1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64] 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 4 copy_dsdt } 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64] 7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 14 are available 15 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 17 18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 19 Format: <int> 20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 21 1,0: use 1st APIC table 22 default: 0 23 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 25 { vendor | video | native | none } 26 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver 27 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 28 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 29 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. 31 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. 32 33 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 34 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 35 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 36 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 37 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 38 39 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 40 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 41 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 42 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 43 This option is useful for developers to identify the 44 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 45 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 46 47 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 48 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 49 Format: <int> 50 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 51 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 52 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 53 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS 54 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 55 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 56 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 57 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 58 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 59 debug layers and levels. 60 61 Enable processor driver info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list> 117 118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 122 auto-serialization feature. 123 This feature is enabled by default. 124 This option allows to turn off the feature. 125 126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 127 kernels. 128 129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 132 installed automatically and they will appear under 133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 134 This option turns off this feature. 135 Note that specifying this option does not affect 136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 138 139 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 140 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 141 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 142 143 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 144 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 145 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 146 second kernel for kdump. 147 148 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 149 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 150 151 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 152 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 153 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 154 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 155 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 156 157 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 158 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 159 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 160 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 161 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 162 strings 163 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 164 strings 165 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 166 167 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 168 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 169 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 170 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 171 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 172 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 173 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 174 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 175 care about the state of the feature group strings which 176 should be controlled by the OSPM. 177 Examples: 178 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 179 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 180 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 181 182 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 183 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 184 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 185 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 186 multiple times through kernel command line is also 187 meaningless. 188 Examples: 189 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 190 FALSE. 191 192 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 193 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 194 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 195 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 196 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 197 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 198 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 199 there are quirks related to this string. This command 200 is useful when one want to control the state of the 201 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 202 the OSPM features. 203 Examples: 204 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 205 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 206 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 207 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 208 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 209 equivalent to 210 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 211 and 212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 213 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 214 215 acpi_pm_good [X86] 216 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 217 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 218 and always returns good values. 219 220 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 221 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 222 223 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 224 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 225 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 226 227 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 228 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig, 229 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs, 230 sci_force_enable, nobl } 231 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 232 s3_bios and s3_mode. 233 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 234 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 235 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware 236 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully 237 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with 238 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since 239 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it 240 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume 241 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the 242 s4_hwsig option is enabled. 243 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 244 used (or even warned about) during resume. 245 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 246 control method, with respect to putting devices into 247 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 248 of _PTS is used by default). 249 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 250 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 251 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 252 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 253 but some broken systems don't work without it). 254 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 255 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 256 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 257 258 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 259 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 260 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 261 262 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 263 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 264 265 agp= [AGP] 266 { off | try_unsupported } 267 off: disable AGP support 268 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 269 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 270 271 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 272 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 273 274 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 275 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 276 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 277 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 278 279 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 280 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 281 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 282 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 283 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 284 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 285 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 286 287 32: only for 32-bit processes 288 64: only for 64-bit processes 289 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 290 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 291 292 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 293 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 294 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 295 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 296 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 297 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 298 299 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64] 300 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the 301 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict 302 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this 303 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit 304 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0 305 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted. 306 307 See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more 308 information. 309 310 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 311 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 312 Possible values are: 313 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1 314 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 315 the system 316 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 317 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 318 allowed anymore to lift isolation 319 requirements as needed. This option 320 does not override iommu=pt 321 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known 322 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this 323 option with care. 324 pgtbl_v1 - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default). 325 pgtbl_v2 - Use v2 page table for DMA-API. 326 327 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 328 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 329 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 330 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 331 IOMMU initialization. 332 333 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 334 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 335 remapping modes: 336 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 337 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 338 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 339 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 340 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 341 342 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 343 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 344 Format: <a>,<b> 345 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 346 347 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 348 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 349 connected to one of 16 gameports 350 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 351 352 apc= [HW,SPARC] 353 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 354 Format: noidle 355 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 356 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 357 APC and your system crashes randomly. 358 359 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 360 Change the output verbosity while booting 361 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 362 Change the amount of debugging information output 363 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 364 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 365 driver name. 366 Format: apic=driver_name 367 Examples: apic=bigsmp 368 369 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 370 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 371 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 372 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 373 backup of CPU 0 374 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 375 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 376 shot down by NMI 377 378 autoconf= [IPV6] 379 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 380 381 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 382 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 383 384 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 385 Format: { "0" | "1" } 386 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 387 0 -- disable. 388 1 -- enable. 389 Default value is set via kernel config option. 390 391 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 392 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 393 394 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 395 Identification support 396 397 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 398 support 399 400 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 401 support 402 403 arm64.nosve [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector 404 Extension support 405 406 arm64.nosme [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix 407 Extension support 408 409 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 410 411 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 412 413 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 414 EzKey and similar keyboards 415 416 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 417 418 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 419 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 420 421 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 422 keyboards 423 424 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 425 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 426 427 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 428 Use software keyboard repeat 429 430 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 431 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 432 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 433 enabled until the next reboot 434 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 435 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 436 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 437 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 438 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 439 userspace auditd. 440 Default: unset 441 442 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 443 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 444 Default: 64 445 446 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 447 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 448 Format: { "0" | "1" } 449 0 - Disable the BAU. 450 1 - Enable the BAU. 451 unset - Disable the BAU. 452 453 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 454 Format: <io>,<mode> 455 456 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 457 Format: <io>,<mode> 458 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 459 460 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 461 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 462 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 463 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 464 465 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 466 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 467 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 468 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 469 470 bert_disable [ACPI] 471 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 472 473 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] 474 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 475 476 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 477 embedded devices based on command line input. 478 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 479 480 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 481 Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled, 482 and you may also have to specify "lpj=". Boot_delay 483 values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed 484 erroneous and ignored. 485 Format: integer 486 487 bootconfig [KNL] 488 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 489 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 490 491 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 492 493 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 494 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 495 kernel args too. 496 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 497 bttv.tuner= 498 499 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 500 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 501 at a time. 502 503 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 504 505 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 506 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 507 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 508 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 509 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 510 This option provides an override for these situations. 511 512 carrier_timeout= 513 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 514 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 515 it waits 120 seconds. 516 517 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 518 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 519 trust validation. 520 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 521 522 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 523 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 524 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 525 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 526 others). 527 528 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 529 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 530 531 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 532 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 533 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 534 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 535 a single hierarchy 536 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 537 subsystem 538 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 539 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 540 created 541 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 542 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 543 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 544 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 545 stall information accounting feature 546 547 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 548 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 549 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 550 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 551 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 552 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 553 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 554 all v1 hierarchies. 555 556 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 557 Format: <string> 558 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 559 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 560 nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting. 561 562 checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 563 Format: { "0" | "1" } 564 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 565 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 566 any implied execute protection). 567 1 -- check protection requested by application. 568 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 569 Value can be changed at runtime via 570 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 571 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 572 573 cio_ignore= [S390] 574 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 575 576 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] 577 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 578 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 579 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily 580 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific 581 ones should be. 582 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line 583 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above 584 instability issue. However, not all features have names 585 in /proc/cpuinfo. 586 Note that using this option will taint your kernel. 587 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 588 or using the feature without checking anything 589 will still see it. This just prevents it from 590 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 591 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 592 some critical bits. 593 594 clk_ignore_unused 595 [CLK] 596 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 597 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 598 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 599 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 600 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 601 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 602 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 603 platform with proper driver support. For more 604 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 605 606 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 607 [Deprecated] 608 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 609 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 610 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 611 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 612 613 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 614 Format: <string> 615 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 616 with the name specified. 617 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 618 the platform: 619 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 620 [ACPI] acpi_pm 621 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 622 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 623 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 624 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 625 [MIPS] MIPS 626 [PARISC] cr16 627 [S390] tod 628 [SH] SuperH 629 [SPARC64] tick 630 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 631 632 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 633 [ARM,ARM64] 634 Format: <bool> 635 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 636 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 637 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 638 systems. 639 640 clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL] 641 Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to 642 external delays before the clock will be marked 643 unstable. Defaults to two retries, that is, 644 three attempts to read the clock under test. 645 646 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 647 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 648 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 649 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 650 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 651 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 652 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 653 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 654 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 655 656 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 657 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 658 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 659 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 660 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 661 662 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 663 [KNL,CMA] 664 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 665 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 666 placement constraint by the physical address range of 667 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 668 altogether. For more information, see 669 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 670 671 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 672 [ARM64,KNL,CMA] 673 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 674 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 675 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 676 specified, the default value is 0. 677 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 678 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 679 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 680 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 681 682 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 683 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 684 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 685 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 686 a hypervisor. 687 Default: yes 688 689 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 690 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 691 allocations, by default set to 256K. 692 693 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 694 Format: 695 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 696 697 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 698 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 699 700 com90xx= [HW,NET] 701 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 702 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 703 704 condev= [HW,S390] console device 705 conmode= 706 707 con3215_drop= [S390] 3215 console drop mode. 708 Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0 709 When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when 710 the console buffer is full. In this case the 711 operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example 712 x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the 713 console output to advance and the kernel to continue. 714 This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270 715 terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal 716 emulator is used, this parameter has no effect. 717 718 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 719 720 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 721 722 ttyS<n>[,options] 723 ttyUSB0[,options] 724 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 725 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 726 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 727 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 728 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 729 730 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 731 information. See 732 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 733 alternative. 734 735 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 736 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 737 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 738 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 739 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 740 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 741 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 742 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 743 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 744 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 745 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 746 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 747 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 748 the h/w is not re-initialized. 749 750 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 751 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 752 753 { null | "" } 754 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 755 console messages discarded. 756 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 757 kernel command line. 758 759 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 760 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 761 console=brl,ttyS0 762 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 763 764 console_msg_format= 765 [KNL] Change console messages format 766 default 767 By default we print messages on consoles in 768 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 769 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 770 `printk_time' param). 771 syslog 772 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 773 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 774 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 775 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 776 from /proc/kmsg. 777 778 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 779 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 780 Defaults to 0. 781 782 coredump_filter= 783 [KNL] Change the default value for 784 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 785 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 786 787 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 788 [ARM,ARM64] 789 Format: <bool> 790 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 791 0: default value, disable debugging 792 1: enable debugging at boot time 793 794 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 795 Format: 796 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 797 798 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 799 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 800 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 801 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 802 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 803 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 804 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 805 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 806 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 807 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 808 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 809 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 810 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 811 812 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 813 disable the cpuidle sub-system 814 815 cpuidle.governor= 816 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 817 818 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 819 disable the cpufreq sub-system 820 821 cpufreq.default_governor= 822 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 823 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 824 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 825 826 cpu_init_udelay=N 827 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 828 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 829 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 830 Default: 10000 831 832 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 833 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 834 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 835 succeeds in any situation. 836 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 837 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 838 kernel more unstable. 839 840 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 841 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 842 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 843 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 844 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 845 is selected automatically. 846 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64] Select a region under 4G first, and 847 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 848 hasn't been specified. 849 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 850 851 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 852 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 853 in the running system. The syntax of range is 854 start-[end] where start and end are both 855 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 856 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 857 858 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 859 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 860 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 861 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 862 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 863 available. 864 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 865 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 866 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 867 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 868 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 869 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 870 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 871 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 872 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate 873 default size of memory below 4G automatically. The default 874 size is platform dependent. 875 --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB) 876 --> arm64: 128MiB 877 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G 878 for second kernel instead. 879 0: to disable low allocation. 880 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 881 or memory reserved is below 4G. 882 883 cryptomgr.notests 884 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 885 886 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 887 Format: <dma> 888 889 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 890 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 891 892 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call 893 handling. When switched on, additional debug data is 894 printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is 895 detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try 896 to resolve the hang situation. 897 0: disable csdlock debugging (default) 898 1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact) 899 ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact, 900 but more data) 901 902 dasd= [HW,NET] 903 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 904 905 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 906 (one device per port) 907 Format: <port#>,<type> 908 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 909 910 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 911 912 debug_boot_weak_hash 913 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 914 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 915 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 916 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 917 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 918 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 919 920 debug_locks_verbose= 921 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 922 Format: <int> 923 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 924 self-tests. 925 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 926 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 927 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 928 useful to lockdep developers. 929 930 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 931 932 debug_guardpage_minorder= 933 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 934 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 935 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 936 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 937 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 938 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 939 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 940 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 941 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 942 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 943 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 944 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 945 F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA (basically when 946 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 947 bypassed) which are not detectable by 948 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 949 tracking down these problems. 