1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64] 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 4 copy_dsdt } 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64] 7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 14 are available 15 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 17 18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 19 Format: <int> 20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 21 1,0: use 1st APIC table 22 default: 0 23 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 25 { vendor | video | native | none } 26 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver 27 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 28 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 29 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. 31 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. 32 33 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 34 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 35 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 36 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 37 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 38 39 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 40 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 41 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 42 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 43 This option is useful for developers to identify the 44 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 45 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 46 47 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 48 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 49 Format: <int> 50 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 51 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 52 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 53 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS 54 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 55 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 56 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 57 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 58 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 59 debug layers and levels. 60 61 Enable processor driver info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list> 117 118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 122 auto-serialization feature. 123 This feature is enabled by default. 124 This option allows to turn off the feature. 125 126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 127 kernels. 128 129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 132 installed automatically and they will appear under 133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 134 This option turns off this feature. 135 Note that specifying this option does not affect 136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 138 139 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 140 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 141 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 142 143 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 144 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 145 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 146 second kernel for kdump. 147 148 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 149 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 150 151 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 152 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 153 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 154 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 155 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 156 157 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 158 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 159 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 160 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 161 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 162 strings 163 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 164 strings 165 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 166 167 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 168 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 169 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 170 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 171 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 172 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 173 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 174 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 175 care about the state of the feature group strings which 176 should be controlled by the OSPM. 177 Examples: 178 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 179 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 180 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 181 182 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 183 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 184 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 185 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 186 multiple times through kernel command line is also 187 meaningless. 188 Examples: 189 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 190 FALSE. 191 192 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 193 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 194 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 195 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 196 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 197 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 198 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 199 there are quirks related to this string. This command 200 is useful when one want to control the state of the 201 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 202 the OSPM features. 203 Examples: 204 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 205 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 206 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 207 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 208 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 209 equivalent to 210 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 211 and 212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 213 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 214 215 acpi_pm_good [X86] 216 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 217 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 218 and always returns good values. 219 220 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 221 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 222 223 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 224 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 225 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 226 227 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 228 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig, 229 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs, 230 sci_force_enable, nobl } 231 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 232 s3_bios and s3_mode. 233 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 234 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 235 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware 236 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully 237 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with 238 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since 239 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it 240 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume 241 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the 242 s4_hwsig option is enabled. 243 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 244 used (or even warned about) during resume. 245 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 246 control method, with respect to putting devices into 247 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 248 of _PTS is used by default). 249 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 250 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 251 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 252 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 253 but some broken systems don't work without it). 254 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 255 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 256 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 257 258 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 259 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 260 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 261 262 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 263 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 264 265 agp= [AGP] 266 { off | try_unsupported } 267 off: disable AGP support 268 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 269 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 270 271 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 272 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 273 274 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 275 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 276 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 277 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 278 279 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 280 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 281 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 282 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 283 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 284 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 285 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 286 287 32: only for 32-bit processes 288 64: only for 64-bit processes 289 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 290 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 291 292 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 293 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 294 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 295 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 296 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 297 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 298 299 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64] 300 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the 301 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict 302 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this 303 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit 304 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0 305 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted. 306 307 See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more 308 information. 309 310 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 311 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 312 Possible values are: 313 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1 314 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 315 the system 316 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 317 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 318 allowed anymore to lift isolation 319 requirements as needed. This option 320 does not override iommu=pt 321 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known 322 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this 323 option with care. 324 325 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 326 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 327 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 328 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 329 IOMMU initialization. 330 331 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 332 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 333 remapping modes: 334 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 335 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 336 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 337 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 338 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 339 340 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 341 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 342 Format: <a>,<b> 343 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 344 345 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 346 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 347 connected to one of 16 gameports 348 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 349 350 apc= [HW,SPARC] 351 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 352 Format: noidle 353 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 354 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 355 APC and your system crashes randomly. 356 357 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 358 Change the output verbosity while booting 359 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 360 Change the amount of debugging information output 361 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 362 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 363 driver name. 364 Format: apic=driver_name 365 Examples: apic=bigsmp 366 367 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 368 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 369 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 370 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 371 backup of CPU 0 372 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 373 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 374 shot down by NMI 375 376 autoconf= [IPV6] 377 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 378 379 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 380 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 381 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 382 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 383 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 384 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 385 apic=verbose is specified. 386 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 387 388 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 389 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 390 391 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 392 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 393 394 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 395 Identification support 396 397 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 398 support 399 400 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 401 support 402 403 arm64.nosve [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector 404 Extension support 405 406 arm64.nosme [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix 407 Extension support 408 409 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 410 411 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 412 413 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 414 EzKey and similar keyboards 415 416 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 417 418 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 419 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 420 421 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 422 keyboards 423 424 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 425 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 426 427 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 428 Use software keyboard repeat 429 430 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 431 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 432 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 433 enabled until the next reboot 434 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 435 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 436 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 437 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 438 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 439 userspace auditd. 440 Default: unset 441 442 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 443 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 444 Default: 64 445 446 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 447 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 448 Format: { "0" | "1" } 449 0 - Disable the BAU. 450 1 - Enable the BAU. 451 unset - Disable the BAU. 452 453 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 454 Format: <io>,<mode> 455 456 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 457 Format: <io>,<mode> 458 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 459 460 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 461 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 462 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 463 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 464 465 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 466 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 467 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 468 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 469 470 bert_disable [ACPI] 471 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 472 473 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] 474 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 475 476 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 477 embedded devices based on command line input. 478 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 479 480 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 481 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 482 no delay (0). 483 Format: integer 484 485 bootconfig [KNL] 486 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 487 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 488 489 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 490 491 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 492 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 493 kernel args too. 494 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 495 bttv.tuner= 496 497 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 498 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 499 at a time. 500 501 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 502 503 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 504 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 505 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 506 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 507 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 508 This option provides an override for these situations. 509 510 carrier_timeout= 511 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 512 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 513 it waits 120 seconds. 514 515 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 516 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 517 trust validation. 518 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 519 520 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 521 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 522 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 523 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 524 others). 525 526 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 527 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 528 529 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 530 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 531 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 532 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 533 a single hierarchy 534 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 535 subsystem 536 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 537 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 538 created 539 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 540 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 541 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 542 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 543 stall information accounting feature 544 545 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 546 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 547 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 548 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 549 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 550 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 551 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 552 all v1 hierarchies. 553 554 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 555 Format: <string> 556 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 557 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 558 559 checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 560 Format: { "0" | "1" } 561 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 562 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 563 any implied execute protection). 564 1 -- check protection requested by application. 565 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 566 Value can be changed at runtime via 567 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 568 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 569 570 cio_ignore= [S390] 571 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 572 573 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] 574 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 575 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 576 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily 577 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific 578 ones should be. 579 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line 580 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above 581 instability issue. However, not all features have names 582 in /proc/cpuinfo. 583 Note that using this option will taint your kernel. 584 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 585 or using the feature without checking anything 586 will still see it. This just prevents it from 587 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 588 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 589 some critical bits. 590 591 clk_ignore_unused 592 [CLK] 593 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 594 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 595 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 596 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 597 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 598 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 599 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 600 platform with proper driver support. For more 601 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 602 603 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 604 [Deprecated] 605 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 606 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 607 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 608 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 609 610 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 611 Format: <string> 612 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 613 with the name specified. 614 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 615 the platform: 616 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 617 [ACPI] acpi_pm 618 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 619 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 620 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 621 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 622 [MIPS] MIPS 623 [PARISC] cr16 624 [S390] tod 625 [SH] SuperH 626 [SPARC64] tick 627 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 628 629 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 630 [ARM,ARM64] 631 Format: <bool> 632 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 633 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 634 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 635 systems. 636 637 clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL] 638 Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to 639 external delays before the clock will be marked 640 unstable. Defaults to two retries, that is, 641 three attempts to read the clock under test. 642 643 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 644 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 645 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 646 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 647 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 648 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 649 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 650 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 651 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 652 653 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 654 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 655 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 656 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 657 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 658 659 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 660 [KNL,CMA] 661 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 662 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 663 placement constraint by the physical address range of 664 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 665 altogether. For more information, see 666 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 667 668 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 669 [ARM64,KNL,CMA] 670 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 671 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 672 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 673 specificed, the default value is 0. 674 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 675 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 676 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 677 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 678 679 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 680 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 681 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 682 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 683 a hypervisor. 684 Default: yes 685 686 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 687 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 688 allocations, by default set to 256K. 689 690 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 691 Format: 692 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 693 694 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 695 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 696 697 com90xx= [HW,NET] 698 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 699 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 700 701 condev= [HW,S390] console device 702 conmode= 703 704 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 705 706 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 707 708 ttyS<n>[,options] 709 ttyUSB0[,options] 710 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 711 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 712 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 713 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 714 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 715 716 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 717 information. See 718 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 719 alternative. 720 721 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 722 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 723 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 724 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 725 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 726 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 727 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 728 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 729 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 730 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 731 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 732 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 733 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 734 the h/w is not re-initialized. 735 736 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 737 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 738 739 { null | "" } 740 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 741 console messages discarded. 742 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 743 kernel command line. 744 745 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 746 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 747 console=brl,ttyS0 748 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 749 750 console_msg_format= 751 [KNL] Change console messages format 752 default 753 By default we print messages on consoles in 754 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 755 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 756 `printk_time' param). 757 syslog 758 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 759 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 760 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 761 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 762 from /proc/kmsg. 763 764 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 765 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 766 Defaults to 0. 767 768 coredump_filter= 769 [KNL] Change the default value for 770 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 771 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 772 773 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 774 [ARM,ARM64] 775 Format: <bool> 776 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 777 0: default value, disable debugging 778 1: enable debugging at boot time 779 780 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 781 Format: 782 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 783 784 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 785 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 786 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 787 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 788 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 789 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 790 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 791 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 792 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 793 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 794 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 795 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 796 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 797 798 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 799 disable the cpuidle sub-system 800 801 cpuidle.governor= 802 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 803 804 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 805 disable the cpufreq sub-system 806 807 cpufreq.default_governor= 808 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 809 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 810 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 811 812 cpu_init_udelay=N 813 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 814 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 815 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 816 Default: 10000 817 818 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 819 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 820 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 821 succeeds in any situation. 822 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 823 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 824 kernel more unstable. 825 826 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 827 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 828 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 829 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 830 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 831 is selected automatically. 832 [KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and 833 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 834 hasn't been specified. 835 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 836 837 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 838 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 839 in the running system. The syntax of range is 840 start-[end] where start and end are both 841 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 842 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 843 844 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 845 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 846 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 847 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 848 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 849 available. 850 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 851 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 852 [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 853 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 854 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 855 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 856 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 857 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 858 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate 859 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 860 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G 861 for second kernel instead. 862 0: to disable low allocation. 863 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 864 or memory reserved is below 4G. 865 866 [KNL, ARM64] range in low memory. 867 This one lets the user specify a low range in the 868 DMA zone for the crash dump kernel. 869 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 870 or memory reserved is located in the DMA zones. 871 872 cryptomgr.notests 873 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 874 875 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 876 Format: <dma> 877 878 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 879 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 880 881 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call 882 handling. When switched on, additional debug data is 883 printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is 884 detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try 885 to resolve the hang situation. 886 0: disable csdlock debugging (default) 887 1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact) 888 ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact, 889 but more data) 890 891 dasd= [HW,NET] 892 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 893 894 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 895 (one device per port) 896 Format: <port#>,<type> 897 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 898 899 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 900 901 debug_boot_weak_hash 902 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 903 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 904 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 905 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 906 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 907 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 908 909 debug_locks_verbose= 910 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 911 Format: <int> 912 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 913 self-tests. 914 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 915 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 916 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 917 useful to lockdep developers. 