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_PCI_COMPONENT 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 PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages: 64 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000 65 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 66 object while interpreting AML: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 68 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 69 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 70 71 Some values produce so much output that the system is 72 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 73 if you need to capture more output. 74 75 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 76 { strict | lax | no } 77 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 78 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 79 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 80 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 81 can interfere with legacy drivers. 82 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 83 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 84 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 85 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 86 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 87 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 88 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 89 no further checks are performed. 90 91 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 92 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 93 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 94 size limitation. 95 96 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 97 ACPI will balance active IRQs 98 default in APIC mode 99 100 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 101 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 102 default in PIC mode 103 104 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 105 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 106 107 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 108 use by PCI 109 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 110 111 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 112 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 113 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 114 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 115 the GPE dispatcher. 116 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 117 GPE floodings. 118 Format: <byte> 119 120 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 121 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 122 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 123 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 124 auto-serialization feature. 125 This feature is enabled by default. 126 This option allows to turn off the feature. 127 128 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 129 kernels. 130 131 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 132 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 133 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 134 installed automatically and they will appear under 135 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 136 This option turns off this feature. 137 Note that specifying this option does not affect 138 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 139 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 140 141 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 142 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 143 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 144 145 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 146 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 147 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 148 second kernel for kdump. 149 150 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 151 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 152 153 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 154 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 155 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 156 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 157 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 158 159 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 160 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 161 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 162 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 163 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 164 strings 165 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 166 strings 167 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 168 169 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 170 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 171 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 172 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 173 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 174 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 175 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 176 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 177 care about the state of the feature group strings which 178 should be controlled by the OSPM. 179 Examples: 180 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 181 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 182 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 183 184 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 185 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 186 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 187 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 188 multiple times through kernel command line is also 189 meaningless. 190 Examples: 191 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 192 FALSE. 193 194 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 195 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 196 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 197 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 198 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 199 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 200 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 201 there are quirks related to this string. This command 202 is useful when one want to control the state of the 203 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 204 the OSPM features. 205 Examples: 206 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 207 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 208 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 209 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 210 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 211 equivalent to 212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 213 and 214 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 215 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 216 217 acpi_pm_good [X86] 218 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 219 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 220 and always returns good values. 221 222 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 223 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 224 225 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 226 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 227 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 228 229 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 230 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, 231 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl } 232 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 233 s3_bios and s3_mode. 234 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 235 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 236 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 237 used during resume from hibernation. 238 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 239 control method, with respect to putting devices into 240 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 241 of _PTS is used by default). 242 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 243 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 244 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 245 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 246 but some broken systems don't work without it). 247 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 248 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 249 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 250 251 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 252 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 253 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 254 255 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 256 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 257 258 agp= [AGP] 259 { off | try_unsupported } 260 off: disable AGP support 261 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 262 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 263 264 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 265 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 266 267 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 268 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 269 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 270 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 271 272 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 273 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 274 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 275 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 276 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 277 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 278 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 279 280 32: only for 32-bit processes 281 64: only for 64-bit processes 282 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 283 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 284 285 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 286 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 287 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 288 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 289 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 290 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 291 292 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 293 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 294 Possible values are: 295 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when 296 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are 297 flushed before they will be reused, which 298 is a lot of faster 299 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 300 the system 301 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 302 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 303 allowed anymore to lift isolation 304 requirements as needed. This option 305 does not override iommu=pt 306 307 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 308 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 309 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 310 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 311 IOMMU initialization. 312 313 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 314 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 315 remapping modes: 316 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 317 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 318 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 319 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 320 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 321 322 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 323 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 324 Format: <a>,<b> 325 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 326 327 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 328 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 329 connected to one of 16 gameports 330 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 331 332 apc= [HW,SPARC] 333 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 334 Format: noidle 335 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 336 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 337 APC and your system crashes randomly. 338 339 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 340 Change the output verbosity while booting 341 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 342 Change the amount of debugging information output 343 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 344 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 345 driver name. 346 Format: apic=driver_name 347 Examples: apic=bigsmp 348 349 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 350 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 351 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 352 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 353 backup of CPU 0 354 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 355 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 356 shot down by NMI 357 358 autoconf= [IPV6] 359 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 360 361 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 362 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 363 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 364 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 365 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 366 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 367 apic=verbose is specified. 368 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 369 370 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 371 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 372 373 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 374 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 375 376 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 377 378 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 379 380 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 381 EzKey and similar keyboards 382 383 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 384 385 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 386 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 387 388 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 389 keyboards 390 391 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 392 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 393 394 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 395 Use software keyboard repeat 396 397 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 398 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 399 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 400 enabled until the next reboot 401 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 402 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 403 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 404 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 405 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 406 userspace auditd. 407 Default: unset 408 409 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 410 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 411 Default: 64 412 413 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 414 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 415 Format: { "0" | "1" } 416 0 - Disable the BAU. 417 1 - Enable the BAU. 418 unset - Disable the BAU. 419 420 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 421 Format: <io>,<mode> 422 423 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 424 Format: <io>,<mode> 425 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 426 427 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 428 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 429 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 430 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 431 432 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 433 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 434 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 435 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 436 437 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 438 embedded devices based on command line input. 439 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 440 441 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 442 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 443 no delay (0). 444 Format: integer 445 446 bootconfig [KNL] 447 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 448 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 449 450 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 451 452 bert_disable [ACPI] 453 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 454 455 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] 456 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 457 458 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 459 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 460 kernel args too. 461 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 462 bttv.tuner= 463 464 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 465 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 466 at a time. 467 468 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 469 470 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 471 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 472 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 473 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 474 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 475 This option provides an override for these situations. 476 477 carrier_timeout= 478 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 479 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 480 it waits 120 seconds. 481 482 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 483 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 484 trust validation. 485 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 486 487 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 488 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 489 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 490 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 491 others). 492 493 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 494 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 495 496 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller 497 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable} 498 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 499 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 500 a single hierarchy 501 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 502 subsystem 503 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 504 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 505 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 506 507 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 508 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 509 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 510 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 511 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 512 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 513 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 514 all v1 hierarchies. 515 516 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 517 Format: <string> 518 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 519 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 520 kmem -- Enable kernel memory accounting. 521 522 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 523 Format: { "0" | "1" } 524 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 525 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 526 any implied execute protection). 527 1 -- check protection requested by application. 528 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 529 Value can be changed at runtime via 530 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 531 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 532 533 cio_ignore= [S390] 534 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 535 clk_ignore_unused 536 [CLK] 537 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 538 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 539 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 540 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 541 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 542 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 543 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 544 platform with proper driver support. For more 545 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 546 547 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 548 [Deprecated] 549 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 550 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 551 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 552 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 553 554 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 555 Format: <string> 556 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 557 with the name specified. 558 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 559 the platform: 560 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 561 [ACPI] acpi_pm 562 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 563 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 564 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 565 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 566 [MIPS] MIPS 567 [PARISC] cr16 568 [S390] tod 569 [SH] SuperH 570 [SPARC64] tick 571 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 572 573 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 574 [ARM,ARM64] 575 Format: <bool> 576 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 577 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 578 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 579 systems. 580 581 clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL] 582 Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to 583 external delays before the clock will be marked 584 unstable. Defaults to three retries, that is, 585 four attempts to read the clock under test. 586 587 clearcpuid=BITNUM[,BITNUM...] [X86] 588 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 589 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 590 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily 591 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific 592 ones should be. 593 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 594 or using the feature without checking anything 595 will still see it. This just prevents it from 596 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 597 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 598 some critical bits. 599 600 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 601 [KNL,CMA] 602 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 603 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 604 placement constraint by the physical address range of 605 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 606 altogether. For more information, see 607 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 608 609 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 610 [ARM64,KNL] 611 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 612 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 613 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 614 specificed, the default value is 0. 615 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 616 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 617 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 618 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 619 620 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 621 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 622 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 623 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 624 a hypervisor. 625 Default: yes 626 627 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 628 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 629 allocations, by default set to 256K. 630 631 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 632 Format: 633 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 634 635 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 636 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 637 638 com90xx= [HW,NET] 639 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 640 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 641 642 condev= [HW,S390] console device 643 conmode= 644 645 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 646 647 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 648 649 ttyS<n>[,options] 650 ttyUSB0[,options] 651 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 652 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 653 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 654 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 655 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 656 657 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 658 information. See 659 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 660 alternative. 661 662 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 663 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 664 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 665 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 666 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 667 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 668 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 669 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 670 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 671 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 672 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 673 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 674 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 675 the h/w is not re-initialized. 676 677 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 678 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 679 680 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 681 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 682 console=brl,ttyS0 683 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 684 685 console_msg_format= 686 [KNL] Change console messages format 687 default 688 By default we print messages on consoles in 689 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 690 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 691 `printk_time' param). 692 syslog 693 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 694 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 695 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 696 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 697 from /proc/kmsg. 698 699 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 700 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 701 Defaults to 0. 702 703 coredump_filter= 704 [KNL] Change the default value for 705 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 706 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 707 708 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 709 [ARM,ARM64] 710 Format: <bool> 711 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 712 0: default value, disable debugging 713 1: enable debugging at boot time 714 715 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 716 disable the cpuidle sub-system 717 718 cpuidle.governor= 719 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 720 721 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 722 disable the cpufreq sub-system 723 724 cpufreq.default_governor= 725 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 726 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 727 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 728 729 cpu_init_udelay=N 730 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 731 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 732 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 733 Default: 10000 734 735 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 736 Format: 737 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 738 739 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 740 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 741 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 742 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 743 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 744 is selected automatically. 745 [KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and 746 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 747 hasn't been specified. 748 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 749 750 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 751 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 752 in the running system. The syntax of range is 753 start-[end] where start and end are both 754 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 755 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 756 757 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 758 [KNL, X86-64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 759 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 760 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 761 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 762 available. 763 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 764 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 765 [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 766 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 767 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 768 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 769 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 770 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 771 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at 772 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 773 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G 774 for second kernel instead. 775 0: to disable low allocation. 776 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 777 or memory reserved is below 4G. 778 779 cryptomgr.notests 780 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 781 782 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 783 Format: <dma> 784 785 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 786 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 787 788 dasd= [HW,NET] 789 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 790 791 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 792 (one device per port) 793 Format: <port#>,<type> 794 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 795 796 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot 797 time. See 798 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for 799 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg. 800 801 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 802 803 debug_boot_weak_hash 804 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 805 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 806 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 807 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 808 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 809 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 810 811 debug_locks_verbose= 812 [KNL] verbose self-tests 813 Format=<0|1> 814 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 815 self-tests. 816 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to 817 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally 818 only useful to kernel developers. 819 820 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 821 822 no_debug_objects 823 [KNL] Disable object debugging 824 825 debug_guardpage_minorder= 826 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 827 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 828 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 829 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 830 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 831 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 832 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 833 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 834 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 835 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 836 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 837 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 838 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 839 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 840 bypassed) which are not detectable by 841 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 842 tracking down these problems. 