1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64] 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 4 copy_dsdt } 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64] 7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 14 are available 15 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 17 18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 19 Format: <int> 20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 21 1,0: use 1st APIC table 22 default: 0 23 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 25 { vendor | video | native | none } 26 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver 27 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 28 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 29 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. 31 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. 32 33 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 34 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 35 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 36 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 37 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 38 39 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 40 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 41 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 42 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 43 This option is useful for developers to identify the 44 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 45 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 46 47 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 48 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 49 Format: <int> 50 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 51 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 52 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 53 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS 54 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 55 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 56 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 57 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 58 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 59 debug layers and levels. 60 61 Enable processor driver info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list> 117 118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 122 auto-serialization feature. 123 This feature is enabled by default. 124 This option allows to turn off the feature. 125 126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 127 kernels. 128 129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 132 installed automatically and they will appear under 133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 134 This option turns off this feature. 135 Note that specifying this option does not affect 136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 138 139 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 140 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 141 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 142 143 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 144 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 145 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 146 second kernel for kdump. 147 148 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 149 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 150 151 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 152 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 153 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 154 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 155 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 156 157 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 158 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 159 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 160 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 161 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 162 strings 163 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 164 strings 165 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 166 167 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 168 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 169 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 170 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 171 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 172 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 173 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 174 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 175 care about the state of the feature group strings which 176 should be controlled by the OSPM. 177 Examples: 178 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 179 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 180 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 181 182 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 183 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 184 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 185 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 186 multiple times through kernel command line is also 187 meaningless. 188 Examples: 189 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 190 FALSE. 191 192 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 193 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 194 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 195 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 196 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 197 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 198 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 199 there are quirks related to this string. This command 200 is useful when one want to control the state of the 201 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 202 the OSPM features. 203 Examples: 204 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 205 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 206 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 207 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 208 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 209 equivalent to 210 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 211 and 212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 213 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 214 215 acpi_pm_good [X86] 216 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 217 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 218 and always returns good values. 219 220 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 221 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 222 223 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 224 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 225 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 226 227 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 228 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig, 229 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs, 230 sci_force_enable, nobl } 231 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 232 s3_bios and s3_mode. 233 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 234 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 235 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware 236 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully 237 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with 238 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since 239 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it 240 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume 241 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the 242 s4_hwsig option is enabled. 243 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 244 used (or even warned about) during resume. 245 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 246 control method, with respect to putting devices into 247 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 248 of _PTS is used by default). 249 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 250 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 251 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 252 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 253 but some broken systems don't work without it). 254 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 255 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 256 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 257 258 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 259 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 260 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 261 262 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 263 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 264 265 agp= [AGP] 266 { off | try_unsupported } 267 off: disable AGP support 268 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 269 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 270 271 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 272 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 273 274 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 275 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 276 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 277 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 278 279 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 280 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 281 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 282 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 283 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 284 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 285 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 286 287 32: only for 32-bit processes 288 64: only for 64-bit processes 289 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 290 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 291 292 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 293 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 294 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 295 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 296 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 297 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 298 299 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64] 300 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the 301 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict 302 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this 303 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit 304 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0 305 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted. 306 307 See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more 308 information. 309 310 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 311 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 312 Possible values are: 313 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1 314 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 315 the system 316 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 317 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 318 allowed anymore to lift isolation 319 requirements as needed. This option 320 does not override iommu=pt 321 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known 322 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this 323 option with care. 324 325 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 326 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 327 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 328 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 329 IOMMU initialization. 330 331 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 332 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 333 remapping modes: 334 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 335 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 336 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 337 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 338 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 339 340 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 341 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 342 Format: <a>,<b> 343 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 344 345 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 346 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 347 connected to one of 16 gameports 348 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 349 350 apc= [HW,SPARC] 351 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 352 Format: noidle 353 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 354 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 355 APC and your system crashes randomly. 356 357 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 358 Change the output verbosity while booting 359 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 360 Change the amount of debugging information output 361 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 362 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 363 driver name. 364 Format: apic=driver_name 365 Examples: apic=bigsmp 366 367 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 368 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 369 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 370 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 371 backup of CPU 0 372 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 373 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 374 shot down by NMI 375 376 autoconf= [IPV6] 377 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 378 379 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 380 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 381 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 382 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 383 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 384 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 385 apic=verbose is specified. 386 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 387 388 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 389 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 390 391 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 392 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 393 394 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 395 Identification support 396 397 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 398 support 399 400 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 401 support 402 403 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 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 482 no delay (0). 483 Format: integer 484 485 bootconfig [KNL] 486 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 487 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 488 489 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 490 491 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 492 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 493 kernel args too. 494 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 495 bttv.tuner= 496 497 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 498 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 499 at a time. 500 501 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 502 503 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 504 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 505 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 506 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 507 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 508 This option provides an override for these situations. 509 510 carrier_timeout= 511 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 512 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 513 it waits 120 seconds. 514 515 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 516 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 517 trust validation. 518 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 519 520 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 521 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 522 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 523 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 524 others). 525 526 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 527 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 528 529 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 530 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 531 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 532 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 533 a single hierarchy 534 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 535 subsystem 536 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 537 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 538 created 539 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 540 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 541 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 542 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 543 stall information accounting feature 544 545 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 546 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 547 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 548 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 549 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 550 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 551 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 552 all v1 hierarchies. 553 554 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 555 Format: <string> 556 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 557 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 558 559 checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 560 Format: { "0" | "1" } 561 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 562 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 563 any implied execute protection). 564 1 -- check protection requested by application. 565 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 566 Value can be changed at runtime via 567 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 568 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 569 570 cio_ignore= [S390] 571 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 572 573 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] 574 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 575 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 576 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily 577 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific 578 ones should be. 579 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line 580 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above 581 instability issue. However, not all features have names 582 in /proc/cpuinfo. 583 Note that using this option will taint your kernel. 584 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 585 or using the feature without checking anything 586 will still see it. This just prevents it from 587 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 588 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 589 some critical bits. 590 591 clk_ignore_unused 592 [CLK] 593 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 594 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 595 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 596 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 597 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 598 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 599 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 600 platform with proper driver support. For more 601 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 602 603 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 604 [Deprecated] 605 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 606 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 607 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 608 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 609 610 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 611 Format: <string> 612 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 613 with the name specified. 614 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 615 the platform: 616 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 617 [ACPI] acpi_pm 618 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 619 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 620 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 621 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 622 [MIPS] MIPS 623 [PARISC] cr16 624 [S390] tod 625 [SH] SuperH 626 [SPARC64] tick 627 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 628 629 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 630 [ARM,ARM64] 631 Format: <bool> 632 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 633 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 634 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 635 systems. 636 637 clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL] 638 Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to 639 external delays before the clock will be marked 640 unstable. Defaults to two retries, that is, 641 three attempts to read the clock under test. 642 643 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 644 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 645 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 646 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 647 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 648 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 649 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 650 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 651 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 652 653 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 654 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 655 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 656 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 657 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 658 659 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 660 [KNL,CMA] 661 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 662 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 663 placement constraint by the physical address range of 664 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 665 altogether. For more information, see 666 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 667 668 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 669 [ARM64,KNL,CMA] 670 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 671 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 672 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 673 specificed, the default value is 0. 674 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 675 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 676 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 677 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 678 679 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 680 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 681 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 682 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 683 a hypervisor. 684 Default: yes 685 686 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 687 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 688 allocations, by default set to 256K. 689 690 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 691 Format: 692 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 693 694 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 695 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 696 697 com90xx= [HW,NET] 698 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 699 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 700 701 condev= [HW,S390] console device 702 conmode= 703 704 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 705 706 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 707 708 ttyS<n>[,options] 709 ttyUSB0[,options] 710 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 711 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 712 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 713 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 714 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 715 716 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 717 information. See 718 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 719 alternative. 720 721 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 722 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 723 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 724 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 725 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 726 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 727 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 728 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 729 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 730 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 731 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 732 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 733 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 734 the h/w is not re-initialized. 735 736 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 737 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 738 739 { null | "" } 740 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 741 console messages discarded. 742 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 743 kernel command line. 744 745 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 746 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 747 console=brl,ttyS0 748 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 749 750 console_msg_format= 751 [KNL] Change console messages format 752 default 753 By default we print messages on consoles in 754 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 755 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 756 `printk_time' param). 757 syslog 758 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 759 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 760 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 761 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 762 from /proc/kmsg. 763 764 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 765 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 766 Defaults to 0. 767 768 coredump_filter= 769 [KNL] Change the default value for 770 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 771 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 772 773 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 774 [ARM,ARM64] 775 Format: <bool> 776 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 777 0: default value, disable debugging 778 1: enable debugging at boot time 779 780 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 781 Format: 782 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 783 784 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 785 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 786 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 787 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 788 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 789 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 790 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 791 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 792 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 793 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 794 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 795 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 796 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 797 798 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 799 disable the cpuidle sub-system 800 801 cpuidle.governor= 802 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 803 804 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 805 disable the cpufreq sub-system 806 807 cpufreq.default_governor= 808 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 809 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 810 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 811 812 cpu_init_udelay=N 813 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 814 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 815 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 816 Default: 10000 817 818 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 819 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 820 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 821 succeeds in any situation. 822 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 823 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 824 kernel more unstable. 825 826 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 827 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 828 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 829 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 830 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 831 is selected automatically. 832 [KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and 833 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 834 hasn't been specified. 835 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 836 837 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 838 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 839 in the running system. The syntax of range is 840 start-[end] where start and end are both 841 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 842 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 843 844 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 845 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 846 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 847 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 848 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 849 available. 850 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 851 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 852 [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 853 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 854 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 855 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 856 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 857 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 858 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate 859 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 860 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G 861 for second kernel instead. 862 0: to disable low allocation. 863 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 864 or memory reserved is below 4G. 865 866 [KNL, ARM64] range in low memory. 867 This one lets the user specify a low range in the 868 DMA zone for the crash dump kernel. 869 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 870 or memory reserved is located in the DMA zones. 871 872 cryptomgr.notests 873 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 874 875 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 876 Format: <dma> 877 878 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 879 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 880 881 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call 882 handling. When switched on, additional debug data is 883 printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is 884 detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try 885 to resolve the hang situation. 886 0: disable csdlock debugging (default) 887 1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact) 888 ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact, 889 but more data) 890 891 dasd= [HW,NET] 892 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 893 894 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 895 (one device per port) 896 Format: <port#>,<type> 897 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 898 899 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 900 901 debug_boot_weak_hash 902 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 903 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 904 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 905 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 906 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 907 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 908 909 debug_locks_verbose= 910 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 911 Format: <int> 912 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 913 self-tests. 914 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 915 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 916 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 917 useful to lockdep developers. 918 919 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 920 921 no_debug_objects 922 [KNL] Disable object debugging 923 924 debug_guardpage_minorder= 925 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 926 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 927 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 928 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 929 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 930 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 931 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 932 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 933 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 934 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 935 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 936 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 937 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 938 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 939 bypassed) which are not detectable by 940 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 941 tracking down these problems. 942 943 debug_pagealloc= 944 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 945 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 946 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 947 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 948 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 949 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 950 on: enable the feature 951 952 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 953 and debugfs internal clients. 954 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 955 on: All functions are enabled. 956 no-mount: 957 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 958 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 959 its content. There is nothing to mount. 960 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 961 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 962 or directories within debugfs. 963 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 964 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 965 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 966 967 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 968 969 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 970 Format: <area>[,<node>] 971 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst. 972 973 default_hugepagesz= 974 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 975 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 976 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 977 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 978 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 979 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 980 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 981 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 982 Format: size[KMG] 983 984 deferred_probe_timeout= 985 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 986 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 987 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 988 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout 989 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time 990 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each 991 successful driver registration. This option will also 992 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 993 retrying. 