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 Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled. 1739 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1740 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1741 Format: { on | off (default) } 1742 1743 on: enable HVO 1744 off: disable HVO 1745 1746 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1747 the default is on. 1748 1749 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added 1750 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is 1751 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this 1752 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from 1753 the added memory block itself do not be affected. 1754 1755 hung_task_panic= 1756 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1757 Format: 0 | 1 1758 1759 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1760 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1761 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1762 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1763 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1764 1765 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1766 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1767 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1768 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1769 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1770 1771 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1772 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1773 guest on lock contention. 1774 1775 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1776 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1777 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1778 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1779 the real console. 1780 1781 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1782 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1783 registered from board initialization code. 1784 Format: 1785 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1786 1787 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1788 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1789 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1790 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1791 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1792 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1793 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1794 keyboard and cannot control its state 1795 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1796 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1797 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1798 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1799 for the AUX port 1800 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1801 controller 1802 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1803 controllers 1804 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1805 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1806 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1807 transitions, or never reset 1808 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1809 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1810 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1811 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1812 architectures force reset to be always executed 1813 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1814 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1815 i8042.probe_defer 1816 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1817 1818 i810= [HW,DRM] 1819 1820 i915.invert_brightness= 1821 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1822 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1823 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1824 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1825 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1826 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1827 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1828 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1829 value switches the backlight off. 1830 -1 -- never invert brightness 1831 0 -- machine default 1832 1 -- force brightness inversion 1833 1834 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1835 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1836 1837 1838 idle= [X86] 1839 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1840 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1841 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1842 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1843 Not recommended. 1844 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1845 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1846 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1847 1848 idxd.sva= [HW] 1849 Format: <bool> 1850 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1851 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1852 true (1). 1853 1854 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 1855 Format: <bool> 1856 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 1857 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 1858 1859 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1860 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1861 Default: strict 1862 1863 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1864 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1865 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1866 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1867 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1868 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1869 encoding mode. 1870 1871 Available settings are as follows: 1872 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1873 supported by the FPU 1874 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1875 by the FPU 1876 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1877 by the FPU 1878 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1879 supported by the FPU 1880 1881 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1882 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1883 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1884 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1885 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1886 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1887 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1888 MIPS64 CPUs. 1889 1890 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1891 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1892 except where unsupported by hardware. 1893 1894 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1895 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1896 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1897 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1898 could change it dynamically, usually by 1899 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1900 1901 ignore_rlimit_data 1902 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1903 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1904 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1905 1906 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1907 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1908 1909 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1910 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1911 default: "enforce" 1912 1913 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1914 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1915 owned by uid=0. 1916 1917 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1918 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1919 measurements, instead of host native format. 1920 1921 ima_hash= [IMA] 1922 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1923 | sha512 | ... } 1924 default: "sha1" 1925 1926 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1927 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1928 1929 ima_policy= [IMA] 1930 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1931 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1932 fail_securely | critical_data" 1933 1934 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1935 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1936 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1937 uid=0. 1938 1939 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1940 all files owned by root. 1941 1942 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1943 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1944 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1945 1946 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1947 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1948 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1949 flag. 1950 1951 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 1952 critical data. 1953 1954 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1955 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1956 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1957 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1958 opened for read by uid=0. 1959 1960 ima_template= [IMA] 1961 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1962 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 1963 "ima-sigv2" } 1964 Default: "ima-ng" 1965 1966 ima_template_fmt= 1967 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1968 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1969 1970 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1971 Format: <min_file_size> 1972 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1973 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1974 1975 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1976 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1977 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1978 1979 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1980 Format: <bufsize> 1981 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1982 1983 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1984 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1985 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1986 1987 init= [KNL] 1988 Format: <full_path> 1989 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1990 process. 1991 1992 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1993 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1994 startup. 1995 1996 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1997 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1998 modules and initcalls. 1999 2000 initramfs_async= [KNL] 2001 Format: <bool> 2002 Default: 1 2003 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 2004 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 2005 with devices being probed and 2006 initialized. This should normally just work, 2007 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 2008 historical behaviour of the initramfs 2009 unpacking being completed before device_ and 2010 late_ initcalls. 2011 2012 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 2013 2014 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 2015 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 2016 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 2017 setting. 2018 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 2019 Default is 0, 0 2020 2021 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 2022 zeroes. 2023 Format: 0 | 1 2024 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 2025 2026 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2027 Format: 0 | 1 2028 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2029 2030 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2031 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2032 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2033 override in debugfs after boot. 2034 2035 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2036 Format: <irq> 2037 2038 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2039 2040 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2041 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2042 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2043 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2044 2045 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2046 on 2047 Enable intel iommu driver. 2048 off 2049 Disable intel iommu driver. 2050 igfx_off [Default Off] 2051 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2052 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2053 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2054 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2055 DMA. 2056 strict [Default Off] 2057 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2058 sp_off [Default Off] 2059 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2060 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2061 not be supported. 2062 sm_on 2063 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2064 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2065 translation. 2066 sm_off 2067 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2068 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2069 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2070 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2071 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2072 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2073 mapping is enabled. 2074 Note that using this option lowers the security 2075 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2076 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2077 2078 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2079 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2080 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2081 2082 intel_pstate= [X86] 2083 disable 2084 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2085 scaling driver for the supported processors 2086 passive 2087 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2088 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2089 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2090 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2091 feature. 2092 force 2093 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2094 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2095 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2096 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2097 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2098 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2099 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2100 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2101 no_hwp 2102 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2103 if available. 2104 hwp_only 2105 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2106 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2107 support_acpi_ppc 2108 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2109 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2110 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2111 then this feature is turned on by default. 2112 per_cpu_perf_limits 2113 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2114 cpufreq sysfs interface 2115 2116 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 2117 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2118 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2119 nosid disable Source ID checking 2120 no_x2apic_optout 2121 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2122 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2123 2124 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2125 strict regions from userspace. 2126 relaxed 2127 2128 iommu= [X86] 2129 off 2130 force 2131 noforce 2132 biomerge 2133 panic 2134 nopanic 2135 merge 2136 nomerge 2137 soft 2138 pt [X86] 2139 nopt [X86] 2140 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2141 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2142 2143 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2144 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2145 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2146 falling back to the full range if needed. 2147 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2148 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2149 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2150 2151 iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2152 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2153 0 - Lazy mode. 2154 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2155 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2156 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2157 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2158 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2159 1 - Strict mode. 2160 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2161 synchronously. 2162 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2163 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2164 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2165 2166 iommu.passthrough= 2167 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2168 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2169 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2170 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2171 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2172 2173 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2174 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2175 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2176 2177 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 2178 0x80 2179 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2180 0xed 2181 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2182 udelay 2183 Simple two microseconds delay 2184 none 2185 No delay 2186 2187 ip= [IP_PNP] 2188 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2189 2190 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2191 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2192 2193 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2194 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2195 2196 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2197 [ARM, ARM64] 2198 Format: <bool> 2199 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2200 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2201 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2202 2203 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2204 [ARM, ARM64] 2205 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2206 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2207 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2208 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2209 LPIs. 2210 2211 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2212 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2213 requires the kernel to be built with 2214 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2215 2216 irqfixup [HW] 2217 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2218 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2219 firmware running. 2220 2221 irqpoll [HW] 2222 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2223 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2224 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2225 firmware running. 2226 2227 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2228 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2229 2230 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2231 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2232 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2233 2234 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2235 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2236 2237 nohz 2238 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2239 2240 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2241 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2242 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2243 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2244 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2245 2246 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2247 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2248 be configured manually after bootup. 2249 2250 domain 2251 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2252 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2253 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2254 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2255 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2256 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2257 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2258 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2259 2260 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2261 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2262 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2263 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2264 2265 managed_irq 2266 2267 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2268 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2269 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2270 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2271 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2272 2273 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2274 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2275 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2276 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2277 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2278 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2279 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2280 2281 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2282 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2283 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2284 only delivered when tasks running on those 2285 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2286 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2287 queues. 2288 2289 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2290 2291 iucv= [HW,NET] 2292 2293 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2294 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2295 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2296 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2297 For example: 2298 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2299 write the parameter as: 2300 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2301 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2302 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2303 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2304 2305 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2306 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2307 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2308 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2309 For example: 2310 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2311 write the parameter as: 2312 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2313 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2314 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2315 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2316 2317 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2318 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2319 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2320 2321 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2322 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2323 write the parameter as: 2324 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2325 2326 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2327 For example, PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 2328 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2329 2330 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2331 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2332 2333 nokaslr [KNL] 2334 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 2335 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 2336 Layout Randomization). 2337 2338 kasan_multi_shot 2339 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2340 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2341 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2342 invalid access. 2343 2344 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2345 2346 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2347 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2348 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2349 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2350 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2351 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2352 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2353 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2354 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2355 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2356 2357 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2358 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2359 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2360 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2361 zone if it does not. 2362 2363 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2364 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2365 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2366 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2367 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2368 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2369 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2370 2371 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2372 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2373 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2374 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2375 optional and is the number seconds in between 2376 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2377 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2378 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2379 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2380 the kernel debugger. 2381 2382 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2383 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2384 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2385 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2386 keyboard only format: kbd 2387 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2388 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2389 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2390 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2391 2392 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2393 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2394 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2395 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2396 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2397 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2398 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2399 2400 The name of the early console should be specified 2401 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2402 the early console might be different than the tty 2403 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2404 blank and the first boot console that implements 2405 read() will be picked. 