843 844 debug_pagealloc= 845 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 846 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 847 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 848 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 849 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 850 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 851 on: enable the feature 852 853 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 854 and debugfs internal clients. 855 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 856 on: All functions are enabled. 857 no-mount: 858 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 859 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 860 its content. There is nothing to mount. 861 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 862 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 863 or directories within debugfs. 864 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 865 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 866 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 867 868 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 869 870 default_hugepagesz= 871 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 872 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 873 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 874 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 875 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 876 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 877 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 878 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 879 Format: size[KMG] 880 881 deferred_probe_timeout= 882 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 883 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 884 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 885 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0 886 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also 887 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 888 retrying. 889 890 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 891 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 892 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 893 level 1 and decompression (default) 894 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 895 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 896 only (compression on level 1) 897 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 898 only (decompression) 899 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 900 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 901 902 dhash_entries= [KNL] 903 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 904 905 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 906 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 907 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 908 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 909 miss to occur. 910 911 stress_slb [PPC] 912 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 913 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 914 on kernel addresses. 915 916 disable= [IPV6] 917 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 918 919 hardened_usercopy= 920 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 921 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 922 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 923 from reading or writing beyond known memory 924 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 925 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 926 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 927 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 928 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 929 930 disable_radix [PPC] 931 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 932 933 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 934 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 935 invalidate. 936 937 disable_tlbie [PPC] 938 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 939 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 940 941 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 942 Format: <int> 943 The number of initial APIC ID for the 944 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 945 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 946 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 947 causing system reset or hang due to sending 948 INIT from AP to BSP. 949 950 perf_v4_pmi= [X86,INTEL] 951 Format: <bool> 952 Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature. 953 The feature only exists starting from 954 Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer). 955 956 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 957 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 958 to workaround buggy firmware. 959 960 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 961 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 962 963 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 964 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 965 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 966 entry later. This parameter disables that. 967 968 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 969 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 970 memory out of your available memory pool based on 971 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 972 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 973 974 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 975 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 976 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 977 978 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 979 980 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 981 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 982 983 dma_debug_entries=<number> 984 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 985 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 986 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 987 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 988 architectural default is too low. 989 990 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 991 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 992 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 993 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 994 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 995 driver later using sysfs. 996 997 reg_file_data_sampling= 998 [X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data 999 Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability. RFDS is a CPU 1000 vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer 1001 kernel data values previously stored in floating point 1002 registers, vector registers, or integer registers. 1003 RFDS only affects Intel Atom processors. 1004 1005 on: Turns ON the mitigation. 1006 off: Turns OFF the mitigation. 1007 1008 This parameter overrides the compile time default set 1009 by CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS. Mitigation cannot be 1010 disabled when other VERW based mitigations (like MDS) 1011 are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all 1012 VERW based mitigations need to be disabled. 1013 1014 For details see: 1015 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst 1016 1017 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1018 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. 1019 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1020 1021 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1022 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1023 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1024 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1025 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1026 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 1027 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 1028 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 1029 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 1030 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 1031 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID 1032 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 1033 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 1034 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 1035 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1036 data set with no connector name will be used for 1037 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1038 1039 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1040 1041 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1042 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1043 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1044 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1045 exists). 1046 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1047 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1048 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1049 1050 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1051 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1052 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1053 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1054 1055 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1056 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1057 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1058 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1059 for details. 1060 1061 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 1062 in some Intel CPUs. 1063 1064 <module>.async_probe [KNL] 1065 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 1066 1067 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1068 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1069 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1070 which are not unmapped. 1071 1072 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1073 1074 When used with no options, the early console is 1075 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1076 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1077 the platform. 1078 1079 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1080 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1081 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1082 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1083 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1084 configured. 1085 1086 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 1087 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 1088 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 1089 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 1090 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1091 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1092 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1093 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1094 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1095 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1096 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1097 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1098 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 1099 1100 pl011,<addr> 1101 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1102 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1103 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1104 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1105 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1106 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1107 the device registers. 1108 1109 meson,<addr> 1110 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1111 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1112 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1113 supported. 1114 1115 msm_serial,<addr> 1116 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1117 port at the specified address. The serial port 1118 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1119 yet supported. 1120 1121 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1122 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1123 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1124 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1125 yet supported. 1126 1127 owl,<addr> 1128 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1129 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1130 specified address. The serial port must already be 1131 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1132 1133 rda,<addr> 1134 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1135 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1136 specified address. The serial port must already be 1137 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1138 1139 sbi 1140 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1141 console. 1142 1143 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1144 1145 s3c2410,<addr> 1146 s3c2412,<addr> 1147 s3c2440,<addr> 1148 s3c6400,<addr> 1149 s5pv210,<addr> 1150 exynos4210,<addr> 1151 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1152 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1153 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1154 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1155 Options are not yet supported. 1156 1157 lantiq,<addr> 1158 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1159 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1160 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1161 yet supported. 1162 1163 lpuart,<addr> 1164 lpuart32,<addr> 1165 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1166 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1167 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1168 port must already be setup and configured. 1169 1170 ec_imx21,<addr> 1171 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1172 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1173 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1174 must already be setup and configured. 1175 1176 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1177 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1178 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1179 address. The serial port must already be setup 1180 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1181 1182 qcom_geni,<addr> 1183 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1184 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1185 specified address. The serial port must already be 1186 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1187 1188 efifb,[options] 1189 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1190 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1191 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1192 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1193 mapped with the correct attributes. 1194 1195 linflex,<addr> 1196 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1197 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1198 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1199 already be setup and configured. 1200 1201 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1202 earlyprintk=vga 1203 earlyprintk=sclp 1204 earlyprintk=xen 1205 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1206 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1207 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1208 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1209 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1210 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1211 1212 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1213 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1214 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1215 1216 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1217 takes over. 1218 1219 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 1220 be used at a time. 1221 1222 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1223 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1224 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1225 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1226 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1227 You can find the port for a given device in 1228 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1229 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1230 1231 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1232 very good. 1233 1234 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 1235 the real console. 1236 1237 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. 1238 1239 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1240 1241 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1242 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1243 UART class. 1244 1245 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1246 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1247 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1248 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1249 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1250 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1251 default: on. 1252 1253 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1254 ekgdboc=kbd 1255 1256 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1257 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1258 1259 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1260 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1261 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1262 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1263 1264 edd= [EDD] 1265 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1266 1267 efi= [EFI] 1268 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1269 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1270 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1271 debug: enable misc debug output. 1272 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1273 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1274 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1275 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1276 firmware implementations. 1277 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1278 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1279 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1280 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1281 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1282 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1283 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1284 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1285 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1286 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1287 1288 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1289 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1290 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1291 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1292 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1293 1294 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1295 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1296 updating original EFI memory map. 1297 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1298 from ss to ss+nn. 1299 1300 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1301 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1302 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1303 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1304 1305 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1306 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1307 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1308 1309 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1310 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1311 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1312 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1313 "soft reserved". 1314 1315 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1316 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1317 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1318 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1319 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1320 1321 1322 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1323 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1324 1325 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1326 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1327 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1328 1329 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1330 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1331 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1332 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1333 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1334 1335 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1336 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1337 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1338 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1339 1340 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1341 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1342 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1343 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1344 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1345 1346 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1347 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1348 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1349 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1350 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1351 Default value is 0. 1352 Value can be changed at runtime via 1353 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1354 1355 erst_disable [ACPI] 1356 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1357 support. 1358 1359 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1360 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1361 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1362 1363 evm= [EVM] 1364 Format: { "fix" } 1365 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1366 current integrity status. 1367 1368 failslab= 1369 fail_usercopy= 1370 fail_page_alloc= 1371 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1372 General fault injection mechanism. 1373 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1374 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1375 1376 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1377 Format: { initns | none } 1378 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1379 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1380 1381 floppy= [HW] 1382 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1383 1384 force_pal_cache_flush 1385 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1386 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1387 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1388 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1389 1390 forcepae [X86-32] 1391 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1392 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1393 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1394 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1395 and may cause unknown problems. 1396 1397 ftrace=[tracer] 1398 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1399 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1400 boot debugging. 1401 1402 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1403 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1404 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1405 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1406 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1407 oops. 1408 1409 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1410 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1411 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 1412 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1413 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1414 tracing directory. 1415 1416 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1417 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1418 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1419 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1420 tracing directory. 1421 1422 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1423 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1424 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1425 function-list is a comma separated list of functions 1426 that can be changed at run time by the 1427 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1428 1429 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1430 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1431 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of 1432 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1433 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1434 1435 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1436 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1437 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1438 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1439 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1440 1441 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1442 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1443 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1444 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1445 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1446 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1447 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1448 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1449 suppliers). 1450 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1451 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1452 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1453 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1454 up (sync_state() calls). 1455 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1456 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1457 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1458 1459 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1460 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1461 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1462 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1463 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1464 1465 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1466 1467 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1468 Format: off | on 1469 default: on 1470 1471 gather_data_sampling= 1472 [X86,INTEL] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS) 1473 mitigation. 1474 1475 Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which 1476 allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was 1477 previously stored in vector registers. 1478 1479 This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode. 1480 The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be 1481 disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation 1482 disabling AVX serves as a mitigation. 1483 1484 force: Disable AVX to mitigate systems without 1485 microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode 1486 mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in 1487 userspace with buggy AVX enumeration. 1488 1489 off: Disable GDS mitigation. 1490 1491 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1492 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1493 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1494 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1495 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1496 1497 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1498 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1499 android emulator 1500 1501 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1502 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1503 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1504 GPT to be used instead. 1505 1506 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1507 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1508 Format: 0 | 1 1509 Default: 0 1510 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1511 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1512 Format: 0 | 1 1513 Default: 0 1514 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1515 Format: 0 | 1 1516 Default: 0 1517 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1518 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1519 Default: 1024 1520 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1521 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1522 Default: 1024 1523 1524 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1525 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1526 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1527 1528 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1529 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1530 backtraces on all cpus. 1531 Format: 0 | 1 1532 1533 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1534 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1535 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1536 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1537 1538 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1539 1540 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1541 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1542 1543 hest_disable [ACPI] 1544 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1545 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1546 logic will be disabled. 1547 1548 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1549 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1550 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1551 size on bigger boxes. 1552 1553 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1554 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1555 Default: "on" 1556 1557 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1558 1559 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1560 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1561 verbose } 1562 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1563 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1564 VIA, nVidia) 1565 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1566 1567 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1568 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1569 1570 hugetlb_cma= [HW] The size of a cma area used for allocation 1571 of gigantic hugepages. 1572 Format: nn[KMGTPE] 1573 1574 Reserve a cma area of given size and allocate gigantic 1575 hugepages using the cma allocator. If enabled, the 1576 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1577 1578 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1579 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1580 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1581 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1582 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1583 the default huge page size. See also 1584 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1585 Format: <integer> 1586 1587 hugepagesz= 1588 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1589 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1590 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1591 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1592 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1593 architecture dependent. See also 1594 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1595 Format: size[KMG] 1596 1597 hung_task_panic= 1598 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1599 Format: 0 | 1 1600 1601 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1602 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1603 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1604 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1605 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1606 1607 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1608 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1609 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1610 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1611 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1612 1613 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1614 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1615 guest on lock contention. 