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_nohwsig, 229 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl } 230 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 231 s3_bios and s3_mode. 232 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 233 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 234 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 235 used during resume from hibernation. 236 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 237 control method, with respect to putting devices into 238 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 239 of _PTS is used by default). 240 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 241 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 242 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 243 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 244 but some broken systems don't work without it). 245 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 246 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 247 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 248 249 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 250 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 251 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 252 253 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 254 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 255 256 agp= [AGP] 257 { off | try_unsupported } 258 off: disable AGP support 259 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 260 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 261 262 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 263 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 264 265 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 266 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 267 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 268 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 269 270 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 271 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 272 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 273 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 274 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 275 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 276 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 277 278 32: only for 32-bit processes 279 64: only for 64-bit processes 280 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 281 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 282 283 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 284 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 285 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 286 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 287 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 288 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 289 290 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64] 291 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the 292 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict 293 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this 294 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit 295 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0 296 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted. 297 298 See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more 299 information. 300 301 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 302 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 303 Possible values are: 304 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1 305 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 306 the system 307 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 308 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 309 allowed anymore to lift isolation 310 requirements as needed. This option 311 does not override iommu=pt 312 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known 313 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this 314 option with care. 315 316 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 317 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 318 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 319 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 320 IOMMU initialization. 321 322 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 323 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 324 remapping modes: 325 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 326 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 327 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 328 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 329 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 330 331 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 332 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 333 Format: <a>,<b> 334 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 335 336 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 337 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 338 connected to one of 16 gameports 339 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 340 341 apc= [HW,SPARC] 342 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 343 Format: noidle 344 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 345 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 346 APC and your system crashes randomly. 347 348 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 349 Change the output verbosity while booting 350 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 351 Change the amount of debugging information output 352 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 353 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 354 driver name. 355 Format: apic=driver_name 356 Examples: apic=bigsmp 357 358 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 359 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 360 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 361 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 362 backup of CPU 0 363 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 364 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 365 shot down by NMI 366 367 autoconf= [IPV6] 368 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 369 370 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 371 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 372 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 373 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 374 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 375 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 376 apic=verbose is specified. 377 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 378 379 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 380 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 381 382 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 383 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 384 385 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 386 Identification support 387 388 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 389 support 390 391 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 392 support 393 394 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 395 396 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 397 398 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 399 EzKey and similar keyboards 400 401 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 402 403 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 404 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 405 406 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 407 keyboards 408 409 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 410 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 411 412 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 413 Use software keyboard repeat 414 415 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 416 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 417 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 418 enabled until the next reboot 419 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 420 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 421 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 422 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 423 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 424 userspace auditd. 425 Default: unset 426 427 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 428 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 429 Default: 64 430 431 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 432 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 433 Format: { "0" | "1" } 434 0 - Disable the BAU. 435 1 - Enable the BAU. 436 unset - Disable the BAU. 437 438 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 439 Format: <io>,<mode> 440 441 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 442 Format: <io>,<mode> 443 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 444 445 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 446 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 447 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 448 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 449 450 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 451 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 452 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 453 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 454 455 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 456 embedded devices based on command line input. 457 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 458 459 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 460 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 461 no delay (0). 462 Format: integer 463 464 bootconfig [KNL] 465 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 466 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 467 468 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 469 470 bert_disable [ACPI] 471 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 472 473 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] 474 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 475 476 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 477 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 478 kernel args too. 479 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 480 bttv.tuner= 481 482 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 483 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 484 at a time. 485 486 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 487 488 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 489 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 490 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 491 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 492 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 493 This option provides an override for these situations. 494 495 carrier_timeout= 496 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 497 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 498 it waits 120 seconds. 499 500 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 501 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 502 trust validation. 503 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 504 505 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 506 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 507 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 508 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 509 others). 510 511 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 512 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 513 514 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 515 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 516 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 517 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 518 a single hierarchy 519 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 520 subsystem 521 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 522 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 523 created 524 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 525 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 526 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 527 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 528 stall information accounting feature 529 530 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 531 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 532 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 533 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 534 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 535 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 536 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 537 all v1 hierarchies. 538 539 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 540 Format: <string> 541 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 542 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 543 544 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 545 Format: { "0" | "1" } 546 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 547 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 548 any implied execute protection). 549 1 -- check protection requested by application. 550 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 551 Value can be changed at runtime via 552 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 553 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 554 555 cio_ignore= [S390] 556 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 557 clk_ignore_unused 558 [CLK] 559 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 560 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 561 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 562 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 563 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 564 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 565 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 566 platform with proper driver support. For more 567 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 568 569 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 570 [Deprecated] 571 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 572 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 573 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 574 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 575 576 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 577 Format: <string> 578 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 579 with the name specified. 580 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 581 the platform: 582 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 583 [ACPI] acpi_pm 584 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 585 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 586 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 587 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 588 [MIPS] MIPS 589 [PARISC] cr16 590 [S390] tod 591 [SH] SuperH 592 [SPARC64] tick 593 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 594 595 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 596 [ARM,ARM64] 597 Format: <bool> 598 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 599 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 600 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 601 systems. 602 603 clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL] 604 Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to 605 external delays before the clock will be marked 606 unstable. Defaults to three retries, that is, 607 four attempts to read the clock under test. 608 609 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 610 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 611 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 612 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 613 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 614 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 615 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 616 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 617 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 618 619 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 620 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 621 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 622 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 623 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 624 625 clearcpuid=BITNUM[,BITNUM...] [X86] 626 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 627 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 628 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily 629 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific 630 ones should be. 631 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 632 or using the feature without checking anything 633 will still see it. This just prevents it from 634 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 635 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 636 some critical bits. 637 638 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 639 [KNL,CMA] 640 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 641 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 642 placement constraint by the physical address range of 643 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 644 altogether. For more information, see 645 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 646 647 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 648 [ARM64,KNL,CMA] 649 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 650 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 651 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 652 specificed, the default value is 0. 653 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 654 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 655 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 656 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 657 658 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 659 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 660 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 661 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 662 a hypervisor. 663 Default: yes 664 665 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 666 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 667 allocations, by default set to 256K. 668 669 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 670 Format: 671 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 672 673 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 674 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 675 676 com90xx= [HW,NET] 677 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 678 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 679 680 condev= [HW,S390] console device 681 conmode= 682 683 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 684 685 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 686 687 ttyS<n>[,options] 688 ttyUSB0[,options] 689 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 690 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 691 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 692 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 693 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 694 695 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 696 information. See 697 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 698 alternative. 699 700 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 701 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 702 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 703 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 704 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 705 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 706 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 707 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 708 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 709 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 710 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 711 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 712 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 713 the h/w is not re-initialized. 714 715 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 716 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 717 718 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 719 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 720 console=brl,ttyS0 721 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 722 723 console_msg_format= 724 [KNL] Change console messages format 725 default 726 By default we print messages on consoles in 727 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 728 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 729 `printk_time' param). 730 syslog 731 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 732 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 733 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 734 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 735 from /proc/kmsg. 736 737 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 738 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 739 Defaults to 0. 740 741 coredump_filter= 742 [KNL] Change the default value for 743 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 744 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 745 746 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 747 [ARM,ARM64] 748 Format: <bool> 749 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 750 0: default value, disable debugging 751 1: enable debugging at boot time 752 753 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 754 disable the cpuidle sub-system 755 756 cpuidle.governor= 757 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 758 759 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 760 disable the cpufreq sub-system 761 762 cpufreq.default_governor= 763 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 764 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 765 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 766 767 cpu_init_udelay=N 768 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 769 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 770 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 771 Default: 10000 772 773 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 774 Format: 775 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 776 777 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 778 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 779 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 780 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 781 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 782 is selected automatically. 783 [KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and 784 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 785 hasn't been specified. 786 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 787 788 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 789 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 790 in the running system. The syntax of range is 791 start-[end] where start and end are both 792 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 793 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 794 795 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 796 [KNL, X86-64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 797 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 798 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 799 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 800 available. 801 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 802 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 803 [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 804 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 805 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 806 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 807 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 808 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 809 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at 810 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 811 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G 812 for second kernel instead. 813 0: to disable low allocation. 814 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 815 or memory reserved is below 4G. 816 817 cryptomgr.notests 818 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 819 820 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 821 Format: <dma> 822 823 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 824 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 825 826 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call 827 handling. When switched on, additional debug data is 828 printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is 829 detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try 830 to resolve the hang situation. 831 0: disable csdlock debugging (default) 832 1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact) 833 ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact, 834 but more data) 835 836 dasd= [HW,NET] 837 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 838 839 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 840 (one device per port) 841 Format: <port#>,<type> 842 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 843 844 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 845 846 debug_boot_weak_hash 847 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 848 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 849 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 850 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 851 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 852 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 853 854 debug_locks_verbose= 855 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 856 Format: <int> 857 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 858 self-tests. 859 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 860 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 861 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 862 useful to lockdep developers. 863 864 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 865 866 no_debug_objects 867 [KNL] Disable object debugging 868 869 debug_guardpage_minorder= 870 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 871 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 872 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 873 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 874 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 875 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 876 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 877 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 878 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 879 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 880 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 881 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 882 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 883 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 884 bypassed) which are not detectable by 885 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 886 tracking down these problems. 887 888 debug_pagealloc= 889 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 890 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 891 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 892 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 893 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 894 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 895 on: enable the feature 896 897 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 898 and debugfs internal clients. 899 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 900 on: All functions are enabled. 901 no-mount: 902 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 903 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 904 its content. There is nothing to mount. 905 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 906 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 907 or directories within debugfs. 908 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 909 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 910 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 911 912 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 913 914 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 915 Format: <area>[,<node>] 916 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst. 917 918 default_hugepagesz= 919 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 920 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 921 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 922 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 923 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 924 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 925 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 926 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 927 Format: size[KMG] 928 929 deferred_probe_timeout= 930 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 931 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 932 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 933 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0 934 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also 935 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 936 retrying. 937 938 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 939 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 940 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 941 level 1 and decompression (default) 942 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 943 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 944 only (compression on level 1) 945 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 946 only (decompression) 947 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 948 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 949 950 dhash_entries= [KNL] 951 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 952 953 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 954 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 955 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 956 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 957 miss to occur. 958 959 stress_slb [PPC] 960 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 961 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 962 on kernel addresses. 963 964 disable= [IPV6] 965 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 966 967 hardened_usercopy= 968 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 969 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 970 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 971 from reading or writing beyond known memory 972 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 973 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 974 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 975 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 976 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 977 978 disable_radix [PPC] 979 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 980 981 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 982 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 983 invalidate. 984 985 disable_tlbie [PPC] 986 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 987 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 988 989 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 990 Format: <int> 991 The number of initial APIC ID for the 992 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 993 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 994 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 995 causing system reset or hang due to sending 996 INIT from AP to BSP. 997 998 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 999 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1000 to workaround buggy firmware. 