and the previous configuration. 5391 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5392 blocked and everything unblocked. 5393 5394 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5395 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 5396 5397 ring3mwait=disable 5398 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 5399 CPUs. 5400 5401 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 5402 5403 rodata= [KNL] 5404 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 5405 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 5406 full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only 5407 [arm64] 5408 5409 rockchip.usb_uart 5410 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 5411 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 5412 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 5413 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 5414 5415 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 5416 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 5417 5418 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5419 mount the root filesystem 5420 5421 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 5422 5423 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 5424 5425 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 5426 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5427 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5428 5429 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 5430 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 5431 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 5432 managed by CMA. 5433 5434 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 5435 5436 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5437 5438 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5439 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5440 strict 5441 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 5442 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 5443 which is faster. 5444 5445 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5446 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5447 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5448 factor of the size of main memory. 5449 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5450 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5451 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5452 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5453 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5454 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5455 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5456 5457 sa1100ir [NET] 5458 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5459 5460 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5461 5462 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5463 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5464 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5465 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5466 5467 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5468 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5469 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5470 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5471 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5472 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5473 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5474 value. 5475 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5476 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5477 1 64 ms 5478 2 128 ms 5479 and so on. 5480 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5481 Default is 0. 5482 5483 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5484 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5485 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5486 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5487 tests. 5488 5489 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5490 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5491 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5492 default) disables this feature. Please note 5493 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5494 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5495 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5496 5497 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5498 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5499 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5500 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5501 equal to the number of CPUs. 5502 5503 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5504 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5505 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 5506 5507 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5508 Number seconds to wait between successive 5509 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 5510 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 5511 5512 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5513 The number of seconds following the start of the 5514 test after which to shut down the system. The 5515 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 5516 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 5517 5518 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5519 The number of seconds between outputting the 5520 current test statistics to the console. A value 5521 of zero disables statistics output. 5522 5523 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 5524 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 5525 to the set of CPUs under test. 5526 5527 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 5528 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 5529 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 5530 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 5531 functions. 5532 5533 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 5534 Enable additional printk() statements. 5535 5536 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 5537 The probability weighting to use for the 5538 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 5539 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 5540 default if all other weights are -1. However, 5541 if at least one weight has some other value, a 5542 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 5543 5544 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 5545 The probability weighting to use for the 5546 smp_call_function_single() function with a 5547 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5548 5549 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 5550 The probability weighting to use for the 5551 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 5552 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5553 Note well that setting a high probability for 5554 this weighting can place serious IPI load 5555 on the system. 5556 5557 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 5558 The probability weighting to use for the 5559 smp_call_function_many() function with a 5560 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5561 and weight_many. 5562 5563 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 5564 The probability weighting to use for the 5565 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 5566 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 5567 weight_many. 5568 5569 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 5570 The probability weighting to use for the 5571 smp_call_function_all() function with a 5572 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5573 and weight_many. 5574 5575 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 5576 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 5577 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 5578 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5579 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 5580 1 -- enable. 5581 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 5582 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 5583 5584 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 5585 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 5586 "lsm=" parameter. 5587 5588 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 5589 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5590 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 5591 0 -- disable. 5592 1 -- enable. 5593 Default value is 1. 5594 5595 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 5596 5597 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 5598 5599 shapers= [NET] 5600 Maximal number of shapers. 5601 5602 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 5603 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 5604 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 5605 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 5606 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 5607 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 5608 apic=verbose is specified. 