1616 1617 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1618 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1619 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1620 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1621 the real console. 1622 1623 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1624 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1625 registered from board initialization code. 1626 Format: 1627 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1628 1629 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1630 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1631 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1632 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1633 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1634 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1635 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1636 keyboard and cannot control its state 1637 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1638 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1639 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1640 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1641 for the AUX port 1642 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1643 controller 1644 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1645 controllers 1646 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1647 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1648 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1649 transitions, or never reset 1650 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1651 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1652 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1653 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1654 architectures force reset to be always executed 1655 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1656 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1657 i8042.probe_defer 1658 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1659 1660 i810= [HW,DRM] 1661 1662 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1663 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1664 hardware. 1665 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature 1666 does not match list of supported models. 1667 i8k.power_status 1668 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1669 (disabled by default) 1670 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1671 capability is set. 1672 1673 i915.invert_brightness= 1674 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1675 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1676 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1677 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1678 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1679 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1680 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1681 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1682 value switches the backlight off. 1683 -1 -- never invert brightness 1684 0 -- machine default 1685 1 -- force brightness inversion 1686 1687 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1688 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1689 1690 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1691 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1692 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1693 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1694 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst. 1695 1696 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1697 Format: <int> 1698 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1699 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1700 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1701 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1702 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1703 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1704 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1705 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1706 was 0x3. 1707 1708 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1709 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1710 1711 idle= [X86] 1712 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1713 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1714 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1715 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1716 Not recommended. 1717 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1718 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1719 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1720 1721 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1722 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1723 Default: strict 1724 1725 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1726 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1727 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1728 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1729 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1730 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1731 encoding mode. 1732 1733 Available settings are as follows: 1734 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1735 supported by the FPU 1736 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1737 by the FPU 1738 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1739 by the FPU 1740 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1741 supported by the FPU 1742 1743 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1744 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1745 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1746 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1747 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1748 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1749 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1750 MIPS64 CPUs. 1751 1752 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1753 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1754 except where unsupported by hardware. 1755 1756 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1757 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1758 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1759 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1760 could change it dynamically, usually by 1761 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1762 1763 ignore_rlimit_data 1764 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1765 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1766 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1767 1768 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1769 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1770 1771 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1772 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1773 default: "enforce" 1774 1775 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1776 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1777 owned by uid=0. 1778 1779 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1780 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1781 measurements, instead of host native format. 1782 1783 ima_hash= [IMA] 1784 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1785 | sha512 | ... } 1786 default: "sha1" 1787 1788 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1789 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1790 1791 ima_policy= [IMA] 1792 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1793 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1794 fail_securely" 1795 1796 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1797 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1798 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1799 uid=0. 1800 1801 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1802 all files owned by root. 1803 1804 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1805 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1806 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1807 1808 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1809 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1810 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1811 flag. 1812 1813 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1814 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1815 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1816 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1817 opened for read by uid=0. 1818 1819 ima_template= [IMA] 1820 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1821 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" } 1822 Default: "ima-ng" 1823 1824 ima_template_fmt= 1825 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1826 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1827 1828 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1829 Format: <min_file_size> 1830 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1831 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1832 1833 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1834 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1835 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1836 1837 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1838 Format: <bufsize> 1839 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1840 1841 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1842 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1843 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1844 1845 init= [KNL] 1846 Format: <full_path> 1847 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1848 process. 1849 1850 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1851 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1852 startup. 1853 1854 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1855 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1856 modules and initcalls. 1857 1858 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1859 1860 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 1861 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 1862 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 1863 setting. 1864 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 1865 Default is 0, 0 1866 1867 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 1868 zeroes. 1869 Format: 0 | 1 1870 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 1871 1872 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 1873 Format: 0 | 1 1874 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 1875 1876 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1877 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1878 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1879 override in debugfs after boot. 1880 1881 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1882 Format: <irq> 1883 1884 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1885 1886 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1887 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1888 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1889 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1890 1891 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1892 on 1893 Enable intel iommu driver. 1894 off 1895 Disable intel iommu driver. 1896 igfx_off [Default Off] 1897 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1898 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1899 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1900 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1901 DMA. 1902 forcedac [X86-64] 1903 With this option iommu will not optimize to look 1904 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual 1905 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater 1906 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look 1907 for translation below 32-bit and if not available 1908 then look in the higher range. 1909 strict [Default Off] 1910 With this option on every unmap_single operation will 1911 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed 1912 to batching them for performance. 1913 sp_off [Default Off] 1914 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 1915 has the capability. With this option, super page will 1916 not be supported. 1917 sm_on [Default Off] 1918 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the 1919 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable 1920 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode 1921 will be used on hardware which claims to support it. 1922 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 1923 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 1924 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 1925 could harm performance of some high-throughput 1926 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 1927 mapping is enabled. 1928 Note that using this option lowers the security 1929 provided by tboot because it makes the system 1930 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 1931 nobounce [Default off] 1932 Disable bounce buffer for untrusted devices such as 1933 the Thunderbolt devices. This will treat the untrusted 1934 devices as the trusted ones, hence might expose security 1935 risks of DMA attacks. 1936 1937 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 1938 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1939 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 1940 1941 intel_pstate= [X86] 1942 disable 1943 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 1944 scaling driver for the supported processors 1945 passive 1946 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 1947 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 1948 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 1949 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 1950 feature. 1951 force 1952 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 1953 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 1954 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 1955 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 1956 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 1957 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 1958 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 1959 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 1960 no_hwp 1961 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 1962 if available. 1963 hwp_only 1964 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 1965 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 1966 support_acpi_ppc 1967 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 1968 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 1969 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 1970 then this feature is turned on by default. 1971 per_cpu_perf_limits 1972 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 1973 cpufreq sysfs interface 1974 1975 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 1976 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 1977 off disable Interrupt Remapping 1978 nosid disable Source ID checking 1979 no_x2apic_optout 1980 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 1981 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 1982 1983 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 1984 strict regions from userspace. 1985 relaxed 1986 1987 iommu= [X86] 1988 off 1989 force 1990 noforce 1991 biomerge 1992 panic 1993 nopanic 1994 merge 1995 nomerge 1996 soft 1997 pt [X86] 1998 nopt [X86] 1999 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2000 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2001 2002 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2003 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2004 0 - Lazy mode. 2005 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2006 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2007 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2008 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2009 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2010 1 - Strict mode (default). 2011 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2012 synchronously. 2013 2014 iommu.passthrough= 2015 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2016 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2017 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2018 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2019 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2020 2021 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2022 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2023 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2024 2025 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 2026 0x80 2027 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2028 0xed 2029 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2030 udelay 2031 Simple two microseconds delay 2032 none 2033 No delay 2034 2035 ip= [IP_PNP] 2036 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2037 2038 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2039 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2040 2041 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2042 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2043 2044 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2045 [ARM, ARM64] 2046 Format: <bool> 2047 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2048 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2049 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2050 2051 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2052 [ARM, ARM64] 2053 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2054 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2055 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2056 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2057 LPIs. 2058 2059 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2060 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2061 requires the kernel to be built with 2062 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2063 2064 irqfixup [HW] 2065 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2066 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2067 firmware running. 2068 2069 irqpoll [HW] 2070 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2071 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2072 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2073 firmware running. 2074 2075 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2076 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2077 2078 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2079 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2080 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2081 2082 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2083 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2084 2085 nohz 2086 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2087 2088 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2089 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2090 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2091 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2092 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2093 2094 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2095 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2096 be configured manually after bootup. 2097 2098 domain 2099 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2100 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2101 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2102 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2103 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2104 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2105 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2106 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2107 2108 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2109 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2110 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2111 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2112 2113 managed_irq 2114 2115 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2116 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2117 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2118 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2119 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2120 2121 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2122 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2123 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2124 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2125 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2126 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2127 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2128 2129 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2130 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2131 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2132 only delivered when tasks running on those 2133 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2134 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2135 queues. 2136 2137 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2138 2139 iucv= [HW,NET] 2140 2141 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2142 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2143 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2144 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2145 2146 For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2147 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2148 write the parameter as: 2149 ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0 2150 2151 Deprecated formats: 2152 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2153 write the parameter as: 2154 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2155 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2156 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2157 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2158 2159 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2160 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2161 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2162 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2163 2164 For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to 2165 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2166 write the parameter as: 2167 ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0 2168 2169 Deprecated formats: 2170 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2171 write the parameter as: 2172 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2173 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2174 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2175 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2176 2177 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2178 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2179 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2180 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2181 2182 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2183 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2184 write the parameter as: 2185 ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5 2186 2187 Deprecated formats: 2188 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0, 2189 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2190 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2191 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2192 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2193 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2194 2195 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2196 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2197 2198 nokaslr [KNL] 2199 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 2200 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 2201 Layout Randomization). 2202 2203 kasan_multi_shot 2204 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2205 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2206 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2207 invalid access. 2208 2209 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2210 2211 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2212 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2213 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2214 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2215 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2216 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2217 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2218 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2219 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2220 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2221 2222 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2223 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2224 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2225 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2226 zone if it does not. 2227 2228 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2229 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2230 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2231 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2232 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2233 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2234 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2235 2236 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2237 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2238 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2239 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2240 optional and is the number seconds in between 2241 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2242 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2243 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2244 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2245 the kernel debugger. 2246 2247 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2248 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2249 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2250 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2251 keyboard only format: kbd 2252 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2253 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2254 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2255 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2256 2257 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2258 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2259 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2260 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2261 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2262 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2263 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2264 2265 The name of the early console should be specified 2266 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2267 the early console might be different than the tty 2268 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2269 blank and the first boot console that implements 2270 read() will be picked. 2271 2272 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2273 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2274 2275 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2276 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2277 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2278 2279 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2280 Valid arguments: on, off 2281 Default: on 2282 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2283 the default is off. 2284 2285 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2286 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2287 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2288 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2289 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2290 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2291 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2292 2293 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2294 2295 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2296 Boot Parameter" section. 2297 2298 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2299 and kernel address spaces. 2300 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2301 0: force disabled 2302 1: force enabled 2303 2304 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2305 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2306 2307 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2308 Default is false (don't support). 2309 2310 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 2311 KVM MMU at runtime. 2312 Default is 0 (off) 2313 2314 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2315 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2316 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2317 force : Always deploy workaround. 2318 off : Never deploy workaround. 2319 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2320 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2321 2322 Default is 'auto'. 2323 2324 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2325 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2326 2327 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2328 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2329 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2330 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2331 minute. The default is 60. 2332 2333 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2334 Default is 1 (enabled) 2335 2336 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2337 for all guests. 2338 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2339 2340 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2341 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2342 system registers 2343 2344 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2345 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2346 system registers 2347 2348 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2349 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2350 system registers 2351 2352 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2353 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2354 LPIs. 2355 2356 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2357 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2358 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2359 allocation. 2360 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2361 Format: <integer> 2362 Default: 5 2363 2364 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2365 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2366 Default is 1 (enabled) 2367 2368 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2369 [KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state. 2370 Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as 2371 guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests. 2372 This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM 2373 never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2374 Default is 1 (enabled) 2375 2376 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2377 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2378 Default is 1 (enabled) 2379 2380 kvm-intel.nested= 2381 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2382 Default is 0 (disabled) 2383 2384 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2385 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2386 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2387 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2388 2389 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2390 CVE-2018-3620. 