1001 1002 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1003 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1004 1005 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1006 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1007 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1008 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1009 1010 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 1011 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1012 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1013 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1014 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1015 1016 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1017 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1018 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1019 1020 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1021 1022 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1023 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1024 1025 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1026 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1027 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1028 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1029 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1030 architectural default is too low. 1031 1032 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1033 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1034 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1035 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1036 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1037 driver later using sysfs. 1038 1039 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1040 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. 1041 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1042 1043 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1044 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1045 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1046 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1047 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1048 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 1049 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 1050 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 1051 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 1052 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 1053 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID 1054 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 1055 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 1056 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 1057 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1058 data set with no connector name will be used for 1059 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1060 1061 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1062 1063 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1064 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1065 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1066 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1067 exists). 1068 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1069 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1070 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1071 1072 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1073 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1074 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1075 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1076 1077 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1078 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1079 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1080 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1081 for details. 1082 1083 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 1084 in some Intel CPUs. 1085 1086 <module>.async_probe [KNL] 1087 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 1088 1089 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1090 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1091 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1092 which are not unmapped. 1093 1094 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1095 1096 When used with no options, the early console is 1097 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1098 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1099 the platform. 1100 1101 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1102 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1103 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1104 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1105 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1106 configured. 1107 1108 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 1109 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 1110 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 1111 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 1112 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1113 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1114 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1115 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1116 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1117 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1118 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1119 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1120 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 1121 1122 pl011,<addr> 1123 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1124 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1125 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1126 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1127 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1128 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1129 the device registers. 1130 1131 liteuart,<addr> 1132 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1133 specified address. The serial port must already be 1134 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1135 1136 meson,<addr> 1137 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1138 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1139 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1140 supported. 1141 1142 msm_serial,<addr> 1143 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1144 port at the specified address. The serial port 1145 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1146 yet supported. 1147 1148 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1149 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1150 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1151 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1152 yet supported. 1153 1154 owl,<addr> 1155 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1156 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1157 specified address. The serial port must already be 1158 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1159 1160 rda,<addr> 1161 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1162 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1163 specified address. The serial port must already be 1164 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1165 1166 sbi 1167 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1168 console. 1169 1170 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1171 1172 s3c2410,<addr> 1173 s3c2412,<addr> 1174 s3c2440,<addr> 1175 s3c6400,<addr> 1176 s5pv210,<addr> 1177 exynos4210,<addr> 1178 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1179 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1180 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1181 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1182 Options are not yet supported. 1183 1184 lantiq,<addr> 1185 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1186 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1187 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1188 yet supported. 1189 1190 lpuart,<addr> 1191 lpuart32,<addr> 1192 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1193 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1194 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1195 port must already be setup and configured. 1196 1197 ec_imx21,<addr> 1198 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1199 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1200 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1201 must already be setup and configured. 1202 1203 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1204 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1205 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1206 address. The serial port must already be setup 1207 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1208 1209 qcom_geni,<addr> 1210 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1211 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1212 specified address. The serial port must already be 1213 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1214 1215 efifb,[options] 1216 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1217 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1218 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1219 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1220 mapped with the correct attributes. 1221 1222 linflex,<addr> 1223 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1224 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1225 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1226 already be setup and configured. 1227 1228 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1229 earlyprintk=vga 1230 earlyprintk=sclp 1231 earlyprintk=xen 1232 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1233 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1234 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1235 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1236 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1237 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1238 1239 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1240 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1241 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1242 1243 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1244 takes over. 1245 1246 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 1247 be used at a time. 1248 1249 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1250 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1251 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1252 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1253 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1254 You can find the port for a given device in 1255 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1256 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1257 1258 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1259 very good. 1260 1261 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 1262 the real console. 1263 1264 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1265 1266 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1267 1268 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1269 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1270 UART class. 1271 1272 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1273 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1274 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1275 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1276 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1277 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1278 default: on. 1279 1280 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1281 ekgdboc=kbd 1282 1283 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1284 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1285 1286 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1287 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1288 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1289 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1290 1291 edd= [EDD] 1292 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1293 1294 efi= [EFI] 1295 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1296 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1297 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1298 debug: enable misc debug output. 1299 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1300 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1301 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1302 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1303 firmware implementations. 1304 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1305 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1306 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1307 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1308 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1309 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1310 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1311 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1312 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1313 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1314 1315 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1316 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1317 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1318 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1319 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1320 1321 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1322 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1323 updating original EFI memory map. 1324 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1325 from ss to ss+nn. 1326 1327 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1328 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1329 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1330 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1331 1332 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1333 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1334 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1335 1336 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1337 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1338 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1339 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1340 "soft reserved". 1341 1342 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1343 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1344 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1345 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1346 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1347 1348 1349 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1350 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1351 1352 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1353 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1354 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1355 1356 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1357 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1358 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1359 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1360 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1361 1362 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1363 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1364 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1365 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1366 1367 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1368 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1369 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1370 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1371 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1372 1373 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1374 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1375 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1376 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1377 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1378 Default value is 0. 1379 Value can be changed at runtime via 1380 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1381 1382 erst_disable [ACPI] 1383 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1384 support. 1385 1386 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1387 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1388 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1389 1390 evm= [EVM] 1391 Format: { "fix" } 1392 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1393 current integrity status. 1394 1395 failslab= 1396 fail_usercopy= 1397 fail_page_alloc= 1398 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1399 General fault injection mechanism. 1400 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1401 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1402 1403 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1404 Format: { initns | none } 1405 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1406 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1407 1408 floppy= [HW] 1409 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1410 1411 force_pal_cache_flush 1412 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1413 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1414 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1415 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1416 1417 forcepae [X86-32] 1418 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1419 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1420 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1421 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1422 and may cause unknown problems. 1423 1424 ftrace=[tracer] 1425 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1426 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1427 boot debugging. 1428 1429 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1430 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1431 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1432 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1433 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1434 oops. 1435 1436 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1437 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1438 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1439 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1440 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1441 tracing directory. 1442 1443 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1444 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1445 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1446 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1447 tracing directory. 1448 1449 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1450 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1451 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1452 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1453 that can be changed at run time by the 1454 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1455 1456 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1457 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1458 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1459 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1460 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1461 1462 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1463 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1464 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1465 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1466 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1467 1468 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1469 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1470 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1471 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1472 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1473 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1474 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1475 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1476 suppliers). 1477 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1478 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1479 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1480 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1481 up (sync_state() calls). 1482 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1483 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1484 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1485 1486 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1487 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1488 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1489 Format: <bool> 1490 1491 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1492 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1493 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1494 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1495 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1496 1497 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1498 1499 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1500 Format: off | on 1501 default: on 1502 1503 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1504 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1505 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1506 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1507 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1508 1509 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1510 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1511 android emulator 1512 1513 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1514 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1515 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1516 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1517 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1518 1519 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1520 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1521 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1522 GPT to be used instead. 1523 1524 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1525 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1526 Format: 0 | 1 1527 Default: 0 1528 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1529 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1530 Format: 0 | 1 1531 Default: 0 1532 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1533 Format: 0 | 1 1534 Default: 0 1535 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1536 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1537 Default: 1024 1538 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1539 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1540 Default: 1024 1541 1542 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1543 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1544 backtraces on all cpus. 1545 Format: 0 | 1 1546 1547 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1548 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1549 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1550 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1551 1552 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1553 1554 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1555 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1556 1557 hest_disable [ACPI] 1558 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1559 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1560 logic will be disabled. 1561 1562 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1563 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1564 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1565 size on bigger boxes. 1566 1567 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1568 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1569 Default: "on" 1570 1571 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1572 1573 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1574 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1575 verbose } 1576 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1577 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1578 VIA, nVidia) 1579 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1580 1581 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1582 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1583 1584 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1585 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1586 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1587 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1588 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1589 1590 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1591 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1592 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1593 1594 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1595 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1596 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1597 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1598 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1599 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1600 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1601 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1602 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1603 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1604 1605 hugepagesz= 1606 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1607 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1608 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1609 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1610 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1611 architecture dependent. See also 1612 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1613 Format: size[KMG] 1614 1615 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1616 [KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP 1617 enabled. 1618 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1619 memory (6 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1620 Format: { on | off (default) } 1621 1622 on: enable the feature 1623 off: disable the feature 1624 1625 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1626 the default is on. 1627 1628 This is not compatible with memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory. 1629 If both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes 1630 precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory. 1631 1632 hung_task_panic= 1633 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1634 Format: 0 | 1 1635 1636 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1637 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1638 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1639 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1640 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1641 1642 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1643 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1644 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1645 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1646 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1647 1648 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1649 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1650 guest on lock contention. 1651 1652 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1653 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1654 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1655 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1656 the real console. 1657 1658 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1659 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1660 registered from board initialization code. 1661 Format: 1662 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1663 1664 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1665 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1666 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1667 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1668 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1669 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1670 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1671 keyboard and cannot control its state 1672 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1673 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1674 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1675 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1676 for the AUX port 1677 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1678 controller 1679 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1680 controllers 1681 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1682 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1683 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1684 transitions, or never reset 1685 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1686 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1687 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1688 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1689 architectures force reset to be always executed 1690 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1691 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1692 1693 i810= [HW,DRM] 1694 1695 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1696 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1697 hardware. 1698 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature 1699 does not match list of supported models. 1700 i8k.power_status 1701 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1702 (disabled by default) 1703 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1704 capability is set. 1705 1706 i915.invert_brightness= 1707 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1708 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1709 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1710 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1711 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1712 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1713 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1714 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1715 value switches the backlight off. 1716 -1 -- never invert brightness 1717 0 -- machine default 1718 1 -- force brightness inversion 1719 1720 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1721 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1722 1723 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1724 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1725 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1726 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1727 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst. 1728 1729 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1730 Format: <int> 1731 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1732 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1733 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1734 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1735 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1736 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1737 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1738 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1739 was 0x3. 1740 1741 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1742 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1743 1744 idle= [X86] 1745 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1746 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1747 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1748 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1749 Not recommended. 1750 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1751 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1752 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1753 1754 idxd.sva= [HW] 1755 Format: <bool> 1756 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1757 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1758 true (1). 