918 919 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 920 921 no_debug_objects 922 [KNL] Disable object debugging 923 924 debug_guardpage_minorder= 925 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 926 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 927 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 928 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 929 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 930 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 931 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 932 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 933 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 934 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 935 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 936 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 937 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 938 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 939 bypassed) which are not detectable by 940 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 941 tracking down these problems. 942 943 debug_pagealloc= 944 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 945 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 946 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 947 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 948 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 949 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 950 on: enable the feature 951 952 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 953 and debugfs internal clients. 954 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 955 on: All functions are enabled. 956 no-mount: 957 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 958 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 959 its content. There is nothing to mount. 960 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 961 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 962 or directories within debugfs. 963 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 964 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 965 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 966 967 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 968 969 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 970 Format: <area>[,<node>] 971 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst. 972 973 default_hugepagesz= 974 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 975 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 976 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 977 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 978 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 979 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 980 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 981 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 982 Format: size[KMG] 983 984 deferred_probe_timeout= 985 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 986 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 987 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 988 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout 989 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time 990 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each 991 successful driver registration. This option will also 992 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 993 retrying. 994 995 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 996 997 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 998 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 999 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1000 hardware. 1001 1002 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 1003 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 1004 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 1005 blacklisted features. 1006 1007 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 1008 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1009 (disabled by default). 1010 1011 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 1012 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1013 capability is set. 1014 1015 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 1016 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 1017 1018 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 1019 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 1020 1021 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 1022 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 1023 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 1024 level 1 and decompression (default) 1025 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 1026 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 1027 only (compression on level 1) 1028 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 1029 only (decompression) 1030 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 1031 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 1032 1033 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1034 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1035 1036 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 1037 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1038 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1039 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1040 miss to occur. 1041 1042 stress_slb [PPC] 1043 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 1044 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 1045 on kernel addresses. 1046 1047 disable= [IPV6] 1048 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1049 1050 disable_radix [PPC] 1051 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1052 1053 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 1054 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 1055 invalidate. 1056 1057 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1058 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1059 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1060 1061 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 1062 Format: <int> 1063 The number of initial APIC ID for the 1064 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 1065 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 1066 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 1067 causing system reset or hang due to sending 1068 INIT from AP to BSP. 1069 1070 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 1071 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1072 to workaround buggy firmware. 1073 1074 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1075 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1076 1077 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1078 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1079 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1080 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1081 1082 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 1083 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1084 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1085 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1086 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1087 1088 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1089 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1090 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1091 1092 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1093 1094 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1095 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1096 1097 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1098 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1099 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1100 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1101 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1102 architectural default is too low. 1103 1104 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1105 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1106 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1107 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1108 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1109 driver later using sysfs. 1110 1111 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1112 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * 1113 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the 1114 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT 1115 match the *. 1116 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1117 1118 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1119 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1120 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1121 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1122 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1123 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 1124 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 1125 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 1126 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 1127 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 1128 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID 1129 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 1130 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 1131 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 1132 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1133 data set with no connector name will be used for 1134 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1135 1136 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1137 1138 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1139 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1140 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1141 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1142 exists). 1143 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1144 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1145 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1146 1147 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1148 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1149 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1150 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1151 1152 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1153 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1154 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1155 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1156 for details. 1157 1158 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 1159 in some Intel CPUs. 1160 1161 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL] 1162 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value 1163 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous 1164 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable 1165 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the 1166 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe 1167 1168 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1169 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1170 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1171 which are not unmapped. 1172 1173 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1174 1175 When used with no options, the early console is 1176 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1177 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1178 the platform. 1179 1180 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1181 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1182 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1183 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1184 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1185 configured. 1186 1187 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 1188 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 1189 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 1190 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 1191 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1192 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1193 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1194 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1195 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1196 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1197 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1198 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1199 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 1200 1201 pl011,<addr> 1202 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1203 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1204 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1205 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1206 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1207 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1208 the device registers. 1209 1210 liteuart,<addr> 1211 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1212 specified address. The serial port must already be 1213 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1214 1215 meson,<addr> 1216 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1217 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1218 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1219 supported. 1220 1221 msm_serial,<addr> 1222 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1223 port at the specified address. The serial port 1224 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1225 yet supported. 1226 1227 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1228 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1229 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1230 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1231 yet supported. 1232 1233 owl,<addr> 1234 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1235 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1236 specified address. The serial port must already be 1237 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1238 1239 rda,<addr> 1240 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1241 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1242 specified address. The serial port must already be 1243 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1244 1245 sbi 1246 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1247 console. 1248 1249 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1250 1251 s3c2410,<addr> 1252 s3c2412,<addr> 1253 s3c2440,<addr> 1254 s3c6400,<addr> 1255 s5pv210,<addr> 1256 exynos4210,<addr> 1257 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1258 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1259 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1260 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1261 Options are not yet supported. 1262 1263 lantiq,<addr> 1264 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1265 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1266 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1267 yet supported. 1268 1269 lpuart,<addr> 1270 lpuart32,<addr> 1271 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1272 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1273 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1274 port must already be setup and configured. 1275 1276 ec_imx21,<addr> 1277 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1278 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1279 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1280 must already be setup and configured. 1281 1282 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1283 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1284 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1285 address. The serial port must already be setup 1286 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1287 1288 qcom_geni,<addr> 1289 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1290 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1291 specified address. The serial port must already be 1292 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1293 1294 efifb,[options] 1295 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1296 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1297 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1298 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1299 mapped with the correct attributes. 1300 1301 linflex,<addr> 1302 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1303 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1304 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1305 already be setup and configured. 1306 1307 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1308 earlyprintk=vga 1309 earlyprintk=sclp 1310 earlyprintk=xen 1311 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1312 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1313 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1314 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1315 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1316 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1317 1318 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1319 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1320 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1321 1322 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1323 takes over. 1324 1325 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can 1326 be used at a time. 1327 1328 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1329 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1330 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1331 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1332 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1333 You can find the port for a given device in 1334 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1335 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1336 1337 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1338 very good. 1339 1340 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by 1341 the real console. 1342 1343 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1344 1345 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1346 1347 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1348 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1349 UART class. 1350 1351 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1352 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1353 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1354 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1355 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1356 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1357 default: on. 1358 1359 edd= [EDD] 1360 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1361 1362 efi= [EFI] 1363 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1364 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1365 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1366 debug: enable misc debug output. 1367 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1368 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1369 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1370 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1371 firmware implementations. 1372 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1373 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1374 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1375 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1376 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1377 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1378 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1379 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1380 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1381 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1382 1383 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1384 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1385 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1386 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1387 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1388 1389 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1390 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1391 updating original EFI memory map. 1392 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1393 from ss to ss+nn. 1394 1395 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1396 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1397 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1398 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1399 1400 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1401 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1402 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1403 1404 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1405 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1406 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1407 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1408 "soft reserved". 1409 1410 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1411 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1412 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1413 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1414 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1415 1416 1417 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1418 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1419 1420 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1421 Format: ekgdboc=kbd 1422 1423 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1424 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1425 1426 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1427 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1428 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1429 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1430 1431 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1432 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1433 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1434 1435 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1436 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1437 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1438 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1439 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1440 1441 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1442 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1443 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1444 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1445 1446 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1447 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1448 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1449 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1450 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1451 1452 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1453 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1454 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1455 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1456 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1457 Default value is 0. 1458 Value can be changed at runtime via 1459 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1460 1461 erst_disable [ACPI] 1462 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1463 support. 1464 1465 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1466 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1467 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1468 1469 evm= [EVM] 1470 Format: { "fix" } 1471 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1472 current integrity status. 1473 1474 failslab= 1475 fail_usercopy= 1476 fail_page_alloc= 1477 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1478 General fault injection mechanism. 1479 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1480 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1481 1482 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1483 Format: { initns | none } 1484 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1485 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1486 1487 floppy= [HW] 1488 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1489 1490 force_pal_cache_flush 1491 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1492 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1493 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1494 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1495 1496 forcepae [X86-32] 1497 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1498 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1499 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1500 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1501 and may cause unknown problems. 1502 1503 ftrace=[tracer] 1504 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1505 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1506 boot debugging. 1507 1508 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1509 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1510 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1511 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1512 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1513 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1514 start up functionality. 1515 1516 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1517 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1518 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1519 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1520 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1521 oops. 1522 1523 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1524 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1525 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1526 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1527 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1528 tracing directory. 1529 1530 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1531 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1532 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1533 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1534 tracing directory. 1535 1536 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1537 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1538 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1539 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1540 that can be changed at run time by the 1541 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1542 1543 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1544 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1545 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1546 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1547 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1548 1549 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1550 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1551 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1552 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1553 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1554 1555 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1556 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1557 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1558 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1559 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1560 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1561 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1562 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1563 suppliers). 1564 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1565 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1566 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1567 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1568 up (sync_state() calls). 1569 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1570 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1571 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1572 1573 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1574 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1575 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1576 Format: <bool> 1577 1578 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1579 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1580 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1581 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1582 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1583 1584 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1585 1586 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1587 Format: off | on 1588 default: on 1589 1590 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1591 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1592 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1593 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1594 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1595 1596 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1597 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1598 android emulator 1599 1600 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1601 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1602 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1603 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1604 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1605 1606 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1607 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1608 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1609 GPT to be used instead. 1610 1611 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1612 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1613 Format: 0 | 1 1614 Default: 0 1615 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1616 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1617 Format: 0 | 1 1618 Default: 0 1619 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1620 Format: 0 | 1 1621 Default: 0 1622 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1623 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1624 Default: 1024 1625 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1626 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1627 Default: 1024 1628 1629 hardened_usercopy= 1630 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1631 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1632 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1633 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1634 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1635 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1636 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1637 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 1638 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1639 1640 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1641 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1642 backtraces on all cpus. 1643 Format: 0 | 1 1644 1645 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1646 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1647 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1648 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1649 1650 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1651 1652 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1653 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1654 1655 hest_disable [ACPI] 1656 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1657 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1658 logic will be disabled. 1659 1660 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 1661 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 1662 present during boot. 1663 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 1664 no Disable hibernation and resume. 1665 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 1666 (that will set all pages holding image data 1667 during restoration read-only). 1668 1669 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1670 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1671 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1672 size on bigger boxes. 1673 1674 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1675 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1676 Default: "on" 1677 1678 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1679 1680 hostname= [KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename). 1681 Format: <string> 1682 This allows setting the system's hostname during early 1683 startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname. 1684 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it 1685 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before 1686 any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility 1687 that a process may call gethostname before the hostname 1688 has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling 1689 process getting an incorrect result. The string must 1690 not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually 1691 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise. 1692 1693 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1694 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1695 verbose } 1696 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1697 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1698 VIA, nVidia) 1699 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1700 1701 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1702 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1703 1704 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1705 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1706 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1707 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1708 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1709 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1710 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1711 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1712 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1713 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1714 1715 hugepagesz= 1716 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1717 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1718 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1719 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1720 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1721 architecture dependent. See also 1722 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1723 Format: size[KMG] 1724 1725 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1726 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1727 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1728 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1729 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1730 1731 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1732 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1733 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1734 1735 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1736 [KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 1737 enabled. 1738 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1739 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1740 Format: { [oO][Nn]/Y/y/1 | [oO][Ff]/N/n/0 (default) } 1741 1742 [oO][Nn]/Y/y/1: enable the feature 1743 [oO][Ff]/N/n/0: disable the feature 1744 1745 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1746 the default is on. 1747 1748 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added 1749 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is 1750 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this 1751 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from 1752 the added memory block itself do not be affected. 1753 1754 hung_task_panic= 1755 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1756 Format: 0 | 1 1757 1758 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1759 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1760 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1761 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1762 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1763 1764 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1765 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1766 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1767 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1768 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1769 1770 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1771 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1772 guest on lock contention. 