kernel-parameters.txt (246204B)
1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64] 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 4 copy_dsdt } 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64] 7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 14 are available 15 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 17 18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 19 Format: <int> 20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 21 1,0: use 1st APIC table 22 default: 0 23 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 25 { vendor | video | native | none } 26 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver 27 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 28 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 29 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. 31 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. 32 33 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 34 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 35 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 36 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 37 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 38 39 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 40 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 41 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 42 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 43 This option is useful for developers to identify the 44 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 45 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 46 47 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 48 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 49 Format: <int> 50 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 51 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 52 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 53 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS 54 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 55 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 56 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 57 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 58 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 59 debug layers and levels. 60 61 Enable processor driver info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list> 117 118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 122 auto-serialization feature. 123 This feature is enabled by default. 124 This option allows to turn off the feature. 125 126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 127 kernels. 128 129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 132 installed automatically and they will appear under 133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 134 This option turns off this feature. 135 Note that specifying this option does not affect 136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 138 139 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 140 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 141 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 142 143 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 144 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 145 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 146 second kernel for kdump. 147 148 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 149 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 150 151 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 152 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 153 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 154 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 155 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 156 157 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 158 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 159 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 160 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 161 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 162 strings 163 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 164 strings 165 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 166 167 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 168 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 169 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 170 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 171 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 172 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 173 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 174 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 175 care about the state of the feature group strings which 176 should be controlled by the OSPM. 177 Examples: 178 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 179 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 180 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 181 182 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 183 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 184 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 185 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 186 multiple times through kernel command line is also 187 meaningless. 188 Examples: 189 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 190 FALSE. 191 192 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 193 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 194 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 195 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 196 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 197 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 198 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 199 there are quirks related to this string. This command 200 is useful when one want to control the state of the 201 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 202 the OSPM features. 203 Examples: 204 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 205 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 206 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 207 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 208 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 209 equivalent to 210 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 211 and 212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 213 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 214 215 acpi_pm_good [X86] 216 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 217 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 218 and always returns good values. 219 220 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 221 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 222 223 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 224 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 225 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 226 227 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 228 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig, 229 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs, 230 sci_force_enable, nobl } 231 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 232 s3_bios and s3_mode. 233 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 234 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 235 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware 236 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully 237 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with 238 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since 239 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it 240 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume 241 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the 242 s4_hwsig option is enabled. 243 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 244 used (or even warned about) during resume. 245 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 246 control method, with respect to putting devices into 247 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 248 of _PTS is used by default). 249 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 250 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 251 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 252 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 253 but some broken systems don't work without it). 254 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 255 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 256 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 257 258 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 259 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 260 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 261 262 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 263 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 264 265 agp= [AGP] 266 { off | try_unsupported } 267 off: disable AGP support 268 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 269 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 270 271 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 272 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 273 274 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 275 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 276 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 277 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 278 279 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 280 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 281 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 282 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 283 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 284 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 285 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 286 287 32: only for 32-bit processes 288 64: only for 64-bit processes 289 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 290 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 291 292 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 293 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 294 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 295 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 296 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 297 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 298 299 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64] 300 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the 301 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict 302 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this 303 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit 304 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0 305 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted. 306 307 See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more 308 information. 309 310 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 311 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 312 Possible values are: 313 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1 314 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 315 the system 316 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 317 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 318 allowed anymore to lift isolation 319 requirements as needed. This option 320 does not override iommu=pt 321 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known 322 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this 323 option with care. 324 325 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 326 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 327 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 328 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 329 IOMMU initialization. 330 331 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 332 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 333 remapping modes: 334 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 335 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 336 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 337 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 338 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 339 340 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 341 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 342 Format: <a>,<b> 343 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 344 345 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 346 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 347 connected to one of 16 gameports 348 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 349 350 apc= [HW,SPARC] 351 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 352 Format: noidle 353 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 354 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 355 APC and your system crashes randomly. 356 357 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 358 Change the output verbosity while booting 359 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 360 Change the amount of debugging information output 361 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 362 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 363 driver name. 364 Format: apic=driver_name 365 Examples: apic=bigsmp 366 367 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 368 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 369 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 370 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 371 backup of CPU 0 372 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 373 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 374 shot down by NMI 375 376 autoconf= [IPV6] 377 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 378 379 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 380 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 381 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 382 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 383 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 384 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 385 apic=verbose is specified. 