2406 2407 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2408 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2409 2410 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2411 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2412 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2413 2414 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2415 Valid arguments: on, off 2416 Default: on 2417 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2418 the default is off. 2419 2420 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2421 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2422 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2423 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2424 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2425 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2426 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2427 2428 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2429 2430 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2431 Boot Parameter" section. 2432 2433 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2434 and kernel address spaces. 2435 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2436 0: force disabled 2437 1: force enabled 2438 2439 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2440 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2441 2442 kvm.eager_page_split= 2443 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2444 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2445 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2446 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2447 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2448 required to split huge pages lazily. 2449 2450 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2451 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2452 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2453 still be used for reads. 2454 2455 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2456 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2457 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2458 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2459 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2460 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2461 cleared. 2462 2463 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y. 2464 2465 Default is Y (on). 2466 2467 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2468 Default is false (don't support). 2469 2470 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2471 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2472 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2473 force : Always deploy workaround. 2474 off : Never deploy workaround. 2475 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2476 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2477 2478 Default is 'auto'. 2479 2480 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2481 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2482 2483 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2484 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2485 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2486 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2487 period (see below). The default is 60. 2488 2489 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2490 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2491 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2492 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2493 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2494 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2495 2496 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2497 Default is 1 (enabled) 2498 2499 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2500 for all guests. 2501 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2502 2503 kvm-arm.mode= 2504 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2505 2506 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2507 2508 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2509 protected guests. 2510 2511 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2512 state is kept private from the host. 2513 2514 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2515 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2516 for the host. 2517 2518 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2519 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2520 system registers 2521 2522 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2523 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2524 system registers 2525 2526 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2527 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2528 system registers 2529 2530 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2531 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2532 LPIs. 2533 2534 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2535 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2536 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2537 allocation. 2538 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2539 Format: <integer> 2540 Default: 5 2541 2542 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2543 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2544 Default is 1 (enabled) 2545 2546 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2547 [KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state. 2548 Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as 2549 guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests. 2550 This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM 2551 never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2552 Default is 1 (enabled) 2553 2554 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2555 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2556 Default is 1 (enabled) 2557 2558 kvm-intel.nested= 2559 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2560 Default is 0 (disabled) 2561 2562 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2563 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2564 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2565 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2566 2567 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2568 CVE-2018-3620. 2569 2570 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2571 2572 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2573 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2574 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2575 never: Disables the mitigation 2576 2577 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2578 2579 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2580 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2581 Default is 1 (enabled) 2582 2583 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL] 2584 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2585 2586 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2587 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2588 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2589 2590 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2591 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2592 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2593 not have direct access. 2594 2595 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2596 options are: 2597 2598 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2599 2600 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2601 affected CPUs 2602 2603 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2604 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2605 2606 full 2607 Provides all available mitigations for the 2608 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2609 enables all mitigations in the 2610 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2611 2612 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2613 sysfs interface is still possible after 2614 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2615 when the first VM is started in a 2616 potentially insecure configuration, 2617 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2618 2619 full,force 2620 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2621 flush runtime control. Implies the 2622 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2623 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2624 2625 flush 2626 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2627 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2628 L1D flush. 2629 2630 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2631 sysfs interface is still possible after 2632 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2633 when the first VM is started in a 2634 potentially insecure configuration, 2635 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2636 2637 flush,nosmt 2638 2639 Disables SMT and enables the default 2640 hypervisor mitigation. 2641 2642 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2643 sysfs interface is still possible after 2644 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2645 when the first VM is started in a 2646 potentially insecure configuration, 2647 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2648 2649 flush,nowarn 2650 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2651 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2652 insecure configuration. 2653 2654 off 2655 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2656 emit any warnings. 2657 It also drops the swap size and available 2658 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2659 bare metal. 2660 2661 Default is 'flush'. 2662 2663 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2664 2665 l2cr= [PPC] 2666 2667 l3cr= [PPC] 2668 2669 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2670 disabled it. 2671 2672 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2673 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2674 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2675 Format: notscdeadline 2676 2677 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2678 in C2 power state. 2679 2680 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2681 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2682 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2683 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2684 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2685 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2686 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2687 2688 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2689 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2690 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2691 2692 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2693 when set. 2694 Format: <int> 2695 2696 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 2697 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 2698 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 2699 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 2700 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 2701 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 2702 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 2703 to all ports, links and devices. 2704 2705 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2706 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2707 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2708 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2709 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2710 host link and device attached to it. 2711 2712 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2713 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 2714 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2715 The following configurations can be forced. 2716 2717 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2718 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2719 2720 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2721 2722 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2723 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2724 allowed. 2725 2726 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 2727 resets. 2728 2729 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 2730 link recovery. 2731 2732 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 2733 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 2734 detection. 2735 2736 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2737 2738 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 2739 2740 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 2741 2742 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 2743 2744 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 2745 2746 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 2747 2748 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 2749 2750 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 2751 2752 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 2753 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 2754 2755 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 2756 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 2757 2758 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 2759 identify device data log. 2760 2761 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 2762 purpose log directory. 2763 2764 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 2765 2766 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2767 1024 sectors. 2768 2769 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2770 65535 sectors. 2771 2772 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 2773 2774 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 2775 should be skipped. 2776 2777 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 2778 2779 * disable: Disable this device. 2780 2781 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2782 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2783 2784 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2785 2786 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2787 Format: <integer> 2788 2789 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2790 Format: <integer> 2791 2792 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2793 Format: <integer> 2794 2795 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2796 Format: <integer> 2797 2798 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2799 { integrity | confidentiality } 2800 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2801 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2802 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2803 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2804 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2805 are also disabled. 2806 2807 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2808 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2809 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2810 number of online CPUs. 2811 2812 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2813 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2814 2815 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2816 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2817 2818 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2819 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2820 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2821 2822 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2823 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2824 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2825 mode during the locktorture test. 2826 2827 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2828 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2829 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2830 2831 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2832 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2833 2834 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2835 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2836 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2837 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2838 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2839 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2840 2841 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2842 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2843 2844 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2845 Enable additional printk() statements. 2846 2847 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2848 Format: <irq> 2849 2850 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2851 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2852 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2853 loglevels are defined as follows: 2854 2855 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2856 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2857 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2858 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2859 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2860 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2861 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2862 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2863 2864 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2865 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2866 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2867 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2868 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2869 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2870 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2871 2872 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2873 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2874 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2875 kernel boot problems. 2876 2877 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2878 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2879 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2880 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2881 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2882 attached printers to be reset. Using 2883 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2884 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2885 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2886 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2887 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2888 port specification list means that device IDs 2889 from each port should be examined, to see if 2890 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2891 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2892 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2893 2894 lpj=n [KNL] 2895 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2896 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2897 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2898 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2899 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2900 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2901 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2902 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2903 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2904 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2905 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2906 hardware. 2907 2908 ltpc= [NET] 2909 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2910 2911 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2912 2913 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2914 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2915 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2916 2917 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2918 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2919 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2920 2921 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 2922 different yeeloong laptops. 2923 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2924 2925 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater 2926 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2927 2928 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2929 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2930 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2931 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2932 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2933 only takes effect during system bootup. 2934 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2935 which also disables the IO APIC. 2936 2937 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2938 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2939 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2940 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2941 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2942 /dev/loop-control interface. 2943 2944 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2945 2946 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2947 2948 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2949 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2950 2951 mdacon= [MDA] 2952 Format: <first>,<last> 2953 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2954 2955 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2956 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2957 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2958 2959 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2960 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2961 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2962 2963 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2964 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2965 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2966 not have direct access. 2967 2968 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2969 options are: 2970 2971 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2972 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2973 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2974 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2975 2976 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 2977 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 2978 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 2979 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 2980 too. 2981 2982 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 2983 mds=full. 2984 2985 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 2986 2987 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON] Set the memory size. 2988 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 2989 2990 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2991 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 2992 2993 1 for test; 2994 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 2995 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 2996 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 2997 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 2998 2999 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 3000 high memory is not affected. 3001 3002 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 3003 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 3004 3005 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 3006 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 3007 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 3008 belonging to unused RAM. 3009 3010 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 3011 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 3012 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 3013 3014 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3015 [ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by 3016 firmware. 3017 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 3018 ss[KMG]. 3019 Multiple different regions can be specified with 3020 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 3021 3022 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 3023 memory. 3024 3025 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 3026 3027 memchunk=nn[KMG] 3028 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 3029 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 3030 3031 memhp_default_state=online/offline 3032 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 3033 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 3034 set according to the 3035 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 3036 option. 3037 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 3038 3039 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 3040 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3041 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3042 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3043 option description. 3044 3045 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3046 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3047 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3048 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3049 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3050 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3051 comma delimited. 3052 Example: 3053 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3054 3055 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3056 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3057 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3058 3059 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3060 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3061 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3062 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3063 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3064 or 3065 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3066 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3067 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3068 will be eaten. 3069 3070 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 3071 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3072 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3073 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3074 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3075 3076 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3077 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 3078 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3079 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3080 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3081 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3082 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3083 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3084 3085 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 3086 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3087 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3088 Setting this option will scan the memory 3089 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3090 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3091 from using the memory being corrupted. 