1759 1760 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 1761 Format: <bool> 1762 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 1763 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 1764 1765 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1766 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1767 Default: strict 1768 1769 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1770 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1771 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1772 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1773 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1774 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1775 encoding mode. 1776 1777 Available settings are as follows: 1778 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1779 supported by the FPU 1780 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1781 by the FPU 1782 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1783 by the FPU 1784 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1785 supported by the FPU 1786 1787 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1788 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1789 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1790 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1791 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1792 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1793 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1794 MIPS64 CPUs. 1795 1796 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1797 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1798 except where unsupported by hardware. 1799 1800 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1801 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1802 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1803 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1804 could change it dynamically, usually by 1805 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1806 1807 ignore_rlimit_data 1808 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1809 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1810 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1811 1812 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1813 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1814 1815 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1816 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1817 default: "enforce" 1818 1819 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1820 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1821 owned by uid=0. 1822 1823 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1824 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1825 measurements, instead of host native format. 1826 1827 ima_hash= [IMA] 1828 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1829 | sha512 | ... } 1830 default: "sha1" 1831 1832 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1833 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1834 1835 ima_policy= [IMA] 1836 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1837 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1838 fail_securely | critical_data" 1839 1840 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1841 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1842 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1843 uid=0. 1844 1845 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1846 all files owned by root. 1847 1848 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1849 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1850 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1851 1852 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1853 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1854 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1855 flag. 1856 1857 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 1858 critical data. 1859 1860 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1861 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1862 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1863 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1864 opened for read by uid=0. 1865 1866 ima_template= [IMA] 1867 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1868 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" } 1869 Default: "ima-ng" 1870 1871 ima_template_fmt= 1872 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1873 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1874 1875 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1876 Format: <min_file_size> 1877 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1878 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1879 1880 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1881 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1882 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1883 1884 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1885 Format: <bufsize> 1886 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1887 1888 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1889 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1890 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1891 1892 init= [KNL] 1893 Format: <full_path> 1894 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1895 process. 1896 1897 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1898 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1899 startup. 1900 1901 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1902 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1903 modules and initcalls. 1904 1905 initramfs_async= [KNL] 1906 Format: <bool> 1907 Default: 1 1908 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 1909 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 1910 with devices being probed and 1911 initialized. This should normally just work, 1912 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 1913 historical behaviour of the initramfs 1914 unpacking being completed before device_ and 1915 late_ initcalls. 1916 1917 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1918 1919 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 1920 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 1921 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 1922 setting. 1923 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 1924 Default is 0, 0 1925 1926 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 1927 zeroes. 1928 Format: 0 | 1 1929 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 1930 1931 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 1932 Format: 0 | 1 1933 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 1934 1935 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1936 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1937 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1938 override in debugfs after boot. 1939 1940 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1941 Format: <irq> 1942 1943 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1944 1945 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1946 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1947 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1948 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1949 1950 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1951 on 1952 Enable intel iommu driver. 1953 off 1954 Disable intel iommu driver. 1955 igfx_off [Default Off] 1956 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1957 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1958 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1959 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1960 DMA. 1961 strict [Default Off] 1962 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 1963 sp_off [Default Off] 1964 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 1965 has the capability. With this option, super page will 1966 not be supported. 1967 sm_on 1968 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 1969 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 1970 translation. 1971 sm_off 1972 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 1973 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 1974 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 1975 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 1976 could harm performance of some high-throughput 1977 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 1978 mapping is enabled. 1979 Note that using this option lowers the security 1980 provided by tboot because it makes the system 1981 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 1982 1983 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 1984 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1985 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 1986 1987 intel_pstate= [X86] 1988 disable 1989 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 1990 scaling driver for the supported processors 1991 passive 1992 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 1993 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 1994 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 1995 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 1996 feature. 1997 force 1998 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 1999 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2000 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2001 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2002 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2003 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2004 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2005 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2006 no_hwp 2007 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2008 if available. 2009 hwp_only 2010 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2011 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2012 support_acpi_ppc 2013 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2014 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2015 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2016 then this feature is turned on by default. 2017 per_cpu_perf_limits 2018 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2019 cpufreq sysfs interface 2020 2021 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 2022 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2023 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2024 nosid disable Source ID checking 2025 no_x2apic_optout 2026 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2027 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2028 2029 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2030 strict regions from userspace. 2031 relaxed 2032 2033 iommu= [X86] 2034 off 2035 force 2036 noforce 2037 biomerge 2038 panic 2039 nopanic 2040 merge 2041 nomerge 2042 soft 2043 pt [X86] 2044 nopt [X86] 2045 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2046 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2047 2048 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2049 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2050 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2051 falling back to the full range if needed. 2052 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2053 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2054 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2055 2056 iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2057 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2058 0 - Lazy mode. 2059 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2060 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2061 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2062 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2063 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2064 1 - Strict mode. 2065 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2066 synchronously. 2067 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2068 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2069 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2070 2071 iommu.passthrough= 2072 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2073 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2074 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2075 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2076 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2077 2078 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2079 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2080 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2081 2082 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 2083 0x80 2084 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2085 0xed 2086 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2087 udelay 2088 Simple two microseconds delay 2089 none 2090 No delay 2091 2092 ip= [IP_PNP] 2093 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2094 2095 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2096 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2097 2098 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2099 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2100 2101 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2102 [ARM, ARM64] 2103 Format: <bool> 2104 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2105 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2106 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2107 2108 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2109 [ARM, ARM64] 2110 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2111 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2112 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2113 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2114 LPIs. 2115 2116 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2117 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2118 requires the kernel to be built with 2119 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2120 2121 irqfixup [HW] 2122 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2123 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2124 firmware running. 2125 2126 irqpoll [HW] 2127 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2128 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2129 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2130 firmware running. 2131 2132 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2133 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2134 2135 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2136 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2137 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2138 2139 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2140 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2141 2142 nohz 2143 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2144 2145 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2146 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2147 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2148 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2149 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2150 2151 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2152 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2153 be configured manually after bootup. 2154 2155 domain 2156 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2157 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2158 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2159 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2160 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2161 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2162 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2163 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2164 2165 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2166 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2167 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2168 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2169 2170 managed_irq 2171 2172 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2173 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2174 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2175 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2176 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2177 2178 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2179 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2180 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2181 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2182 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2183 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2184 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2185 2186 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2187 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2188 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2189 only delivered when tasks running on those 2190 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2191 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2192 queues. 2193 2194 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2195 2196 iucv= [HW,NET] 2197 2198 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2199 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2200 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2201 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2202 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2203 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2204 2205 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2206 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2207 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2208 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 2209 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2210 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2211 2212 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2213 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2214 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2215 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2216 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 2217 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2218 2219 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2220 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2221 2222 nokaslr [KNL] 2223 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 2224 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 2225 Layout Randomization). 2226 2227 kasan_multi_shot 2228 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2229 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2230 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2231 invalid access. 2232 2233 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2234 2235 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2236 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2237 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2238 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2239 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2240 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2241 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2242 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2243 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2244 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2245 2246 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2247 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2248 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2249 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2250 zone if it does not. 2251 2252 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2253 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2254 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2255 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2256 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2257 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2258 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2259 2260 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2261 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2262 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2263 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2264 optional and is the number seconds in between 2265 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2266 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2267 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2268 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2269 the kernel debugger. 2270 2271 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2272 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2273 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2274 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2275 keyboard only format: kbd 2276 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2277 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2278 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2279 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2280 2281 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2282 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2283 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2284 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2285 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2286 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2287 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2288 2289 The name of the early console should be specified 2290 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2291 the early console might be different than the tty 2292 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2293 blank and the first boot console that implements 2294 read() will be picked. 2295 2296 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2297 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2298 2299 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2300 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2301 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2302 2303 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2304 Valid arguments: on, off 2305 Default: on 2306 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2307 the default is off. 2308 2309 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2310 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2311 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2312 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2313 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2314 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2315 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2316 2317 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2318 2319 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2320 Boot Parameter" section. 2321 2322 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2323 and kernel address spaces. 2324 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2325 0: force disabled 2326 1: force enabled 2327 2328 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2329 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2330 2331 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2332 Default is false (don't support). 2333 2334 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 2335 KVM MMU at runtime. 2336 Default is 0 (off) 2337 2338 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2339 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2340 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2341 force : Always deploy workaround. 2342 off : Never deploy workaround. 2343 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2344 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2345 2346 Default is 'auto'. 2347 2348 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2349 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2350 2351 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2352 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2353 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2354 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2355 period (see below). The default is 60. 2356 2357 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2358 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2359 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2360 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2361 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2362 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2363 2364 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2365 Default is 1 (enabled) 2366 2367 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2368 for all guests. 2369 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2370 2371 kvm-arm.mode= 2372 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2373 2374 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2375 2376 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2377 protected guests. 2378 2379 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2380 state is kept private from the host. 2381 Not valid if the kernel is running in EL2. 2382 2383 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2384 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2385 for the host. 2386 2387 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2388 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2389 system registers 2390 2391 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2392 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2393 system registers 2394 2395 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2396 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2397 system registers 2398 2399 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2400 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2401 LPIs. 2402 2403 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2404 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2405 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2406 allocation. 2407 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2408 Format: <integer> 2409 Default: 5 2410 2411 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2412 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2413 Default is 1 (enabled) 2414 2415 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2416 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 2417 Default is 0 (disabled) 2418 2419 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2420 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2421 Default is 1 (enabled) 2422 2423 kvm-intel.nested= 2424 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2425 Default is 0 (disabled) 2426 2427 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2428 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2429 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2430 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2431 2432 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2433 CVE-2018-3620. 2434 2435 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2436 2437 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2438 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2439 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2440 never: Disables the mitigation 2441 2442 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2443 2444 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2445 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2446 Default is 1 (enabled) 2447 2448 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL] 2449 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2450 2451 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2452 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2453 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2454 2455 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2456 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2457 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2458 not have direct access. 2459 2460 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2461 options are: 2462 2463 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2464 2465 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2466 affected CPUs 2467 2468 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2469 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2470 2471 full 2472 Provides all available mitigations for the 2473 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2474 enables all mitigations in the 2475 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2476 2477 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2478 sysfs interface is still possible after 2479 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2480 when the first VM is started in a 2481 potentially insecure configuration, 2482 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2483 2484 full,force 2485 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2486 flush runtime control. Implies the 2487 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2488 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2489 2490 flush 2491 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2492 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2493 L1D flush. 2494 2495 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2496 sysfs interface is still possible after 2497 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2498 when the first VM is started in a 2499 potentially insecure configuration, 2500 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2501 2502 flush,nosmt 2503 2504 Disables SMT and enables the default 2505 hypervisor mitigation. 2506 2507 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2508 sysfs interface is still possible after 2509 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2510 when the first VM is started in a 2511 potentially insecure configuration, 2512 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2513 2514 flush,nowarn 2515 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2516 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2517 insecure configuration. 2518 2519 off 2520 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2521 emit any warnings. 2522 It also drops the swap size and available 2523 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2524 bare metal. 2525 2526 Default is 'flush'. 2527 2528 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2529 2530 l2cr= [PPC] 2531 2532 l3cr= [PPC] 2533 2534 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2535 disabled it. 2536 2537 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2538 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2539 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2540 Format: notscdeadline 2541 2542 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2543 in C2 power state. 2544 2545 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2546 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2547 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2548 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2549 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2550 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2551 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2552 2553 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2554 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2555 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2556 2557 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2558 when set. 2559 Format: <int> 2560 2561 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma- 2562 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 2563 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 2564 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 2565 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 2566 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 2567 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 2568 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 2569 2570 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2571 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2572 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2573 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2574 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2575 host link and device attached to it. 2576 2577 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2578 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 2579 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2580 The following configurations can be forced. 2581 2582 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2583 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2584 2585 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2586 2587 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2588 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2589 allowed. 2590 2591 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2592 2593 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 2594 2595 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 2596 and both resets. 2597 2598 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 2599 hot-unplug link recovery 2600 2601 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 2602 2603 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 2604 2605 * disable: Disable this device. 