386 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 387 388 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 389 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 390 391 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 392 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 393 394 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 395 Identification support 396 397 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 398 support 399 400 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 401 support 402 403 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 404 405 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 406 407 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 408 EzKey and similar keyboards 409 410 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 411 412 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 413 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 414 415 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 416 keyboards 417 418 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 419 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 420 421 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 422 Use software keyboard repeat 423 424 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 425 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 426 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 427 enabled until the next reboot 428 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 429 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 430 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 431 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 432 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 433 userspace auditd. 434 Default: unset 435 436 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 437 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 438 Default: 64 439 440 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 441 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 442 Format: { "0" | "1" } 443 0 - Disable the BAU. 444 1 - Enable the BAU. 445 unset - Disable the BAU. 446 447 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 448 Format: <io>,<mode> 449 450 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 451 Format: <io>,<mode> 452 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 453 454 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 455 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 456 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 457 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 458 459 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 460 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 461 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 462 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 463 464 bert_disable [ACPI] 465 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 466 467 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] 468 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 469 470 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 471 embedded devices based on command line input. 472 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 473 474 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 475 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 476 no delay (0). 477 Format: integer 478 479 bootconfig [KNL] 480 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 481 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 482 483 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 484 485 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 486 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 487 kernel args too. 488 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 489 bttv.tuner= 490 491 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 492 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 493 at a time. 494 495 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 496 497 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 498 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 499 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 500 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 501 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 502 This option provides an override for these situations. 503 504 carrier_timeout= 505 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 506 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 507 it waits 120 seconds. 508 509 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 510 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 511 trust validation. 512 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 513 514 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 515 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 516 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 517 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 518 others). 519 520 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 521 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 522 523 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 524 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 525 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 526 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 527 a single hierarchy 528 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 529 subsystem 530 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 531 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 532 created 533 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 534 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 535 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 536 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 537 stall information accounting feature 538 539 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 540 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 541 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 542 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 543 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 544 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 545 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 546 all v1 hierarchies. 547 548 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 549 Format: <string> 550 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 551 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 552 553 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 554 Format: { "0" | "1" } 555 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 556 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 557 any implied execute protection). 558 1 -- check protection requested by application. 559 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 560 Value can be changed at runtime via 561 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 562 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 563 564 cio_ignore= [S390] 565 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 566 567 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] 568 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 569 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 570 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily 571 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific 572 ones should be. 573 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line 574 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above 575 instability issue. However, not all features have names 576 in /proc/cpuinfo. 577 Note that using this option will taint your kernel. 578 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 579 or using the feature without checking anything 580 will still see it. This just prevents it from 581 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 582 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 583 some critical bits. 584 585 clk_ignore_unused 586 [CLK] 587 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 588 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 589 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 590 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 591 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 592 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 593 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 594 platform with proper driver support. For more 595 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 596 597 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 598 [Deprecated] 599 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 600 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 601 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 602 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 603 604 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 605 Format: <string> 606 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 607 with the name specified. 608 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 609 the platform: 610 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 611 [ACPI] acpi_pm 612 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 613 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 614 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 615 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 616 [MIPS] MIPS 617 [PARISC] cr16 618 [S390] tod 619 [SH] SuperH 620 [SPARC64] tick 621 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 622 623 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 624 [ARM,ARM64] 625 Format: <bool> 626 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 627 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 628 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 629 systems. 630 631 clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL] 632 Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to 633 external delays before the clock will be marked 634 unstable. Defaults to two retries, that is, 635 three attempts to read the clock under test. 636 637 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 638 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 639 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 640 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 641 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 642 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 643 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 644 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 645 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 646 647 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 648 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 649 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 650 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 651 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 652 653 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 654 [KNL,CMA] 655 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 656 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 657 placement constraint by the physical address range of 658 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 659 altogether. For more information, see 660 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 661 662 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 663 [ARM64,KNL,CMA] 664 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 665 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 666 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 667 specificed, the default value is 0. 668 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 669 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 670 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 671 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 672 673 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 674 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 675 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 676 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 677 a hypervisor. 678 Default: yes 679 680 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 681 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 682 allocations, by default set to 256K. 683 684 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 685 Format: 686 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 687 688 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 689 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 690 691 com90xx= [HW,NET] 692 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 693 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 694 695 condev= [HW,S390] console device 696 conmode= 697 698 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 699 700 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 701 702 ttyS<n>[,options] 703 ttyUSB0[,options] 704 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 705 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 706 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 707 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 708 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 709 710 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 711 information. See 712 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 713 alternative. 