3092 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3093 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3094 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3095 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3096 3097 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 3098 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3099 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3100 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3101 corruption in more or less memory. 3102 3103 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 3104 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3105 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3106 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3107 3108 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3109 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3110 Format: {on | off (default)} 3111 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3112 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages, 3113 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even 3114 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the 3115 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a 3116 lot of memory without requiring additional 3117 memory to do so. 3118 This feature is disabled by default because it 3119 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3120 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3121 memory blocks). 3122 The state of the flag can be read in 3123 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3124 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3125 the feature is not effective. 3126 3127 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest 3128 Format: <integer> 3129 default : 0 <disable> 3130 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3131 performed. Each pass selects another test 3132 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3133 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3134 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3135 regions that are detected. 3136 3137 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3138 Valid arguments: on, off 3139 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 3140 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 3141 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 3142 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3143 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3144 3145 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3146 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3147 3148 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3149 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3150 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3151 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3152 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3153 3154 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 3155 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst. 3156 3157 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 3158 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 3159 platforms. 3160 3161 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3162 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3163 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3164 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3165 3166 mga= [HW,DRM] 3167 3168 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this 3169 physical address is ignored. 3170 3171 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3172 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3173 Default: "0tb" 3174 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3175 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3176 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3177 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3178 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3179 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3180 unconfigured. 3181 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3182 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3183 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3184 VGA shield. 3185 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3186 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3187 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3188 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3189 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3190 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3191 3192 mitigations= 3193 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 3194 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3195 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3196 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3197 3198 off 3199 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3200 improves system performance, but it may also 3201 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3202 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 3203 if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] 3204 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3205 nobp=0 [S390] 3206 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3207 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3208 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3209 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3210 l1tf=off [X86] 3211 mds=off [X86] 3212 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3213 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3214 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3215 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3216 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3217 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 3218 retbleed=off [X86] 3219 3220 Exceptions: 3221 This does not have any effect on 3222 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3223 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3224 3225 auto (default) 3226 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3227 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3228 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3229 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3230 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3231 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3232 3233 auto,nosmt 3234 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3235 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3236 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3237 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3238 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3239 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3240 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 3241 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] 3242 3243 mminit_loglevel= 3244 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3245 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3246 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3247 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3248 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3249 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3250 3251 mmio_stale_data= 3252 [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor 3253 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3254 3255 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3256 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3257 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3258 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3259 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3260 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3261 3262 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3263 options are: 3264 3265 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3266 3267 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3268 vulnerable CPUs. 3269 3270 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3271 3272 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3273 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3274 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3275 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3276 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3277 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3278 3279 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3280 mmio_stale_data=full. 3281 3282 For details see: 3283 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3284 3285 module.async_probe=<bool> 3286 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing 3287 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a 3288 specific module, use the module specific control that 3289 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both 3290 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are 3291 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for 3292 the specific module. 3293 3294 module.sig_enforce 3295 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3296 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3297 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3298 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3299 3300 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3301 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3302 3303 mousedev.tap_time= 3304 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3305 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3306 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3307 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3308 Format: <msecs> 3309 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3310 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3311 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3312 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3313 3314 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 3315 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3316 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3317 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3318 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3319 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3320 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3321 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3322 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3323 is not too small. 3324 3325 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3326 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3327 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3328 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3329 allocations. Use with caution! 3330 3331 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3332 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3333 3334 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3335 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3336 3337 mtdparts= [MTD] 3338 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3339 3340 mtdset= [ARM] 3341 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 3342 3343 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 3344 3345 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3346 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3347 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3348 3349 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3350 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3351 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3352 3353 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3354 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3355 Default is 1. 3356 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3357 using up MTRRs. 3358 3359 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 3360 Format: <integer> 3361 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3362 Default : 1 3363 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3364 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3365 3366 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3367 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3368 at a time. 3369 3370 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3371 3372 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3373 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3374 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3375 something different and driver-specific. 3376 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3377 file if at all. 3378 3379 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3380 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3381 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3382 waits 4 seconds. 3383 3384 nf_conntrack.acct= 3385 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3386 0 to disable accounting 3387 1 to enable accounting 3388 Default value is 0. 3389 3390 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3391 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3392 3393 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3394 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3395 3396 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3397 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3398 3399 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3400 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3401 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3402 requests. 3403 3404 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3405 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3406 channel should listen. 3407 3408 nfs.cache_getent= 3409 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3410 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3411 3412 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3413 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3414 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3415 3416 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3417 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3418 entries. 3419 3420 nfs.enable_ino64= 3421 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3422 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3423 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3424 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3425 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3426 3427 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3428 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3429 slots the client will assign to the callback 3430 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3431 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3432 a particular server. 3433 3434 nfs.max_session_slots= 3435 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3436 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3437 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3438 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3439 Note that there is little point in setting this 3440 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3441 3442 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3443 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3444 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3445 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3446 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3447 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3448 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3449 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3450 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3451 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3452 back to using the idmapper. 3453 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3454 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3455 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3456 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3457 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3458 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3459 3460 nfs.send_implementation_id = 3461 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3462 information in exchange_id requests. 3463 If zero, no implementation identification information 3464 will be sent. 3465 The default is to send the implementation identification 3466 information. 3467 3468 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 3469 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3470 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3471 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3472 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3473 after the locks are lost. 3474 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3475 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3476 parameter to '1'. 3477 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3478 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3479 3480 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 3481 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3482 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3483 3484 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3485 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3486 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3487 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3488 3489 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable = 3490 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3491 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3492 the destination of the copy. 3493 3494 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout = 3495 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3496 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3497 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3498 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3499 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3500 this parameter. 3501 3502 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3503 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3504 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3505 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3506 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3507 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3508 3509 3510 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3511 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3512 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3513 3514 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3515 when a NMI is triggered. 3516 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3517 3518 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3519 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3520 Valid num: 0 or 1 3521 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3522 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3523 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3524 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3525 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3526 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3527 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3528 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3529 need the box quickly up again. 3530 3531 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3532 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3533 3534 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3535 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3536 is present. 3537 3538 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3539 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3540 3541 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3542 3543 no_console_suspend 3544 [HW] Never suspend the console 3545 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3546 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3547 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3548 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3549 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3550 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3551 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3552 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3553 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3554 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3555 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3556 turn on/off it dynamically. 3557 3558 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3559 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3560 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3561 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3562 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3563 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3564 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3565 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3566 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3567 is set. 3568 3569 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3570 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3571 but will impact performance. 3572 3573 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3574 3575 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3576 (CPU alternatives feature). 3577 3578 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3579 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3580 3581 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3582 3583 nocache [ARM] 3584 3585 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3586 3587 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3588 3589 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3590 3591 noexec [IA-64] 3592 3593 nosmap [PPC] 3594 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3595 even if it is supported by processor. 3596 3597 nosmep [PPC64s] 3598 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3599 even if it is supported by processor. 3600 3601 noexec32 [X86-64] 3602 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3603 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3604 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3605 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3606 read implies executable mappings 3607 3608 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3609 3610 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3611 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3612 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3613 3614 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3615 3616 nohugevmalloc [PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3617 3618 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3619 Equivalent to smt=1. 3620 3621 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3622 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3623 via the sysfs control file. 3624 3625 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3626 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3627 possible in the system. 3628 3629 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3630 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3631 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3632 option. 3633 3634 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3635 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3636 3637 no_uaccess_flush 3638 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 3639 3640 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3641 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3642 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3643 3644 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3645 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3646 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3647 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3648 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3649 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3650 3651 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3652 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3653 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3654 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3655 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3656 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3657 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3658 3659 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait 3660 in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3661 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3662 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3663 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3664 correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute 3665 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3666 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3667 3668 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3669 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3670 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3671 3672 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3673 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3674 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3675 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3676 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3677 real-time systems. 3678 3679 no_hash_pointers 3680 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3681 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3682 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3683 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3684 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3685 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3686 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3687 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3688 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3689 value printed. This option should only be specified when 3690 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3691 kernels. 3692 3693 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3694 3695 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3696 Valid arguments: on, off 3697 Default: on 3698 3699 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3700 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3701 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3702 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3703 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3704 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3705 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3706 just as if they had also been called out in the 3707 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3708 3709 Note that this argument takes precedence over 3710 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 3711 3712 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3713 3714 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3715 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3716 3717 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3718 broken timer IRQ sources. 3719 3720 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3721 3722 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3723 initial RAM disk. 3724 3725 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3726 remapping. 