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