5609 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 5610 5611 simeth= [IA-64] 5612 simscsi= 5613 5614 slram= [HW,MTD] 5615 5616 slab_merge [MM] 5617 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 5618 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 5619 5620 slab_nomerge [MM] 5621 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 5622 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 5623 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 5624 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 5625 layout control by attackers can usually be 5626 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 5627 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 5628 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 5629 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 5630 own. 5631 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5632 5633 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 5634 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5635 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5636 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 5637 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 5638 5639 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 5640 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 5641 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5642 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5643 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5644 last alloc / free. For more information see 5645 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5646 5647 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 5648 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5649 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5650 fragmentation. For more information see 5651 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5652 5653 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 5654 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 5655 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 5656 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 5657 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 5658 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 5659 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 5660 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5661 5662 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 5663 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 5664 lower than slub_max_order. 5665 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5666 5667 slub_merge [MM, SLUB] 5668 Same with slab_merge. 5669 5670 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 5671 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 5672 See slab_nomerge for more information. 5673 5674 smart2= [HW] 5675 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 5676 5677 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 5678 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 5679 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 5680 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 5681 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 5682 disabling interrupts for extended periods 5683 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 5684 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 5685 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 5686 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 5687 5688 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 5689 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 5690 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 5691 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 5692 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 5693 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 5694 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 5695 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 5696 1: Fast pin select (default) 5697 2: ATC IRMode 5698 5699 smt= [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 5700 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 5701 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 5702 actual hardware limit. 5703 Format: <integer> 5704 Default: -1 (no limit) 5705 5706 softlockup_panic= 5707 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 5708 Format: 0 | 1 5709 5710 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 5711 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 5712 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 5713 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 5714 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 5715 5716 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 5717 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 5718 backtraces on all cpus. 5719 Format: 0 | 1 5720 5721 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 5722 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 5723 5724 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5725 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 5726 The default operation protects the kernel from 5727 user space attacks. 5728 5729 on - unconditionally enable, implies 5730 spectre_v2_user=on 5731 off - unconditionally disable, implies 5732 spectre_v2_user=off 5733 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5734 vulnerable 5735 5736 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 5737 mitigation method at run time according to the 5738 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 5739 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 5740 compiler with which the kernel was built. 5741 5742 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 5743 against user space to user space task attacks. 5744 5745 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 5746 the user space protections. 5747 5748 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 5749 5750 retpoline - replace indirect branches 5751 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 5752 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 5753 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 5754 eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS 5755 eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines 5756 eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE 5757 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 5758 5759 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5760 spectre_v2=auto. 5761 5762 spectre_v2_user= 5763 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5764 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 5765 user space tasks 5766 5767 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 5768 enforced by spectre_v2=on 5769 5770 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 5771 enforced by spectre_v2=off 5772 5773 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 5774 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 5775 per thread. The mitigation control state 5776 is inherited on fork. 5777 5778 prctl,ibpb 5779 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 5780 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5781 always when switching between different user 5782 space processes. 5783 5784 seccomp 5785 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 5786 threads will enable the mitigation unless 5787 they explicitly opt out. 5788 5789 seccomp,ibpb 5790 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 5791 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5792 always when switching between different 5793 user space processes. 5794 5795 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 5796 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 5797 5798 Default mitigation: "prctl" 5799 5800 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5801 spectre_v2_user=auto. 5802 5803 spec_store_bypass_disable= 5804 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 5805 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 5806 5807 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 5808 a common industry wide performance optimization known 5809 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 5810 to the same memory location may not be observed by 5811 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 5812 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 5813 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 5814 end of a particular speculation execution window. 5815 5816 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5817 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 5818 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 5819 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 5820 5821 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 5822 Bypass optimization is used. 5823 5824 On x86 the options are: 5825 5826 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 5827 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 5828 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 5829 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 5830 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 5831 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 5832 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 5833 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 5834 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 5835 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 5836 for a process by default. The state of the control 5837 is inherited on fork. 5838 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 5839 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 5840 5841 Default mitigations: 5842 X86: "prctl" 5843 5844 On powerpc the options are: 5845 5846 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 5847 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 5848 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 5849 exit. 5850 off - No action. 5851 5852 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5853 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 5854 5855 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 5856 spia_fio_base= 5857 spia_pedr= 5858 spia_peddr= 5859 5860 split_lock_detect= 5861 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 5862 5863 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 5864 instructions that access data across cache line 5865 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 5866 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 5867 bus lock detection. 5868 5869 off - not enabled 5870 5871 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 5872 about applications triggering the #AC 5873 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 5874 the default on CPUs that support split lock 5875 detection or bus lock detection. Default 5876 behavior is by #AC if both features are 5877 enabled in hardware. 5878 5879 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 5880 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 5881 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 5882 both features are enabled in hardware. 