1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64] 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,riscv64] 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 and RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or 14 "acpi=force" 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/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more 308 information. 309 310 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 311 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 312 Possible values are: 313 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1 314 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 315 the system 316 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 317 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 318 allowed anymore to lift isolation 319 requirements as needed. This option 320 does not override iommu=pt 321 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known 322 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this 323 option with care. 324 pgtbl_v1 - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default). 325 pgtbl_v2 - Use v2 page table for DMA-API. 326 irtcachedis - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching. 327 328 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 329 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 330 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 331 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 332 IOMMU initialization. 333 334 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 335 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 336 remapping modes: 337 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 338 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 339 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 340 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 341 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 342 343 amd_pstate= [X86] 344 disable 345 Do not enable amd_pstate as the default 346 scaling driver for the supported processors 347 passive 348 Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver. 349 In this mode autonomous selection is disabled. 350 Driver requests a desired performance level and platform 351 tries to match the same performance level if it is 352 satisfied by guaranteed performance level. 353 active 354 Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver, 355 driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants 356 to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff) 357 to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will 358 calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores 359 frequency. 360 guided 361 Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and 362 maximum performance level and the platform autonomously 363 selects a performance level in this range and appropriate 364 to the current workload. 365 366 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 367 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 368 Format: <a>,<b> 369 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 370 371 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 372 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 373 connected to one of 16 gameports 374 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 375 376 apc= [HW,SPARC] 377 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 378 Format: noidle 379 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 380 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 381 APC and your system crashes randomly. 382 383 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 384 Change the output verbosity while booting 385 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 386 Change the amount of debugging information output 387 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 388 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 389 driver name. 390 Format: apic=driver_name 391 Examples: apic=bigsmp 392 393 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 394 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 395 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 396 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 397 backup of CPU 0 398 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 399 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 400 shot down by NMI 401 402 autoconf= [IPV6] 403 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 404 405 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 406 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 407 408 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 409 Format: { "0" | "1" } 410 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 411 0 -- disable. 412 1 -- enable. 413 Default value is set via kernel config option. 414 415 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 416 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 417 418 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 419 Identification support 420 421 arm64.nomops [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory 422 Set instructions support 423 424 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 425 support 426 427 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 428 support 429 430 arm64.nosme [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix 431 Extension support 432 433 arm64.nosve [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector 434 Extension support 435 436 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 437 438 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 439 440 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 441 EzKey and similar keyboards 442 443 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 444 445 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 446 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 447 448 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 449 keyboards 450 451 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 452 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 453 454 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 455 Use software keyboard repeat 456 457 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 458 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 459 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 460 enabled until the next reboot 461 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 462 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 463 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 464 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 465 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 466 userspace auditd. 467 Default: unset 468 469 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 470 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 471 Default: 64 472 473 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 474 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 475 Format: { "0" | "1" } 476 0 - Disable the BAU. 477 1 - Enable the BAU. 478 unset - Disable the BAU. 479 480 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 481 Format: <io>,<mode> 482 483 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 484 Format: <io>,<mode> 485 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 486 487 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 488 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 489 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 490 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 491 492 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 493 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 494 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 495 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 496 497 bert_disable [ACPI] 498 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 499 500 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] 501 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 502 503 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 504 embedded devices based on command line input. 505 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 506 507 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 508 Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled, 509 and you may also have to specify "lpj=". Boot_delay 510 values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed 511 erroneous and ignored. 512 Format: integer 513 514 bootconfig [KNL] 515 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 516 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 517 518 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 519 520 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 521 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 522 kernel args too. 523 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 524 bttv.tuner= 525 526 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 527 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 528 at a time. 529 530 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 531 532 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 533 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 534 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 535 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 536 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 537 This option provides an override for these situations. 538 539 carrier_timeout= 540 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 541 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 542 it waits 120 seconds. 543 544 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 545 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 546 trust validation. 547 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 548 549 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 550 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 551 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 552 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 553 others). 554 555 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 556 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 557 558 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 559 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 560 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 561 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 562 a single hierarchy 563 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 564 subsystem 565 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 566 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 567 created 568 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 569 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 570 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 571 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 572 stall information accounting feature 573 574 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 575 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 576 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 577 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 578 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 579 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 580 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 581 all v1 hierarchies. 582 583 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 584 Format: <string> 585 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 586 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 587 nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting. 588 589 checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 590 Format: { "0" | "1" } 591 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 592 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 593 any implied execute protection). 594 1 -- check protection requested by application. 595 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 596 Value can be changed at runtime via 597 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 598 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 599 600 cio_ignore= [S390] 601 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 602 603 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] 604 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 605 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 606 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily 607 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific 608 ones should be. 609 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line 610 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above 611 instability issue. However, not all features have names 612 in /proc/cpuinfo. 613 Note that using this option will taint your kernel. 614 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 615 or using the feature without checking anything 616 will still see it. This just prevents it from 617 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 618 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 619 some critical bits. 620 621 clk_ignore_unused 622 [CLK] 623 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 624 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 625 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 626 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 627 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 628 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 629 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 630 platform with proper driver support. For more 631 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 632 633 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 634 [Deprecated] 635 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 636 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 637 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 638 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 639 640 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 641 Format: <string> 642 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 643 with the name specified. 644 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 645 the platform: 646 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 647 [ACPI] acpi_pm 648 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 649 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 650 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 651 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 652 [MIPS] MIPS 653 [PARISC] cr16 654 [S390] tod 655 [SH] SuperH 656 [SPARC64] tick 657 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 658 659 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 660 [ARM,ARM64] 661 Format: <bool> 662 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 663 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 664 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 665 systems. 666 667 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 668 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 669 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 670 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 671 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 672 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 673 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 674 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 675 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 676 677 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 678 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 679 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 680 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 681 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 682 683 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 684 [KNL,CMA] 685 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 686 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 687 placement constraint by the physical address range of 688 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 689 altogether. For more information, see 690 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 691 692 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 693 [KNL,CMA] 694 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 695 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 696 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 697 specified, the default value is 0. 698 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 699 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 700 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 701 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 702 703 numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]] 704 [KNL,CMA] 705 Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for 706 contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA 707 area for the specified node. 708 709 With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 710 first try to allocate buffer from the numa area 711 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 712 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 713 714 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 715 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 716 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 717 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 718 a hypervisor. 719 Default: yes 720 721 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 722 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 723 allocations, by default set to 256K. 724 725 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 726 Format: 727 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 728 729 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 730 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 731 732 com90xx= [HW,NET] 733 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 734 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 735 736 condev= [HW,S390] console device 737 conmode= 738 739 con3215_drop= [S390] 3215 console drop mode. 740 Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0 741 When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when 742 the console buffer is full. In this case the 743 operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example 744 x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the 745 console output to advance and the kernel to continue. 746 This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270 747 terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal 748 emulator is used, this parameter has no effect. 749 750 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 751 752 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 753 754 ttyS<n>[,options] 755 ttyUSB0[,options] 756 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 757 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 758 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 759 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 760 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 761 762 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 763 information. See 764 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 765 alternative. 766 767 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 768 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 769 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 770 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 771 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 772 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 773 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 774 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 775 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 776 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 777 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 778 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 779 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 780 the h/w is not re-initialized. 781 782 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 783 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 784 785 { null | "" } 786 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 787 console messages discarded. 788 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 789 kernel command line. 790 791 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 792 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 793 console=brl,ttyS0 794 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 795 796 console_msg_format= 797 [KNL] Change console messages format 798 default 799 By default we print messages on consoles in 800 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 801 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 802 `printk_time' param). 803 syslog 804 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 805 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 806 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 807 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 808 from /proc/kmsg. 809 810 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 811 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 812 Defaults to 0. 813 814 coredump_filter= 815 [KNL] Change the default value for 816 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 817 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 818 819 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 820 [ARM,ARM64] 821 Format: <bool> 822 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 823 0: default value, disable debugging 824 1: enable debugging at boot time 825 826 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 827 Format: 828 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 829 830 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 831 disable the cpuidle sub-system 832 833 cpuidle.governor= 834 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 835 836 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 837 disable the cpufreq sub-system 838 839 cpufreq.default_governor= 840 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 841 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 842 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 843 844 cpu_init_udelay=N 845 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 846 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 847 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 848 Default: 10000 849 850 cpuhp.parallel= 851 [SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs 852 Format: <bool> 853 Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise 854 the parameter has no effect. 855 856 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 857 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 858 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 859 succeeds in any situation. 860 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 861 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 862 kernel more unstable. 863 864 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 865 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 866 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 867 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 868 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 869 is selected automatically. 870 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV] Select a region under 4G first, and 871 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 872 hasn't been specified. 873 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 874 875 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 876 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 877 in the running system. The syntax of range is 878 start-[end] where start and end are both 879 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 880 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 881 882 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 883 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV] range could be above 4G. 884 Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top, 885 so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram 886 installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated 887 below 4G, if available. 888 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 889 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 890 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 891 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 892 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 893 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 894 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 895 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 896 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate 897 default size of memory below 4G automatically. The default 898 size is platform dependent. 899 --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB) 900 --> arm64: 128MiB 901 --> riscv: 128MiB 902 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G 903 for second kernel instead. 904 0: to disable low allocation. 905 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 906 or memory reserved is below 4G. 907 908 cryptomgr.notests 909 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 910 911 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 912 Format: <dma> 913 914 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 915 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 916 917 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU 918 function call handling. When switched on, 919 additional debug data is printed to the console 920 in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that 921 CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve 922 the hang situation. The default value of this 923 option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT 924 Kconfig option. 925 926 dasd= [HW,NET] 927 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 928 929 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 930 (one device per port) 931 Format: <port#>,<type> 932 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 933 934 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 935 936 debug_boot_weak_hash 937 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 938 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 939 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 940 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 941 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 942 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 943 944 debug_locks_verbose= 945 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 946 Format: <int> 947 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 948 self-tests. 949 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 950 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 951 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 952 useful to lockdep developers. 953 954 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 955 956 debug_guardpage_minorder= 957 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 958 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 959 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 960 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 961 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 962 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 963 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 964 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 965 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 966 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 967 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 968 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 969 F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA (basically when 970 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 971 bypassed) which are not detectable by 972 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 973 tracking down these problems. 974 975 debug_pagealloc= 976 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 977 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 978 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 979 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 980 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 981 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 982 on: enable the feature 983 984 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 985 and debugfs internal clients. 986 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 987 on: All functions are enabled. 988 no-mount: 989 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 990 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 991 its content. There is nothing to mount. 992 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 993 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 994 or directories within debugfs. 995 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 996 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 997 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 998 999 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 1000 1001 default_hugepagesz= 1002 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 1003 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 1004 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 1005 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 1006 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 1007 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 1008 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 1009 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1010 Format: size[KMG] 1011 1012 deferred_probe_timeout= 1013 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 1014 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 1015 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 1016 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout 1017 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time 1018 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each 1019 successful driver registration. This option will also 1020 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 1021 retrying. 1022 1023 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 1024 1025 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 1026 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1027 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1028 hardware. 1029 1030 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 1031 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 1032 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 1033 blacklisted features. 1034 1035 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 1036 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1037 (disabled by default). 1038 1039 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 1040 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1041 capability is set. 1042 1043 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 1044 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 1045 1046 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 1047 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 1048 1049 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 1050 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 1051 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 1052 level 1 and decompression (default) 1053 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 1054 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 1055 only (compression on level 1) 1056 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 1057 only (decompression) 1058 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 1059 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 1060 1061 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1062 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1063 1064 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 1065 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1066 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1067 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1068 miss to occur. 1069 1070 disable= [IPV6] 1071 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1072 1073 disable_radix [PPC] 1074 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1075 1076 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1077 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1078 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1079 1080 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 1081 Format: <int> 1082 The number of initial APIC ID for the 1083 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 1084 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 1085 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 1086 causing system reset or hang due to sending 1087 INIT from AP to BSP. 1088 1089 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 1090 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1091 to workaround buggy firmware. 1092 1093 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1094 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1095 1096 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1097 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1098 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1099 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1100 1101 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 1102 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1103 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1104 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1105 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1106 1107 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1108 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1109 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1110 1111 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1112 1113 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1114 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1115 1116 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1117 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1118 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1119 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1120 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1121 architectural default is too low. 1122 1123 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1124 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1125 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1126 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1127 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1128 driver later using sysfs. 1129 1130 reg_file_data_sampling= 1131 [X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data 1132 Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability. RFDS is a CPU 1133 vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer 1134 kernel data values previously stored in floating point 1135 registers, vector registers, or integer registers. 1136 RFDS only affects Intel Atom processors. 1137 1138 on: Turns ON the mitigation. 1139 off: Turns OFF the mitigation. 1140 1141 This parameter overrides the compile time default set 1142 by CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS. Mitigation cannot be 1143 disabled when other VERW based mitigations (like MDS) 1144 are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all 1145 VERW based mitigations need to be disabled. 1146 1147 For details see: 1148 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst 1149 1150 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1151 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * 1152 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the 1153 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT 1154 match the *. 1155 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1156 1157 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1158 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1159 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1160 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1161 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1162 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 1163 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 1164 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 1165 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 1166 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 1167 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID 1168 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 1169 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 1170 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 1171 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1172 data set with no connector name will be used for 1173 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1174 1175 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1176 1177 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1178 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1179 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1180 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1181 exists). 