950 951 debug_pagealloc= 952 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 953 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 954 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 955 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 956 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 957 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 958 on: enable the feature 959 960 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 961 and debugfs internal clients. 962 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 963 on: All functions are enabled. 964 no-mount: 965 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 966 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 967 its content. There is nothing to mount. 968 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 969 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 970 or directories within debugfs. 971 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 972 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 973 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 974 975 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 976 977 default_hugepagesz= 978 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 979 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 980 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 981 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 982 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 983 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 984 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 985 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 986 Format: size[KMG] 987 988 deferred_probe_timeout= 989 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 990 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 991 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 992 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout 993 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time 994 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each 995 successful driver registration. This option will also 996 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 997 retrying. 998 999 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 1000 1001 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 1002 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1003 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1004 hardware. 1005 1006 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 1007 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 1008 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 1009 blacklisted features. 1010 1011 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 1012 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1013 (disabled by default). 1014 1015 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 1016 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1017 capability is set. 1018 1019 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 1020 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 1021 1022 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 1023 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 1024 1025 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 1026 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 1027 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 1028 level 1 and decompression (default) 1029 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 1030 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 1031 only (compression on level 1) 1032 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 1033 only (decompression) 1034 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 1035 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 1036 1037 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1038 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1039 1040 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 1041 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1042 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1043 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1044 miss to occur. 1045 1046 disable= [IPV6] 1047 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1048 1049 disable_radix [PPC] 1050 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1051 1052 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1053 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1054 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1055 1056 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 1057 Format: <int> 1058 The number of initial APIC ID for the 1059 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 1060 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 1061 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 1062 causing system reset or hang due to sending 1063 INIT from AP to BSP. 1064 1065 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 1066 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1067 to workaround buggy firmware. 1068 1069 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1070 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1071 1072 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1073 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1074 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1075 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1076 1077 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 1078 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1079 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1080 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1081 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1082 1083 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1084 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1085 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1086 1087 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1088 1089 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1090 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1091 1092 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1093 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1094 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1095 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1096 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1097 architectural default is too low. 1098 1099 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1100 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1101 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1102 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1103 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1104 driver later using sysfs. 1105 1106 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1107 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * 1108 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the 1109 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT 1110 match the *. 1111 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1112 1113 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1114 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1115 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1116 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1117 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1118 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 1119 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 1120 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 1121 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 1122 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 1123 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID 1124 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 1125 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 1126 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 1127 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1128 data set with no connector name will be used for 1129 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1130 1131 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1132 1133 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1134 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1135 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1136 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1137 exists). 1138 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1139 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1140 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1141 1142 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1143 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1144 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1145 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1146 1147 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1148 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1149 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1150 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1151 for details. 1152 1153 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1154 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1155 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1156 which are not unmapped. 1157 1158 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1159 1160 When used with no options, the early console is 1161 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1162 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1163 the platform. 1164 1165 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1166 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1167 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1168 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1169 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1170 configured. 1171 1172 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1173 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1174 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1175 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1176 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1177 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1178 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1179 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1180 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1181 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1182 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1183 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1184 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is 1185 the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set 1186 to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16. 1187 1188 pl011,<addr> 1189 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1190 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1191 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1192 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1193 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1194 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1195 the device registers. 1196 1197 liteuart,<addr> 1198 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1199 specified address. The serial port must already be 1200 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1201 1202 meson,<addr> 1203 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1204 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1205 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1206 supported. 1207 1208 msm_serial,<addr> 1209 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1210 port at the specified address. The serial port 1211 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1212 yet supported. 1213 1214 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1215 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1216 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1217 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1218 yet supported. 1219 1220 owl,<addr> 1221 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1222 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1223 specified address. The serial port must already be 1224 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1225 1226 rda,<addr> 1227 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1228 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1229 specified address. The serial port must already be 1230 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1231 1232 sbi 1233 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1234 console. 1235 1236 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1237 1238 s3c2410,<addr> 1239 s3c2412,<addr> 1240 s3c2440,<addr> 1241 s3c6400,<addr> 1242 s5pv210,<addr> 1243 exynos4210,<addr> 1244 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1245 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1246 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1247 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1248 Options are not yet supported. 1249 1250 lantiq,<addr> 1251 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1252 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1253 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1254 yet supported. 1255 1256 lpuart,<addr> 1257 lpuart32,<addr> 1258 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1259 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1260 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1261 port must already be setup and configured. 1262 1263 ec_imx21,<addr> 1264 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1265 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1266 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1267 must already be setup and configured. 1268 1269 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1270 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1271 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1272 address. The serial port must already be setup 1273 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1274 1275 qcom_geni,<addr> 1276 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1277 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1278 specified address. The serial port must already be 1279 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1280 1281 efifb,[options] 1282 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1283 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1284 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1285 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1286 mapped with the correct attributes. 1287 1288 linflex,<addr> 1289 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1290 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1291 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1292 already be setup and configured. 1293 1294 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1295 earlyprintk=vga 1296 earlyprintk=sclp 1297 earlyprintk=xen 1298 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1299 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1300 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1301 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1302 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1303 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1304 1305 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1306 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1307 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1308 1309 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1310 takes over. 1311 1312 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can 1313 be used at a time. 1314 1315 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1316 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1317 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1318 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1319 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1320 You can find the port for a given device in 1321 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1322 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1323 1324 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1325 very good. 1326 1327 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by 1328 the real console. 1329 1330 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1331 1332 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1333 1334 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1335 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1336 UART class. 1337 1338 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1339 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1340 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1341 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1342 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1343 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1344 default: on. 1345 1346 edd= [EDD] 1347 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1348 1349 efi= [EFI] 1350 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1351 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1352 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1353 debug: enable misc debug output. 1354 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1355 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1356 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1357 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1358 firmware implementations. 1359 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1360 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1361 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1362 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1363 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1364 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1365 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1366 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1367 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1368 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1369 1370 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1371 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1372 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1373 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1374 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1375 1376 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1377 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1378 updating original EFI memory map. 1379 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1380 from ss to ss+nn. 1381 1382 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1383 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1384 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1385 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1386 1387 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1388 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1389 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1390 1391 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1392 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1393 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1394 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1395 "soft reserved". 1396 1397 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1398 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1399 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1400 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1401 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1402 1403 1404 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1405 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1406 1407 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1408 Format: ekgdboc=kbd 1409 1410 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1411 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1412 1413 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1414 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1415 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1416 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1417 1418 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1419 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1420 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1421 1422 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1423 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1424 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1425 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1426 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1427 1428 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1429 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1430 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1431 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1432 1433 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1434 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1435 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1436 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1437 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1438 1439 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1440 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1441 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1442 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1443 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1444 Default value is 0. 1445 Value can be changed at runtime via 1446 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1447 1448 erst_disable [ACPI] 1449 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1450 support. 1451 1452 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1453 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1454 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1455 1456 evm= [EVM] 1457 Format: { "fix" } 1458 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1459 current integrity status. 1460 1461 early_page_ext [KNL] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier 1462 stages so cover more early boot allocations. 1463 Please note that as side effect some optimizations 1464 might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized 1465 memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process 1466 might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of 1467 memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y. 1468 1469 failslab= 1470 fail_usercopy= 1471 fail_page_alloc= 1472 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1473 General fault injection mechanism. 1474 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1475 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1476 1477 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1478 Format: { initns | none } 1479 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1480 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1481 1482 floppy= [HW] 1483 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1484 1485 force_pal_cache_flush 1486 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1487 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1488 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1489 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1490 1491 forcepae [X86-32] 1492 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1493 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1494 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1495 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1496 and may cause unknown problems. 1497 1498 ftrace=[tracer] 1499 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1500 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1501 boot debugging. 1502 1503 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1504 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1505 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1506 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1507 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1508 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1509 start up functionality. 1510 1511 Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing 1512 instance that was created by the trace_instance= command 1513 line parameter. 1514 1515 trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo 1516 1517 The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger 1518 a snapshot at the end of boot up. 1519 1520 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1521 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1522 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1523 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1524 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1525 oops. 1526 1527 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1528 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1529 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1530 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1531 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1532 tracing directory. 1533 1534 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1535 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1536 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1537 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1538 tracing directory. 1539 1540 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1541 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1542 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1543 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1544 that can be changed at run time by the 1545 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1546 1547 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1548 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1549 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1550 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1551 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1552 1553 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1554 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1555 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1556 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1557 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1558 1559 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1560 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1561 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1562 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1563 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1564 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1565 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1566 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1567 suppliers). 1568 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1569 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1570 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1571 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1572 up (sync_state() calls). 1573 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1574 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1575 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1576 1577 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1578 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1579 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1580 Format: <bool> 1581 1582 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1583 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1584 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1585 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1586 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1587 1588 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1589 1590 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1591 Format: off | on 1592 default: on 1593 1594 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1595 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1596 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1597 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1598 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1599 1600 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1601 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1602 android emulator 1603 1604 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1605 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1606 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1607 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1608 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1609 1610 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1611 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1612 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1613 GPT to be used instead. 1614 1615 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1616 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1617 Format: 0 | 1 1618 Default: 0 1619 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1620 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1621 Format: 0 | 1 1622 Default: 0 1623 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1624 Format: 0 | 1 1625 Default: 0 1626 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1627 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1628 Default: 1024 1629 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1630 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1631 Default: 1024 1632 1633 hardened_usercopy= 1634 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1635 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1636 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1637 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1638 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1639 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1640 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1641 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 1642 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1643 1644 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1645 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1646 backtraces on all cpus. 1647 Format: 0 | 1 1648 1649 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1650 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1651 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1652 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1653 1654 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1655 1656 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1657 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1658 1659 hest_disable [ACPI] 1660 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1661 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1662 logic will be disabled. 1663 1664 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 1665 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 1666 present during boot. 1667 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 1668 no Disable hibernation and resume. 1669 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 1670 (that will set all pages holding image data 1671 during restoration read-only). 1672 1673 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1674 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1675 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1676 size on bigger boxes. 1677 1678 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1679 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1680 Default: "on" 1681 1682 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1683 1684 hostname= [KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename). 1685 Format: <string> 1686 This allows setting the system's hostname during early 1687 startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname. 1688 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it 1689 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before 1690 any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility 1691 that a process may call gethostname before the hostname 1692 has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling 1693 process getting an incorrect result. The string must 1694 not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually 1695 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise. 1696 1697 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1698 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1699 verbose } 1700 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1701 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1702 VIA, nVidia) 1703 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1704 1705 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1706 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1707 1708 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1709 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1710 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1711 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1712 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1713 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1714 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1715 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1716 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1717 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1718 1719 hugepagesz= 1720 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1721 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1722 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1723 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1724 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1725 architecture dependent. See also 1726 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1727 Format: size[KMG] 1728 1729 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1730 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1731 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1732 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1733 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1734 1735 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1736 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1737 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1738 1739 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1740 [KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 1741 enabled. 1742 Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled. 1743 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1744 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1745 Format: { on | off (default) } 1746 1747 on: enable HVO 1748 off: disable HVO 1749 1750 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1751 the default is on. 1752 1753 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added 1754 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is 1755 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this 1756 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from 1757 the added memory block itself do not be affected. 1758 1759 hung_task_panic= 1760 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1761 Format: 0 | 1 1762 1763 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1764 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1765 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1766 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1767 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1768 1769 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1770 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1771 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1772 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1773 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1774 1775 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1776 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1777 guest on lock contention. 