1773 1774 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1775 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1776 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1777 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1778 the real console. 1779 1780 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1781 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1782 registered from board initialization code. 1783 Format: 1784 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1785 1786 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1787 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1788 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1789 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1790 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1791 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1792 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1793 keyboard and cannot control its state 1794 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1795 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1796 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1797 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1798 for the AUX port 1799 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1800 controller 1801 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1802 controllers 1803 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1804 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1805 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1806 transitions, or never reset 1807 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1808 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1809 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1810 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1811 architectures force reset to be always executed 1812 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1813 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1814 i8042.probe_defer 1815 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1816 1817 i810= [HW,DRM] 1818 1819 i915.invert_brightness= 1820 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1821 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1822 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1823 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1824 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1825 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1826 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1827 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1828 value switches the backlight off. 1829 -1 -- never invert brightness 1830 0 -- machine default 1831 1 -- force brightness inversion 1832 1833 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1834 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1835 1836 1837 idle= [X86] 1838 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1839 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1840 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1841 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1842 Not recommended. 1843 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1844 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1845 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1846 1847 idxd.sva= [HW] 1848 Format: <bool> 1849 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1850 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1851 true (1). 1852 1853 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 1854 Format: <bool> 1855 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 1856 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 1857 1858 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1859 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1860 Default: strict 1861 1862 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1863 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1864 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1865 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1866 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1867 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1868 encoding mode. 1869 1870 Available settings are as follows: 1871 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1872 supported by the FPU 1873 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1874 by the FPU 1875 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1876 by the FPU 1877 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1878 supported by the FPU 1879 1880 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1881 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1882 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1883 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1884 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1885 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1886 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1887 MIPS64 CPUs. 1888 1889 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1890 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1891 except where unsupported by hardware. 1892 1893 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1894 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1895 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1896 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1897 could change it dynamically, usually by 1898 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1899 1900 ignore_rlimit_data 1901 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1902 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1903 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1904 1905 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1906 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1907 1908 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1909 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1910 default: "enforce" 1911 1912 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1913 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1914 owned by uid=0. 1915 1916 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1917 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1918 measurements, instead of host native format. 1919 1920 ima_hash= [IMA] 1921 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1922 | sha512 | ... } 1923 default: "sha1" 1924 1925 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1926 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1927 1928 ima_policy= [IMA] 1929 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1930 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1931 fail_securely | critical_data" 1932 1933 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1934 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1935 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1936 uid=0. 1937 1938 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1939 all files owned by root. 1940 1941 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1942 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1943 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1944 1945 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1946 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1947 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1948 flag. 1949 1950 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 1951 critical data. 1952 1953 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1954 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1955 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1956 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1957 opened for read by uid=0. 1958 1959 ima_template= [IMA] 1960 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1961 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 1962 "ima-sigv2" } 1963 Default: "ima-ng" 1964 1965 ima_template_fmt= 1966 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1967 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1968 1969 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1970 Format: <min_file_size> 1971 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1972 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1973 1974 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1975 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1976 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1977 1978 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1979 Format: <bufsize> 1980 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1981 1982 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1983 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1984 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1985 1986 init= [KNL] 1987 Format: <full_path> 1988 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1989 process. 1990 1991 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1992 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1993 startup. 1994 1995 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1996 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1997 modules and initcalls. 1998 1999 initramfs_async= [KNL] 2000 Format: <bool> 2001 Default: 1 2002 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 2003 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 2004 with devices being probed and 2005 initialized. This should normally just work, 2006 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 2007 historical behaviour of the initramfs 2008 unpacking being completed before device_ and 2009 late_ initcalls. 2010 2011 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 2012 2013 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 2014 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 2015 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 2016 setting. 2017 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 2018 Default is 0, 0 2019 2020 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 2021 zeroes. 2022 Format: 0 | 1 2023 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 2024 2025 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2026 Format: 0 | 1 2027 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2028 2029 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2030 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2031 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2032 override in debugfs after boot. 2033 2034 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2035 Format: <irq> 2036 2037 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2038 2039 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2040 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2041 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2042 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2043 2044 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2045 on 2046 Enable intel iommu driver. 2047 off 2048 Disable intel iommu driver. 2049 igfx_off [Default Off] 2050 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2051 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2052 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2053 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2054 DMA. 2055 strict [Default Off] 2056 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2057 sp_off [Default Off] 2058 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2059 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2060 not be supported. 2061 sm_on 2062 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2063 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2064 translation. 2065 sm_off 2066 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2067 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2068 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2069 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2070 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2071 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2072 mapping is enabled. 2073 Note that using this option lowers the security 2074 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2075 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2076 2077 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2078 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2079 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2080 2081 intel_pstate= [X86] 2082 disable 2083 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2084 scaling driver for the supported processors 2085 passive 2086 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2087 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2088 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2089 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2090 feature. 2091 force 2092 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2093 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2094 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2095 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2096 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2097 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2098 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2099 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2100 no_hwp 2101 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2102 if available. 2103 hwp_only 2104 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2105 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2106 support_acpi_ppc 2107 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2108 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2109 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2110 then this feature is turned on by default. 2111 per_cpu_perf_limits 2112 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2113 cpufreq sysfs interface 2114 2115 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 2116 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2117 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2118 nosid disable Source ID checking 2119 no_x2apic_optout 2120 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2121 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2122 2123 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2124 strict regions from userspace. 2125 relaxed 2126 2127 iommu= [X86] 2128 off 2129 force 2130 noforce 2131 biomerge 2132 panic 2133 nopanic 2134 merge 2135 nomerge 2136 soft 2137 pt [X86] 2138 nopt [X86] 2139 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2140 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2141 2142 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2143 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2144 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2145 falling back to the full range if needed. 2146 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2147 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2148 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2149 2150 iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2151 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2152 0 - Lazy mode. 2153 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2154 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2155 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2156 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2157 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2158 1 - Strict mode. 2159 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2160 synchronously. 2161 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2162 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2163 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2164 2165 iommu.passthrough= 2166 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2167 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2168 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2169 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2170 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2171 2172 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2173 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2174 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2175 2176 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 2177 0x80 2178 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2179 0xed 2180 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2181 udelay 2182 Simple two microseconds delay 2183 none 2184 No delay 2185 2186 ip= [IP_PNP] 2187 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2188 2189 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2190 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2191 2192 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2193 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2194 2195 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2196 [ARM, ARM64] 2197 Format: <bool> 2198 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2199 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2200 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2201 2202 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2203 [ARM, ARM64] 2204 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2205 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2206 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2207 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2208 LPIs. 2209 2210 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2211 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2212 requires the kernel to be built with 2213 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2214 2215 irqfixup [HW] 2216 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2217 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2218 firmware running. 2219 2220 irqpoll [HW] 2221 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2222 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2223 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2224 firmware running. 2225 2226 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2227 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2228 2229 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2230 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2231 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2232 2233 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2234 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2235 2236 nohz 2237 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2238 2239 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2240 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2241 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2242 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2243 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2244 2245 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2246 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2247 be configured manually after bootup. 2248 2249 domain 2250 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2251 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2252 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2253 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2254 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2255 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2256 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2257 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2258 2259 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2260 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2261 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2262 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2263 2264 managed_irq 2265 2266 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2267 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2268 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2269 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2270 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2271 2272 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2273 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2274 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2275 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2276 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2277 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2278 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2279 2280 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2281 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2282 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2283 only delivered when tasks running on those 2284 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2285 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2286 queues. 2287 2288 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2289 2290 iucv= [HW,NET] 2291 2292 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2293 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2294 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2295 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2296 For example: 2297 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2298 write the parameter as: 2299 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2300 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2301 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2302 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2303 2304 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2305 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2306 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2307 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2308 For example: 2309 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2310 write the parameter as: 2311 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2312 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2313 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2314 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2315 2316 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2317 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2318 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2319 2320 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2321 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2322 write the parameter as: 2323 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2324 2325 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2326 For example, PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 2327 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2328 2329 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2330 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2331 2332 nokaslr [KNL] 2333 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 2334 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 2335 Layout Randomization). 2336 2337 kasan_multi_shot 2338 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2339 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2340 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2341 invalid access. 2342 2343 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2344 2345 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2346 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2347 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2348 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2349 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2350 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2351 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2352 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2353 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2354 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2355 2356 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2357 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2358 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2359 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2360 zone if it does not. 2361 2362 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2363 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2364 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2365 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2366 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2367 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2368 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2369 2370 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2371 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2372 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2373 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2374 optional and is the number seconds in between 2375 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2376 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2377 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2378 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2379 the kernel debugger. 2380 2381 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2382 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2383 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2384 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2385 keyboard only format: kbd 2386 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2387 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2388 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2389 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2390 2391 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2392 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2393 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2394 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2395 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2396 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2397 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2398 2399 The name of the early console should be specified 2400 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2401 the early console might be different than the tty 2402 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2403 blank and the first boot console that implements 2404 read() will be picked. 2405 2406 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2407 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2408 2409 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2410 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2411 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2412 2413 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2414 Valid arguments: on, off 2415 Default: on 2416 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2417 the default is off. 2418 2419 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2420 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2421 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2422 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2423 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2424 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2425 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2426 2427 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2428 2429 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2430 Boot Parameter" section. 2431 2432 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2433 and kernel address spaces. 2434 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2435 0: force disabled 2436 1: force enabled 2437 2438 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2439 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2440 2441 kvm.eager_page_split= 2442 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2443 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2444 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2445 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2446 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2447 required to split huge pages lazily. 2448 2449 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2450 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2451 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2452 still be used for reads. 2453 2454 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2455 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2456 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2457 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2458 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2459 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2460 cleared. 2461 2462 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y. 2463 2464 Default is Y (on). 2465 2466 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2467 Default is false (don't support). 2468 2469 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2470 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2471 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2472 force : Always deploy workaround. 2473 off : Never deploy workaround. 2474 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2475 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2476 2477 Default is 'auto'. 2478 2479 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2480 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2481 2482 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2483 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2484 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2485 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2486 period (see below). The default is 60. 2487 2488 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2489 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2490 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2491 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2492 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2493 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2494 2495 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2496 Default is 1 (enabled) 2497 2498 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2499 for all guests. 2500 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2501 2502 kvm-arm.mode= 2503 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2504 2505 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2506 2507 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2508 protected guests. 2509 2510 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2511 state is kept private from the host. 2512 2513 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2514 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2515 for the host. 2516 2517 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2518 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2519 system registers 2520 2521 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2522 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2523 system registers 2524 2525 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2526 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2527 system registers 2528 2529 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2530 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2531 LPIs. 2532 2533 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2534 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2535 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2536 allocation. 2537 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2538 Format: <integer> 2539 Default: 5 2540 2541 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2542 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2543 Default is 1 (enabled) 2544 2545 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2546 [KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state. 2547 Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as 2548 guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests. 2549 This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM 2550 never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2551 Default is 1 (enabled) 2552 2553 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2554 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2555 Default is 1 (enabled) 2556 2557 kvm-intel.nested= 2558 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2559 Default is 0 (disabled) 2560 2561 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2562 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2563 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2564 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2565 2566 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2567 CVE-2018-3620. 2568 2569 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2570 2571 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2572 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2573 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2574 never: Disables the mitigation 2575 2576 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2577 2578 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2579 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2580 Default is 1 (enabled) 2581 2582 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL] 2583 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2584 2585 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2586 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2587 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2588 2589 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2590 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2591 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2592 not have direct access. 2593 2594 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2595 options are: 2596 2597 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2598 2599 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2600 affected CPUs 2601 2602 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2603 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2604 2605 full 2606 Provides all available mitigations for the 2607 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2608 enables all mitigations in the 2609 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2610 2611 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2612 sysfs interface is still possible after 2613 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2614 when the first VM is started in a 2615 potentially insecure configuration, 2616 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2617 2618 full,force 2619 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2620 flush runtime control. Implies the 2621 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2622 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2623 2624 flush 2625 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2626 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2627 L1D flush. 2628 2629 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2630 sysfs interface is still possible after 2631 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2632 when the first VM is started in a 2633 potentially insecure configuration, 2634 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2635 2636 flush,nosmt 2637 2638 Disables SMT and enables the default 2639 hypervisor mitigation. 2640 2641 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2642 sysfs interface is still possible after 2643 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2644 when the first VM is started in a 2645 potentially insecure configuration, 2646 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2647 2648 flush,nowarn 2649 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2650 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2651 insecure configuration. 2652 2653 off 2654 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2655 emit any warnings. 2656 It also drops the swap size and available 2657 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2658 bare metal. 2659 2660 Default is 'flush'. 2661 2662 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2663 2664 l2cr= [PPC] 2665 2666 l3cr= [PPC] 2667 2668 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2669 disabled it. 2670 2671 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2672 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2673 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2674 Format: notscdeadline 2675 2676 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2677 in C2 power state. 