714 715 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 716 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 717 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 718 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 719 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 720 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 721 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 722 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 723 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 724 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 725 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 726 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 727 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 728 the h/w is not re-initialized. 729 730 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 731 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 732 733 { null | "" } 734 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 735 console messages discarded. 736 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 737 kernel command line. 738 739 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 740 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 741 console=brl,ttyS0 742 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 743 744 console_msg_format= 745 [KNL] Change console messages format 746 default 747 By default we print messages on consoles in 748 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 749 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 750 `printk_time' param). 751 syslog 752 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 753 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 754 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 755 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 756 from /proc/kmsg. 757 758 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 759 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 760 Defaults to 0. 761 762 coredump_filter= 763 [KNL] Change the default value for 764 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 765 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 766 767 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 768 [ARM,ARM64] 769 Format: <bool> 770 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 771 0: default value, disable debugging 772 1: enable debugging at boot time 773 774 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 775 Format: 776 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 777 778 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 779 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 780 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 781 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 782 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 783 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 784 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 785 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 786 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 787 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 788 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 789 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 790 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 791 792 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 793 disable the cpuidle sub-system 794 795 cpuidle.governor= 796 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 797 798 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 799 disable the cpufreq sub-system 800 801 cpufreq.default_governor= 802 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 803 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 804 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 805 806 cpu_init_udelay=N 807 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 808 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 809 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 810 Default: 10000 811 812 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 813 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 814 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 815 succeeds in any situation. 816 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 817 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 818 kernel more unstable. 819 820 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 821 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 822 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 823 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 824 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 825 is selected automatically. 826 [KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and 827 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 828 hasn't been specified. 829 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 830 831 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 832 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 833 in the running system. The syntax of range is 834 start-[end] where start and end are both 835 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 836 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 837 838 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 839 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 840 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 841 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 842 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 843 available. 844 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 845 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 846 [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 847 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 848 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 849 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 850 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 851 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 852 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate 853 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 854 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G 855 for second kernel instead. 856 0: to disable low allocation. 857 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 858 or memory reserved is below 4G. 859 860 [KNL, ARM64] range in low memory. 861 This one lets the user specify a low range in the 862 DMA zone for the crash dump kernel. 863 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 864 or memory reserved is located in the DMA zones. 865 866 cryptomgr.notests 867 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 868 869 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 870 Format: <dma> 871 872 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 873 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 874 875 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call 876 handling. When switched on, additional debug data is 877 printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is 878 detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try 879 to resolve the hang situation. 880 0: disable csdlock debugging (default) 881 1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact) 882 ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact, 883 but more data) 884 885 dasd= [HW,NET] 886 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 887 888 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 889 (one device per port) 890 Format: <port#>,<type> 891 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 892 893 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 894 895 debug_boot_weak_hash 896 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 897 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 898 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 899 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 900 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 901 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 902 903 debug_locks_verbose= 904 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 905 Format: <int> 906 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 907 self-tests. 908 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 909 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 910 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 911 useful to lockdep developers. 912 913 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 914 915 no_debug_objects 916 [KNL] Disable object debugging 917 918 debug_guardpage_minorder= 919 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 920 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 921 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 922 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 923 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 924 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 925 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 926 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 927 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 928 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 929 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 930 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 931 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 932 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 933 bypassed) which are not detectable by 934 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 935 tracking down these problems. 936 937 debug_pagealloc= 938 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 939 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 940 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 941 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 942 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 943 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 944 on: enable the feature 945 946 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 947 and debugfs internal clients. 948 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 949 on: All functions are enabled. 950 no-mount: 951 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 952 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 953 its content. There is nothing to mount. 954 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 955 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 956 or directories within debugfs. 957 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 958 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 959 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 960 961 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 962 963 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 964 Format: <area>[,<node>] 965 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst. 966 967 default_hugepagesz= 968 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 969 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 970 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 971 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 972 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 973 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 974 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 975 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 976 Format: size[KMG] 977 978 deferred_probe_timeout= 979 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 980 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 981 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 982 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout 983 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time 984 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each 985 successful driver registration. This option will also 986 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 987 retrying. 988 989 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 990 991 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 992 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 993 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 994 hardware. 995 996 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 997 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 998 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 999 blacklisted features. 1000 1001 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 1002 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1003 (disabled by default). 1004 1005 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 1006 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1007 capability is set. 1008 1009 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 1010 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 1011 1012 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 1013 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 1014 1015 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 1016 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 1017 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 1018 level 1 and decompression (default) 1019 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 1020 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 1021 only (compression on level 1) 1022 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 1023 only (decompression) 1024 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 1025 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 1026 1027 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1028 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1029 1030 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 1031 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1032 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1033 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1034 miss to occur. 