1778 1779 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1780 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1781 registered from board initialization code. 1782 Format: 1783 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1784 1785 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1786 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1787 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1788 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1789 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1790 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1791 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1792 keyboard and cannot control its state 1793 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1794 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1795 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1796 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1797 for the AUX port 1798 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1799 controller 1800 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1801 controllers 1802 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1803 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1804 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1805 transitions, or never reset 1806 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1807 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1808 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1809 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1810 architectures force reset to be always executed 1811 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1812 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1813 i8042.probe_defer 1814 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1815 1816 i810= [HW,DRM] 1817 1818 i915.invert_brightness= 1819 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1820 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1821 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1822 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1823 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1824 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1825 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1826 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1827 value switches the backlight off. 1828 -1 -- never invert brightness 1829 0 -- machine default 1830 1 -- force brightness inversion 1831 1832 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1833 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1834 1835 1836 idle= [X86] 1837 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1838 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1839 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1840 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1841 Not recommended. 1842 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1843 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1844 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1845 1846 idxd.sva= [HW] 1847 Format: <bool> 1848 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1849 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1850 true (1). 1851 1852 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 1853 Format: <bool> 1854 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 1855 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 1856 1857 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1858 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1859 Default: strict 1860 1861 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1862 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1863 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1864 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1865 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1866 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1867 encoding mode. 1868 1869 Available settings are as follows: 1870 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1871 supported by the FPU 1872 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1873 by the FPU 1874 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1875 by the FPU 1876 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1877 supported by the FPU 1878 1879 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1880 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1881 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1882 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1883 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1884 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1885 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1886 MIPS64 CPUs. 1887 1888 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1889 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1890 except where unsupported by hardware. 1891 1892 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1893 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1894 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1895 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1896 could change it dynamically, usually by 1897 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1898 1899 ignore_rlimit_data 1900 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1901 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1902 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1903 1904 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1905 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1906 1907 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1908 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1909 default: "enforce" 1910 1911 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1912 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1913 owned by uid=0. 1914 1915 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1916 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1917 measurements, instead of host native format. 1918 1919 ima_hash= [IMA] 1920 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1921 | sha512 | ... } 1922 default: "sha1" 1923 1924 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1925 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1926 1927 ima_policy= [IMA] 1928 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1929 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1930 fail_securely | critical_data" 1931 1932 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1933 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1934 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1935 uid=0. 1936 1937 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1938 all files owned by root. 1939 1940 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1941 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1942 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1943 1944 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1945 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1946 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1947 flag. 1948 1949 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 1950 critical data. 1951 1952 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1953 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1954 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1955 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1956 opened for read by uid=0. 1957 1958 ima_template= [IMA] 1959 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1960 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 1961 "ima-sigv2" } 1962 Default: "ima-ng" 1963 1964 ima_template_fmt= 1965 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1966 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1967 1968 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1969 Format: <min_file_size> 1970 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1971 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1972 1973 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1974 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1975 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1976 1977 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1978 Format: <bufsize> 1979 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1980 1981 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1982 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1983 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1984 1985 init= [KNL] 1986 Format: <full_path> 1987 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1988 process. 1989 1990 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1991 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1992 startup. 1993 1994 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1995 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1996 modules and initcalls. 1997 1998 initramfs_async= [KNL] 1999 Format: <bool> 2000 Default: 1 2001 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 2002 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 2003 with devices being probed and 2004 initialized. This should normally just work, 2005 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 2006 historical behaviour of the initramfs 2007 unpacking being completed before device_ and 2008 late_ initcalls. 2009 2010 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 2011 2012 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 2013 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 2014 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 2015 setting. 2016 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 2017 Default is 0, 0 2018 2019 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 2020 zeroes. 2021 Format: 0 | 1 2022 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 2023 2024 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2025 Format: 0 | 1 2026 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2027 2028 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2029 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2030 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2031 override in debugfs after boot. 2032 2033 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2034 Format: <irq> 2035 2036 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2037 2038 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2039 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2040 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2041 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2042 2043 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2044 on 2045 Enable intel iommu driver. 2046 off 2047 Disable intel iommu driver. 2048 igfx_off [Default Off] 2049 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2050 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2051 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2052 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2053 DMA. 2054 strict [Default Off] 2055 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2056 sp_off [Default Off] 2057 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2058 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2059 not be supported. 2060 sm_on 2061 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2062 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2063 translation. 2064 sm_off 2065 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2066 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2067 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2068 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2069 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2070 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2071 mapping is enabled. 2072 Note that using this option lowers the security 2073 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2074 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2075 2076 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2077 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2078 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2079 2080 intel_pstate= [X86] 2081 disable 2082 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2083 scaling driver for the supported processors 2084 passive 2085 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2086 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2087 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2088 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2089 feature. 2090 force 2091 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2092 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2093 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2094 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2095 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2096 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2097 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2098 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2099 no_hwp 2100 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2101 if available. 2102 hwp_only 2103 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2104 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2105 support_acpi_ppc 2106 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2107 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2108 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2109 then this feature is turned on by default. 2110 per_cpu_perf_limits 2111 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2112 cpufreq sysfs interface 2113 2114 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 2115 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2116 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2117 nosid disable Source ID checking 2118 no_x2apic_optout 2119 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2120 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2121 2122 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2123 strict regions from userspace. 2124 relaxed 2125 2126 iommu= [X86] 2127 off 2128 force 2129 noforce 2130 biomerge 2131 panic 2132 nopanic 2133 merge 2134 nomerge 2135 soft 2136 pt [X86] 2137 nopt [X86] 2138 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2139 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2140 2141 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2142 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2143 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2144 falling back to the full range if needed. 2145 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2146 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2147 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2148 2149 iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2150 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2151 0 - Lazy mode. 2152 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2153 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2154 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2155 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2156 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2157 1 - Strict mode. 2158 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2159 synchronously. 2160 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2161 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2162 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2163 2164 iommu.passthrough= 2165 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2166 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2167 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2168 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2169 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2170 2171 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2172 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2173 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2174 2175 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 2176 0x80 2177 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2178 0xed 2179 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2180 udelay 2181 Simple two microseconds delay 2182 none 2183 No delay 2184 2185 ip= [IP_PNP] 2186 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2187 2188 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2189 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2190 2191 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2192 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2193 2194 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2195 [ARM, ARM64] 2196 Format: <bool> 2197 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2198 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2199 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2200 2201 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2202 [ARM, ARM64] 2203 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2204 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2205 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2206 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2207 LPIs. 2208 2209 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2210 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2211 requires the kernel to be built with 2212 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2213 2214 irqfixup [HW] 2215 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2216 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2217 firmware running. 2218 2219 irqpoll [HW] 2220 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2221 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2222 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2223 firmware running. 2224 2225 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2226 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2227 2228 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2229 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2230 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2231 2232 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2233 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2234 2235 nohz 2236 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2237 2238 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2239 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2240 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2241 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2242 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2243 2244 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2245 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2246 be configured manually after bootup. 2247 2248 domain 2249 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2250 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2251 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2252 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2253 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2254 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2255 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2256 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2257 2258 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2259 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2260 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2261 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2262 2263 managed_irq 2264 2265 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2266 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2267 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2268 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2269 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2270 2271 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2272 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2273 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2274 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2275 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2276 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2277 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2278 2279 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2280 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2281 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2282 only delivered when tasks running on those 2283 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2284 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2285 queues. 2286 2287 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2288 2289 iucv= [HW,NET] 2290 2291 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2292 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2293 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2294 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2295 2296 For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2297 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2298 write the parameter as: 2299 ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0 2300 2301 Deprecated formats: 2302 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2303 write the parameter as: 2304 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2305 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2306 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2307 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2308 2309 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2310 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2311 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2312 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2313 2314 For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to 2315 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2316 write the parameter as: 2317 ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0 2318 2319 Deprecated formats: 2320 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2321 write the parameter as: 2322 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2323 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2324 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2325 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2326 2327 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2328 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2329 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2330 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2331 2332 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2333 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2334 write the parameter as: 2335 ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5 2336 2337 Deprecated formats: 2338 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0, 2339 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2340 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2341 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2342 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2343 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2344 2345 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2346 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2347 2348 kasan_multi_shot 2349 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2350 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2351 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2352 invalid access. 2353 2354 keep_bootcon [KNL] 2355 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 2356 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 2357 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 2358 the real console. 2359 2360 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2361 2362 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2363 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2364 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2365 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2366 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2367 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2368 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2369 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2370 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2371 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2372 2373 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2374 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2375 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2376 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2377 zone if it does not. 2378 2379 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2380 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2381 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2382 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2383 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2384 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2385 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2386 2387 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2388 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2389 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2390 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2391 optional and is the number seconds in between 2392 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2393 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2394 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2395 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2396 the kernel debugger. 2397 2398 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2399 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2400 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2401 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2402 keyboard only format: kbd 2403 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2404 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2405 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2406 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2407 2408 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2409 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2410 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2411 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2412 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2413 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2414 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2415 2416 The name of the early console should be specified 2417 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2418 the early console might be different than the tty 2419 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2420 blank and the first boot console that implements 2421 read() will be picked. 2422 2423 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2424 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2425 2426 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2427 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2428 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2429 2430 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2431 Valid arguments: on, off 2432 Default: on 2433 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2434 the default is off. 2435 2436 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2437 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2438 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2439 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2440 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2441 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2442 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2443 2444 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2445 2446 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2447 Boot Parameter" section. 2448 2449 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2450 and kernel address spaces. 2451 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2452 0: force disabled 2453 1: force enabled 2454 2455 kunit.enable= [KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires 2456 CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The 2457 default value can be overridden via 2458 KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED. 2459 Default is 1 (enabled) 2460 2461 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2462 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2463 2464 kvm.eager_page_split= 2465 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2466 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2467 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2468 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2469 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2470 required to split huge pages lazily. 2471 2472 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2473 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2474 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2475 still be used for reads. 2476 2477 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2478 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2479 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2480 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2481 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2482 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2483 cleared. 2484 2485 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y. 2486 2487 Default is Y (on). 2488 2489 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2490 Default is false (don't support). 2491 2492 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2493 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2494 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2495 force : Always deploy workaround. 2496 off : Never deploy workaround. 2497 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2498 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2499 2500 Default is 'auto'. 2501 2502 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2503 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2504 2505 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2506 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2507 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2508 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2509 period (see below). The default is 60. 2510 2511 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2512 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2513 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2514 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2515 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2516 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2517 2518 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2519 Default is 1 (enabled) 2520 2521 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2522 for all guests. 2523 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2524 2525 kvm-arm.mode= 2526 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2527 2528 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2529 2530 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2531 protected guests. 2532 2533 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2534 state is kept private from the host. 2535 2536 nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested 2537 virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3 2538 hardware. 2539 2540 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2541 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2542 for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be 2543 used with extreme caution. 2544 2545 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2546 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2547 system registers 2548 2549 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2550 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2551 system registers 2552 2553 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2554 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2555 system registers 2556 2557 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2558 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2559 LPIs. 2560 2561 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2562 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2563 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2564 allocation. 2565 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2566 Format: <integer> 2567 Default: 5 2568 2569 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2570 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2571 Default is 1 (enabled) 2572 2573 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2574 [KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state. 2575 Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as 2576 guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests. 2577 This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM 2578 never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2579 Default is 1 (enabled) 2580 2581 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2582 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2583 Default is 1 (enabled) 2584 2585 kvm-intel.nested= 2586 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2587 Default is 0 (disabled) 2588 2589 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2590 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2591 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2592 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2593 2594 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2595 CVE-2018-3620. 2596 2597 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2598 2599 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2600 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2601 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2602 never: Disables the mitigation 2603 2604 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2605 2606 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2607 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2608 Default is 1 (enabled) 2609 2610 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL] 2611 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2612 2613 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2614 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2615 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2616 2617 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2618 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2619 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2620 not have direct access. 2621 2622 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2623 options are: 2624 2625 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2626 2627 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2628 affected CPUs 2629 2630 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2631 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2632 2633 full 2634 Provides all available mitigations for the 2635 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2636 enables all mitigations in the 2637 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2638 2639 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2640 sysfs interface is still possible after 2641 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2642 when the first VM is started in a 2643 potentially insecure configuration, 2644 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2645 2646 full,force 2647 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2648 flush runtime control. Implies the 2649 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2650 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2651 2652 flush 2653 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2654 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2655 L1D flush. 2656 2657 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2658 sysfs interface is still possible after 2659 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2660 when the first VM is started in a 2661 potentially insecure configuration, 2662 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2663 2664 flush,nosmt 2665 2666 Disables SMT and enables the default 2667 hypervisor mitigation. 2668 2669 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2670 sysfs interface is still possible after 2671 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2672 when the first VM is started in a 2673 potentially insecure configuration, 2674 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2675 2676 flush,nowarn 2677 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2678 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2679 insecure configuration. 2680 2681 off 2682 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2683 emit any warnings. 2684 It also drops the swap size and available 2685 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2686 bare metal. 2687 2688 Default is 'flush'. 2689 2690 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2691 2692 l2cr= [PPC] 2693 2694 l3cr= [PPC] 2695 2696 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2697 disabled it. 2698 2699 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2700 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2701 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2702 Format: notscdeadline 2703 2704 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2705 in C2 power state. 2706 2707 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2708 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2709 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2710 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2711 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2712 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2713 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2714 2715 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2716 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2717 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2718 2719 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2720 when set. 2721 Format: <int> 2722 2723 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 2724 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 2725 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 2726 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 2727 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 2728 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 2729 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 2730 to all ports, links and devices. 