2391 2392 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2393 2394 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2395 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2396 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2397 never: Disables the mitigation 2398 2399 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2400 2401 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2402 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2403 Default is 1 (enabled) 2404 2405 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2406 affected CPUs 2407 2408 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2409 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2410 2411 full 2412 Provides all available mitigations for the 2413 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2414 enables all mitigations in the 2415 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2416 2417 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2418 sysfs interface is still possible after 2419 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2420 when the first VM is started in a 2421 potentially insecure configuration, 2422 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2423 2424 full,force 2425 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2426 flush runtime control. Implies the 2427 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2428 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2429 2430 flush 2431 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2432 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2433 L1D flush. 2434 2435 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2436 sysfs interface is still possible after 2437 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2438 when the first VM is started in a 2439 potentially insecure configuration, 2440 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2441 2442 flush,nosmt 2443 2444 Disables SMT and enables the default 2445 hypervisor mitigation. 2446 2447 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2448 sysfs interface is still possible after 2449 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2450 when the first VM is started in a 2451 potentially insecure configuration, 2452 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2453 2454 flush,nowarn 2455 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2456 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2457 insecure configuration. 2458 2459 off 2460 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2461 emit any warnings. 2462 It also drops the swap size and available 2463 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2464 bare metal. 2465 2466 Default is 'flush'. 2467 2468 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2469 2470 l2cr= [PPC] 2471 2472 l3cr= [PPC] 2473 2474 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2475 disabled it. 2476 2477 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2478 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2479 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2480 Format: notscdeadline 2481 2482 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2483 in C2 power state. 2484 2485 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2486 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2487 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2488 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2489 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2490 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2491 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2492 2493 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2494 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2495 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2496 2497 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2498 when set. 2499 Format: <int> 2500 2501 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma 2502 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 2503 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 2504 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 2505 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 2506 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 2507 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 2508 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 2509 2510 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2511 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2512 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2513 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2514 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2515 host link and device attached to it. 2516 2517 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2518 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 2519 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2520 The following configurations can be forced. 2521 2522 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2523 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2524 2525 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2526 2527 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2528 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2529 allowed. 2530 2531 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2532 2533 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 2534 2535 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 2536 and both resets. 2537 2538 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 2539 hot-unplug link recovery 2540 2541 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 2542 2543 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 2544 2545 * disable: Disable this device. 2546 2547 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2548 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2549 2550 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 2551 2552 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2553 2554 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2555 Format: <integer> 2556 2557 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2558 Format: <integer> 2559 2560 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2561 Format: <integer> 2562 2563 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2564 Format: <integer> 2565 2566 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2567 { integrity | confidentiality } 2568 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2569 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2570 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2571 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2572 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2573 are also disabled. 2574 2575 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2576 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2577 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2578 number of online CPUs. 2579 2580 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2581 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2582 2583 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2584 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2585 2586 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2587 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2588 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2589 2590 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2591 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2592 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2593 mode during the locktorture test. 2594 2595 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2596 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2597 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2598 2599 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2600 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2601 2602 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2603 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2604 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2605 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2606 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2607 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2608 2609 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2610 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2611 2612 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2613 Enable additional printk() statements. 2614 2615 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2616 Format: <irq> 2617 2618 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2619 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2620 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2621 loglevels are defined as follows: 2622 2623 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2624 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2625 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2626 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2627 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2628 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2629 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2630 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2631 2632 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2633 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2634 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2635 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2636 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2637 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2638 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2639 2640 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2641 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2642 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2643 kernel boot problems. 2644 2645 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2646 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2647 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2648 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2649 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2650 attached printers to be reset. Using 2651 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2652 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2653 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2654 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2655 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2656 port specification list means that device IDs 2657 from each port should be examined, to see if 2658 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2659 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2660 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2661 2662 lpj=n [KNL] 2663 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2664 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2665 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2666 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2667 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2668 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2669 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2670 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2671 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2672 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2673 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2674 hardware. 2675 2676 ltpc= [NET] 2677 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2678 2679 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2680 2681 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2682 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2683 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2684 2685 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2686 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2687 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2688 2689 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 2690 different yeeloong laptops. 2691 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2692 2693 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2694 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2695 2696 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2697 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2698 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2699 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2700 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2701 only takes effect during system bootup. 2702 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2703 which also disables the IO APIC. 2704 2705 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2706 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2707 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2708 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2709 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2710 /dev/loop-control interface. 2711 2712 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2713 2714 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2715 2716 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2717 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2718 2719 mdacon= [MDA] 2720 Format: <first>,<last> 2721 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2722 2723 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2724 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2725 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2726 2727 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2728 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2729 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2730 2731 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2732 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2733 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2734 not have direct access. 2735 2736 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2737 options are: 2738 2739 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2740 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2741 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2742 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2743 2744 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 2745 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 2746 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 2747 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 2748 too. 2749 2750 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 2751 mds=full. 2752 2753 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 2754 2755 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2756 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 2757 2758 1 for test; 2759 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 2760 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 2761 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 2762 2763 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2764 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2765 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2766 belonging to unused RAM. 2767 2768 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 2769 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 2770 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 2771 2772 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2773 memory. 2774 2775 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2776 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2777 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2778 2779 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2780 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2781 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2782 set according to the 2783 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2784 option. 2785 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 2786 2787 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2788 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2789 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2790 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2791 option description. 2792 2793 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2794 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2795 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2796 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2797 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2798 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2799 comma delimited. 2800 Example: 2801 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2802 2803 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2804 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2805 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2806 2807 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2808 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2809 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2810 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2811 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2812 or 2813 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2814 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 2815 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 2816 will be eaten. 2817 2818 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2819 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2820 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2821 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2822 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2823 2824 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 2825 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 2826 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 2827 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 2828 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 2829 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 2830 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 2831 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 2832 2833 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2834 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2835 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2836 Setting this option will scan the memory 2837 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2838 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2839 from using the memory being corrupted. 2840 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2841 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2842 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2843 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2844 2845 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2846 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2847 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2848 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2849 corruption in more or less memory. 2850 2851 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2852 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2853 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2854 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2855 2856 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest 2857 Format: <integer> 2858 default : 0 <disable> 2859 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2860 performed. Each pass selects another test 2861 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2862 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2863 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2864 regions that are detected. 2865 2866 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 2867 Valid arguments: on, off 2868 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 2869 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 2870 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 2871 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 2872 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 2873 2874 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst 2875 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 2876 2877 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 2878 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 2879 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 2880 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 2881 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 2882 2883 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2884 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst. 2885 2886 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2887 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2888 platforms. 2889 2890 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2891 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2892 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2893 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2894 2895 mga= [HW,DRM] 2896 2897 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2898 physical address is ignored. 2899 2900 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2901 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2902 Default: "0tb" 2903 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2904 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2905 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2906 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2907 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2908 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2909 unconfigured. 2910 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2911 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2912 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2913 VGA shield. 2914 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2915 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2916 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2917 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2918 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 2919 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 2920 2921 mitigations= 2922 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 2923 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 2924 arch-independent options, each of which is an 2925 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 2926 2927 off 2928 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 2929 improves system performance, but it may also 2930 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 2931 Equivalent to: gather_data_sampling=off [X86] 2932 kpti=0 [ARM64] 2933 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 2934 l1tf=off [X86] 2935 mds=off [X86] 2936 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 2937 no_entry_flush [PPC] 2938 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 2939 nobp=0 [S390] 2940 nopti [X86,PPC] 2941 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 2942 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 2943 reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86] 2944 retbleed=off [X86] 2945 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 2946 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 2947 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 2948 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 2949 2950 Exceptions: 2951 This does not have any effect on 2952 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 2953 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 2954 2955 auto (default) 2956 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 2957 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 2958 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 2959 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 2960 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 2961 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 2962 2963 auto,nosmt 2964 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 2965 if needed. This is for users who always want to 2966 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 2967 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 2968 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 2969 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 2970 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 2971 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] 2972 2973 mminit_loglevel= 2974 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 2975 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 2976 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 2977 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 2978 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 2979 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 2980 2981 mmio_stale_data= 2982 [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor 2983 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 2984 2985 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 2986 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 2987 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 2988 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 2989 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 2990 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 2991 2992 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2993 options are: 2994 2995 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2996 2997 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 2998 vulnerable CPUs. 2999 3000 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3001 3002 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3003 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3004 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3005 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3006 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3007 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3008 3009 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3010 mmio_stale_data=full. 3011 3012 For details see: 3013 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3014 3015 module.sig_enforce 3016 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3017 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3018 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3019 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3020 3021 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3022 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3023 3024 mousedev.tap_time= 3025 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3026 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3027 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3028 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3029 Format: <msecs> 3030 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3031 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3032 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3033 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3034 3035 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 3036 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3037 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3038 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3039 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3040 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3041 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3042 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3043 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3044 is not too small. 3045 3046 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3047 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3048 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3049 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3050 allocations. Use with caution! 3051 3052 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3053 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3054 3055 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3056 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3057 3058 mtdparts= [MTD] 3059 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3060 3061 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3062 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3063 at a time. 3064 3065 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 3066 3067 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 3068 3069 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 3070 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 3071 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 3072 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 3073 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 3074 3075 mtdset= [ARM] 3076 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 3077 3078 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c 3079 3080 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3081 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3082 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3083 3084 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3085 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3086 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3087 3088 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3089 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3090 Default is 1. 3091 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3092 using up MTRRs. 3093 3094 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 3095 Format: <integer> 3096 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3097 Default : 1 3098 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3099 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3100 3101 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3102 3103 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3104 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3105 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3106 something different and driver-specific. 3107 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3108 file if at all. 3109 3110 nf_conntrack.acct= 3111 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3112 0 to disable accounting 3113 1 to enable accounting 3114 Default value is 0. 3115 3116 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3117 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3118 3119 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3120 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3121 3122 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3123 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3124 3125 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3126 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3127 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3128 requests. 3129 3130 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3131 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3132 channel should listen. 3133 3134 nfs.cache_getent= 3135 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3136 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3137 3138 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3139 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3140 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3141 3142 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3143 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3144 entries. 3145 3146 nfs.enable_ino64= 3147 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3148 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3149 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3150 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3151 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3152 3153 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3154 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3155 slots the client will assign to the callback 3156 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3157 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3158 a particular server. 3159 3160 nfs.max_session_slots= 3161 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3162 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3163 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3164 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3165 Note that there is little point in setting this 3166 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3167 3168 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3169 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3170 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3171 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3172 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3173 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3174 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3175 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3176 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3177 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3178 back to using the idmapper. 