5883 5884 ratelimit:N - 5885 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 5886 per second for bus lock detection. 5887 0 < N <= 1000. 5888 5889 N/A for split lock detection. 5890 5891 5892 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 5893 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 5894 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 5895 mode. 5896 5897 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 5898 CPL > 0. 5899 5900 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 5901 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 5902 (SRBDS) mitigation. 5903 5904 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 5905 exploit which can leak bits from the random 5906 number generator. 5907 5908 By default, this issue is mitigated by 5909 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 5910 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 5911 much slower. Among other effects, this will 5912 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 5913 5914 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 5915 the following option: 5916 5917 off: Disable mitigation and remove 5918 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 5919 5920 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 5921 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 5922 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 5923 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 5924 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 5925 but takes effect only when the low-order four 5926 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 5927 (decide at boot). 5928 5929 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 5930 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 5931 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 5932 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 5933 5934 0: Never. 5935 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 5936 2: When rcutorture decides to. 5937 3: Decide at boot time (default). 5938 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 5939 5940 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 5941 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 5942 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 5943 5944 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 5945 Specifies how frequently to check for 5946 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 5947 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 5948 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 5949 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 5950 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 5951 are ignored. 5952 5953 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 5954 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 5955 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 5956 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 5957 grace period will be considered for automatic 5958 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 5959 expediting. 5960 5961 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] 5962 Specifies the number of no-delay instances 5963 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period 5964 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero 5965 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will 5966 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. 5967 5968 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] 5969 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of 5970 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, 5971 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled 5972 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each 5973 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. 5974 5975 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] 5976 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping 5977 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. 5978 5979 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 5980 Specifies the number of update-side contention 5981 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 5982 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 5983 structure to big form. Note that the value of 5984 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 5985 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 5986 5987 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 5988 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 5989 5990 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 5991 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 5992 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 5993 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 5994 5995 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 5996 for both kernel and userspace 5997 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 5998 for both kernel and userspace 5999 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 6000 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 6001 to allow userspace to register its 6002 interest in being mitigated too. 6003 6004 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 6005 override the default stack gap protection. The value 6006 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 6007 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 6008 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 6009 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 6010 6011 stack_depot_disable= [KNL] 6012 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 6013 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 6014 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 6015 to false. 6016 6017 stacktrace [FTRACE] 6018 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 6019 6020 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 6021 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 6022 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 6023 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 6024 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 6025 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 6026 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 6027 6028 sti= [PARISC,HW] 6029 Format: <num> 6030 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 6031 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 6032 as the initial boot-console. 6033 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6034 6035 sti_font= [HW] 6036 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6037 6038 stifb= [HW] 6039 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 6040 6041 strict_sas_size= 6042 [X86] 6043 Format: <bool> 6044 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 6045 against the required signal frame size which 6046 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 6047 be used to filter out binaries which have 6048 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 6049 6050 stress_hpt [PPC] 6051 Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash 6052 page table to increase the rate of hash page table 6053 faults on kernel addresses. 6054 6055 stress_slb [PPC] 6056 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 6057 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 6058 on kernel addresses. 6059 6060 sunrpc.min_resvport= 6061 sunrpc.max_resvport= 6062 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6063 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 6064 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 6065 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 6066 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 6067 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 6068 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 6069 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 6070 maximum port values. 6071 6072 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 6073 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6074 Limit the number of requests that the server will 6075 process in parallel from a single connection. 6076 The default value is 0 (no limit). 6077 6078 sunrpc.pool_mode= 6079 [NFS] 6080 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 6081 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 6082 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 6083 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 6084 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 6085 NFS server is running. 6086 6087 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 6088 automatically using heuristics 6089 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 6090 percpu one pool for each CPU 6091 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 6092 to global on non-NUMA machines) 6093 6094 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 6095 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 6096 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6097 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 6098 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 6099 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 6100 improve throughput, but will also increase the 6101 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 6102 6103 suspend.pm_test_delay= 6104 [SUSPEND] 6105 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 6106 mode before resuming the system (see 6107 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 6108 is set. Default value is 5. 6109 6110 svm= [PPC] 6111 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 6112 This parameter controls use of the Protected 6113 Execution Facility on pSeries. 6114 6115 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 6116 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } 6117 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 6118 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb 6119 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up 6120 to a power of 2. 6121 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 6122 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 6123 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 6124 6125 switches= [HW,M68k] 6126 6127 sysctl.