2731 2732 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2733 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2734 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2735 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2736 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2737 host link and device attached to it. 2738 2739 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2740 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 2741 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2742 The following configurations can be forced. 2743 2744 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2745 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2746 2747 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2748 2749 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2750 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2751 allowed. 2752 2753 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 2754 resets. 2755 2756 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 2757 link recovery. 2758 2759 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 2760 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 2761 detection. 2762 2763 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2764 2765 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 2766 2767 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 2768 2769 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 2770 2771 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 2772 2773 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 2774 2775 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 2776 2777 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 2778 2779 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 2780 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 2781 2782 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 2783 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 2784 2785 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 2786 identify device data log. 2787 2788 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 2789 purpose log directory. 2790 2791 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 2792 2793 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2794 1024 sectors. 2795 2796 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2797 65535 sectors. 2798 2799 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 2800 2801 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 2802 should be skipped. 2803 2804 * [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access) 2805 support for devices supporting this feature. 2806 2807 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 2808 2809 * disable: Disable this device. 2810 2811 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2812 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2813 2814 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2815 2816 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2817 Format: <integer> 2818 2819 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2820 Format: <integer> 2821 2822 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2823 Format: <integer> 2824 2825 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2826 Format: <integer> 2827 2828 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2829 { integrity | confidentiality } 2830 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2831 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2832 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2833 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2834 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2835 are also disabled. 2836 2837 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2838 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2839 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2840 number of online CPUs. 2841 2842 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2843 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2844 2845 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2846 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2847 2848 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2849 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2850 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2851 2852 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2853 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2854 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2855 mode during the locktorture test. 2856 2857 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2858 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2859 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2860 2861 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2862 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2863 2864 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2865 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2866 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2867 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2868 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2869 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2870 2871 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2872 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2873 2874 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2875 Enable additional printk() statements. 2876 2877 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2878 Format: <irq> 2879 2880 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2881 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2882 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2883 loglevels are defined as follows: 2884 2885 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2886 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2887 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2888 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2889 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2890 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2891 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2892 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2893 2894 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2895 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2896 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2897 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2898 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2899 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2900 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2901 2902 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2903 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2904 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2905 kernel boot problems. 2906 2907 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2908 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2909 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2910 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2911 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2912 attached printers to be reset. Using 2913 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2914 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2915 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2916 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2917 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2918 port specification list means that device IDs 2919 from each port should be examined, to see if 2920 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2921 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2922 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2923 2924 lpj=n [KNL] 2925 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2926 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2927 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2928 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2929 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2930 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2931 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2932 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2933 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2934 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2935 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2936 hardware. 2937 2938 ltpc= [NET] 2939 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2940 2941 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2942 2943 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2944 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2945 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2946 2947 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2948 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2949 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2950 2951 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 2952 different yeeloong laptops. 2953 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2954 2955 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater 2956 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2957 2958 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2959 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2960 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2961 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2962 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2963 only takes effect during system bootup. 2964 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2965 which also disables the IO APIC. 2966 2967 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2968 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2969 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2970 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2971 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2972 /dev/loop-control interface. 2973 2974 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2975 2976 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2977 2978 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2979 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2980 2981 mdacon= [MDA] 2982 Format: <first>,<last> 2983 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2984 2985 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2986 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2987 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2988 2989 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2990 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2991 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2992 2993 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2994 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2995 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2996 not have direct access. 2997 2998 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2999 options are: 3000 3001 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3002 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 3003 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 3004 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 3005 3006 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 3007 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 3008 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 3009 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 3010 too. 3011 3012 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3013 mds=full. 3014 3015 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 3016 3017 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON] Set the memory size. 3018 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 3019 3020 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 3021 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 3022 3023 1 for test; 3024 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 3025 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 3026 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 3027 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 3028 3029 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 3030 high memory is not affected. 3031 3032 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 3033 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 3034 3035 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 3036 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 3037 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 3038 belonging to unused RAM. 3039 3040 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 3041 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 3042 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 3043 3044 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3045 [ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by 3046 firmware. 3047 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 3048 ss[KMG]. 3049 Multiple different regions can be specified with 3050 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 3051 3052 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 3053 memory. 3054 3055 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 3056 3057 memchunk=nn[KMG] 3058 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 3059 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 3060 3061 memhp_default_state=online/offline 3062 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 3063 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 3064 set according to the 3065 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 3066 option. 3067 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 3068 3069 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 3070 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3071 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3072 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3073 option description. 3074 3075 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3076 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3077 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3078 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3079 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3080 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3081 comma delimited. 3082 Example: 3083 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3084 3085 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3086 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3087 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3088 3089 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3090 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3091 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3092 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3093 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3094 or 3095 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3096 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3097 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3098 will be eaten. 3099 3100 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 3101 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3102 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3103 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3104 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3105 3106 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3107 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 3108 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3109 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3110 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3111 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3112 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3113 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3114 3115 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 3116 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3117 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3118 Setting this option will scan the memory 3119 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3120 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3121 from using the memory being corrupted. 3122 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3123 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3124 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3125 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3126 3127 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 3128 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3129 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3130 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3131 corruption in more or less memory. 3132 3133 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 3134 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3135 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3136 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3137 3138 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3139 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3140 Format: {on | off (default)} 3141 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3142 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages, 3143 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even 3144 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the 3145 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a 3146 lot of memory without requiring additional 3147 memory to do so. 3148 This feature is disabled by default because it 3149 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3150 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3151 memory blocks). 3152 The state of the flag can be read in 3153 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3154 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3155 the feature is not effective. 3156 3157 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest 3158 Format: <integer> 3159 default : 0 <disable> 3160 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3161 performed. Each pass selects another test 3162 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3163 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3164 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3165 regions that are detected. 3166 3167 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3168 Valid arguments: on, off 3169 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 3170 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 3171 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 3172 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3173 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3174 3175 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3176 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3177 3178 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3179 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3180 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3181 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3182 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3183 3184 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 3185 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 3186 platforms. 3187 3188 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3189 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3190 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3191 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3192 3193 mga= [HW,DRM] 3194 3195 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this 3196 physical address is ignored. 3197 3198 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3199 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3200 Default: "0tb" 3201 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3202 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3203 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3204 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3205 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3206 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3207 unconfigured. 3208 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3209 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3210 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3211 VGA shield. 3212 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3213 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3214 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3215 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3216 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3217 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3218 3219 mitigations= 3220 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 3221 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3222 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3223 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3224 3225 off 3226 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3227 improves system performance, but it may also 3228 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3229 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 3230 if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] 3231 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3232 nobp=0 [S390] 3233 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3234 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3235 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3236 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3237 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] 3238 l1tf=off [X86] 3239 mds=off [X86] 3240 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3241 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3242 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3243 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3244 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3245 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 3246 retbleed=off [X86] 3247 3248 Exceptions: 3249 This does not have any effect on 3250 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3251 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3252 3253 auto (default) 3254 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3255 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3256 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3257 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3258 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3259 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3260 3261 auto,nosmt 3262 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3263 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3264 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3265 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3266 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3267 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3268 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 3269 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] 3270 3271 mminit_loglevel= 3272 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3273 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3274 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3275 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3276 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3277 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3278 3279 mmio_stale_data= 3280 [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor 3281 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3282 3283 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3284 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3285 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3286 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3287 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3288 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3289 3290 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3291 options are: 3292 3293 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3294 3295 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3296 vulnerable CPUs. 3297 3298 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3299 3300 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3301 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3302 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3303 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3304 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3305 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3306 3307 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3308 mmio_stale_data=full. 3309 3310 For details see: 3311 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3312 3313 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL] 3314 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value 3315 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous 3316 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable 3317 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the 3318 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe 3319 3320 module.async_probe=<bool> 3321 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing 3322 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a 3323 specific module, use the module specific control that 3324 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both 3325 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are 3326 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for 3327 the specific module. 3328 3329 module.sig_enforce 3330 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3331 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3332 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3333 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3334 3335 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3336 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3337 3338 mousedev.tap_time= 3339 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3340 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3341 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3342 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3343 Format: <msecs> 3344 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3345 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3346 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3347 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3348 3349 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 3350 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3351 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3352 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3353 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3354 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3355 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3356 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3357 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3358 is not too small. 3359 3360 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3361 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3362 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3363 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3364 allocations. Use with caution! 3365 3366 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3367 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3368 3369 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3370 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3371 3372 mtdparts= [MTD] 3373 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3374 3375 mtdset= [ARM] 3376 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 3377 3378 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 3379 3380 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3381 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3382 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3383 3384 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3385 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3386 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3387 3388 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3389 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3390 Default is 1. 3391 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3392 using up MTRRs. 3393 3394 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 3395 Format: <integer> 3396 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3397 Default : 1 3398 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3399 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3400 3401 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3402 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3403 at a time. 3404 3405 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3406 3407 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3408 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3409 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3410 something different and driver-specific. 3411 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3412 file if at all. 3413 3414 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3415 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3416 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3417 waits 4 seconds. 3418 3419 nf_conntrack.acct= 3420 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3421 0 to disable accounting 3422 1 to enable accounting 3423 Default value is 0. 3424 3425 nfs.cache_getent= 3426 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3427 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3428 3429 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3430 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3431 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3432 3433 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3434 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3435 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3436 requests. 3437 3438 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3439 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3440 channel should listen. 3441 3442 nfs.enable_ino64= 3443 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3444 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3445 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3446 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3447 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3448 3449 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3450 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3451 entries. 3452 3453 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3454 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3455 slots the client will assign to the callback 3456 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3457 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3458 a particular server. 3459 3460 nfs.max_session_slots= 3461 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3462 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3463 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3464 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3465 Note that there is little point in setting this 3466 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3467 3468 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3469 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3470 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3471 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3472 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3473 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3474 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3475 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3476 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3477 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3478 back to using the idmapper. 3479 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3480 3481 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3482 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3483 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3484 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3485 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3486 3487 nfs.recover_lost_locks= 3488 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3489 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3490 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3491 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3492 after the locks are lost. 3493 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3494 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3495 parameter to '1'. 3496 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3497 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3498 3499 nfs.send_implementation_id= 3500 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3501 information in exchange_id requests. 3502 If zero, no implementation identification information 3503 will be sent. 3504 The default is to send the implementation identification 3505 information. 3506 3507 nfs4.layoutstats_timer= 3508 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3509 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3510 3511 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3512 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3513 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3514 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3515 3516 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable= 3517 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3518 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3519 the destination of the copy. 3520 3521 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3522 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3523 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3524 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3525 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3526 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3527 3528 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout= 3529 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3530 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3531 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3532 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3533 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3534 this parameter. 3535 3536 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3537 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3538 3539 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3540 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3541 3542 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3543 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3544 3545 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3546 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3547 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3548 3549 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3550 when a NMI is triggered. 3551 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3552 3553 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3554 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3555 Valid num: 0 or 1 3556 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3557 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3558 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3559 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3560 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3561 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3562 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3563 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3564 need the box quickly up again. 3565 3566 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3567 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3568 3569 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3570 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3571 is present. 3572 3573 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3574 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3575 3576 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3577 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3578 but will impact performance. 3579 3580 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3581 3582 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3583 (CPU alternatives feature). 3584 3585 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3586 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3587 3588 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3589 3590 nocache [ARM] 3591 3592 no_console_suspend 3593 [HW] Never suspend the console 3594 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3595 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3596 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3597 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3598 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3599 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3600 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3601 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3602 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3603 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3604 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3605 turn on/off it dynamically. 