1182 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1183 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1184 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1185 1186 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1187 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1188 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1189 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1190 1191 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1192 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1193 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1194 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1195 for details. 1196 1197 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1198 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1199 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1200 which are not unmapped. 1201 1202 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1203 1204 When used with no options, the early console is 1205 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1206 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1207 the platform. 1208 1209 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1210 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1211 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1212 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1213 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1214 configured. 1215 1216 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1217 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1218 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1219 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1220 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1221 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1222 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1223 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1224 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1225 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1226 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1227 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1228 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is 1229 the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set 1230 to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16. 1231 1232 pl011,<addr> 1233 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1234 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1235 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1236 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1237 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1238 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1239 the device registers. 1240 1241 liteuart,<addr> 1242 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1243 specified address. The serial port must already be 1244 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1245 1246 meson,<addr> 1247 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1248 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1249 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1250 supported. 1251 1252 msm_serial,<addr> 1253 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1254 port at the specified address. The serial port 1255 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1256 yet supported. 1257 1258 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1259 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1260 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1261 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1262 yet supported. 1263 1264 owl,<addr> 1265 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1266 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1267 specified address. The serial port must already be 1268 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1269 1270 rda,<addr> 1271 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1272 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1273 specified address. The serial port must already be 1274 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1275 1276 sbi 1277 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1278 console. 1279 1280 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1281 1282 s3c2410,<addr> 1283 s3c2412,<addr> 1284 s3c2440,<addr> 1285 s3c6400,<addr> 1286 s5pv210,<addr> 1287 exynos4210,<addr> 1288 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1289 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1290 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1291 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1292 Options are not yet supported. 1293 1294 lantiq,<addr> 1295 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1296 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1297 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1298 yet supported. 1299 1300 lpuart,<addr> 1301 lpuart32,<addr> 1302 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1303 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1304 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1305 port must already be setup and configured. 1306 1307 ec_imx21,<addr> 1308 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1309 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1310 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1311 must already be setup and configured. 1312 1313 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1314 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1315 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1316 address. The serial port must already be setup 1317 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1318 1319 qcom_geni,<addr> 1320 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1321 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1322 specified address. The serial port must already be 1323 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1324 1325 efifb,[options] 1326 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1327 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1328 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1329 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1330 mapped with the correct attributes. 1331 1332 linflex,<addr> 1333 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1334 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1335 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1336 already be setup and configured. 1337 1338 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1339 earlyprintk=vga 1340 earlyprintk=sclp 1341 earlyprintk=xen 1342 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1343 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1344 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1345 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1346 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1347 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1348 1349 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1350 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1351 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1352 1353 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1354 takes over. 1355 1356 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can 1357 be used at a time. 1358 1359 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1360 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1361 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1362 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1363 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1364 You can find the port for a given device in 1365 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1366 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1367 1368 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1369 very good. 1370 1371 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by 1372 the real console. 1373 1374 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1375 1376 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1377 1378 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1379 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1380 UART class. 1381 1382 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1383 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1384 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1385 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1386 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1387 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1388 default: on. 1389 1390 edd= [EDD] 1391 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1392 1393 efi= [EFI] 1394 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1395 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1396 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1397 debug: enable misc debug output. 1398 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1399 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1400 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1401 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1402 firmware implementations. 1403 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1404 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1405 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1406 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1407 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1408 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1409 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1410 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1411 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1412 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1413 1414 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1415 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1416 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1417 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1418 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1419 1420 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1421 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1422 updating original EFI memory map. 1423 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1424 from ss to ss+nn. 1425 1426 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1427 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1428 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1429 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1430 1431 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1432 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1433 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1434 1435 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1436 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1437 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1438 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1439 "soft reserved". 1440 1441 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1442 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1443 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1444 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1445 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1446 1447 1448 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1449 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1450 1451 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1452 Format: ekgdboc=kbd 1453 1454 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1455 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1456 1457 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1458 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1459 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1460 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1461 1462 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1463 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1464 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1465 1466 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1467 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1468 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1469 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1470 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1471 1472 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1473 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1474 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1475 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1476 1477 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1478 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1479 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1480 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1481 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1482 1483 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1484 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1485 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1486 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1487 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1488 Default value is 0. 1489 Value can be changed at runtime via 1490 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1491 1492 erst_disable [ACPI] 1493 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1494 support. 1495 1496 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1497 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1498 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1499 1500 evm= [EVM] 1501 Format: { "fix" } 1502 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1503 current integrity status. 1504 1505 early_page_ext [KNL] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier 1506 stages so cover more early boot allocations. 1507 Please note that as side effect some optimizations 1508 might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized 1509 memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process 1510 might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of 1511 memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y. 1512 1513 failslab= 1514 fail_usercopy= 1515 fail_page_alloc= 1516 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1517 General fault injection mechanism. 1518 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1519 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1520 1521 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1522 Format: { initns | none } 1523 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1524 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1525 1526 floppy= [HW] 1527 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1528 1529 force_pal_cache_flush 1530 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1531 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1532 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1533 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1534 1535 forcepae [X86-32] 1536 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1537 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1538 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1539 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1540 and may cause unknown problems. 1541 1542 ftrace=[tracer] 1543 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1544 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1545 boot debugging. 1546 1547 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1548 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1549 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1550 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1551 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1552 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1553 start up functionality. 1554 1555 Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing 1556 instance that was created by the trace_instance= command 1557 line parameter. 1558 1559 trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo 1560 1561 The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger 1562 a snapshot at the end of boot up. 1563 1564 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1565 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1566 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1567 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1568 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1569 oops. 1570 1571 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1572 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1573 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1574 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1575 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1576 tracing directory. 1577 1578 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1579 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1580 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1581 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1582 tracing directory. 1583 1584 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1585 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1586 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1587 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1588 that can be changed at run time by the 1589 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1590 1591 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1592 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1593 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1594 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1595 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1596 1597 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1598 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1599 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1600 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1601 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1602 1603 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1604 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1605 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1606 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1607 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1608 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1609 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1610 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1611 suppliers). 1612 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1613 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1614 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1615 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1616 up (sync_state() calls). 1617 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1618 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1619 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1620 1621 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1622 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1623 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1624 Format: <bool> 1625 1626 fw_devlink.sync_state = 1627 [KNL] When all devices that could probe have finished 1628 probing, this parameter controls what to do with 1629 devices that haven't yet received their sync_state() 1630 calls. 1631 Format: { strict | timeout } 1632 strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to 1633 probe successfully. 1634 timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call 1635 sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet 1636 received their sync_state() calls after 1637 deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by 1638 late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES. 1639 1640 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1641 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1642 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1643 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1644 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1645 1646 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1647 1648 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1649 Format: off | on 1650 default: on 1651 1652 gather_data_sampling= 1653 [X86,INTEL] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS) 1654 mitigation. 1655 1656 Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which 1657 allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was 1658 previously stored in vector registers. 1659 1660 This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode. 1661 The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be 1662 disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation 1663 disabling AVX serves as a mitigation. 1664 1665 force: Disable AVX to mitigate systems without 1666 microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode 1667 mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in 1668 userspace with buggy AVX enumeration. 1669 1670 off: Disable GDS mitigation. 1671 1672 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1673 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1674 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1675 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1676 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1677 1678 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1679 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1680 android emulator 1681 1682 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1683 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1684 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1685 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1686 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1687 1688 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1689 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1690 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1691 GPT to be used instead. 1692 1693 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1694 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1695 Format: 0 | 1 1696 Default: 0 1697 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1698 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1699 Format: 0 | 1 1700 Default: 0 1701 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1702 Format: 0 | 1 1703 Default: 0 1704 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1705 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1706 Default: 1024 1707 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1708 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1709 Default: 1024 1710 1711 hardened_usercopy= 1712 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1713 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1714 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1715 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1716 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1717 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1718 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1719 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 1720 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1721 1722 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1723 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1724 backtraces on all cpus. 1725 Format: 0 | 1 1726 1727 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1728 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1729 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1730 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1731 1732 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1733 1734 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1735 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1736 1737 hest_disable [ACPI] 1738 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1739 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1740 logic will be disabled. 1741 1742 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 1743 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 1744 present during boot. 1745 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 1746 no Disable hibernation and resume. 1747 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 1748 (that will set all pages holding image data 1749 during restoration read-only). 1750 1751 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1752 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1753 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1754 size on bigger boxes. 1755 1756 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1757 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1758 Default: "on" 1759 1760 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1761 1762 hostname= [KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename). 1763 Format: <string> 1764 This allows setting the system's hostname during early 1765 startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname. 1766 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it 1767 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before 1768 any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility 1769 that a process may call gethostname before the hostname 1770 has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling 1771 process getting an incorrect result. The string must 1772 not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually 1773 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise. 1774 1775 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1776 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1777 verbose } 1778 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1779 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1780 VIA, nVidia) 1781 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1782 1783 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1784 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1785 1786 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1787 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1788 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1789 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1790 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1791 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1792 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1793 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1794 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1795 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1796 1797 hugepagesz= 1798 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1799 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1800 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1801 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1802 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1803 architecture dependent. See also 1804 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1805 Format: size[KMG] 1806 1807 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1808 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1809 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1810 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1811 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1812 1813 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1814 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1815 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1816 1817 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1818 [KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 1819 enabled. 1820 Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled. 1821 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1822 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1823 Format: { on | off (default) } 1824 1825 on: enable HVO 1826 off: disable HVO 1827 1828 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1829 the default is on. 1830 1831 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added 1832 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is 1833 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this 1834 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from 1835 the added memory block itself do not be affected. 1836 1837 hung_task_panic= 1838 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1839 Format: 0 | 1 1840 1841 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1842 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1843 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1844 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1845 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1846 1847 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1848 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1849 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1850 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1851 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1852 1853 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1854 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1855 guest on lock contention. 1856 1857 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1858 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1859 registered from board initialization code. 1860 Format: 1861 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1862 1863 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1864 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1865 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1866 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1867 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1868 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1869 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1870 keyboard and cannot control its state 1871 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1872 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1873 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1874 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1875 for the AUX port 1876 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1877 controller 1878 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1879 controllers 1880 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1881 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1882 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1883 transitions, or never reset 1884 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1885 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1886 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1887 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1888 architectures force reset to be always executed 1889 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1890 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1891 i8042.probe_defer 1892 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1893 1894 i810= [HW,DRM] 1895 1896 i915.invert_brightness= 1897 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1898 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1899 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1900 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1901 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1902 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1903 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1904 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1905 value switches the backlight off. 1906 -1 -- never invert brightness 1907 0 -- machine default 1908 1 -- force brightness inversion 1909 1910 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1911 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1912 1913 1914 idle= [X86] 1915 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1916 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1917 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1918 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1919 Not recommended. 1920 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1921 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1922 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1923 1924 idxd.sva= [HW] 1925 Format: <bool> 1926 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1927 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1928 true (1). 1929 1930 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 1931 Format: <bool> 1932 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 1933 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 1934 1935 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1936 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1937 Default: strict 1938 1939 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1940 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1941 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1942 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1943 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1944 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1945 encoding mode. 1946 1947 Available settings are as follows: 1948 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1949 supported by the FPU 1950 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1951 by the FPU 1952 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1953 by the FPU 1954 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1955 supported by the FPU 1956 1957 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1958 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1959 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1960 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1961 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1962 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1963 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1964 MIPS64 CPUs. 1965 1966 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1967 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1968 except where unsupported by hardware. 1969 1970 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1971 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1972 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1973 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1974 could change it dynamically, usually by 1975 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1976 1977 ignore_rlimit_data 1978 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1979 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1980 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1981 1982 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1983 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1984 1985 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1986 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1987 default: "enforce" 1988 1989 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1990 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1991 owned by uid=0. 1992 1993 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1994 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1995 measurements, instead of host native format. 1996 1997 ima_hash= [IMA] 1998 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1999 | sha512 | ... } 2000 default: "sha1" 2001 2002 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 2003 in crypto/hash_info.h. 2004 2005 ima_policy= [IMA] 2006 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 2007 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 2008 fail_securely | critical_data" 2009 2010 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 2011 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 2012 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 2013 uid=0. 2014 2015 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 2016 all files owned by root. 2017 2018 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 2019 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 2020 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 2021 2022 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 2023 verification failure also on privileged mounted 2024 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 2025 flag. 2026 2027 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 2028 critical data. 2029 2030 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 2031 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 2032 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 2033 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 2034 opened for read by uid=0. 2035 2036 ima_template= [IMA] 2037 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 2038 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 2039 "ima-sigv2" } 2040 Default: "ima-ng" 2041 2042 ima_template_fmt= 2043 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 2044 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 2045 2046 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 2047 Format: <min_file_size> 2048 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 2049 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 2050 2051 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 2052 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2053 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 2054 2055 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 2056 Format: <bufsize> 2057 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 2058 2059 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 2060 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2061 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 2062 2063 indirect_target_selection= [X86,Intel] Mitigation control for Indirect 2064 Target Selection(ITS) bug in Intel CPUs. Updated 2065 microcode is also required for a fix in IBPB. 2066 2067 on: Enable mitigation (default). 