994 995 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 996 997 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 998 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 999 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1000 hardware. 1001 1002 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 1003 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 1004 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 1005 blacklisted features. 1006 1007 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 1008 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1009 (disabled by default). 1010 1011 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 1012 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1013 capability is set. 1014 1015 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 1016 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 1017 1018 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 1019 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 1020 1021 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 1022 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 1023 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 1024 level 1 and decompression (default) 1025 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 1026 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 1027 only (compression on level 1) 1028 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 1029 only (decompression) 1030 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 1031 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 1032 1033 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1034 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1035 1036 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 1037 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1038 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1039 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1040 miss to occur. 1041 1042 stress_slb [PPC] 1043 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 1044 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 1045 on kernel addresses. 1046 1047 disable= [IPV6] 1048 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1049 1050 disable_radix [PPC] 1051 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1052 1053 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 1054 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 1055 invalidate. 1056 1057 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1058 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1059 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1060 1061 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 1062 Format: <int> 1063 The number of initial APIC ID for the 1064 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 1065 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 1066 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 1067 causing system reset or hang due to sending 1068 INIT from AP to BSP. 1069 1070 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 1071 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1072 to workaround buggy firmware. 1073 1074 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1075 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1076 1077 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1078 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1079 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1080 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1081 1082 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 1083 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1084 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1085 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1086 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1087 1088 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1089 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1090 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1091 1092 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1093 1094 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1095 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1096 1097 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1098 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1099 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1100 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1101 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1102 architectural default is too low. 1103 1104 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1105 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1106 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1107 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1108 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1109 driver later using sysfs. 1110 1111 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1112 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * 1113 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the 1114 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT 1115 match the *. 1116 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1117 1118 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1119 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1120 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1121 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1122 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1123 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 1124 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 1125 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 1126 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 1127 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 1128 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID 1129 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 1130 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 1131 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 1132 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1133 data set with no connector name will be used for 1134 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1135 1136 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1137 1138 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1139 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1140 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1141 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1142 exists). 1143 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1144 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1145 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1146 1147 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1148 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1149 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1150 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1151 1152 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1153 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1154 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1155 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1156 for details. 1157 1158 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 1159 in some Intel CPUs. 1160 1161 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL] 1162 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value 1163 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous 1164 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable 1165 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the 1166 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe 1167 1168 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1169 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1170 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1171 which are not unmapped. 1172 1173 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1174 1175 When used with no options, the early console is 1176 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1177 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1178 the platform. 1179 1180 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1181 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1182 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1183 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1184 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1185 configured. 1186 1187 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 1188 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 1189 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 1190 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 1191 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1192 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1193 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1194 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1195 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1196 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1197 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1198 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1199 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 1200 1201 pl011,<addr> 1202 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1203 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1204 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1205 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1206 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1207 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1208 the device registers. 1209 1210 liteuart,<addr> 1211 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1212 specified address. The serial port must already be 1213 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1214 1215 meson,<addr> 1216 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1217 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1218 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1219 supported. 1220 1221 msm_serial,<addr> 1222 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1223 port at the specified address. The serial port 1224 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1225 yet supported. 1226 1227 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1228 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1229 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1230 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1231 yet supported. 1232 1233 owl,<addr> 1234 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1235 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1236 specified address. The serial port must already be 1237 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1238 1239 rda,<addr> 1240 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1241 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1242 specified address. The serial port must already be 1243 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1244 1245 sbi 1246 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1247 console. 1248 1249 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1250 1251 s3c2410,<addr> 1252 s3c2412,<addr> 1253 s3c2440,<addr> 1254 s3c6400,<addr> 1255 s5pv210,<addr> 1256 exynos4210,<addr> 1257 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1258 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1259 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1260 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1261 Options are not yet supported. 1262 1263 lantiq,<addr> 1264 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1265 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1266 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1267 yet supported. 1268 1269 lpuart,<addr> 1270 lpuart32,<addr> 1271 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1272 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1273 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1274 port must already be setup and configured. 1275 1276 ec_imx21,<addr> 1277 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1278 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1279 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1280 must already be setup and configured. 1281 1282 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1283 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1284 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1285 address. The serial port must already be setup 1286 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1287 1288 qcom_geni,<addr> 1289 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1290 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1291 specified address. The serial port must already be 1292 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1293 1294 efifb,[options] 1295 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1296 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1297 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1298 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1299 mapped with the correct attributes. 1300 1301 linflex,<addr> 1302 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1303 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1304 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1305 already be setup and configured. 1306 1307 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1308 earlyprintk=vga 1309 earlyprintk=sclp 1310 earlyprintk=xen 1311 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1312 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1313 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1314 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1315 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1316 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1317 1318 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1319 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1320 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1321 1322 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1323 takes over. 1324 1325 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can 1326 be used at a time. 1327 1328 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1329 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1330 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1331 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1332 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1333 You can find the port for a given device in 1334 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1335 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1336 1337 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1338 very good. 1339 1340 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by 1341 the real console. 1342 1343 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1344 1345 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1346 1347 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1348 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1349 UART class. 1350 1351 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1352 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1353 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1354 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1355 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1356 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1357 default: on. 1358 1359 edd= [EDD] 1360 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1361 1362 efi= [EFI] 1363 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1364 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1365 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1366 debug: enable misc debug output. 1367 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1368 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1369 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1370 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1371 firmware implementations. 1372 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1373 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1374 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1375 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1376 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1377 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1378 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1379 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1380 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1381 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1382 1383 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1384 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1385 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1386 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1387 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1388 1389 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1390 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1391 updating original EFI memory map. 1392 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1393 from ss to ss+nn. 1394 1395 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1396 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1397 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1398 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1399 1400 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1401 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1402 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1403 1404 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1405 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1406 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1407 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1408 "soft reserved". 1409 1410 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1411 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1412 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1413 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1414 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1415 1416 1417 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1418 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1419 1420 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1421 Format: ekgdboc=kbd 1422 1423 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1424 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1425 1426 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1427 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1428 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1429 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1430 1431 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1432 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1433 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1434 1435 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1436 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1437 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1438 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1439 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1440 1441 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1442 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1443 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1444 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1445 1446 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1447 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1448 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1449 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1450 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1451 1452 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1453 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1454 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1455 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1456 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1457 Default value is 0. 1458 Value can be changed at runtime via 1459 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1460 1461 erst_disable [ACPI] 1462 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1463 support. 1464 1465 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1466 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1467 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1468 1469 evm= [EVM] 1470 Format: { "fix" } 1471 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1472 current integrity status. 1473 1474 early_page_ext [KNL] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier 1475 stages so cover more early boot allocations. 1476 Please note that as side effect some optimizations 1477 might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized 1478 memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process 1479 might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of 1480 memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y. 1481 1482 failslab= 1483 fail_usercopy= 1484 fail_page_alloc= 1485 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1486 General fault injection mechanism. 1487 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1488 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1489 1490 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1491 Format: { initns | none } 1492 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1493 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1494 1495 floppy= [HW] 1496 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1497 1498 force_pal_cache_flush 1499 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1500 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1501 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1502 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1503 1504 forcepae [X86-32] 1505 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1506 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1507 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1508 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1509 and may cause unknown problems. 1510 1511 ftrace=[tracer] 1512 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1513 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1514 boot debugging. 1515 1516 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1517 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1518 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1519 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1520 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1521 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1522 start up functionality. 1523 1524 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1525 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1526 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1527 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1528 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1529 oops. 1530 1531 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1532 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1533 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1534 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1535 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1536 tracing directory. 1537 1538 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1539 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1540 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1541 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1542 tracing directory. 1543 1544 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1545 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1546 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1547 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1548 that can be changed at run time by the 1549 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1550 1551 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1552 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1553 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1554 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1555 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1556 1557 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1558 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1559 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1560 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1561 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1562 1563 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1564 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1565 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1566 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1567 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1568 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1569 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1570 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1571 suppliers). 1572 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1573 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1574 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1575 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1576 up (sync_state() calls). 1577 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1578 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1579 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1580 1581 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1582 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1583 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1584 Format: <bool> 1585 1586 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1587 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1588 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1589 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1590 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1591 1592 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1593 1594 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1595 Format: off | on 1596 default: on 1597 1598 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1599 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1600 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1601 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1602 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1603 1604 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1605 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1606 android emulator 1607 1608 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1609 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1610 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1611 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1612 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1613 1614 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1615 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1616 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1617 GPT to be used instead. 1618 1619 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1620 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1621 Format: 0 | 1 1622 Default: 0 1623 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1624 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1625 Format: 0 | 1 1626 Default: 0 1627 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1628 Format: 0 | 1 1629 Default: 0 1630 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1631 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1632 Default: 1024 1633 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1634 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1635 Default: 1024 1636 1637 hardened_usercopy= 1638 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1639 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1640 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1641 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1642 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1643 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1644 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1645 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 1646 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1647 1648 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1649 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1650 backtraces on all cpus. 1651 Format: 0 | 1 1652 1653 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1654 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1655 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1656 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1657 1658 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1659 1660 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1661 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1662 1663 hest_disable [ACPI] 1664 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1665 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1666 logic will be disabled. 1667 1668 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 1669 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 1670 present during boot. 1671 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 1672 no Disable hibernation and resume. 1673 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 1674 (that will set all pages holding image data 1675 during restoration read-only). 1676 1677 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1678 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1679 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1680 size on bigger boxes. 1681 1682 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1683 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1684 Default: "on" 1685 1686 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1687 1688 hostname= [KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename). 1689 Format: <string> 1690 This allows setting the system's hostname during early 1691 startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname. 1692 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it 1693 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before 1694 any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility 1695 that a process may call gethostname before the hostname 1696 has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling 1697 process getting an incorrect result. The string must 1698 not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually 1699 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise. 1700 1701 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1702 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1703 verbose } 1704 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1705 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1706 VIA, nVidia) 1707 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1708 1709 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1710 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1711 1712 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1713 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1714 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1715 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1716 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1717 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1718 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1719 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1720 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1721 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1722 1723 hugepagesz= 1724 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1725 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1726 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1727 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1728 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1729 architecture dependent. See also 1730 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1731 Format: size[KMG] 1732 1733 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1734 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1735 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1736 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1737 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1738 1739 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1740 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1741 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1742 1743 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1744 [KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 1745 enabled. 1746 Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled. 1747 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1748 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1749 Format: { on | off (default) } 1750 1751 on: enable HVO 1752 off: disable HVO 1753 1754 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1755 the default is on. 1756 1757 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added 1758 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is 1759 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this 1760 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from 1761 the added memory block itself do not be affected. 1762 1763 hung_task_panic= 1764 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1765 Format: 0 | 1 1766 1767 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1768 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1769 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1770 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1771 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1772 1773 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1774 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1775 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1776 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1777 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1778 1779 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1780 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1781 guest on lock contention. 1782 1783 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1784 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1785 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1786 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1787 the real console. 1788 1789 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1790 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1791 registered from board initialization code. 1792 Format: 1793 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1794 1795 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1796 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1797 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1798 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1799 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1800 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1801 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1802 keyboard and cannot control its state 1803 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1804 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1805 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1806 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1807 for the AUX port 1808 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1809 controller 1810 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1811 controllers 1812 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1813 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1814 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1815 transitions, or never reset 1816 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1817 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1818 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1819 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1820 architectures force reset to be always executed 1821 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1822 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1823 i8042.probe_defer 1824 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1825 1826 i810= [HW,DRM] 1827 1828 i915.invert_brightness= 1829 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1830 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1831 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1832 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1833 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1834 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1835 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1836 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1837 value switches the backlight off. 1838 -1 -- never invert brightness 1839 0 -- machine default 1840 1 -- force brightness inversion 1841 1842 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1843 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1844 1845 1846 idle= [X86] 1847 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1848 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1849 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1850 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1851 Not recommended. 