3606 3607 no_debug_objects 3608 [KNL] Disable object debugging 3609 3610 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3611 3612 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3613 3614 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3615 3616 noexec [IA-64] 3617 3618 noexec32 [X86-64] 3619 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3620 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3621 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3622 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3623 read implies executable mappings 3624 3625 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3626 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3627 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3628 3629 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3630 3631 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3632 3633 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3634 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3635 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3636 3637 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3638 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3639 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3640 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3641 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3642 real-time systems. 3643 3644 no_hash_pointers 3645 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3646 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3647 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3648 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3649 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3650 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3651 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3652 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3653 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3654 value printed. This option should only be specified when 3655 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3656 kernels. 3657 3658 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3659 3660 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait 3661 in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3662 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3663 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3664 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3665 correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate 3666 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3667 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3668 3669 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3670 3671 nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3672 3673 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3674 Valid arguments: on, off 3675 Default: on 3676 3677 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3678 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3679 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3680 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3681 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3682 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3683 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3684 just as if they had also been called out in the 3685 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3686 3687 Note that this argument takes precedence over 3688 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 3689 3690 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3691 initial RAM disk. 3692 3693 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3694 remapping. 3695 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3696 3697 nointroute [IA-64] 3698 3699 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3700 3701 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3702 3703 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3704 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3705 3706 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3707 3708 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3709 3710 nokaslr [KNL] 3711 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 3712 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 3713 Layout Randomization). 3714 3715 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3716 fault handling. 3717 3718 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3719 3720 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3721 3722 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3723 3724 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3725 3726 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3727 3728 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3729 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3730 3731 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware 3732 sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory 3733 for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will 3734 not load if they could possibly displace the pre- 3735 initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will 3736 be available for use. The respective drivers will not 3737 perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. 3738 3739 Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging. 3740 3741 nomodule Disable module load 3742 3743 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3744 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3745 irq. 3746 3747 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3748 pagetables) support. 3749 3750 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3751 3752 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 3753 in some Intel CPUs. 3754 3755 nopti [X86-64] 3756 Equivalent to pti=off 3757 3758 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 3759 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 3760 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 3761 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 3762 3763 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 3764 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 3765 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 3766 contention. 3767 3768 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3769 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3770 3771 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3772 with UP alternatives 3773 3774 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3775 space. 3776 3777 nosbagart [IA-64] 3778 3779 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3780 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3781 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3782 3783 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 3784 3785 nosmap [PPC] 3786 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3787 even if it is supported by processor. 3788 3789 nosmep [PPC64s] 3790 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3791 even if it is supported by processor. 3792 3793 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3794 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3795 3796 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3797 Equivalent to smt=1. 3798 3799 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3800 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3801 via the sysfs control file. 3802 3803 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3804 3805 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3806 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3807 3808 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch 3809 history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks 3810 with this option. 3811 3812 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3813 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3814 possible in the system. 3815 3816 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_E500,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3817 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3818 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3819 option. 3820 3821 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES] Disable paravirtualized 3822 steal time accounting. steal time is computed, but 3823 won't influence scheduler behaviour 3824 3825 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3826 3827 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3828 broken timer IRQ sources. 3829 3830 no_uaccess_flush 3831 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 3832 3833 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3834 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3835 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3836 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3837 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3838 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3839 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3840 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3841 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3842 is set. 3843 3844 no-vmw-sched-clock 3845 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3846 clock and use the default one. 3847 3848 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3849 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3850 3851 nowb [ARM] 3852 3853 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3854 3855 NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the 3856 LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the 3857 IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR. 3858 3859 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3860 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3861 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3862 3863 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3864 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3865 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3866 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3867 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3868 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3869 3870 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3871 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3872 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3873 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3874 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3875 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3876 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3877 3878 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3879 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3880 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3881 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3882 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3883 parameter's value. 3884 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3885 Default: 255 3886 3887 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3888 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3889 SAL PALO. 3890 3891 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3892 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3893 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3894 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3895 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3896 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3897 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3898 hot plugging. 3899 3900 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3901 3902 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only 3903 set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. 3904 3905 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 3906 NUMA balancing. 3907 Allowed values are enable and disable 3908 3909 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3910 'node', 'default' can be specified 3911 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3912 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3913 3914 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3915 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 3916 info. 3917 3918 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3919 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3920 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3921 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3922 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3923 interrupts *may* be lost! 3924 3925 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3926 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3927 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3928 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3929 3930 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 3931 3932 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 3933 3934 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 3935 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 3936 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 3937 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 3938 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 3939 3940 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3941 process, but there is a small probability of 3942 deadlocking the machine. 3943 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3944 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3945 3946 page_alloc.shuffle= 3947 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3948 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3949 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3950 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3951 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3952 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3953 can be read from sysfs at: 3954 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3955 3956 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3957 Storage of the information about who allocated 3958 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3959 we can turn it on. 3960 on: enable the feature 3961 3962 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3963 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3964 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3965 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3966 on: turn on poisoning 3967 3968 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 3969 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 3970 Format: <integer> 3971 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 3972 reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1). 3973 3974 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3975 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3976 timeout = 0: wait forever 3977 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3978 Format: <timeout> 3979 3980 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3981 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3982 bit 0: print all tasks info 3983 bit 1: print system memory info 3984 bit 2: print timer info 3985 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3986 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3987 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3988 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 3989 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 3990 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 3991 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 3992 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 3993 3994 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 3995 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 3996 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 3997 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 3998 called with any of the flags in this set. 3999 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 4000 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 4001 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 4002 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 4003 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 4004 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 4005 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 4006 4007 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 4008 on a WARN(). 4009 4010 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 4011 connected to, default is 0. 4012 Format: <parport#> 4013 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 4014 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 4015 Format: <mode> 4016 4017 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 4018 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 4019 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 4020 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 4021 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 4022 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 4023 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 4024 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 4025 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 4026 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 4027 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 4028 are specified on the command line, starting 4029 with parport0. 4030 4031 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 4032 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 4033 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 4034 computer where firmware has no options for setting 4035 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 4036 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 4037 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 4038 4039 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 4040 Format: <int> 4041 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 4042 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 4043 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 4044 4045 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 4046 Format: <int> 4047 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 4048 changes. Disabled by default. 4049 4050 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 4051 Format: <int> 4052 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 4053 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4054 Disabled by default. 4055 4056 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 4057 Format: <int> 4058 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 4059 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4060 Disabled by default. 4061 4062 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4063 Format: <int> 4064 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 4065 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 4066 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 4067 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 4068 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 4069 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 4070 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 4071 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 4072 all channels. 4073 4074 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 4075 Format: <int> 4076 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 4077 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4078 respectively. Disabled by default. 4079 4080 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 4081 Format: <int> 4082 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 4083 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4084 respectively. Disabled by default. 4085 4086 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4087 Format: <int> 4088 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 4089 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 4090 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 4091 All modes allowed by default. 4092 4093 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 4094 Format: <int> 4095 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4096 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4097 4098 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4099 Format: <int> 4100 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4101 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4102 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4103 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4104 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4105 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4106 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4107 By default all supported ports are probed. 4108 4109 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4110 Format: <int> 4111 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4112 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4113 4114 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4115 Format: <int> 4116 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4117 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4118 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4119 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4120 0 otherwise. 4121 4122 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4123 Format: <int> 4124 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4125 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4126 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4127 allowed by default. 4128 4129 pause_on_oops= 4130 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4131 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4132 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4133 4134 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4135 4136 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 4137 4138 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4139 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4140 specified in one of the following formats: 4141 4142 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4143 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4144 4145 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4146 bus/device/function address which may change 4147 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4148 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4149 by other kernel parameters. If the 4150 domain is left unspecified, it is 4151 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4152 to a device through multiple device/function 4153 addresses can be specified after the base 4154 address (this is more robust against 4155 renumbering issues). The second format 4156 selects devices using IDs from the 4157 configuration space which may match multiple 4158 devices in the system. 4159 4160 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4161 changes anything 4162 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4163 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4164 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4165 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4166 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4167 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4168 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4169 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4170 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4171 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4172 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4173 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4174 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4175 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4176 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4177 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4178 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4179 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4180 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4181 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4182 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4183 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4184 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4185 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4186 Configuration 4187 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4188 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4189 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4190 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4191 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4192 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4193 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4194 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4195 should never be necessary. 4196 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4197 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4198 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4199 when the system masks IRQs. 4200 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4201 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4202 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4203 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4204 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4205 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4206 on several machines and they hang the machine 4207 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4208 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4209 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4210 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4211 motherboard. 4212 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4213 Use with caution as certain devices share 4214 address decoders between ROMs and other 4215 resources. 4216 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4217 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4218 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4219 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4220 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4221 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4222 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4223 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4224 this way. 4225 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4226 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4227 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4228 F0000h-100000h range. 4229 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4230 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4231 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4232 explicitly which ones they are. 4233 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4234 numbers ourselves, overriding 4235 whatever the firmware may have done. 4236 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4237 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4238 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4239 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4240 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4241 IRQ routing is enabled. 4242 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4243 or for PCI scanning. 4244 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4245 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4246 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4247 please report a bug. 4248 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4249 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4250 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4251 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4252 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4253 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4254 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4255 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4256 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4257 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4258 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4259 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4260 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4261 so this option is a temporary workaround 4262 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4263 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4264 handle more pci cards 4265 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4266 This might help on some broken boards which 4267 machine check when some devices' config space 4268 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4269 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4270 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4271 This sorting is done to get a device 4272 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4273 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4274 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4275 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4276 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4277 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4278 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4279 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4280 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4281 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4282 or bus can support) for best performance. 4283 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4284 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4285 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4286 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4287 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4288 that hot-added devices will work. 4289 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4290 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4291 The default value is 256 bytes. 4292 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4293 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4294 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4295 resource_alignment= 4296 Format: 4297 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4298 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4299 aligned memory resources. How to 4300 specify the device is described above. 4301 If <order of align> is not specified, 4302 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4303 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4304 windows need to be expanded. 4305 To specify the alignment for several 4306 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4307 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4308 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4309 for 4096-byte alignment. 4310 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4311 end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if 4312 OS has native AER control (either granted by 4313 ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native") 4314 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4315 the default. 4316 off: Turn ECRC off 4317 on: Turn ECRC on. 4318 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4319 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4320 Default size is 256 bytes. 4321 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4322 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4323 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4324 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4325 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4326 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4327 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4328 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4329 MMIO_PREF window. 4330 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4331 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4332 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4333 Default is 1. 4334 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4335 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4336 accommodate resources required by all child 4337 devices. 4338 off: Turn realloc off 4339 on: Turn realloc on 4340 realloc same as realloc=on 4341 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4342 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4343 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4344 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4345 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4346 port. 4347 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4348 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4349 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4350 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4351 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4352 taints the kernel. 4353 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4354 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4355 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4356 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4357 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4358 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4359 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4360 this removes isolation between devices and 4361 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4362 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4363 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4364 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4365 one PCI domain per PCI function 4366 4367 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 4368 Management. 4369 off Disable ASPM. 4370 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4371 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4372 4373 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4374 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4375 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4376 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4377 also tries to use these services. 4378 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4379 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4380 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4381 hotplug). 4382 4383 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4384 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4385 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4386 4387 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4388 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4389 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4390 4391 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4392 4393 pd_ignore_unused 4394 [PM] 4395 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4396 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4397 for debug and development, but should not be 4398 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4399 4400 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4401 boot time. 4402 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4403 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4404 4405 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4406 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4407 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4408 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4409 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4410 and performance comparison. 4411 4412 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4413 See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4414 4415 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4416 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4417 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4418 4419 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4420 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4421 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4422 4423 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4424 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4425 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4426 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4427 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4428 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4429 remains 0. 4430 4431 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4432 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4433 4434 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4435 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4436 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4437 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4438 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4439 possible settings and some assignment information. 