2606 2607 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2608 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2609 2610 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 2611 2612 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2613 2614 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2615 Format: <integer> 2616 2617 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2618 Format: <integer> 2619 2620 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2621 Format: <integer> 2622 2623 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2624 Format: <integer> 2625 2626 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2627 { integrity | confidentiality } 2628 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2629 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2630 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2631 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2632 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2633 are also disabled. 2634 2635 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2636 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2637 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2638 number of online CPUs. 2639 2640 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2641 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2642 2643 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2644 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2645 2646 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2647 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2648 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2649 2650 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2651 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2652 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2653 mode during the locktorture test. 2654 2655 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2656 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2657 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2658 2659 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2660 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2661 2662 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2663 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2664 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2665 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2666 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2667 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2668 2669 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2670 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2671 2672 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2673 Enable additional printk() statements. 2674 2675 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2676 Format: <irq> 2677 2678 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2679 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2680 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2681 loglevels are defined as follows: 2682 2683 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2684 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2685 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2686 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2687 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2688 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2689 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2690 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2691 2692 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2693 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2694 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2695 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2696 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2697 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2698 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2699 2700 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2701 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2702 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2703 kernel boot problems. 2704 2705 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2706 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2707 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2708 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2709 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2710 attached printers to be reset. Using 2711 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2712 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2713 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2714 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2715 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2716 port specification list means that device IDs 2717 from each port should be examined, to see if 2718 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2719 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2720 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2721 2722 lpj=n [KNL] 2723 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2724 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2725 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2726 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2727 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2728 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2729 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2730 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2731 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2732 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2733 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2734 hardware. 2735 2736 ltpc= [NET] 2737 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2738 2739 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2740 2741 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2742 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2743 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2744 2745 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2746 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2747 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2748 2749 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 2750 different yeeloong laptops. 2751 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2752 2753 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2754 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2755 2756 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2757 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2758 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2759 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2760 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2761 only takes effect during system bootup. 2762 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2763 which also disables the IO APIC. 2764 2765 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2766 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2767 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2768 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2769 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2770 /dev/loop-control interface. 2771 2772 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2773 2774 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2775 2776 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2777 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2778 2779 mdacon= [MDA] 2780 Format: <first>,<last> 2781 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2782 2783 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2784 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2785 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2786 2787 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2788 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2789 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2790 2791 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2792 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2793 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2794 not have direct access. 2795 2796 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2797 options are: 2798 2799 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2800 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2801 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2802 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2803 2804 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 2805 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 2806 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 2807 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 2808 too. 2809 2810 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 2811 mds=full. 2812 2813 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 2814 2815 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2816 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 2817 2818 1 for test; 2819 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 2820 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 2821 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 2822 2823 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2824 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2825 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2826 belonging to unused RAM. 2827 2828 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 2829 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 2830 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 2831 2832 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2833 memory. 2834 2835 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2836 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2837 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2838 2839 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2840 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2841 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2842 set according to the 2843 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2844 option. 2845 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 2846 2847 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2848 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2849 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2850 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2851 option description. 2852 2853 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2854 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2855 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2856 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2857 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2858 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2859 comma delimited. 2860 Example: 2861 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2862 2863 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2864 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2865 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2866 2867 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2868 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2869 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2870 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2871 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2872 or 2873 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2874 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 2875 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 2876 will be eaten. 2877 2878 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2879 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2880 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2881 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2882 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2883 2884 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 2885 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 2886 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 2887 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 2888 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 2889 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 2890 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 2891 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 2892 2893 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2894 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2895 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2896 Setting this option will scan the memory 2897 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2898 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2899 from using the memory being corrupted. 2900 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2901 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2902 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2903 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2904 2905 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2906 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2907 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2908 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2909 corruption in more or less memory. 2910 2911 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2912 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2913 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2914 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2915 2916 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 2917 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 2918 Format: {on | off (default)} 2919 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 2920 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages) 2921 from the hotadded memory which will allow to 2922 hotadd a lot of memory without requiring 2923 additional memory to do so. 2924 This feature is disabled by default because it 2925 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 2926 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 2927 memory blocks). 2928 The state of the flag can be read in 2929 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 2930 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 2931 the feature is not effective. 2932 2933 This is not compatible with hugetlb_free_vmemmap. If 2934 both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes 2935 precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory. 2936 2937 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest 2938 Format: <integer> 2939 default : 0 <disable> 2940 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2941 performed. Each pass selects another test 2942 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2943 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2944 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2945 regions that are detected. 2946 2947 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 2948 Valid arguments: on, off 2949 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 2950 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 2951 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 2952 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 2953 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 2954 2955 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst 2956 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 2957 2958 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 2959 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 2960 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 2961 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 2962 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 2963 2964 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2965 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst. 2966 2967 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2968 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2969 platforms. 2970 2971 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2972 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2973 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2974 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2975 2976 mga= [HW,DRM] 2977 2978 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2979 physical address is ignored. 2980 2981 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2982 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2983 Default: "0tb" 2984 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2985 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2986 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2987 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2988 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2989 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2990 unconfigured. 2991 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2992 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2993 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2994 VGA shield. 2995 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2996 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2997 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2998 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2999 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3000 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3001 3002 mitigations= 3003 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 3004 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3005 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3006 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3007 3008 off 3009 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3010 improves system performance, but it may also 3011 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3012 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 3013 kpti=0 [ARM64] 3014 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3015 nobp=0 [S390] 3016 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3017 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3018 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3019 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3020 l1tf=off [X86] 3021 mds=off [X86] 3022 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3023 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3024 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3025 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3026 3027 Exceptions: 3028 This does not have any effect on 3029 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3030 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3031 3032 auto (default) 3033 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3034 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3035 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3036 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3037 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3038 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3039 3040 auto,nosmt 3041 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3042 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3043 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3044 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3045 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3046 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3047 3048 mminit_loglevel= 3049 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3050 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3051 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3052 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3053 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3054 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3055 3056 module.sig_enforce 3057 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3058 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3059 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3060 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3061 3062 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3063 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3064 3065 mousedev.tap_time= 3066 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3067 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3068 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3069 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3070 Format: <msecs> 3071 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3072 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3073 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3074 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3075 3076 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 3077 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3078 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3079 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3080 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3081 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3082 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3083 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3084 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3085 is not too small. 3086 3087 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3088 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3089 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3090 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3091 allocations. Use with caution! 3092 3093 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3094 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3095 3096 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3097 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3098 3099 mtdparts= [MTD] 3100 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3101 3102 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3103 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3104 at a time. 3105 3106 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 3107 3108 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 3109 3110 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 3111 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 3112 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 3113 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 3114 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 3115 3116 mtdset= [ARM] 3117 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 3118 3119 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 3120 3121 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3122 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3123 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3124 3125 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3126 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3127 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3128 3129 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3130 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3131 Default is 1. 3132 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3133 using up MTRRs. 3134 3135 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 3136 Format: <integer> 3137 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3138 Default : 1 3139 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3140 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3141 3142 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3143 3144 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3145 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3146 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3147 something different and driver-specific. 3148 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3149 file if at all. 3150 3151 nf_conntrack.acct= 3152 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3153 0 to disable accounting 3154 1 to enable accounting 3155 Default value is 0. 3156 3157 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3158 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3159 3160 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3161 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3162 3163 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3164 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3165 3166 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3167 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3168 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3169 requests. 3170 3171 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3172 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3173 channel should listen. 3174 3175 nfs.cache_getent= 3176 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3177 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3178 3179 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3180 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3181 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3182 3183 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3184 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3185 entries. 3186 3187 nfs.enable_ino64= 3188 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3189 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3190 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3191 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3192 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3193 3194 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3195 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3196 slots the client will assign to the callback 3197 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3198 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3199 a particular server. 3200 3201 nfs.max_session_slots= 3202 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3203 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3204 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3205 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3206 Note that there is little point in setting this 3207 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3208 3209 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3210 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3211 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3212 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3213 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3214 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3215 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3216 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3217 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3218 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3219 back to using the idmapper. 3220 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3221 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3222 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3223 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3224 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3225 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3226 3227 nfs.send_implementation_id = 3228 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3229 information in exchange_id requests. 3230 If zero, no implementation identification information 3231 will be sent. 3232 The default is to send the implementation identification 3233 information. 3234 3235 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 3236 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3237 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3238 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3239 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3240 after the locks are lost. 3241 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3242 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3243 parameter to '1'. 3244 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3245 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3246 3247 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 3248 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3249 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3250 3251 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3252 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3253 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3254 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3255 3256 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable = 3257 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3258 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3259 the destination of the copy. 3260 3261 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout = 3262 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3263 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3264 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3265 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3266 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3267 this parameter. 3268 3269 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3270 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3271 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3272 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3273 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3274 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3275 3276 3277 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3278 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3279 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3280 3281 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3282 when a NMI is triggered. 3283 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3284 3285 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3286 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3287 Valid num: 0 or 1 3288 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3289 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3290 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3291 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3292 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3293 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3294 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3295 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3296 need the box quickly up again. 3297 3298 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3299 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3300 3301 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3302 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3303 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3304 waits 4 seconds. 3305 3306 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3307 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3308 is present. 3309 3310 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3311 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3312 3313 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3314 3315 no_console_suspend 3316 [HW] Never suspend the console 3317 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3318 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3319 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3320 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3321 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3322 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3323 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3324 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3325 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3326 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3327 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3328 turn on/off it dynamically. 3329 3330 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3331 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3332 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3333 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3334 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3335 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3336 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3337 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3338 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3339 is set. 3340 3341 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3342 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3343 but will impact performance. 3344 3345 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3346 3347 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3348 (CPU alternatives feature). 3349 3350 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3351 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3352 3353 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3354 3355 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 3356 on "Classic" PPC cores. 