1852 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1853 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1854 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1855 1856 idxd.sva= [HW] 1857 Format: <bool> 1858 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1859 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1860 true (1). 1861 1862 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 1863 Format: <bool> 1864 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 1865 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 1866 1867 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1868 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1869 Default: strict 1870 1871 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1872 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1873 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1874 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1875 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1876 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1877 encoding mode. 1878 1879 Available settings are as follows: 1880 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1881 supported by the FPU 1882 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1883 by the FPU 1884 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1885 by the FPU 1886 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1887 supported by the FPU 1888 1889 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1890 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1891 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1892 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1893 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1894 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1895 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1896 MIPS64 CPUs. 1897 1898 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1899 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1900 except where unsupported by hardware. 1901 1902 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1903 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1904 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1905 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1906 could change it dynamically, usually by 1907 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1908 1909 ignore_rlimit_data 1910 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1911 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1912 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1913 1914 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1915 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1916 1917 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1918 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1919 default: "enforce" 1920 1921 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1922 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1923 owned by uid=0. 1924 1925 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1926 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1927 measurements, instead of host native format. 1928 1929 ima_hash= [IMA] 1930 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1931 | sha512 | ... } 1932 default: "sha1" 1933 1934 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1935 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1936 1937 ima_policy= [IMA] 1938 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1939 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1940 fail_securely | critical_data" 1941 1942 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1943 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1944 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1945 uid=0. 1946 1947 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1948 all files owned by root. 1949 1950 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1951 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1952 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1953 1954 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1955 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1956 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1957 flag. 1958 1959 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 1960 critical data. 1961 1962 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1963 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1964 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1965 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1966 opened for read by uid=0. 1967 1968 ima_template= [IMA] 1969 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1970 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 1971 "ima-sigv2" } 1972 Default: "ima-ng" 1973 1974 ima_template_fmt= 1975 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1976 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1977 1978 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1979 Format: <min_file_size> 1980 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1981 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1982 1983 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1984 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1985 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1986 1987 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1988 Format: <bufsize> 1989 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1990 1991 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1992 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1993 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1994 1995 init= [KNL] 1996 Format: <full_path> 1997 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1998 process. 1999 2000 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 2001 for working out where the kernel is dying during 2002 startup. 2003 2004 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 2005 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 2006 modules and initcalls. 2007 2008 initramfs_async= [KNL] 2009 Format: <bool> 2010 Default: 1 2011 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 2012 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 2013 with devices being probed and 2014 initialized. This should normally just work, 2015 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 2016 historical behaviour of the initramfs 2017 unpacking being completed before device_ and 2018 late_ initcalls. 2019 2020 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 2021 2022 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 2023 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 2024 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 2025 setting. 2026 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 2027 Default is 0, 0 2028 2029 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 2030 zeroes. 2031 Format: 0 | 1 2032 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 2033 2034 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2035 Format: 0 | 1 2036 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2037 2038 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2039 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2040 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2041 override in debugfs after boot. 2042 2043 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2044 Format: <irq> 2045 2046 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2047 2048 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2049 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2050 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2051 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2052 2053 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2054 on 2055 Enable intel iommu driver. 2056 off 2057 Disable intel iommu driver. 2058 igfx_off [Default Off] 2059 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2060 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2061 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2062 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2063 DMA. 2064 strict [Default Off] 2065 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2066 sp_off [Default Off] 2067 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2068 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2069 not be supported. 2070 sm_on 2071 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2072 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2073 translation. 2074 sm_off 2075 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2076 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2077 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2078 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2079 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2080 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2081 mapping is enabled. 2082 Note that using this option lowers the security 2083 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2084 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2085 2086 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2087 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2088 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2089 2090 intel_pstate= [X86] 2091 disable 2092 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2093 scaling driver for the supported processors 2094 passive 2095 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2096 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2097 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2098 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2099 feature. 2100 force 2101 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2102 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2103 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2104 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2105 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2106 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2107 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2108 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2109 no_hwp 2110 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2111 if available. 2112 hwp_only 2113 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2114 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2115 support_acpi_ppc 2116 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2117 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2118 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2119 then this feature is turned on by default. 2120 per_cpu_perf_limits 2121 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2122 cpufreq sysfs interface 2123 2124 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 2125 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2126 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2127 nosid disable Source ID checking 2128 no_x2apic_optout 2129 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2130 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2131 2132 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2133 strict regions from userspace. 2134 relaxed 2135 2136 iommu= [X86] 2137 off 2138 force 2139 noforce 2140 biomerge 2141 panic 2142 nopanic 2143 merge 2144 nomerge 2145 soft 2146 pt [X86] 2147 nopt [X86] 2148 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2149 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2150 2151 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2152 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2153 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2154 falling back to the full range if needed. 2155 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2156 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2157 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2158 2159 iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2160 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2161 0 - Lazy mode. 2162 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2163 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2164 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2165 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2166 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2167 1 - Strict mode. 2168 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2169 synchronously. 2170 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2171 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2172 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2173 2174 iommu.passthrough= 2175 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2176 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2177 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2178 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2179 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2180 2181 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2182 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2183 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2184 2185 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 2186 0x80 2187 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2188 0xed 2189 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2190 udelay 2191 Simple two microseconds delay 2192 none 2193 No delay 2194 2195 ip= [IP_PNP] 2196 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2197 2198 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2199 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2200 2201 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2202 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2203 2204 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2205 [ARM, ARM64] 2206 Format: <bool> 2207 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2208 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2209 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2210 2211 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2212 [ARM, ARM64] 2213 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2214 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2215 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2216 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2217 LPIs. 2218 2219 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2220 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2221 requires the kernel to be built with 2222 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2223 2224 irqfixup [HW] 2225 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2226 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2227 firmware running. 2228 2229 irqpoll [HW] 2230 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2231 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2232 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2233 firmware running. 2234 2235 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2236 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2237 2238 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2239 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2240 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2241 2242 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2243 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2244 2245 nohz 2246 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2247 2248 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2249 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2250 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2251 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2252 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2253 2254 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2255 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2256 be configured manually after bootup. 2257 2258 domain 2259 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2260 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2261 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2262 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2263 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2264 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2265 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2266 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2267 2268 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2269 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2270 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2271 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2272 2273 managed_irq 2274 2275 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2276 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2277 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2278 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2279 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2280 2281 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2282 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2283 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2284 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2285 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2286 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2287 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2288 2289 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2290 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2291 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2292 only delivered when tasks running on those 2293 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2294 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2295 queues. 2296 2297 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2298 2299 iucv= [HW,NET] 2300 2301 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2302 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2303 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2304 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2305 For example: 2306 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2307 write the parameter as: 2308 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2309 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2310 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2311 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2312 2313 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2314 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2315 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2316 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2317 For example: 2318 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2319 write the parameter as: 2320 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2321 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2322 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2323 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2324 2325 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2326 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2327 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2328 2329 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2330 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2331 write the parameter as: 2332 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2333 2334 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2335 For example, PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 2336 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2337 2338 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2339 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2340 2341 nokaslr [KNL] 2342 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 2343 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 2344 Layout Randomization). 2345 2346 kasan_multi_shot 2347 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2348 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2349 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2350 invalid access. 2351 2352 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2353 2354 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2355 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2356 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2357 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2358 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2359 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2360 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2361 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2362 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2363 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2364 2365 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2366 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2367 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2368 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2369 zone if it does not. 2370 2371 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2372 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2373 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2374 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2375 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2376 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2377 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2378 2379 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2380 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2381 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2382 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2383 optional and is the number seconds in between 2384 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2385 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2386 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2387 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2388 the kernel debugger. 2389 2390 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2391 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2392 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2393 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2394 keyboard only format: kbd 2395 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2396 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2397 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2398 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2399 2400 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2401 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2402 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2403 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2404 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2405 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2406 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2407 2408 The name of the early console should be specified 2409 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2410 the early console might be different than the tty 2411 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2412 blank and the first boot console that implements 2413 read() will be picked. 2414 2415 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2416 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2417 2418 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2419 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2420 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2421 2422 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2423 Valid arguments: on, off 2424 Default: on 2425 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2426 the default is off. 2427 2428 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2429 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2430 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2431 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2432 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2433 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2434 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2435 2436 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2437 2438 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2439 Boot Parameter" section. 2440 2441 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2442 and kernel address spaces. 2443 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2444 0: force disabled 2445 1: force enabled 2446 2447 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2448 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2449 2450 kvm.eager_page_split= 2451 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2452 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2453 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2454 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2455 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2456 required to split huge pages lazily. 2457 2458 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2459 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2460 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2461 still be used for reads. 2462 2463 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2464 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2465 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2466 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2467 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2468 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2469 cleared. 2470 2471 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y. 2472 2473 Default is Y (on). 2474 2475 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2476 Default is false (don't support). 2477 2478 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2479 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2480 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2481 force : Always deploy workaround. 2482 off : Never deploy workaround. 2483 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2484 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2485 2486 Default is 'auto'. 2487 2488 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2489 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2490 2491 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2492 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2493 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2494 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2495 period (see below). The default is 60. 2496 2497 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2498 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2499 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2500 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2501 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2502 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2503 2504 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2505 Default is 1 (enabled) 2506 2507 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2508 for all guests. 2509 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2510 2511 kvm-arm.mode= 2512 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2513 2514 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2515 2516 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2517 protected guests. 2518 2519 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2520 state is kept private from the host. 2521 2522 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2523 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2524 for the host. 2525 2526 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2527 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2528 system registers 2529 2530 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2531 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2532 system registers 2533 2534 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2535 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2536 system registers 2537 2538 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2539 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2540 LPIs. 2541 2542 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2543 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2544 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2545 allocation. 2546 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2547 Format: <integer> 2548 Default: 5 2549 2550 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2551 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2552 Default is 1 (enabled) 2553 2554 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2555 [KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state. 2556 Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as 2557 guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests. 2558 This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM 2559 never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2560 Default is 1 (enabled) 2561 2562 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2563 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2564 Default is 1 (enabled) 2565 2566 kvm-intel.nested= 2567 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2568 Default is 0 (disabled) 2569 2570 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2571 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2572 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2573 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2574 2575 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2576 CVE-2018-3620. 2577 2578 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2579 2580 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2581 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2582 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2583 never: Disables the mitigation 2584 2585 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2586 2587 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2588 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2589 Default is 1 (enabled) 2590 2591 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL] 2592 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2593 2594 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2595 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2596 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2597 2598 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2599 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2600 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2601 not have direct access. 2602 2603 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2604 options are: 2605 2606 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2607 2608 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2609 affected CPUs 2610 2611 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2612 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2613 2614 full 2615 Provides all available mitigations for the 2616 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2617 enables all mitigations in the 2618 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2619 2620 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2621 sysfs interface is still possible after 2622 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2623 when the first VM is started in a 2624 potentially insecure configuration, 2625 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2626 2627 full,force 2628 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2629 flush runtime control. Implies the 2630 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2631 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2632 2633 flush 2634 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2635 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2636 L1D flush. 2637 2638 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2639 sysfs interface is still possible after 2640 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2641 when the first VM is started in a 2642 potentially insecure configuration, 2643 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2644 2645 flush,nosmt 2646 2647 Disables SMT and enables the default 2648 hypervisor mitigation. 2649 2650 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2651 sysfs interface is still possible after 2652 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2653 when the first VM is started in a 2654 potentially insecure configuration, 2655 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2656 2657 flush,nowarn 2658 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2659 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2660 insecure configuration. 2661 2662 off 2663 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2664 emit any warnings. 2665 It also drops the swap size and available 2666 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2667 bare metal. 2668 2669 Default is 'flush'. 2670 2671 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2672 2673 l2cr= [PPC] 2674 2675 l3cr= [PPC] 2676 2677 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2678 disabled it. 2679 2680 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2681 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2682 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2683 Format: notscdeadline 2684 2685 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2686 in C2 power state. 2687 2688 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2689 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2690 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2691 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2692 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2693 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2694 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2695 2696 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2697 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2698 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2699 2700 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2701 when set. 2702 Format: <int> 2703 2704 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 2705 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 2706 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 2707 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 2708 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 2709 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 2710 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 2711 to all ports, links and devices. 2712 2713 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2714 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2715 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2716 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2717 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2718 host link and device attached to it. 2719 2720 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2721 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 2722 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2723 The following configurations can be forced. 