2068 off: Disable mitigation. 2069 force: Force the ITS bug and deploy default 2070 mitigation. 2071 vmexit: Only deploy mitigation if CPU is affected by 2072 guest/host isolation part of ITS. 2073 stuff: Deploy RSB-fill mitigation when retpoline is 2074 also deployed. Otherwise, deploy the default 2075 mitigation. 2076 2077 For details see: 2078 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/indirect-target-selection.rst 2079 2080 init= [KNL] 2081 Format: <full_path> 2082 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 2083 process. 2084 2085 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 2086 for working out where the kernel is dying during 2087 startup. 2088 2089 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 2090 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 2091 modules and initcalls. 2092 2093 initramfs_async= [KNL] 2094 Format: <bool> 2095 Default: 1 2096 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 2097 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 2098 with devices being probed and 2099 initialized. This should normally just work, 2100 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 2101 historical behaviour of the initramfs 2102 unpacking being completed before device_ and 2103 late_ initcalls. 2104 2105 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 2106 2107 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 2108 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 2109 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 2110 setting. 2111 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 2112 Default is 0, 0 2113 2114 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 2115 zeroes. 2116 Format: 0 | 1 2117 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 2118 2119 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2120 Format: 0 | 1 2121 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2122 2123 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2124 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2125 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2126 override in debugfs after boot. 2127 2128 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2129 Format: <irq> 2130 2131 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2132 2133 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2134 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2135 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2136 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2137 2138 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2139 on 2140 Enable intel iommu driver. 2141 off 2142 Disable intel iommu driver. 2143 igfx_off [Default Off] 2144 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2145 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2146 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2147 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2148 DMA. 2149 strict [Default Off] 2150 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2151 sp_off [Default Off] 2152 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2153 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2154 not be supported. 2155 sm_on 2156 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2157 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2158 translation. 2159 sm_off 2160 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2161 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2162 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2163 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2164 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2165 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2166 mapping is enabled. 2167 Note that using this option lowers the security 2168 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2169 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2170 2171 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2172 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2173 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2174 2175 intel_pstate= [X86] 2176 disable 2177 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2178 scaling driver for the supported processors 2179 active 2180 Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling 2181 governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own 2182 algorithms for p-state selection. There are two 2183 P-state selection algorithms provided by 2184 intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and 2185 performance. The way they both operate depends 2186 on whether or not the hardware managed P-states 2187 (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor 2188 and possibly on the processor model. 2189 passive 2190 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2191 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2192 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2193 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2194 feature. 2195 force 2196 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2197 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2198 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2199 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2200 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2201 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2202 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2203 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2204 no_hwp 2205 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2206 if available. 2207 hwp_only 2208 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2209 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2210 support_acpi_ppc 2211 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2212 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2213 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2214 then this feature is turned on by default. 2215 per_cpu_perf_limits 2216 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2217 cpufreq sysfs interface 2218 2219 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 2220 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2221 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2222 nosid disable Source ID checking 2223 no_x2apic_optout 2224 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2225 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2226 2227 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2228 strict regions from userspace. 2229 relaxed 2230 2231 iommu= [X86] 2232 off 2233 force 2234 noforce 2235 biomerge 2236 panic 2237 nopanic 2238 merge 2239 nomerge 2240 soft 2241 pt [X86] 2242 nopt [X86] 2243 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2244 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2245 2246 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2247 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2248 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2249 falling back to the full range if needed. 2250 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2251 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2252 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2253 2254 iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2255 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2256 0 - Lazy mode. 2257 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2258 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2259 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2260 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2261 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2262 1 - Strict mode. 2263 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2264 synchronously. 2265 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2266 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2267 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2268 2269 iommu.passthrough= 2270 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2271 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2272 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2273 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2274 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2275 2276 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2277 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2278 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2279 2280 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 2281 0x80 2282 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2283 0xed 2284 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2285 udelay 2286 Simple two microseconds delay 2287 none 2288 No delay 2289 2290 ip= [IP_PNP] 2291 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2292 2293 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2294 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2295 2296 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2297 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2298 2299 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2300 [ARM, ARM64] 2301 Format: <bool> 2302 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2303 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2304 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2305 2306 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2307 [ARM, ARM64] 2308 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2309 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2310 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2311 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2312 LPIs. 2313 2314 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2315 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2316 requires the kernel to be built with 2317 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2318 2319 irqfixup [HW] 2320 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2321 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2322 firmware running. 2323 2324 irqpoll [HW] 2325 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2326 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2327 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2328 firmware running. 2329 2330 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2331 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2332 2333 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2334 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2335 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2336 2337 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2338 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2339 2340 nohz 2341 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2342 2343 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2344 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2345 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2346 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2347 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2348 2349 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2350 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2351 be configured manually after bootup. 2352 2353 domain 2354 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2355 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2356 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2357 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2358 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2359 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2360 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2361 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2362 2363 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2364 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2365 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2366 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2367 2368 managed_irq 2369 2370 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2371 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2372 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2373 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2374 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2375 2376 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2377 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2378 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2379 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2380 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2381 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2382 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2383 2384 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2385 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2386 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2387 only delivered when tasks running on those 2388 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2389 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2390 queues. 2391 2392 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2393 2394 iucv= [HW,NET] 2395 2396 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2397 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2398 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2399 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2400 2401 For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2402 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2403 write the parameter as: 2404 ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0 2405 2406 Deprecated formats: 2407 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2408 write the parameter as: 2409 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2410 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2411 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2412 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2413 2414 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2415 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2416 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2417 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2418 2419 For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to 2420 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2421 write the parameter as: 2422 ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0 2423 2424 Deprecated formats: 2425 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2426 write the parameter as: 2427 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2428 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2429 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2430 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2431 2432 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2433 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2434 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2435 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2436 2437 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2438 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2439 write the parameter as: 2440 ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5 2441 2442 Deprecated formats: 2443 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0, 2444 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2445 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2446 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2447 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2448 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2449 2450 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2451 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2452 2453 kasan_multi_shot 2454 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2455 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2456 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2457 invalid access. 2458 2459 keep_bootcon [KNL] 2460 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 2461 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 2462 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 2463 the real console. 2464 2465 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2466 2467 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2468 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2469 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2470 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2471 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2472 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2473 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2474 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2475 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2476 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2477 2478 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2479 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2480 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2481 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2482 zone if it does not. 2483 2484 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2485 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2486 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2487 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2488 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2489 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2490 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2491 2492 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2493 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2494 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2495 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2496 optional and is the number seconds in between 2497 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2498 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2499 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2500 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2501 the kernel debugger. 2502 2503 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2504 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2505 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2506 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2507 keyboard only format: kbd 2508 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2509 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2510 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2511 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2512 2513 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2514 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2515 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2516 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2517 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2518 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2519 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2520 2521 The name of the early console should be specified 2522 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2523 the early console might be different than the tty 2524 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2525 blank and the first boot console that implements 2526 read() will be picked. 2527 2528 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2529 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2530 2531 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2532 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2533 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2534 2535 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2536 Valid arguments: on, off 2537 Default: on 2538 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2539 the default is off. 2540 2541 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2542 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2543 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2544 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2545 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2546 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2547 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2548 2549 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2550 2551 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2552 Boot Parameter" section. 2553 2554 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2555 and kernel address spaces. 2556 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2557 0: force disabled 2558 1: force enabled 2559 2560 kunit.enable= [KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires 2561 CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The 2562 default value can be overridden via 2563 KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED. 2564 Default is 1 (enabled) 2565 2566 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2567 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2568 2569 kvm.eager_page_split= 2570 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2571 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2572 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2573 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2574 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2575 required to split huge pages lazily. 2576 2577 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2578 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2579 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2580 still be used for reads. 2581 2582 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2583 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2584 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2585 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2586 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2587 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2588 cleared. 2589 2590 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y. 2591 2592 Default is Y (on). 2593 2594 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2595 Default is false (don't support). 2596 2597 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2598 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2599 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2600 force : Always deploy workaround. 2601 off : Never deploy workaround. 2602 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2603 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2604 2605 Default is 'auto'. 2606 2607 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2608 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2609 2610 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2611 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2612 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2613 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2614 period (see below). The default is 60. 2615 2616 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2617 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2618 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2619 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2620 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2621 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2622 2623 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in 2624 KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled). 2625 2626 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables, 2627 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 2628 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2629 for NPT. 2630 2631 kvm-arm.mode= 2632 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2633 2634 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2635 2636 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2637 protected guests. 2638 2639 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2640 state is kept private from the host. 2641 2642 nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested 2643 virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3 2644 hardware. 2645 2646 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2647 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2648 for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be 2649 used with extreme caution. 2650 2651 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2652 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2653 system registers 2654 2655 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2656 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2657 system registers 2658 2659 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2660 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2661 system registers 2662 2663 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2664 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2665 LPIs. 2666 2667 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2668 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2669 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2670 allocation. 2671 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2672 Format: <integer> 2673 Default: 5 2674 2675 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables, 2676 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 2677 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2678 for EPT. 2679 2680 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2681 [KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest 2682 state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, 2683 as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted 2684 guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), 2685 as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2686 Default is 1 (enabled). 2687 2688 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2689 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature 2690 (TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if 2691 hardware lacks support for it. 2692 2693 kvm-intel.nested= 2694 [KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in 2695 KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled). 2696 2697 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2698 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest 2699 feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default 2700 is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or 2701 hardware lacks support for it. 2702 2703 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2704 CVE-2018-3620. 2705 2706 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2707 2708 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2709 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2710 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2711 never: Disables the mitigation 2712 2713 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2714 2715 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor 2716 Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1 2717 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2718 for it. 2719 2720 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL] 2721 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2722 2723 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2724 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2725 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2726 2727 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2728 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2729 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2730 not have direct access. 2731 2732 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2733 options are: 2734 2735 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2736 2737 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2738 affected CPUs 2739 2740 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2741 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2742 2743 full 2744 Provides all available mitigations for the 2745 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2746 enables all mitigations in the 2747 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2748 2749 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2750 sysfs interface is still possible after 2751 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2752 when the first VM is started in a 2753 potentially insecure configuration, 2754 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2755 2756 full,force 2757 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2758 flush runtime control. Implies the 2759 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2760 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2761 2762 flush 2763 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2764 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2765 L1D flush. 2766 2767 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2768 sysfs interface is still possible after 2769 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2770 when the first VM is started in a 2771 potentially insecure configuration, 2772 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2773 2774 flush,nosmt 2775 2776 Disables SMT and enables the default 2777 hypervisor mitigation. 2778 2779 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2780 sysfs interface is still possible after 2781 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2782 when the first VM is started in a 2783 potentially insecure configuration, 2784 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2785 2786 flush,nowarn 2787 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2788 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2789 insecure configuration. 2790 2791 off 2792 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2793 emit any warnings. 2794 It also drops the swap size and available 2795 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2796 bare metal. 2797 2798 Default is 'flush'. 2799 2800 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2801 2802 l2cr= [PPC] 2803 2804 l3cr= [PPC] 2805 2806 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2807 disabled it. 2808 2809 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2810 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2811 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2812 Format: notscdeadline 2813 2814 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2815 in C2 power state. 2816 2817 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2818 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2819 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2820 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2821 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2822 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2823 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2824 2825 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2826 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2827 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2828 2829 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2830 when set. 2831 Format: <int> 2832 2833 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 2834 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 2835 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 2836 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 2837 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 2838 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 2839 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 2840 to all ports, links and devices. 2841 2842 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2843 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2844 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2845 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2846 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2847 host link and device attached to it. 2848 2849 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2850 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 2851 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2852 The following configurations can be forced. 2853 2854 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2855 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2856 2857 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2858 2859 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2860 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2861 allowed. 2862 2863 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 2864 resets. 2865 2866 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 2867 link recovery. 2868 2869 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 2870 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 2871 detection. 2872 2873 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2874 2875 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 2876 2877 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 2878 2879 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 2880 2881 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 2882 2883 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 2884 2885 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 2886 2887 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 2888 2889 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 2890 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 2891 2892 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 2893 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 2894 2895 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 2896 identify device data log. 2897 2898 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 2899 purpose log directory. 2900 2901 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 2902 2903 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2904 1024 sectors. 2905 2906 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2907 65535 sectors. 2908 2909 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 2910 2911 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 2912 should be skipped. 2913 2914 * [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access) 2915 support for devices supporting this feature. 2916 2917 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 2918 2919 * disable: Disable this device. 2920 2921 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2922 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2923 2924 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2925 2926 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2927 Format: <integer> 2928 2929 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2930 Format: <integer> 2931 2932 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2933 Format: <integer> 2934 2935 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2936 Format: <integer> 2937 2938 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2939 { integrity | confidentiality } 2940 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2941 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2942 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2943 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2944 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2945 are also disabled. 2946 2947 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2948 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2949 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2950 number of online CPUs. 2951 2952 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2953 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2954 2955 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2956 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2957 2958 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2959 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2960 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2961 2962 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2963 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2964 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2965 mode during the locktorture test. 2966 2967 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2968 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2969 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2970 2971 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2972 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2973 2974 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2975 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2976 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2977 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2978 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2979 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2980 2981 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2982 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2983 2984 locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL] 2985 Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at 2986 sched_set_fifo() real-time priority. 2987 2988 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2989 Enable additional printk() statements. 