3357 3358 nocache [ARM] 3359 3360 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 3361 3362 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 3363 3364 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3365 3366 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3367 3368 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3369 3370 noexec [IA-64] 3371 3372 noexec [X86] 3373 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 3374 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3375 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 3376 3377 nosmap [X86,PPC] 3378 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3379 even if it is supported by processor. 3380 3381 nosmep [X86,PPC] 3382 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3383 even if it is supported by processor. 3384 3385 noexec32 [X86-64] 3386 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3387 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3388 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3389 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3390 read implies executable mappings 3391 3392 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3393 3394 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3395 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3396 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3397 3398 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3399 3400 nohugevmalloc [PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3401 3402 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3403 Equivalent to smt=1. 3404 3405 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3406 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3407 via the sysfs control file. 3408 3409 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3410 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3411 possible in the system. 3412 3413 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3414 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3415 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3416 option. 3417 3418 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3419 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3420 3421 no_uaccess_flush 3422 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 3423 3424 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3425 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3426 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3427 3428 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3429 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3430 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3431 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3432 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3433 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3434 3435 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3436 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3437 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3438 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3439 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3440 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3441 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3442 3443 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait 3444 in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3445 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3446 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3447 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3448 correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute 3449 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3450 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3451 3452 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3453 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3454 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3455 3456 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3457 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3458 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3459 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3460 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3461 real-time systems. 3462 3463 no_hash_pointers 3464 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3465 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3466 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3467 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3468 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3469 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3470 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3471 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3472 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3473 value printed. Pointers printed via %pK may still be 3474 hashed. This option should only be specified when 3475 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3476 kernels. 3477 3478 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3479 3480 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3481 Valid arguments: on, off 3482 Default: on 3483 3484 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3485 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3486 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3487 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3488 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3489 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3490 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3491 just as if they had also been called out in the 3492 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3493 3494 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3495 3496 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3497 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3498 3499 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3500 broken timer IRQ sources. 3501 3502 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3503 3504 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3505 initial RAM disk. 3506 3507 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3508 remapping. 3509 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3510 3511 nointroute [IA-64] 3512 3513 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3514 3515 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3516 3517 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3518 3519 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3520 fault handling. 3521 3522 no-vmw-sched-clock 3523 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3524 clock and use the default one. 3525 3526 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time 3527 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't 3528 influence scheduler behaviour 3529 3530 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3531 3532 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3533 3534 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 3535 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 3536 3537 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3538 3539 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3540 3541 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3542 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3543 3544 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3545 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3546 irq. 3547 3548 nomodule Disable module load 3549 3550 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3551 pagetables) support. 3552 3553 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3554 3555 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3556 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3557 3558 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3559 with UP alternatives 3560 3561 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 3562 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 3563 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 3564 available to user space applications. 3565 3566 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3567 space. 3568 3569 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3570 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3571 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3572 3573 nosbagart [IA-64] 3574 3575 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 3576 3577 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 3578 3579 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3580 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3581 3582 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3583 3584 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3585 3586 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3587 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3588 3589 nowb [ARM] 3590 3591 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3592 3593 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 3594 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 3595 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 3596 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 3597 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 3598 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 3599 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 3600 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 3601 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 3602 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 3603 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 3604 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 3605 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 3606 3607 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3608 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3609 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3610 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3611 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3612 parameter's value. 3613 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3614 Default: 255 3615 3616 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3617 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3618 SAL PALO. 3619 3620 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3621 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3622 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3623 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3624 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3625 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3626 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3627 hot plugging. 3628 3629 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3630 3631 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only 3632 set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. 3633 3634 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 3635 NUMA balancing. 3636 Allowed values are enable and disable 3637 3638 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3639 'node', 'default' can be specified 3640 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3641 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3642 3643 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3644 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 3645 info. 3646 3647 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3648 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3649 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3650 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3651 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3652 interrupts *may* be lost! 3653 3654 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3655 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3656 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3657 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3658 3659 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3660 process, but there is a small probability of 3661 deadlocking the machine. 3662 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3663 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3664 3665 page_alloc.shuffle= 3666 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3667 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3668 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3669 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3670 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3671 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3672 can be read from sysfs at: 3673 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3674 3675 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3676 Storage of the information about who allocated 3677 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3678 we can turn it on. 3679 on: enable the feature 3680 3681 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3682 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3683 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3684 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3685 on: turn on poisoning 3686 3687 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 3688 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 3689 Format: <integer> 3690 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 3691 reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1). 3692 3693 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3694 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3695 timeout = 0: wait forever 3696 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3697 Format: <timeout> 3698 3699 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3700 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3701 bit 0: print all tasks info 3702 bit 1: print system memory info 3703 bit 2: print timer info 3704 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3705 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3706 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3707 3708 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 3709 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 3710 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 3711 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 3712 called with any of the flags in this set. 3713 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 3714 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 3715 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 3716 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 3717 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 3718 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 3719 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 3720 3721 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3722 on a WARN(). 3723 3724 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 3725 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 3726 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 3727 succeeds in any situation. 3728 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 3729 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 3730 kernel more unstable. 3731 3732 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3733 connected to, default is 0. 3734 Format: <parport#> 3735 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3736 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3737 Format: <mode> 3738 3739 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3740 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3741 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3742 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3743 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3744 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3745 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3746 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3747 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3748 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3749 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3750 are specified on the command line, starting 3751 with parport0. 3752 3753 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3754 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3755 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3756 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3757 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3758 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3759 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3760 3761 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 3762 Format: <int> 3763 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 3764 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 3765 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 3766 3767 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 3768 Format: <int> 3769 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 3770 changes. Disabled by default. 3771 3772 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 3773 Format: <int> 3774 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 3775 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3776 Disabled by default. 3777 3778 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 3779 Format: <int> 3780 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 3781 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3782 Disabled by default. 3783 3784 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3785 Format: <int> 3786 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 3787 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 3788 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 3789 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 3790 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 3791 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 3792 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 3793 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 3794 all channels. 3795 3796 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 3797 Format: <int> 3798 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 3799 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 3800 respectively. Disabled by default. 3801 3802 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 3803 Format: <int> 3804 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 3805 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 3806 respectively. Disabled by default. 3807 3808 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3809 Format: <int> 3810 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 3811 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 3812 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 3813 All modes allowed by default. 3814 3815 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 3816 Format: <int> 3817 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 3818 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 3819 3820 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3821 Format: <int> 3822 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 3823 platform configuration and the use of other driver 3824 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 3825 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 3826 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 3827 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 3828 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 3829 By default all supported ports are probed. 3830 3831 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 3832 Format: <int> 3833 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 3834 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 3835 3836 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 3837 Format: <int> 3838 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 3839 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 3840 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 3841 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 3842 0 otherwise. 3843 3844 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3845 Format: <int> 3846 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 3847 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 3848 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 3849 allowed by default. 3850 3851 pause_on_oops= 3852 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 3853 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 3854 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 3855 3856 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 3857 3858 pcd. [PARIDE] 3859 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 3860 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3861 3862 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 3863 3864 Some options herein operate on a specific device 3865 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 3866 specified in one of the following formats: 3867 3868 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 3869 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 3870 3871 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 3872 bus/device/function address which may change 3873 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 3874 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 3875 by other kernel parameters. If the 3876 domain is left unspecified, it is 3877 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 3878 to a device through multiple device/function 3879 addresses can be specified after the base 3880 address (this is more robust against 3881 renumbering issues). The second format 3882 selects devices using IDs from the 3883 configuration space which may match multiple 3884 devices in the system. 3885 3886 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 3887 changes anything 3888 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 3889 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 3890 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 3891 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 3892 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 3893 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 3894 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 3895 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 3896 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3897 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 3898 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 3899 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3900 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 3901 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 3902 bus number. The config space is then accessed 3903 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 3904 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 3905 on the configuration access mechanisms. 3906 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 3907 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3908 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 3909 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 3910 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 3911 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 3912 Configuration 3913 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 3914 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 3915 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 3916 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 3917 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3918 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 3919 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 3920 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 3921 should never be necessary. 3922 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 3923 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 3924 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 3925 when the system masks IRQs. 3926 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 3927 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 3928 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 3929 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 3930 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 3931 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 3932 on several machines and they hang the machine 3933 when used, but on other computers it's the only 3934 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 3935 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 3936 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 3937 motherboard. 3938 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 3939 Use with caution as certain devices share 3940 address decoders between ROMs and other 3941 resources. 3942 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 3943 expansion ROMs that do not already have 3944 BIOS assigned address ranges. 3945 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 3946 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 3947 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 3948 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 3949 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 3950 this way. 3951 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 3952 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 3953 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 3954 F0000h-100000h range. 3955 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 3956 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 3957 secondary buses and you want to tell it 3958 explicitly which ones they are. 3959 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 3960 numbers ourselves, overriding 3961 whatever the firmware may have done. 3962 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 3963 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 3964 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 3965 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 3966 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 3967 IRQ routing is enabled. 3968 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 3969 or for PCI scanning. 3970 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 3971 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 3972 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 3973 please report a bug. 3974 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 3975 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 3976 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 3977 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 3978 so this option is a temporary workaround 3979 for broken drivers that don't call it. 3980 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 3981 handle more pci cards 3982 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 3983 This might help on some broken boards which 3984 machine check when some devices' config space 3985 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 3986 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 3987 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3988 This sorting is done to get a device 3989 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 3990 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3991 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 3992 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 3993 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 3994 supported by all devices below the root complex. 3995 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 3996 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 3997 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 3998 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 3999 or bus can support) for best performance. 4000 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4001 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4002 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4003 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4004 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4005 that hot-added devices will work. 4006 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4007 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4008 The default value is 256 bytes. 4009 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4010 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4011 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4012 resource_alignment= 4013 Format: 4014 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4015 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4016 aligned memory resources. How to 4017 specify the device is described above. 4018 If <order of align> is not specified, 4019 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4020 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4021 windows need to be expanded. 4022 To specify the alignment for several 4023 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4024 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4025 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4026 for 4096-byte alignment. 4027 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4028 end-to-end CRC checking). 4029 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4030 the default. 4031 off: Turn ECRC off 4032 on: Turn ECRC on. 4033 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4034 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4035 Default size is 256 bytes. 4036 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4037 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4038 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4039 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4040 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4041 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4042 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4043 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4044 MMIO_PREF window. 4045 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4046 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4047 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4048 Default is 1. 4049 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4050 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4051 accommodate resources required by all child 4052 devices. 4053 off: Turn realloc off 4054 on: Turn realloc on 4055 realloc same as realloc=on 4056 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4057 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4058 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4059 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4060 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4061 port. 4062 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4063 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4064 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4065 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4066 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4067 taints the kernel. 4068 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4069 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4070 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4071 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4072 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4073 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4074 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4075 this removes isolation between devices and 4076 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4077 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4078 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4079 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4080 one PCI domain per PCI function 4081 4082 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 4083 Management. 4084 off Disable ASPM. 4085 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4086 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4087 4088 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4089 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4090 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4091 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4092 also tries to use these services. 4093 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4094 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4095 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4096 hotplug). 