2724 2725 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2726 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2727 2728 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2729 2730 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2731 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2732 allowed. 2733 2734 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 2735 resets. 2736 2737 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 2738 link recovery. 2739 2740 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 2741 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 2742 detection. 2743 2744 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2745 2746 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 2747 2748 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 2749 2750 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 2751 2752 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 2753 2754 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 2755 2756 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 2757 2758 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 2759 2760 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 2761 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 2762 2763 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 2764 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 2765 2766 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 2767 identify device data log. 2768 2769 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 2770 purpose log directory. 2771 2772 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 2773 2774 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2775 1024 sectors. 2776 2777 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2778 65535 sectors. 2779 2780 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 2781 2782 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 2783 should be skipped. 2784 2785 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 2786 2787 * disable: Disable this device. 2788 2789 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2790 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2791 2792 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2793 2794 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2795 Format: <integer> 2796 2797 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2798 Format: <integer> 2799 2800 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2801 Format: <integer> 2802 2803 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2804 Format: <integer> 2805 2806 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2807 { integrity | confidentiality } 2808 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2809 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2810 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2811 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2812 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2813 are also disabled. 2814 2815 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2816 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2817 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2818 number of online CPUs. 2819 2820 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2821 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2822 2823 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2824 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2825 2826 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2827 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2828 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2829 2830 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2831 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2832 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2833 mode during the locktorture test. 2834 2835 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2836 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2837 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2838 2839 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2840 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2841 2842 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2843 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2844 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2845 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2846 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2847 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2848 2849 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2850 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2851 2852 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2853 Enable additional printk() statements. 2854 2855 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2856 Format: <irq> 2857 2858 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2859 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2860 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2861 loglevels are defined as follows: 2862 2863 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2864 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2865 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2866 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2867 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2868 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2869 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2870 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2871 2872 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2873 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2874 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2875 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2876 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2877 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2878 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2879 2880 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2881 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2882 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2883 kernel boot problems. 2884 2885 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2886 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2887 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2888 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2889 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2890 attached printers to be reset. Using 2891 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2892 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2893 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2894 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2895 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2896 port specification list means that device IDs 2897 from each port should be examined, to see if 2898 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2899 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2900 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2901 2902 lpj=n [KNL] 2903 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2904 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2905 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2906 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2907 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2908 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2909 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2910 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2911 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2912 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2913 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2914 hardware. 2915 2916 ltpc= [NET] 2917 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2918 2919 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2920 2921 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2922 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2923 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2924 2925 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2926 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2927 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2928 2929 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 2930 different yeeloong laptops. 2931 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2932 2933 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater 2934 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2935 2936 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2937 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2938 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2939 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2940 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2941 only takes effect during system bootup. 2942 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2943 which also disables the IO APIC. 2944 2945 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2946 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2947 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2948 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2949 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2950 /dev/loop-control interface. 2951 2952 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2953 2954 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2955 2956 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2957 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2958 2959 mdacon= [MDA] 2960 Format: <first>,<last> 2961 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2962 2963 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2964 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2965 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2966 2967 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2968 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2969 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2970 2971 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2972 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2973 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2974 not have direct access. 2975 2976 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2977 options are: 2978 2979 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2980 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2981 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2982 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2983 2984 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 2985 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 2986 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 2987 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 2988 too. 2989 2990 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 2991 mds=full. 2992 2993 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 2994 2995 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON] Set the memory size. 2996 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 2997 2998 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2999 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 3000 3001 1 for test; 3002 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 3003 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 3004 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 3005 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 3006 3007 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 3008 high memory is not affected. 3009 3010 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 3011 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 3012 3013 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 3014 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 3015 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 3016 belonging to unused RAM. 3017 3018 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 3019 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 3020 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 3021 3022 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3023 [ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by 3024 firmware. 3025 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 3026 ss[KMG]. 3027 Multiple different regions can be specified with 3028 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 3029 3030 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 3031 memory. 3032 3033 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 3034 3035 memchunk=nn[KMG] 3036 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 3037 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 3038 3039 memhp_default_state=online/offline 3040 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 3041 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 3042 set according to the 3043 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 3044 option. 3045 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 3046 3047 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 3048 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3049 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3050 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3051 option description. 3052 3053 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3054 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3055 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3056 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3057 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3058 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3059 comma delimited. 3060 Example: 3061 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3062 3063 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3064 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3065 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3066 3067 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3068 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3069 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3070 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3071 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3072 or 3073 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3074 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3075 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3076 will be eaten. 3077 3078 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 3079 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3080 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3081 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3082 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3083 3084 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3085 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 3086 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3087 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3088 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3089 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3090 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3091 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3092 3093 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 3094 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3095 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3096 Setting this option will scan the memory 3097 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3098 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3099 from using the memory being corrupted. 3100 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3101 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3102 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3103 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3104 3105 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 3106 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3107 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3108 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3109 corruption in more or less memory. 3110 3111 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 3112 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3113 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3114 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3115 3116 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3117 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3118 Format: {on | off (default)} 3119 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3120 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages, 3121 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even 3122 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the 3123 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a 3124 lot of memory without requiring additional 3125 memory to do so. 3126 This feature is disabled by default because it 3127 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3128 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3129 memory blocks). 3130 The state of the flag can be read in 3131 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3132 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3133 the feature is not effective. 3134 3135 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest 3136 Format: <integer> 3137 default : 0 <disable> 3138 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3139 performed. Each pass selects another test 3140 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3141 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3142 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3143 regions that are detected. 3144 3145 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3146 Valid arguments: on, off 3147 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 3148 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 3149 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 3150 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3151 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3152 3153 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3154 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3155 3156 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3157 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3158 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3159 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3160 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3161 3162 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 3163 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst. 3164 3165 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 3166 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 3167 platforms. 3168 3169 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3170 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3171 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3172 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3173 3174 mga= [HW,DRM] 3175 3176 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this 3177 physical address is ignored. 3178 3179 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3180 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3181 Default: "0tb" 3182 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3183 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3184 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3185 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3186 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3187 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3188 unconfigured. 3189 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3190 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3191 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3192 VGA shield. 3193 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3194 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3195 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3196 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3197 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3198 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3199 3200 mitigations= 3201 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 3202 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3203 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3204 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3205 3206 off 3207 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3208 improves system performance, but it may also 3209 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3210 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 3211 if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] 3212 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3213 nobp=0 [S390] 3214 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3215 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3216 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3217 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3218 l1tf=off [X86] 3219 mds=off [X86] 3220 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3221 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3222 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3223 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3224 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3225 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 3226 retbleed=off [X86] 3227 3228 Exceptions: 3229 This does not have any effect on 3230 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3231 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3232 3233 auto (default) 3234 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3235 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3236 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3237 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3238 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3239 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3240 3241 auto,nosmt 3242 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3243 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3244 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3245 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3246 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3247 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3248 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 3249 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] 3250 3251 mminit_loglevel= 3252 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3253 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3254 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3255 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3256 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3257 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3258 3259 mmio_stale_data= 3260 [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor 3261 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3262 3263 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3264 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3265 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3266 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3267 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3268 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3269 3270 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3271 options are: 3272 3273 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3274 3275 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3276 vulnerable CPUs. 3277 3278 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3279 3280 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3281 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3282 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3283 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3284 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3285 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3286 3287 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3288 mmio_stale_data=full. 3289 3290 For details see: 3291 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3292 3293 module.async_probe=<bool> 3294 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing 3295 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a 3296 specific module, use the module specific control that 3297 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both 3298 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are 3299 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for 3300 the specific module. 3301 3302 module.sig_enforce 3303 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3304 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3305 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3306 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3307 3308 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3309 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3310 3311 mousedev.tap_time= 3312 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3313 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3314 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3315 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3316 Format: <msecs> 3317 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3318 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3319 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3320 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3321 3322 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 3323 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3324 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3325 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3326 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3327 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3328 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3329 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3330 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3331 is not too small. 3332 3333 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3334 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3335 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3336 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3337 allocations. Use with caution! 3338 3339 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3340 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3341 3342 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3343 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3344 3345 mtdparts= [MTD] 3346 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3347 3348 mtdset= [ARM] 3349 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 3350 3351 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 3352 3353 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3354 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3355 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3356 3357 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3358 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3359 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3360 3361 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3362 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3363 Default is 1. 3364 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3365 using up MTRRs. 3366 3367 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 3368 Format: <integer> 3369 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3370 Default : 1 3371 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3372 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3373 3374 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3375 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3376 at a time. 3377 3378 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3379 3380 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3381 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3382 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3383 something different and driver-specific. 3384 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3385 file if at all. 3386 3387 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3388 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3389 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3390 waits 4 seconds. 3391 3392 nf_conntrack.acct= 3393 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3394 0 to disable accounting 3395 1 to enable accounting 3396 Default value is 0. 3397 3398 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3399 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3400 3401 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3402 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3403 3404 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3405 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3406 3407 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3408 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3409 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3410 requests. 3411 3412 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3413 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3414 channel should listen. 3415 3416 nfs.cache_getent= 3417 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3418 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3419 3420 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3421 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3422 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3423 3424 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3425 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3426 entries. 3427 3428 nfs.enable_ino64= 3429 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3430 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3431 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3432 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3433 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3434 3435 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3436 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3437 slots the client will assign to the callback 3438 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3439 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3440 a particular server. 3441 3442 nfs.max_session_slots= 3443 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3444 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3445 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3446 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3447 Note that there is little point in setting this 3448 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3449 3450 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3451 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3452 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3453 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3454 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3455 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3456 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3457 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3458 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3459 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3460 back to using the idmapper. 3461 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3462 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3463 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3464 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3465 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3466 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3467 3468 nfs.send_implementation_id = 3469 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3470 information in exchange_id requests. 3471 If zero, no implementation identification information 3472 will be sent. 3473 The default is to send the implementation identification 3474 information. 3475 3476 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 3477 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3478 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3479 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3480 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3481 after the locks are lost. 3482 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3483 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3484 parameter to '1'. 3485 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3486 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3487 3488 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 3489 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3490 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3491 3492 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3493 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3494 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3495 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3496 3497 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable = 3498 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3499 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3500 the destination of the copy. 3501 3502 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout = 3503 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3504 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3505 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3506 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3507 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3508 this parameter. 3509 3510 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3511 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3512 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3513 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3514 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3515 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3516 3517 3518 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3519 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3520 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3521 3522 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3523 when a NMI is triggered. 3524 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3525 3526 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3527 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3528 Valid num: 0 or 1 3529 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3530 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3531 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3532 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3533 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3534 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3535 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3536 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3537 need the box quickly up again. 3538 3539 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3540 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3541 3542 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3543 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3544 is present. 3545 3546 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3547 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3548 3549 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3550 3551 no_console_suspend 3552 [HW] Never suspend the console 3553 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3554 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3555 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3556 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3557 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3558 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3559 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3560 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3561 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3562 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3563 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3564 turn on/off it dynamically. 