2990 2991 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2992 Format: <irq> 2993 2994 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2995 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2996 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2997 loglevels are defined as follows: 2998 2999 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 3000 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 3001 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 3002 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 3003 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 3004 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 3005 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 3006 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 3007 3008 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 3009 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 3010 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 3011 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 3012 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 3013 that allows to increase the default size depending on 3014 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 3015 3016 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 3017 This may be used to provide more screen space for 3018 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 3019 kernel boot problems. 3020 3021 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 3022 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 3023 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 3024 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 3025 specified in addition to the ports) causes 3026 attached printers to be reset. Using 3027 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 3028 to associate lp devices with, starting with 3029 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 3030 that lp device, or a parport name such as 3031 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 3032 port specification list means that device IDs 3033 from each port should be examined, to see if 3034 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 3035 so, the driver will manage that printer. 3036 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 3037 3038 lpj=n [KNL] 3039 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 3040 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 3041 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 3042 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 3043 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 3044 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 3045 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 3046 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 3047 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 3048 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 3049 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 3050 hardware. 3051 3052 ltpc= [NET] 3053 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 3054 3055 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 3056 3057 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 3058 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 3059 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 3060 3061 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 3062 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 3063 Example: machvec=hpzx1 3064 3065 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 3066 different yeeloong laptops. 3067 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 3068 3069 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater 3070 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 3071 3072 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3073 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 3074 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 3075 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 3076 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 3077 only takes effect during system bootup. 3078 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 3079 which also disables the IO APIC. 3080 3081 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 3082 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 3083 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 3084 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 3085 devices can be requested on-demand with the 3086 /dev/loop-control interface. 3087 3088 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 3089 3090 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 3091 3092 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 3093 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3094 3095 mdacon= [MDA] 3096 Format: <first>,<last> 3097 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 3098 3099 mds= [X86,INTEL] 3100 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 3101 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 3102 3103 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 3104 internal buffers which can forward information to a 3105 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 3106 3107 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 3108 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 3109 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 3110 not have direct access. 3111 3112 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 3113 options are: 3114 3115 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3116 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 3117 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 3118 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 3119 3120 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 3121 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 3122 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 3123 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 3124 too. 3125 3126 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3127 mds=full. 3128 3129 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 3130 3131 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON] Set the memory size. 3132 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 3133 3134 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 3135 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 3136 3137 1 for test; 3138 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 3139 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 3140 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 3141 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 3142 3143 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 3144 high memory is not affected. 3145 3146 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 3147 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 3148 3149 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 3150 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 3151 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 3152 belonging to unused RAM. 3153 3154 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 3155 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 3156 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 3157 3158 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3159 [ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by 3160 firmware. 3161 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 3162 ss[KMG]. 3163 Multiple different regions can be specified with 3164 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 3165 3166 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 3167 memory. 3168 3169 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 3170 3171 memchunk=nn[KMG] 3172 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 3173 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 3174 3175 memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable 3176 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 3177 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 3178 set according to the 3179 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 3180 option. 3181 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 3182 3183 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 3184 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3185 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3186 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3187 option description. 3188 3189 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3190 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3191 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3192 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3193 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3194 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3195 comma delimited. 3196 Example: 3197 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3198 3199 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3200 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3201 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3202 3203 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3204 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3205 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3206 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3207 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3208 or 3209 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3210 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3211 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3212 will be eaten. 3213 3214 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 3215 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3216 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3217 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3218 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3219 3220 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3221 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 3222 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3223 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3224 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3225 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3226 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3227 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3228 3229 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 3230 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3231 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3232 Setting this option will scan the memory 3233 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3234 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3235 from using the memory being corrupted. 3236 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3237 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3238 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3239 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3240 3241 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 3242 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3243 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3244 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3245 corruption in more or less memory. 3246 3247 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 3248 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3249 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3250 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3251 3252 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3253 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3254 Format: {on | off (default)} 3255 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3256 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages, 3257 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even 3258 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the 3259 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a 3260 lot of memory without requiring additional 3261 memory to do so. 3262 This feature is disabled by default because it 3263 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3264 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3265 memory blocks). 3266 The state of the flag can be read in 3267 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3268 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3269 the feature is not effective. 3270 3271 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest 3272 Format: <integer> 3273 default : 0 <disable> 3274 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3275 performed. Each pass selects another test 3276 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3277 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3278 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3279 regions that are detected. 3280 3281 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3282 Valid arguments: on, off 3283 Default: off 3284 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3285 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3286 3287 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3288 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3289 3290 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3291 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3292 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3293 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3294 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3295 3296 mem.devmem= Activate the /dev/mem device 3297 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3298 3299 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 3300 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 3301 platforms. 3302 3303 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3304 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3305 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3306 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3307 3308 mga= [HW,DRM] 3309 3310 microcode.force_minrev= [X86] 3311 Format: <bool> 3312 Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision 3313 enforcement for the runtime microcode loader. 3314 3315 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this 3316 physical address is ignored. 3317 3318 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3319 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3320 Default: "0tb" 3321 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3322 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3323 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3324 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3325 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3326 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3327 unconfigured. 3328 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3329 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3330 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3331 VGA shield. 3332 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3333 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3334 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3335 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3336 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3337 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3338 3339 mitigations= 3340 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 3341 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3342 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3343 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3344 3345 Note, "mitigations" is supported if and only if the 3346 kernel was built with CPU_MITIGATIONS=y. 3347 3348 off 3349 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3350 improves system performance, but it may also 3351 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3352 Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] 3353 gather_data_sampling=off [X86] 3354 indirect_target_selection=off [X86] 3355 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3356 l1tf=off [X86] 3357 mds=off [X86] 3358 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 3359 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3360 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3361 nobp=0 [S390] 3362 nopti [X86,PPC] 3363 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] 3364 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3365 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3366 reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86] 3367 retbleed=off [X86] 3368 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3369 spectre_bhi=off [X86] 3370 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3371 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3372 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3373 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3374 3375 Exceptions: 3376 This does not have any effect on 3377 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3378 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3379 3380 auto (default) 3381 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3382 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3383 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3384 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3385 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3386 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3387 3388 auto,nosmt 3389 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3390 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3391 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3392 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3393 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3394 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3395 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 3396 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] 3397 3398 mminit_loglevel= 3399 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3400 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3401 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3402 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3403 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3404 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3405 3406 mmio_stale_data= 3407 [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor 3408 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3409 3410 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3411 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3412 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3413 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3414 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3415 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3416 3417 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3418 options are: 3419 3420 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3421 3422 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3423 vulnerable CPUs. 3424 3425 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3426 3427 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3428 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3429 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3430 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3431 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3432 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3433 3434 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3435 mmio_stale_data=full. 3436 3437 For details see: 3438 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3439 3440 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL] 3441 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value 3442 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous 3443 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable 3444 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the 3445 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe 3446 3447 module.async_probe=<bool> 3448 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing 3449 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a 3450 specific module, use the module specific control that 3451 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both 3452 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are 3453 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for 3454 the specific module. 3455 3456 module.enable_dups_trace 3457 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set, 3458 this means that duplicate request_module() calls will 3459 trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that 3460 if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s 3461 will always be issued and this option does nothing. 3462 module.sig_enforce 3463 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3464 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3465 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3466 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3467 3468 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3469 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3470 3471 mousedev.tap_time= 3472 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3473 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3474 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3475 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3476 Format: <msecs> 3477 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3478 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3479 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3480 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3481 3482 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 3483 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3484 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3485 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3486 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3487 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3488 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3489 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3490 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3491 is not too small. 3492 3493 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3494 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3495 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3496 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3497 allocations. Use with caution! 3498 3499 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3500 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3501 3502 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3503 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3504 3505 mtdparts= [MTD] 3506 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3507 3508 mtdset= [ARM] 3509 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 3510 3511 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 3512 3513 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3514 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3515 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3516 3517 mtrr=debug [X86] 3518 Enable printing debug information related to MTRR 3519 registers at boot time. 3520 3521 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3522 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3523 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3524 3525 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3526 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3527 Default is 1. 3528 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3529 using up MTRRs. 3530 3531 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 3532 Format: <integer> 3533 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3534 Default : 1 3535 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3536 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3537 3538 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3539 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3540 at a time. 3541 3542 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3543 3544 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3545 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3546 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3547 something different and driver-specific. 3548 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3549 file if at all. 3550 3551 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3552 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3553 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3554 waits 4 seconds. 3555 3556 nf_conntrack.acct= 3557 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3558 0 to disable accounting 3559 1 to enable accounting 3560 Default value is 0. 3561 3562 nfs.cache_getent= 3563 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3564 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3565 3566 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3567 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3568 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3569 3570 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3571 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3572 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3573 requests. 3574 3575 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3576 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3577 channel should listen. 3578 3579 nfs.enable_ino64= 3580 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3581 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3582 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3583 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3584 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3585 3586 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3587 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3588 entries. 3589 3590 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3591 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3592 slots the client will assign to the callback 3593 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3594 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3595 a particular server. 3596 3597 nfs.max_session_slots= 3598 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3599 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3600 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3601 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3602 Note that there is little point in setting this 3603 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3604 3605 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3606 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3607 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3608 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3609 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3610 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3611 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3612 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3613 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3614 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3615 back to using the idmapper. 3616 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3617 3618 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3619 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3620 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3621 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3622 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3623 3624 nfs.recover_lost_locks= 3625 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3626 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3627 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3628 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3629 after the locks are lost. 3630 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3631 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3632 parameter to '1'. 3633 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3634 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3635 3636 nfs.send_implementation_id= 3637 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3638 information in exchange_id requests. 3639 If zero, no implementation identification information 3640 will be sent. 3641 The default is to send the implementation identification 3642 information. 3643 3644 nfs4.layoutstats_timer= 3645 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3646 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3647 3648 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3649 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3650 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3651 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3652 3653 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable= 3654 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3655 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3656 the destination of the copy. 3657 3658 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3659 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3660 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3661 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3662 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3663 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3664 3665 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout= 3666 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3667 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3668 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3669 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3670 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3671 this parameter. 3672 3673 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3674 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3675 3676 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3677 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3678 3679 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3680 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3681 3682 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3683 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3684 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3685 3686 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3687 when a NMI is triggered. 3688 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3689 3690 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3691 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3692 Valid num: 0 or 1 3693 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3694 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3695 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3696 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3697 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3698 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3699 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3700 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3701 need the box quickly up again. 3702 3703 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3704 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3705 3706 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3707 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3708 is present. 3709 3710 no4lvl [RISCV] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes. Forces 3711 kernel to use 3-level paging instead. 3712 3713 no5lvl [X86-64,RISCV] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3714 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3715 3716 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3717 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3718 but will impact performance. 3719 3720 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3721 3722 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3723 (CPU alternatives feature). 3724 3725 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3726 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3727 3728 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3729 3730 nocache [ARM] 3731 3732 no_console_suspend 3733 [HW] Never suspend the console 3734 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3735 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3736 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3737 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3738 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3739 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3740 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3741 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3742 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3743 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3744 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3745 turn on/off it dynamically. 3746 3747 no_debug_objects 3748 [KNL] Disable object debugging 3749 3750 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3751 3752 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3753 3754 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3755 3756 noexec [IA-64] 3757 3758 noexec32 [X86-64] 3759 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3760 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3761 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3762 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3763 read implies executable mappings 3764 3765 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3766 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3767 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3768 3769 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3770 3771 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3772 3773 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3774 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3775 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3776 3777 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3778 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3779 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3780 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3781 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3782 real-time systems. 3783 3784 no_hash_pointers 3785 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3786 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3787 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3788 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3789 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3790 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3791 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3792 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3793 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3794 value printed. This option should only be specified when 3795 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3796 kernels. 3797 3798 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3799 3800 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,SH] Forces the kernel to 3801 busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3802 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3803 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3804 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3805 correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate 3806 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3807 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3808 3809 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3810 3811 nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3812 3813 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3814 Valid arguments: on, off 3815 Default: on 3816 3817 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3818 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3819 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3820 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3821 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3822 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3823 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3824 just as if they had also been called out in the 3825 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3826 3827 Note that this argument takes precedence over 3828 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 3829 3830 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3831 initial RAM disk. 3832 3833 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3834 remapping. 3835 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3836 3837 nointroute [IA-64] 3838 3839 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3840 3841 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3842 3843 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3844 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3845 3846 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3847 3848 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3849 3850 nokaslr [KNL] 3851 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 3852 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 3853 Layout Randomization). 3854 3855 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3856 fault handling. 3857 3858 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3859 3860 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3861 3862 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3863 3864 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3865 3866 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3867 3868 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3869 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3870 3871 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware 3872 sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory 3873 for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will 3874 not load if they could possibly displace the pre- 3875 initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will 3876 be available for use. The respective drivers will not 3877 perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. 