4097 4098 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4099 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4100 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4101 4102 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4103 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4104 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4105 4106 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4107 4108 pd_ignore_unused 4109 [PM] 4110 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4111 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4112 for debug and development, but should not be 4113 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4114 4115 pd. [PARIDE] 4116 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4117 4118 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4119 boot time. 4120 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4121 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4122 4123 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4124 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4125 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4126 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4127 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4128 and performance comparison. 4129 4130 pf. [PARIDE] 4131 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4132 4133 pg. [PARIDE] 4134 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4135 4136 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4137 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4138 4139 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4140 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4141 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4142 4143 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4144 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4145 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4146 4147 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4148 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4149 4150 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4151 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4152 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4153 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4154 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4155 possible settings and some assignment information. 4156 4157 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4158 { off } 4159 4160 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4161 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4162 4163 pnp_reserve_irq= 4164 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4165 4166 pnp_reserve_dma= 4167 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4168 4169 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4170 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4171 4172 pnp_reserve_mem= 4173 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4174 autoconfiguration. 4175 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4176 4177 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4178 Default is 21. 4179 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4180 may be specified. 4181 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4182 4183 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4184 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4185 platform machine description specific power_save 4186 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4187 execution priority. 4188 4189 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4190 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4191 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4192 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4193 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4194 4195 ppc_tm= [PPC] 4196 Format: {"off"} 4197 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4198 4199 preempt= [KNL] 4200 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4201 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4202 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4203 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4204 can be preempted anytime. 4205 4206 print-fatal-signals= 4207 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4208 4209 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4210 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4211 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4212 coredump - etc. 4213 4214 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4215 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4216 4217 default: off. 4218 4219 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4220 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4221 panics 4222 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4223 default: disabled 4224 4225 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4226 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4227 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4228 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4229 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4230 in order to provide more debug information. 4231 Format: <bool> 4232 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4233 4234 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4235 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4236 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4237 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4238 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4239 Default: ratelimit 4240 4241 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4242 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4243 4244 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4245 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4246 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4247 4248 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4249 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4250 instead using the legacy FADT method 4251 4252 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4253 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4254 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4255 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4256 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4257 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4258 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4259 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4260 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4261 statistical time based profiling. 4262 4263 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4264 4265 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4266 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4267 that). 4268 Format: <bool> 4269 4270 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4271 tracking. 4272 Format: <bool> 4273 4274 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4275 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4276 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4277 per second. 4278 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4279 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4280 (0 = never). 4281 psmouse.resolution= 4282 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4283 psmouse.smartscroll= 4284 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4285 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4286 4287 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4288 4289 pt. [PARIDE] 4290 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4291 4292 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4293 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4294 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4295 system calls and interrupts. 4296 4297 on - unconditionally enable 4298 off - unconditionally disable 4299 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4300 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4301 4302 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4303 4304 nopti [X86-64] 4305 Equivalent to pti=off 4306 4307 pty.legacy_count= 4308 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4309 default number. 4310 4311 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4312 4313 r128= [HW,DRM] 4314 4315 raid= [HW,RAID] 4316 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4317 4318 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4319 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4320 4321 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4322 4323 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 4324 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 4325 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 4326 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4327 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 4328 4329 randomize_kstack_offset= 4330 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4331 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4332 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4333 that depend on stack address determinism or 4334 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4335 available on architectures that have defined 4336 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4337 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4338 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4339 4340 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4341 4342 cec_disable [X86] 4343 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4344 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4345 4346 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 4347 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 4348 4349 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 4350 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 4351 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be 4352 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that 4353 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and 4354 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number. 4355 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs, 4356 which can be useful for HPC and real-time 4357 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency 4358 for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4359 4360 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4361 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4362 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4363 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4364 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4365 This improves the real-time response for the 4366 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4367 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4368 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4369 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4370 4371 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4372 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4373 process in one batch. 4374 4375 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4376 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4377 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4378 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4379 4380 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4381 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4382 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4383 4384 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4385 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4386 RCU grace-period initialization. 4387 4388 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4389 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4390 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4391 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4392 the rcu_node combining tree. 4393 4394 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 4395 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 4396 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 4397 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 4398 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 4399 4400 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 4401 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 4402 to zero. 4403 4404 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4405 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4406 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4407 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4408 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4409 4410 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4411 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4412 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4413 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4414 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4415 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4416 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4417 4418 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4419 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4420 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4421 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4422 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4423 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4424 condition. 4425 4426 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 4427 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 4428 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 4429 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 4430 4431 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4432 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4433 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4434 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4435 and maximum value is HZ. 4436 4437 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4438 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4439 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4440 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4441 4442 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4443 Set required age in jiffies for a 4444 given grace period before RCU starts 4445 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4446 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4447 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4448 a value based on the most recent settings 4449 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4450 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4451 This calculated value may be viewed in 4452 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4453 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4454 overwritten. 4455 4456 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4457 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4458 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4459 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4460 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4461 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4462 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4463 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4464 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4465 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4466 4467 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4468 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4469 each group, which defaults to the square root 4470 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4471 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4472 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4473 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4474 4475 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4476 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4477 batch limiting is disabled. 4478 4479 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4480 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4481 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4482 4483 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4484 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4485 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4486 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4487 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4488 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4489 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4490 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4491 4492 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 4493 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 4494 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 4495 4496 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4497 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4498 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4499 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4500 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4501 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4502 4503 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 4504 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 4505 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 4506 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 4507 Larger delays increase the probability of 4508 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 4509 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 4510 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 4511 4512 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4513 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4514 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4515 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4516 4517 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 4518 Measure performance of asynchronous 4519 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4520 4521 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4522 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4523 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4524 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4525 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4526 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4527 4528 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 4529 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4530 grace-period primitives. 4531 4532 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4533 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4534 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4535 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4536 interference. 4537 4538 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4539 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4540 4541 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 4542 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4543 If this parameter has the same value as 4544 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 4545 and double-argument variants are tested. 4546 4547 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 4548 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4549 If this parameter has the same value as 4550 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 4551 and double-argument variants are tested. 4552 4553 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4554 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4555 4556 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4557 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4558 4559 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4560 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 4561 of allocations and frees. 4562 4563 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4564 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4565 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4566 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4567 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4568 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4569 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4570 a single reader. 4571 4572 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 4573 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4574 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 4575 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4576 4577 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL] 4578 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4579 4580 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4581 Shut the system down after performance tests 4582 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4583 testing. 4584 4585 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 4586 Enable additional printk() statements. 4587 4588 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4589 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4590 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4591 no holdoff. 4592 4593 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4594 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4595 in microseconds. 4596 4597 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4598 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4599 in microseconds. 4600 4601 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4602 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4603 in seconds. 4604 4605 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4606 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4607 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4608 4609 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4610 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4611 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4612 4613 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4614 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4615 forward-progress tests. 4616 4617 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4618 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4619 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4620 testing. 4621 4622 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4623 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4624 primitives, if available. 4625 4626 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4627 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4628 4629 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4630 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4631 update-side primitives, if available. 4632 4633 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4634 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4635 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4636 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4637 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4638 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4639 they are all non-zero. 4640 4641 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 4642 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 4643 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 4644 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 4645 4646 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 4647 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 4648 This can of course result in splats, and is 4649 intended to test the ability of things like 4650 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 4651 such leaks. 4652 4653 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 4654 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 4655 4656 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 4657 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 4658 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 4659 test, hence the "fake". 4660 4661 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 4662 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 4663 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 4664 4665 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 4666 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 4667 callback-offload toggling attempts. 4668 4669 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 4670 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4671 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4672 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 4673 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4674 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4675 4676 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 4677 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 4678 4679 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4680 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 4681 4682 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4683 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 4684 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 4685 4686 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 4687 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 4688 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 4689 task-exit processing. 4690 4691 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 4692 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 4693 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 4694 is spawned. 4695 4696 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 4697 The delay, in seconds, between successive 4698 read-then-exit testing episodes. 4699 4700 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 4701 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 4702 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 4703 during the rcutorture test. 4704 4705 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4706 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 4707 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 4708 4709 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 4710 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 4711 warnings, zero to disable. 4712 4713 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 4714 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 4715 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition 4716 to any other stall-related activity. 4717 4718 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 4719 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 4720 4721 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 4722 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 4723 4724 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 4725 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 4726 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 4727 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 4728 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 4729 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 4730 4731 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 4732 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 4733 4734 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 4735 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 4736 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 4737 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 4738 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 4739 4740 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 4741 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 4742 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 4743 under test support RCU priority boosting. 4744 4745 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 4746 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 4747 4748 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 4749 Interval (s) between each boost test. 4750 4751 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 4752 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 4753 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 4754 4755 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 4756 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4757 4758 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 4759 Enable additional printk() statements. 4760 4761 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 4762 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 4763 stall warning. 4764 4765 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 4766 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4767 4768 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 4769 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 4770 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 4771 during early boot, that is, during the time 4772 before the init task is spawned. 4773 4774 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4775 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4776 4777 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 4778 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 4779 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 4780 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 4781 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 4782 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 4783 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4784 4785 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 4786 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 4787 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 4788 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 4789 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 4790 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 4791 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 4792 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 4793 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4794 4795 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 4796 Once boot has completed (that is, after 4797 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 4798 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 4799 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4800 4801 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 4802 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 4803 it to the value one, that is, converting any 4804 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 4805 period to instead use normal non-expedited 4806 grace-period processing. 4807 4808 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 4809 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 4810 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 4811 of a given grace period. Setting a large 4812 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 4813 but lengthens grace periods. 4814 4815 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4816 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 4817 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 4818 to zero. 4819 4820 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 4821 Run the RCU early boot self tests 4822 4823 rdinit= [KNL] 4824 Format: <full_path> 4825 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 4826 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 4827 4828 rdrand= [X86] 4829 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 4830 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 4831 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 4832 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 4833 path). 4834 4835 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 4836 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 4837 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 4838 mba. 4839 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 4840 rdt=cmt,!mba 4841 4842 reboot= [KNL] 4843 Format (x86 or x86_64): 4844 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 4845 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 4846 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 4847 [[,]f[orce] 4848 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 4849 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 4850 reboot only), 4851 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 4852 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 4853 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 4854 to be used for rebooting. 4855 4856 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4857 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4858 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4859 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4860 interference. 4861 4862 refscale.loops= [KNL] 4863 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 4864 primitive under test. Increasing this number 4865 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 4866 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 4867 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 4868 x86 laptops. 4869 4870 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4871 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 4872 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 4873 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 4874 4875 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 4876 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 4877 the console log. 4878 4879 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 4880 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 4881 measured in microseconds. 