3565 3566 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3567 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3568 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3569 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3570 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3571 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3572 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3573 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3574 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3575 is set. 3576 3577 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3578 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3579 but will impact performance. 3580 3581 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3582 3583 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3584 (CPU alternatives feature). 3585 3586 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3587 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3588 3589 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3590 3591 nocache [ARM] 3592 3593 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3594 3595 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3596 3597 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3598 3599 noexec [IA-64] 3600 3601 nosmap [PPC] 3602 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3603 even if it is supported by processor. 3604 3605 nosmep [PPC64s] 3606 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3607 even if it is supported by processor. 3608 3609 noexec32 [X86-64] 3610 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3611 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3612 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3613 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3614 read implies executable mappings 3615 3616 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3617 3618 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3619 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3620 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3621 3622 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3623 3624 nohugevmalloc [PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3625 3626 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3627 Equivalent to smt=1. 3628 3629 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3630 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3631 via the sysfs control file. 3632 3633 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3634 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3635 possible in the system. 3636 3637 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3638 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3639 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3640 option. 3641 3642 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3643 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3644 3645 no_uaccess_flush 3646 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 3647 3648 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3649 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3650 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3651 3652 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3653 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3654 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3655 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3656 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3657 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3658 3659 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3660 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3661 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3662 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3663 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3664 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3665 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3666 3667 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait 3668 in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3669 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3670 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3671 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3672 correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute 3673 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3674 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3675 3676 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3677 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3678 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3679 3680 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3681 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3682 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3683 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3684 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3685 real-time systems. 3686 3687 no_hash_pointers 3688 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3689 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3690 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3691 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3692 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3693 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3694 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3695 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3696 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3697 value printed. This option should only be specified when 3698 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3699 kernels. 3700 3701 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3702 3703 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3704 Valid arguments: on, off 3705 Default: on 3706 3707 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3708 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3709 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3710 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3711 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3712 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3713 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3714 just as if they had also been called out in the 3715 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3716 3717 Note that this argument takes precedence over 3718 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 3719 3720 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3721 3722 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3723 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3724 3725 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3726 broken timer IRQ sources. 3727 3728 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3729 3730 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3731 initial RAM disk. 3732 3733 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3734 remapping. 3735 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3736 3737 nointroute [IA-64] 3738 3739 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3740 3741 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3742 3743 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3744 3745 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3746 fault handling. 3747 3748 no-vmw-sched-clock 3749 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3750 clock and use the default one. 3751 3752 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time 3753 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't 3754 influence scheduler behaviour 3755 3756 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3757 3758 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3759 3760 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3761 3762 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3763 3764 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3765 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3766 3767 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3768 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3769 irq. 3770 3771 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. DRM drivers will not perform 3772 display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. Only the 3773 system framebuffer will be available for use if this was 3774 set-up by the firmware or boot loader. 3775 3776 Useful as fallback, or for testing and debugging. 3777 3778 nomodule Disable module load 3779 3780 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3781 pagetables) support. 3782 3783 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3784 3785 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3786 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3787 3788 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3789 with UP alternatives 3790 3791 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3792 space. 3793 3794 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3795 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3796 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3797 3798 nosbagart [IA-64] 3799 3800 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 3801 3802 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3803 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3804 3805 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3806 3807 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3808 3809 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3810 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3811 3812 nowb [ARM] 3813 3814 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3815 3816 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3817 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3818 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3819 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3820 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3821 parameter's value. 3822 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3823 Default: 255 3824 3825 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3826 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3827 SAL PALO. 3828 3829 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3830 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3831 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3832 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3833 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3834 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3835 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3836 hot plugging. 3837 3838 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3839 3840 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only 3841 set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. 3842 3843 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 3844 NUMA balancing. 3845 Allowed values are enable and disable 3846 3847 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3848 'node', 'default' can be specified 3849 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3850 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3851 3852 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3853 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 3854 info. 3855 3856 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3857 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3858 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3859 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3860 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3861 interrupts *may* be lost! 3862 3863 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3864 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3865 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3866 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3867 3868 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 3869 3870 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 3871 3872 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 3873 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 3874 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 3875 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 3876 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 3877 3878 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3879 process, but there is a small probability of 3880 deadlocking the machine. 3881 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3882 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3883 3884 page_alloc.shuffle= 3885 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3886 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3887 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3888 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3889 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3890 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3891 can be read from sysfs at: 3892 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3893 3894 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3895 Storage of the information about who allocated 3896 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3897 we can turn it on. 3898 on: enable the feature 3899 3900 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3901 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3902 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3903 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3904 on: turn on poisoning 3905 3906 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 3907 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 3908 Format: <integer> 3909 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 3910 reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1). 3911 3912 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3913 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3914 timeout = 0: wait forever 3915 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3916 Format: <timeout> 3917 3918 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3919 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3920 bit 0: print all tasks info 3921 bit 1: print system memory info 3922 bit 2: print timer info 3923 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3924 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3925 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3926 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 3927 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 3928 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 3929 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 3930 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 3931 3932 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 3933 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 3934 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 3935 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 3936 called with any of the flags in this set. 3937 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 3938 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 3939 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 3940 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 3941 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 3942 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 3943 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 3944 3945 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3946 on a WARN(). 3947 3948 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3949 connected to, default is 0. 3950 Format: <parport#> 3951 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3952 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3953 Format: <mode> 3954 3955 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3956 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3957 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3958 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3959 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3960 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3961 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3962 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3963 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3964 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3965 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3966 are specified on the command line, starting 3967 with parport0. 3968 3969 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3970 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3971 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3972 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3973 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3974 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3975 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3976 3977 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 3978 Format: <int> 3979 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 3980 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 3981 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 3982 3983 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 3984 Format: <int> 3985 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 3986 changes. Disabled by default. 3987 3988 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 3989 Format: <int> 3990 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 3991 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3992 Disabled by default. 3993 3994 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 3995 Format: <int> 3996 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 3997 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3998 Disabled by default. 3999 4000 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4001 Format: <int> 4002 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 4003 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 4004 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 4005 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 4006 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 4007 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 4008 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 4009 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 4010 all channels. 4011 4012 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 4013 Format: <int> 4014 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 4015 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4016 respectively. Disabled by default. 4017 4018 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 4019 Format: <int> 4020 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 4021 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4022 respectively. Disabled by default. 4023 4024 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4025 Format: <int> 4026 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 4027 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 4028 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 4029 All modes allowed by default. 4030 4031 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 4032 Format: <int> 4033 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4034 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4035 4036 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4037 Format: <int> 4038 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4039 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4040 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4041 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4042 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4043 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4044 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4045 By default all supported ports are probed. 4046 4047 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4048 Format: <int> 4049 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4050 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4051 4052 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4053 Format: <int> 4054 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4055 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4056 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4057 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4058 0 otherwise. 4059 4060 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4061 Format: <int> 4062 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4063 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4064 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4065 allowed by default. 4066 4067 pause_on_oops= 4068 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4069 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4070 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4071 4072 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4073 4074 pcd. [PARIDE] 4075 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 4076 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4077 4078 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 4079 4080 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4081 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4082 specified in one of the following formats: 4083 4084 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4085 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4086 4087 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4088 bus/device/function address which may change 4089 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4090 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4091 by other kernel parameters. If the 4092 domain is left unspecified, it is 4093 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4094 to a device through multiple device/function 4095 addresses can be specified after the base 4096 address (this is more robust against 4097 renumbering issues). The second format 4098 selects devices using IDs from the 4099 configuration space which may match multiple 4100 devices in the system. 4101 4102 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4103 changes anything 4104 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4105 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4106 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4107 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4108 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4109 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4110 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4111 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4112 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4113 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4114 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4115 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4116 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4117 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4118 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4119 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4120 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4121 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4122 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4123 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4124 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4125 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4126 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4127 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4128 Configuration 4129 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4130 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4131 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4132 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4133 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4134 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4135 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4136 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4137 should never be necessary. 4138 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4139 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4140 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4141 when the system masks IRQs. 4142 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4143 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4144 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4145 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4146 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4147 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4148 on several machines and they hang the machine 4149 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4150 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4151 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4152 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4153 motherboard. 4154 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4155 Use with caution as certain devices share 4156 address decoders between ROMs and other 4157 resources. 4158 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4159 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4160 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4161 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4162 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4163 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4164 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4165 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4166 this way. 4167 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4168 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4169 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4170 F0000h-100000h range. 4171 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4172 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4173 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4174 explicitly which ones they are. 4175 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4176 numbers ourselves, overriding 4177 whatever the firmware may have done. 4178 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4179 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4180 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4181 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4182 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4183 IRQ routing is enabled. 4184 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4185 or for PCI scanning. 4186 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4187 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4188 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4189 please report a bug. 4190 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4191 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4192 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4193 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4194 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4195 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4196 <[email protected]>. 4197 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4198 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4199 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4200 a bug to <[email protected]>. 4201 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4202 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4203 so this option is a temporary workaround 4204 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4205 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4206 handle more pci cards 4207 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4208 This might help on some broken boards which 4209 machine check when some devices' config space 4210 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4211 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4212 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4213 This sorting is done to get a device 4214 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4215 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4216 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4217 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4218 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4219 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4220 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4221 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4222 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4223 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4224 or bus can support) for best performance. 4225 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4226 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4227 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4228 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4229 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4230 that hot-added devices will work. 4231 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4232 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4233 The default value is 256 bytes. 4234 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4235 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4236 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4237 resource_alignment= 4238 Format: 4239 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4240 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4241 aligned memory resources. How to 4242 specify the device is described above. 4243 If <order of align> is not specified, 4244 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4245 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4246 windows need to be expanded. 4247 To specify the alignment for several 4248 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4249 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4250 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4251 for 4096-byte alignment. 4252 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4253 end-to-end CRC checking). 4254 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4255 the default. 4256 off: Turn ECRC off 4257 on: Turn ECRC on. 4258 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4259 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4260 Default size is 256 bytes. 4261 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4262 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4263 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4264 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4265 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4266 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4267 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4268 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4269 MMIO_PREF window. 4270 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4271 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4272 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4273 Default is 1. 4274 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4275 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4276 accommodate resources required by all child 4277 devices. 4278 off: Turn realloc off 4279 on: Turn realloc on 4280 realloc same as realloc=on 4281 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4282 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4283 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4284 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4285 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4286 port. 4287 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4288 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4289 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4290 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4291 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4292 taints the kernel. 4293 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4294 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4295 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4296 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4297 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4298 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4299 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4300 this removes isolation between devices and 4301 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4302 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4303 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4304 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4305 one PCI domain per PCI function 4306 4307 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 4308 Management. 4309 off Disable ASPM. 4310 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4311 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4312 4313 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4314 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4315 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4316 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4317 also tries to use these services. 4318 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4319 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4320 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4321 hotplug). 4322 4323 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4324 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4325 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4326 4327 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4328 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4329 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4330 4331 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4332 4333 pd_ignore_unused 4334 [PM] 4335 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4336 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4337 for debug and development, but should not be 4338 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4339 4340 pd. [PARIDE] 4341 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4342 4343 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4344 boot time. 4345 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4346 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4347 4348 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4349 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4350 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4351 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4352 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4353 and performance comparison. 4354 4355 pf. [PARIDE] 4356 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4357 4358 pg. [PARIDE] 4359 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4360 4361 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4362 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4363 4364 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4365 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4366 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4367 4368 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4369 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4370 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4371 4372 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4373 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4374 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4375 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4376 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4377 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4378 remains 0. 4379 4380 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4381 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4382 4383 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4384 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4385 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4386 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4387 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4388 possible settings and some assignment information. 