3878 3879 Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging. 3880 3881 nomodule Disable module load 3882 3883 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3884 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3885 irq. 3886 3887 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3888 pagetables) support. 3889 3890 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3891 3892 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 3893 in some Intel CPUs. 3894 3895 nopti [X86-64] 3896 Equivalent to pti=off 3897 3898 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 3899 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 3900 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 3901 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 3902 3903 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 3904 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 3905 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 3906 contention. 3907 3908 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3909 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3910 3911 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3912 with UP alternatives 3913 3914 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3915 space. 3916 3917 nosbagart [IA-64] 3918 3919 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3920 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3921 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3922 3923 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 3924 3925 nosmap [PPC] 3926 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3927 even if it is supported by processor. 3928 3929 nosmep [PPC64s] 3930 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3931 even if it is supported by processor. 3932 3933 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3934 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3935 3936 nosmt [KNL,MIPS,PPC,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3937 Equivalent to smt=1. 3938 3939 [KNL,X86,PPC] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3940 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3941 via the sysfs control file. 3942 3943 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3944 3945 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3946 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3947 3948 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch 3949 history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks 3950 with this option. 3951 3952 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3953 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3954 possible in the system. 3955 3956 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_E500,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3957 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3958 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3959 option. 3960 3961 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES] Disable paravirtualized 3962 steal time accounting. steal time is computed, but 3963 won't influence scheduler behaviour 3964 3965 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3966 3967 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3968 broken timer IRQ sources. 3969 3970 no_uaccess_flush 3971 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 3972 3973 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3974 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3975 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3976 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3977 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3978 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3979 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3980 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3981 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3982 is set. 3983 3984 no-vmw-sched-clock 3985 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3986 clock and use the default one. 3987 3988 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3989 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3990 3991 nowb [ARM] 3992 3993 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3994 3995 NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the 3996 LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the 3997 IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR. 3998 3999 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 4000 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 4001 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 4002 4003 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 4004 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 4005 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 4006 performance of saving the states is degraded because 4007 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 4008 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 4009 4010 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 4011 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 4012 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 4013 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 4014 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 4015 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 4016 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 4017 4018 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 4019 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 4020 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 4021 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 4022 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 4023 parameter's value. 4024 Format: integer between 1 and 255 4025 Default: 255 4026 4027 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 4028 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 4029 SAL PALO. 4030 4031 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 4032 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 4033 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 4034 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 4035 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 4036 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 4037 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 4038 hot plugging. 4039 4040 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 4041 4042 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only 4043 set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. 4044 4045 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 4046 NUMA balancing. 4047 Allowed values are enable and disable 4048 4049 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 4050 'node', 'default' can be specified 4051 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 4052 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 4053 4054 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 4055 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 4056 info. 4057 4058 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 4059 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 4060 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 4061 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 4062 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 4063 interrupts *may* be lost! 4064 4065 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 4066 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 4067 For example, to override I2C bus2: 4068 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 4069 4070 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 4071 4072 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 4073 4074 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 4075 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 4076 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 4077 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 4078 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 4079 4080 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 4081 process, but there is a small probability of 4082 deadlocking the machine. 4083 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 4084 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 4085 4086 page_alloc.shuffle= 4087 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 4088 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 4089 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 4090 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 4091 cache, and this parameter can be used to 4092 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 4093 can be read from sysfs at: 4094 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 4095 4096 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 4097 Storage of the information about who allocated 4098 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 4099 we can turn it on. 4100 on: enable the feature 4101 4102 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 4103 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 4104 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 4105 off: turn off poisoning (default) 4106 on: turn on poisoning 4107 4108 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 4109 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 4110 Format: <integer> 4111 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 4112 reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_ORDER. 4113 4114 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 4115 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 4116 timeout = 0: wait forever 4117 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 4118 Format: <timeout> 4119 4120 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 4121 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 4122 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 4123 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 4124 called with any of the flags in this set. 4125 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 4126 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 4127 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 4128 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 4129 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 4130 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 4131 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 4132 4133 panic_on_warn=1 panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 4134 on a WARN(). 4135 4136 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 4137 User can chose combination of the following bits: 4138 bit 0: print all tasks info 4139 bit 1: print system memory info 4140 bit 2: print timer info 4141 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 4142 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 4143 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 4144 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 4145 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 4146 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 4147 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 4148 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 4149 4150 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 4151 connected to, default is 0. 4152 Format: <parport#> 4153 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 4154 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 4155 Format: <mode> 4156 4157 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 4158 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 4159 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 4160 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 4161 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 4162 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 4163 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 4164 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 4165 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 4166 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 4167 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 4168 are specified on the command line, starting 4169 with parport0. 4170 4171 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 4172 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 4173 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 4174 computer where firmware has no options for setting 4175 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 4176 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 4177 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 4178 4179 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 4180 Format: <int> 4181 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 4182 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 4183 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 4184 4185 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 4186 Format: <int> 4187 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 4188 changes. Disabled by default. 4189 4190 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 4191 Format: <int> 4192 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 4193 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4194 Disabled by default. 4195 4196 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 4197 Format: <int> 4198 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 4199 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4200 Disabled by default. 4201 4202 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4203 Format: <int> 4204 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 4205 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 4206 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 4207 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 4208 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 4209 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 4210 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 4211 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 4212 all channels. 4213 4214 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 4215 Format: <int> 4216 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 4217 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4218 respectively. Disabled by default. 4219 4220 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 4221 Format: <int> 4222 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 4223 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4224 respectively. Disabled by default. 4225 4226 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4227 Format: <int> 4228 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 4229 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 4230 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 4231 All modes allowed by default. 4232 4233 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 4234 Format: <int> 4235 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4236 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4237 4238 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4239 Format: <int> 4240 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4241 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4242 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4243 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4244 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4245 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4246 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4247 By default all supported ports are probed. 4248 4249 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4250 Format: <int> 4251 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4252 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4253 4254 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4255 Format: <int> 4256 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4257 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4258 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4259 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4260 0 otherwise. 4261 4262 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4263 Format: <int> 4264 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4265 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4266 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4267 allowed by default. 4268 4269 pause_on_oops=<int> 4270 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4271 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4272 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4273 4274 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4275 4276 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 4277 4278 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4279 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4280 specified in one of the following formats: 4281 4282 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4283 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4284 4285 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4286 bus/device/function address which may change 4287 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4288 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4289 by other kernel parameters. If the 4290 domain is left unspecified, it is 4291 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4292 to a device through multiple device/function 4293 addresses can be specified after the base 4294 address (this is more robust against 4295 renumbering issues). The second format 4296 selects devices using IDs from the 4297 configuration space which may match multiple 4298 devices in the system. 4299 4300 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4301 changes anything 4302 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4303 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4304 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4305 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4306 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4307 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4308 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4309 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4310 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4311 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4312 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4313 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4314 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4315 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4316 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4317 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4318 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4319 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4320 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4321 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4322 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4323 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4324 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4325 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4326 Configuration 4327 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4328 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4329 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4330 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4331 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4332 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4333 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4334 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4335 should never be necessary. 4336 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4337 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4338 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4339 when the system masks IRQs. 4340 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4341 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4342 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4343 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4344 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4345 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4346 on several machines and they hang the machine 4347 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4348 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4349 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4350 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4351 motherboard. 4352 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4353 Use with caution as certain devices share 4354 address decoders between ROMs and other 4355 resources. 4356 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4357 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4358 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4359 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4360 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4361 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4362 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4363 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4364 this way. 4365 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4366 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4367 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4368 F0000h-100000h range. 4369 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4370 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4371 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4372 explicitly which ones they are. 4373 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4374 numbers ourselves, overriding 4375 whatever the firmware may have done. 4376 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4377 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4378 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4379 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4380 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4381 IRQ routing is enabled. 4382 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4383 or for PCI scanning. 4384 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4385 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4386 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4387 please report a bug. 4388 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4389 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4390 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4391 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4392 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4393 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4394 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4395 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4396 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4397 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4398 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4399 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4400 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4401 so this option is a temporary workaround 4402 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4403 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4404 handle more pci cards 4405 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4406 This might help on some broken boards which 4407 machine check when some devices' config space 4408 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4409 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4410 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4411 This sorting is done to get a device 4412 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4413 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4414 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4415 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4416 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4417 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4418 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4419 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4420 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4421 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4422 or bus can support) for best performance. 4423 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4424 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4425 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4426 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4427 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4428 that hot-added devices will work. 4429 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4430 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4431 The default value is 256 bytes. 4432 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4433 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4434 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4435 resource_alignment= 4436 Format: 4437 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4438 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4439 aligned memory resources. How to 4440 specify the device is described above. 4441 If <order of align> is not specified, 4442 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4443 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4444 windows need to be expanded. 4445 To specify the alignment for several 4446 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4447 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4448 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4449 for 4096-byte alignment. 4450 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4451 end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if 4452 OS has native AER control (either granted by 4453 ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native") 4454 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4455 the default. 4456 off: Turn ECRC off 4457 on: Turn ECRC on. 4458 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4459 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4460 Default size is 256 bytes. 4461 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4462 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4463 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4464 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4465 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4466 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4467 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4468 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4469 MMIO_PREF window. 4470 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4471 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4472 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4473 Default is 1. 4474 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4475 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4476 accommodate resources required by all child 4477 devices. 4478 off: Turn realloc off 4479 on: Turn realloc on 4480 realloc same as realloc=on 4481 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4482 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4483 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4484 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4485 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4486 port. 4487 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4488 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4489 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4490 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4491 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4492 taints the kernel. 4493 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4494 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4495 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4496 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4497 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4498 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4499 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4500 this removes isolation between devices and 4501 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4502 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4503 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4504 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4505 one PCI domain per PCI function 4506 4507 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 4508 Management. 4509 off Disable ASPM. 4510 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4511 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4512 4513 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4514 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4515 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4516 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4517 also tries to use these services. 4518 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4519 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4520 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4521 hotplug). 4522 4523 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4524 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4525 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4526 4527 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4528 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4529 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4530 4531 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4532 4533 pd_ignore_unused 4534 [PM] 4535 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4536 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4537 for debug and development, but should not be 4538 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4539 4540 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4541 boot time. 4542 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4543 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4544 4545 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4546 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4547 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4548 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4549 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4550 and performance comparison. 4551 4552 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4553 See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4554 4555 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4556 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4557 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4558 4559 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4560 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4561 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4562 4563 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4564 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4565 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4566 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4567 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4568 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4569 remains 0. 4570 4571 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4572 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4573 4574 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4575 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4576 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4577 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4578 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4579 possible settings and some assignment information. 4580 4581 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4582 { off } 4583 4584 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4585 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4586 4587 pnp_reserve_irq= 4588 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4589 4590 pnp_reserve_dma= 4591 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4592 4593 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4594 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4595 4596 pnp_reserve_mem= 4597 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4598 autoconfiguration. 4599 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4600 4601 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4602 Default is 21. 4603 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4604 may be specified. 4605 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4606 4607 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4608 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4609 platform machine description specific power_save 4610 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4611 execution priority. 4612 4613 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4614 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4615 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4616 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4617 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4618 4619 ppc_tm= [PPC] 4620 Format: {"off"} 4621 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4622 4623 preempt= [KNL] 4624 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4625 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4626 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4627 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4628 can be preempted anytime. 4629 4630 print-fatal-signals= 4631 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4632 4633 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4634 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4635 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4636 coredump - etc. 4637 4638 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4639 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4640 4641 default: off. 4642 4643 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4644 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4645 panics 4646 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4647 default: disabled 4648 4649 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4650 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4651 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4652 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4653 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4654 in order to provide more debug information. 4655 Format: <bool> 4656 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4657 4658 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4659 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4660 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4661 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4662 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4663 Default: ratelimit 4664 4665 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4666 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4667 4668 proc_mem.force_override= [KNL] 4669 Format: {always | ptrace | never} 4670 Traditionally /proc/pid/mem allows memory permissions to be 4671 overridden without restrictions. This option may be set to 4672 restrict that. Can be one of: 4673 - 'always': traditional behavior always allows mem overrides. 4674 - 'ptrace': only allow mem overrides for active ptracers. 4675 - 'never': never allow mem overrides. 4676 If not specified, default is the CONFIG_PROC_MEM_* choice. 4677 4678 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4679 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4680 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4681 4682 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4683 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4684 instead using the legacy FADT method 4685 4686 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4687 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4688 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule" or "kvm" 4689 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4690 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4691 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4692 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4693 statistical time based profiling. 4694 4695 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4696 4697 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4698 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4699 that). 4700 Format: <bool> 4701 4702 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4703 tracking. 4704 Format: <bool> 4705 4706 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4707 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4708 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4709 per second. 4710 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4711 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4712 (0 = never). 4713 psmouse.resolution= 4714 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4715 psmouse.smartscroll= 4716 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4717 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4718 4719 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4720 4721 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4722 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4723 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4724 system calls and interrupts. 