4440 4441 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4442 { off } 4443 4444 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4445 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4446 4447 pnp_reserve_irq= 4448 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4449 4450 pnp_reserve_dma= 4451 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4452 4453 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4454 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4455 4456 pnp_reserve_mem= 4457 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4458 autoconfiguration. 4459 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4460 4461 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4462 Default is 21. 4463 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4464 may be specified. 4465 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4466 4467 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4468 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4469 platform machine description specific power_save 4470 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4471 execution priority. 4472 4473 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4474 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4475 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4476 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4477 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4478 4479 ppc_tm= [PPC] 4480 Format: {"off"} 4481 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4482 4483 preempt= [KNL] 4484 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4485 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4486 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4487 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4488 can be preempted anytime. 4489 4490 print-fatal-signals= 4491 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4492 4493 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4494 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4495 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4496 coredump - etc. 4497 4498 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4499 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4500 4501 default: off. 4502 4503 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4504 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4505 panics 4506 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4507 default: disabled 4508 4509 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4510 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4511 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4512 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4513 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4514 in order to provide more debug information. 4515 Format: <bool> 4516 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4517 4518 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4519 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4520 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4521 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4522 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4523 Default: ratelimit 4524 4525 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4526 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4527 4528 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4529 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4530 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4531 4532 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4533 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4534 instead using the legacy FADT method 4535 4536 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4537 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4538 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4539 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4540 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4541 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4542 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4543 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4544 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4545 statistical time based profiling. 4546 4547 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4548 4549 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4550 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4551 that). 4552 Format: <bool> 4553 4554 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4555 tracking. 4556 Format: <bool> 4557 4558 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4559 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4560 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4561 per second. 4562 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4563 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4564 (0 = never). 4565 psmouse.resolution= 4566 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4567 psmouse.smartscroll= 4568 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4569 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4570 4571 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4572 4573 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4574 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4575 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4576 system calls and interrupts. 4577 4578 on - unconditionally enable 4579 off - unconditionally disable 4580 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4581 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4582 4583 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4584 4585 pty.legacy_count= 4586 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4587 default number. 4588 4589 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4590 4591 r128= [HW,DRM] 4592 4593 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 4594 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 4595 invalidate. 4596 4597 raid= [HW,RAID] 4598 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4599 4600 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4601 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4602 4603 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4604 4605 random.trust_cpu=off 4606 [KNL] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's 4607 random number generator (if available) to 4608 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4609 4610 random.trust_bootloader=off 4611 [KNL] Disable trusting the use of the a seed 4612 passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4613 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4614 4615 randomize_kstack_offset= 4616 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4617 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4618 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4619 that depend on stack address determinism or 4620 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4621 available on architectures that have defined 4622 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4623 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4624 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4625 4626 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4627 4628 cec_disable [X86] 4629 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4630 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4631 4632 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 4633 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 4634 as described above. 4635 4636 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 4637 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 4638 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 4639 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 4640 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 4641 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 4642 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 4643 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 4644 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 4645 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 4646 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 4647 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4648 4649 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 4650 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 4651 4652 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 4653 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 4654 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 4655 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 4656 4657 Note that this argument takes precedence over 4658 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 4659 4660 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4661 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4662 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4663 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4664 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4665 This improves the real-time response for the 4666 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4667 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4668 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4669 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4670 4671 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4672 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4673 process in one batch. 4674 4675 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4676 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4677 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4678 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4679 4680 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4681 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4682 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4683 4684 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4685 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4686 RCU grace-period initialization. 4687 4688 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4689 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4690 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4691 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4692 the rcu_node combining tree. 4693 4694 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 4695 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 4696 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 4697 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 4698 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 4699 4700 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 4701 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 4702 to zero. 4703 4704 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4705 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4706 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4707 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4708 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4709 4710 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4711 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4712 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4713 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4714 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4715 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4716 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4717 4718 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4719 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4720 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4721 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4722 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4723 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4724 condition. 4725 4726 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 4727 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 4728 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 4729 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 4730 4731 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4732 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4733 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4734 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4735 and maximum value is HZ. 4736 4737 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4738 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4739 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4740 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4741 4742 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4743 Set required age in jiffies for a 4744 given grace period before RCU starts 4745 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4746 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4747 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4748 a value based on the most recent settings 4749 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4750 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4751 This calculated value may be viewed in 4752 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4753 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4754 overwritten. 4755 4756 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4757 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4758 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4759 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4760 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4761 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4762 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4763 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4764 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4765 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4766 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 4767 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 4768 4769 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] 4770 Set the shift-right count to use to compute 4771 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from 4772 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. 4773 The result will be bounded below by the value of 4774 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl 4775 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in 4776 order to allow the CPU to do other work. 4777 4778 Please note that this callback-invocation batch 4779 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback 4780 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead 4781 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which 4782 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. 4783 4784 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] 4785 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, 4786 RCU reduces the lock contention that would 4787 otherwise be caused by callback floods through 4788 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the 4789 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to 4790 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra 4791 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. 4792 But if there are too many callbacks queued during 4793 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into 4794 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too 4795 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. 4796 4797 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4798 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4799 each group, which defaults to the square root 4800 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4801 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4802 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4803 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4804 4805 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4806 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4807 batch limiting is disabled. 4808 4809 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4810 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4811 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4812 4813 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4814 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4815 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4816 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4817 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4818 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4819 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4820 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4821 4822 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4823 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4824 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4825 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4826 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4827 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4828 4829 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 4830 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 4831 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 4832 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 4833 Larger delays increase the probability of 4834 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 4835 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 4836 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 4837 4838 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4839 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4840 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4841 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4842 4843 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 4844 Measure performance of asynchronous 4845 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4846 4847 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4848 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4849 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4850 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4851 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4852 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4853 4854 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 4855 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4856 grace-period primitives. 4857 4858 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4859 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4860 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4861 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4862 interference. 4863 4864 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4865 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4866 4867 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 4868 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4869 If this parameter has the same value as 4870 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 4871 and double-argument variants are tested. 4872 4873 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 4874 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4875 If this parameter has the same value as 4876 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 4877 and double-argument variants are tested. 4878 4879 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4880 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4881 4882 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4883 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4884 4885 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4886 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 4887 of allocations and frees. 4888 4889 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4890 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4891 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4892 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4893 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4894 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4895 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4896 a single reader. 4897 4898 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 4899 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4900 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 4901 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4902 4903 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL] 4904 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4905 4906 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4907 Shut the system down after performance tests 4908 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4909 testing. 4910 4911 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 4912 Enable additional printk() statements. 4913 4914 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4915 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4916 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4917 no holdoff. 4918 4919 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4920 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4921 in microseconds. 4922 4923 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4924 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4925 in microseconds. 4926 4927 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4928 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4929 in seconds. 4930 4931 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4932 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 4933 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4934 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4935 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 4936 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 4937 of CPUs to be used. 4938 4939 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4940 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4941 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4942 4943 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4944 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4945 forward-progress tests. 4946 4947 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4948 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4949 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4950 testing. 4951 4952 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4953 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4954 primitives, if available. 4955 4956 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4957 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4958 4959 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4960 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4961 update-side primitives, if available. 4962 4963 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4964 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4965 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4966 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4967 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4968 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4969 they are all non-zero. 4970 4971 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 4972 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 4973 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 4974 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 4975 4976 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 4977 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 4978 This can of course result in splats, and is 4979 intended to test the ability of things like 4980 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 4981 such leaks. 4982 4983 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 4984 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 4985 4986 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 4987 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 4988 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 4989 test, hence the "fake". 4990 4991 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 4992 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 4993 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 4994 4995 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 4996 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 4997 callback-offload toggling attempts. 4998 4999 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 5000 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5001 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5002 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 5003 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5004 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5005 5006 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 5007 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 5008 5009 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5010 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 5011 5012 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5013 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 5014 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 5015 5016 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 5017 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 5018 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 5019 task-exit processing. 5020 5021 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 5022 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 5023 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 5024 is spawned. 5025 5026 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 5027 The delay, in seconds, between successive 5028 read-then-exit testing episodes. 5029 5030 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 5031 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 5032 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 5033 during the rcutorture test. 5034 5035 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5036 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 5037 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 5038 5039 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 5040 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 5041 warnings, zero to disable. 5042 5043 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 5044 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 5045 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition 5046 to any other stall-related activity. 5047 5048 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 5049 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 5050 5051 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 5052 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 5053 5054 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 5055 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 5056 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 5057 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 5058 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 5059 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 5060 5061 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5062 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 5063 5064 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 5065 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 5066 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 5067 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 5068 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 5069 5070 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 5071 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 5072 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 5073 under test support RCU priority boosting. 5074 5075 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 5076 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 5077 5078 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 5079 Interval (s) between each boost test. 5080 5081 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 5082 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 5083 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 5084 5085 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 5086 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5087 5088 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 5089 Enable additional printk() statements. 5090 5091 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 5092 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 5093 stall warning. 5094 5095 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 5096 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5097 5098 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 5099 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 5100 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 5101 during early boot, that is, during the time 5102 before the init task is spawned. 5103 5104 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5105 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5106 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 5107 value is 300 seconds. 5108 5109 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5110 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 5111 messages. The value is in milliseconds 5112 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 5113 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 5114 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 5115 Setting this to zero causes the value from 5116 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 5117 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 5118 5119 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL] 5120 Provide statistics on the cputime and count of 5121 interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For 5122 multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods 5123 begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout. 5124 5125 rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL] 5126 Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the 5127 current expedited RCU grace period during an 5128 expedited RCU CPU stall warning. 5129 5130 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 5131 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 5132 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 5133 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 5134 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 5135 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 5136 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5137 5138 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 5139 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 5140 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 5141 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 5142 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 5143 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 5144 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 5145 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 5146 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5147 5148 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 5149 Once boot has completed (that is, after 5150 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 5151 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 5152 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5153 5154 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 5155 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 5156 it to the value one, that is, converting any 5157 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 5158 period to instead use normal non-expedited 5159 grace-period processing. 5160 5161 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 5162 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 5163 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 5164 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 5165 a single callback queue. This switching only 5166 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 5167 set to the default value of -1. 5168 5169 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 5170 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 5171 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 5172 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 5173 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 5174 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 5175 the default value of -1. 5176 5177 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 5178 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 5179 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 5180 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 5181 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 5182 for use in testing. 5183 5184 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 5185 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 5186 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 5187 of a given grace period. Setting a large 5188 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 5189 but lengthens grace periods. 5190 5191 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 5192 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5193 informational messages, which give some indication 5194 of the problem for those not patient enough to 5195 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 5196 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 5197 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 5198 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 5199 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 5200 until the beginning of the next grace period. 5201 5202 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 5203 Multiplier for time interval between successive 5204 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 5205 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 5206 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 5207 the value three, so that the first informational 5208 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 5209 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 5210 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 5211 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 5212 5213 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5214 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5215 warning messages. Disable with a value less 5216 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 5217 A change in value does not take effect until 5218 the beginning of the next grace period. 5219 5220 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 5221 Run the RCU early boot self tests 5222 5223 rdinit= [KNL] 5224 Format: <full_path> 5225 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 5226 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 5227 5228 rdrand= [X86] 5229 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 5230 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 5231 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 5232 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 5233 path). 5234 5235 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 5236 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 5237 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 5238 mba, smba, bmec. 5239 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 5240 rdt=cmt,!mba 5241 5242 reboot= [KNL] 5243 Format (x86 or x86_64): 5244 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 5245 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 5246 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 5247 [[,]f[orce] 5248 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 5249 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 5250 reboot only), 5251 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 5252 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 5253 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 5254 to be used for rebooting. 5255 5256 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5257 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5258 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5259 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5260 interference. 5261 5262 refscale.loops= [KNL] 5263 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 5264 primitive under test. Increasing this number 5265 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 5266 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 5267 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 5268 x86 laptops. 5269 5270 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5271 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 5272 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 5273 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 5274 5275 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 5276 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 5277 the console log. 5278 5279 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 5280 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 5281 measured in microseconds. 5282 5283 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5284 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 5285 5286 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5287 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 5288 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 5289 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 5290 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 5291 5292 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 5293 Enable additional printk() statements. 