*= [KNL] 6128 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 6129 process, as if the value was written to the respective 6130 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 6131 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 6132 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 6133 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 6134 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 6135 6136 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 6137 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 6138 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 6139 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 6140 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 6141 in older udev will not work anymore. 6142 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 6143 the kernel configuration. 6144 6145 sysrq_always_enabled 6146 [KNL] 6147 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 6148 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 6149 Useful for debugging. 6150 6151 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6152 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 6153 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 6154 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 6155 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 6156 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 6157 6158 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 6159 6160 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 6161 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 6162 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 6163 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 6164 as the system sleep state during system startup with 6165 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 6166 The system is woken from this state using a 6167 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 6168 6169 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6170 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 6171 6172 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 6173 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 6174 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 6175 6176 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 6177 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 6178 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 6179 6180 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 6181 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 6182 critical and hot trip points. 6183 6184 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 6185 1: disable ACPI thermal control 6186 6187 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 6188 -1: disable all passive trip points 6189 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 6190 value 6191 6192 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 6193 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 6194 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 6195 0: no polling (default) 6196 6197 threadirqs [KNL] 6198 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 6199 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 6200 6201 topology= [S390] 6202 Format: {off | on} 6203 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 6204 topology information if the hardware supports this. 6205 The scheduler will make use of this information and 6206 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 6207 Default is on. 6208 6209 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 6210 Format: {off} 6211 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 6212 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 6213 LPAR. 6214 6215 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 6216 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 6217 until after init has spawned. 6218 6219 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 6220 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 6221 even if there were no errors. This can be a 6222 very costly operation when many torture tests 6223 are running concurrently, especially on systems 6224 with rotating-rust storage. 6225 6226 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 6227 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 6228 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 6229 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 6230 6231 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 6232 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 6233 6234 tp720= [HW,PS2] 6235 6236 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 6237 Format: integer pcr id 6238 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 6239 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 6240 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 6241 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 6242 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 6243 are saved. 6244 6245 tp_printk [FTRACE] 6246 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 6247 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 6248 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 6249 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 6250 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 6251 6252 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 6253 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 6254 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 6255 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 6256 6257 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 6258 to stop the printing of events to console at 6259 late_initcall_sync. 6260 6261 ** CAUTION ** 6262 6263 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 6264 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 6265 the system to live lock. 6266 6267 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 6268 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 6269 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 6270 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 6271 make the system inoperable. 6272 6273 This command line option will stop the printing of events 6274 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 6275 6276 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 6277 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 6278 6279 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 6280 at boot up. 6281 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 6282 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 6283 depending on the architecture, may not be 6284 in sync between CPUs. 6285 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 6286 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 6287 but better for some race conditions. 6288 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 6289 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 6290 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 6291 once per event. 6292 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 6293 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 6294 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6295 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 6296 stamps. 6297 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6298 Architectures may add more clocks. See 6299 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 6300 6301 trace_event=[event-list] 6302 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 6303 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 6304 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 6305 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 6306 6307 trace_instance=[instance-info] 6308 [FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up. 6309 This will be listed in: 6310 6311 /sys/kernel/tracing/instances 6312 6313 Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created 6314 via: 6315 6316 trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2> 6317 6318 Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is 6319 unique. 6320 6321 trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall 6322 6323 will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and 6324 the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry 6325 event, and all events under the "initcall" system. 6326 6327 trace_options=[option-list] 6328 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 6329 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 6330 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 6331 to echo the option name into 6332 6333 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options 6334 6335 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 6336 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 6337 6338 trace_options=stacktrace 6339 6340 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 6341 section. 6342 6343 trace_trigger=[trigger-list] 6344 [FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events. 6345 Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional 6346 filter. 6347 6348 The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..." 6349 Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated. 6350 6351 For example: 6352 6353 trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2" 6354 6355 The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch" 6356 event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch" 6357 event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE). 6358 6359 See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst 6360 6361 6362 traceoff_on_warning 6363 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 6364 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 6365 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 6366 file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/ 6367 6368 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 6369 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 6370 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 6371 6372 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 6373 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 6374 6375 transparent_hugepage= 6376 [KNL] 6377 Format: [always|madvise|never] 6378 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 6379 with respect to transparent hugepages. 