4882 4883 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 4884 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 4885 4886 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4887 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 4888 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 4889 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 4890 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 4891 4892 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 4893 Enable additional printk() statements. 4894 4895 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 4896 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 4897 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 4898 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 4899 specified. 4900 4901 relax_domain_level= 4902 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 4903 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 4904 4905 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 4906 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 4907 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 4908 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 4909 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 4910 4911 reservetop= [X86-32] 4912 Format: nn[KMG] 4913 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 4914 address space. 4915 4916 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 4917 during initialization. 4918 4919 resume= [SWSUSP] 4920 Specify the partition device for software suspend 4921 Format: 4922 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 4923 4924 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 4925 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 4926 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 4927 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 4928 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 4929 4930 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4931 read the resume files 4932 4933 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 4934 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4935 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4936 4937 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 4938 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 4939 present during boot. 4940 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 4941 no Disable hibernation and resume. 4942 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 4943 (that will set all pages holding image data 4944 during restoration read-only). 4945 4946 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 4947 4948 rfkill.default_state= 4949 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 4950 etc. communication is blocked by default. 4951 1 Unblocked. 4952 4953 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 4954 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 4955 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4956 blocked and the previous configuration. 4957 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4958 blocked and everything unblocked. 4959 4960 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4961 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 4962 4963 ring3mwait=disable 4964 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 4965 CPUs. 4966 4967 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 4968 4969 rodata= [KNL] 4970 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 4971 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 4972 4973 rockchip.usb_uart 4974 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 4975 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 4976 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 4977 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 4978 4979 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 4980 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 4981 4982 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4983 mount the root filesystem 4984 4985 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 4986 4987 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 4988 4989 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 4990 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4991 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4992 4993 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 4994 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 4995 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 4996 managed by CMA. 4997 4998 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 4999 5000 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5001 5002 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5003 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5004 strict 5005 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 5006 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 5007 which is faster. 5008 5009 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5010 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5011 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5012 factor of the size of main memory. 5013 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5014 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5015 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5016 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5017 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5018 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5019 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5020 5021 sa1100ir [NET] 5022 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5023 5024 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5025 5026 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5027 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5028 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5029 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5030 5031 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5032 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5033 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5034 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5035 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5036 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5037 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5038 value. 5039 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5040 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5041 1 64 ms 5042 2 128 ms 5043 and so on. 5044 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5045 Default is 0. 5046 5047 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5048 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5049 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5050 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5051 tests. 5052 5053 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5054 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5055 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5056 default) disables this feature. Please note 5057 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5058 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5059 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5060 5061 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5062 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5063 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5064 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5065 equal to the number of CPUs. 5066 5067 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5068 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5069 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 5070 5071 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5072 Number seconds to wait between successive 5073 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 5074 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 5075 5076 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5077 The number of seconds following the start of the 5078 test after which to shut down the system. The 5079 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 5080 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 5081 5082 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5083 The number of seconds between outputting the 5084 current test statistics to the console. A value 5085 of zero disables statistics output. 5086 5087 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 5088 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 5089 to the set of CPUs under test. 5090 5091 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 5092 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 5093 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 5094 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 5095 functions. 5096 5097 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 5098 Enable additional printk() statements. 5099 5100 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 5101 The probability weighting to use for the 5102 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 5103 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 5104 default if all other weights are -1. However, 5105 if at least one weight has some other value, a 5106 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 5107 5108 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 5109 The probability weighting to use for the 5110 smp_call_function_single() function with a 5111 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5112 5113 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 5114 The probability weighting to use for the 5115 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 5116 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5117 Note well that setting a high probability for 5118 this weighting can place serious IPI load 5119 on the system. 5120 5121 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 5122 The probability weighting to use for the 5123 smp_call_function_many() function with a 5124 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5125 and weight_many. 5126 5127 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 5128 The probability weighting to use for the 5129 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 5130 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 5131 weight_many. 5132 5133 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 5134 The probability weighting to use for the 5135 smp_call_function_all() function with a 5136 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5137 and weight_many. 5138 5139 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 5140 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 5141 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 5142 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5143 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 5144 1 -- enable. 5145 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 5146 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 5147 5148 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 5149 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 5150 "lsm=" parameter. 5151 5152 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 5153 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5154 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 5155 0 -- disable. 5156 1 -- enable. 5157 Default value is 1. 5158 5159 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 5160 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5161 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 5162 0 -- disable. 5163 1 -- enable. 5164 Default value is set via kernel config option. 5165 5166 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 5167 5168 shapers= [NET] 5169 Maximal number of shapers. 5170 5171 simeth= [IA-64] 5172 simscsi= 5173 5174 slram= [HW,MTD] 5175 5176 slab_merge [MM] 5177 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 5178 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 5179 5180 slab_nomerge [MM] 5181 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 5182 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 5183 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 5184 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 5185 layout control by attackers can usually be 5186 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 5187 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 5188 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 5189 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 5190 own. 5191 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5192 5193 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 5194 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5195 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5196 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 5197 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 5198 5199 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 5200 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 5201 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5202 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5203 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5204 last alloc / free. For more information see 5205 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5206 5207 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 5208 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5209 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5210 fragmentation. For more information see 5211 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5212 5213 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 5214 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 5215 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 5216 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 5217 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 5218 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 5219 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 5220 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5221 5222 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 5223 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 5224 lower than slub_max_order. 5225 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5226 5227 slub_merge [MM, SLUB] 5228 Same with slab_merge. 5229 5230 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 5231 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 5232 See slab_nomerge for more information. 5233 5234 smart2= [HW] 5235 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 5236 5237 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 5238 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 5239 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 5240 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 5241 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 5242 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 5243 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 5244 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 5245 1: Fast pin select (default) 5246 2: ATC IRMode 5247 5248 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 5249 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 5250 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 5251 actual hardware limit. 5252 Format: <integer> 5253 Default: -1 (no limit) 5254 5255 softlockup_panic= 5256 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 5257 Format: 0 | 1 5258 5259 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 5260 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 5261 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 5262 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 5263 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 5264 5265 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 5266 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 5267 backtraces on all cpus. 5268 Format: 0 | 1 5269 5270 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 5271 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 5272 5273 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5274 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 5275 The default operation protects the kernel from 5276 user space attacks. 5277 5278 on - unconditionally enable, implies 5279 spectre_v2_user=on 5280 off - unconditionally disable, implies 5281 spectre_v2_user=off 5282 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5283 vulnerable 5284 5285 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 5286 mitigation method at run time according to the 5287 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 5288 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 5289 compiler with which the kernel was built. 5290 5291 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 5292 against user space to user space task attacks. 5293 5294 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 5295 the user space protections. 5296 5297 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 5298 5299 retpoline - replace indirect branches 5300 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline 5301 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk 5302 5303 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5304 spectre_v2=auto. 5305 5306 spectre_v2_user= 5307 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5308 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 5309 user space tasks 5310 5311 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 5312 enforced by spectre_v2=on 5313 5314 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 5315 enforced by spectre_v2=off 5316 5317 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 5318 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 5319 per thread. The mitigation control state 5320 is inherited on fork. 5321 5322 prctl,ibpb 5323 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 5324 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5325 always when switching between different user 5326 space processes. 5327 5328 seccomp 5329 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 5330 threads will enable the mitigation unless 5331 they explicitly opt out. 5332 5333 seccomp,ibpb 5334 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 5335 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5336 always when switching between different 5337 user space processes. 5338 5339 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 5340 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 5341 5342 Default mitigation: "prctl" 5343 5344 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5345 spectre_v2_user=auto. 5346 5347 spec_store_bypass_disable= 5348 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 5349 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 5350 5351 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 5352 a common industry wide performance optimization known 5353 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 5354 to the same memory location may not be observed by 5355 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 5356 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 5357 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 5358 end of a particular speculation execution window. 5359 5360 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5361 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 5362 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 5363 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 5364 5365 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 5366 Bypass optimization is used. 5367 5368 On x86 the options are: 5369 5370 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 5371 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 5372 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 5373 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 5374 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 5375 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 5376 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 5377 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 5378 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 5379 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 5380 for a process by default. The state of the control 5381 is inherited on fork. 5382 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 5383 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 5384 5385 Default mitigations: 5386 X86: "prctl" 5387 5388 On powerpc the options are: 5389 5390 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 5391 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 5392 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 5393 exit. 5394 off - No action. 5395 5396 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5397 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 5398 5399 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 5400 spia_fio_base= 5401 spia_pedr= 5402 spia_peddr= 5403 5404 split_lock_detect= 5405 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 5406 5407 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 5408 instructions that access data across cache line 5409 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 5410 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 5411 bus lock detection. 5412 5413 off - not enabled 5414 5415 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 5416 about applications triggering the #AC 5417 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 5418 the default on CPUs that support split lock 5419 detection or bus lock detection. Default 5420 behavior is by #AC if both features are 5421 enabled in hardware. 5422 5423 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 5424 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 5425 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 5426 both features are enabled in hardware. 5427 5428 ratelimit:N - 5429 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 5430 per second for bus lock detection. 5431 0 < N <= 1000. 5432 5433 N/A for split lock detection. 5434 5435 5436 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 5437 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 5438 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 5439 mode. 5440 5441 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 5442 CPL > 0. 5443 5444 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 5445 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 5446 (SRBDS) mitigation. 5447 5448 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 5449 exploit which can leak bits from the random 5450 number generator. 5451 5452 By default, this issue is mitigated by 5453 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 5454 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 5455 much slower. Among other effects, this will 5456 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 5457 5458 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 5459 the following option: 5460 5461 off: Disable mitigation and remove 5462 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 5463 5464 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 5465 Specifies how frequently to check for 5466 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 5467 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 5468 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 5469 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 5470 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 5471 are ignored. 5472 5473 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 5474 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 5475 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 5476 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 5477 grace period will be considered for automatic 5478 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 5479 expediting. 5480 5481 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 5482 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 5483 5484 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 5485 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 5486 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 5487 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 5488 5489 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 5490 for both kernel and userspace 5491 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 5492 for both kernel and userspace 5493 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 5494 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 5495 to allow userspace to register its 5496 interest in being mitigated too. 5497 5498 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 5499 override the default stack gap protection. The value 5500 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 5501 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 5502 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 5503 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 5504 5505 stack_depot_disable= [KNL] 5506 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 5507 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 5508 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 5509 to false. 5510 5511 stacktrace [FTRACE] 5512 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 5513 5514 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 5515 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 5516 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 5517 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 5518 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 5519 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 5520 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 5521 5522 sti= [PARISC,HW] 5523 Format: <num> 5524 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 5525 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 5526 as the initial boot-console. 5527 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5528 5529 sti_font= [HW] 5530 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5531 5532 stifb= [HW] 5533 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 5534 5535 strict_sas_size= 5536 [X86] 5537 Format: <bool> 5538 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 5539 against the required signal frame size which 5540 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 5541 be used to filter out binaries which have 5542 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 5543 5544 sunrpc.min_resvport= 5545 sunrpc.max_resvport= 5546 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5547 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 5548 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 5549 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 5550 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 5551 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 5552 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 5553 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 5554 maximum port values. 5555 5556 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 5557 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5558 Limit the number of requests that the server will 5559 process in parallel from a single connection. 5560 The default value is 0 (no limit). 5561 5562 sunrpc.pool_mode= 5563 [NFS] 5564 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 5565 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 5566 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 5567 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 5568 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 5569 NFS server is running. 5570 5571 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 5572 automatically using heuristics 5573 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 5574 percpu one pool for each CPU 5575 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 5576 to global on non-NUMA machines) 5577 5578 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 5579 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 5580 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5581 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 5582 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 5583 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 5584 improve throughput, but will also increase the 5585 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 5586 5587 suspend.pm_test_delay= 5588 [SUSPEND] 5589 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 5590 mode before resuming the system (see 5591 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 5592 is set. Default value is 5. 5593 5594 svm= [PPC] 5595 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 5596 This parameter controls use of the Protected 5597 Execution Facility on pSeries. 5598 5599 swapaccount=[0|1] 5600 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 5601 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 5602 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) 5603 5604 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 5605 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 5606 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 5607 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 5608 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 5609 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 5610 5611 switches= [HW,M68k] 5612 5613 sysctl.*= [KNL] 5614 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 5615 process, as if the value was written to the respective 5616 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 5617 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 5618 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 5619 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 5620 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 5621 5622 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 5623 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 5624 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 5625 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 5626 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 5627 in older udev will not work anymore. 5628 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 5629 the kernel configuration. 5630 5631 sysrq_always_enabled 5632 [KNL] 5633 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 5634 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 5635 Useful for debugging. 5636 5637 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5638 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 5639 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 5640 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 5641 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 5642 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 5643 5644 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 5645 5646 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 5647 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 5648 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 5649 as the system sleep state during system startup with 5650 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 5651 The system is woken from this state using a 5652 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 5653 5654 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5655 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 5656 5657 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 5658 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 5659 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 5660 5661 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 5662 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 5663 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 5664 5665 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 5666 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 5667 critical and hot trip points. 