5294 5295 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 5296 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 5297 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 5298 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 5299 specified. 5300 5301 relax_domain_level= 5302 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 5303 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 5304 5305 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 5306 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 5307 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 5308 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 5309 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 5310 5311 reservetop= [X86-32] 5312 Format: nn[KMG] 5313 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 5314 address space. 5315 5316 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 5317 during initialization. 5318 5319 resume= [SWSUSP] 5320 Specify the partition device for software suspend 5321 Format: 5322 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 5323 5324 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 5325 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 5326 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 5327 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 5328 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 5329 5330 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5331 read the resume files 5332 5333 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 5334 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5335 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5336 5337 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 5338 5339 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 5340 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 5341 vulnerability. 5342 5343 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop 5344 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other 5345 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- 5346 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors 5347 that don't. 5348 5349 off - no mitigation 5350 auto - automatically select a migitation 5351 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 5352 disabling SMT if necessary for 5353 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 5354 and older without STIBP). 5355 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation 5356 windows on basic block boundaries too. 5357 Safe, highest perf impact. It also 5358 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable 5359 on Intel. 5360 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT 5361 when STIBP is not available. This is 5362 the alternative for systems which do not 5363 have STIBP. 5364 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, 5365 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based 5366 systems. 5367 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP 5368 is not available. This is the alternative for 5369 systems which do not have STIBP. 5370 5371 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 5372 time according to the CPU. 5373 5374 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 5375 5376 rfkill.default_state= 5377 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 5378 etc. communication is blocked by default. 5379 1 Unblocked. 5380 5381 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 5382 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 5383 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5384 blocked and the previous configuration. 5385 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5386 blocked and everything unblocked. 5387 5388 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5389 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 5390 5391 ring3mwait=disable 5392 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 5393 CPUs. 5394 5395 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 5396 5397 rodata= [KNL] 5398 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 5399 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 5400 full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only 5401 [arm64] 5402 5403 rockchip.usb_uart 5404 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 5405 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 5406 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 5407 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 5408 5409 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 5410 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 5411 5412 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5413 mount the root filesystem 5414 5415 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 5416 5417 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 5418 5419 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 5420 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5421 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5422 5423 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 5424 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 5425 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 5426 managed by CMA. 5427 5428 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 5429 5430 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5431 5432 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5433 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5434 strict 5435 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 5436 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 5437 which is faster. 5438 5439 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5440 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5441 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5442 factor of the size of main memory. 5443 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5444 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5445 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5446 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5447 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5448 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5449 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5450 5451 sa1100ir [NET] 5452 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5453 5454 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5455 5456 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5457 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5458 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5459 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5460 5461 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5462 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5463 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5464 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5465 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5466 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5467 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5468 value. 5469 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5470 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5471 1 64 ms 5472 2 128 ms 5473 and so on. 5474 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5475 Default is 0. 5476 5477 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5478 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5479 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5480 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5481 tests. 5482 5483 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5484 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5485 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5486 default) disables this feature. Please note 5487 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5488 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5489 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5490 5491 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5492 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5493 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5494 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5495 equal to the number of CPUs. 5496 5497 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5498 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5499 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 5500 5501 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5502 Number seconds to wait between successive 5503 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 5504 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 5505 5506 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5507 The number of seconds following the start of the 5508 test after which to shut down the system. The 5509 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 5510 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 5511 5512 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5513 The number of seconds between outputting the 5514 current test statistics to the console. A value 5515 of zero disables statistics output. 5516 5517 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 5518 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 5519 to the set of CPUs under test. 5520 5521 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 5522 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 5523 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 5524 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 5525 functions. 5526 5527 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 5528 Enable additional printk() statements. 5529 5530 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 5531 The probability weighting to use for the 5532 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 5533 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 5534 default if all other weights are -1. However, 5535 if at least one weight has some other value, a 5536 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 5537 5538 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 5539 The probability weighting to use for the 5540 smp_call_function_single() function with a 5541 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5542 5543 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 5544 The probability weighting to use for the 5545 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 5546 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5547 Note well that setting a high probability for 5548 this weighting can place serious IPI load 5549 on the system. 5550 5551 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 5552 The probability weighting to use for the 5553 smp_call_function_many() function with a 5554 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5555 and weight_many. 5556 5557 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 5558 The probability weighting to use for the 5559 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 5560 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 5561 weight_many. 5562 5563 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 5564 The probability weighting to use for the 5565 smp_call_function_all() function with a 5566 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5567 and weight_many. 5568 5569 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 5570 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 5571 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 5572 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5573 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 5574 1 -- enable. 5575 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 5576 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 5577 5578 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 5579 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 5580 "lsm=" parameter. 5581 5582 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 5583 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5584 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 5585 0 -- disable. 5586 1 -- enable. 5587 Default value is 1. 5588 5589 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 5590 5591 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 5592 5593 shapers= [NET] 5594 Maximal number of shapers. 5595 5596 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 5597 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 5598 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 5599 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 5600 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 5601 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 5602 apic=verbose is specified. 5603 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 5604 5605 simeth= [IA-64] 5606 simscsi= 5607 5608 slram= [HW,MTD] 5609 5610 slab_merge [MM] 5611 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 5612 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 5613 5614 slab_nomerge [MM] 5615 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 5616 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 5617 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 5618 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 5619 layout control by attackers can usually be 5620 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 5621 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 5622 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 5623 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 5624 own. 5625 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5626 5627 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 5628 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5629 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5630 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 5631 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 5632 5633 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 5634 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 5635 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5636 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5637 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5638 last alloc / free. For more information see 5639 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5640 5641 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 5642 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5643 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5644 fragmentation. For more information see 5645 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5646 5647 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 5648 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 5649 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 5650 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 5651 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 5652 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 5653 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 5654 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5655 5656 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 5657 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 5658 lower than slub_max_order. 5659 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5660 5661 slub_merge [MM, SLUB] 5662 Same with slab_merge. 5663 5664 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 5665 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 5666 See slab_nomerge for more information. 5667 5668 smart2= [HW] 5669 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 5670 5671 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 5672 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 5673 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 5674 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 5675 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 5676 disabling interrupts for extended periods 5677 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 5678 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 5679 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 5680 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 5681 5682 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 5683 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 5684 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 5685 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 5686 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 5687 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 5688 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 5689 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 5690 1: Fast pin select (default) 5691 2: ATC IRMode 5692 5693 smt= [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 5694 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 5695 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 5696 actual hardware limit. 5697 Format: <integer> 5698 Default: -1 (no limit) 5699 5700 softlockup_panic= 5701 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 5702 Format: 0 | 1 5703 5704 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 5705 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 5706 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 5707 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 5708 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 5709 5710 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 5711 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 5712 backtraces on all cpus. 5713 Format: 0 | 1 5714 5715 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 5716 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 5717 5718 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5719 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 5720 The default operation protects the kernel from 5721 user space attacks. 5722 5723 on - unconditionally enable, implies 5724 spectre_v2_user=on 5725 off - unconditionally disable, implies 5726 spectre_v2_user=off 5727 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5728 vulnerable 5729 5730 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 5731 mitigation method at run time according to the 5732 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 5733 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 5734 compiler with which the kernel was built. 5735 5736 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 5737 against user space to user space task attacks. 5738 5739 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 5740 the user space protections. 5741 5742 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 5743 5744 retpoline - replace indirect branches 5745 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 5746 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 5747 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 5748 eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS 5749 eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines 5750 eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE 5751 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 5752 5753 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5754 spectre_v2=auto. 5755 5756 spectre_v2_user= 5757 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5758 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 5759 user space tasks 5760 5761 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 5762 enforced by spectre_v2=on 5763 5764 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 5765 enforced by spectre_v2=off 5766 5767 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 5768 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 5769 per thread. The mitigation control state 5770 is inherited on fork. 5771 5772 prctl,ibpb 5773 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 5774 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5775 always when switching between different user 5776 space processes. 5777 5778 seccomp 5779 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 5780 threads will enable the mitigation unless 5781 they explicitly opt out. 5782 5783 seccomp,ibpb 5784 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 5785 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5786 always when switching between different 5787 user space processes. 5788 5789 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 5790 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 5791 5792 Default mitigation: "prctl" 5793 5794 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5795 spectre_v2_user=auto. 5796 5797 spec_store_bypass_disable= 5798 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 5799 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 5800 5801 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 5802 a common industry wide performance optimization known 5803 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 5804 to the same memory location may not be observed by 5805 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 5806 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 5807 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 5808 end of a particular speculation execution window. 5809 5810 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5811 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 5812 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 5813 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 5814 5815 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 5816 Bypass optimization is used. 5817 5818 On x86 the options are: 5819 5820 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 5821 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 5822 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 5823 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 5824 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 5825 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 5826 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 5827 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 5828 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 5829 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 5830 for a process by default. The state of the control 5831 is inherited on fork. 5832 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 5833 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 5834 5835 Default mitigations: 5836 X86: "prctl" 5837 5838 On powerpc the options are: 5839 5840 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 5841 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 5842 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 5843 exit. 5844 off - No action. 5845 5846 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5847 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 5848 5849 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 5850 spia_fio_base= 5851 spia_pedr= 5852 spia_peddr= 5853 5854 split_lock_detect= 5855 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 5856 5857 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 5858 instructions that access data across cache line 5859 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 5860 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 5861 bus lock detection. 5862 5863 off - not enabled 5864 5865 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 5866 about applications triggering the #AC 5867 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 5868 the default on CPUs that support split lock 5869 detection or bus lock detection. Default 5870 behavior is by #AC if both features are 5871 enabled in hardware. 5872 5873 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 5874 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 5875 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 5876 both features are enabled in hardware. 5877 5878 ratelimit:N - 5879 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 5880 per second for bus lock detection. 5881 0 < N <= 1000. 5882 5883 N/A for split lock detection. 5884 5885 5886 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 5887 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 5888 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 5889 mode. 5890 5891 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 5892 CPL > 0. 5893 5894 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 5895 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 5896 (SRBDS) mitigation. 5897 5898 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 5899 exploit which can leak bits from the random 5900 number generator. 5901 5902 By default, this issue is mitigated by 5903 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 5904 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 5905 much slower. Among other effects, this will 5906 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 5907 5908 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 5909 the following option: 5910 5911 off: Disable mitigation and remove 5912 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 5913 5914 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 5915 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 5916 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 5917 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 5918 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 5919 but takes effect only when the low-order four 5920 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 5921 (decide at boot). 5922 5923 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 5924 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 5925 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 5926 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 5927 5928 0: Never. 5929 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 5930 2: When rcutorture decides to. 5931 3: Decide at boot time (default). 5932 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 5933 5934 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 5935 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 5936 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 5937 5938 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 5939 Specifies how frequently to check for 5940 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 5941 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 5942 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 5943 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 5944 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 5945 are ignored. 5946 5947 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 5948 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 5949 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 5950 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 5951 grace period will be considered for automatic 5952 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 5953 expediting. 5954 5955 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] 5956 Specifies the number of no-delay instances 5957 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period 5958 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero 5959 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will 5960 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. 5961 5962 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] 5963 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of 5964 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, 5965 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled 5966 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each 5967 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. 5968 5969 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] 5970 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping 5971 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. 5972 5973 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 5974 Specifies the number of update-side contention 5975 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 5976 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 5977 structure to big form. Note that the value of 5978 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 5979 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 5980 5981 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 5982 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 5983 5984 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 5985 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 5986 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 5987 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 5988 5989 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 5990 for both kernel and userspace 5991 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 5992 for both kernel and userspace 5993 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 5994 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 5995 to allow userspace to register its 5996 interest in being mitigated too. 5997 5998 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 5999 override the default stack gap protection. The value 6000 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 6001 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 6002 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 6003 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 6004 6005 stack_depot_disable= [KNL] 6006 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 6007 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 6008 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 6009 to false. 6010 6011 stacktrace [FTRACE] 6012 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 6013 6014 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 6015 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 6016 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 6017 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 6018 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 6019 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 6020 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 6021 6022 sti= [PARISC,HW] 6023 Format: <num> 6024 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 6025 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 6026 as the initial boot-console. 6027 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6028 6029 sti_font= [HW] 6030 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6031 6032 stifb= [HW] 6033 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 6034 6035 strict_sas_size= 6036 [X86] 6037 Format: <bool> 6038 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 6039 against the required signal frame size which 6040 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 6041 be used to filter out binaries which have 6042 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 6043 6044 stress_hpt [PPC] 6045 Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash 6046 page table to increase the rate of hash page table 6047 faults on kernel addresses. 6048 6049 stress_slb [PPC] 6050 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 6051 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 6052 on kernel addresses. 6053 6054 sunrpc.min_resvport= 6055 sunrpc.max_resvport= 6056 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6057 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 6058 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 6059 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 6060 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 6061 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 6062 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 6063 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 6064 maximum port values. 6065 6066 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 6067 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6068 Limit the number of requests that the server will 6069 process in parallel from a single connection. 6070 The default value is 0 (no limit). 6071 6072 sunrpc.pool_mode= 6073 [NFS] 6074 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 6075 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 6076 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 6077 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 6078 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 6079 NFS server is running. 6080 6081 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 6082 automatically using heuristics 6083 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 6084 percpu one pool for each CPU 6085 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 6086 to global on non-NUMA machines) 6087 6088 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 6089 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 6090 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6091 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 6092 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 6093 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 6094 improve throughput, but will also increase the 6095 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 6096 6097 suspend.pm_test_delay= 6098 [SUSPEND] 6099 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 6100 mode before resuming the system (see 6101 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 6102 is set. Default value is 5. 6103 6104 svm= [PPC] 6105 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 6106 This parameter controls use of the Protected 6107 Execution Facility on pSeries. 6108 6109 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 6110 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } 6111 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 6112 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb 6113 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up 6114 to a power of 2. 6115 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 6116 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 6117 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 6118 6119 switches= [HW,M68k] 6120 6121 sysctl.*= [KNL] 6122 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 6123 process, as if the value was written to the respective 6124 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 6125 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 6126 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 6127 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 6128 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 6129 6130 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 6131 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 6132 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 6133 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 6134 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 6135 in older udev will not work anymore. 6136 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 6137 the kernel configuration. 6138 6139 sysrq_always_enabled 6140 [KNL] 6141 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 6142 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 6143 Useful for debugging. 6144 6145 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6146 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 6147 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 6148 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 6149 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 6150 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 6151 6152 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 6153 6154 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 6155 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 6156 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 6157 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 6158 as the system sleep state during system startup with 6159 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 6160 The system is woken from this state using a 6161 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 6162 6163 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6164 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 6165 6166 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 6167 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 6168 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 6169 6170 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 6171 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 6172 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 6173 6174 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 6175 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 6176 critical and hot trip points. 