1035 1036 stress_slb [PPC] 1037 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 1038 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 1039 on kernel addresses. 1040 1041 disable= [IPV6] 1042 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1043 1044 disable_radix [PPC] 1045 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1046 1047 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 1048 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 1049 invalidate. 1050 1051 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1052 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1053 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1054 1055 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 1056 Format: <int> 1057 The number of initial APIC ID for the 1058 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 1059 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 1060 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 1061 causing system reset or hang due to sending 1062 INIT from AP to BSP. 1063 1064 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 1065 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1066 to workaround buggy firmware. 1067 1068 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1069 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1070 1071 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1072 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1073 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1074 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1075 1076 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 1077 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1078 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1079 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1080 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1081 1082 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1083 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1084 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1085 1086 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1087 1088 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1089 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1090 1091 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1092 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1093 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1094 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1095 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1096 architectural default is too low. 1097 1098 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1099 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1100 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1101 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1102 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1103 driver later using sysfs. 1104 1105 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1106 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * 1107 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the 1108 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT 1109 match the *. 1110 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1111 1112 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1113 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1114 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1115 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1116 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1117 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 1118 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 1119 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 1120 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 1121 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 1122 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID 1123 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 1124 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 1125 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 1126 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1127 data set with no connector name will be used for 1128 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1129 1130 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1131 1132 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1133 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1134 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1135 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1136 exists). 1137 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1138 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1139 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1140 1141 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1142 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1143 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1144 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1145 1146 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1147 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1148 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1149 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1150 for details. 1151 1152 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 1153 in some Intel CPUs. 1154 1155 <module>.async_probe [KNL] 1156 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 1157 1158 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1159 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1160 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1161 which are not unmapped. 1162 1163 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1164 1165 When used with no options, the early console is 1166 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1167 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1168 the platform. 1169 1170 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1171 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1172 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1173 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1174 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1175 configured. 1176 1177 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 1178 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 1179 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 1180 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 1181 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1182 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1183 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1184 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1185 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1186 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1187 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1188 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1189 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 1190 1191 pl011,<addr> 1192 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1193 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1194 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1195 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1196 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1197 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1198 the device registers. 1199 1200 liteuart,<addr> 1201 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1202 specified address. The serial port must already be 1203 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1204 1205 meson,<addr> 1206 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1207 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1208 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1209 supported. 1210 1211 msm_serial,<addr> 1212 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1213 port at the specified address. The serial port 1214 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1215 yet supported. 1216 1217 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1218 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1219 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1220 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1221 yet supported. 1222 1223 owl,<addr> 1224 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1225 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1226 specified address. The serial port must already be 1227 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1228 1229 rda,<addr> 1230 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1231 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1232 specified address. The serial port must already be 1233 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1234 1235 sbi 1236 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1237 console. 1238 1239 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1240 1241 s3c2410,<addr> 1242 s3c2412,<addr> 1243 s3c2440,<addr> 1244 s3c6400,<addr> 1245 s5pv210,<addr> 1246 exynos4210,<addr> 1247 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1248 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1249 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1250 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1251 Options are not yet supported. 1252 1253 lantiq,<addr> 1254 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1255 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1256 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1257 yet supported. 1258 1259 lpuart,<addr> 1260 lpuart32,<addr> 1261 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1262 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1263 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1264 port must already be setup and configured. 1265 1266 ec_imx21,<addr> 1267 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1268 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1269 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1270 must already be setup and configured. 1271 1272 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1273 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1274 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1275 address. The serial port must already be setup 1276 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1277 1278 qcom_geni,<addr> 1279 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1280 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1281 specified address. The serial port must already be 1282 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1283 1284 efifb,[options] 1285 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1286 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1287 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1288 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1289 mapped with the correct attributes. 1290 1291 linflex,<addr> 1292 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1293 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1294 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1295 already be setup and configured. 1296 1297 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1298 earlyprintk=vga 1299 earlyprintk=sclp 1300 earlyprintk=xen 1301 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1302 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1303 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1304 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1305 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1306 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1307 1308 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1309 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1310 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1311 1312 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1313 takes over. 1314 1315 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can 1316 be used at a time. 1317 1318 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1319 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1320 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1321 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1322 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1323 You can find the port for a given device in 1324 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1325 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1326 1327 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1328 very good. 1329 1330 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by 1331 the real console. 1332 1333 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1334 1335 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1336 1337 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1338 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1339 UART class. 1340 1341 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1342 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1343 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1344 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1345 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1346 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1347 default: on. 1348 1349 edd= [EDD] 1350 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1351 1352 efi= [EFI] 1353 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1354 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1355 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1356 debug: enable misc debug output. 