6380 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 6381 for more details. 6382 6383 trusted.source= [KEYS] 6384 Format: <string> 6385 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 6386 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 6387 sources: 6388 - "tpm" 6389 - "tee" 6390 - "caam" 6391 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 6392 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 6393 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 6394 successfully during iteration. 6395 6396 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 6397 Format: <string> 6398 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 6399 Can be one of: 6400 - "kernel" 6401 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 6402 - "default" 6403 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 6404 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 6405 6406 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 6407 Format: <string> 6408 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 6409 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 6410 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 6411 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 6412 virtualized environment. 6413 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 6414 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 6415 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 6416 can add overhead. 6417 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 6418 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 6419 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 6420 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 6421 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 6422 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 6423 acceptable). 6424 [x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer 6425 (HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was 6426 obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15). 6427 Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm. 6428 [x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with 6429 which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but 6430 only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy. 6431 This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and 6432 can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog. A console 6433 message will flag any such suppression or overriding. 6434 6435 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 6436 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 6437 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 6438 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 6439 Format: <unsigned int> 6440 6441 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 6442 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 6443 support TSX control. 6444 6445 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 6446 6447 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 6448 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 6449 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 6450 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 6451 so there may be unknown security risks associated 6452 with leaving it enabled. 6453 6454 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 6455 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 6456 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 6457 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 6458 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 6459 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 6460 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 6461 6462 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 6463 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 6464 6465 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 6466 6467 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6468 for more details. 6469 6470 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 6471 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 6472 6473 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 6474 certain CPUs that support Transactional 6475 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 6476 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 6477 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 6478 conditions. 6479 6480 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6481 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 6482 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 6483 access. 6484 6485 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 6486 options are: 6487 6488 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 6489 if TSX is enabled. 6490 6491 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 6492 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 6493 is not disabled because CPU is not 6494 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 6495 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 6496 6497 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 6498 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 6499 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 6500 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 6501 6502 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6503 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 6504 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 6505 required and doesn't provide any additional 6506 mitigation. 6507 6508 For details see: 6509 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6510 6511 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 6512 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 6513 Format: 6514 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 6515 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 6516 6517 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 6518 happen after console_init() and before a proper 6519 console driver takes over, this boot options might 6520 help "seeing" what's going on. 6521 6522 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6523 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 6524 6525 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 6526 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 6527 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 6528 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 6529 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 6530 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 6531 reported either. 6532 6533 unknown_nmi_panic 6534 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 6535 6536 usbcore.authorized_default= 6537 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 6538 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 6539 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 6540 if device connected to internal port) 6541 6542 usbcore.autosuspend= 6543 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 6544 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 6545 is the time required before an idle device will be 6546 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 6547 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 6548 6549 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 6550 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 6551 6552 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 6553 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 6554 (default = 65536). 6555 6556 usbcore.blinkenlights= 6557 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 6558 6559 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 6560 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 6561 scheme (default 0 = off). 6562 6563 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 6564 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 6565 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 6566 6567 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 6568 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 6569 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 6570 6571 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 6572 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 6573 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 6574 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 6575 6576 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 6577 6578 usbcore.quirks= 6579 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 6580 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 6581 commas. Each entry has the form 6582 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 6583 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 6584 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 6585 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 6586 the following meanings: 6587 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 6588 descriptors must not be fetched using 6589 a 255-byte read); 6590 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 6591 correctly so reset it instead); 6592 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 6593 Set-Interface requests); 6594 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 6595 handle its Configuration or Interface 6596 strings); 6597 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 6598 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 6599 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 6600 more interface descriptions than the 6601 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 6602 talking to these interfaces); 6603 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 6604 during initialization, after we read 6605 the device descriptor); 6606 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 6607 high speed and super speed interrupt 6608 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 6609 require the interval in microframes (1 6610 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 6611 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 6612 (bInterval-1). 