3179 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3180 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3181 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3182 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3183 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3184 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3185 3186 nfs.send_implementation_id = 3187 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3188 information in exchange_id requests. 3189 If zero, no implementation identification information 3190 will be sent. 3191 The default is to send the implementation identification 3192 information. 3193 3194 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 3195 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3196 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3197 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3198 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3199 after the locks are lost. 3200 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3201 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3202 parameter to '1'. 3203 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3204 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3205 3206 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 3207 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3208 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3209 3210 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3211 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3212 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3213 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3214 3215 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3216 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3217 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3218 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3219 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3220 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3221 3222 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3223 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3224 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3225 3226 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3227 when a NMI is triggered. 3228 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3229 3230 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3231 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3232 Valid num: 0 or 1 3233 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3234 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3235 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3236 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3237 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3238 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3239 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3240 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3241 need the box quickly up again. 3242 3243 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3244 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3245 3246 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3247 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3248 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3249 waits 4 seconds. 3250 3251 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3252 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3253 is present. 3254 3255 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3256 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3257 3258 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3259 3260 no_console_suspend 3261 [HW] Never suspend the console 3262 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3263 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3264 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3265 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3266 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3267 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3268 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3269 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3270 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3271 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3272 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3273 turn on/off it dynamically. 3274 3275 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3276 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3277 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3278 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3279 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3280 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3281 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3282 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3283 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3284 is set. 3285 3286 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3287 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3288 but will impact performance. 3289 3290 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3291 3292 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3293 (CPU alternatives feature). 3294 3295 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3296 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3297 3298 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3299 3300 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 3301 on "Classic" PPC cores. 3302 3303 nocache [ARM] 3304 3305 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 3306 3307 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting 3308 3309 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3310 3311 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3312 3313 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3314 3315 noexec [IA-64] 3316 3317 noexec [X86] 3318 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 3319 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3320 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 3321 3322 nosmap [X86,PPC] 3323 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3324 even if it is supported by processor. 3325 3326 nosmep [X86,PPC] 3327 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3328 even if it is supported by processor. 3329 3330 noexec32 [X86-64] 3331 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3332 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3333 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3334 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3335 read implies executable mappings 3336 3337 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3338 3339 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3340 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3341 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3342 3343 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3344 3345 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3346 Equivalent to smt=1. 3347 3348 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3349 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3350 via the sysfs control file. 3351 3352 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3353 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3354 possible in the system. 3355 3356 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3357 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3358 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3359 option. 3360 3361 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3362 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3363 3364 no_uaccess_flush 3365 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 3366 3367 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3368 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3369 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3370 3371 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3372 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3373 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3374 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3375 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3376 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3377 3378 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3379 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3380 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3381 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3382 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3383 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3384 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3385 3386 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or 3387 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to 3388 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger. 3389 3390 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3391 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3392 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3393 3394 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3395 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3396 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3397 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3398 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3399 real-time systems. 3400 3401 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3402 3403 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3404 Valid arguments: on, off 3405 Default: on 3406 3407 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3408 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3409 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3410 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3411 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3412 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3413 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3414 just as if they had also been called out in the 3415 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3416 3417 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3418 3419 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3420 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3421 3422 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3423 broken timer IRQ sources. 3424 3425 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3426 3427 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3428 initial RAM disk. 3429 3430 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3431 remapping. 3432 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3433 3434 nointroute [IA-64] 3435 3436 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3437 3438 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3439 3440 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3441 3442 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3443 fault handling. 3444 3445 no-vmw-sched-clock 3446 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3447 clock and use the default one. 3448 3449 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time 3450 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't 3451 influence scheduler behaviour 3452 3453 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3454 3455 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3456 3457 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 3458 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 3459 3460 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3461 3462 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3463 3464 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3465 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3466 3467 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3468 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3469 irq. 3470 3471 nomodule Disable module load 3472 3473 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3474 pagetables) support. 3475 3476 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3477 3478 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3479 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3480 3481 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3482 with UP alternatives 3483 3484 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 3485 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 3486 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 3487 available to user space applications. 3488 3489 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3490 space. 3491 3492 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3493 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3494 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3495 3496 nosbagart [IA-64] 3497 3498 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 3499 3500 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3501 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3502 3503 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3504 3505 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3506 3507 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3508 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3509 3510 nowb [ARM] 3511 3512 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3513 3514 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 3515 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 3516 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 3517 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 3518 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 3519 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 3520 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 3521 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 3522 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 3523 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 3524 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 3525 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 3526 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 3527 3528 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3529 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3530 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3531 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3532 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3533 parameter's value. 3534 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3535 Default: 255 3536 3537 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3538 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3539 SAL PALO. 3540 3541 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3542 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3543 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3544 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3545 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3546 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3547 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3548 hot plugging. 3549 3550 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3551 3552 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing. 3553 Allowed values are enable and disable 3554 3555 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3556 'node', 'default' can be specified 3557 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3558 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3559 3560 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3561 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 3562 info. 3563 3564 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3565 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3566 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3567 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3568 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3569 interrupts *may* be lost! 3570 3571 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3572 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3573 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3574 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3575 3576 oprofile.timer= [HW] 3577 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters 3578 3579 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type 3580 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile 3581 userland or if you want common events. 3582 Format: { arch_perfmon } 3583 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural 3584 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the 3585 CPU specific event set. 3586 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI 3587 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer 3588 for generic hr timer mode) 3589 3590 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3591 process, but there is a small probability of 3592 deadlocking the machine. 3593 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3594 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3595 3596 page_alloc.shuffle= 3597 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3598 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3599 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3600 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3601 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3602 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3603 can be read from sysfs at: 3604 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3605 3606 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3607 Storage of the information about who allocated 3608 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3609 we can turn it on. 3610 on: enable the feature 3611 3612 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3613 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3614 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3615 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3616 on: turn on poisoning 3617 3618 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3619 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3620 timeout = 0: wait forever 3621 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3622 Format: <timeout> 3623 3624 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3625 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3626 bit 0: print all tasks info 3627 bit 1: print system memory info 3628 bit 2: print timer info 3629 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3630 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3631 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3632 3633 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 3634 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 3635 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 3636 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 3637 called with any of the flags in this set. 3638 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 3639 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 3640 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 3641 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 3642 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 3643 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 3644 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 3645 3646 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3647 on a WARN(). 3648 3649 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 3650 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 3651 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 3652 succeeds in any situation. 3653 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 3654 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 3655 kernel more unstable. 3656 3657 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3658 connected to, default is 0. 3659 Format: <parport#> 3660 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3661 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3662 Format: <mode> 3663 3664 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3665 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3666 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3667 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3668 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3669 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3670 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3671 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3672 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3673 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3674 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3675 are specified on the command line, starting 3676 with parport0. 3677 3678 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3679 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3680 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3681 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3682 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3683 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3684 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3685 3686 pause_on_oops= 3687 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 3688 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 3689 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 3690 3691 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 3692 3693 pcd. [PARIDE] 3694 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 3695 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3696 3697 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 3698 3699 Some options herein operate on a specific device 3700 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 3701 specified in one of the following formats: 3702 3703 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 3704 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 3705 3706 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 3707 bus/device/function address which may change 3708 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 3709 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 3710 by other kernel parameters. If the 3711 domain is left unspecified, it is 3712 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 3713 to a device through multiple device/function 3714 addresses can be specified after the base 3715 address (this is more robust against 3716 renumbering issues). The second format 3717 selects devices using IDs from the 3718 configuration space which may match multiple 3719 devices in the system. 3720 3721 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 3722 changes anything 3723 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 3724 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 3725 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 3726 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 3727 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 3728 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 3729 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 3730 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 3731 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3732 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 3733 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 3734 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3735 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 3736 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 3737 bus number. The config space is then accessed 3738 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 3739 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 3740 on the configuration access mechanisms. 3741 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 3742 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3743 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 3744 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 3745 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 3746 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 3747 Configuration 3748 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 3749 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 3750 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 3751 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 3752 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3753 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 3754 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 3755 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 3756 should never be necessary. 3757 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 3758 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 3759 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 3760 when the system masks IRQs. 3761 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 3762 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 3763 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 3764 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 3765 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 3766 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 3767 on several machines and they hang the machine 3768 when used, but on other computers it's the only 3769 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 3770 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 3771 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 3772 motherboard. 3773 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 3774 Use with caution as certain devices share 3775 address decoders between ROMs and other 3776 resources. 3777 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 3778 expansion ROMs that do not already have 3779 BIOS assigned address ranges. 3780 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 3781 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 3782 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 3783 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 3784 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 3785 this way. 3786 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 3787 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 3788 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 3789 F0000h-100000h range. 3790 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 3791 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 3792 secondary buses and you want to tell it 3793 explicitly which ones they are. 3794 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 3795 numbers ourselves, overriding 3796 whatever the firmware may have done. 3797 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 3798 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 3799 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 3800 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 3801 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 3802 IRQ routing is enabled. 3803 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 3804 or for PCI scanning. 3805 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 3806 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 3807 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 3808 please report a bug. 3809 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 3810 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 3811 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 3812 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 3813 so this option is a temporary workaround 3814 for broken drivers that don't call it. 3815 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 3816 handle more pci cards 3817 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 3818 This might help on some broken boards which 3819 machine check when some devices' config space 3820 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 3821 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 3822 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3823 This sorting is done to get a device 3824 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 3825 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3826 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 3827 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 3828 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 3829 supported by all devices below the root complex. 3830 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 3831 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 3832 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 3833 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 3834 or bus can support) for best performance. 3835 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 3836 every device is guaranteed to support. This 3837 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 3838 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 3839 reduced performance. This also guarantees 3840 that hot-added devices will work. 3841 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3842 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 3843 The default value is 256 bytes. 3844 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3845 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 3846 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 3847 resource_alignment= 3848 Format: 3849 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 3850 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 3851 aligned memory resources. How to 3852 specify the device is described above. 3853 If <order of align> is not specified, 3854 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 3855 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 3856 windows need to be expanded. 3857 To specify the alignment for several 3858 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 3859 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 3860 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 3861 for 4096-byte alignment. 3862 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 3863 end-to-end CRC checking). 3864 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 3865 the default. 3866 off: Turn ECRC off 3867 on: Turn ECRC on. 3868 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3869 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 3870 Default size is 256 bytes. 3871 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3872 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 3873 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3874 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3875 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 3876 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3877 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3878 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 3879 MMIO_PREF window. 3880 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3881 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 3882 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 3883 Default is 1. 3884 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 3885 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 3886 accommodate resources required by all child 3887 devices. 3888 off: Turn realloc off 3889 on: Turn realloc on 3890 realloc same as realloc=on 3891 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 3892 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 3893 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 3894 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 3895 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 3896 port. 3897 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 3898 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 3899 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 3900 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 3901 conflict with unreported devices), so this 3902 taints the kernel. 3903 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 3904 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 3905 specified above) separated by semicolons. 