2678 2679 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2680 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2681 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2682 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2683 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2684 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2685 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2686 2687 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2688 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2689 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2690 2691 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2692 when set. 2693 Format: <int> 2694 2695 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 2696 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 2697 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 2698 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 2699 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 2700 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 2701 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 2702 to all ports, links and devices. 2703 2704 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2705 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2706 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2707 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2708 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2709 host link and device attached to it. 2710 2711 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2712 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 2713 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2714 The following configurations can be forced. 2715 2716 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2717 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2718 2719 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2720 2721 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2722 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2723 allowed. 2724 2725 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 2726 resets. 2727 2728 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 2729 link recovery. 2730 2731 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 2732 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 2733 detection. 2734 2735 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2736 2737 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 2738 2739 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 2740 2741 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 2742 2743 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 2744 2745 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 2746 2747 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 2748 2749 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 2750 2751 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 2752 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 2753 2754 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 2755 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 2756 2757 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 2758 identify device data log. 2759 2760 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 2761 purpose log directory. 2762 2763 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 2764 2765 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2766 1024 sectors. 2767 2768 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2769 65535 sectors. 2770 2771 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 2772 2773 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 2774 should be skipped. 2775 2776 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 2777 2778 * disable: Disable this device. 2779 2780 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2781 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2782 2783 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2784 2785 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2786 Format: <integer> 2787 2788 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2789 Format: <integer> 2790 2791 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2792 Format: <integer> 2793 2794 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2795 Format: <integer> 2796 2797 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2798 { integrity | confidentiality } 2799 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2800 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2801 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2802 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2803 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2804 are also disabled. 2805 2806 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2807 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2808 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2809 number of online CPUs. 2810 2811 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2812 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2813 2814 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2815 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2816 2817 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2818 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2819 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2820 2821 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2822 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2823 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2824 mode during the locktorture test. 2825 2826 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2827 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2828 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2829 2830 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2831 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2832 2833 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2834 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2835 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2836 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2837 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2838 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2839 2840 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2841 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2842 2843 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2844 Enable additional printk() statements. 2845 2846 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2847 Format: <irq> 2848 2849 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2850 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2851 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2852 loglevels are defined as follows: 2853 2854 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2855 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2856 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2857 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2858 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2859 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2860 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2861 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2862 2863 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2864 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2865 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2866 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2867 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2868 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2869 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2870 2871 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2872 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2873 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2874 kernel boot problems. 2875 2876 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2877 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2878 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2879 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2880 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2881 attached printers to be reset. Using 2882 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2883 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2884 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2885 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2886 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2887 port specification list means that device IDs 2888 from each port should be examined, to see if 2889 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2890 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2891 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2892 2893 lpj=n [KNL] 2894 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2895 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2896 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2897 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2898 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2899 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2900 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2901 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2902 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2903 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2904 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2905 hardware. 2906 2907 ltpc= [NET] 2908 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2909 2910 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2911 2912 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2913 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2914 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2915 2916 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2917 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2918 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2919 2920 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 2921 different yeeloong laptops. 2922 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2923 2924 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater 2925 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2926 2927 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2928 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2929 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2930 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2931 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2932 only takes effect during system bootup. 2933 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2934 which also disables the IO APIC. 2935 2936 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2937 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2938 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2939 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2940 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2941 /dev/loop-control interface. 2942 2943 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2944 2945 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2946 2947 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2948 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2949 2950 mdacon= [MDA] 2951 Format: <first>,<last> 2952 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2953 2954 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2955 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2956 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2957 2958 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2959 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2960 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2961 2962 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2963 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2964 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2965 not have direct access. 2966 2967 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2968 options are: 2969 2970 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2971 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2972 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2973 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2974 2975 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 2976 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 2977 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 2978 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 2979 too. 2980 2981 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 2982 mds=full. 2983 2984 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 2985 2986 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON] Set the memory size. 2987 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 2988 2989 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2990 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 2991 2992 1 for test; 2993 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 2994 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 2995 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 2996 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 2997 2998 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 2999 high memory is not affected. 3000 3001 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 3002 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 3003 3004 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 3005 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 3006 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 3007 belonging to unused RAM. 3008 3009 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 3010 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 3011 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 3012 3013 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3014 [ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by 3015 firmware. 3016 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 3017 ss[KMG]. 3018 Multiple different regions can be specified with 3019 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 3020 3021 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 3022 memory. 3023 3024 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 3025 3026 memchunk=nn[KMG] 3027 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 3028 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 3029 3030 memhp_default_state=online/offline 3031 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 3032 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 3033 set according to the 3034 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 3035 option. 3036 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 3037 3038 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 3039 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3040 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3041 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3042 option description. 3043 3044 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3045 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3046 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3047 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3048 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3049 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3050 comma delimited. 3051 Example: 3052 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3053 3054 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3055 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3056 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3057 3058 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3059 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3060 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3061 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3062 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3063 or 3064 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3065 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3066 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3067 will be eaten. 3068 3069 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 3070 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3071 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3072 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3073 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3074 3075 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3076 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 3077 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3078 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3079 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3080 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3081 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3082 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3083 3084 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 3085 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3086 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3087 Setting this option will scan the memory 3088 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3089 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3090 from using the memory being corrupted. 3091 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3092 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3093 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3094 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3095 3096 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 3097 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3098 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3099 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3100 corruption in more or less memory. 3101 3102 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 3103 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3104 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3105 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3106 3107 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3108 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3109 Format: {on | off (default)} 3110 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3111 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages, 3112 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even 3113 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the 3114 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a 3115 lot of memory without requiring additional 3116 memory to do so. 3117 This feature is disabled by default because it 3118 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3119 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3120 memory blocks). 3121 The state of the flag can be read in 3122 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3123 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3124 the feature is not effective. 3125 3126 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest 3127 Format: <integer> 3128 default : 0 <disable> 3129 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3130 performed. Each pass selects another test 3131 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3132 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3133 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3134 regions that are detected. 3135 3136 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3137 Valid arguments: on, off 3138 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 3139 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 3140 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 3141 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3142 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3143 3144 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3145 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3146 3147 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3148 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3149 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3150 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3151 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3152 3153 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 3154 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst. 3155 3156 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 3157 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 3158 platforms. 3159 3160 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3161 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3162 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3163 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3164 3165 mga= [HW,DRM] 3166 3167 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this 3168 physical address is ignored. 3169 3170 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3171 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3172 Default: "0tb" 3173 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3174 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3175 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3176 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3177 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3178 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3179 unconfigured. 3180 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3181 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3182 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3183 VGA shield. 3184 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3185 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3186 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3187 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3188 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3189 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3190 3191 mitigations= 3192 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 3193 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3194 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3195 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3196 3197 off 3198 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3199 improves system performance, but it may also 3200 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3201 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 3202 if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] 3203 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3204 nobp=0 [S390] 3205 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3206 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3207 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3208 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3209 l1tf=off [X86] 3210 mds=off [X86] 3211 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3212 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3213 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3214 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3215 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3216 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 3217 retbleed=off [X86] 3218 3219 Exceptions: 3220 This does not have any effect on 3221 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3222 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3223 3224 auto (default) 3225 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3226 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3227 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3228 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3229 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3230 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3231 3232 auto,nosmt 3233 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3234 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3235 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3236 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3237 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3238 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3239 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 3240 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] 3241 3242 mminit_loglevel= 3243 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3244 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3245 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3246 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3247 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3248 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3249 3250 mmio_stale_data= 3251 [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor 3252 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3253 3254 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3255 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3256 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3257 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3258 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3259 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3260 3261 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3262 options are: 3263 3264 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3265 3266 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3267 vulnerable CPUs. 3268 3269 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3270 3271 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3272 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3273 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3274 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3275 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3276 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3277 3278 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3279 mmio_stale_data=full. 3280 3281 For details see: 3282 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3283 3284 module.async_probe=<bool> 3285 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing 3286 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a 3287 specific module, use the module specific control that 3288 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both 3289 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are 3290 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for 3291 the specific module. 3292 3293 module.sig_enforce 3294 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3295 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3296 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3297 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3298 3299 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3300 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3301 3302 mousedev.tap_time= 3303 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3304 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3305 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3306 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3307 Format: <msecs> 3308 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3309 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3310 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3311 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3312 3313 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 3314 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3315 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3316 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3317 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3318 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3319 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3320 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3321 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3322 is not too small. 3323 3324 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3325 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3326 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3327 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3328 allocations. Use with caution! 3329 3330 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3331 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3332 3333 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3334 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3335 3336 mtdparts= [MTD] 3337 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3338 3339 mtdset= [ARM] 3340 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 3341 3342 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 3343 3344 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3345 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3346 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3347 3348 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3349 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3350 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3351 3352 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3353 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3354 Default is 1. 3355 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3356 using up MTRRs. 3357 3358 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 3359 Format: <integer> 3360 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3361 Default : 1 3362 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3363 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3364 3365 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3366 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3367 at a time. 3368 3369 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3370 3371 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3372 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3373 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3374 something different and driver-specific. 3375 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3376 file if at all. 3377 3378 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3379 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3380 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3381 waits 4 seconds. 3382 3383 nf_conntrack.acct= 3384 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3385 0 to disable accounting 3386 1 to enable accounting 3387 Default value is 0. 3388 3389 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3390 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3391 3392 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3393 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3394 3395 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3396 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3397 3398 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3399 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3400 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3401 requests. 3402 3403 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3404 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3405 channel should listen. 3406 3407 nfs.cache_getent= 3408 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3409 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3410 3411 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3412 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3413 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3414 3415 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3416 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3417 entries. 3418 3419 nfs.enable_ino64= 3420 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3421 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3422 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3423 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3424 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3425 3426 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3427 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3428 slots the client will assign to the callback 3429 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3430 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3431 a particular server. 3432 3433 nfs.max_session_slots= 3434 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3435 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3436 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3437 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3438 Note that there is little point in setting this 3439 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3440 3441 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3442 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3443 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3444 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3445 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3446 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3447 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3448 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3449 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3450 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3451 back to using the idmapper. 3452 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3453 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3454 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3455 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3456 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3457 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3458 3459 nfs.send_implementation_id = 3460 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3461 information in exchange_id requests. 3462 If zero, no implementation identification information 3463 will be sent. 3464 The default is to send the implementation identification 3465 information. 3466 3467 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 3468 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3469 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3470 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3471 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3472 after the locks are lost. 3473 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3474 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3475 parameter to '1'. 3476 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3477 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3478 3479 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 3480 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3481 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3482 3483 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3484 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3485 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3486 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3487 3488 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable = 3489 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3490 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3491 the destination of the copy. 3492 3493 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout = 3494 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3495 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3496 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3497 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3498 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3499 this parameter. 3500 3501 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3502 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3503 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3504 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3505 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3506 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3507 3508 3509 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3510 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3511 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3512 3513 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3514 when a NMI is triggered. 3515 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3516 3517 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3518 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3519 Valid num: 0 or 1 3520 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3521 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3522 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3523 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3524 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3525 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3526 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3527 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3528 need the box quickly up again. 