3727 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3728 3729 nointroute [IA-64] 3730 3731 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3732 3733 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3734 3735 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3736 3737 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3738 fault handling. 3739 3740 no-vmw-sched-clock 3741 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3742 clock and use the default one. 3743 3744 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time 3745 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't 3746 influence scheduler behaviour 3747 3748 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3749 3750 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3751 3752 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3753 3754 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3755 3756 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3757 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3758 3759 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3760 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3761 irq. 3762 3763 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. DRM drivers will not perform 3764 display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. Only the 3765 system framebuffer will be available for use if this was 3766 set-up by the firmware or boot loader. 3767 3768 Useful as fallback, or for testing and debugging. 3769 3770 nomodule Disable module load 3771 3772 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3773 pagetables) support. 3774 3775 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3776 3777 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3778 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3779 3780 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3781 with UP alternatives 3782 3783 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3784 space. 3785 3786 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3787 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3788 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3789 3790 nosbagart [IA-64] 3791 3792 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 3793 3794 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3795 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3796 3797 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3798 3799 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3800 3801 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3802 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3803 3804 nowb [ARM] 3805 3806 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3807 3808 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3809 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3810 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3811 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3812 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3813 parameter's value. 3814 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3815 Default: 255 3816 3817 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3818 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3819 SAL PALO. 3820 3821 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3822 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3823 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3824 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3825 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3826 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3827 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3828 hot plugging. 3829 3830 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3831 3832 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only 3833 set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. 3834 3835 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 3836 NUMA balancing. 3837 Allowed values are enable and disable 3838 3839 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3840 'node', 'default' can be specified 3841 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3842 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3843 3844 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3845 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 3846 info. 3847 3848 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3849 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3850 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3851 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3852 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3853 interrupts *may* be lost! 3854 3855 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3856 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3857 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3858 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3859 3860 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 3861 3862 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 3863 3864 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 3865 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 3866 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 3867 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 3868 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 3869 3870 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3871 process, but there is a small probability of 3872 deadlocking the machine. 3873 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3874 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3875 3876 page_alloc.shuffle= 3877 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3878 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3879 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3880 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3881 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3882 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3883 can be read from sysfs at: 3884 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3885 3886 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3887 Storage of the information about who allocated 3888 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3889 we can turn it on. 3890 on: enable the feature 3891 3892 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3893 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3894 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3895 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3896 on: turn on poisoning 3897 3898 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 3899 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 3900 Format: <integer> 3901 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 3902 reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1). 3903 3904 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3905 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3906 timeout = 0: wait forever 3907 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3908 Format: <timeout> 3909 3910 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3911 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3912 bit 0: print all tasks info 3913 bit 1: print system memory info 3914 bit 2: print timer info 3915 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3916 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3917 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3918 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 3919 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 3920 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 3921 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 3922 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 3923 3924 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 3925 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 3926 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 3927 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 3928 called with any of the flags in this set. 3929 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 3930 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 3931 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 3932 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 3933 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 3934 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 3935 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 3936 3937 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3938 on a WARN(). 3939 3940 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3941 connected to, default is 0. 3942 Format: <parport#> 3943 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3944 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3945 Format: <mode> 3946 3947 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3948 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3949 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3950 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3951 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3952 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3953 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3954 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3955 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3956 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3957 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3958 are specified on the command line, starting 3959 with parport0. 3960 3961 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3962 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3963 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3964 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3965 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3966 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3967 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3968 3969 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 3970 Format: <int> 3971 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 3972 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 3973 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 3974 3975 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 3976 Format: <int> 3977 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 3978 changes. Disabled by default. 3979 3980 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 3981 Format: <int> 3982 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 3983 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3984 Disabled by default. 3985 3986 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 3987 Format: <int> 3988 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 3989 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3990 Disabled by default. 3991 3992 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3993 Format: <int> 3994 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 3995 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 3996 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 3997 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 3998 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 3999 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 4000 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 4001 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 4002 all channels. 4003 4004 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 4005 Format: <int> 4006 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 4007 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4008 respectively. Disabled by default. 4009 4010 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 4011 Format: <int> 4012 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 4013 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4014 respectively. Disabled by default. 4015 4016 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4017 Format: <int> 4018 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 4019 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 4020 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 4021 All modes allowed by default. 4022 4023 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 4024 Format: <int> 4025 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4026 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4027 4028 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4029 Format: <int> 4030 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4031 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4032 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4033 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4034 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4035 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4036 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4037 By default all supported ports are probed. 4038 4039 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4040 Format: <int> 4041 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4042 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4043 4044 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4045 Format: <int> 4046 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4047 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4048 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4049 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4050 0 otherwise. 4051 4052 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4053 Format: <int> 4054 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4055 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4056 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4057 allowed by default. 4058 4059 pause_on_oops= 4060 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4061 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4062 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4063 4064 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4065 4066 pcd. [PARIDE] 4067 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 4068 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4069 4070 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 4071 4072 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4073 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4074 specified in one of the following formats: 4075 4076 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4077 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4078 4079 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4080 bus/device/function address which may change 4081 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4082 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4083 by other kernel parameters. If the 4084 domain is left unspecified, it is 4085 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4086 to a device through multiple device/function 4087 addresses can be specified after the base 4088 address (this is more robust against 4089 renumbering issues). The second format 4090 selects devices using IDs from the 4091 configuration space which may match multiple 4092 devices in the system. 4093 4094 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4095 changes anything 4096 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4097 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4098 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4099 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4100 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4101 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4102 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4103 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4104 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4105 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4106 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4107 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4108 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4109 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4110 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4111 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4112 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4113 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4114 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4115 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4116 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4117 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4118 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4119 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4120 Configuration 4121 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4122 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4123 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4124 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4125 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4126 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4127 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4128 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4129 should never be necessary. 4130 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4131 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4132 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4133 when the system masks IRQs. 4134 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4135 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4136 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4137 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4138 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4139 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4140 on several machines and they hang the machine 4141 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4142 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4143 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4144 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4145 motherboard. 4146 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4147 Use with caution as certain devices share 4148 address decoders between ROMs and other 4149 resources. 4150 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4151 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4152 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4153 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4154 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4155 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4156 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4157 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4158 this way. 4159 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4160 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4161 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4162 F0000h-100000h range. 4163 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4164 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4165 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4166 explicitly which ones they are. 4167 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4168 numbers ourselves, overriding 4169 whatever the firmware may have done. 4170 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4171 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4172 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4173 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4174 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4175 IRQ routing is enabled. 4176 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4177 or for PCI scanning. 4178 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4179 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4180 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4181 please report a bug. 4182 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4183 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4184 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4185 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4186 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4187 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4188 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4189 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4190 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4191 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4192 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4193 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4194 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4195 so this option is a temporary workaround 4196 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4197 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4198 handle more pci cards 4199 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4200 This might help on some broken boards which 4201 machine check when some devices' config space 4202 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4203 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4204 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4205 This sorting is done to get a device 4206 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4207 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4208 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4209 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4210 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4211 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4212 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4213 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4214 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4215 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4216 or bus can support) for best performance. 4217 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4218 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4219 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4220 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4221 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4222 that hot-added devices will work. 4223 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4224 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4225 The default value is 256 bytes. 4226 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4227 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4228 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4229 resource_alignment= 4230 Format: 4231 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4232 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4233 aligned memory resources. How to 4234 specify the device is described above. 4235 If <order of align> is not specified, 4236 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4237 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4238 windows need to be expanded. 4239 To specify the alignment for several 4240 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4241 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4242 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4243 for 4096-byte alignment. 4244 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4245 end-to-end CRC checking). 4246 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4247 the default. 4248 off: Turn ECRC off 4249 on: Turn ECRC on. 4250 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4251 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4252 Default size is 256 bytes. 4253 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4254 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4255 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4256 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4257 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4258 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4259 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4260 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4261 MMIO_PREF window. 4262 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4263 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4264 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4265 Default is 1. 4266 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4267 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4268 accommodate resources required by all child 4269 devices. 4270 off: Turn realloc off 4271 on: Turn realloc on 4272 realloc same as realloc=on 4273 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4274 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4275 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4276 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4277 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4278 port. 4279 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4280 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4281 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4282 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4283 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4284 taints the kernel. 4285 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4286 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4287 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4288 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4289 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4290 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4291 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4292 this removes isolation between devices and 4293 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4294 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4295 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4296 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4297 one PCI domain per PCI function 4298 4299 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 4300 Management. 4301 off Disable ASPM. 4302 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4303 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4304 4305 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4306 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4307 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4308 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4309 also tries to use these services. 4310 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4311 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4312 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4313 hotplug). 4314 4315 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4316 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4317 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4318 4319 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4320 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4321 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4322 4323 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4324 4325 pd_ignore_unused 4326 [PM] 4327 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4328 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4329 for debug and development, but should not be 4330 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4331 4332 pd. [PARIDE] 4333 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4334 4335 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4336 boot time. 4337 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4338 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4339 4340 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4341 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4342 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4343 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4344 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4345 and performance comparison. 