3906 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 3907 redirect capabilities forced off which will 3908 allow P2P traffic between devices through 3909 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 3910 this removes isolation between devices and 3911 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 3912 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 3913 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 3914 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 3915 one PCI domain per PCI function 3916 3917 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 3918 Management. 3919 off Disable ASPM. 3920 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 3921 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 3922 3923 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 3924 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 3925 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 3926 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 3927 also tries to use these services. 3928 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 3929 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 3930 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 3931 hotplug). 3932 3933 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 3934 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 3935 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 3936 3937 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 3938 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 3939 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 3940 3941 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 3942 3943 pd_ignore_unused 3944 [PM] 3945 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 3946 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 3947 for debug and development, but should not be 3948 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 3949 3950 pd. [PARIDE] 3951 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3952 3953 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 3954 boot time. 3955 Format: { 0 | 1 } 3956 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 3957 3958 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 3959 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 3960 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 3961 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 3962 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 3963 and performance comparison. 3964 3965 pf. [PARIDE] 3966 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3967 3968 pg. [PARIDE] 3969 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3970 3971 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 3972 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 3973 3974 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 3975 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 3976 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 3977 3978 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 3979 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 3980 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 3981 3982 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 3983 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 3984 3985 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 3986 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 3987 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 3988 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 3989 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 3990 possible settings and some assignment information. 3991 3992 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 3993 { off } 3994 3995 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 3996 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 3997 3998 pnp_reserve_irq= 3999 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4000 4001 pnp_reserve_dma= 4002 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4003 4004 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4005 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4006 4007 pnp_reserve_mem= 4008 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4009 autoconfiguration. 4010 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4011 4012 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4013 Default is 21. 4014 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4015 may be specified. 4016 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4017 4018 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4019 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4020 platform machine description specific power_save 4021 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4022 execution priority. 4023 4024 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4025 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4026 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4027 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4028 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4029 4030 ppc_tm= [PPC] 4031 Format: {"off"} 4032 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4033 4034 print-fatal-signals= 4035 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4036 4037 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4038 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4039 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4040 coredump - etc. 4041 4042 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4043 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4044 4045 default: off. 4046 4047 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4048 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4049 panics 4050 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4051 default: disabled 4052 4053 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4054 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4055 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4056 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4057 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4058 Default: ratelimit 4059 4060 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4061 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4062 4063 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4064 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4065 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4066 4067 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4068 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4069 instead using the legacy FADT method 4070 4071 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4072 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4073 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4074 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4075 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4076 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4077 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4078 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4079 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4080 statistical time based profiling. 4081 4082 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4083 4084 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4085 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4086 that). 4087 Format: <bool> 4088 4089 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4090 tracking. 4091 Format: <bool> 4092 4093 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4094 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4095 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4096 per second. 4097 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4098 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4099 (0 = never). 4100 psmouse.resolution= 4101 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4102 psmouse.smartscroll= 4103 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4104 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4105 4106 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4107 4108 pt. [PARIDE] 4109 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4110 4111 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4112 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4113 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4114 system calls and interrupts. 4115 4116 on - unconditionally enable 4117 off - unconditionally disable 4118 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4119 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4120 4121 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4122 4123 nopti [X86-64] 4124 Equivalent to pti=off 4125 4126 pty.legacy_count= 4127 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4128 default number. 4129 4130 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4131 4132 r128= [HW,DRM] 4133 4134 raid= [HW,RAID] 4135 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4136 4137 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4138 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4139 4140 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4141 4142 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 4143 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 4144 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 4145 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4146 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 4147 4148 random.trust_bootloader={on,off} 4149 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of a 4150 seed passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4151 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4152 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER. 4153 4154 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4155 4156 cec_disable [X86] 4157 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4158 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4159 4160 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 4161 The argument is a cpu list, as described above, 4162 except that the string "all" can be used to 4163 specify every CPU on the system. 4164 4165 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 4166 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 4167 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be 4168 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that 4169 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and 4170 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number. 4171 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs, 4172 which can be useful for HPC and real-time 4173 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency 4174 for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4175 4176 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4177 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4178 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4179 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4180 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4181 This improves the real-time response for the 4182 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4183 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4184 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4185 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4186 4187 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4188 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4189 process in one batch. 4190 4191 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4192 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4193 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4194 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4195 4196 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4197 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4198 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4199 4200 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4201 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4202 RCU grace-period initialization. 4203 4204 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4205 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4206 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4207 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4208 the rcu_node combining tree. 4209 4210 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 4211 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 4212 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 4213 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 4214 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 4215 4216 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4217 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4218 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4219 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4220 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4221 4222 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4223 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4224 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4225 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4226 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4227 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4228 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4229 4230 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4231 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4232 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4233 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4234 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4235 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4236 condition. 4237 4238 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4239 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4240 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4241 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4242 and maximum value is HZ. 4243 4244 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4245 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4246 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4247 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4248 4249 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4250 Set required age in jiffies for a 4251 given grace period before RCU starts 4252 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4253 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4254 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4255 a value based on the most recent settings 4256 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4257 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4258 This calculated value may be viewed in 4259 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4260 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4261 overwritten. 4262 4263 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4264 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4265 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4266 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4267 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4268 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4269 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4270 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4271 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4272 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4273 4274 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4275 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4276 each group, which defaults to the square root 4277 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4278 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4279 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4280 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4281 4282 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4283 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4284 batch limiting is disabled. 4285 4286 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4287 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4288 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4289 4290 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4291 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4292 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4293 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4294 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4295 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4296 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4297 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4298 4299 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 4300 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 4301 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 4302 4303 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL] 4304 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 4305 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 4306 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can 4307 prove do nothing more than free memory. 4308 4309 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4310 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4311 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4312 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4313 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4314 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4315 4316 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 4317 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 4318 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 4319 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 4320 Larger delays increase the probability of 4321 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 4322 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 4323 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 4324 4325 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4326 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4327 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4328 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4329 4330 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 4331 Measure performance of asynchronous 4332 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4333 4334 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4335 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4336 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4337 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4338 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4339 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4340 4341 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 4342 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4343 grace-period primitives. 4344 4345 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4346 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4347 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4348 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4349 interference. 4350 4351 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4352 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4353 4354 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4355 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4356 4357 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4358 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4359 4360 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4361 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 4362 of allocations and frees. 4363 4364 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4365 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4366 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4367 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4368 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4369 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4370 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4371 a single reader. 4372 4373 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 4374 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4375 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 4376 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4377 4378 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL] 4379 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4380 4381 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4382 Shut the system down after performance tests 4383 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4384 testing. 4385 4386 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 4387 Enable additional printk() statements. 4388 4389 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4390 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4391 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4392 no holdoff. 4393 4394 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4395 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4396 in microseconds. 4397 4398 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4399 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4400 in microseconds. 4401 4402 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4403 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4404 in seconds. 4405 4406 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4407 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4408 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4409 4410 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4411 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4412 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4413 4414 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4415 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4416 forward-progress tests. 4417 4418 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4419 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4420 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4421 testing. 4422 4423 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4424 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4425 primitives, if available. 4426 4427 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4428 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4429 4430 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4431 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4432 update-side primitives, if available. 4433 4434 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4435 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4436 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4437 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4438 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4439 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4440 they are all non-zero. 4441 4442 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 4443 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 4444 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 4445 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 4446 4447 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 4448 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 4449 This can of course result in splats, and is 4450 intended to test the ability of things like 4451 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 4452 such leaks. 4453 4454 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 4455 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 4456 4457 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 4458 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 4459 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 4460 test, hence the "fake". 4461 4462 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 4463 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4464 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4465 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 4466 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4467 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4468 4469 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 4470 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 4471 4472 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4473 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 4474 4475 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4476 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 4477 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 4478 4479 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 4480 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 4481 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 4482 task-exit processing. 4483 4484 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 4485 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 4486 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 4487 is spawned. 4488 4489 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 4490 The delay, in seconds, between successive 4491 read-then-exit testing episodes. 4492 4493 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 4494 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 4495 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 4496 during the rcutorture test. 4497 4498 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4499 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 4500 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 4501 4502 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 4503 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 4504 warnings, zero to disable. 4505 4506 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 4507 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 4508 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition 4509 to any other stall-related activity. 4510 4511 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 4512 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 4513 4514 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 4515 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 4516 4517 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 4518 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 4519 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 4520 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 4521 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 4522 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 4523 4524 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 4525 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 4526 4527 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 4528 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 4529 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 4530 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 4531 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 4532 4533 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 4534 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 4535 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 4536 under test support RCU priority boosting. 4537 4538 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 4539 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 4540 4541 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 4542 Interval (s) between each boost test. 4543 4544 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 4545 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 4546 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 4547 4548 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 4549 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4550 4551 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 4552 Enable additional printk() statements. 4553 4554 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 4555 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 4556 stall warning. 4557 4558 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 4559 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4560 4561 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 4562 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 4563 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 4564 during early boot, that is, during the time 4565 before the init task is spawned. 4566 4567 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4568 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4569 4570 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 4571 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 4572 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 4573 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 4574 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 4575 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 4576 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4577 4578 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 4579 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 4580 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 4581 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 4582 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 4583 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 4584 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 4585 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 4586 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4587 4588 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 4589 Once boot has completed (that is, after 4590 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 4591 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 4592 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4593 4594 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 4595 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 4596 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 4597 of a given grace period. Setting a large 4598 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 4599 but lengthens grace periods. 4600 4601 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4602 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 4603 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 4604 to zero. 4605 4606 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 4607 Run the RCU early boot self tests 4608 4609 rdinit= [KNL] 4610 Format: <full_path> 4611 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 4612 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 4613 4614 rdrand= [X86] 4615 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 4616 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 4617 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 4618 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 4619 path). 4620 4621 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 4622 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 4623 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 4624 mba. 4625 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 4626 rdt=cmt,!mba 4627 4628 reboot= [KNL] 4629 Format (x86 or x86_64): 4630 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ 4631 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 4632 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 4633 [[,]f[orce] 4634 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 4635 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 4636 reboot only), 4637 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 4638 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 4639 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 4640 to be used for rebooting. 4641 4642 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4643 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4644 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4645 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4646 interference. 4647 4648 refscale.loops= [KNL] 4649 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 4650 primitive under test. Increasing this number 4651 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 4652 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 4653 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 4654 x86 laptops. 4655 4656 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4657 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 4658 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 4659 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 4660 4661 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 4662 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 4663 the console log. 4664 4665 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 4666 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 4667 measured in microseconds. 