4389 4390 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4391 { off } 4392 4393 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4394 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4395 4396 pnp_reserve_irq= 4397 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4398 4399 pnp_reserve_dma= 4400 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4401 4402 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4403 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4404 4405 pnp_reserve_mem= 4406 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4407 autoconfiguration. 4408 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4409 4410 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4411 Default is 21. 4412 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4413 may be specified. 4414 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4415 4416 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4417 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4418 platform machine description specific power_save 4419 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4420 execution priority. 4421 4422 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4423 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4424 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4425 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4426 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4427 4428 ppc_tm= [PPC] 4429 Format: {"off"} 4430 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4431 4432 preempt= [KNL] 4433 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4434 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4435 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4436 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4437 can be preempted anytime. 4438 4439 print-fatal-signals= 4440 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4441 4442 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4443 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4444 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4445 coredump - etc. 4446 4447 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4448 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4449 4450 default: off. 4451 4452 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4453 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4454 panics 4455 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4456 default: disabled 4457 4458 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4459 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4460 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4461 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4462 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4463 in order to provide more debug information. 4464 Format: <bool> 4465 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4466 4467 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4468 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4469 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4470 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4471 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4472 Default: ratelimit 4473 4474 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4475 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4476 4477 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4478 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4479 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4480 4481 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4482 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4483 instead using the legacy FADT method 4484 4485 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4486 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4487 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4488 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4489 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4490 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4491 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4492 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4493 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4494 statistical time based profiling. 4495 4496 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4497 4498 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4499 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4500 that). 4501 Format: <bool> 4502 4503 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4504 tracking. 4505 Format: <bool> 4506 4507 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4508 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4509 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4510 per second. 4511 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4512 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4513 (0 = never). 4514 psmouse.resolution= 4515 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4516 psmouse.smartscroll= 4517 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4518 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4519 4520 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4521 4522 pt. [PARIDE] 4523 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4524 4525 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4526 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4527 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4528 system calls and interrupts. 4529 4530 on - unconditionally enable 4531 off - unconditionally disable 4532 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4533 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4534 4535 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4536 4537 nopti [X86-64] 4538 Equivalent to pti=off 4539 4540 pty.legacy_count= 4541 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4542 default number. 4543 4544 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4545 4546 r128= [HW,DRM] 4547 4548 raid= [HW,RAID] 4549 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4550 4551 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4552 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4553 4554 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4555 4556 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 4557 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 4558 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 4559 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4560 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 4561 4562 random.trust_bootloader={on,off} 4563 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of a 4564 seed passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4565 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4566 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER. 4567 4568 randomize_kstack_offset= 4569 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4570 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4571 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4572 that depend on stack address determinism or 4573 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4574 available on architectures that have defined 4575 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4576 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4577 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4578 4579 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4580 4581 cec_disable [X86] 4582 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4583 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4584 4585 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 4586 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 4587 as described above. 4588 4589 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 4590 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 4591 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 4592 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 4593 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 4594 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 4595 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 4596 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 4597 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 4598 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 4599 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 4600 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4601 4602 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 4603 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 4604 4605 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 4606 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 4607 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 4608 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 4609 4610 Note that this argument takes precedence over 4611 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 4612 4613 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4614 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4615 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4616 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4617 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4618 This improves the real-time response for the 4619 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4620 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4621 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4622 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4623 4624 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4625 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4626 process in one batch. 4627 4628 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4629 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4630 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4631 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4632 4633 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4634 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4635 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4636 4637 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4638 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4639 RCU grace-period initialization. 4640 4641 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4642 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4643 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4644 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4645 the rcu_node combining tree. 4646 4647 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 4648 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 4649 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 4650 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 4651 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 4652 4653 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 4654 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 4655 to zero. 4656 4657 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4658 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4659 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4660 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4661 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4662 4663 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4664 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4665 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4666 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4667 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4668 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4669 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4670 4671 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4672 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4673 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4674 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4675 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4676 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4677 condition. 4678 4679 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 4680 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 4681 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 4682 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 4683 4684 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4685 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4686 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4687 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4688 and maximum value is HZ. 4689 4690 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4691 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4692 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4693 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4694 4695 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4696 Set required age in jiffies for a 4697 given grace period before RCU starts 4698 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4699 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4700 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4701 a value based on the most recent settings 4702 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4703 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4704 This calculated value may be viewed in 4705 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4706 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4707 overwritten. 4708 4709 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4710 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4711 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4712 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4713 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4714 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4715 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4716 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4717 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4718 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4719 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 4720 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 4721 4722 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] 4723 Set the shift-right count to use to compute 4724 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from 4725 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. 4726 The result will be bounded below by the value of 4727 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl 4728 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in 4729 order to allow the CPU to do other work. 4730 4731 Please note that this callback-invocation batch 4732 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback 4733 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead 4734 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which 4735 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. 4736 4737 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] 4738 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, 4739 RCU reduces the lock contention that would 4740 otherwise be caused by callback floods through 4741 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the 4742 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to 4743 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra 4744 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. 4745 But if there are too many callbacks queued during 4746 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into 4747 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too 4748 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. 4749 4750 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4751 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4752 each group, which defaults to the square root 4753 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4754 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4755 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4756 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4757 4758 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4759 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4760 batch limiting is disabled. 4761 4762 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4763 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4764 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4765 4766 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4767 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4768 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4769 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4770 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4771 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4772 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4773 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4774 4775 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4776 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4777 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4778 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4779 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4780 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4781 4782 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 4783 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 4784 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 4785 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 4786 Larger delays increase the probability of 4787 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 4788 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 4789 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 4790 4791 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4792 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4793 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4794 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4795 4796 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 4797 Measure performance of asynchronous 4798 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4799 4800 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4801 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4802 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4803 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4804 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4805 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4806 4807 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 4808 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4809 grace-period primitives. 4810 4811 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4812 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4813 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4814 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4815 interference. 4816 4817 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4818 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4819 4820 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 4821 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4822 If this parameter has the same value as 4823 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 4824 and double-argument variants are tested. 4825 4826 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 4827 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4828 If this parameter has the same value as 4829 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 4830 and double-argument variants are tested. 4831 4832 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4833 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4834 4835 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4836 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4837 4838 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4839 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 4840 of allocations and frees. 4841 4842 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4843 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4844 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4845 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4846 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4847 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4848 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4849 a single reader. 4850 4851 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 4852 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4853 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 4854 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4855 4856 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL] 4857 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4858 4859 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4860 Shut the system down after performance tests 4861 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4862 testing. 4863 4864 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 4865 Enable additional printk() statements. 4866 4867 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4868 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4869 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4870 no holdoff. 4871 4872 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4873 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4874 in microseconds. 4875 4876 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4877 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4878 in microseconds. 4879 4880 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4881 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4882 in seconds. 4883 4884 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4885 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 4886 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4887 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4888 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 4889 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 4890 of CPUs to be used. 4891 4892 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4893 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4894 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4895 4896 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4897 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4898 forward-progress tests. 4899 4900 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4901 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4902 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4903 testing. 4904 4905 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4906 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4907 primitives, if available. 4908 4909 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4910 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4911 4912 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4913 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4914 update-side primitives, if available. 4915 4916 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4917 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4918 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4919 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4920 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4921 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4922 they are all non-zero. 4923 4924 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 4925 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 4926 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 4927 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 4928 4929 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 4930 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 4931 This can of course result in splats, and is 4932 intended to test the ability of things like 4933 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 4934 such leaks. 4935 4936 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 4937 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 4938 4939 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 4940 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 4941 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 4942 test, hence the "fake". 4943 4944 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 4945 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 4946 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 4947 4948 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 4949 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 4950 callback-offload toggling attempts. 4951 4952 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 4953 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4954 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4955 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 4956 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4957 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4958 4959 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 4960 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 4961 4962 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4963 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 4964 4965 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4966 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 4967 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 4968 4969 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 4970 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 4971 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 4972 task-exit processing. 4973 4974 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 4975 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 4976 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 4977 is spawned. 4978 4979 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 4980 The delay, in seconds, between successive 4981 read-then-exit testing episodes. 4982 4983 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 4984 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 4985 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 4986 during the rcutorture test. 4987 4988 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4989 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 4990 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 4991 4992 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 4993 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 4994 warnings, zero to disable. 4995 4996 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 4997 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 4998 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition 4999 to any other stall-related activity. 5000 5001 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 5002 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 5003 5004 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 5005 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 5006 5007 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 5008 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 5009 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 5010 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 5011 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 5012 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 5013 5014 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5015 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 5016 5017 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 5018 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 5019 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 5020 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 5021 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 5022 5023 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 5024 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 5025 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 5026 under test support RCU priority boosting. 5027 5028 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 5029 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 5030 5031 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 5032 Interval (s) between each boost test. 5033 5034 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 5035 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 5036 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 5037 5038 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 5039 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5040 5041 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 5042 Enable additional printk() statements. 5043 5044 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 5045 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 5046 stall warning. 5047 5048 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 5049 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5050 5051 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 5052 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 5053 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 5054 during early boot, that is, during the time 5055 before the init task is spawned. 5056 5057 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5058 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5059 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 5060 value is 300 seconds. 5061 5062 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5063 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 5064 messages. The value is in milliseconds 5065 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 5066 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 5067 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 5068 Setting this to zero causes the value from 5069 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 5070 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 5071 5072 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 5073 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 5074 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 5075 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 5076 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 5077 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 5078 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5079 5080 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 5081 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 5082 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 5083 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 5084 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 5085 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 5086 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 5087 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 5088 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5089 5090 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 5091 Once boot has completed (that is, after 5092 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 5093 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 5094 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5095 5096 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 5097 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 5098 it to the value one, that is, converting any 5099 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 5100 period to instead use normal non-expedited 5101 grace-period processing. 5102 5103 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 5104 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 5105 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 5106 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 5107 a single callback queue. This switching only 5108 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 5109 set to the default value of -1. 5110 5111 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 5112 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 5113 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 5114 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 5115 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 5116 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 5117 the default value of -1. 5118 5119 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 5120 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 5121 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 5122 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 5123 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 5124 for use in testing. 5125 5126 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 5127 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 5128 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 5129 of a given grace period. Setting a large 5130 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 5131 but lengthens grace periods. 5132 5133 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 5134 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5135 informational messages, which give some indication 5136 of the problem for those not patient enough to 5137 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 5138 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 5139 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 5140 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 5141 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 5142 until the beginning of the next grace period. 5143 5144 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 5145 Multiplier for time interval between successive 5146 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 5147 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 5148 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 5149 the value three, so that the first informational 5150 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 5151 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 5152 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 5153 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 5154 5155 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5156 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5157 warning messages. Disable with a value less 5158 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 5159 A change in value does not take effect until 5160 the beginning of the next grace period. 5161 5162 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 5163 Run the RCU early boot self tests 5164 5165 rdinit= [KNL] 5166 Format: <full_path> 5167 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 5168 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 5169 5170 rdrand= [X86] 5171 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 5172 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 5173 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 5174 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 5175 path). 5176 5177 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 5178 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 5179 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 5180 mba. 5181 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 5182 rdt=cmt,!mba 5183 5184 reboot= [KNL] 5185 Format (x86 or x86_64): 5186 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 5187 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 5188 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 5189 [[,]f[orce] 5190 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 5191 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 5192 reboot only), 5193 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 5194 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 5195 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 5196 to be used for rebooting. 5197 5198 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5199 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5200 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5201 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5202 interference. 5203 5204 refscale.loops= [KNL] 5205 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 5206 primitive under test. Increasing this number 5207 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 5208 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 5209 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 5210 x86 laptops. 