4346 4347 pf. [PARIDE] 4348 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4349 4350 pg. [PARIDE] 4351 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4352 4353 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4354 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4355 4356 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4357 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4358 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4359 4360 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4361 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4362 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4363 4364 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4365 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4366 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4367 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4368 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4369 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4370 remains 0. 4371 4372 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4373 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4374 4375 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4376 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4377 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4378 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4379 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4380 possible settings and some assignment information. 4381 4382 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4383 { off } 4384 4385 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4386 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4387 4388 pnp_reserve_irq= 4389 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4390 4391 pnp_reserve_dma= 4392 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4393 4394 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4395 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4396 4397 pnp_reserve_mem= 4398 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4399 autoconfiguration. 4400 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4401 4402 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4403 Default is 21. 4404 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4405 may be specified. 4406 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4407 4408 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4409 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4410 platform machine description specific power_save 4411 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4412 execution priority. 4413 4414 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4415 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4416 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4417 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4418 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4419 4420 ppc_tm= [PPC] 4421 Format: {"off"} 4422 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4423 4424 preempt= [KNL] 4425 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4426 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4427 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4428 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4429 can be preempted anytime. 4430 4431 print-fatal-signals= 4432 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4433 4434 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4435 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4436 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4437 coredump - etc. 4438 4439 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4440 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4441 4442 default: off. 4443 4444 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4445 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4446 panics 4447 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4448 default: disabled 4449 4450 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4451 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4452 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4453 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4454 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4455 in order to provide more debug information. 4456 Format: <bool> 4457 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4458 4459 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4460 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4461 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4462 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4463 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4464 Default: ratelimit 4465 4466 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4467 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4468 4469 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4470 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4471 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4472 4473 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4474 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4475 instead using the legacy FADT method 4476 4477 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4478 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4479 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4480 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4481 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4482 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4483 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4484 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4485 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4486 statistical time based profiling. 4487 4488 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4489 4490 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4491 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4492 that). 4493 Format: <bool> 4494 4495 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4496 tracking. 4497 Format: <bool> 4498 4499 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4500 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4501 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4502 per second. 4503 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4504 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4505 (0 = never). 4506 psmouse.resolution= 4507 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4508 psmouse.smartscroll= 4509 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4510 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4511 4512 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4513 4514 pt. [PARIDE] 4515 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4516 4517 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4518 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4519 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4520 system calls and interrupts. 4521 4522 on - unconditionally enable 4523 off - unconditionally disable 4524 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4525 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4526 4527 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4528 4529 nopti [X86-64] 4530 Equivalent to pti=off 4531 4532 pty.legacy_count= 4533 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4534 default number. 4535 4536 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4537 4538 r128= [HW,DRM] 4539 4540 raid= [HW,RAID] 4541 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4542 4543 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4544 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4545 4546 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4547 4548 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 4549 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 4550 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 4551 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4552 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 4553 4554 random.trust_bootloader={on,off} 4555 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of a 4556 seed passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4557 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4558 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER. 4559 4560 randomize_kstack_offset= 4561 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4562 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4563 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4564 that depend on stack address determinism or 4565 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4566 available on architectures that have defined 4567 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4568 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4569 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4570 4571 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4572 4573 cec_disable [X86] 4574 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4575 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4576 4577 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 4578 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 4579 as described above. 4580 4581 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 4582 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 4583 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 4584 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 4585 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 4586 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 4587 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 4588 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 4589 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 4590 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 4591 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 4592 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4593 4594 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 4595 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 4596 4597 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 4598 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 4599 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 4600 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 4601 4602 Note that this argument takes precedence over 4603 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 4604 4605 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4606 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4607 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4608 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4609 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4610 This improves the real-time response for the 4611 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4612 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4613 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4614 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4615 4616 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4617 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4618 process in one batch. 4619 4620 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4621 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4622 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4623 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4624 4625 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4626 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4627 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4628 4629 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4630 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4631 RCU grace-period initialization. 4632 4633 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4634 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4635 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4636 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4637 the rcu_node combining tree. 4638 4639 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 4640 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 4641 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 4642 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 4643 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 4644 4645 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 4646 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 4647 to zero. 4648 4649 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4650 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4651 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4652 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4653 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4654 4655 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4656 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4657 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4658 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4659 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4660 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4661 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4662 4663 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4664 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4665 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4666 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4667 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4668 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4669 condition. 4670 4671 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 4672 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 4673 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 4674 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 4675 4676 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4677 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4678 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4679 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4680 and maximum value is HZ. 4681 4682 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4683 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4684 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4685 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4686 4687 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4688 Set required age in jiffies for a 4689 given grace period before RCU starts 4690 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4691 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4692 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4693 a value based on the most recent settings 4694 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4695 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4696 This calculated value may be viewed in 4697 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4698 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4699 overwritten. 4700 4701 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4702 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4703 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4704 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4705 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4706 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4707 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4708 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4709 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4710 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4711 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 4712 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 4713 4714 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] 4715 Set the shift-right count to use to compute 4716 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from 4717 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. 4718 The result will be bounded below by the value of 4719 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl 4720 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in 4721 order to allow the CPU to do other work. 4722 4723 Please note that this callback-invocation batch 4724 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback 4725 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead 4726 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which 4727 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. 4728 4729 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] 4730 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, 4731 RCU reduces the lock contention that would 4732 otherwise be caused by callback floods through 4733 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the 4734 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to 4735 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra 4736 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. 4737 But if there are too many callbacks queued during 4738 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into 4739 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too 4740 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. 4741 4742 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4743 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4744 each group, which defaults to the square root 4745 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4746 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4747 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4748 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4749 4750 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4751 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4752 batch limiting is disabled. 4753 4754 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4755 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4756 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4757 4758 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4759 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4760 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4761 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4762 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4763 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4764 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4765 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4766 4767 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4768 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4769 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4770 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4771 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4772 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4773 4774 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 4775 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 4776 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 4777 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 4778 Larger delays increase the probability of 4779 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 4780 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 4781 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 4782 4783 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4784 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4785 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4786 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4787 4788 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 4789 Measure performance of asynchronous 4790 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4791 4792 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4793 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4794 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4795 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4796 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4797 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4798 4799 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 4800 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4801 grace-period primitives. 4802 4803 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4804 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4805 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4806 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4807 interference. 4808 4809 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4810 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4811 4812 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 4813 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4814 If this parameter has the same value as 4815 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 4816 and double-argument variants are tested. 4817 4818 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 4819 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4820 If this parameter has the same value as 4821 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 4822 and double-argument variants are tested. 4823 4824 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4825 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4826 4827 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4828 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4829 4830 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4831 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 4832 of allocations and frees. 4833 4834 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4835 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4836 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4837 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4838 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4839 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4840 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4841 a single reader. 4842 4843 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 4844 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4845 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 4846 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4847 4848 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL] 4849 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4850 4851 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4852 Shut the system down after performance tests 4853 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4854 testing. 4855 4856 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 4857 Enable additional printk() statements. 4858 4859 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4860 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4861 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4862 no holdoff. 4863 4864 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4865 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4866 in microseconds. 4867 4868 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4869 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4870 in microseconds. 4871 4872 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4873 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4874 in seconds. 4875 4876 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4877 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 4878 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4879 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4880 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 4881 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 4882 of CPUs to be used. 4883 4884 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4885 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4886 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4887 4888 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4889 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4890 forward-progress tests. 4891 4892 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4893 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4894 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4895 testing. 4896 4897 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4898 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4899 primitives, if available. 4900 4901 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4902 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4903 4904 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4905 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4906 update-side primitives, if available. 4907 4908 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4909 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4910 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4911 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4912 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4913 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4914 they are all non-zero. 4915 4916 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 4917 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 4918 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 4919 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 4920 4921 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 4922 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 4923 This can of course result in splats, and is 4924 intended to test the ability of things like 4925 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 4926 such leaks. 4927 4928 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 4929 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 4930 4931 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 4932 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 4933 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 4934 test, hence the "fake". 4935 4936 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 4937 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 4938 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 4939 4940 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 4941 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 4942 callback-offload toggling attempts. 4943 4944 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 4945 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4946 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4947 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 4948 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4949 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4950 4951 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 4952 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 4953 4954 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4955 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 4956 4957 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4958 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 4959 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 4960 4961 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 4962 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 4963 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 4964 task-exit processing. 4965 4966 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 4967 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 4968 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 4969 is spawned. 4970 4971 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 4972 The delay, in seconds, between successive 4973 read-then-exit testing episodes. 