3529 3530 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3531 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3532 3533 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3534 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3535 is present. 3536 3537 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3538 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3539 3540 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3541 3542 no_console_suspend 3543 [HW] Never suspend the console 3544 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3545 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3546 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3547 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3548 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3549 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3550 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3551 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3552 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3553 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3554 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3555 turn on/off it dynamically. 3556 3557 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3558 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3559 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3560 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3561 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3562 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3563 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3564 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3565 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3566 is set. 3567 3568 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3569 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3570 but will impact performance. 3571 3572 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3573 3574 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3575 (CPU alternatives feature). 3576 3577 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3578 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3579 3580 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3581 3582 nocache [ARM] 3583 3584 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3585 3586 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3587 3588 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3589 3590 noexec [IA-64] 3591 3592 nosmap [PPC] 3593 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3594 even if it is supported by processor. 3595 3596 nosmep [PPC64s] 3597 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3598 even if it is supported by processor. 3599 3600 noexec32 [X86-64] 3601 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3602 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3603 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3604 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3605 read implies executable mappings 3606 3607 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3608 3609 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3610 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3611 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3612 3613 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3614 3615 nohugevmalloc [PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3616 3617 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3618 Equivalent to smt=1. 3619 3620 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3621 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3622 via the sysfs control file. 3623 3624 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3625 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3626 possible in the system. 3627 3628 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3629 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3630 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3631 option. 3632 3633 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3634 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3635 3636 no_uaccess_flush 3637 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 3638 3639 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3640 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3641 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3642 3643 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3644 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3645 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3646 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3647 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3648 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3649 3650 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3651 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3652 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3653 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3654 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3655 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3656 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3657 3658 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait 3659 in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3660 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3661 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3662 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3663 correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute 3664 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3665 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3666 3667 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3668 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3669 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3670 3671 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3672 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3673 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3674 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3675 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3676 real-time systems. 3677 3678 no_hash_pointers 3679 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3680 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3681 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3682 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3683 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3684 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3685 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3686 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3687 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3688 value printed. This option should only be specified when 3689 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3690 kernels. 3691 3692 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3693 3694 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3695 Valid arguments: on, off 3696 Default: on 3697 3698 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3699 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3700 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3701 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3702 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3703 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3704 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3705 just as if they had also been called out in the 3706 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3707 3708 Note that this argument takes precedence over 3709 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 3710 3711 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3712 3713 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3714 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3715 3716 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3717 broken timer IRQ sources. 3718 3719 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3720 3721 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3722 initial RAM disk. 3723 3724 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3725 remapping. 3726 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3727 3728 nointroute [IA-64] 3729 3730 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3731 3732 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3733 3734 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3735 3736 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3737 fault handling. 3738 3739 no-vmw-sched-clock 3740 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3741 clock and use the default one. 3742 3743 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time 3744 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't 3745 influence scheduler behaviour 3746 3747 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3748 3749 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3750 3751 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3752 3753 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3754 3755 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3756 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3757 3758 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3759 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3760 irq. 3761 3762 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. DRM drivers will not perform 3763 display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. Only the 3764 system framebuffer will be available for use if this was 3765 set-up by the firmware or boot loader. 3766 3767 Useful as fallback, or for testing and debugging. 3768 3769 nomodule Disable module load 3770 3771 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3772 pagetables) support. 3773 3774 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3775 3776 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3777 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3778 3779 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3780 with UP alternatives 3781 3782 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3783 space. 3784 3785 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3786 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3787 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3788 3789 nosbagart [IA-64] 3790 3791 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 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 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3797 3798 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3799 3800 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3801 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3802 3803 nowb [ARM] 3804 3805 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3806 3807 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3808 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3809 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3810 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3811 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3812 parameter's value. 3813 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3814 Default: 255 3815 3816 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3817 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3818 SAL PALO. 3819 3820 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3821 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3822 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3823 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3824 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3825 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3826 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3827 hot plugging. 3828 3829 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3830 3831 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only 3832 set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. 3833 3834 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 3835 NUMA balancing. 3836 Allowed values are enable and disable 3837 3838 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3839 'node', 'default' can be specified 3840 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3841 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3842 3843 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3844 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 3845 info. 3846 3847 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3848 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3849 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3850 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3851 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3852 interrupts *may* be lost! 3853 3854 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3855 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3856 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3857 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3858 3859 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 3860 3861 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 3862 3863 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 3864 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 3865 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 3866 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 3867 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 3868 3869 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3870 process, but there is a small probability of 3871 deadlocking the machine. 3872 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3873 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3874 3875 page_alloc.shuffle= 3876 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3877 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3878 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3879 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3880 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3881 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3882 can be read from sysfs at: 3883 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3884 3885 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3886 Storage of the information about who allocated 3887 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3888 we can turn it on. 3889 on: enable the feature 3890 3891 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3892 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3893 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3894 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3895 on: turn on poisoning 3896 3897 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 3898 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 3899 Format: <integer> 3900 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 3901 reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1). 3902 3903 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3904 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3905 timeout = 0: wait forever 3906 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3907 Format: <timeout> 3908 3909 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3910 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3911 bit 0: print all tasks info 3912 bit 1: print system memory info 3913 bit 2: print timer info 3914 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3915 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3916 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3917 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 3918 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 3919 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 3920 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 3921 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 3922 3923 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 3924 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 3925 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 3926 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 3927 called with any of the flags in this set. 3928 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 3929 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 3930 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 3931 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 3932 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 3933 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 3934 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 3935 3936 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3937 on a WARN(). 3938 3939 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3940 connected to, default is 0. 3941 Format: <parport#> 3942 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3943 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3944 Format: <mode> 3945 3946 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3947 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3948 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3949 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3950 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3951 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3952 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3953 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3954 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3955 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3956 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3957 are specified on the command line, starting 3958 with parport0. 3959 3960 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3961 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3962 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3963 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3964 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3965 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3966 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3967 3968 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 3969 Format: <int> 3970 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 3971 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 3972 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 3973 3974 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 3975 Format: <int> 3976 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 3977 changes. Disabled by default. 3978 3979 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 3980 Format: <int> 3981 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 3982 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3983 Disabled by default. 3984 3985 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 3986 Format: <int> 3987 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 3988 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3989 Disabled by default. 3990 3991 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3992 Format: <int> 3993 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 3994 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 3995 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 3996 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 3997 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 3998 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 3999 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 4000 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 4001 all channels. 4002 4003 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 4004 Format: <int> 4005 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 4006 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4007 respectively. Disabled by default. 4008 4009 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 4010 Format: <int> 4011 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 4012 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4013 respectively. Disabled by default. 4014 4015 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4016 Format: <int> 4017 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 4018 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 4019 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 4020 All modes allowed by default. 4021 4022 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 4023 Format: <int> 4024 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4025 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4026 4027 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4028 Format: <int> 4029 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4030 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4031 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4032 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4033 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4034 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4035 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4036 By default all supported ports are probed. 4037 4038 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4039 Format: <int> 4040 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4041 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4042 4043 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4044 Format: <int> 4045 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4046 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4047 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4048 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4049 0 otherwise. 4050 4051 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4052 Format: <int> 4053 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4054 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4055 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4056 allowed by default. 4057 4058 pause_on_oops= 4059 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4060 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4061 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4062 4063 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4064 4065 pcd. [PARIDE] 4066 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 4067 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4068 4069 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 4070 4071 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4072 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4073 specified in one of the following formats: 4074 4075 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4076 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4077 4078 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4079 bus/device/function address which may change 4080 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4081 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4082 by other kernel parameters. If the 4083 domain is left unspecified, it is 4084 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4085 to a device through multiple device/function 4086 addresses can be specified after the base 4087 address (this is more robust against 4088 renumbering issues). The second format 4089 selects devices using IDs from the 4090 configuration space which may match multiple 4091 devices in the system. 4092 4093 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4094 changes anything 4095 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4096 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4097 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4098 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4099 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4100 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4101 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4102 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4103 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4104 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4105 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4106 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4107 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4108 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4109 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4110 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4111 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4112 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4113 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4114 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4115 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4116 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4117 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4118 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4119 Configuration 4120 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4121 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4122 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4123 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4124 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4125 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4126 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4127 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4128 should never be necessary. 4129 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4130 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4131 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4132 when the system masks IRQs. 4133 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4134 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4135 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4136 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4137 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4138 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4139 on several machines and they hang the machine 4140 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4141 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4142 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4143 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4144 motherboard. 4145 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4146 Use with caution as certain devices share 4147 address decoders between ROMs and other 4148 resources. 4149 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4150 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4151 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4152 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4153 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4154 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4155 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4156 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4157 this way. 4158 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4159 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4160 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4161 F0000h-100000h range. 4162 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4163 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4164 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4165 explicitly which ones they are. 4166 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4167 numbers ourselves, overriding 4168 whatever the firmware may have done. 4169 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4170 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4171 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4172 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4173 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4174 IRQ routing is enabled. 4175 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4176 or for PCI scanning. 4177 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4178 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4179 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4180 please report a bug. 4181 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4182 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4183 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4184 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4185 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4186 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4187 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4188 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4189 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4190 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4191 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4192 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4193 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4194 so this option is a temporary workaround 4195 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4196 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4197 handle more pci cards 4198 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4199 This might help on some broken boards which 4200 machine check when some devices' config space 4201 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4202 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4203 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4204 This sorting is done to get a device 4205 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4206 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4207 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4208 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4209 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4210 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4211 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4212 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4213 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4214 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4215 or bus can support) for best performance. 4216 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4217 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4218 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4219 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4220 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4221 that hot-added devices will work. 4222 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4223 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4224 The default value is 256 bytes. 4225 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4226 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4227 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4228 resource_alignment= 4229 Format: 4230 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4231 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4232 aligned memory resources. How to 4233 specify the device is described above. 4234 If <order of align> is not specified, 4235 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4236 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4237 windows need to be expanded. 4238 To specify the alignment for several 4239 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4240 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4241 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4242 for 4096-byte alignment. 4243 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4244 end-to-end CRC checking). 4245 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4246 the default. 4247 off: Turn ECRC off 4248 on: Turn ECRC on. 4249 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4250 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4251 Default size is 256 bytes. 4252 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4253 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4254 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4255 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4256 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4257 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4258 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4259 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4260 MMIO_PREF window. 4261 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4262 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4263 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4264 Default is 1. 4265 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4266 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4267 accommodate resources required by all child 4268 devices. 4269 off: Turn realloc off 4270 on: Turn realloc on 4271 realloc same as realloc=on 4272 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4273 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4274 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4275 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4276 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4277 port. 4278 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4279 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4280 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4281 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4282 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4283 taints the kernel. 4284 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4285 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4286 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4287 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4288 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4289 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4290 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4291 this removes isolation between devices and 4292 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4293 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4294 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4295 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4296 one PCI domain per PCI function 4297 4298 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 4299 Management. 4300 off Disable ASPM. 4301 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4302 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4303 4304 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4305 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4306 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4307 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4308 also tries to use these services. 4309 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4310 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4311 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4312 hotplug). 4313 4314 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4315 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4316 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4317 4318 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4319 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4320 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4321 4322 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4323 4324 pd_ignore_unused 4325 [PM] 4326 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4327 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4328 for debug and development, but should not be 4329 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4330 4331 pd. [PARIDE] 4332 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4333 4334 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4335 boot time. 4336 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4337 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4338 4339 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4340 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4341 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4342 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4343 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4344 and performance comparison. 