1357 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1358 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1359 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1360 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1361 firmware implementations. 1362 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1363 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1364 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1365 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1366 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1367 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1368 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1369 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1370 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1371 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1372 1373 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1374 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1375 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1376 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1377 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1378 1379 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1380 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1381 updating original EFI memory map. 1382 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1383 from ss to ss+nn. 1384 1385 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1386 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1387 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1388 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1389 1390 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1391 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1392 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1393 1394 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1395 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1396 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1397 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1398 "soft reserved". 1399 1400 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1401 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1402 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1403 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1404 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1405 1406 1407 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1408 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1409 1410 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1411 Format: ekgdboc=kbd 1412 1413 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1414 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1415 1416 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1417 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1418 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1419 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1420 1421 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1422 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1423 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1424 1425 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1426 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1427 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1428 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1429 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1430 1431 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1432 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1433 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1434 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1435 1436 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1437 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1438 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1439 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1440 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1441 1442 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1443 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1444 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1445 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1446 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1447 Default value is 0. 1448 Value can be changed at runtime via 1449 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1450 1451 erst_disable [ACPI] 1452 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1453 support. 1454 1455 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1456 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1457 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1458 1459 evm= [EVM] 1460 Format: { "fix" } 1461 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1462 current integrity status. 1463 1464 failslab= 1465 fail_usercopy= 1466 fail_page_alloc= 1467 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1468 General fault injection mechanism. 1469 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1470 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1471 1472 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1473 Format: { initns | none } 1474 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1475 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1476 1477 floppy= [HW] 1478 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1479 1480 force_pal_cache_flush 1481 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1482 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1483 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1484 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1485 1486 forcepae [X86-32] 1487 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1488 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1489 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1490 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1491 and may cause unknown problems. 1492 1493 ftrace=[tracer] 1494 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1495 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1496 boot debugging. 1497 1498 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1499 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1500 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1501 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1502 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1503 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1504 start up functionality. 1505 1506 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1507 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1508 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1509 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1510 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1511 oops. 1512 1513 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1514 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1515 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1516 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1517 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1518 tracing directory. 1519 1520 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1521 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1522 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1523 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1524 tracing directory. 1525 1526 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1527 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1528 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1529 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1530 that can be changed at run time by the 1531 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1532 1533 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1534 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1535 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1536 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1537 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1538 1539 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1540 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1541 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1542 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1543 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1544 1545 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1546 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1547 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1548 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1549 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1550 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1551 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1552 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1553 suppliers). 1554 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1555 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1556 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1557 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1558 up (sync_state() calls). 1559 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1560 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1561 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1562 1563 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1564 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1565 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1566 Format: <bool> 1567 1568 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1569 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1570 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1571 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1572 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1573 1574 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1575 1576 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1577 Format: off | on 1578 default: on 1579 1580 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1581 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1582 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1583 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1584 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1585 1586 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1587 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1588 android emulator 1589 1590 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1591 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1592 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1593 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1594 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1595 1596 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1597 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1598 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1599 GPT to be used instead. 1600 1601 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1602 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1603 Format: 0 | 1 1604 Default: 0 1605 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1606 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1607 Format: 0 | 1 1608 Default: 0 1609 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1610 Format: 0 | 1 1611 Default: 0 1612 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1613 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1614 Default: 1024 1615 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1616 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1617 Default: 1024 1618 1619 hardened_usercopy= 1620 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1621 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1622 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1623 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1624 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1625 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1626 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1627 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 1628 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1629 1630 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1631 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1632 backtraces on all cpus. 1633 Format: 0 | 1 1634 1635 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1636 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1637 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1638 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1639 1640 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1641 1642 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1643 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1644 1645 hest_disable [ACPI] 1646 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1647 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1648 logic will be disabled. 1649 1650 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 1651 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 1652 present during boot. 1653 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 1654 no Disable hibernation and resume. 1655 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 1656 (that will set all pages holding image data 1657 during restoration read-only). 1658 1659 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1660 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1661 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1662 size on bigger boxes. 