6613 Devices with this quirk report their 6614 bInterval as the result of this 6615 calculation instead of the exponent 6616 variable used in the calculation); 6617 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 6618 handle device_qualifier descriptor 6619 requests); 6620 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 6621 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 6622 remote wakeup capability); 6623 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 6624 Power Management); 6625 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 6626 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 6627 frames instead of the USB 2.0 6628 calculation); 6629 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 6630 to be disconnected before suspend to 6631 prevent spurious wakeup); 6632 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 6633 pause after every control message); 6634 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 6635 delay after resetting its port); 6636 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 6637 6638 usbhid.mousepoll= 6639 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 6640 6641 usbhid.jspoll= 6642 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 6643 6644 usbhid.kbpoll= 6645 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 6646 6647 usb-storage.delay_use= 6648 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 6649 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 6650 6651 usb-storage.quirks= 6652 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 6653 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 6654 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 6655 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 6656 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 6657 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 6658 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 6659 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 6660 of sense data, not on uas); 6661 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 6662 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 6663 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 6664 device capacity by one sector); 6665 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 6666 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 6667 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 6668 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 6669 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 6670 command, uas only); 6671 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 6672 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 6673 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 6674 reported device capacity by one 6675 sector if the number is odd); 6676 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 6677 device); 6678 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 6679 command, uas only); 6680 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 6681 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 6682 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 6683 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 6684 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 6685 not on uas); 6686 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 6687 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 6688 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 6689 reported by the device, not on uas); 6690 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 6691 by default, not on uas); 6692 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 6693 bogus residue values, not on uas); 6694 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 6695 Logical Unit); 6696 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 6697 commands, uas only); 6698 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 6699 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 6700 medium is write-protected). 6701 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 6702 even if the device claims no cache, 6703 not on uas) 6704 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 6705 6706 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 6707 Format: <int> 6708 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 6709 1 - undefined instruction events 6710 2 - system calls 6711 4 - invalid data aborts 6712 8 - SIGSEGV faults 6713 16 - SIGBUS faults 6714 Example: user_debug=31 6715 6716 userpte= 6717 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 6718 6719 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 6720 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 6721 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 6722 6723 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 6724 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 6725 6726 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 6727 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 6728 6729 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 6730 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 6731 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 6732 6733 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 6734 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 6735 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 6736 6737 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 6738 alias for vdso32=0. 6739 6740 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 6741 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 6742 6743 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 6744 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 6745 6746 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 6747 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 6748 6749 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 6750 Format: [0|1] 6751 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 6752 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 6753 level and then send out the event to user space through 6754 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 6755 will only send out the event without touching backlight 6756 brightness level. 6757 default: 1 6758 6759 virtio_mmio.device= 6760 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 6761 6762 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 6763 where: 6764 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 6765 like K, M and G) 6766 <baseaddr> := physical base address 6767 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 6768 request_irq()) 6769 <id> := (optional) platform device id 6770 example: 6771 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 6772 6773 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 6774 6775 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 6776 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 6777 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 6778 Use vga=ask for menu. 6779 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 6780 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 6781 6782 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 6783 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 6784 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 6785 All options are enabled by default, and this 6786 interface is meant to allow for selectively 6787 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 6788 debugging features. 6789 6790 Available options are: 6791 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 6792 - Disable all of the above options 6793 6794 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 6795 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 6796 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 6797 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 6798 mapped kernel RAM. 6799 6800 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 6801 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 6802 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 6803 6804 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 6805 Format: <command> 6806 6807 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 6808 Format: <command> 6809 6810 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 6811 Format: <command> 6812 6813 vsyscall= [X86-64] 6814 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 6815 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 6816 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 6817 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 6818 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 6819 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 6820 6821 emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated 6822 reasonably safely. The vsyscall page is 6823 readable. 6824 6825 xonly [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6826 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6827 page is not readable. 6828 6829 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 6830 them quite hard to use for exploits but 6831 might break your system. 6832 6833 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 6834 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 6835 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 6836 6837 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 6838 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 6839 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 6840 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 6841 6842 vt.default_blu= [VT] 6843 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 6844 Change the default blue palette of the console. 6845 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6846 ranging from 0-255. 