4345 4346 pf. [PARIDE] 4347 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4348 4349 pg. [PARIDE] 4350 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4351 4352 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4353 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4354 4355 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4356 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4357 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4358 4359 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4360 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4361 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4362 4363 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4364 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4365 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4366 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4367 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4368 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4369 remains 0. 4370 4371 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4372 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4373 4374 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4375 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4376 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4377 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4378 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4379 possible settings and some assignment information. 4380 4381 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4382 { off } 4383 4384 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4385 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4386 4387 pnp_reserve_irq= 4388 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4389 4390 pnp_reserve_dma= 4391 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4392 4393 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4394 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4395 4396 pnp_reserve_mem= 4397 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4398 autoconfiguration. 4399 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4400 4401 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4402 Default is 21. 4403 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4404 may be specified. 4405 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4406 4407 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4408 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4409 platform machine description specific power_save 4410 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4411 execution priority. 4412 4413 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4414 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4415 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4416 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4417 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4418 4419 ppc_tm= [PPC] 4420 Format: {"off"} 4421 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4422 4423 preempt= [KNL] 4424 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4425 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4426 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4427 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4428 can be preempted anytime. 4429 4430 print-fatal-signals= 4431 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4432 4433 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4434 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4435 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4436 coredump - etc. 4437 4438 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4439 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4440 4441 default: off. 4442 4443 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4444 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4445 panics 4446 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4447 default: disabled 4448 4449 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4450 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4451 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4452 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4453 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4454 in order to provide more debug information. 4455 Format: <bool> 4456 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4457 4458 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4459 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4460 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4461 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4462 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4463 Default: ratelimit 4464 4465 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4466 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4467 4468 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4469 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4470 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4471 4472 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4473 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4474 instead using the legacy FADT method 4475 4476 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4477 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4478 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4479 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4480 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4481 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4482 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4483 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4484 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4485 statistical time based profiling. 4486 4487 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4488 4489 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4490 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4491 that). 4492 Format: <bool> 4493 4494 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4495 tracking. 4496 Format: <bool> 4497 4498 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4499 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4500 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4501 per second. 4502 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4503 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4504 (0 = never). 4505 psmouse.resolution= 4506 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4507 psmouse.smartscroll= 4508 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4509 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4510 4511 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4512 4513 pt. [PARIDE] 4514 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4515 4516 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4517 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4518 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4519 system calls and interrupts. 4520 4521 on - unconditionally enable 4522 off - unconditionally disable 4523 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4524 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4525 4526 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4527 4528 nopti [X86-64] 4529 Equivalent to pti=off 4530 4531 pty.legacy_count= 4532 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4533 default number. 4534 4535 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4536 4537 r128= [HW,DRM] 4538 4539 raid= [HW,RAID] 4540 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4541 4542 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4543 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4544 4545 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4546 4547 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 4548 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 4549 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 4550 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4551 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 4552 4553 random.trust_bootloader={on,off} 4554 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of a 4555 seed passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4556 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4557 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER. 4558 4559 randomize_kstack_offset= 4560 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4561 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4562 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4563 that depend on stack address determinism or 4564 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4565 available on architectures that have defined 4566 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4567 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4568 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4569 4570 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4571 4572 cec_disable [X86] 4573 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4574 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4575 4576 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 4577 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 4578 as described above. 4579 4580 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 4581 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 4582 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 4583 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 4584 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 4585 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 4586 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 4587 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 4588 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 4589 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 4590 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 4591 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4592 4593 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 4594 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 4595 4596 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 4597 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 4598 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 4599 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 4600 4601 Note that this argument takes precedence over 4602 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 4603 4604 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4605 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4606 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4607 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4608 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4609 This improves the real-time response for the 4610 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4611 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4612 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4613 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4614 4615 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4616 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4617 process in one batch. 4618 4619 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4620 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4621 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4622 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4623 4624 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4625 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4626 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4627 4628 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4629 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4630 RCU grace-period initialization. 4631 4632 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4633 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4634 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4635 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4636 the rcu_node combining tree. 4637 4638 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 4639 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 4640 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 4641 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 4642 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 4643 4644 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 4645 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 4646 to zero. 4647 4648 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4649 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4650 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4651 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4652 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4653 4654 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4655 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4656 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4657 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4658 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4659 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4660 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4661 4662 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4663 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4664 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4665 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4666 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4667 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4668 condition. 4669 4670 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 4671 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 4672 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 4673 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 4674 4675 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4676 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4677 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4678 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4679 and maximum value is HZ. 4680 4681 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4682 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4683 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4684 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4685 4686 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4687 Set required age in jiffies for a 4688 given grace period before RCU starts 4689 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4690 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4691 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4692 a value based on the most recent settings 4693 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4694 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4695 This calculated value may be viewed in 4696 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4697 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4698 overwritten. 4699 4700 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4701 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4702 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4703 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4704 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4705 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4706 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4707 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4708 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4709 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4710 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 4711 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 4712 4713 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] 4714 Set the shift-right count to use to compute 4715 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from 4716 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. 4717 The result will be bounded below by the value of 4718 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl 4719 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in 4720 order to allow the CPU to do other work. 4721 4722 Please note that this callback-invocation batch 4723 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback 4724 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead 4725 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which 4726 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. 4727 4728 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] 4729 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, 4730 RCU reduces the lock contention that would 4731 otherwise be caused by callback floods through 4732 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the 4733 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to 4734 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra 4735 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. 4736 But if there are too many callbacks queued during 4737 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into 4738 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too 4739 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. 4740 4741 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4742 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4743 each group, which defaults to the square root 4744 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4745 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4746 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4747 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4748 4749 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4750 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4751 batch limiting is disabled. 4752 4753 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4754 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4755 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4756 4757 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4758 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4759 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4760 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4761 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4762 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4763 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4764 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4765 4766 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4767 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4768 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4769 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4770 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4771 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4772 4773 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 4774 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 4775 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 4776 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 4777 Larger delays increase the probability of 4778 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 4779 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 4780 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 4781 4782 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4783 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4784 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4785 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4786 4787 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 4788 Measure performance of asynchronous 4789 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4790 4791 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4792 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4793 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4794 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4795 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4796 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4797 4798 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 4799 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4800 grace-period primitives. 4801 4802 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4803 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4804 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4805 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4806 interference. 4807 4808 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4809 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4810 4811 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 4812 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4813 If this parameter has the same value as 4814 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 4815 and double-argument variants are tested. 4816 4817 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 4818 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4819 If this parameter has the same value as 4820 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 4821 and double-argument variants are tested. 4822 4823 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4824 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4825 4826 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4827 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4828 4829 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4830 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 4831 of allocations and frees. 4832 4833 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4834 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4835 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4836 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4837 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4838 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4839 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4840 a single reader. 4841 4842 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 4843 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4844 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 4845 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4846 4847 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL] 4848 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4849 4850 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4851 Shut the system down after performance tests 4852 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4853 testing. 4854 4855 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 4856 Enable additional printk() statements. 4857 4858 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4859 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4860 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4861 no holdoff. 4862 4863 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4864 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4865 in microseconds. 4866 4867 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4868 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4869 in microseconds. 4870 4871 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4872 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4873 in seconds. 4874 4875 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4876 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 4877 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4878 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4879 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 4880 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 4881 of CPUs to be used. 4882 4883 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4884 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4885 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4886 4887 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4888 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4889 forward-progress tests. 4890 4891 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4892 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4893 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4894 testing. 4895 4896 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4897 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4898 primitives, if available. 4899 4900 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4901 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4902 4903 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4904 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4905 update-side primitives, if available. 4906 4907 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4908 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4909 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4910 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4911 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4912 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4913 they are all non-zero. 4914 4915 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 4916 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 4917 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 4918 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 4919 4920 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 4921 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 4922 This can of course result in splats, and is 4923 intended to test the ability of things like 4924 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 4925 such leaks. 4926 4927 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 4928 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 4929 4930 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 4931 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 4932 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 4933 test, hence the "fake". 4934 4935 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 4936 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 4937 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 4938 4939 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 4940 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 4941 callback-offload toggling attempts. 4942 4943 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 4944 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4945 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4946 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 4947 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4948 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4949 4950 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 4951 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 4952 4953 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4954 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 4955 4956 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4957 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 4958 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 4959 4960 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 4961 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 4962 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 4963 task-exit processing. 4964 4965 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 4966 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 4967 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 4968 is spawned. 4969 4970 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 4971 The delay, in seconds, between successive 4972 read-then-exit testing episodes. 4973 4974 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 4975 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 4976 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 4977 during the rcutorture test. 4978 4979 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4980 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 4981 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 4982 4983 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 4984 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 4985 warnings, zero to disable. 4986 4987 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 4988 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 4989 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition 4990 to any other stall-related activity. 4991 4992 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 4993 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 4994 4995 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 4996 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 4997 4998 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 4999 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 5000 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 5001 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 5002 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 5003 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 5004 5005 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5006 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 5007 5008 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 5009 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 5010 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 5011 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 5012 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 5013 5014 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 5015 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 5016 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 5017 under test support RCU priority boosting. 5018 5019 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 5020 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 5021 5022 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 5023 Interval (s) between each boost test. 5024 5025 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 5026 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 5027 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 5028 5029 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 5030 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5031 5032 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 5033 Enable additional printk() statements. 5034 5035 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 5036 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 5037 stall warning. 5038 5039 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 5040 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5041 5042 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 5043 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 5044 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 5045 during early boot, that is, during the time 5046 before the init task is spawned. 5047 5048 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5049 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5050 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 5051 value is 300 seconds. 5052 5053 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5054 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 5055 messages. The value is in milliseconds 5056 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 5057 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 5058 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 5059 Setting this to zero causes the value from 5060 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 5061 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 5062 5063 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 5064 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 5065 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 5066 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 5067 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 5068 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 5069 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5070 5071 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 5072 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 5073 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 5074 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 5075 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 5076 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 5077 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 5078 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 5079 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5080 5081 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 5082 Once boot has completed (that is, after 5083 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 5084 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 5085 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5086 5087 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 5088 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 5089 it to the value one, that is, converting any 5090 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 5091 period to instead use normal non-expedited 5092 grace-period processing. 5093 5094 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 5095 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 5096 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 5097 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 5098 a single callback queue. This switching only 5099 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 5100 set to the default value of -1. 5101 5102 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 5103 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 5104 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 5105 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 5106 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 5107 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 5108 the default value of -1. 5109 5110 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 5111 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 5112 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 5113 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 5114 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 5115 for use in testing. 5116 5117 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 5118 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 5119 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 5120 of a given grace period. Setting a large 5121 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 5122 but lengthens grace periods. 5123 5124 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 5125 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5126 informational messages, which give some indication 5127 of the problem for those not patient enough to 5128 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 5129 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 5130 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 5131 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 5132 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 5133 until the beginning of the next grace period. 5134 5135 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 5136 Multiplier for time interval between successive 5137 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 5138 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 5139 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 5140 the value three, so that the first informational 5141 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 5142 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 5143 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 5144 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 5145 5146 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5147 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5148 warning messages. Disable with a value less 5149 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 5150 A change in value does not take effect until 5151 the beginning of the next grace period. 5152 5153 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 5154 Run the RCU early boot self tests 5155 5156 rdinit= [KNL] 5157 Format: <full_path> 5158 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 5159 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 5160 5161 rdrand= [X86] 5162 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 5163 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 5164 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 5165 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 5166 path). 5167 5168 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 5169 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 5170 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 5171 mba. 5172 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 5173 rdt=cmt,!mba 5174 5175 reboot= [KNL] 5176 Format (x86 or x86_64): 5177 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 5178 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 5179 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 5180 [[,]f[orce] 5181 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 5182 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 5183 reboot only), 5184 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 5185 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 5186 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 5187 to be used for rebooting. 