1663 1664 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1665 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1666 Default: "on" 1667 1668 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1669 1670 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1671 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1672 verbose } 1673 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1674 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1675 VIA, nVidia) 1676 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1677 1678 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1679 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1680 1681 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1682 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1683 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1684 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1685 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1686 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1687 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1688 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1689 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1690 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1691 1692 hugepagesz= 1693 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1694 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1695 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1696 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1697 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1698 architecture dependent. See also 1699 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1700 Format: size[KMG] 1701 1702 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1703 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1704 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1705 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1706 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1707 1708 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1709 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1710 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1711 1712 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1713 [KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 1714 enabled. 1715 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1716 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1717 Format: { [oO][Nn]/Y/y/1 | [oO][Ff]/N/n/0 (default) } 1718 1719 [oO][Nn]/Y/y/1: enable the feature 1720 [oO][Ff]/N/n/0: disable the feature 1721 1722 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1723 the default is on. 1724 1725 This is not compatible with memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory. 1726 If both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes 1727 precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory. 1728 1729 hung_task_panic= 1730 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1731 Format: 0 | 1 1732 1733 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1734 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1735 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1736 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1737 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1738 1739 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1740 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1741 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1742 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1743 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1744 1745 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1746 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1747 guest on lock contention. 1748 1749 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1750 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1751 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1752 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1753 the real console. 1754 1755 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1756 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1757 registered from board initialization code. 1758 Format: 1759 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1760 1761 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1762 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1763 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1764 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1765 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1766 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1767 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1768 keyboard and cannot control its state 1769 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1770 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1771 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1772 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1773 for the AUX port 1774 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1775 controller 1776 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1777 controllers 1778 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1779 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1780 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1781 transitions, or never reset 1782 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1783 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1784 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1785 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1786 architectures force reset to be always executed 1787 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1788 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1789 i8042.probe_defer 1790 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1791 1792 i810= [HW,DRM] 1793 1794 i915.invert_brightness= 1795 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1796 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1797 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1798 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1799 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1800 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1801 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1802 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1803 value switches the backlight off. 1804 -1 -- never invert brightness 1805 0 -- machine default 1806 1 -- force brightness inversion 1807 1808 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1809 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1810 1811 1812 idle= [X86] 1813 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1814 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1815 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1816 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1817 Not recommended. 1818 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1819 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1820 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1821 1822 idxd.sva= [HW] 1823 Format: <bool> 1824 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1825 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1826 true (1). 1827 1828 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 1829 Format: <bool> 1830 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 1831 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 1832 1833 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1834 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1835 Default: strict 1836 1837 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1838 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1839 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1840 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1841 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1842 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1843 encoding mode. 1844 1845 Available settings are as follows: 1846 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1847 supported by the FPU 1848 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1849 by the FPU 1850 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1851 by the FPU 1852 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1853 supported by the FPU 1854 1855 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1856 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1857 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1858 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1859 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1860 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1861 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1862 MIPS64 CPUs. 1863 1864 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1865 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1866 except where unsupported by hardware. 1867 1868 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1869 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1870 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1871 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1872 could change it dynamically, usually by 1873 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1874 1875 ignore_rlimit_data 1876 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1877 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1878 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1879 1880 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1881 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1882 1883 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1884 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1885 default: "enforce" 1886 1887 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1888 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1889 owned by uid=0. 1890 1891 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1892 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1893 measurements, instead of host native format. 1894 1895 ima_hash= [IMA] 1896 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1897 | sha512 | ... } 1898 default: "sha1" 1899 1900 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1901 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1902 1903 ima_policy= [IMA] 1904 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1905 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1906 fail_securely | critical_data" 1907 1908 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1909 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1910 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1911 uid=0. 1912 1913 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1914 all files owned by root. 1915 1916 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1917 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1918 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1919 1920 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1921 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1922 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1923 flag. 1924 1925 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 1926 critical data. 1927 1928 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1929 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1930 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1931 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1932 opened for read by uid=0. 1933 1934 ima_template= [IMA] 1935 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1936 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 1937 "ima-sigv2" } 1938 Default: "ima-ng" 1939 1940 ima_template_fmt= 1941 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1942 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1943 1944 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1945 Format: <min_file_size> 1946 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1947 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1948 1949 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1950 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1951 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1952 1953 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1954 Format: <bufsize> 1955 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1956 1957 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1958 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1959 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1960 1961 init= [KNL] 1962 Format: <full_path> 1963 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1964 process. 1965 1966 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1967 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1968 startup. 1969 1970 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1971 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1972 modules and initcalls. 1973 1974 initramfs_async= [KNL] 1975 Format: <bool> 1976 Default: 1 1977 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 1978 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 1979 with devices being probed and 1980 initialized. This should normally just work, 1981 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 1982 historical behaviour of the initramfs 1983 unpacking being completed before device_ and 1984 late_ initcalls. 1985 1986 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1987 1988 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 1989 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 1990 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 1991 setting. 1992 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 1993 Default is 0, 0 1994 1995 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 1996 zeroes. 