4974 4975 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 4976 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 4977 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 4978 during the rcutorture test. 4979 4980 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4981 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 4982 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 4983 4984 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 4985 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 4986 warnings, zero to disable. 4987 4988 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 4989 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 4990 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition 4991 to any other stall-related activity. 4992 4993 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 4994 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 4995 4996 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 4997 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 4998 4999 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 5000 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 5001 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 5002 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 5003 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 5004 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 5005 5006 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5007 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 5008 5009 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 5010 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 5011 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 5012 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 5013 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 5014 5015 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 5016 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 5017 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 5018 under test support RCU priority boosting. 5019 5020 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 5021 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 5022 5023 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 5024 Interval (s) between each boost test. 5025 5026 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 5027 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 5028 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 5029 5030 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 5031 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5032 5033 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 5034 Enable additional printk() statements. 5035 5036 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 5037 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 5038 stall warning. 5039 5040 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 5041 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5042 5043 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 5044 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 5045 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 5046 during early boot, that is, during the time 5047 before the init task is spawned. 5048 5049 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5050 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5051 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 5052 value is 300 seconds. 5053 5054 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5055 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 5056 messages. The value is in milliseconds 5057 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 5058 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 5059 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 5060 Setting this to zero causes the value from 5061 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 5062 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 5063 5064 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 5065 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 5066 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 5067 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 5068 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 5069 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 5070 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5071 5072 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 5073 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 5074 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 5075 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 5076 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 5077 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 5078 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 5079 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 5080 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5081 5082 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 5083 Once boot has completed (that is, after 5084 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 5085 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 5086 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5087 5088 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 5089 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 5090 it to the value one, that is, converting any 5091 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 5092 period to instead use normal non-expedited 5093 grace-period processing. 5094 5095 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 5096 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 5097 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 5098 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 5099 a single callback queue. This switching only 5100 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 5101 set to the default value of -1. 5102 5103 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 5104 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 5105 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 5106 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 5107 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 5108 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 5109 the default value of -1. 5110 5111 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 5112 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 5113 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 5114 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 5115 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 5116 for use in testing. 5117 5118 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 5119 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 5120 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 5121 of a given grace period. Setting a large 5122 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 5123 but lengthens grace periods. 5124 5125 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 5126 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5127 informational messages, which give some indication 5128 of the problem for those not patient enough to 5129 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 5130 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 5131 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 5132 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 5133 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 5134 until the beginning of the next grace period. 5135 5136 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 5137 Multiplier for time interval between successive 5138 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 5139 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 5140 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 5141 the value three, so that the first informational 5142 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 5143 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 5144 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 5145 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 5146 5147 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5148 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5149 warning messages. Disable with a value less 5150 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 5151 A change in value does not take effect until 5152 the beginning of the next grace period. 5153 5154 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 5155 Run the RCU early boot self tests 5156 5157 rdinit= [KNL] 5158 Format: <full_path> 5159 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 5160 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 5161 5162 rdrand= [X86] 5163 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 5164 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 5165 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 5166 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 5167 path). 5168 5169 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 5170 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 5171 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 5172 mba. 5173 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 5174 rdt=cmt,!mba 5175 5176 reboot= [KNL] 5177 Format (x86 or x86_64): 5178 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 5179 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 5180 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 5181 [[,]f[orce] 5182 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 5183 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 5184 reboot only), 5185 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 5186 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 5187 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 5188 to be used for rebooting. 5189 5190 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5191 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5192 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5193 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5194 interference. 5195 5196 refscale.loops= [KNL] 5197 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 5198 primitive under test. Increasing this number 5199 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 5200 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 5201 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 5202 x86 laptops. 5203 5204 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5205 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 5206 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 5207 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 5208 5209 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 5210 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 5211 the console log. 5212 5213 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 5214 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 5215 measured in microseconds. 5216 5217 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5218 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 5219 5220 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5221 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 5222 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 5223 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 5224 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 5225 5226 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 5227 Enable additional printk() statements. 5228 5229 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 5230 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 5231 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 5232 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 5233 specified. 5234 5235 relax_domain_level= 5236 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 5237 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 5238 5239 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 5240 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 5241 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 5242 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 5243 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 5244 5245 reservetop= [X86-32] 5246 Format: nn[KMG] 5247 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 5248 address space. 5249 5250 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 5251 during initialization. 5252 5253 resume= [SWSUSP] 5254 Specify the partition device for software suspend 5255 Format: 5256 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 5257 5258 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 5259 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 5260 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 5261 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 5262 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 5263 5264 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5265 read the resume files 5266 5267 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 5268 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5269 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5270 5271 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 5272 5273 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 5274 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 5275 vulnerability. 5276 5277 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop 5278 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other 5279 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- 5280 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors 5281 that don't. 5282 5283 off - no mitigation 5284 auto - automatically select a migitation 5285 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 5286 disabling SMT if necessary for 5287 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 5288 and older without STIBP). 5289 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation 5290 windows on basic block boundaries too. 5291 Safe, highest perf impact. It also 5292 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable 5293 on Intel. 5294 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT 5295 when STIBP is not available. This is 5296 the alternative for systems which do not 5297 have STIBP. 5298 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, 5299 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based 5300 systems. 5301 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP 5302 is not available. This is the alternative for 5303 systems which do not have STIBP. 5304 5305 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 5306 time according to the CPU. 5307 5308 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 5309 5310 rfkill.default_state= 5311 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 5312 etc. communication is blocked by default. 5313 1 Unblocked. 5314 5315 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 5316 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 5317 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5318 blocked and the previous configuration. 5319 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5320 blocked and everything unblocked. 5321 5322 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5323 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 5324 5325 ring3mwait=disable 5326 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 5327 CPUs. 5328 5329 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 5330 5331 rodata= [KNL] 5332 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 5333 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 5334 5335 rockchip.usb_uart 5336 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 5337 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 5338 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 5339 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 5340 5341 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 5342 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 5343 5344 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5345 mount the root filesystem 5346 5347 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 5348 5349 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 5350 5351 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 5352 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5353 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5354 5355 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 5356 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 5357 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 5358 managed by CMA. 5359 5360 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 5361 5362 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5363 5364 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5365 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5366 strict 5367 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 5368 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 5369 which is faster. 5370 5371 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5372 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5373 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5374 factor of the size of main memory. 5375 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5376 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5377 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5378 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5379 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5380 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5381 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5382 5383 sa1100ir [NET] 5384 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5385 5386 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5387 5388 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5389 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5390 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5391 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5392 5393 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5394 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5395 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5396 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5397 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5398 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5399 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5400 value. 5401 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5402 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5403 1 64 ms 5404 2 128 ms 5405 and so on. 5406 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5407 Default is 0. 5408 5409 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5410 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5411 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5412 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5413 tests. 5414 5415 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5416 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5417 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5418 default) disables this feature. Please note 5419 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5420 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5421 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5422 5423 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5424 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5425 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5426 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5427 equal to the number of CPUs. 5428 5429 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5430 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5431 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 5432 5433 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5434 Number seconds to wait between successive 5435 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 5436 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 5437 5438 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5439 The number of seconds following the start of the 5440 test after which to shut down the system. The 5441 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 5442 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 5443 5444 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5445 The number of seconds between outputting the 5446 current test statistics to the console. A value 5447 of zero disables statistics output. 5448 5449 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 5450 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 5451 to the set of CPUs under test. 5452 5453 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 5454 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 5455 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 5456 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 5457 functions. 5458 5459 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 5460 Enable additional printk() statements. 5461 5462 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 5463 The probability weighting to use for the 5464 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 5465 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 5466 default if all other weights are -1. However, 5467 if at least one weight has some other value, a 5468 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 5469 5470 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 5471 The probability weighting to use for the 5472 smp_call_function_single() function with a 5473 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5474 5475 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 5476 The probability weighting to use for the 5477 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 5478 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5479 Note well that setting a high probability for 5480 this weighting can place serious IPI load 5481 on the system. 5482 5483 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 5484 The probability weighting to use for the 5485 smp_call_function_many() function with a 5486 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5487 and weight_many. 5488 5489 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 5490 The probability weighting to use for the 5491 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 5492 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 5493 weight_many. 5494 5495 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 5496 The probability weighting to use for the 5497 smp_call_function_all() function with a 5498 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5499 and weight_many. 5500 5501 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 5502 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 5503 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 5504 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5505 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 5506 1 -- enable. 5507 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 5508 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 5509 5510 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 5511 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 5512 "lsm=" parameter. 5513 5514 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 5515 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5516 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 5517 0 -- disable. 5518 1 -- enable. 5519 Default value is 1. 5520 5521 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 5522 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5523 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 5524 0 -- disable. 5525 1 -- enable. 5526 Default value is set via kernel config option. 5527 5528 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 5529 5530 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 5531 5532 shapers= [NET] 5533 Maximal number of shapers. 5534 5535 simeth= [IA-64] 5536 simscsi= 5537 5538 slram= [HW,MTD] 5539 5540 slab_merge [MM] 5541 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 5542 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 5543 5544 slab_nomerge [MM] 5545 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 5546 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 5547 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 5548 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 5549 layout control by attackers can usually be 5550 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 5551 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 5552 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 5553 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 5554 own. 5555 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5556 5557 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 5558 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5559 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5560 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 5561 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 5562 5563 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 5564 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 5565 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5566 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5567 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5568 last alloc / free. For more information see 5569 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5570 5571 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 5572 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5573 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5574 fragmentation. For more information see 5575 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5576 5577 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 5578 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 5579 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 5580 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 5581 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 5582 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 5583 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 5584 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5585 5586 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 5587 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 5588 lower than slub_max_order. 5589 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5590 5591 slub_merge [MM, SLUB] 5592 Same with slab_merge. 5593 5594 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 5595 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 5596 See slab_nomerge for more information. 5597 5598 smart2= [HW] 5599 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 5600 5601 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 5602 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 5603 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 5604 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 5605 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 5606 disabling interrupts for extended periods 5607 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 5608 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 5609 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 5610 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 5611 5612 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 5613 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 5614 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 5615 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 5616 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 5617 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 5618 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 5619 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 5620 1: Fast pin select (default) 5621 2: ATC IRMode 5622 5623 smt= [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 5624 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 5625 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 5626 actual hardware limit. 