4725 4726 on - unconditionally enable 4727 off - unconditionally disable 4728 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4729 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4730 4731 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4732 4733 pty.legacy_count= 4734 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4735 default number. 4736 4737 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4738 4739 r128= [HW,DRM] 4740 4741 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 4742 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 4743 invalidate. 4744 4745 raid= [HW,RAID] 4746 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4747 4748 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4749 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4750 4751 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4752 4753 random.trust_cpu=off 4754 [KNL] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's 4755 random number generator (if available) to 4756 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4757 4758 random.trust_bootloader=off 4759 [KNL] Disable trusting the use of the a seed 4760 passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4761 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4762 4763 randomize_kstack_offset= 4764 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4765 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4766 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4767 that depend on stack address determinism or 4768 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4769 available on architectures that have defined 4770 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4771 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4772 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4773 4774 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4775 4776 cec_disable [X86] 4777 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4778 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4779 4780 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 4781 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 4782 as described above. 4783 4784 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 4785 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 4786 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 4787 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 4788 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 4789 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 4790 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 4791 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 4792 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 4793 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 4794 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 4795 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4796 4797 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 4798 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 4799 4800 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 4801 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 4802 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 4803 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 4804 4805 Note that this argument takes precedence over 4806 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 4807 4808 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4809 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4810 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4811 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4812 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4813 This improves the real-time response for the 4814 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4815 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4816 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4817 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4818 4819 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4820 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4821 process in one batch. 4822 4823 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4824 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4825 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4826 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4827 4828 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4829 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4830 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4831 4832 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4833 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4834 RCU grace-period initialization. 4835 4836 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4837 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4838 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4839 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4840 the rcu_node combining tree. 4841 4842 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4843 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4844 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4845 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4846 and maximum value is HZ. 4847 4848 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4849 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4850 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4851 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4852 4853 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4854 Set required age in jiffies for a 4855 given grace period before RCU starts 4856 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4857 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4858 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4859 a value based on the most recent settings 4860 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4861 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4862 This calculated value may be viewed in 4863 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4864 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4865 overwritten. 4866 4867 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4868 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4869 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4870 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4871 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4872 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4873 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4874 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4875 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4876 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4877 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 4878 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 4879 4880 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] 4881 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, 4882 RCU reduces the lock contention that would 4883 otherwise be caused by callback floods through 4884 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the 4885 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to 4886 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra 4887 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. 4888 But if there are too many callbacks queued during 4889 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into 4890 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too 4891 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. 4892 4893 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4894 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4895 batch limiting is disabled. 4896 4897 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4898 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4899 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4900 4901 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4902 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4903 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4904 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4905 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4906 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4907 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4908 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4909 4910 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 4911 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 4912 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 4913 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 4914 4915 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] 4916 Set the shift-right count to use to compute 4917 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from 4918 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. 4919 The result will be bounded below by the value of 4920 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl 4921 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in 4922 order to allow the CPU to do other work. 4923 4924 Please note that this callback-invocation batch 4925 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback 4926 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead 4927 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which 4928 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. 4929 4930 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4931 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4932 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4933 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4934 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4935 4936 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4937 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4938 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4939 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4940 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4941 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4942 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4943 4944 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4945 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4946 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4947 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4948 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4949 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4950 condition. 4951 4952 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4953 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4954 each group, which defaults to the square root 4955 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4956 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4957 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4958 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4959 4960 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4961 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4962 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4963 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4964 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4965 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4966 4967 rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL] 4968 Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU 4969 callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds. 4970 By default, this limit is checked only once 4971 every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain 4972 inflicted by local_clock() overhead. 4973 4974 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 4975 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 4976 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 4977 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 4978 Larger delays increase the probability of 4979 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 4980 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 4981 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 4982 4983 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4984 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4985 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4986 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4987 4988 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 4989 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 4990 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 4991 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 4992 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 4993 4994 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 4995 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 4996 to zero. 4997 4998 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 4999 Measure performance of asynchronous 5000 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 5001 5002 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 5003 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 5004 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 5005 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 5006 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 5007 previously posted callbacks to drain. 5008 5009 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 5010 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 5011 grace-period primitives. 5012 5013 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5014 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5015 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5016 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5017 interference. 5018 5019 rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL] 5020 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test 5021 call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu(). 5022 5023 rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL] 5024 Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj, 5025 allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj). 5026 Defaults to 1. 5027 5028 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 5029 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 5030 5031 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 5032 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5033 If this parameter has the same value as 5034 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 5035 and double-argument variants are tested. 5036 5037 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 5038 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5039 If this parameter has the same value as 5040 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 5041 and double-argument variants are tested. 5042 5043 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 5044 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 5045 5046 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 5047 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 5048 5049 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 5050 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 5051 of allocations and frees. 5052 5053 rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL] 5054 Set the minimum test run time in seconds. This 5055 does not affect the data-collection interval, 5056 but instead allows better measurement of things 5057 like CPU consumption. 5058 5059 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5060 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5061 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5062 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 5063 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5064 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5065 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 5066 a single reader. 5067 5068 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 5069 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 5070 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 5071 N, where N is the number of CPUs 5072 5073 rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5074 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5075 5076 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5077 Shut the system down after performance tests 5078 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 5079 testing. 5080 5081 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 5082 Enable additional printk() statements. 5083 5084 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 5085 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 5086 in microseconds. The default of zero says 5087 no holdoff. 5088 5089 rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL] 5090 Additional write-side holdoff between grace 5091 periods, but in jiffies. The default of zero 5092 says no holdoff. 5093 5094 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 5095 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 5096 in microseconds. 5097 5098 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 5099 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 5100 in microseconds. 5101 5102 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 5103 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 5104 in seconds. 5105 5106 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 5107 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 5108 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 5109 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 5110 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 5111 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 5112 of CPUs to be used. 5113 5114 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 5115 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 5116 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 5117 5118 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 5119 Number of seconds to wait between successive 5120 forward-progress tests. 5121 5122 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 5123 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 5124 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 5125 testing. 5126 5127 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 5128 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 5129 primitives, if available. 5130 5131 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 5132 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 5133 5134 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 5135 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 5136 update-side primitives, if available. 5137 5138 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 5139 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 5140 update-side primitives, if available. If all 5141 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 5142 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 5143 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 5144 they are all non-zero. 5145 5146 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 5147 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 5148 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 5149 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 5150 5151 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 5152 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 5153 This can of course result in splats, and is 5154 intended to test the ability of things like 5155 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 5156 such leaks. 5157 5158 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 5159 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 5160 5161 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 5162 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 5163 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 5164 test, hence the "fake". 5165 5166 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 5167 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 5168 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 5169 5170 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 5171 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 5172 callback-offload toggling attempts. 5173 5174 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 5175 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5176 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5177 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 5178 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5179 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5180 5181 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 5182 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 5183 5184 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5185 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 5186 5187 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5188 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 5189 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 5190 5191 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 5192 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 5193 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 5194 task-exit processing. 5195 5196 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 5197 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 5198 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 5199 is spawned. 5200 5201 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 5202 The delay, in seconds, between successive 5203 read-then-exit testing episodes. 5204 5205 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 5206 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 5207 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 5208 during the rcutorture test. 5209 5210 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5211 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 5212 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 5213 5214 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 5215 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 5216 warnings, zero to disable. 5217 5218 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 5219 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 5220 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to 5221 any other stall-related activity. Note that 5222 in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and 5223 CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will 5224 cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state. 5225 Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress 5226 RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result 5227 in scheduling-while-atomic splats. 5228 5229 Use of this module parameter results in splats. 5230 5231 5232 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 5233 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 5234 5235 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 5236 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 5237 5238 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 5239 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 5240 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 5241 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 5242 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 5243 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 5244 5245 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5246 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 5247 5248 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 5249 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 5250 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 5251 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 5252 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 5253 5254 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 5255 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 5256 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 5257 under test support RCU priority boosting. 5258 5259 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 5260 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 5261 5262 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 5263 Interval (s) between each boost test. 5264 5265 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 5266 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 5267 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 5268 5269 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 5270 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5271 5272 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 5273 Enable additional printk() statements. 5274 5275 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 5276 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 5277 stall warning. 5278 5279 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 5280 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5281 5282 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 5283 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 5284 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 5285 during early boot, that is, during the time 5286 before the init task is spawned. 5287 5288 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5289 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5290 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 5291 value is 300 seconds. 5292 5293 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5294 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 5295 messages. The value is in milliseconds 5296 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 5297 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 5298 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 5299 Setting this to zero causes the value from 5300 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 5301 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 5302 5303 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL] 5304 Provide statistics on the cputime and count of 5305 interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For 5306 multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods 5307 begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout. 5308 5309 rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL] 5310 Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the 5311 current expedited RCU grace period during an 5312 expedited RCU CPU stall warning. 5313 5314 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 5315 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 5316 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 5317 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 5318 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 5319 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 5320 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5321 5322 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 5323 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 5324 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 5325 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 5326 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 5327 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 5328 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 5329 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 5330 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5331 5332 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 5333 Once boot has completed (that is, after 5334 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 5335 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 5336 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5337 5338 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 5339 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 5340 it to the value one, that is, converting any 5341 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 5342 period to instead use normal non-expedited 5343 grace-period processing. 5344 5345 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 5346 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 5347 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 5348 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 5349 a single callback queue. This switching only 5350 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 5351 set to the default value of -1. 5352 5353 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 5354 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 5355 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 5356 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 5357 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 5358 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 5359 the default value of -1. 5360 5361 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 5362 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 5363 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 5364 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 5365 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 5366 for use in testing. 5367 5368 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 5369 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 5370 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 5371 of a given grace period. Setting a large 5372 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 5373 but lengthens grace periods. 5374 5375 rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL] 5376 Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will 5377 cancel laziness on that CPU. Use -1 to disable 5378 cancellation of laziness, but be advised that 5379 doing so increases the danger of OOM due to 5380 callback flooding. 5381 5382 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 5383 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5384 informational messages, which give some indication 5385 of the problem for those not patient enough to 5386 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 5387 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 5388 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 5389 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 5390 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 5391 until the beginning of the next grace period. 5392 5393 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 5394 Multiplier for time interval between successive 5395 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 5396 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 5397 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 5398 the value three, so that the first informational 5399 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 5400 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 5401 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 5402 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 5403 5404 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5405 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5406 warning messages. Disable with a value less 5407 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 5408 A change in value does not take effect until 5409 the beginning of the next grace period. 5410 5411 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5412 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous 5413 callback batching for call_rcu_tasks(). 5414 A negative value will take the default. A value 5415 of zero will disable batching. Batching is 5416 always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks(). 5417 5418 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_rude_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5419 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks 5420 Rude asynchronous callback batching for 5421 call_rcu_tasks_rude(). A negative value 5422 will take the default. A value of zero will 5423 disable batching. Batching is always disabled 5424 for synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude(). 5425 5426 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5427 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks 5428 Trace asynchronous callback batching for 5429 call_rcu_tasks_trace(). A negative value 5430 will take the default. A value of zero will 5431 disable batching. Batching is always disabled 5432 for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace(). 5433 5434 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 5435 Run the RCU early boot self tests 5436 5437 rdinit= [KNL] 5438 Format: <full_path> 5439 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 5440 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 5441 5442 rdrand= [X86] 5443 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 5444 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 5445 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 5446 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 5447 path). 5448 5449 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 5450 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 5451 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 5452 mba, smba, bmec. 5453 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 5454 rdt=cmt,!mba 5455 5456 reboot= [KNL] 5457 Format (x86 or x86_64): 5458 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 5459 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 5460 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 5461 [[,]f[orce] 5462 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 5463 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 5464 reboot only), 5465 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 5466 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 5467 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 5468 to be used for rebooting. 5469 5470 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5471 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5472 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5473 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5474 interference. 5475 5476 refscale.loops= [KNL] 5477 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 5478 primitive under test. Increasing this number 5479 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 5480 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 5481 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 5482 x86 laptops. 5483 5484 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5485 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 5486 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 5487 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 5488 5489 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 5490 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 5491 the console log. 5492 5493 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 5494 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 5495 measured in microseconds. 5496 5497 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5498 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 5499 5500 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5501 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 5502 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 5503 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 5504 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 5505 5506 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 5507 Enable additional printk() statements. 5508 5509 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 5510 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 5511 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 5512 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 5513 specified. 5514 5515 relax_domain_level= 5516 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 5517 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 5518 5519 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 5520 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 5521 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 5522 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 5523 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 5524 5525 reservetop= [X86-32] 5526 Format: nn[KMG] 5527 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 5528 address space. 5529 5530 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 5531 during initialization. 5532 5533 resume= [SWSUSP] 5534 Specify the partition device for software suspend 5535 Format: 5536 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 5537 5538 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 5539 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 5540 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 5541 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 5542 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 5543 5544 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5545 read the resume files 5546 5547 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 5548 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5549 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5550 5551 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 5552 5553 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 5554 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 5555 vulnerability. 5556 5557 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop 5558 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other 5559 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- 5560 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors 5561 that don't. 5562 5563 off - no mitigation 5564 auto - automatically select a migitation 5565 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 5566 disabling SMT if necessary for 5567 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 5568 and older without STIBP). 