1997 Format: 0 | 1 1998 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 1999 2000 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2001 Format: 0 | 1 2002 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2003 2004 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2005 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2006 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2007 override in debugfs after boot. 2008 2009 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2010 Format: <irq> 2011 2012 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2013 2014 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2015 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2016 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2017 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2018 2019 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2020 on 2021 Enable intel iommu driver. 2022 off 2023 Disable intel iommu driver. 2024 igfx_off [Default Off] 2025 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2026 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2027 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2028 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2029 DMA. 2030 strict [Default Off] 2031 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2032 sp_off [Default Off] 2033 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2034 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2035 not be supported. 2036 sm_on 2037 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2038 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2039 translation. 2040 sm_off 2041 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2042 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2043 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2044 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2045 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2046 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2047 mapping is enabled. 2048 Note that using this option lowers the security 2049 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2050 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2051 2052 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2053 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2054 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2055 2056 intel_pstate= [X86] 2057 disable 2058 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2059 scaling driver for the supported processors 2060 passive 2061 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2062 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2063 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2064 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2065 feature. 2066 force 2067 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2068 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2069 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2070 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2071 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2072 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2073 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2074 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2075 no_hwp 2076 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2077 if available. 2078 hwp_only 2079 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2080 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2081 support_acpi_ppc 2082 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2083 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2084 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2085 then this feature is turned on by default. 2086 per_cpu_perf_limits 2087 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2088 cpufreq sysfs interface 2089 2090 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 2091 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2092 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2093 nosid disable Source ID checking 2094 no_x2apic_optout 2095 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2096 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2097 2098 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2099 strict regions from userspace. 2100 relaxed 2101 2102 iommu= [X86] 2103 off 2104 force 2105 noforce 2106 biomerge 2107 panic 2108 nopanic 2109 merge 2110 nomerge 2111 soft 2112 pt [X86] 2113 nopt [X86] 2114 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2115 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2116 2117 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2118 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2119 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2120 falling back to the full range if needed. 2121 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2122 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2123 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2124 2125 iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2126 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2127 0 - Lazy mode. 2128 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2129 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2130 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2131 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2132 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2133 1 - Strict mode. 2134 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2135 synchronously. 2136 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2137 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2138 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2139 2140 iommu.passthrough= 2141 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2142 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2143 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2144 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2145 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2146 2147 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2148 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2149 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2150 2151 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 2152 0x80 2153 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2154 0xed 2155 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2156 udelay 2157 Simple two microseconds delay 2158 none 2159 No delay 2160 2161 ip= [IP_PNP] 2162 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2163 2164 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2165 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2166 2167 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2168 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2169 2170 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2171 [ARM, ARM64] 2172 Format: <bool> 2173 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2174 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2175 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2176 2177 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2178 [ARM, ARM64] 2179 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2180 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2181 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2182 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2183 LPIs. 2184 2185 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2186 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2187 requires the kernel to be built with 2188 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2189 2190 irqfixup [HW] 2191 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2192 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2193 firmware running. 2194 2195 irqpoll [HW] 2196 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2197 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2198 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2199 firmware running. 2200 2201 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2202 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2203 2204 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2205 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2206 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2207 2208 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2209 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2210 2211 nohz 2212 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2213 2214 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2215 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2216 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2217 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2218 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2219 2220 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2221 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2222 be configured manually after bootup. 2223 2224 domain 2225 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2226 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2227 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2228 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2229 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2230 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2231 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2232 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2233 2234 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2235 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2236 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2237 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2238 2239 managed_irq 2240 2241 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2242 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2243 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2244 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2245 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2246 2247 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2248 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2249 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2250 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2251 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2252 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2253 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2254 2255 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2256 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2257 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2258 only delivered when tasks running on those 2259 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2260 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2261 queues. 2262 2263 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2264 2265 iucv= [HW,NET] 2266 2267 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2268 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2269 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2270 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2271 For example: 2272 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2273 write the parameter as: 2274 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2275 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2276 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2277 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2278 2279 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2280 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2281 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2282 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2283 For example: 2284 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2285 write the parameter as: 2286 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2287 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2288 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2289 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2290 2291 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2292 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2293 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2294 2295 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2296 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2297 write the parameter as: 2298 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2299 2300 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2301 For example, PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 2302 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2303 2304 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2305 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2306 2307 nokaslr [KNL] 2308 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 2309 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 2310 Layout Randomization). 2311 2312 kasan_multi_shot 2313 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2314 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2315 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2316 invalid access. 2317 2318 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2319 2320 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2321 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2322 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2323 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2324 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2325 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2326 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2327 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2328 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2329 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2330 2331 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2332 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2333 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2334 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2335 zone if it does not. 2336 2337 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2338 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2339 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2340 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2341 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2342 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2343 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2344 2345 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2346 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2347 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2348 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2349 optional and is the number seconds in between 2350 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2351 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2352 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2353 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2354 the kernel debugger. 