6177 6178 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 6179 1: disable ACPI thermal control 6180 6181 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 6182 -1: disable all passive trip points 6183 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 6184 value 6185 6186 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 6187 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 6188 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 6189 0: no polling (default) 6190 6191 threadirqs [KNL] 6192 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 6193 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 6194 6195 topology= [S390] 6196 Format: {off | on} 6197 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 6198 topology information if the hardware supports this. 6199 The scheduler will make use of this information and 6200 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 6201 Default is on. 6202 6203 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 6204 Format: {off} 6205 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 6206 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 6207 LPAR. 6208 6209 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 6210 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 6211 until after init has spawned. 6212 6213 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 6214 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 6215 even if there were no errors. This can be a 6216 very costly operation when many torture tests 6217 are running concurrently, especially on systems 6218 with rotating-rust storage. 6219 6220 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 6221 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 6222 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 6223 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 6224 6225 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 6226 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 6227 6228 tp720= [HW,PS2] 6229 6230 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 6231 Format: integer pcr id 6232 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 6233 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 6234 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 6235 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 6236 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 6237 are saved. 6238 6239 tp_printk [FTRACE] 6240 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 6241 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 6242 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 6243 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 6244 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 6245 6246 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 6247 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 6248 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 6249 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 6250 6251 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 6252 to stop the printing of events to console at 6253 late_initcall_sync. 6254 6255 ** CAUTION ** 6256 6257 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 6258 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 6259 the system to live lock. 6260 6261 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 6262 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 6263 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 6264 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 6265 make the system inoperable. 6266 6267 This command line option will stop the printing of events 6268 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 6269 6270 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 6271 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 6272 6273 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 6274 at boot up. 6275 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 6276 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 6277 depending on the architecture, may not be 6278 in sync between CPUs. 6279 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 6280 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 6281 but better for some race conditions. 6282 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 6283 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 6284 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 6285 once per event. 6286 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 6287 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 6288 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6289 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 6290 stamps. 6291 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6292 Architectures may add more clocks. See 6293 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 6294 6295 trace_event=[event-list] 6296 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 6297 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 6298 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 6299 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 6300 6301 trace_instance=[instance-info] 6302 [FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up. 6303 This will be listed in: 6304 6305 /sys/kernel/tracing/instances 6306 6307 Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created 6308 via: 6309 6310 trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2> 6311 6312 Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is 6313 unique. 6314 6315 trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall 6316 6317 will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and 6318 the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry 6319 event, and all events under the "initcall" system. 6320 6321 trace_options=[option-list] 6322 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 6323 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 6324 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 6325 to echo the option name into 6326 6327 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options 6328 6329 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 6330 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 6331 6332 trace_options=stacktrace 6333 6334 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 6335 section. 6336 6337 trace_trigger=[trigger-list] 6338 [FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events. 6339 Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional 6340 filter. 6341 6342 The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..." 6343 Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated. 6344 6345 For example: 6346 6347 trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2" 6348 6349 The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch" 6350 event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch" 6351 event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE). 6352 6353 See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst 6354 6355 6356 traceoff_on_warning 6357 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 6358 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 6359 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 6360 file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/ 6361 6362 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 6363 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 6364 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 6365 6366 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 6367 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 6368 6369 transparent_hugepage= 6370 [KNL] 6371 Format: [always|madvise|never] 6372 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 6373 with respect to transparent hugepages. 6374 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 6375 for more details. 6376 6377 trusted.source= [KEYS] 6378 Format: <string> 6379 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 6380 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 6381 sources: 6382 - "tpm" 6383 - "tee" 6384 - "caam" 6385 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 6386 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 6387 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 6388 successfully during iteration. 6389 6390 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 6391 Format: <string> 6392 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 6393 Can be one of: 6394 - "kernel" 6395 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 6396 - "default" 6397 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 6398 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 6399 6400 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 6401 Format: <string> 6402 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 6403 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 6404 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 6405 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 6406 virtualized environment. 6407 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 6408 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 6409 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 6410 can add overhead. 6411 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 6412 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 6413 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 6414 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 6415 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 6416 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 6417 acceptable). 6418 [x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer 6419 (HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was 6420 obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15). 6421 Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm. 6422 [x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with 6423 which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but 6424 only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy. 6425 This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and 6426 can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog. A console 6427 message will flag any such suppression or overriding. 6428 6429 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 6430 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 6431 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 6432 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 6433 Format: <unsigned int> 6434 6435 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 6436 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 6437 support TSX control. 6438 6439 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 6440 6441 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 6442 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 6443 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 6444 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 6445 so there may be unknown security risks associated 6446 with leaving it enabled. 6447 6448 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 6449 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 6450 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 6451 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 6452 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 6453 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 6454 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 6455 6456 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 6457 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 6458 6459 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 6460 6461 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6462 for more details. 6463 6464 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 6465 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 6466 6467 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 6468 certain CPUs that support Transactional 6469 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 6470 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 6471 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 6472 conditions. 6473 6474 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6475 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 6476 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 6477 access. 6478 6479 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 6480 options are: 6481 6482 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 6483 if TSX is enabled. 6484 6485 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 6486 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 6487 is not disabled because CPU is not 6488 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 6489 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 6490 6491 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 6492 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 6493 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 6494 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 6495 6496 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6497 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 6498 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 6499 required and doesn't provide any additional 6500 mitigation. 6501 6502 For details see: 6503 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6504 6505 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 6506 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 6507 Format: 6508 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 6509 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 6510 6511 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 6512 happen after console_init() and before a proper 6513 console driver takes over, this boot options might 6514 help "seeing" what's going on. 6515 6516 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6517 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 6518 6519 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 6520 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 6521 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 6522 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 6523 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 6524 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 6525 reported either. 6526 6527 unknown_nmi_panic 6528 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 6529 6530 usbcore.authorized_default= 6531 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 6532 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 6533 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 6534 if device connected to internal port) 6535 6536 usbcore.autosuspend= 6537 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 6538 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 6539 is the time required before an idle device will be 6540 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 6541 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 6542 6543 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 6544 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 6545 6546 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 6547 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 6548 (default = 65536). 6549 6550 usbcore.blinkenlights= 6551 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 6552 6553 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 6554 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 6555 scheme (default 0 = off). 6556 6557 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 6558 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 6559 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 6560 6561 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 6562 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 6563 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 6564 6565 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 6566 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 6567 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 6568 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 6569 6570 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 6571 6572 usbcore.quirks= 6573 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 6574 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 6575 commas. Each entry has the form 6576 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 6577 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 6578 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 6579 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 6580 the following meanings: 6581 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 6582 descriptors must not be fetched using 6583 a 255-byte read); 6584 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 6585 correctly so reset it instead); 6586 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 6587 Set-Interface requests); 6588 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 6589 handle its Configuration or Interface 6590 strings); 6591 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 6592 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 6593 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 6594 more interface descriptions than the 6595 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 6596 talking to these interfaces); 6597 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 6598 during initialization, after we read 6599 the device descriptor); 6600 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 6601 high speed and super speed interrupt 6602 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 6603 require the interval in microframes (1 6604 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 6605 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 6606 (bInterval-1). 6607 Devices with this quirk report their 6608 bInterval as the result of this 6609 calculation instead of the exponent 6610 variable used in the calculation); 6611 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 6612 handle device_qualifier descriptor 6613 requests); 6614 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 6615 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 6616 remote wakeup capability); 6617 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 6618 Power Management); 6619 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 6620 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 6621 frames instead of the USB 2.0 6622 calculation); 6623 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 6624 to be disconnected before suspend to 6625 prevent spurious wakeup); 6626 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 6627 pause after every control message); 6628 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 6629 delay after resetting its port); 6630 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 6631 6632 usbhid.mousepoll= 6633 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 6634 6635 usbhid.jspoll= 6636 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 6637 6638 usbhid.kbpoll= 6639 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 6640 6641 usb-storage.delay_use= 6642 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 6643 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 6644 6645 usb-storage.quirks= 6646 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 6647 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 6648 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 6649 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 6650 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 6651 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 6652 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 6653 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 6654 of sense data, not on uas); 6655 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 6656 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 6657 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 6658 device capacity by one sector); 6659 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 6660 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 6661 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 6662 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 6663 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 6664 command, uas only); 6665 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 6666 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 6667 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 6668 reported device capacity by one 6669 sector if the number is odd); 6670 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 6671 device); 6672 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 6673 command, uas only); 6674 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 6675 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 6676 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 6677 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 6678 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 6679 not on uas); 6680 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 6681 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 6682 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 6683 reported by the device, not on uas); 6684 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 6685 by default, not on uas); 6686 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 6687 bogus residue values, not on uas); 6688 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 6689 Logical Unit); 6690 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 6691 commands, uas only); 6692 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 6693 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 6694 medium is write-protected). 6695 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 6696 even if the device claims no cache, 6697 not on uas) 6698 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 6699 6700 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 6701 Format: <int> 6702 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 6703 1 - undefined instruction events 6704 2 - system calls 6705 4 - invalid data aborts 6706 8 - SIGSEGV faults 6707 16 - SIGBUS faults 6708 Example: user_debug=31 6709 6710 userpte= 6711 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 6712 6713 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 6714 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 6715 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 6716 6717 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 6718 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 6719 6720 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 6721 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 6722 6723 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 6724 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 6725 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 6726 6727 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 6728 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 6729 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 6730 6731 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 6732 alias for vdso32=0. 6733 6734 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 6735 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 6736 6737 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 6738 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 6739 6740 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 6741 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 6742 6743 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 6744 Format: [0|1] 6745 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 6746 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 6747 level and then send out the event to user space through 6748 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 6749 will only send out the event without touching backlight 6750 brightness level. 6751 default: 1 6752 6753 virtio_mmio.device= 6754 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 6755 6756 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 6757 where: 6758 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 6759 like K, M and G) 6760 <baseaddr> := physical base address 6761 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 6762 request_irq()) 6763 <id> := (optional) platform device id 6764 example: 6765 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 6766 6767 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 6768 6769 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 6770 See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and 6771 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 6772 Use vga=ask for menu. 6773 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 6774 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 6775 6776 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 6777 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 6778 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 6779 All options are enabled by default, and this 6780 interface is meant to allow for selectively 6781 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 6782 debugging features. 6783 6784 Available options are: 6785 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 6786 - Disable all of the above options 6787 6788 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 6789 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 6790 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 6791 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 6792 mapped kernel RAM. 6793 6794 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 6795 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 6796 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 6797 6798 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 6799 Format: <command> 6800 6801 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 6802 Format: <command> 6803 6804 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 6805 Format: <command> 6806 6807 vsyscall= [X86-64] 6808 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 6809 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 6810 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 6811 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 6812 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 6813 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 6814 6815 emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated 6816 reasonably safely. The vsyscall page is 6817 readable. 6818 6819 xonly [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6820 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6821 page is not readable. 6822 6823 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 6824 them quite hard to use for exploits but 6825 might break your system. 6826 6827 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 6828 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 6829 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 6830 6831 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 6832 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 6833 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 6834 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 6835 6836 vt.default_blu= [VT] 6837 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 6838 Change the default blue palette of the console. 6839 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6840 ranging from 0-255. 6841 6842 vt.default_grn= [VT] 6843 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 6844 Change the default green palette of the console. 6845 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6846 ranging from 0-255. 6847 6848 vt.default_red= [VT] 6849 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 6850 Change the default red palette of the console. 6851 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6852 ranging from 0-255. 6853 6854 vt.default_utf8= 6855 [VT] 6856 Format=<0|1> 6857 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 6858 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 6859 newly opened terminals. 6860 6861 vt.global_cursor_default= 6862 [VT] 6863 Format=<-1|0|1> 6864 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 6865 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 6866 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 6867 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 6868 cursors, 1 will display them. 6869 6870 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 6871 Default: 2 = green. 6872 6873 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 6874 Default: 3 = cyan. 6875 6876 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 6877 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 6878 or other driver-specific files in the 6879 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 6880 6881 watchdog_thresh= 6882 [KNL] 6883 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 6884 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 6885 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 6886 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 6887 seconds. 6888 6889 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 6890 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 6891 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 6892 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 6893 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 6894 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 6895 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 6896 corresponding sysfs file. 6897 6898 workqueue.disable_numa 6899 By default, all work items queued to unbound 6900 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 6901 issued on, which results in better behavior in 6902 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 6903 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 6904 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 6905 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 6906 6907 workqueue.power_efficient 6908 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 6909 they show better performance thanks to cache 6910 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 6911 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 6912 6913 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 6914 were observed to contribute significantly to power 6915 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 6916 power usage at the cost of small performance 6917 overhead. 6918 6919 The default value of this parameter is determined by 6920 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 6921 6922 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 6923 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 6924 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 6925 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 6926 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 6927 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 6928 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 6929 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 6930 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 6931 impacted. 6932 6933 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 6934 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 6935 supporting x2apic. 6936 6937 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 6938 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 6939 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 6940 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 6941 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 6942 domains. 6943 6944 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 6945 Unplug Xen emulated devices 6946 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 6947 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 6948 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 6949 nics -- unplug network devices 6950 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 6951 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 6952 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 6953 the unplug protocol 6954 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 6955 6956 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 6957 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 6958 panic() code such as dumping handler. 6959 6960 xen_msr_safe= [X86,XEN] 6961 Format: <bool> 6962 Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR 6963 access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The 6964 default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE. 6965 6966 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 6967 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 6968 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 6969 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6970 6971 xen_nopv [X86] 6972 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 6973 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 6974 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 6975 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6976 6977 xen_no_vector_callback 6978 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 6979 event channel interrupts. 6980 6981 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 6982 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 6983 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 6984 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 6985 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 6986 6987 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 6988 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 6989 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 6990 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 6991 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 6992 more timer interrupts. 6993 6994 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 6995 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 6996 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 6997 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 6998 started with less memory configured than allowed at 6999 max. Default is 180. 7000 7001 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 7002 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 7003 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 7004 7005 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 7006 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 7007 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 7008 7009 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 7010 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 7011 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 7012 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 7013 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 7014 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 7015 7016 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 7017 Format: 7018 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 7019 7020 xive= [PPC] 7021 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 7022 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 7023 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 7024 7025 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 7026 controller on both pseries and powernv 7027 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 7028 7029 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 7030 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 7031 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 7032 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 7033 loads instead, as on POWER9. 7034 7035 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 7036 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 7037 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 7038 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 7039 7040 xmon [PPC] 7041 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 7042 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 7043 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 7044 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 7045 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 7046 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7047 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 7048 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 7049 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 7050 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7051 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 7052 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 7053 can be written using xmon commands. 7054 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 7055 memory, and other data can't be written using 7056 xmon commands. 7057 off xmon is disabled. 7058 7059 amd_pstate= [X86] 7060 disable 7061 Do not enable amd_pstate as the default 7062 scaling driver for the supported processors 7063 passive 7064 Use amd_pstate as a scaling driver, driver requests a 7065 desired performance on this abstract scale and the power 7066 management firmware translates the requests into actual 7067 hardware states (core frequency, data fabric and memory 7068 clocks etc.) 7069 active 7070 Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver, 7071 driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants 7072 to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff) 7073 to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will 7074 calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores 7075 frequency. 7076