5627 Format: <integer> 5628 Default: -1 (no limit) 5629 5630 softlockup_panic= 5631 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 5632 Format: 0 | 1 5633 5634 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 5635 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 5636 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 5637 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 5638 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 5639 5640 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 5641 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 5642 backtraces on all cpus. 5643 Format: 0 | 1 5644 5645 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 5646 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 5647 5648 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5649 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 5650 The default operation protects the kernel from 5651 user space attacks. 5652 5653 on - unconditionally enable, implies 5654 spectre_v2_user=on 5655 off - unconditionally disable, implies 5656 spectre_v2_user=off 5657 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5658 vulnerable 5659 5660 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 5661 mitigation method at run time according to the 5662 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 5663 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 5664 compiler with which the kernel was built. 5665 5666 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 5667 against user space to user space task attacks. 5668 5669 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 5670 the user space protections. 5671 5672 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 5673 5674 retpoline - replace indirect branches 5675 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 5676 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 5677 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 5678 eibrs - enhanced IBRS 5679 eibrs,retpoline - enhanced IBRS + Retpolines 5680 eibrs,lfence - enhanced IBRS + LFENCE 5681 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 5682 5683 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5684 spectre_v2=auto. 5685 5686 spectre_v2_user= 5687 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5688 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 5689 user space tasks 5690 5691 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 5692 enforced by spectre_v2=on 5693 5694 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 5695 enforced by spectre_v2=off 5696 5697 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 5698 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 5699 per thread. The mitigation control state 5700 is inherited on fork. 5701 5702 prctl,ibpb 5703 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 5704 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5705 always when switching between different user 5706 space processes. 5707 5708 seccomp 5709 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 5710 threads will enable the mitigation unless 5711 they explicitly opt out. 5712 5713 seccomp,ibpb 5714 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 5715 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5716 always when switching between different 5717 user space processes. 5718 5719 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 5720 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 5721 5722 Default mitigation: "prctl" 5723 5724 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5725 spectre_v2_user=auto. 5726 5727 spec_store_bypass_disable= 5728 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 5729 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 5730 5731 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 5732 a common industry wide performance optimization known 5733 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 5734 to the same memory location may not be observed by 5735 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 5736 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 5737 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 5738 end of a particular speculation execution window. 5739 5740 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5741 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 5742 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 5743 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 5744 5745 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 5746 Bypass optimization is used. 5747 5748 On x86 the options are: 5749 5750 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 5751 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 5752 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 5753 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 5754 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 5755 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 5756 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 5757 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 5758 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 5759 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 5760 for a process by default. The state of the control 5761 is inherited on fork. 5762 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 5763 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 5764 5765 Default mitigations: 5766 X86: "prctl" 5767 5768 On powerpc the options are: 5769 5770 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 5771 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 5772 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 5773 exit. 5774 off - No action. 5775 5776 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5777 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 5778 5779 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 5780 spia_fio_base= 5781 spia_pedr= 5782 spia_peddr= 5783 5784 split_lock_detect= 5785 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 5786 5787 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 5788 instructions that access data across cache line 5789 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 5790 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 5791 bus lock detection. 5792 5793 off - not enabled 5794 5795 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 5796 about applications triggering the #AC 5797 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 5798 the default on CPUs that support split lock 5799 detection or bus lock detection. Default 5800 behavior is by #AC if both features are 5801 enabled in hardware. 5802 5803 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 5804 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 5805 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 5806 both features are enabled in hardware. 5807 5808 ratelimit:N - 5809 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 5810 per second for bus lock detection. 5811 0 < N <= 1000. 5812 5813 N/A for split lock detection. 5814 5815 5816 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 5817 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 5818 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 5819 mode. 5820 5821 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 5822 CPL > 0. 5823 5824 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 5825 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 5826 (SRBDS) mitigation. 5827 5828 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 5829 exploit which can leak bits from the random 5830 number generator. 5831 5832 By default, this issue is mitigated by 5833 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 5834 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 5835 much slower. Among other effects, this will 5836 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 5837 5838 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 5839 the following option: 5840 5841 off: Disable mitigation and remove 5842 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 5843 5844 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 5845 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 5846 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 5847 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 5848 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 5849 but takes effect only when the low-order four 5850 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 5851 (decide at boot). 5852 5853 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 5854 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 5855 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 5856 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 5857 5858 0: Never. 5859 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 5860 2: When rcutorture decides to. 5861 3: Decide at boot time (default). 5862 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 5863 5864 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 5865 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 5866 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 5867 5868 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 5869 Specifies how frequently to check for 5870 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 5871 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 5872 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 5873 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 5874 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 5875 are ignored. 5876 5877 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 5878 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 5879 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 5880 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 5881 grace period will be considered for automatic 5882 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 5883 expediting. 5884 5885 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] 5886 Specifies the number of no-delay instances 5887 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period 5888 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero 5889 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will 5890 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. 5891 5892 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] 5893 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of 5894 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, 5895 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled 5896 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each 5897 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. 5898 5899 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] 5900 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping 5901 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. 5902 5903 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 5904 Specifies the number of update-side contention 5905 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 5906 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 5907 structure to big form. Note that the value of 5908 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 5909 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 5910 5911 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 5912 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 5913 5914 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 5915 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 5916 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 5917 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 5918 5919 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 5920 for both kernel and userspace 5921 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 5922 for both kernel and userspace 5923 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 5924 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 5925 to allow userspace to register its 5926 interest in being mitigated too. 5927 5928 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 5929 override the default stack gap protection. The value 5930 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 5931 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 5932 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 5933 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 5934 5935 stack_depot_disable= [KNL] 5936 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 5937 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 5938 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 5939 to false. 5940 5941 stacktrace [FTRACE] 5942 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 5943 5944 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 5945 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 5946 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 5947 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 5948 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 5949 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 5950 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 5951 5952 sti= [PARISC,HW] 5953 Format: <num> 5954 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 5955 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 5956 as the initial boot-console. 5957 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5958 5959 sti_font= [HW] 5960 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5961 5962 stifb= [HW] 5963 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 5964 5965 strict_sas_size= 5966 [X86] 5967 Format: <bool> 5968 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 5969 against the required signal frame size which 5970 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 5971 be used to filter out binaries which have 5972 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 5973 5974 sunrpc.min_resvport= 5975 sunrpc.max_resvport= 5976 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5977 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 5978 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 5979 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 5980 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 5981 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 5982 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 5983 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 5984 maximum port values. 5985 5986 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 5987 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5988 Limit the number of requests that the server will 5989 process in parallel from a single connection. 5990 The default value is 0 (no limit). 5991 5992 sunrpc.pool_mode= 5993 [NFS] 5994 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 5995 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 5996 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 5997 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 5998 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 5999 NFS server is running. 6000 6001 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 6002 automatically using heuristics 6003 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 6004 percpu one pool for each CPU 6005 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 6006 to global on non-NUMA machines) 6007 6008 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 6009 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 6010 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6011 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 6012 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 6013 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 6014 improve throughput, but will also increase the 6015 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 6016 6017 suspend.pm_test_delay= 6018 [SUSPEND] 6019 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 6020 mode before resuming the system (see 6021 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 6022 is set. Default value is 5. 6023 6024 svm= [PPC] 6025 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 6026 This parameter controls use of the Protected 6027 Execution Facility on pSeries. 6028 6029 swapaccount= [KNL] 6030 Format: [0|1] 6031 Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 6032 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 6033 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) 6034 6035 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 6036 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } 6037 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 6038 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb 6039 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up 6040 to a power of 2. 6041 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 6042 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 6043 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 6044 6045 switches= [HW,M68k] 6046 6047 sysctl.*= [KNL] 6048 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 6049 process, as if the value was written to the respective 6050 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 6051 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 6052 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 6053 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 6054 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 6055 6056 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 6057 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 6058 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 6059 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 6060 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 6061 in older udev will not work anymore. 6062 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 6063 the kernel configuration. 6064 6065 sysrq_always_enabled 6066 [KNL] 6067 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 6068 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 6069 Useful for debugging. 6070 6071 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6072 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 6073 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 6074 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 6075 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 6076 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 6077 6078 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 6079 6080 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 6081 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 6082 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 6083 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 6084 as the system sleep state during system startup with 6085 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 6086 The system is woken from this state using a 6087 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 6088 6089 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6090 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 6091 6092 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 6093 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 6094 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 6095 6096 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 6097 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 6098 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 6099 6100 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 6101 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 6102 critical and hot trip points. 6103 6104 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 6105 1: disable ACPI thermal control 6106 6107 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 6108 -1: disable all passive trip points 6109 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 6110 value 6111 6112 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 6113 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 6114 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 6115 0: no polling (default) 6116 6117 threadirqs [KNL] 6118 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 6119 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 6120 6121 topology= [S390] 6122 Format: {off | on} 6123 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 6124 topology information if the hardware supports this. 6125 The scheduler will make use of this information and 6126 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 6127 Default is on. 6128 6129 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 6130 Format: {off} 6131 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 6132 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 6133 LPAR. 6134 6135 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 6136 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 6137 until after init has spawned. 6138 6139 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 6140 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 6141 even if there were no errors. This can be a 6142 very costly operation when many torture tests 6143 are running concurrently, especially on systems 6144 with rotating-rust storage. 6145 6146 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 6147 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 6148 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 6149 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 6150 6151 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 6152 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 6153 6154 tp720= [HW,PS2] 6155 6156 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 6157 Format: integer pcr id 6158 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 6159 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 6160 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 6161 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 6162 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 6163 are saved. 6164 6165 tp_printk [FTRACE] 6166 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 6167 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 6168 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 6169 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 6170 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 6171 6172 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 6173 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 6174 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 6175 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 6176 6177 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 6178 to stop the printing of events to console at 6179 late_initcall_sync. 6180 6181 ** CAUTION ** 6182 6183 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 6184 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 6185 the system to live lock. 6186 6187 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 6188 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 6189 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 6190 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 6191 make the system inoperable. 6192 6193 This command line option will stop the printing of events 6194 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 6195 6196 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 6197 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 6198 6199 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 6200 at boot up. 6201 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 6202 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 6203 depending on the architecture, may not be 6204 in sync between CPUs. 6205 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 6206 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 6207 but better for some race conditions. 6208 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 6209 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 6210 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 6211 once per event. 6212 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 6213 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 6214 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6215 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 6216 stamps. 6217 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6218 Architectures may add more clocks. See 6219 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 6220 6221 trace_event=[event-list] 6222 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 6223 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 6224 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 6225 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 6226 6227 trace_options=[option-list] 6228 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 6229 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 6230 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 6231 to echo the option name into 6232 6233 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 6234 6235 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 6236 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 6237 6238 trace_options=stacktrace 6239 6240 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 6241 section. 6242 6243 traceoff_on_warning 6244 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 6245 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 6246 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 6247 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 6248 6249 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 6250 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 6251 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 6252 6253 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 6254 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 6255 6256 transparent_hugepage= 6257 [KNL] 6258 Format: [always|madvise|never] 6259 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 6260 with respect to transparent hugepages. 6261 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 6262 for more details. 6263 6264 trusted.source= [KEYS] 6265 Format: <string> 6266 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 6267 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 6268 sources: 6269 - "tpm" 6270 - "tee" 6271 - "caam" 6272 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 6273 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 6274 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 6275 successfully during iteration. 6276 6277 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 6278 Format: <string> 6279 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 6280 Can be one of: 6281 - "kernel" 6282 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 6283 - "default" 6284 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 6285 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 6286 6287 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 6288 Format: <string> 6289 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 6290 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 6291 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 6292 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 6293 virtualized environment. 