5188 5189 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5190 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5191 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5192 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5193 interference. 5194 5195 refscale.loops= [KNL] 5196 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 5197 primitive under test. Increasing this number 5198 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 5199 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 5200 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 5201 x86 laptops. 5202 5203 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5204 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 5205 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 5206 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 5207 5208 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 5209 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 5210 the console log. 5211 5212 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 5213 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 5214 measured in microseconds. 5215 5216 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5217 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 5218 5219 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5220 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 5221 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 5222 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 5223 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 5224 5225 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 5226 Enable additional printk() statements. 5227 5228 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 5229 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 5230 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 5231 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 5232 specified. 5233 5234 relax_domain_level= 5235 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 5236 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 5237 5238 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 5239 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 5240 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 5241 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 5242 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 5243 5244 reservetop= [X86-32] 5245 Format: nn[KMG] 5246 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 5247 address space. 5248 5249 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 5250 during initialization. 5251 5252 resume= [SWSUSP] 5253 Specify the partition device for software suspend 5254 Format: 5255 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 5256 5257 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 5258 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 5259 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 5260 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 5261 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 5262 5263 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5264 read the resume files 5265 5266 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 5267 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5268 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5269 5270 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 5271 5272 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 5273 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 5274 vulnerability. 5275 5276 off - no mitigation 5277 auto - automatically select a migitation 5278 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 5279 disabling SMT if necessary for 5280 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 5281 and older without STIBP). 5282 ibpb - mitigate short speculation windows on 5283 basic block boundaries too. Safe, highest 5284 perf impact. 5285 unret - force enable untrained return thunks, 5286 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h 5287 based systems. 5288 unret,nosmt - like unret, will disable SMT when STIBP 5289 is not available. 5290 5291 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 5292 time according to the CPU. 5293 5294 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 5295 5296 rfkill.default_state= 5297 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 5298 etc. communication is blocked by default. 5299 1 Unblocked. 5300 5301 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 5302 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 5303 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5304 blocked and the previous configuration. 5305 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5306 blocked and everything unblocked. 5307 5308 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5309 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 5310 5311 ring3mwait=disable 5312 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 5313 CPUs. 5314 5315 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 5316 5317 rodata= [KNL] 5318 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 5319 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 5320 5321 rockchip.usb_uart 5322 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 5323 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 5324 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 5325 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 5326 5327 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 5328 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 5329 5330 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5331 mount the root filesystem 5332 5333 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 5334 5335 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 5336 5337 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 5338 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5339 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5340 5341 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 5342 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 5343 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 5344 managed by CMA. 5345 5346 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 5347 5348 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5349 5350 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5351 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5352 strict 5353 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 5354 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 5355 which is faster. 5356 5357 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5358 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5359 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5360 factor of the size of main memory. 5361 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5362 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5363 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5364 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5365 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5366 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5367 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5368 5369 sa1100ir [NET] 5370 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5371 5372 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5373 5374 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5375 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5376 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5377 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5378 5379 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5380 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5381 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5382 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5383 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5384 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5385 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5386 value. 5387 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5388 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5389 1 64 ms 5390 2 128 ms 5391 and so on. 5392 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5393 Default is 0. 5394 5395 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5396 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5397 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5398 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5399 tests. 5400 5401 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5402 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5403 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5404 default) disables this feature. Please note 5405 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5406 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5407 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5408 5409 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5410 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5411 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5412 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5413 equal to the number of CPUs. 5414 5415 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5416 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5417 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 5418 5419 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5420 Number seconds to wait between successive 5421 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 5422 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 5423 5424 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5425 The number of seconds following the start of the 5426 test after which to shut down the system. The 5427 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 5428 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 5429 5430 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5431 The number of seconds between outputting the 5432 current test statistics to the console. A value 5433 of zero disables statistics output. 5434 5435 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 5436 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 5437 to the set of CPUs under test. 5438 5439 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 5440 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 5441 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 5442 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 5443 functions. 5444 5445 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 5446 Enable additional printk() statements. 5447 5448 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 5449 The probability weighting to use for the 5450 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 5451 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 5452 default if all other weights are -1. However, 5453 if at least one weight has some other value, a 5454 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 5455 5456 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 5457 The probability weighting to use for the 5458 smp_call_function_single() function with a 5459 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5460 5461 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 5462 The probability weighting to use for the 5463 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 5464 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5465 Note well that setting a high probability for 5466 this weighting can place serious IPI load 5467 on the system. 5468 5469 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 5470 The probability weighting to use for the 5471 smp_call_function_many() function with a 5472 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5473 and weight_many. 5474 5475 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 5476 The probability weighting to use for the 5477 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 5478 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 5479 weight_many. 5480 5481 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 5482 The probability weighting to use for the 5483 smp_call_function_all() function with a 5484 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5485 and weight_many. 5486 5487 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 5488 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 5489 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 5490 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5491 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 5492 1 -- enable. 5493 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 5494 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 5495 5496 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 5497 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 5498 "lsm=" parameter. 5499 5500 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 5501 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5502 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 5503 0 -- disable. 5504 1 -- enable. 5505 Default value is 1. 5506 5507 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 5508 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5509 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 5510 0 -- disable. 5511 1 -- enable. 5512 Default value is set via kernel config option. 5513 5514 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 5515 5516 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 5517 5518 shapers= [NET] 5519 Maximal number of shapers. 5520 5521 simeth= [IA-64] 5522 simscsi= 5523 5524 slram= [HW,MTD] 5525 5526 slab_merge [MM] 5527 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 5528 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 5529 5530 slab_nomerge [MM] 5531 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 5532 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 5533 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 5534 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 5535 layout control by attackers can usually be 5536 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 5537 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 5538 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 5539 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 5540 own. 5541 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5542 5543 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 5544 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5545 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5546 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 5547 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 5548 5549 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 5550 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 5551 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5552 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5553 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5554 last alloc / free. For more information see 5555 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5556 5557 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 5558 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5559 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5560 fragmentation. For more information see 5561 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5562 5563 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 5564 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 5565 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 5566 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 5567 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 5568 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 5569 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 5570 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5571 5572 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 5573 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 5574 lower than slub_max_order. 5575 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5576 5577 slub_merge [MM, SLUB] 5578 Same with slab_merge. 5579 5580 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 5581 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 5582 See slab_nomerge for more information. 5583 5584 smart2= [HW] 5585 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 5586 5587 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 5588 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 5589 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 5590 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 5591 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 5592 disabling interrupts for extended periods 5593 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 5594 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 5595 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 5596 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 5597 5598 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 5599 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 5600 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 5601 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 5602 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 5603 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 5604 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 5605 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 5606 1: Fast pin select (default) 5607 2: ATC IRMode 5608 5609 smt= [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 5610 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 5611 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 5612 actual hardware limit. 5613 Format: <integer> 5614 Default: -1 (no limit) 5615 5616 softlockup_panic= 5617 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 5618 Format: 0 | 1 5619 5620 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 5621 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 5622 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 5623 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 5624 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 5625 5626 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 5627 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 5628 backtraces on all cpus. 5629 Format: 0 | 1 5630 5631 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 5632 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 5633 5634 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5635 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 5636 The default operation protects the kernel from 5637 user space attacks. 5638 5639 on - unconditionally enable, implies 5640 spectre_v2_user=on 5641 off - unconditionally disable, implies 5642 spectre_v2_user=off 5643 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5644 vulnerable 5645 5646 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 5647 mitigation method at run time according to the 5648 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 5649 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 5650 compiler with which the kernel was built. 5651 5652 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 5653 against user space to user space task attacks. 5654 5655 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 5656 the user space protections. 5657 5658 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 5659 5660 retpoline - replace indirect branches 5661 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 5662 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 5663 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 5664 eibrs - enhanced IBRS 5665 eibrs,retpoline - enhanced IBRS + Retpolines 5666 eibrs,lfence - enhanced IBRS + LFENCE 5667 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 5668 5669 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5670 spectre_v2=auto. 5671 5672 spectre_v2_user= 5673 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5674 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 5675 user space tasks 5676 5677 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 5678 enforced by spectre_v2=on 5679 5680 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 5681 enforced by spectre_v2=off 5682 5683 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 5684 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 5685 per thread. The mitigation control state 5686 is inherited on fork. 5687 5688 prctl,ibpb 5689 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 5690 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5691 always when switching between different user 5692 space processes. 5693 5694 seccomp 5695 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 5696 threads will enable the mitigation unless 5697 they explicitly opt out. 5698 5699 seccomp,ibpb 5700 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 5701 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5702 always when switching between different 5703 user space processes. 5704 5705 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 5706 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 5707 5708 Default mitigation: "prctl" 5709 5710 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5711 spectre_v2_user=auto. 5712 5713 spec_store_bypass_disable= 5714 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 5715 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 5716 5717 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 5718 a common industry wide performance optimization known 5719 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 5720 to the same memory location may not be observed by 5721 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 5722 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 5723 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 5724 end of a particular speculation execution window. 5725 5726 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5727 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 5728 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 5729 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 5730 5731 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 5732 Bypass optimization is used. 5733 5734 On x86 the options are: 5735 5736 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 5737 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 5738 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 5739 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 5740 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 5741 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 5742 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 5743 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 5744 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 5745 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 5746 for a process by default. The state of the control 5747 is inherited on fork. 5748 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 5749 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 5750 5751 Default mitigations: 5752 X86: "prctl" 5753 5754 On powerpc the options are: 5755 5756 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 5757 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 5758 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 5759 exit. 5760 off - No action. 5761 5762 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5763 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 5764 5765 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 5766 spia_fio_base= 5767 spia_pedr= 5768 spia_peddr= 5769 5770 split_lock_detect= 5771 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 5772 5773 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 5774 instructions that access data across cache line 5775 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 5776 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 5777 bus lock detection. 5778 5779 off - not enabled 5780 5781 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 5782 about applications triggering the #AC 5783 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 5784 the default on CPUs that support split lock 5785 detection or bus lock detection. Default 5786 behavior is by #AC if both features are 5787 enabled in hardware. 5788 5789 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 5790 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 5791 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 5792 both features are enabled in hardware. 5793 5794 ratelimit:N - 5795 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 5796 per second for bus lock detection. 5797 0 < N <= 1000. 5798 5799 N/A for split lock detection. 5800 5801 5802 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 5803 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 5804 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 5805 mode. 5806 5807 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 5808 CPL > 0. 5809 5810 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 5811 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 5812 (SRBDS) mitigation. 5813 5814 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 5815 exploit which can leak bits from the random 5816 number generator. 5817 5818 By default, this issue is mitigated by 5819 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 5820 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 5821 much slower. Among other effects, this will 5822 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 5823 5824 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 5825 the following option: 5826 5827 off: Disable mitigation and remove 5828 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 5829 5830 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 5831 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 5832 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 5833 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 5834 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 5835 but takes effect only when the low-order four 5836 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 5837 (decide at boot). 5838 5839 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 5840 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 5841 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 5842 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 5843 5844 0: Never. 5845 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 5846 2: When rcutorture decides to. 5847 3: Decide at boot time (default). 5848 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 5849 5850 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 5851 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 5852 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 5853 5854 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 5855 Specifies how frequently to check for 5856 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 5857 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 5858 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 5859 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 5860 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 5861 are ignored. 5862 5863 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 5864 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 5865 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 5866 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 5867 grace period will be considered for automatic 5868 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 5869 expediting. 5870 5871 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] 5872 Specifies the number of no-delay instances 5873 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period 5874 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero 5875 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will 5876 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. 5877 5878 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] 5879 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of 5880 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, 5881 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled 5882 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each 5883 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. 5884 5885 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] 5886 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping 5887 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. 5888 5889 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 5890 Specifies the number of update-side contention 5891 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 5892 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 5893 structure to big form. Note that the value of 5894 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 5895 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 5896 5897 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 5898 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 5899 5900 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 5901 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 5902 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 5903 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 5904 5905 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 5906 for both kernel and userspace 5907 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 5908 for both kernel and userspace 5909 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 5910 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 5911 to allow userspace to register its 5912 interest in being mitigated too. 5913 5914 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 5915 override the default stack gap protection. The value 5916 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 5917 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 5918 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 5919 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 5920 5921 stack_depot_disable= [KNL] 5922 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 5923 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 5924 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 5925 to false. 5926 5927 stacktrace [FTRACE] 5928 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 5929 5930 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 5931 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 5932 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 5933 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 5934 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 5935 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 5936 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 5937 5938 sti= [PARISC,HW] 5939 Format: <num> 5940 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 5941 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 5942 as the initial boot-console. 5943 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5944 5945 sti_font= [HW] 5946 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5947 5948 stifb= [HW] 5949 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 5950 5951 strict_sas_size= 5952 [X86] 5953 Format: <bool> 5954 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 5955 against the required signal frame size which 5956 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 5957 be used to filter out binaries which have 5958 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 5959 5960 sunrpc.min_resvport= 5961 sunrpc.max_resvport= 5962 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5963 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 5964 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 5965 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 5966 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 5967 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 5968 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 5969 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 5970 maximum port values. 5971 5972 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 5973 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5974 Limit the number of requests that the server will 5975 process in parallel from a single connection. 5976 The default value is 0 (no limit). 5977 5978 sunrpc.pool_mode= 5979 [NFS] 5980 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 5981 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 5982 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 5983 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 5984 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 5985 NFS server is running. 5986 5987 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 5988 automatically using heuristics 5989 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 5990 percpu one pool for each CPU 5991 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 5992 to global on non-NUMA machines) 5993 5994 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 5995 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 5996 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5997 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 5998 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 5999 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 6000 improve throughput, but will also increase the 6001 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 6002 6003 suspend.pm_test_delay= 6004 [SUSPEND] 6005 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 6006 mode before resuming the system (see 6007 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 6008 is set. Default value is 5. 6009 6010 svm= [PPC] 6011 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 6012 This parameter controls use of the Protected 6013 Execution Facility on pSeries. 6014 6015 swapaccount= [KNL] 6016 Format: [0|1] 6017 Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 6018 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 6019 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) 6020 6021 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 6022 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } 6023 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 6024 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb 6025 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up 6026 to a power of 2. 6027 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 6028 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 6029 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 6030 6031 switches= [HW,M68k] 6032 6033 sysctl.*= [KNL] 6034 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 6035 process, as if the value was written to the respective 6036 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 6037 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 6038 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 6039 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 6040 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 6041 6042 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 6043 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 6044 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 6045 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 6046 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 6047 in older udev will not work anymore. 6048 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 6049 the kernel configuration. 6050 6051 sysrq_always_enabled 6052 [KNL] 6053 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 6054 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 6055 Useful for debugging. 