5211 5212 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5213 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 5214 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 5215 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 5216 5217 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 5218 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 5219 the console log. 5220 5221 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 5222 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 5223 measured in microseconds. 5224 5225 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5226 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 5227 5228 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5229 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 5230 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 5231 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 5232 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 5233 5234 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 5235 Enable additional printk() statements. 5236 5237 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 5238 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 5239 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 5240 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 5241 specified. 5242 5243 relax_domain_level= 5244 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 5245 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 5246 5247 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 5248 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 5249 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 5250 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 5251 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 5252 5253 reservetop= [X86-32] 5254 Format: nn[KMG] 5255 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 5256 address space. 5257 5258 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 5259 during initialization. 5260 5261 resume= [SWSUSP] 5262 Specify the partition device for software suspend 5263 Format: 5264 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 5265 5266 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 5267 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 5268 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 5269 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 5270 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 5271 5272 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5273 read the resume files 5274 5275 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 5276 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5277 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5278 5279 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 5280 5281 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 5282 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 5283 vulnerability. 5284 5285 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop 5286 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other 5287 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- 5288 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors 5289 that don't. 5290 5291 off - no mitigation 5292 auto - automatically select a migitation 5293 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 5294 disabling SMT if necessary for 5295 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 5296 and older without STIBP). 5297 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation 5298 windows on basic block boundaries too. 5299 Safe, highest perf impact. It also 5300 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable 5301 on Intel. 5302 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT 5303 when STIBP is not available. This is 5304 the alternative for systems which do not 5305 have STIBP. 5306 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, 5307 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based 5308 systems. 5309 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP 5310 is not available. This is the alternative for 5311 systems which do not have STIBP. 5312 5313 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 5314 time according to the CPU. 5315 5316 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 5317 5318 rfkill.default_state= 5319 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 5320 etc. communication is blocked by default. 5321 1 Unblocked. 5322 5323 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 5324 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 5325 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5326 blocked and the previous configuration. 5327 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5328 blocked and everything unblocked. 5329 5330 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5331 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 5332 5333 ring3mwait=disable 5334 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 5335 CPUs. 5336 5337 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 5338 5339 rodata= [KNL] 5340 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 5341 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 5342 full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only 5343 [arm64] 5344 5345 rockchip.usb_uart 5346 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 5347 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 5348 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 5349 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 5350 5351 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 5352 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 5353 5354 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5355 mount the root filesystem 5356 5357 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 5358 5359 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 5360 5361 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 5362 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5363 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5364 5365 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 5366 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 5367 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 5368 managed by CMA. 5369 5370 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 5371 5372 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5373 5374 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5375 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5376 strict 5377 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 5378 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 5379 which is faster. 5380 5381 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5382 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5383 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5384 factor of the size of main memory. 5385 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5386 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5387 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5388 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5389 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5390 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5391 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5392 5393 sa1100ir [NET] 5394 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5395 5396 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5397 5398 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5399 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5400 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5401 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5402 5403 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5404 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5405 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5406 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5407 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5408 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5409 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5410 value. 5411 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5412 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5413 1 64 ms 5414 2 128 ms 5415 and so on. 5416 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5417 Default is 0. 5418 5419 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5420 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5421 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5422 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5423 tests. 5424 5425 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5426 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5427 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5428 default) disables this feature. Please note 5429 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5430 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5431 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5432 5433 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5434 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5435 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5436 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5437 equal to the number of CPUs. 5438 5439 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5440 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5441 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 5442 5443 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5444 Number seconds to wait between successive 5445 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 5446 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 5447 5448 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5449 The number of seconds following the start of the 5450 test after which to shut down the system. The 5451 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 5452 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 5453 5454 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5455 The number of seconds between outputting the 5456 current test statistics to the console. A value 5457 of zero disables statistics output. 5458 5459 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 5460 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 5461 to the set of CPUs under test. 5462 5463 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 5464 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 5465 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 5466 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 5467 functions. 5468 5469 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 5470 Enable additional printk() statements. 5471 5472 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 5473 The probability weighting to use for the 5474 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 5475 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 5476 default if all other weights are -1. However, 5477 if at least one weight has some other value, a 5478 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 5479 5480 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 5481 The probability weighting to use for the 5482 smp_call_function_single() function with a 5483 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5484 5485 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 5486 The probability weighting to use for the 5487 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 5488 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5489 Note well that setting a high probability for 5490 this weighting can place serious IPI load 5491 on the system. 5492 5493 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 5494 The probability weighting to use for the 5495 smp_call_function_many() function with a 5496 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5497 and weight_many. 5498 5499 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 5500 The probability weighting to use for the 5501 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 5502 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 5503 weight_many. 5504 5505 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 5506 The probability weighting to use for the 5507 smp_call_function_all() function with a 5508 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5509 and weight_many. 5510 5511 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 5512 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 5513 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 5514 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5515 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 5516 1 -- enable. 5517 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 5518 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 5519 5520 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 5521 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 5522 "lsm=" parameter. 5523 5524 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 5525 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5526 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 5527 0 -- disable. 5528 1 -- enable. 5529 Default value is 1. 5530 5531 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 5532 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5533 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 5534 0 -- disable. 5535 1 -- enable. 5536 Default value is set via kernel config option. 5537 5538 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 5539 5540 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 5541 5542 shapers= [NET] 5543 Maximal number of shapers. 5544 5545 simeth= [IA-64] 5546 simscsi= 5547 5548 slram= [HW,MTD] 5549 5550 slab_merge [MM] 5551 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 5552 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 5553 5554 slab_nomerge [MM] 5555 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 5556 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 5557 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 5558 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 5559 layout control by attackers can usually be 5560 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 5561 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 5562 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 5563 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 5564 own. 5565 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5566 5567 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 5568 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5569 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5570 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 5571 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 5572 5573 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 5574 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 5575 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5576 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5577 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5578 last alloc / free. For more information see 5579 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5580 5581 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 5582 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5583 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5584 fragmentation. For more information see 5585 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5586 5587 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 5588 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 5589 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 5590 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 5591 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 5592 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 5593 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 5594 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5595 5596 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 5597 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 5598 lower than slub_max_order. 5599 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5600 5601 slub_merge [MM, SLUB] 5602 Same with slab_merge. 5603 5604 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 5605 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 5606 See slab_nomerge for more information. 5607 5608 smart2= [HW] 5609 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 5610 5611 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 5612 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 5613 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 5614 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 5615 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 5616 disabling interrupts for extended periods 5617 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 5618 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 5619 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 5620 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 5621 5622 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 5623 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 5624 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 5625 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 5626 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 5627 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 5628 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 5629 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 5630 1: Fast pin select (default) 5631 2: ATC IRMode 5632 5633 smt= [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 5634 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 5635 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 5636 actual hardware limit. 5637 Format: <integer> 5638 Default: -1 (no limit) 5639 5640 softlockup_panic= 5641 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 5642 Format: 0 | 1 5643 5644 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 5645 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 5646 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 5647 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 5648 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 5649 5650 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 5651 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 5652 backtraces on all cpus. 5653 Format: 0 | 1 5654 5655 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 5656 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 5657 5658 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5659 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 5660 The default operation protects the kernel from 5661 user space attacks. 5662 5663 on - unconditionally enable, implies 5664 spectre_v2_user=on 5665 off - unconditionally disable, implies 5666 spectre_v2_user=off 5667 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5668 vulnerable 5669 5670 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 5671 mitigation method at run time according to the 5672 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 5673 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 5674 compiler with which the kernel was built. 5675 5676 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 5677 against user space to user space task attacks. 5678 5679 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 5680 the user space protections. 5681 5682 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 5683 5684 retpoline - replace indirect branches 5685 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 5686 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 5687 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 5688 eibrs - enhanced IBRS 5689 eibrs,retpoline - enhanced IBRS + Retpolines 5690 eibrs,lfence - enhanced IBRS + LFENCE 5691 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 5692 5693 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5694 spectre_v2=auto. 5695 5696 spectre_v2_user= 5697 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5698 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 5699 user space tasks 5700 5701 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 5702 enforced by spectre_v2=on 5703 5704 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 5705 enforced by spectre_v2=off 5706 5707 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 5708 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 5709 per thread. The mitigation control state 5710 is inherited on fork. 5711 5712 prctl,ibpb 5713 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 5714 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5715 always when switching between different user 5716 space processes. 5717 5718 seccomp 5719 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 5720 threads will enable the mitigation unless 5721 they explicitly opt out. 5722 5723 seccomp,ibpb 5724 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 5725 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5726 always when switching between different 5727 user space processes. 5728 5729 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 5730 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 5731 5732 Default mitigation: "prctl" 5733 5734 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5735 spectre_v2_user=auto. 5736 5737 spec_store_bypass_disable= 5738 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 5739 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 5740 5741 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 5742 a common industry wide performance optimization known 5743 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 5744 to the same memory location may not be observed by 5745 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 5746 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 5747 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 5748 end of a particular speculation execution window. 5749 5750 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5751 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 5752 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 5753 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 5754 5755 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 5756 Bypass optimization is used. 5757 5758 On x86 the options are: 5759 5760 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 5761 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 5762 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 5763 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 5764 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 5765 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 5766 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 5767 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 5768 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 5769 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 5770 for a process by default. The state of the control 5771 is inherited on fork. 5772 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 5773 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 5774 5775 Default mitigations: 5776 X86: "prctl" 5777 5778 On powerpc the options are: 5779 5780 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 5781 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 5782 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 5783 exit. 5784 off - No action. 5785 5786 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5787 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 5788 5789 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 5790 spia_fio_base= 5791 spia_pedr= 5792 spia_peddr= 5793 5794 split_lock_detect= 5795 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 5796 5797 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 5798 instructions that access data across cache line 5799 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 5800 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 5801 bus lock detection. 5802 5803 off - not enabled 5804 5805 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 5806 about applications triggering the #AC 5807 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 5808 the default on CPUs that support split lock 5809 detection or bus lock detection. Default 5810 behavior is by #AC if both features are 5811 enabled in hardware. 5812 5813 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 5814 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 5815 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 5816 both features are enabled in hardware. 5817 5818 ratelimit:N - 5819 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 5820 per second for bus lock detection. 5821 0 < N <= 1000. 5822 5823 N/A for split lock detection. 5824 5825 5826 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 5827 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 5828 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 5829 mode. 5830 5831 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 5832 CPL > 0. 5833 5834 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 5835 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 5836 (SRBDS) mitigation. 5837 5838 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 5839 exploit which can leak bits from the random 5840 number generator. 5841 5842 By default, this issue is mitigated by 5843 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 5844 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 5845 much slower. Among other effects, this will 5846 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 5847 5848 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 5849 the following option: 5850 5851 off: Disable mitigation and remove 5852 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 5853 5854 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 5855 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 5856 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 5857 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 5858 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 5859 but takes effect only when the low-order four 5860 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 5861 (decide at boot). 5862 5863 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 5864 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 5865 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 5866 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 5867 5868 0: Never. 5869 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 5870 2: When rcutorture decides to. 5871 3: Decide at boot time (default). 5872 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 5873 5874 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 5875 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 5876 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 5877 5878 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 5879 Specifies how frequently to check for 5880 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 5881 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 5882 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 5883 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 5884 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 5885 are ignored. 5886 5887 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 5888 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 5889 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 5890 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 5891 grace period will be considered for automatic 5892 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 5893 expediting. 5894 5895 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] 5896 Specifies the number of no-delay instances 5897 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period 5898 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero 5899 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will 5900 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. 5901 5902 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] 5903 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of 5904 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, 5905 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled 5906 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each 5907 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. 5908 5909 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] 5910 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping 5911 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. 5912 5913 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 5914 Specifies the number of update-side contention 5915 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 5916 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 5917 structure to big form. Note that the value of 5918 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 5919 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 5920 5921 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 5922 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 5923 5924 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 5925 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 5926 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 5927 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 5928 5929 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 5930 for both kernel and userspace 5931 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 5932 for both kernel and userspace 5933 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 5934 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 5935 to allow userspace to register its 5936 interest in being mitigated too. 5937 5938 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 5939 override the default stack gap protection. The value 5940 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 5941 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 5942 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 5943 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 5944 5945 stack_depot_disable= [KNL] 5946 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 5947 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 5948 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 5949 to false. 5950 5951 stacktrace [FTRACE] 5952 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 5953 5954 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 5955 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 5956 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 5957 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 5958 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 5959 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 5960 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 5961 5962 sti= [PARISC,HW] 5963 Format: <num> 5964 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 5965 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 5966 as the initial boot-console. 5967 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5968 5969 sti_font= [HW] 5970 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5971 5972 stifb= [HW] 5973 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 5974 5975 strict_sas_size= 5976 [X86] 5977 Format: <bool> 5978 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 5979 against the required signal frame size which 5980 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 5981 be used to filter out binaries which have 5982 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 5983 5984 sunrpc.min_resvport= 5985 sunrpc.max_resvport= 5986 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5987 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 5988 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 5989 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 5990 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 5991 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 5992 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 5993 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 5994 maximum port values. 5995 5996 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 5997 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5998 Limit the number of requests that the server will 5999 process in parallel from a single connection. 6000 The default value is 0 (no limit). 6001 6002 sunrpc.pool_mode= 6003 [NFS] 6004 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 6005 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 6006 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 6007 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 6008 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 6009 NFS server is running. 6010 6011 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 6012 automatically using heuristics 6013 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 6014 percpu one pool for each CPU 6015 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 6016 to global on non-NUMA machines) 6017 6018 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 6019 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 6020 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6021 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 6022 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 6023 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 6024 improve throughput, but will also increase the 6025 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 6026 6027 suspend.pm_test_delay= 6028 [SUSPEND] 6029 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 6030 mode before resuming the system (see 6031 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 6032 is set. Default value is 5. 6033 6034 svm= [PPC] 6035 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 6036 This parameter controls use of the Protected 6037 Execution Facility on pSeries. 6038 6039 swapaccount= [KNL] 6040 Format: [0|1] 6041 Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 6042 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 6043 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) 6044 6045 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 6046 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } 6047 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 6048 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb 6049 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up 6050 to a power of 2. 6051 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 6052 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 6053 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 6054 6055 switches= [HW,M68k] 6056 6057 sysctl.*= [KNL] 6058 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 6059 process, as if the value was written to the respective 6060 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 6061 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 6062 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 6063 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 6064 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 6065 6066 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 6067 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 6068 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 6069 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 6070 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 6071 in older udev will not work anymore. 6072 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 6073 the kernel configuration. 6074 6075 sysrq_always_enabled 6076 [KNL] 6077 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 6078 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 6079 Useful for debugging. 