5668 5669 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 5670 1: disable ACPI thermal control 5671 5672 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 5673 -1: disable all passive trip points 5674 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 5675 value 5676 5677 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 5678 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 5679 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 5680 0: no polling (default) 5681 5682 threadirqs [KNL] 5683 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 5684 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 5685 5686 topology= [S390] 5687 Format: {off | on} 5688 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 5689 topology information if the hardware supports this. 5690 The scheduler will make use of this information and 5691 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 5692 Default is on. 5693 5694 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 5695 Format: {off} 5696 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 5697 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 5698 LPAR. 5699 5700 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 5701 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 5702 until after init has spawned. 5703 5704 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 5705 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 5706 even if there were no errors. This can be a 5707 very costly operation when many torture tests 5708 are running concurrently, especially on systems 5709 with rotating-rust storage. 5710 5711 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 5712 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 5713 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 5714 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 5715 5716 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 5717 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 5718 5719 tp720= [HW,PS2] 5720 5721 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 5722 Format: integer pcr id 5723 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 5724 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 5725 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 5726 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 5727 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 5728 are saved. 5729 5730 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 5731 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 5732 5733 trace_event=[event-list] 5734 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 5735 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 5736 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 5737 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 5738 5739 trace_options=[option-list] 5740 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 5741 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 5742 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 5743 to echo the option name into 5744 5745 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 5746 5747 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 5748 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 5749 5750 trace_options=stacktrace 5751 5752 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 5753 section. 5754 5755 tp_printk[FTRACE] 5756 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 5757 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 5758 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 5759 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 5760 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 5761 5762 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 5763 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 5764 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 5765 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 5766 5767 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 5768 to stop the printing of events to console at 5769 late_initcall_sync. 5770 5771 ** CAUTION ** 5772 5773 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 5774 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 5775 the system to live lock. 5776 5777 tp_printk_stop_on_boot[FTRACE] 5778 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 5779 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 5780 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 5781 make the system inoperable. 5782 5783 This command line option will stop the printing of events 5784 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 5785 5786 traceoff_on_warning 5787 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 5788 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 5789 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 5790 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 5791 5792 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 5793 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 5794 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 5795 5796 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 5797 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 5798 5799 transparent_hugepage= 5800 [KNL] 5801 Format: [always|madvise|never] 5802 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 5803 with respect to transparent hugepages. 5804 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 5805 for more details. 5806 5807 trusted.source= [KEYS] 5808 Format: <string> 5809 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 5810 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 5811 sources: 5812 - "tpm" 5813 - "tee" 5814 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 5815 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 5816 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 5817 successfully during iteration. 5818 5819 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 5820 Format: <string> 5821 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 5822 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 5823 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 5824 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 5825 virtualized environment. 5826 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 5827 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 5828 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 5829 can add overhead. 5830 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 5831 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 5832 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 5833 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 5834 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 5835 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 5836 acceptable). 5837 5838 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 5839 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 5840 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 5841 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 5842 Format: <unsigned int> 5843 5844 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 5845 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 5846 support TSX control. 5847 5848 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 5849 5850 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 5851 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 5852 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 5853 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 5854 so there may be unknown security risks associated 5855 with leaving it enabled. 5856 5857 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 5858 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 5859 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 5860 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 5861 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 5862 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 5863 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 5864 5865 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 5866 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 5867 5868 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 5869 5870 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 5871 for more details. 5872 5873 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 5874 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 5875 5876 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 5877 certain CPUs that support Transactional 5878 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 5879 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 5880 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 5881 conditions. 5882 5883 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5884 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 5885 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 5886 access. 5887 5888 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 5889 options are: 5890 5891 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 5892 if TSX is enabled. 5893 5894 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 5895 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 5896 is not disabled because CPU is not 5897 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 5898 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 5899 5900 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 5901 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 5902 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 5903 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 5904 5905 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5906 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 5907 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 5908 required and doesn't provide any additional 5909 mitigation. 5910 5911 For details see: 5912 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 5913 5914 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 5915 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 5916 Format: 5917 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 5918 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 5919 5920 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 5921 happen after console_init() and before a proper 5922 console driver takes over, this boot options might 5923 help "seeing" what's going on. 5924 5925 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5926 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 5927 5928 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 5929 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 5930 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 5931 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 5932 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 5933 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 5934 reported either. 5935 5936 unknown_nmi_panic 5937 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 5938 5939 usbcore.authorized_default= 5940 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 5941 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 5942 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 5943 if device connected to internal port) 5944 5945 usbcore.autosuspend= 5946 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 5947 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 5948 is the time required before an idle device will be 5949 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 5950 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 5951 5952 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 5953 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 5954 5955 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 5956 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 5957 (default = 65536). 5958 5959 usbcore.blinkenlights= 5960 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 5961 5962 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 5963 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 5964 scheme (default 0 = off). 5965 5966 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 5967 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 5968 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 5969 5970 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 5971 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 5972 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 5973 5974 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 5975 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 5976 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 5977 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 5978 5979 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 5980 5981 usbcore.quirks= 5982 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 5983 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 5984 commas. Each entry has the form 5985 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 5986 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 5987 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 5988 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 5989 the following meanings: 5990 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 5991 descriptors must not be fetched using 5992 a 255-byte read); 5993 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 5994 correctly so reset it instead); 5995 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 5996 Set-Interface requests); 5997 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 5998 handle its Configuration or Interface 5999 strings); 6000 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 6001 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 6002 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 6003 more interface descriptions than the 6004 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 6005 talking to these interfaces); 6006 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 6007 during initialization, after we read 6008 the device descriptor); 6009 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 6010 high speed and super speed interrupt 6011 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 6012 require the interval in microframes (1 6013 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 6014 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 6015 (bInterval-1). 6016 Devices with this quirk report their 6017 bInterval as the result of this 6018 calculation instead of the exponent 6019 variable used in the calculation); 6020 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 6021 handle device_qualifier descriptor 6022 requests); 6023 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 6024 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 6025 remote wakeup capability); 6026 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 6027 Power Management); 6028 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 6029 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 6030 frames instead of the USB 2.0 6031 calculation); 6032 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 6033 to be disconnected before suspend to 6034 prevent spurious wakeup); 6035 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 6036 pause after every control message); 6037 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 6038 delay after resetting its port); 6039 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 6040 6041 usbhid.mousepoll= 6042 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 6043 6044 usbhid.jspoll= 6045 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 6046 6047 usbhid.kbpoll= 6048 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 6049 6050 usb-storage.delay_use= 6051 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 6052 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 6053 6054 usb-storage.quirks= 6055 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 6056 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 6057 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 6058 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 6059 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 6060 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 6061 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 6062 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 6063 of sense data, not on uas); 6064 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 6065 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 6066 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 6067 device capacity by one sector); 6068 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 6069 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 6070 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 6071 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 6072 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 6073 command, uas only); 6074 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 6075 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 6076 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 6077 reported device capacity by one 6078 sector if the number is odd); 6079 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 6080 device); 6081 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 6082 command, uas only); 6083 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 6084 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 6085 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 6086 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 6087 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 6088 not on uas); 6089 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 6090 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 6091 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 6092 reported by the device, not on uas); 6093 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 6094 by default, not on uas); 6095 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 6096 bogus residue values, not on uas); 6097 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 6098 Logical Unit); 6099 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 6100 commands, uas only); 6101 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 6102 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 6103 medium is write-protected). 6104 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 6105 even if the device claims no cache, 6106 not on uas) 6107 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 6108 6109 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 6110 Format: <int> 6111 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 6112 1 - undefined instruction events 6113 2 - system calls 6114 4 - invalid data aborts 6115 8 - SIGSEGV faults 6116 16 - SIGBUS faults 6117 Example: user_debug=31 6118 6119 userpte= 6120 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 6121 6122 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 6123 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 6124 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 6125 6126 vdso= [X86,SH] 6127 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 6128 6129 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 6130 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 6131 6132 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 6133 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 6134 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 6135 6136 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 6137 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 6138 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 6139 6140 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 6141 alias for vdso32=0. 6142 6143 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 6144 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 6145 6146 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 6147 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 6148 6149 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 6150 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 6151 6152 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 6153 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 6154 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 6155 level and then send out the event to user space through 6156 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 6157 will only send out the event without touching backlight 6158 brightness level. 6159 default: 1 6160 6161 virtio_mmio.device= 6162 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 6163 6164 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 6165 where: 6166 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 6167 like K, M and G) 6168 <baseaddr> := physical base address 6169 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 6170 request_irq()) 6171 <id> := (optional) platform device id 6172 example: 6173 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 6174 6175 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 6176 6177 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 6178 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 6179 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 6180 Use vga=ask for menu. 6181 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 6182 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 6183 6184 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 6185 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 6186 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 6187 All options are enabled by default, and this 6188 interface is meant to allow for selectively 6189 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 6190 debugging features. 6191 6192 Available options are: 6193 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 6194 - Disable all of the above options 6195 6196 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 6197 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 6198 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 6199 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 6200 mapped kernel RAM. 6201 6202 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 6203 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 6204 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 6205 6206 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 6207 Format: <command> 6208 6209 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 6210 Format: <command> 6211 6212 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 6213 Format: <command> 6214 6215 vsyscall= [X86-64] 6216 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 6217 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 6218 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 6219 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 6220 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 6221 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 6222 6223 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6224 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6225 page is readable. 6226 6227 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6228 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6229 page is not readable. 6230 6231 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 6232 them quite hard to use for exploits but 6233 might break your system. 6234 6235 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 6236 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 6237 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 6238 6239 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 6240 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 6241 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 6242 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 6243 6244 vt.default_blu= [VT] 6245 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 6246 Change the default blue palette of the console. 6247 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6248 ranging from 0-255. 6249 6250 vt.default_grn= [VT] 6251 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 6252 Change the default green palette of the console. 6253 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6254 ranging from 0-255. 6255 6256 vt.default_red= [VT] 6257 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 6258 Change the default red palette of the console. 6259 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6260 ranging from 0-255. 6261 6262 vt.default_utf8= 6263 [VT] 6264 Format=<0|1> 6265 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 6266 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 6267 newly opened terminals. 6268 6269 vt.global_cursor_default= 6270 [VT] 6271 Format=<-1|0|1> 6272 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 6273 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 6274 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 6275 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 6276 cursors, 1 will display them. 6277 6278 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 6279 Default: 2 = green. 6280 6281 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 6282 Default: 3 = cyan. 6283 6284 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 6285 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 6286 or other driver-specific files in the 6287 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 6288 6289 watchdog_thresh= 6290 [KNL] 6291 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 6292 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 6293 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 6294 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 6295 seconds. 6296 6297 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 6298 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 6299 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 6300 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 6301 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 6302 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 6303 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 6304 corresponding sysfs file. 6305 6306 workqueue.disable_numa 6307 By default, all work items queued to unbound 6308 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 6309 issued on, which results in better behavior in 6310 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 6311 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 6312 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 6313 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 6314 6315 workqueue.power_efficient 6316 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 6317 they show better performance thanks to cache 6318 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 6319 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 6320 6321 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 6322 were observed to contribute significantly to power 6323 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 6324 power usage at the cost of small performance 6325 overhead. 6326 6327 The default value of this parameter is determined by 6328 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 6329 6330 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 6331 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 6332 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 6333 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 6334 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 6335 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 6336 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 6337 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 6338 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 6339 impacted. 6340 6341 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 6342 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 6343 supporting x2apic. 6344 6345 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 6346 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 6347 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 6348 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 6349 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 6350 domains. 6351 6352 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 6353 Unplug Xen emulated devices 6354 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 6355 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 6356 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 6357 nics -- unplug network devices 6358 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 6359 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 6360 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 6361 the unplug protocol 6362 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 6363 6364 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 6365 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 6366 panic() code such as dumping handler. 6367 6368 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 6369 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 6370 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 6371 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6372 6373 xen_nopv [X86] 6374 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 6375 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 6376 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 6377 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6378 6379 xen_no_vector_callback 6380 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 6381 event channel interrupts. 6382 6383 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 6384 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 6385 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 6386 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 6387 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 6388 6389 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 6390 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 6391 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 6392 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 6393 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 6394 more timer interrupts. 6395 6396 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 6397 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 6398 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 6399 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 6400 started with less memory configured than allowed at 6401 max. Default is 180. 6402 6403 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 6404 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 6405 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 6406 6407 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 6408 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 6409 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 6410 6411 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 6412 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 6413 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 6414 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 6415 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 6416 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 6417 6418 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 6419 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 6420 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 6421 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 6422 6423 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 6424 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 6425 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 6426 contention. 6427 6428 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 6429 Format: 6430 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 6431 6432 xive= [PPC] 6433 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 6434 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 6435 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 6436 6437 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 6438 controller on both pseries and powernv 6439 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 6440 6441 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 6442 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 6443 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 6444 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 6445 6446 xmon [PPC] 6447 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 6448 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 6449 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 6450 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 6451 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 6452 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6453 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 6454 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 6455 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 6456 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6457 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 6458 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 6459 can be written using xmon commands. 6460 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 6461 memory, and other data can't be written using 6462 xmon commands. 6463 off xmon is disabled. 6464