6056 6057 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6058 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 6059 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 6060 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 6061 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 6062 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 6063 6064 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 6065 6066 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 6067 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 6068 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 6069 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 6070 as the system sleep state during system startup with 6071 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 6072 The system is woken from this state using a 6073 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 6074 6075 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6076 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 6077 6078 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 6079 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 6080 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 6081 6082 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 6083 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 6084 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 6085 6086 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 6087 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 6088 critical and hot trip points. 6089 6090 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 6091 1: disable ACPI thermal control 6092 6093 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 6094 -1: disable all passive trip points 6095 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 6096 value 6097 6098 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 6099 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 6100 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 6101 0: no polling (default) 6102 6103 threadirqs [KNL] 6104 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 6105 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 6106 6107 topology= [S390] 6108 Format: {off | on} 6109 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 6110 topology information if the hardware supports this. 6111 The scheduler will make use of this information and 6112 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 6113 Default is on. 6114 6115 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 6116 Format: {off} 6117 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 6118 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 6119 LPAR. 6120 6121 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 6122 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 6123 until after init has spawned. 6124 6125 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 6126 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 6127 even if there were no errors. This can be a 6128 very costly operation when many torture tests 6129 are running concurrently, especially on systems 6130 with rotating-rust storage. 6131 6132 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 6133 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 6134 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 6135 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 6136 6137 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 6138 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 6139 6140 tp720= [HW,PS2] 6141 6142 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 6143 Format: integer pcr id 6144 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 6145 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 6146 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 6147 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 6148 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 6149 are saved. 6150 6151 tp_printk [FTRACE] 6152 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 6153 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 6154 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 6155 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 6156 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 6157 6158 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 6159 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 6160 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 6161 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 6162 6163 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 6164 to stop the printing of events to console at 6165 late_initcall_sync. 6166 6167 ** CAUTION ** 6168 6169 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 6170 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 6171 the system to live lock. 6172 6173 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 6174 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 6175 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 6176 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 6177 make the system inoperable. 6178 6179 This command line option will stop the printing of events 6180 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 6181 6182 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 6183 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 6184 6185 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 6186 at boot up. 6187 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 6188 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 6189 depending on the architecture, may not be 6190 in sync between CPUs. 6191 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 6192 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 6193 but better for some race conditions. 6194 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 6195 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 6196 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 6197 once per event. 6198 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 6199 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 6200 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6201 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 6202 stamps. 6203 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6204 Architectures may add more clocks. See 6205 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 6206 6207 trace_event=[event-list] 6208 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 6209 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 6210 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 6211 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 6212 6213 trace_options=[option-list] 6214 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 6215 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 6216 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 6217 to echo the option name into 6218 6219 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 6220 6221 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 6222 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 6223 6224 trace_options=stacktrace 6225 6226 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 6227 section. 6228 6229 traceoff_on_warning 6230 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 6231 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 6232 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 6233 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 6234 6235 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 6236 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 6237 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 6238 6239 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 6240 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 6241 6242 transparent_hugepage= 6243 [KNL] 6244 Format: [always|madvise|never] 6245 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 6246 with respect to transparent hugepages. 6247 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 6248 for more details. 6249 6250 trusted.source= [KEYS] 6251 Format: <string> 6252 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 6253 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 6254 sources: 6255 - "tpm" 6256 - "tee" 6257 - "caam" 6258 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 6259 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 6260 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 6261 successfully during iteration. 6262 6263 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 6264 Format: <string> 6265 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 6266 Can be one of: 6267 - "kernel" 6268 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 6269 - "default" 6270 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 6271 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 6272 6273 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 6274 Format: <string> 6275 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 6276 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 6277 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 6278 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 6279 virtualized environment. 6280 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 6281 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 6282 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 6283 can add overhead. 6284 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 6285 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 6286 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 6287 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 6288 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 6289 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 6290 acceptable). 6291 6292 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 6293 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 6294 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 6295 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 6296 Format: <unsigned int> 6297 6298 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 6299 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 6300 support TSX control. 6301 6302 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 6303 6304 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 6305 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 6306 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 6307 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 6308 so there may be unknown security risks associated 6309 with leaving it enabled. 6310 6311 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 6312 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 6313 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 6314 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 6315 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 6316 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 6317 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 6318 6319 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 6320 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 6321 6322 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 6323 6324 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6325 for more details. 6326 6327 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 6328 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 6329 6330 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 6331 certain CPUs that support Transactional 6332 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 6333 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 6334 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 6335 conditions. 6336 6337 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6338 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 6339 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 6340 access. 6341 6342 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 6343 options are: 6344 6345 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 6346 if TSX is enabled. 6347 6348 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 6349 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 6350 is not disabled because CPU is not 6351 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 6352 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 6353 6354 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 6355 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 6356 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 6357 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 6358 6359 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6360 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 6361 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 6362 required and doesn't provide any additional 6363 mitigation. 6364 6365 For details see: 6366 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6367 6368 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 6369 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 6370 Format: 6371 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 6372 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 6373 6374 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 6375 happen after console_init() and before a proper 6376 console driver takes over, this boot options might 6377 help "seeing" what's going on. 6378 6379 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6380 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 6381 6382 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 6383 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 6384 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 6385 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 6386 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 6387 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 6388 reported either. 6389 6390 unknown_nmi_panic 6391 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 6392 6393 usbcore.authorized_default= 6394 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 6395 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 6396 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 6397 if device connected to internal port) 6398 6399 usbcore.autosuspend= 6400 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 6401 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 6402 is the time required before an idle device will be 6403 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 6404 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 6405 6406 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 6407 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 6408 6409 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 6410 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 6411 (default = 65536). 6412 6413 usbcore.blinkenlights= 6414 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 6415 6416 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 6417 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 6418 scheme (default 0 = off). 6419 6420 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 6421 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 6422 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 6423 6424 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 6425 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 6426 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 6427 6428 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 6429 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 6430 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 6431 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 6432 6433 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 6434 6435 usbcore.quirks= 6436 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 6437 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 6438 commas. Each entry has the form 6439 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 6440 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 6441 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 6442 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 6443 the following meanings: 6444 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 6445 descriptors must not be fetched using 6446 a 255-byte read); 6447 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 6448 correctly so reset it instead); 6449 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 6450 Set-Interface requests); 6451 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 6452 handle its Configuration or Interface 6453 strings); 6454 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 6455 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 6456 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 6457 more interface descriptions than the 6458 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 6459 talking to these interfaces); 6460 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 6461 during initialization, after we read 6462 the device descriptor); 6463 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 6464 high speed and super speed interrupt 6465 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 6466 require the interval in microframes (1 6467 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 6468 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 6469 (bInterval-1). 6470 Devices with this quirk report their 6471 bInterval as the result of this 6472 calculation instead of the exponent 6473 variable used in the calculation); 6474 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 6475 handle device_qualifier descriptor 6476 requests); 6477 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 6478 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 6479 remote wakeup capability); 6480 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 6481 Power Management); 6482 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 6483 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 6484 frames instead of the USB 2.0 6485 calculation); 6486 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 6487 to be disconnected before suspend to 6488 prevent spurious wakeup); 6489 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 6490 pause after every control message); 6491 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 6492 delay after resetting its port); 6493 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 6494 6495 usbhid.mousepoll= 6496 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 6497 6498 usbhid.jspoll= 6499 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 6500 6501 usbhid.kbpoll= 6502 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 6503 6504 usb-storage.delay_use= 6505 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 6506 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 6507 6508 usb-storage.quirks= 6509 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 6510 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 6511 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 6512 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 6513 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 6514 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 6515 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 6516 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 6517 of sense data, not on uas); 6518 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 6519 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 6520 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 6521 device capacity by one sector); 6522 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 6523 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 6524 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 6525 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 6526 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 6527 command, uas only); 6528 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 6529 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 6530 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 6531 reported device capacity by one 6532 sector if the number is odd); 6533 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 6534 device); 6535 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 6536 command, uas only); 6537 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 6538 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 6539 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 6540 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 6541 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 6542 not on uas); 6543 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 6544 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 6545 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 6546 reported by the device, not on uas); 6547 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 6548 by default, not on uas); 6549 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 6550 bogus residue values, not on uas); 6551 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 6552 Logical Unit); 6553 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 6554 commands, uas only); 6555 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 6556 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 6557 medium is write-protected). 6558 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 6559 even if the device claims no cache, 6560 not on uas) 6561 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 6562 6563 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 6564 Format: <int> 6565 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 6566 1 - undefined instruction events 6567 2 - system calls 6568 4 - invalid data aborts 6569 8 - SIGSEGV faults 6570 16 - SIGBUS faults 6571 Example: user_debug=31 6572 6573 userpte= 6574 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 6575 6576 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 6577 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 6578 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 6579 6580 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 6581 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 6582 6583 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 6584 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 6585 6586 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 6587 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 6588 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 6589 6590 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 6591 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 6592 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 6593 6594 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 6595 alias for vdso32=0. 6596 6597 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 6598 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 6599 6600 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 6601 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 6602 6603 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 6604 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 6605 6606 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 6607 Format: [0|1] 6608 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 6609 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 6610 level and then send out the event to user space through 6611 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 6612 will only send out the event without touching backlight 6613 brightness level. 6614 default: 1 6615 6616 virtio_mmio.device= 6617 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 6618 6619 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 6620 where: 6621 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 6622 like K, M and G) 6623 <baseaddr> := physical base address 6624 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 6625 request_irq()) 6626 <id> := (optional) platform device id 6627 example: 6628 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 6629 6630 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 6631 6632 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 6633 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 6634 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 6635 Use vga=ask for menu. 6636 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 6637 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 6638 6639 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 6640 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 6641 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 6642 All options are enabled by default, and this 6643 interface is meant to allow for selectively 6644 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 6645 debugging features. 6646 6647 Available options are: 6648 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 6649 - Disable all of the above options 6650 6651 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 6652 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 6653 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 6654 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 6655 mapped kernel RAM. 6656 6657 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 6658 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 6659 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 6660 6661 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 6662 Format: <command> 6663 6664 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 6665 Format: <command> 6666 6667 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 6668 Format: <command> 6669 6670 vsyscall= [X86-64] 6671 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 6672 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 6673 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 6674 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 6675 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 6676 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 6677 6678 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6679 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6680 page is readable. 6681 6682 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6683 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6684 page is not readable. 6685 6686 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 6687 them quite hard to use for exploits but 6688 might break your system. 6689 6690 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 6691 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 6692 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 6693 6694 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 6695 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 6696 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 6697 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 6698 6699 vt.default_blu= [VT] 6700 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 6701 Change the default blue palette of the console. 6702 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6703 ranging from 0-255. 6704 6705 vt.default_grn= [VT] 6706 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 6707 Change the default green palette of the console. 6708 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6709 ranging from 0-255. 6710 6711 vt.default_red= [VT] 6712 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 6713 Change the default red palette of the console. 6714 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6715 ranging from 0-255. 6716 6717 vt.default_utf8= 6718 [VT] 6719 Format=<0|1> 6720 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 6721 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 6722 newly opened terminals. 6723 6724 vt.global_cursor_default= 6725 [VT] 6726 Format=<-1|0|1> 6727 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 6728 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 6729 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 6730 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 6731 cursors, 1 will display them. 6732 6733 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 6734 Default: 2 = green. 6735 6736 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 6737 Default: 3 = cyan. 6738 6739 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 6740 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 6741 or other driver-specific files in the 6742 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 6743 6744 watchdog_thresh= 6745 [KNL] 6746 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 6747 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 6748 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 6749 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 6750 seconds. 6751 6752 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 6753 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 6754 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 6755 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 6756 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 6757 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 6758 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 6759 corresponding sysfs file. 6760 6761 workqueue.disable_numa 6762 By default, all work items queued to unbound 6763 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 6764 issued on, which results in better behavior in 6765 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 6766 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 6767 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 6768 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 6769 6770 workqueue.power_efficient 6771 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 6772 they show better performance thanks to cache 6773 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 6774 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 6775 6776 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 6777 were observed to contribute significantly to power 6778 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 6779 power usage at the cost of small performance 6780 overhead. 6781 6782 The default value of this parameter is determined by 6783 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 6784 6785 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 6786 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 6787 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 6788 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 6789 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 6790 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 6791 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 6792 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 6793 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 6794 impacted. 6795 6796 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 6797 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 6798 supporting x2apic. 6799 6800 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 6801 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 6802 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 6803 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 6804 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 6805 domains. 6806 6807 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 6808 Unplug Xen emulated devices 6809 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 6810 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 6811 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 6812 nics -- unplug network devices 6813 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 6814 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 6815 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 6816 the unplug protocol 6817 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 6818 6819 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 6820 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 6821 panic() code such as dumping handler. 6822 6823 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 6824 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 6825 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 6826 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6827 6828 xen_nopv [X86] 6829 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 6830 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 6831 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 6832 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6833 6834 xen_no_vector_callback 6835 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 6836 event channel interrupts. 6837 6838 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 6839 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 6840 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 6841 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 6842 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 6843 6844 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 6845 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 6846 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 6847 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 6848 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 6849 more timer interrupts. 6850 6851 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 6852 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 6853 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 6854 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 6855 started with less memory configured than allowed at 6856 max. Default is 180. 6857 6858 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 6859 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 6860 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 6861 6862 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 6863 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 6864 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 6865 6866 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 6867 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 6868 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 6869 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 6870 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 6871 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 6872 6873 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 6874 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 6875 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 6876 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 6877 6878 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 6879 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 6880 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 6881 contention. 6882 6883 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 6884 Format: 6885 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 6886 6887 xive= [PPC] 6888 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 6889 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 6890 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 6891 6892 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 6893 controller on both pseries and powernv 6894 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 6895 6896 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 6897 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 6898 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 6899 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 6900 loads instead, as on POWER9. 6901 6902 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 6903 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 6904 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 6905 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 6906 6907 xmon [PPC] 6908 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 6909 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 6910 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 6911 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 6912 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 6913 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6914 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 6915 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 6916 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 6917 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6918 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 6919 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 6920 can be written using xmon commands. 6921 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 6922 memory, and other data can't be written using 6923 xmon commands. 6924 off xmon is disabled. 6925