6080 6081 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6082 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 6083 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 6084 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 6085 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 6086 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 6087 6088 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 6089 6090 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 6091 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 6092 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 6093 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 6094 as the system sleep state during system startup with 6095 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 6096 The system is woken from this state using a 6097 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 6098 6099 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6100 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 6101 6102 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 6103 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 6104 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 6105 6106 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 6107 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 6108 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 6109 6110 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 6111 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 6112 critical and hot trip points. 6113 6114 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 6115 1: disable ACPI thermal control 6116 6117 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 6118 -1: disable all passive trip points 6119 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 6120 value 6121 6122 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 6123 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 6124 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 6125 0: no polling (default) 6126 6127 threadirqs [KNL] 6128 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 6129 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 6130 6131 topology= [S390] 6132 Format: {off | on} 6133 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 6134 topology information if the hardware supports this. 6135 The scheduler will make use of this information and 6136 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 6137 Default is on. 6138 6139 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 6140 Format: {off} 6141 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 6142 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 6143 LPAR. 6144 6145 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 6146 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 6147 until after init has spawned. 6148 6149 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 6150 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 6151 even if there were no errors. This can be a 6152 very costly operation when many torture tests 6153 are running concurrently, especially on systems 6154 with rotating-rust storage. 6155 6156 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 6157 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 6158 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 6159 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 6160 6161 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 6162 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 6163 6164 tp720= [HW,PS2] 6165 6166 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 6167 Format: integer pcr id 6168 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 6169 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 6170 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 6171 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 6172 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 6173 are saved. 6174 6175 tp_printk [FTRACE] 6176 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 6177 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 6178 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 6179 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 6180 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 6181 6182 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 6183 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 6184 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 6185 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 6186 6187 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 6188 to stop the printing of events to console at 6189 late_initcall_sync. 6190 6191 ** CAUTION ** 6192 6193 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 6194 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 6195 the system to live lock. 6196 6197 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 6198 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 6199 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 6200 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 6201 make the system inoperable. 6202 6203 This command line option will stop the printing of events 6204 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 6205 6206 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 6207 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 6208 6209 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 6210 at boot up. 6211 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 6212 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 6213 depending on the architecture, may not be 6214 in sync between CPUs. 6215 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 6216 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 6217 but better for some race conditions. 6218 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 6219 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 6220 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 6221 once per event. 6222 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 6223 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 6224 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6225 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 6226 stamps. 6227 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6228 Architectures may add more clocks. See 6229 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 6230 6231 trace_event=[event-list] 6232 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 6233 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 6234 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 6235 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 6236 6237 trace_options=[option-list] 6238 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 6239 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 6240 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 6241 to echo the option name into 6242 6243 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 6244 6245 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 6246 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 6247 6248 trace_options=stacktrace 6249 6250 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 6251 section. 6252 6253 traceoff_on_warning 6254 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 6255 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 6256 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 6257 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 6258 6259 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 6260 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 6261 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 6262 6263 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 6264 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 6265 6266 transparent_hugepage= 6267 [KNL] 6268 Format: [always|madvise|never] 6269 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 6270 with respect to transparent hugepages. 6271 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 6272 for more details. 6273 6274 trusted.source= [KEYS] 6275 Format: <string> 6276 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 6277 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 6278 sources: 6279 - "tpm" 6280 - "tee" 6281 - "caam" 6282 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 6283 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 6284 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 6285 successfully during iteration. 6286 6287 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 6288 Format: <string> 6289 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 6290 Can be one of: 6291 - "kernel" 6292 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 6293 - "default" 6294 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 6295 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 6296 6297 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 6298 Format: <string> 6299 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 6300 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 6301 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 6302 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 6303 virtualized environment. 6304 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 6305 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 6306 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 6307 can add overhead. 6308 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 6309 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 6310 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 6311 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 6312 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 6313 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 6314 acceptable). 6315 6316 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 6317 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 6318 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 6319 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 6320 Format: <unsigned int> 6321 6322 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 6323 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 6324 support TSX control. 6325 6326 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 6327 6328 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 6329 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 6330 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 6331 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 6332 so there may be unknown security risks associated 6333 with leaving it enabled. 6334 6335 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 6336 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 6337 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 6338 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 6339 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 6340 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 6341 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 6342 6343 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 6344 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 6345 6346 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 6347 6348 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6349 for more details. 6350 6351 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 6352 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 6353 6354 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 6355 certain CPUs that support Transactional 6356 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 6357 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 6358 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 6359 conditions. 6360 6361 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6362 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 6363 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 6364 access. 6365 6366 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 6367 options are: 6368 6369 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 6370 if TSX is enabled. 6371 6372 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 6373 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 6374 is not disabled because CPU is not 6375 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 6376 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 6377 6378 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 6379 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 6380 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 6381 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 6382 6383 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6384 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 6385 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 6386 required and doesn't provide any additional 6387 mitigation. 6388 6389 For details see: 6390 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6391 6392 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 6393 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 6394 Format: 6395 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 6396 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 6397 6398 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 6399 happen after console_init() and before a proper 6400 console driver takes over, this boot options might 6401 help "seeing" what's going on. 6402 6403 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6404 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 6405 6406 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 6407 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 6408 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 6409 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 6410 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 6411 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 6412 reported either. 6413 6414 unknown_nmi_panic 6415 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 6416 6417 usbcore.authorized_default= 6418 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 6419 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 6420 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 6421 if device connected to internal port) 6422 6423 usbcore.autosuspend= 6424 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 6425 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 6426 is the time required before an idle device will be 6427 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 6428 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 6429 6430 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 6431 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 6432 6433 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 6434 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 6435 (default = 65536). 6436 6437 usbcore.blinkenlights= 6438 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 6439 6440 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 6441 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 6442 scheme (default 0 = off). 6443 6444 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 6445 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 6446 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 6447 6448 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 6449 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 6450 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 6451 6452 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 6453 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 6454 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 6455 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 6456 6457 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 6458 6459 usbcore.quirks= 6460 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 6461 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 6462 commas. Each entry has the form 6463 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 6464 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 6465 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 6466 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 6467 the following meanings: 6468 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 6469 descriptors must not be fetched using 6470 a 255-byte read); 6471 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 6472 correctly so reset it instead); 6473 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 6474 Set-Interface requests); 6475 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 6476 handle its Configuration or Interface 6477 strings); 6478 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 6479 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 6480 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 6481 more interface descriptions than the 6482 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 6483 talking to these interfaces); 6484 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 6485 during initialization, after we read 6486 the device descriptor); 6487 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 6488 high speed and super speed interrupt 6489 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 6490 require the interval in microframes (1 6491 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 6492 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 6493 (bInterval-1). 6494 Devices with this quirk report their 6495 bInterval as the result of this 6496 calculation instead of the exponent 6497 variable used in the calculation); 6498 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 6499 handle device_qualifier descriptor 6500 requests); 6501 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 6502 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 6503 remote wakeup capability); 6504 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 6505 Power Management); 6506 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 6507 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 6508 frames instead of the USB 2.0 6509 calculation); 6510 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 6511 to be disconnected before suspend to 6512 prevent spurious wakeup); 6513 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 6514 pause after every control message); 6515 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 6516 delay after resetting its port); 6517 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 6518 6519 usbhid.mousepoll= 6520 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 6521 6522 usbhid.jspoll= 6523 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 6524 6525 usbhid.kbpoll= 6526 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 6527 6528 usb-storage.delay_use= 6529 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 6530 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 6531 6532 usb-storage.quirks= 6533 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 6534 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 6535 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 6536 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 6537 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 6538 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 6539 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 6540 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 6541 of sense data, not on uas); 6542 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 6543 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 6544 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 6545 device capacity by one sector); 6546 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 6547 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 6548 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 6549 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 6550 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 6551 command, uas only); 6552 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 6553 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 6554 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 6555 reported device capacity by one 6556 sector if the number is odd); 6557 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 6558 device); 6559 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 6560 command, uas only); 6561 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 6562 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 6563 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 6564 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 6565 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 6566 not on uas); 6567 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 6568 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 6569 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 6570 reported by the device, not on uas); 6571 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 6572 by default, not on uas); 6573 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 6574 bogus residue values, not on uas); 6575 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 6576 Logical Unit); 6577 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 6578 commands, uas only); 6579 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 6580 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 6581 medium is write-protected). 6582 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 6583 even if the device claims no cache, 6584 not on uas) 6585 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 6586 6587 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 6588 Format: <int> 6589 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 6590 1 - undefined instruction events 6591 2 - system calls 6592 4 - invalid data aborts 6593 8 - SIGSEGV faults 6594 16 - SIGBUS faults 6595 Example: user_debug=31 6596 6597 userpte= 6598 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 6599 6600 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 6601 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 6602 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 6603 6604 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 6605 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 6606 6607 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 6608 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 6609 6610 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 6611 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 6612 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 6613 6614 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 6615 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 6616 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 6617 6618 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 6619 alias for vdso32=0. 6620 6621 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 6622 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 6623 6624 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 6625 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 6626 6627 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 6628 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 6629 6630 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 6631 Format: [0|1] 6632 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 6633 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 6634 level and then send out the event to user space through 6635 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 6636 will only send out the event without touching backlight 6637 brightness level. 6638 default: 1 6639 6640 virtio_mmio.device= 6641 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 6642 6643 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 6644 where: 6645 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 6646 like K, M and G) 6647 <baseaddr> := physical base address 6648 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 6649 request_irq()) 6650 <id> := (optional) platform device id 6651 example: 6652 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 6653 6654 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 6655 6656 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 6657 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 6658 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 6659 Use vga=ask for menu. 6660 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 6661 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 6662 6663 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 6664 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 6665 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 6666 All options are enabled by default, and this 6667 interface is meant to allow for selectively 6668 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 6669 debugging features. 6670 6671 Available options are: 6672 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 6673 - Disable all of the above options 6674 6675 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 6676 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 6677 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 6678 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 6679 mapped kernel RAM. 6680 6681 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 6682 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 6683 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 6684 6685 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 6686 Format: <command> 6687 6688 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 6689 Format: <command> 6690 6691 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 6692 Format: <command> 6693 6694 vsyscall= [X86-64] 6695 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 6696 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 6697 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 6698 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 6699 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 6700 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 6701 6702 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6703 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6704 page is readable. 6705 6706 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6707 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6708 page is not readable. 6709 6710 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 6711 them quite hard to use for exploits but 6712 might break your system. 6713 6714 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 6715 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 6716 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 6717 6718 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 6719 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 6720 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 6721 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 6722 6723 vt.default_blu= [VT] 6724 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 6725 Change the default blue palette of the console. 6726 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6727 ranging from 0-255. 6728 6729 vt.default_grn= [VT] 6730 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 6731 Change the default green palette of the console. 6732 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6733 ranging from 0-255. 6734 6735 vt.default_red= [VT] 6736 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 6737 Change the default red palette of the console. 6738 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6739 ranging from 0-255. 6740 6741 vt.default_utf8= 6742 [VT] 6743 Format=<0|1> 6744 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 6745 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 6746 newly opened terminals. 6747 6748 vt.global_cursor_default= 6749 [VT] 6750 Format=<-1|0|1> 6751 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 6752 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 6753 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 6754 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 6755 cursors, 1 will display them. 6756 6757 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 6758 Default: 2 = green. 6759 6760 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 6761 Default: 3 = cyan. 6762 6763 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 6764 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 6765 or other driver-specific files in the 6766 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 6767 6768 watchdog_thresh= 6769 [KNL] 6770 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 6771 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 6772 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 6773 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 6774 seconds. 6775 6776 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 6777 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 6778 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 6779 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 6780 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 6781 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 6782 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 6783 corresponding sysfs file. 6784 6785 workqueue.disable_numa 6786 By default, all work items queued to unbound 6787 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 6788 issued on, which results in better behavior in 6789 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 6790 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 6791 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 6792 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 6793 6794 workqueue.power_efficient 6795 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 6796 they show better performance thanks to cache 6797 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 6798 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 6799 6800 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 6801 were observed to contribute significantly to power 6802 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 6803 power usage at the cost of small performance 6804 overhead. 6805 6806 The default value of this parameter is determined by 6807 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 6808 6809 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 6810 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 6811 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 6812 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 6813 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 6814 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 6815 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 6816 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 6817 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 6818 impacted. 6819 6820 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 6821 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 6822 supporting x2apic. 6823 6824 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 6825 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 6826 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 6827 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 6828 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 6829 domains. 6830 6831 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 6832 Unplug Xen emulated devices 6833 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 6834 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 6835 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 6836 nics -- unplug network devices 6837 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 6838 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 6839 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 6840 the unplug protocol 6841 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 6842 6843 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 6844 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 6845 panic() code such as dumping handler. 6846 6847 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 6848 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 6849 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 6850 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6851 6852 xen_nopv [X86] 6853 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 6854 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 6855 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 6856 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6857 6858 xen_no_vector_callback 6859 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 6860 event channel interrupts. 6861 6862 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 6863 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 6864 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 6865 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 6866 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 6867 6868 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 6869 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 6870 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 6871 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 6872 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 6873 more timer interrupts. 6874 6875 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 6876 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 6877 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 6878 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 6879 started with less memory configured than allowed at 6880 max. Default is 180. 6881 6882 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 6883 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 6884 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 6885 6886 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 6887 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 6888 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 6889 6890 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 6891 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 6892 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 6893 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 6894 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 6895 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 6896 6897 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 6898 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 6899 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 6900 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 6901 6902 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 6903 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 6904 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 6905 contention. 6906 6907 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 6908 Format: 6909 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 6910 6911 xive= [PPC] 6912 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 6913 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 6914 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 6915 6916 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 6917 controller on both pseries and powernv 6918 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 6919 6920 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 6921 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 6922 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 6923 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 6924 loads instead, as on POWER9. 6925 6926 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 6927 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 6928 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 6929 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 6930 6931 xmon [PPC] 6932 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 6933 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 6934 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 6935 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 6936 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 6937 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6938 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 6939 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 6940 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 6941 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6942 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 6943 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 6944 can be written using xmon commands. 6945 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 6946 memory, and other data can't be written using 6947 xmon commands. 6948 off xmon is disabled. 6949