6847 6848 vt.default_grn= [VT] 6849 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 6850 Change the default green palette of the console. 6851 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6852 ranging from 0-255. 6853 6854 vt.default_red= [VT] 6855 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 6856 Change the default red palette of the console. 6857 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6858 ranging from 0-255. 6859 6860 vt.default_utf8= 6861 [VT] 6862 Format=<0|1> 6863 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 6864 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 6865 newly opened terminals. 6866 6867 vt.global_cursor_default= 6868 [VT] 6869 Format=<-1|0|1> 6870 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 6871 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 6872 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 6873 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 6874 cursors, 1 will display them. 6875 6876 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 6877 Default: 2 = green. 6878 6879 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 6880 Default: 3 = cyan. 6881 6882 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 6883 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 6884 or other driver-specific files in the 6885 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 6886 6887 watchdog_thresh= 6888 [KNL] 6889 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 6890 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 6891 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 6892 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 6893 seconds. 6894 6895 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 6896 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 6897 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 6898 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 6899 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 6900 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 6901 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 6902 corresponding sysfs file. 6903 6904 workqueue.disable_numa 6905 By default, all work items queued to unbound 6906 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 6907 issued on, which results in better behavior in 6908 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 6909 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 6910 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 6911 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 6912 6913 workqueue.power_efficient 6914 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 6915 they show better performance thanks to cache 6916 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 6917 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 6918 6919 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 6920 were observed to contribute significantly to power 6921 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 6922 power usage at the cost of small performance 6923 overhead. 6924 6925 The default value of this parameter is determined by 6926 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 6927 6928 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 6929 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 6930 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 6931 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 6932 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 6933 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 6934 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 6935 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 6936 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 6937 impacted. 6938 6939 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 6940 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 6941 supporting x2apic. 6942 6943 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 6944 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 6945 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 6946 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 6947 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 6948 domains. 6949 6950 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 6951 Unplug Xen emulated devices 6952 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 6953 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 6954 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 6955 nics -- unplug network devices 6956 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 6957 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 6958 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 6959 the unplug protocol 6960 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 6961 6962 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 6963 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 6964 panic() code such as dumping handler. 6965 6966 xen_msr_safe= [X86,XEN] 6967 Format: <bool> 6968 Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR 6969 access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The 6970 default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE. 6971 6972 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 6973 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 6974 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 6975 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6976 6977 xen_nopv [X86] 6978 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 6979 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 6980 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 6981 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6982 6983 xen_no_vector_callback 6984 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 6985 event channel interrupts. 6986 6987 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 6988 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 6989 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 6990 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 6991 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 6992 6993 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 6994 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 6995 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 6996 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 6997 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 6998 more timer interrupts. 6999 7000 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 7001 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 7002 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 7003 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 7004 started with less memory configured than allowed at 7005 max. Default is 180. 7006 7007 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 7008 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 7009 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 7010 7011 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 7012 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 7013 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 7014 7015 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 7016 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 7017 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 7018 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 7019 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 7020 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 7021 7022 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 7023 Format: 7024 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 7025 7026 xive= [PPC] 7027 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 7028 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 7029 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 7030 7031 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 7032 controller on both pseries and powernv 7033 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 7034 7035 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 7036 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 7037 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 7038 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 7039 loads instead, as on POWER9. 7040 7041 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 7042 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 7043 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 7044 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 7045 7046 xmon [PPC] 7047 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 7048 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 7049 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 7050 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 7051 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 7052 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7053 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 7054 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 7055 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 7056 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7057 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 7058 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 7059 can be written using xmon commands. 7060 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 7061 memory, and other data can't be written using 7062 xmon commands. 7063 off xmon is disabled. 7064 7065 amd_pstate= [X86] 7066 disable 7067 Do not enable amd_pstate as the default 7068 scaling driver for the supported processors 7069 passive 7070 Use amd_pstate as a scaling driver, driver requests a 7071 desired performance on this abstract scale and the power 7072 management firmware translates the requests into actual 7073 hardware states (core frequency, data fabric and memory 7074 clocks etc.) 7075 active 7076 Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver, 7077 driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants 7078 to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff) 7079 to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will 7080 calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores 7081 frequency. 7082