4668 4669 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 4670 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 4671 4672 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4673 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 4674 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 4675 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 4676 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 4677 4678 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 4679 Enable additional printk() statements. 4680 4681 relax_domain_level= 4682 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 4683 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 4684 4685 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 4686 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 4687 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 4688 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 4689 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 4690 4691 reservetop= [X86-32] 4692 Format: nn[KMG] 4693 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 4694 address space. 4695 4696 reservelow= [X86] 4697 Format: nn[K] 4698 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at 4699 the bottom of the address space. 4700 4701 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 4702 during initialization. 4703 4704 resume= [SWSUSP] 4705 Specify the partition device for software suspend 4706 Format: 4707 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 4708 4709 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 4710 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 4711 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 4712 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 4713 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 4714 4715 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4716 read the resume files 4717 4718 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 4719 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4720 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4721 4722 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 4723 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 4724 present during boot. 4725 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 4726 no Disable hibernation and resume. 4727 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 4728 (that will set all pages holding image data 4729 during restoration read-only). 4730 4731 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 4732 4733 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 4734 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 4735 vulnerability. 4736 4737 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop 4738 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other 4739 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- 4740 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors 4741 that don't. 4742 4743 off - no mitigation 4744 auto - automatically select a migitation 4745 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 4746 disabling SMT if necessary for 4747 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 4748 and older without STIBP). 4749 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation 4750 windows on basic block boundaries too. 4751 Safe, highest perf impact. It also 4752 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable 4753 on Intel. 4754 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT 4755 when STIBP is not available. This is 4756 the alternative for systems which do not 4757 have STIBP. 4758 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, 4759 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based 4760 systems. 4761 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP 4762 is not available. This is the alternative for 4763 systems which do not have STIBP. 4764 4765 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 4766 time according to the CPU. 4767 4768 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 4769 4770 rfkill.default_state= 4771 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 4772 etc. communication is blocked by default. 4773 1 Unblocked. 4774 4775 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 4776 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 4777 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4778 blocked and the previous configuration. 4779 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4780 blocked and everything unblocked. 4781 4782 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4783 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 4784 4785 ring3mwait=disable 4786 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 4787 CPUs. 4788 4789 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 4790 4791 rodata= [KNL] 4792 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 4793 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 4794 4795 rockchip.usb_uart 4796 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 4797 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 4798 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 4799 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 4800 4801 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 4802 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 4803 4804 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4805 mount the root filesystem 4806 4807 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 4808 4809 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 4810 4811 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 4812 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4813 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4814 4815 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 4816 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 4817 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 4818 managed by CMA. 4819 4820 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 4821 4822 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 4823 4824 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 4825 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 4826 strict 4827 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 4828 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 4829 which is faster. 4830 4831 sa1100ir [NET] 4832 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 4833 4834 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter 4835 4836 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 4837 4838 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 4839 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 4840 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 4841 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 4842 4843 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 4844 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 4845 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 4846 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 4847 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 4848 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 4849 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 4850 value. 4851 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 4852 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 4853 1 64 ms 4854 2 128 ms 4855 and so on. 4856 Format: integer between 0 and 10 4857 Default is 0. 4858 4859 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 4860 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 4861 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 4862 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 4863 tests. 4864 4865 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 4866 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 4867 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 4868 default) disables this feature. Please note 4869 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 4870 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 4871 softlockup complaints, and so on. 4872 4873 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 4874 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 4875 smp_call_function() family of functions. 4876 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 4877 equal to the number of CPUs. 4878 4879 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4880 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 4881 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 4882 4883 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4884 Number seconds to wait between successive 4885 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 4886 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 4887 4888 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4889 The number of seconds following the start of the 4890 test after which to shut down the system. The 4891 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 4892 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 4893 4894 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 4895 The number of seconds between outputting the 4896 current test statistics to the console. A value 4897 of zero disables statistics output. 4898 4899 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 4900 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 4901 to the set of CPUs under test. 4902 4903 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 4904 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 4905 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 4906 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 4907 functions. 4908 4909 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 4910 Enable additional printk() statements. 4911 4912 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 4913 The probability weighting to use for the 4914 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 4915 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 4916 default if all other weights are -1. However, 4917 if at least one weight has some other value, a 4918 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 4919 4920 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 4921 The probability weighting to use for the 4922 smp_call_function_single() function with a 4923 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 4924 4925 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 4926 The probability weighting to use for the 4927 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 4928 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 4929 Note well that setting a high probability for 4930 this weighting can place serious IPI load 4931 on the system. 4932 4933 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 4934 The probability weighting to use for the 4935 smp_call_function_many() function with a 4936 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 4937 and weight_many. 4938 4939 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 4940 The probability weighting to use for the 4941 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 4942 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 4943 weight_many. 4944 4945 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 4946 The probability weighting to use for the 4947 smp_call_function_all() function with a 4948 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 4949 and weight_many. 4950 4951 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 4952 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 4953 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 4954 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4955 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 4956 1 -- enable. 4957 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 4958 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 4959 4960 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 4961 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 4962 "lsm=" parameter. 4963 4964 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 4965 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4966 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 4967 0 -- disable. 4968 1 -- enable. 4969 Default value is 1. 4970 4971 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 4972 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4973 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 4974 0 -- disable. 4975 1 -- enable. 4976 Default value is set via kernel config option. 4977 4978 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 4979 4980 shapers= [NET] 4981 Maximal number of shapers. 4982 4983 simeth= [IA-64] 4984 simscsi= 4985 4986 slram= [HW,MTD] 4987 4988 slab_nomerge [MM] 4989 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 4990 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 4991 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 4992 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 4993 layout control by attackers can usually be 4994 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 4995 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 4996 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 4997 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 4998 own. 4999 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5000 5001 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 5002 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5003 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5004 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 5005 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 5006 5007 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 5008 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 5009 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5010 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5011 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5012 last alloc / free. For more information see 5013 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5014 5015 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB] 5016 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for 5017 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable. 5018 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON. 5019 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug 5020 directories and files being created under 5021 /sys/kernel/slub. 5022 5023 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 5024 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5025 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5026 fragmentation. For more information see 5027 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5028 5029 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 5030 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 5031 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 5032 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 5033 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 5034 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 5035 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 5036 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5037 5038 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 5039 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 5040 lower than slub_max_order. 5041 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5042 5043 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 5044 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 5045 See slab_nomerge for more information. 5046 5047 smart2= [HW] 5048 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 5049 5050 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 5051 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 5052 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 5053 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 5054 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 5055 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 5056 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 5057 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 5058 1: Fast pin select (default) 5059 2: ATC IRMode 5060 5061 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 5062 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 5063 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 5064 actual hardware limit. 5065 Format: <integer> 5066 Default: -1 (no limit) 5067 5068 softlockup_panic= 5069 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 5070 Format: 0 | 1 5071 5072 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 5073 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 5074 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 5075 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 5076 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 5077 5078 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 5079 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 5080 backtraces on all cpus. 5081 Format: 0 | 1 5082 5083 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 5084 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 5085 5086 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5087 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 5088 The default operation protects the kernel from 5089 user space attacks. 5090 5091 on - unconditionally enable, implies 5092 spectre_v2_user=on 5093 off - unconditionally disable, implies 5094 spectre_v2_user=off 5095 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5096 vulnerable 5097 5098 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 5099 mitigation method at run time according to the 5100 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 5101 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 5102 compiler with which the kernel was built. 5103 5104 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 5105 against user space to user space task attacks. 5106 5107 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 5108 the user space protections. 5109 5110 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 5111 5112 retpoline - replace indirect branches 5113 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 5114 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 5115 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 5116 eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS 5117 eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines 5118 eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE 5119 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 5120 5121 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5122 spectre_v2=auto. 5123 5124 spectre_v2_user= 5125 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5126 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 5127 user space tasks 5128 5129 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 5130 enforced by spectre_v2=on 5131 5132 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 5133 enforced by spectre_v2=off 5134 5135 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 5136 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 5137 per thread. The mitigation control state 5138 is inherited on fork. 5139 5140 prctl,ibpb 5141 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 5142 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5143 always when switching between different user 5144 space processes. 5145 5146 seccomp 5147 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 5148 threads will enable the mitigation unless 5149 they explicitly opt out. 5150 5151 seccomp,ibpb 5152 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 5153 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5154 always when switching between different 5155 user space processes. 5156 5157 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 5158 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 5159 5160 Default mitigation: 5161 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 5162 5163 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5164 spectre_v2_user=auto. 5165 5166 spec_rstack_overflow= 5167 [X86] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs 5168 5169 off - Disable mitigation 5170 microcode - Enable microcode mitigation only 5171 safe-ret - Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default) 5172 ibpb - Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on 5173 kernel entry 5174 ibpb-vmexit - Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT 5175 (cloud-specific mitigation) 5176 5177 spec_store_bypass_disable= 5178 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 5179 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 5180 5181 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 5182 a common industry wide performance optimization known 5183 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 5184 to the same memory location may not be observed by 5185 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 5186 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 5187 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 5188 end of a particular speculation execution window. 5189 5190 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5191 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 5192 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 5193 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 5194 5195 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 5196 Bypass optimization is used. 5197 5198 On x86 the options are: 5199 5200 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 5201 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 5202 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 5203 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 5204 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 5205 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 5206 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 5207 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 5208 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 5209 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 5210 for a process by default. The state of the control 5211 is inherited on fork. 5212 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 5213 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 5214 5215 Default mitigations: 5216 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 5217 5218 On powerpc the options are: 5219 5220 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 5221 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 5222 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 5223 exit. 5224 off - No action. 5225 5226 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5227 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 5228 5229 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 5230 spia_fio_base= 5231 spia_pedr= 5232 spia_peddr= 5233 5234 split_lock_detect= 5235 [X86] Enable split lock detection 5236 5237 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 5238 instructions that access data across cache line 5239 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception. 5240 5241 off - not enabled 5242 5243 warn - the kernel will emit rate limited warnings 5244 about applications triggering the #AC 5245 exception. This mode is the default on CPUs 5246 that supports split lock detection. 5247 5248 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 5249 that trigger the #AC exception. 5250 5251 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 5252 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 5253 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 5254 mode. 5255 5256 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 5257 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 5258 (SRBDS) mitigation. 5259 5260 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 5261 exploit which can leak bits from the random 5262 number generator. 5263 5264 By default, this issue is mitigated by 5265 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 5266 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 5267 much slower. Among other effects, this will 5268 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 5269 5270 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 5271 the following option: 5272 5273 off: Disable mitigation and remove 5274 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 5275 5276 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 5277 Specifies how frequently to check for 5278 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 5279 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 5280 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 5281 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 5282 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 5283 are ignored. 5284 5285 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 5286 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 5287 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 5288 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 5289 grace period will be considered for automatic 5290 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 5291 expediting. 5292 5293 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 5294 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 5295 5296 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 5297 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 5298 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 5299 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 5300 5301 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 5302 for both kernel and userspace 5303 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 5304 for both kernel and userspace 5305 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 5306 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 5307 to allow userspace to register its 5308 interest in being mitigated too. 5309 5310 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 5311 override the default stack gap protection. The value 5312 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 5313 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 5314 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 5315 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 5316 5317 stacktrace [FTRACE] 5318 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 5319 5320 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 5321 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 5322 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 5323 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 5324 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 5325 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 5326 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 5327 5328 sti= [PARISC,HW] 5329 Format: <num> 5330 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 5331 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 5332 as the initial boot-console. 5333 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5334 5335 sti_font= [HW] 5336 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5337 5338 stifb= [HW] 5339 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 5340 5341 sunrpc.min_resvport= 5342 sunrpc.max_resvport= 5343 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5344 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 5345 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 5346 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 5347 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 5348 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 5349 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 5350 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 5351 maximum port values. 5352 5353 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 5354 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5355 Limit the number of requests that the server will 5356 process in parallel from a single connection. 5357 The default value is 0 (no limit). 5358 5359 sunrpc.pool_mode= 5360 [NFS] 5361 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 5362 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 5363 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 5364 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 5365 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 5366 NFS server is running. 5367 5368 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 5369 automatically using heuristics 5370 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 5371 percpu one pool for each CPU 5372 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 5373 to global on non-NUMA machines) 5374 5375 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 5376 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 5377 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5378 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 5379 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 5380 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 5381 improve throughput, but will also increase the 5382 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 5383 5384 suspend.pm_test_delay= 5385 [SUSPEND] 5386 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 5387 mode before resuming the system (see 5388 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 5389 is set. Default value is 5. 5390 5391 svm= [PPC] 5392 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 5393 This parameter controls use of the Protected 5394 Execution Facility on pSeries. 5395 5396 swapaccount=[0|1] 5397 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 5398 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 5399 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) 5400 5401 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 5402 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 5403 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 5404 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 5405 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 5406 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 5407 5408 switches= [HW,M68k] 5409 5410 sysctl.*= [KNL] 5411 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 5412 process, as if the value was written to the respective 5413 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 5414 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 5415 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 5416 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 5417 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 5418 5419 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 5420 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 5421 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 5422 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 5423 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 5424 in older udev will not work anymore. 5425 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 5426 the kernel configuration. 5427 5428 sysrq_always_enabled 5429 [KNL] 5430 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 5431 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 5432 Useful for debugging. 5433 5434 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5435 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 5436 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 5437 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 5438 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 5439 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 5440 5441 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 5442 5443 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 5444 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 5445 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 5446 as the system sleep state during system startup with 5447 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 5448 The system is woken from this state using a 5449 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 5450 5451 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5452 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 5453 5454 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 5455 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 5456 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 5457 5458 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 5459 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 5460 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 5461 5462 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 5463 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 5464 critical and hot trip points. 