5569 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation 5570 windows on basic block boundaries too. 5571 Safe, highest perf impact. It also 5572 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable 5573 on Intel. 5574 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT 5575 when STIBP is not available. This is 5576 the alternative for systems which do not 5577 have STIBP. 5578 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, 5579 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based 5580 systems. 5581 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP 5582 is not available. This is the alternative for 5583 systems which do not have STIBP. 5584 5585 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 5586 time according to the CPU. 5587 5588 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 5589 5590 rfkill.default_state= 5591 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 5592 etc. communication is blocked by default. 5593 1 Unblocked. 5594 5595 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 5596 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 5597 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5598 blocked and the previous configuration. 5599 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5600 blocked and everything unblocked. 5601 5602 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5603 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 5604 5605 ring3mwait=disable 5606 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 5607 CPUs. 5608 5609 riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV] 5610 When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit 5611 falling back to detecting extension support by parsing 5612 "riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the 5613 replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig 5614 entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK. 5615 5616 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 5617 5618 rodata= [KNL] 5619 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 5620 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 5621 full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only 5622 [arm64] 5623 5624 rockchip.usb_uart 5625 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 5626 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 5627 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 5628 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 5629 5630 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 5631 Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind, 5632 see the early_lookup_bdev comment in 5633 block/early-lookup.c for details. 5634 Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial 5635 ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file 5636 system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash. 5637 5638 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5639 mount the root filesystem 5640 5641 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 5642 5643 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 5644 5645 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 5646 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5647 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5648 5649 rootwait= [KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device 5650 to show up before attempting to mount the root 5651 filesystem. 5652 5653 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 5654 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 5655 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 5656 managed by CMA. 5657 5658 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 5659 5660 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5661 5662 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5663 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5664 strict 5665 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 5666 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 5667 which is faster. 5668 5669 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5670 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5671 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5672 factor of the size of main memory. 5673 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5674 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5675 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5676 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5677 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5678 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5679 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5680 5681 sa1100ir [NET] 5682 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5683 5684 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5685 5686 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5687 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5688 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5689 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5690 5691 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5692 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5693 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5694 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5695 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5696 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5697 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5698 value. 5699 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5700 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5701 1 64 ms 5702 2 128 ms 5703 and so on. 5704 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5705 Default is 0. 5706 5707 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5708 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5709 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5710 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5711 tests. 5712 5713 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5714 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5715 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5716 default) disables this feature. Please note 5717 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5718 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5719 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5720 5721 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5722 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5723 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5724 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5725 equal to the number of CPUs. 5726 5727 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5728 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5729 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 5730 5731 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5732 Number seconds to wait between successive 5733 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 5734 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 5735 5736 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5737 The number of seconds following the start of the 5738 test after which to shut down the system. The 5739 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 5740 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 5741 5742 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5743 The number of seconds between outputting the 5744 current test statistics to the console. A value 5745 of zero disables statistics output. 5746 5747 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 5748 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 5749 to the set of CPUs under test. 5750 5751 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 5752 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 5753 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 5754 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 5755 functions. 5756 5757 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 5758 Enable additional printk() statements. 5759 5760 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 5761 The probability weighting to use for the 5762 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 5763 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 5764 default if all other weights are -1. However, 5765 if at least one weight has some other value, a 5766 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 5767 5768 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 5769 The probability weighting to use for the 5770 smp_call_function_single() function with a 5771 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5772 5773 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 5774 The probability weighting to use for the 5775 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 5776 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5777 Note well that setting a high probability for 5778 this weighting can place serious IPI load 5779 on the system. 5780 5781 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 5782 The probability weighting to use for the 5783 smp_call_function_many() function with a 5784 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5785 and weight_many. 5786 5787 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 5788 The probability weighting to use for the 5789 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 5790 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 5791 weight_many. 5792 5793 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 5794 The probability weighting to use for the 5795 smp_call_function_all() function with a 5796 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5797 and weight_many. 5798 5799 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 5800 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 5801 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 5802 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5803 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 5804 1 -- enable. 5805 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 5806 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 5807 5808 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 5809 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 5810 "lsm=" parameter. 5811 5812 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 5813 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5814 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 5815 0 -- disable. 5816 1 -- enable. 5817 Default value is 1. 5818 5819 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 5820 5821 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 5822 5823 shapers= [NET] 5824 Maximal number of shapers. 5825 5826 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 5827 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 5828 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 5829 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 5830 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 5831 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 5832 apic=verbose is specified. 5833 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 5834 5835 simeth= [IA-64] 5836 simscsi= 5837 5838 slram= [HW,MTD] 5839 5840 slab_merge [MM] 5841 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 5842 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 5843 5844 slab_nomerge [MM] 5845 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 5846 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 5847 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 5848 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 5849 layout control by attackers can usually be 5850 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 5851 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 5852 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 5853 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 5854 own. 5855 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5856 5857 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 5858 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5859 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5860 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 5861 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 5862 5863 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 5864 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 5865 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5866 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5867 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5868 last alloc / free. For more information see 5869 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5870 5871 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 5872 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5873 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5874 fragmentation. For more information see 5875 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5876 5877 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 5878 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 5879 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 5880 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 5881 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 5882 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 5883 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 5884 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5885 5886 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 5887 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 5888 lower than slub_max_order. 5889 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5890 5891 slub_merge [MM, SLUB] 5892 Same with slab_merge. 5893 5894 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 5895 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 5896 See slab_nomerge for more information. 5897 5898 smart2= [HW] 5899 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 5900 5901 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 5902 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 5903 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 5904 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 5905 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 5906 disabling interrupts for extended periods 5907 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 5908 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 5909 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 5910 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 5911 5912 smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL] 5913 If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than 5914 the specified number of milliseconds, panic the 5915 system. By default, let CSD-lock acquisition 5916 take as long as they take. Specifying 300,000 5917 for this value provides a 5-minute timeout. 5918 5919 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 5920 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 5921 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 5922 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 5923 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 5924 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 5925 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 5926 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 5927 1: Fast pin select (default) 5928 2: ATC IRMode 5929 5930 smt= [KNL,MIPS,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 5931 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 5932 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 5933 actual hardware limit. 5934 Format: <integer> 5935 Default: -1 (no limit) 5936 5937 softlockup_panic= 5938 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 5939 Format: 0 | 1 5940 5941 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 5942 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 5943 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 5944 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 5945 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 5946 5947 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 5948 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 5949 backtraces on all cpus. 5950 Format: 0 | 1 5951 5952 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 5953 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 5954 5955 spectre_bhi= [X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection 5956 (BHI) vulnerability. This setting affects the 5957 deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB 5958 clearing sequence. 5959 5960 on - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation 5961 as needed. 5962 off - Disable the mitigation. 5963 5964 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5965 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 5966 The default operation protects the kernel from 5967 user space attacks. 5968 5969 on - unconditionally enable, implies 5970 spectre_v2_user=on 5971 off - unconditionally disable, implies 5972 spectre_v2_user=off 5973 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5974 vulnerable 5975 5976 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 5977 mitigation method at run time according to the 5978 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 5979 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 5980 compiler with which the kernel was built. 5981 5982 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 5983 against user space to user space task attacks. 5984 Selecting specific mitigation does not force enable 5985 user mitigations. 5986 5987 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 5988 the user space protections. 5989 5990 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 5991 5992 retpoline - replace indirect branches 5993 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 5994 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 5995 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 5996 eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS 5997 eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines 5998 eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE 5999 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 6000 6001 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6002 spectre_v2=auto. 6003 6004 spectre_v2_user= 6005 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 6006 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 6007 user space tasks 6008 6009 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 6010 enforced by spectre_v2=on 6011 6012 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 6013 enforced by spectre_v2=off 6014 6015 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 6016 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 6017 per thread. The mitigation control state 6018 is inherited on fork. 6019 6020 prctl,ibpb 6021 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 6022 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6023 always when switching between different user 6024 space processes. 6025 6026 seccomp 6027 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 6028 threads will enable the mitigation unless 6029 they explicitly opt out. 6030 6031 seccomp,ibpb 6032 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 6033 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6034 always when switching between different 6035 user space processes. 6036 6037 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 6038 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 6039 6040 Default mitigation: "prctl" 6041 6042 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6043 spectre_v2_user=auto. 6044 6045 spec_rstack_overflow= 6046 [X86] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs 6047 6048 off - Disable mitigation 6049 microcode - Enable microcode mitigation only 6050 safe-ret - Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default) 6051 ibpb - Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on 6052 kernel entry 6053 ibpb-vmexit - Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT 6054 (cloud-specific mitigation) 6055 6056 spec_store_bypass_disable= 6057 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 6058 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 6059 6060 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 6061 a common industry wide performance optimization known 6062 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 6063 to the same memory location may not be observed by 6064 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 6065 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 6066 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 6067 end of a particular speculation execution window. 6068 6069 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6070 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 6071 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 6072 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 6073 6074 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 6075 Bypass optimization is used. 6076 6077 On x86 the options are: 6078 6079 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 6080 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 6081 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 6082 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 6083 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 6084 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 6085 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 6086 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 6087 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 6088 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 6089 for a process by default. The state of the control 6090 is inherited on fork. 6091 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 6092 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 6093 6094 Default mitigations: 6095 X86: "prctl" 6096 6097 On powerpc the options are: 6098 6099 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 6100 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 6101 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 6102 exit. 6103 off - No action. 6104 6105 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6106 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 6107 6108 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 6109 spia_fio_base= 6110 spia_pedr= 6111 spia_peddr= 6112 6113 split_lock_detect= 6114 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 6115 6116 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 6117 instructions that access data across cache line 6118 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 6119 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 6120 bus lock detection. 6121 6122 off - not enabled 6123 6124 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 6125 about applications triggering the #AC 6126 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 6127 the default on CPUs that support split lock 6128 detection or bus lock detection. Default 6129 behavior is by #AC if both features are 6130 enabled in hardware. 6131 6132 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 6133 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 6134 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 6135 both features are enabled in hardware. 6136 6137 ratelimit:N - 6138 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 6139 per second for bus lock detection. 6140 0 < N <= 1000. 6141 6142 N/A for split lock detection. 6143 6144 6145 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 6146 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 6147 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 6148 mode. 6149 6150 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 6151 CPL > 0. 6152 6153 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 6154 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 6155 (SRBDS) mitigation. 6156 6157 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 6158 exploit which can leak bits from the random 6159 number generator. 6160 6161 By default, this issue is mitigated by 6162 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 6163 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 6164 much slower. Among other effects, this will 6165 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 6166 6167 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 6168 the following option: 6169 6170 off: Disable mitigation and remove 6171 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 6172 6173 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 6174 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 6175 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 6176 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 6177 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 6178 but takes effect only when the low-order four 6179 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 6180 (decide at boot). 6181 6182 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 6183 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 6184 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 6185 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 6186 6187 0: Never. 6188 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 6189 2: When rcutorture decides to. 6190 3: Decide at boot time (default). 6191 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 6192 6193 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 6194 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 6195 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 6196 6197 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 6198 Specifies how frequently to check for 6199 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 6200 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 6201 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 6202 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 6203 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 6204 are ignored. 6205 6206 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 6207 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 6208 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 6209 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 6210 grace period will be considered for automatic 6211 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 6212 expediting. 6213 6214 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] 6215 Specifies the number of no-delay instances 6216 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period 6217 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero 6218 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will 6219 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. 6220 6221 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] 6222 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of 6223 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, 6224 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled 6225 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each 6226 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. 6227 6228 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] 6229 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping 6230 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. 6231 6232 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 6233 Specifies the number of update-side contention 6234 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 6235 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 6236 structure to big form. Note that the value of 6237 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 6238 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 6239 6240 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 6241 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 6242 6243 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 6244 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 6245 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 6246 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 6247 6248 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 6249 for both kernel and userspace 6250 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 6251 for both kernel and userspace 6252 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 6253 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 6254 to allow userspace to register its 6255 interest in being mitigated too. 6256 6257 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 6258 override the default stack gap protection. The value 6259 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 6260 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 6261 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 6262 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 6263 6264 stack_depot_disable= [KNL] 6265 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 6266 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 6267 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 6268 to false. 6269 6270 stacktrace [FTRACE] 6271 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 6272 6273 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 6274 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 6275 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 6276 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 6277 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 6278 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 6279 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 6280 6281 sti= [PARISC,HW] 6282 Format: <num> 6283 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 6284 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 6285 as the initial boot-console. 6286 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6287 6288 sti_font= [HW] 6289 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6290 6291 stifb= [HW] 6292 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 6293 6294 strict_sas_size= 6295 [X86] 6296 Format: <bool> 6297 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 6298 against the required signal frame size which 6299 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 6300 be used to filter out binaries which have 6301 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 6302 6303 stress_hpt [PPC] 6304 Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash 6305 page table to increase the rate of hash page table 6306 faults on kernel addresses. 6307 6308 stress_slb [PPC] 6309 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 6310 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 6311 on kernel addresses. 6312 6313 sunrpc.min_resvport= 6314 sunrpc.max_resvport= 6315 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6316 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 6317 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 6318 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 6319 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 6320 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 6321 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 6322 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 6323 maximum port values. 6324 6325 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 6326 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6327 Limit the number of requests that the server will 6328 process in parallel from a single connection. 6329 The default value is 0 (no limit). 6330 6331 sunrpc.pool_mode= 6332 [NFS] 6333 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 6334 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 6335 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 6336 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 6337 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 6338 NFS server is running. 6339 6340 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 6341 automatically using heuristics 6342 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 6343 percpu one pool for each CPU 6344 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 6345 to global on non-NUMA machines) 6346 6347 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 6348 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 6349 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6350 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 6351 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 6352 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 6353 improve throughput, but will also increase the 6354 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 6355 6356 suspend.pm_test_delay= 6357 [SUSPEND] 6358 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 6359 mode before resuming the system (see 6360 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 6361 is set. Default value is 5. 6362 6363 svm= [PPC] 6364 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 6365 This parameter controls use of the Protected 6366 Execution Facility on pSeries. 6367 6368 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 6369 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } 6370 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 6371 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb 6372 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up 6373 to a power of 2. 6374 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 6375 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 6376 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 6377 6378 switches= [HW,M68k] 6379 6380 sysctl.*= [KNL] 6381 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 6382 process, as if the value was written to the respective 6383 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 6384 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 6385 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 6386 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 6387 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 6388 6389 sysrq_always_enabled 6390 [KNL] 6391 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 6392 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 6393 Useful for debugging. 6394 6395 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6396 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 6397 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 6398 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 6399 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 6400 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 6401 6402 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 6403 6404 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 6405 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 6406 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 6407 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 6408 as the system sleep state during system startup with 6409 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 6410 The system is woken from this state using a 6411 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 6412 6413 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6414 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 6415 6416 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 6417 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 6418 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 6419 6420 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 6421 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 6422 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 6423 6424 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 6425 1: disable ACPI thermal control 6426 6427 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 6428 -1: disable all passive trip points 6429 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 6430 value 6431 6432 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 6433 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 6434 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 6435 0: no polling (default) 6436 6437 threadirqs [KNL] 6438 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 6439 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 6440 6441 topology= [S390] 6442 Format: {off | on} 6443 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 6444 topology information if the hardware supports this. 6445 The scheduler will make use of this information and 6446 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 6447 Default is on. 6448 6449 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 6450 Format: {off} 6451 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 6452 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 6453 LPAR. 6454 6455 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 6456 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 6457 until after init has spawned. 6458 6459 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 6460 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 6461 even if there were no errors. This can be a 6462 very costly operation when many torture tests 6463 are running concurrently, especially on systems 6464 with rotating-rust storage. 