6294 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 6295 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 6296 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 6297 can add overhead. 6298 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 6299 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 6300 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 6301 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 6302 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 6303 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 6304 acceptable). 6305 6306 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 6307 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 6308 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 6309 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 6310 Format: <unsigned int> 6311 6312 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 6313 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 6314 support TSX control. 6315 6316 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 6317 6318 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 6319 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 6320 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 6321 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 6322 so there may be unknown security risks associated 6323 with leaving it enabled. 6324 6325 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 6326 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 6327 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 6328 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 6329 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 6330 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 6331 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 6332 6333 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 6334 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 6335 6336 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 6337 6338 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6339 for more details. 6340 6341 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 6342 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 6343 6344 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 6345 certain CPUs that support Transactional 6346 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 6347 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 6348 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 6349 conditions. 6350 6351 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6352 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 6353 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 6354 access. 6355 6356 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 6357 options are: 6358 6359 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 6360 if TSX is enabled. 6361 6362 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 6363 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 6364 is not disabled because CPU is not 6365 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 6366 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 6367 6368 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 6369 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 6370 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 6371 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 6372 6373 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6374 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 6375 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 6376 required and doesn't provide any additional 6377 mitigation. 6378 6379 For details see: 6380 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6381 6382 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 6383 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 6384 Format: 6385 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 6386 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 6387 6388 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 6389 happen after console_init() and before a proper 6390 console driver takes over, this boot options might 6391 help "seeing" what's going on. 6392 6393 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6394 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 6395 6396 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 6397 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 6398 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 6399 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 6400 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 6401 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 6402 reported either. 6403 6404 unknown_nmi_panic 6405 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 6406 6407 usbcore.authorized_default= 6408 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 6409 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 6410 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 6411 if device connected to internal port) 6412 6413 usbcore.autosuspend= 6414 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 6415 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 6416 is the time required before an idle device will be 6417 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 6418 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 6419 6420 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 6421 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 6422 6423 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 6424 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 6425 (default = 65536). 6426 6427 usbcore.blinkenlights= 6428 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 6429 6430 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 6431 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 6432 scheme (default 0 = off). 6433 6434 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 6435 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 6436 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 6437 6438 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 6439 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 6440 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 6441 6442 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 6443 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 6444 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 6445 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 6446 6447 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 6448 6449 usbcore.quirks= 6450 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 6451 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 6452 commas. Each entry has the form 6453 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 6454 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 6455 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 6456 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 6457 the following meanings: 6458 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 6459 descriptors must not be fetched using 6460 a 255-byte read); 6461 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 6462 correctly so reset it instead); 6463 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 6464 Set-Interface requests); 6465 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 6466 handle its Configuration or Interface 6467 strings); 6468 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 6469 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 6470 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 6471 more interface descriptions than the 6472 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 6473 talking to these interfaces); 6474 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 6475 during initialization, after we read 6476 the device descriptor); 6477 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 6478 high speed and super speed interrupt 6479 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 6480 require the interval in microframes (1 6481 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 6482 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 6483 (bInterval-1). 6484 Devices with this quirk report their 6485 bInterval as the result of this 6486 calculation instead of the exponent 6487 variable used in the calculation); 6488 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 6489 handle device_qualifier descriptor 6490 requests); 6491 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 6492 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 6493 remote wakeup capability); 6494 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 6495 Power Management); 6496 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 6497 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 6498 frames instead of the USB 2.0 6499 calculation); 6500 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 6501 to be disconnected before suspend to 6502 prevent spurious wakeup); 6503 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 6504 pause after every control message); 6505 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 6506 delay after resetting its port); 6507 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 6508 6509 usbhid.mousepoll= 6510 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 6511 6512 usbhid.jspoll= 6513 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 6514 6515 usbhid.kbpoll= 6516 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 6517 6518 usb-storage.delay_use= 6519 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 6520 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 6521 6522 usb-storage.quirks= 6523 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 6524 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 6525 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 6526 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 6527 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 6528 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 6529 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 6530 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 6531 of sense data, not on uas); 6532 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 6533 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 6534 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 6535 device capacity by one sector); 6536 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 6537 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 6538 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 6539 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 6540 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 6541 command, uas only); 6542 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 6543 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 6544 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 6545 reported device capacity by one 6546 sector if the number is odd); 6547 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 6548 device); 6549 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 6550 command, uas only); 6551 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 6552 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 6553 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 6554 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 6555 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 6556 not on uas); 6557 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 6558 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 6559 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 6560 reported by the device, not on uas); 6561 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 6562 by default, not on uas); 6563 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 6564 bogus residue values, not on uas); 6565 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 6566 Logical Unit); 6567 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 6568 commands, uas only); 6569 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 6570 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 6571 medium is write-protected). 6572 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 6573 even if the device claims no cache, 6574 not on uas) 6575 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 6576 6577 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 6578 Format: <int> 6579 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 6580 1 - undefined instruction events 6581 2 - system calls 6582 4 - invalid data aborts 6583 8 - SIGSEGV faults 6584 16 - SIGBUS faults 6585 Example: user_debug=31 6586 6587 userpte= 6588 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 6589 6590 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 6591 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 6592 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 6593 6594 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 6595 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 6596 6597 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 6598 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 6599 6600 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 6601 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 6602 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 6603 6604 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 6605 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 6606 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 6607 6608 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 6609 alias for vdso32=0. 6610 6611 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 6612 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 6613 6614 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 6615 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 6616 6617 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 6618 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 6619 6620 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 6621 Format: [0|1] 6622 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 6623 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 6624 level and then send out the event to user space through 6625 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 6626 will only send out the event without touching backlight 6627 brightness level. 6628 default: 1 6629 6630 virtio_mmio.device= 6631 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 6632 6633 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 6634 where: 6635 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 6636 like K, M and G) 6637 <baseaddr> := physical base address 6638 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 6639 request_irq()) 6640 <id> := (optional) platform device id 6641 example: 6642 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 6643 6644 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 6645 6646 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 6647 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 6648 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 6649 Use vga=ask for menu. 6650 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 6651 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 6652 6653 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 6654 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 6655 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 6656 All options are enabled by default, and this 6657 interface is meant to allow for selectively 6658 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 6659 debugging features. 6660 6661 Available options are: 6662 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 6663 - Disable all of the above options 6664 6665 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 6666 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 6667 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 6668 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 6669 mapped kernel RAM. 6670 6671 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 6672 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 6673 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 6674 6675 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 6676 Format: <command> 6677 6678 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 6679 Format: <command> 6680 6681 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 6682 Format: <command> 6683 6684 vsyscall= [X86-64] 6685 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 6686 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 6687 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 6688 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 6689 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 6690 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 6691 6692 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6693 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6694 page is readable. 6695 6696 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6697 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6698 page is not readable. 6699 6700 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 6701 them quite hard to use for exploits but 6702 might break your system. 6703 6704 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 6705 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 6706 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 6707 6708 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 6709 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 6710 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 6711 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 6712 6713 vt.default_blu= [VT] 6714 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 6715 Change the default blue palette of the console. 6716 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6717 ranging from 0-255. 6718 6719 vt.default_grn= [VT] 6720 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 6721 Change the default green palette of the console. 6722 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6723 ranging from 0-255. 6724 6725 vt.default_red= [VT] 6726 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 6727 Change the default red palette of the console. 6728 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6729 ranging from 0-255. 6730 6731 vt.default_utf8= 6732 [VT] 6733 Format=<0|1> 6734 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 6735 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 6736 newly opened terminals. 6737 6738 vt.global_cursor_default= 6739 [VT] 6740 Format=<-1|0|1> 6741 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 6742 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 6743 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 6744 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 6745 cursors, 1 will display them. 6746 6747 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 6748 Default: 2 = green. 6749 6750 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 6751 Default: 3 = cyan. 6752 6753 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 6754 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 6755 or other driver-specific files in the 6756 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 6757 6758 watchdog_thresh= 6759 [KNL] 6760 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 6761 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 6762 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 6763 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 6764 seconds. 6765 6766 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 6767 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 6768 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 6769 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 6770 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 6771 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 6772 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 6773 corresponding sysfs file. 6774 6775 workqueue.disable_numa 6776 By default, all work items queued to unbound 6777 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 6778 issued on, which results in better behavior in 6779 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 6780 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 6781 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 6782 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 6783 6784 workqueue.power_efficient 6785 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 6786 they show better performance thanks to cache 6787 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 6788 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 6789 6790 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 6791 were observed to contribute significantly to power 6792 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 6793 power usage at the cost of small performance 6794 overhead. 6795 6796 The default value of this parameter is determined by 6797 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 6798 6799 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 6800 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 6801 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 6802 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 6803 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 6804 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 6805 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 6806 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 6807 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 6808 impacted. 6809 6810 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 6811 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 6812 supporting x2apic. 6813 6814 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 6815 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 6816 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 6817 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 6818 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 6819 domains. 6820 6821 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 6822 Unplug Xen emulated devices 6823 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 6824 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 6825 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 6826 nics -- unplug network devices 6827 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 6828 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 6829 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 6830 the unplug protocol 6831 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 6832 6833 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 6834 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 6835 panic() code such as dumping handler. 6836 6837 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 6838 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 6839 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 6840 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6841 6842 xen_nopv [X86] 6843 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 6844 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 6845 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 6846 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6847 6848 xen_no_vector_callback 6849 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 6850 event channel interrupts. 6851 6852 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 6853 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 6854 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 6855 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 6856 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 6857 6858 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 6859 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 6860 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 6861 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 6862 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 6863 more timer interrupts. 6864 6865 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 6866 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 6867 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 6868 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 6869 started with less memory configured than allowed at 6870 max. Default is 180. 6871 6872 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 6873 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 6874 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 6875 6876 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 6877 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 6878 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 6879 6880 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 6881 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 6882 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 6883 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 6884 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 6885 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 6886 6887 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 6888 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 6889 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 6890 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 6891 6892 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 6893 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 6894 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 6895 contention. 6896 6897 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 6898 Format: 6899 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 6900 6901 xive= [PPC] 6902 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 6903 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 6904 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 6905 6906 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 6907 controller on both pseries and powernv 6908 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 6909 6910 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 6911 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 6912 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 6913 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 6914 loads instead, as on POWER9. 6915 6916 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 6917 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 6918 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 6919 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 6920 6921 xmon [PPC] 6922 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 6923 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 6924 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 6925 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 6926 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 6927 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6928 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 6929 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 6930 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 6931 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6932 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 6933 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 6934 can be written using xmon commands. 6935 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 6936 memory, and other data can't be written using 6937 xmon commands. 6938 off xmon is disabled. 6939