5465 5466 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 5467 1: disable ACPI thermal control 5468 5469 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 5470 -1: disable all passive trip points 5471 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 5472 value 5473 5474 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 5475 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 5476 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 5477 0: no polling (default) 5478 5479 threadirqs [KNL] 5480 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 5481 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 5482 5483 topology= [S390] 5484 Format: {off | on} 5485 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 5486 topology information if the hardware supports this. 5487 The scheduler will make use of this information and 5488 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 5489 Default is on. 5490 5491 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 5492 Format: {off} 5493 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 5494 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 5495 LPAR. 5496 5497 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 5498 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 5499 until after init has spawned. 5500 5501 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 5502 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 5503 even if there were no errors. This can be a 5504 very costly operation when many torture tests 5505 are running concurrently, especially on systems 5506 with rotating-rust storage. 5507 5508 tp720= [HW,PS2] 5509 5510 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 5511 Format: integer pcr id 5512 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 5513 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 5514 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 5515 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 5516 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 5517 are saved. 5518 5519 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 5520 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 5521 5522 trace_event=[event-list] 5523 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 5524 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 5525 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See 5526 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 5527 5528 trace_options=[option-list] 5529 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 5530 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 5531 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 5532 to echo the option name into 5533 5534 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 5535 5536 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 5537 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 5538 5539 trace_options=stacktrace 5540 5541 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 5542 section. 5543 5544 tp_printk[FTRACE] 5545 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 5546 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 5547 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 5548 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 5549 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 5550 5551 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 5552 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 5553 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 5554 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 5555 5556 ** CAUTION ** 5557 5558 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 5559 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 5560 the system to live lock. 5561 5562 traceoff_on_warning 5563 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 5564 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 5565 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 5566 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 5567 5568 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 5569 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 5570 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 5571 5572 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 5573 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 5574 5575 transparent_hugepage= 5576 [KNL] 5577 Format: [always|madvise|never] 5578 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 5579 with respect to transparent hugepages. 5580 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 5581 for more details. 5582 5583 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 5584 Format: <string> 5585 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 5586 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 5587 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 5588 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 5589 virtualized environment. 5590 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 5591 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 5592 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 5593 can add overhead. 5594 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 5595 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 5596 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 5597 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 5598 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 5599 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 5600 acceptable). 5601 5602 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 5603 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 5604 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 5605 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 5606 Format: <unsigned int> 5607 5608 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 5609 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 5610 support TSX control. 5611 5612 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 5613 5614 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 5615 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 5616 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 5617 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 5618 so there may be unknown security risks associated 5619 with leaving it enabled. 5620 5621 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 5622 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 5623 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 5624 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 5625 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 5626 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 5627 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 5628 5629 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 5630 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 5631 5632 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 5633 5634 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 5635 for more details. 5636 5637 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 5638 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 5639 5640 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 5641 certain CPUs that support Transactional 5642 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 5643 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 5644 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 5645 conditions. 5646 5647 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5648 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 5649 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 5650 access. 5651 5652 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 5653 options are: 5654 5655 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 5656 if TSX is enabled. 5657 5658 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 5659 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 5660 is not disabled because CPU is not 5661 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 5662 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 5663 5664 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 5665 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 5666 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 5667 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 5668 5669 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5670 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 5671 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 5672 required and doesn't provide any additional 5673 mitigation. 5674 5675 For details see: 5676 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 5677 5678 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 5679 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 5680 Format: 5681 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 5682 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 5683 5684 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 5685 happen after console_init() and before a proper 5686 console driver takes over, this boot options might 5687 help "seeing" what's going on. 5688 5689 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5690 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 5691 5692 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 5693 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 5694 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 5695 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 5696 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 5697 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 5698 reported either. 5699 5700 unknown_nmi_panic 5701 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 5702 5703 usbcore.authorized_default= 5704 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 5705 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 5706 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 5707 if device connected to internal port) 5708 5709 usbcore.autosuspend= 5710 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 5711 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 5712 is the time required before an idle device will be 5713 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 5714 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 5715 5716 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 5717 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 5718 5719 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 5720 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 5721 (default = 65536). 5722 5723 usbcore.blinkenlights= 5724 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 5725 5726 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 5727 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 5728 scheme (default 0 = off). 5729 5730 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 5731 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 5732 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 5733 5734 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 5735 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 5736 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 5737 5738 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 5739 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 5740 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 5741 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 5742 5743 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 5744 5745 usbcore.quirks= 5746 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 5747 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 5748 commas. Each entry has the form 5749 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 5750 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 5751 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 5752 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 5753 the following meanings: 5754 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 5755 descriptors must not be fetched using 5756 a 255-byte read); 5757 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 5758 correctly so reset it instead); 5759 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 5760 Set-Interface requests); 5761 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 5762 handle its Configuration or Interface 5763 strings); 5764 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 5765 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 5766 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 5767 more interface descriptions than the 5768 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 5769 talking to these interfaces); 5770 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 5771 during initialization, after we read 5772 the device descriptor); 5773 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 5774 high speed and super speed interrupt 5775 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 5776 require the interval in microframes (1 5777 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 5778 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 5779 (bInterval-1). 5780 Devices with this quirk report their 5781 bInterval as the result of this 5782 calculation instead of the exponent 5783 variable used in the calculation); 5784 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 5785 handle device_qualifier descriptor 5786 requests); 5787 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 5788 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 5789 remote wakeup capability); 5790 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 5791 Power Management); 5792 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 5793 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 5794 frames instead of the USB 2.0 5795 calculation); 5796 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 5797 to be disconnected before suspend to 5798 prevent spurious wakeup); 5799 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 5800 pause after every control message); 5801 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 5802 delay after resetting its port); 5803 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 5804 5805 usbhid.mousepoll= 5806 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 5807 5808 usbhid.jspoll= 5809 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 5810 5811 usbhid.kbpoll= 5812 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 5813 5814 usb-storage.delay_use= 5815 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 5816 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 5817 5818 usb-storage.quirks= 5819 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 5820 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 5821 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 5822 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 5823 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 5824 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 5825 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 5826 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 5827 of sense data, not on uas); 5828 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 5829 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 5830 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 5831 device capacity by one sector); 5832 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 5833 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 5834 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 5835 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 5836 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 5837 command, uas only); 5838 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 5839 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 5840 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 5841 reported device capacity by one 5842 sector if the number is odd); 5843 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 5844 device); 5845 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 5846 command, uas only); 5847 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 5848 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 5849 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 5850 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 5851 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 5852 not on uas); 5853 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 5854 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 5855 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 5856 reported by the device, not on uas); 5857 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 5858 by default, not on uas); 5859 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 5860 bogus residue values, not on uas); 5861 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 5862 Logical Unit); 5863 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 5864 commands, uas only); 5865 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 5866 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 5867 medium is write-protected). 5868 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 5869 even if the device claims no cache, 5870 not on uas) 5871 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 5872 5873 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 5874 Format: <int> 5875 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 5876 1 - undefined instruction events 5877 2 - system calls 5878 4 - invalid data aborts 5879 8 - SIGSEGV faults 5880 16 - SIGBUS faults 5881 Example: user_debug=31 5882 5883 userpte= 5884 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 5885 5886 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 5887 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 5888 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 5889 5890 vdso= [X86,SH] 5891 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 5892 5893 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 5894 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 5895 5896 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 5897 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 5898 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 5899 5900 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 5901 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 5902 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 5903 5904 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 5905 alias for vdso32=0. 5906 5907 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 5908 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 5909 5910 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 5911 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 5912 5913 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 5914 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 5915 5916 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 5917 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 5918 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 5919 level and then send out the event to user space through 5920 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 5921 will only send out the event without touching backlight 5922 brightness level. 5923 default: 1 5924 5925 virtio_mmio.device= 5926 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 5927 5928 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 5929 where: 5930 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 5931 like K, M and G) 5932 <baseaddr> := physical base address 5933 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 5934 request_irq()) 5935 <id> := (optional) platform device id 5936 example: 5937 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 5938 5939 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 5940 5941 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 5942 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 5943 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 5944 Use vga=ask for menu. 5945 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 5946 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 5947 5948 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 5949 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 5950 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 5951 All options are enabled by default, and this 5952 interface is meant to allow for selectively 5953 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 5954 debugging features. 5955 5956 Available options are: 5957 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 5958 - Disable all of the above options 5959 5960 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 5961 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 5962 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 5963 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 5964 mapped kernel RAM. 5965 5966 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 5967 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 5968 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 5969 5970 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 5971 Format: <command> 5972 5973 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 5974 Format: <command> 5975 5976 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 5977 Format: <command> 5978 5979 vsyscall= [X86-64] 5980 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 5981 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 5982 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 5983 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 5984 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 5985 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 5986 5987 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 5988 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 5989 page is readable. 5990 5991 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 5992 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 5993 page is not readable. 5994 5995 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 5996 them quite hard to use for exploits but 5997 might break your system. 5998 5999 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 6000 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 6001 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 6002 6003 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 6004 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 6005 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 6006 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 6007 6008 vt.default_blu= [VT] 6009 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 6010 Change the default blue palette of the console. 6011 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6012 ranging from 0-255. 6013 6014 vt.default_grn= [VT] 6015 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 6016 Change the default green palette of the console. 6017 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6018 ranging from 0-255. 6019 6020 vt.default_red= [VT] 6021 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 6022 Change the default red palette of the console. 6023 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6024 ranging from 0-255. 6025 6026 vt.default_utf8= 6027 [VT] 6028 Format=<0|1> 6029 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 6030 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 6031 newly opened terminals. 6032 6033 vt.global_cursor_default= 6034 [VT] 6035 Format=<-1|0|1> 6036 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 6037 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 6038 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 6039 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 6040 cursors, 1 will display them. 6041 6042 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 6043 Default: 2 = green. 6044 6045 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 6046 Default: 3 = cyan. 6047 6048 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 6049 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 6050 or other driver-specific files in the 6051 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 6052 6053 watchdog_thresh= 6054 [KNL] 6055 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 6056 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 6057 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 6058 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 6059 seconds. 6060 6061 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 6062 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 6063 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 6064 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 6065 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 6066 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 6067 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 6068 corresponding sysfs file. 6069 6070 workqueue.disable_numa 6071 By default, all work items queued to unbound 6072 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 6073 issued on, which results in better behavior in 6074 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 6075 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 6076 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 6077 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 6078 6079 workqueue.power_efficient 6080 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 6081 they show better performance thanks to cache 6082 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 6083 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 6084 6085 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 6086 were observed to contribute significantly to power 6087 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 6088 power usage at the cost of small performance 6089 overhead. 6090 6091 The default value of this parameter is determined by 6092 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 6093 6094 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 6095 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 6096 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 6097 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 6098 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 6099 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 6100 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 6101 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 6102 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 6103 impacted. 6104 6105 writecombine= [LOONGARCH] Control the MAT (Memory Access Type) of 6106 ioremap_wc(). 6107 6108 on - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc() 6109 off - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc() 6110 6111 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 6112 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 6113 supporting x2apic. 6114 6115 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT] 6116 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform. 6117 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer 6118 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer. 6119 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt 6120 6121 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 6122 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 6123 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 6124 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 6125 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 6126 domains. 6127 6128 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 6129 Unplug Xen emulated devices 6130 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 6131 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 6132 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 6133 nics -- unplug network devices 6134 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 6135 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 6136 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 6137 the unplug protocol 6138 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 6139 6140 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 6141 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 6142 panic() code such as dumping handler. 6143 6144 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 6145 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 6146 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 6147 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6148 6149 xen_nopv [X86] 6150 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 6151 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 6152 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 6153 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6154 6155 xen_no_vector_callback 6156 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 6157 event channel interrupts. 6158 6159 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 6160 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 6161 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 6162 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 6163 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 6164 6165 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 6166 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 6167 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 6168 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 6169 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 6170 more timer interrupts. 6171 6172 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 6173 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 6174 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 6175 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 6176 started with less memory configured than allowed at 6177 max. Default is 180. 6178 6179 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 6180 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 6181 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 6182 6183 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 6184 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 6185 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 6186 6187 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 6188 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 6189 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 6190 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 6191 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 6192 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 6193 6194 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 6195 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 6196 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 6197 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 6198 6199 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 6200 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 6201 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 6202 contention. 6203 6204 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 6205 Format: 6206 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 6207 6208 xive= [PPC] 6209 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 6210 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 6211 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 6212 6213 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 6214 controller on both pseries and powernv 6215 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 6216 6217 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 6218 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 6219 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 6220 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 6221 6222 xmon [PPC] 6223 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 6224 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 6225 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 6226 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 6227 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 6228 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6229 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 6230 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 6231 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 6232 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6233 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 6234 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 6235 can be written using xmon commands. 6236 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 6237 memory, and other data can't be written using 6238 xmon commands. 6239 off xmon is disabled. 6240