6465 6466 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 6467 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 6468 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 6469 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 6470 6471 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 6472 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 6473 6474 tp720= [HW,PS2] 6475 6476 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 6477 Format: integer pcr id 6478 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 6479 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 6480 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 6481 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 6482 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 6483 are saved. 6484 6485 tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM] 6486 Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer 6487 for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false 6488 (0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces 6489 defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see 6490 https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/ 6491 6492 tp_printk [FTRACE] 6493 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 6494 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 6495 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 6496 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 6497 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 6498 6499 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 6500 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 6501 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 6502 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 6503 6504 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 6505 to stop the printing of events to console at 6506 late_initcall_sync. 6507 6508 ** CAUTION ** 6509 6510 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 6511 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 6512 the system to live lock. 6513 6514 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 6515 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 6516 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 6517 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 6518 make the system inoperable. 6519 6520 This command line option will stop the printing of events 6521 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 6522 6523 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 6524 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 6525 6526 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 6527 at boot up. 6528 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 6529 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 6530 depending on the architecture, may not be 6531 in sync between CPUs. 6532 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 6533 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 6534 but better for some race conditions. 6535 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 6536 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 6537 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 6538 once per event. 6539 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 6540 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 6541 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6542 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 6543 stamps. 6544 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6545 Architectures may add more clocks. See 6546 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 6547 6548 trace_event=[event-list] 6549 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 6550 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 6551 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 6552 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 6553 6554 trace_instance=[instance-info] 6555 [FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up. 6556 This will be listed in: 6557 6558 /sys/kernel/tracing/instances 6559 6560 Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created 6561 via: 6562 6563 trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2> 6564 6565 Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is 6566 unique. 6567 6568 trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall 6569 6570 will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and 6571 the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry 6572 event, and all events under the "initcall" system. 6573 6574 trace_options=[option-list] 6575 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 6576 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 6577 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 6578 to echo the option name into 6579 6580 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options 6581 6582 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 6583 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 6584 6585 trace_options=stacktrace 6586 6587 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 6588 section. 6589 6590 trace_trigger=[trigger-list] 6591 [FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events. 6592 Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional 6593 filter. 6594 6595 The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..." 6596 Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated. 6597 6598 For example: 6599 6600 trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2" 6601 6602 The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch" 6603 event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch" 6604 event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE). 6605 6606 See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst 6607 6608 6609 traceoff_on_warning 6610 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 6611 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 6612 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 6613 file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/ 6614 6615 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 6616 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 6617 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 6618 6619 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 6620 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 6621 6622 transparent_hugepage= 6623 [KNL] 6624 Format: [always|madvise|never] 6625 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 6626 with respect to transparent hugepages. 6627 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 6628 for more details. 6629 6630 trusted.source= [KEYS] 6631 Format: <string> 6632 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 6633 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 6634 sources: 6635 - "tpm" 6636 - "tee" 6637 - "caam" 6638 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 6639 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 6640 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 6641 successfully during iteration. 6642 6643 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 6644 Format: <string> 6645 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 6646 Can be one of: 6647 - "kernel" 6648 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 6649 - "default" 6650 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 6651 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 6652 6653 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 6654 Format: <string> 6655 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 6656 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 6657 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 6658 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 6659 virtualized environment. 6660 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 6661 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 6662 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 6663 can add overhead. 6664 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 6665 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 6666 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 6667 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 6668 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 6669 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 6670 acceptable). 6671 [x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer 6672 (HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was 6673 obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15). 6674 Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm. 6675 [x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with 6676 which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but 6677 only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy. 6678 This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and 6679 can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog. A console 6680 message will flag any such suppression or overriding. 6681 6682 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 6683 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 6684 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 6685 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 6686 Format: <unsigned int> 6687 6688 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 6689 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 6690 support TSX control. 6691 6692 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 6693 6694 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 6695 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 6696 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 6697 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 6698 so there may be unknown security risks associated 6699 with leaving it enabled. 6700 6701 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 6702 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 6703 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 6704 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 6705 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 6706 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 6707 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 6708 6709 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 6710 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 6711 6712 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 6713 6714 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6715 for more details. 6716 6717 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 6718 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 6719 6720 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 6721 certain CPUs that support Transactional 6722 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 6723 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 6724 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 6725 conditions. 6726 6727 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6728 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 6729 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 6730 access. 6731 6732 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 6733 options are: 6734 6735 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 6736 if TSX is enabled. 6737 6738 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 6739 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 6740 is not disabled because CPU is not 6741 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 6742 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 6743 6744 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 6745 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 6746 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 6747 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 6748 6749 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6750 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 6751 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 6752 required and doesn't provide any additional 6753 mitigation. 6754 6755 For details see: 6756 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6757 6758 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 6759 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 6760 Format: 6761 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 6762 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 6763 6764 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 6765 happen after console_init() and before a proper 6766 console driver takes over, this boot options might 6767 help "seeing" what's going on. 6768 6769 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6770 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 6771 6772 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 6773 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 6774 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 6775 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 6776 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 6777 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 6778 reported either. 6779 6780 unknown_nmi_panic 6781 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 6782 6783 unwind_debug [X86-64] 6784 Enable unwinder debug output. This can be 6785 useful for debugging certain unwinder error 6786 conditions, including corrupt stacks and 6787 bad/missing unwinder metadata. 6788 6789 usbcore.authorized_default= 6790 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 6791 (default -1 = authorized (same as 1), 6792 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 6793 if device connected to internal port) 6794 6795 usbcore.autosuspend= 6796 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 6797 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 6798 is the time required before an idle device will be 6799 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 6800 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 6801 6802 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 6803 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 6804 6805 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 6806 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 6807 (default = 65536). 6808 6809 usbcore.blinkenlights= 6810 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 6811 6812 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 6813 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 6814 scheme (default 0 = off). 6815 6816 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 6817 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 6818 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 6819 6820 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 6821 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 6822 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 6823 6824 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 6825 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 6826 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 6827 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 6828 6829 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 6830 6831 usbcore.quirks= 6832 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 6833 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 6834 commas. Each entry has the form 6835 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 6836 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 6837 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 6838 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 6839 the following meanings: 6840 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 6841 descriptors must not be fetched using 6842 a 255-byte read); 6843 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 6844 correctly so reset it instead); 6845 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 6846 Set-Interface requests); 6847 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 6848 handle its Configuration or Interface 6849 strings); 6850 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 6851 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 6852 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 6853 more interface descriptions than the 6854 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 6855 talking to these interfaces); 6856 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 6857 during initialization, after we read 6858 the device descriptor); 6859 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 6860 high speed and super speed interrupt 6861 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 6862 require the interval in microframes (1 6863 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 6864 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 6865 (bInterval-1). 6866 Devices with this quirk report their 6867 bInterval as the result of this 6868 calculation instead of the exponent 6869 variable used in the calculation); 6870 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 6871 handle device_qualifier descriptor 6872 requests); 6873 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 6874 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 6875 remote wakeup capability); 6876 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 6877 Power Management); 6878 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 6879 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 6880 frames instead of the USB 2.0 6881 calculation); 6882 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 6883 to be disconnected before suspend to 6884 prevent spurious wakeup); 6885 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 6886 pause after every control message); 6887 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 6888 delay after resetting its port); 6889 p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT 6890 (Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS 6891 request from 5000 ms to 500 ms); 6892 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 6893 6894 usbhid.mousepoll= 6895 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 6896 6897 usbhid.jspoll= 6898 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 6899 6900 usbhid.kbpoll= 6901 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 6902 6903 usb-storage.delay_use= 6904 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 6905 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 6906 6907 usb-storage.quirks= 6908 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 6909 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 6910 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 6911 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 6912 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 6913 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 6914 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 6915 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 6916 of sense data, not on uas); 6917 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 6918 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 6919 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 6920 device capacity by one sector); 6921 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 6922 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 6923 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 6924 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 6925 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 6926 command, uas only); 6927 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 6928 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 6929 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 6930 reported device capacity by one 6931 sector if the number is odd); 6932 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 6933 device); 6934 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 6935 command, uas only); 6936 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 6937 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 6938 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 6939 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 6940 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 6941 not on uas); 6942 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 6943 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 6944 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 6945 reported by the device, not on uas); 6946 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 6947 by default, not on uas); 6948 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 6949 bogus residue values, not on uas); 6950 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 6951 Logical Unit); 6952 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 6953 commands, uas only); 6954 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 6955 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 6956 medium is write-protected). 6957 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 6958 even if the device claims no cache, 6959 not on uas) 6960 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 6961 6962 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 6963 Format: <int> 6964 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 6965 1 - undefined instruction events 6966 2 - system calls 6967 4 - invalid data aborts 6968 8 - SIGSEGV faults 6969 16 - SIGBUS faults 6970 Example: user_debug=31 6971 6972 userpte= 6973 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 6974 6975 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 6976 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 6977 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 6978 6979 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 6980 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 6981 6982 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 6983 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 6984 6985 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 6986 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 6987 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 6988 6989 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 6990 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 6991 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 6992 6993 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 6994 alias for vdso32=0. 6995 6996 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 6997 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 6998 6999 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 7000 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 7001 7002 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 7003 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 7004 7005 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 7006 Format: [0|1] 7007 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 7008 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 7009 level and then send out the event to user space through 7010 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 7011 will only send out the event without touching backlight 7012 brightness level. 7013 default: 1 7014 7015 virtio_mmio.device= 7016 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 7017 7018 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 7019 where: 7020 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 7021 like K, M and G) 7022 <baseaddr> := physical base address 7023 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 7024 request_irq()) 7025 <id> := (optional) platform device id 7026 example: 7027 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 7028 7029 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 7030 7031 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 7032 See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and 7033 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 7034 Use vga=ask for menu. 7035 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 7036 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 7037 7038 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 7039 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 7040 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 7041 All options are enabled by default, and this 7042 interface is meant to allow for selectively 7043 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 7044 debugging features. 7045 7046 Available options are: 7047 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 7048 - Disable all of the above options 7049 7050 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 7051 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 7052 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 7053 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 7054 mapped kernel RAM. 7055 7056 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 7057 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 7058 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 7059 7060 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 7061 Format: <command> 7062 7063 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 7064 Format: <command> 7065 7066 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 7067 Format: <command> 7068 7069 vsyscall= [X86-64] 7070 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 7071 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 7072 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 7073 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 7074 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 7075 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 7076 7077 emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated 7078 reasonably safely. The vsyscall page is 7079 readable. 7080 7081 xonly [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 7082 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 7083 page is not readable. 7084 7085 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 7086 them quite hard to use for exploits but 7087 might break your system. 7088 7089 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 7090 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 7091 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 7092 7093 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 7094 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 7095 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 7096 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 7097 7098 vt.default_blu= [VT] 7099 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 7100 Change the default blue palette of the console. 7101 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7102 ranging from 0-255. 7103 7104 vt.default_grn= [VT] 7105 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 7106 Change the default green palette of the console. 7107 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7108 ranging from 0-255. 7109 7110 vt.default_red= [VT] 7111 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 7112 Change the default red palette of the console. 7113 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7114 ranging from 0-255. 7115 7116 vt.default_utf8= 7117 [VT] 7118 Format=<0|1> 7119 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 7120 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 7121 newly opened terminals. 7122 7123 vt.global_cursor_default= 7124 [VT] 7125 Format=<-1|0|1> 7126 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 7127 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 7128 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 7129 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 7130 cursors, 1 will display them. 7131 7132 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 7133 Default: 2 = green. 7134 7135 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 7136 Default: 3 = cyan. 7137 7138 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 7139 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 7140 or other driver-specific files in the 7141 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 7142 7143 watchdog_thresh= 7144 [KNL] 7145 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 7146 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 7147 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 7148 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 7149 seconds. 7150 7151 workqueue.unbound_cpus= 7152 [KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs 7153 to use in unbound workqueues. 7154 Format: <cpu-list> 7155 By default, all online CPUs are available for 7156 unbound workqueues. 7157 7158 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 7159 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 7160 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 7161 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 7162 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 7163 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 7164 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 7165 corresponding sysfs file. 7166 7167 workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us= 7168 Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this 7169 threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive 7170 and excluded from concurrency management to prevent 7171 them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work 7172 items. Default is 10000 (10ms). 7173 7174 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel 7175 will report the work functions which violate this 7176 threshold repeatedly. They are likely good 7177 candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead. 7178 7179 workqueue.power_efficient 7180 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 7181 they show better performance thanks to cache 7182 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 7183 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 7184 7185 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 7186 were observed to contribute significantly to power 7187 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 7188 power usage at the cost of small performance 7189 overhead. 7190 7191 The default value of this parameter is determined by 7192 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 7193 7194 workqueue.default_affinity_scope= 7195 Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound 7196 workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache", 7197 "numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more 7198 information, see the Affinity Scopes section in 7199 Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst. 7200 7201 This can be changed after boot by writing to the 7202 matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All 7203 workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be 7204 updated accordignly. 7205 7206 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 7207 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 7208 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 7209 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 7210 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 7211 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 7212 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 7213 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 7214 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 7215 impacted. 7216 7217 writecombine= [LOONGARCH] Control the MAT (Memory Access Type) of 7218 ioremap_wc(). 7219 7220 on - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc() 7221 off - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc() 7222 7223 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 7224 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 7225 supporting x2apic. 7226 7227 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 7228 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 7229 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 7230 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 7231 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 7232 domains. 7233 7234 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 7235 Unplug Xen emulated devices 7236 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 7237 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 7238 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 7239 nics -- unplug network devices 7240 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 7241 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 7242 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 7243 the unplug protocol 7244 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 7245 7246 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 7247 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 7248 panic() code such as dumping handler. 7249 7250 xen_msr_safe= [X86,XEN] 7251 Format: <bool> 7252 Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR 7253 access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The 7254 default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE. 7255 7256 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 7257 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 7258 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 7259 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 7260 7261 xen_nopv [X86] 7262 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 7263 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 7264 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 7265 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 7266 7267 xen_no_vector_callback 7268 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 7269 event channel interrupts. 7270 7271 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 7272 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 7273 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 7274 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 7275 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 7276 7277 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 7278 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 7279 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 7280 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 7281 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 7282 more timer interrupts. 7283 7284 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 7285 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 7286 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 7287 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 7288 started with less memory configured than allowed at 7289 max. Default is 180. 7290 7291 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 7292 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 7293 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 7294 7295 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 7296 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 7297 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 7298 7299 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 7300 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 7301 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 7302 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 7303 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 7304 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 7305 7306 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 7307 Format: 7308 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 7309 7310 xive= [PPC] 7311 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 7312 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 7313 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 7314 7315 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 7316 controller on both pseries and powernv 7317 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 7318 7319 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 7320 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 7321 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 7322 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 7323 loads instead, as on POWER9. 7324 7325 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 7326 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 7327 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 7328 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 7329 7330 xmon [PPC] 7331 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 7332 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 7333 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 7334 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 7335 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 7336 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7337 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 7338 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 7339 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 7340 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7341 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 7342 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 7343 can be written using xmon commands. 7344 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 7345 memory, and other data can't be written using 7346 xmon commands. 7347 off xmon is disabled. 7348 7349