2355 2356 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2357 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2358 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2359 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2360 keyboard only format: kbd 2361 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2362 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2363 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2364 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2365 2366 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2367 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2368 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2369 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2370 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2371 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2372 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2373 2374 The name of the early console should be specified 2375 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2376 the early console might be different than the tty 2377 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2378 blank and the first boot console that implements 2379 read() will be picked. 2380 2381 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2382 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2383 2384 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2385 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2386 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2387 2388 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2389 Valid arguments: on, off 2390 Default: on 2391 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2392 the default is off. 2393 2394 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2395 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2396 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2397 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2398 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2399 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2400 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2401 2402 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2403 2404 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2405 Boot Parameter" section. 2406 2407 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2408 and kernel address spaces. 2409 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2410 0: force disabled 2411 1: force enabled 2412 2413 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2414 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2415 2416 kvm.eager_page_split= 2417 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2418 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2419 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2420 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2421 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2422 required to split huge pages lazily. 2423 2424 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2425 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2426 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2427 still be used for reads. 2428 2429 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2430 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2431 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2432 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2433 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2434 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2435 cleared. 2436 2437 Eager page splitting currently only supports splitting 2438 huge pages mapped by the TDP MMU. 2439 2440 Default is Y (on). 2441 2442 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2443 Default is false (don't support). 2444 2445 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2446 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2447 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2448 force : Always deploy workaround. 2449 off : Never deploy workaround. 2450 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2451 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2452 2453 Default is 'auto'. 2454 2455 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2456 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2457 2458 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2459 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2460 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2461 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2462 period (see below). The default is 60. 2463 2464 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2465 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2466 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2467 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2468 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2469 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2470 2471 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2472 Default is 1 (enabled) 2473 2474 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2475 for all guests. 2476 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2477 2478 kvm-arm.mode= 2479 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2480 2481 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2482 2483 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2484 protected guests. 2485 2486 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2487 state is kept private from the host. 2488 2489 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2490 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2491 for the host. 2492 2493 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2494 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2495 system registers 2496 2497 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2498 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2499 system registers 2500 2501 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2502 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2503 system registers 2504 2505 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2506 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2507 LPIs. 2508 2509 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2510 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2511 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2512 allocation. 2513 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2514 Format: <integer> 2515 Default: 5 2516 2517 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2518 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2519 Default is 1 (enabled) 2520 2521 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2522 [KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state. 2523 Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as 2524 guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests. 2525 This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM 2526 never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2527 Default is 1 (enabled) 2528 2529 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2530 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2531 Default is 1 (enabled) 2532 2533 kvm-intel.nested= 2534 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2535 Default is 0 (disabled) 2536 2537 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2538 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2539 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2540 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2541 2542 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2543 CVE-2018-3620. 2544 2545 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2546 2547 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2548 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2549 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2550 never: Disables the mitigation 2551 2552 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2553 2554 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2555 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2556 Default is 1 (enabled) 2557 2558 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL] 2559 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2560 2561 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2562 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2563 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2564 2565 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2566 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2567 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2568 not have direct access. 2569 2570 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2571 options are: 2572 2573 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2574 2575 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2576 affected CPUs 2577 2578 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2579 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2580 2581 full 2582 Provides all available mitigations for the 2583 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2584 enables all mitigations in the 2585 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2586 2587 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2588 sysfs interface is still possible after 2589 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2590 when the first VM is started in a 2591 potentially insecure configuration, 2592 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2593 2594 full,force 2595 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2596 flush runtime control. Implies the 2597 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2598 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2599 2600 flush 2601 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2602 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2603 L1D flush. 2604 2605 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2606 sysfs interface is still possible after 2607 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2608 when the first VM is started in a 2609 potentially insecure configuration, 2610 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2611 2612 flush,nosmt 2613 2614 Disables SMT and enables the default 2615 hypervisor mitigation. 2616 2617 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2618 sysfs interface is still possible after 2619 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2620 when the first VM is started in a 2621 potentially insecure configuration, 2622 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2623 2624 flush,nowarn 2625 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2626 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2627 insecure configuration. 2628 2629 off 2630 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2631 emit any warnings. 2632 It also drops the swap size and available 2633 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2634 bare metal. 2635 2636 Default is 'flush'. 2637 2638 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2639 2640 l2cr= [PPC] 2641 2642 l3cr= [PPC] 2643 2644 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2645 disabled it. 2646 2647 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2648 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2649 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2650 Format: notscdeadline 2651 2652 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2653 in C2 power state. 2654 2655 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2656 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2657 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2658 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2659 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2660 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2661 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2662 2663 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2664 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2665 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2666 2667 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2668 when set. 2669 Format: <int> 2670 2671 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 2672 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 2673 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 2674 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 2675 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 2676 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 2677 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 2678 to all ports, links and devices. 2679 2680 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2681 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2682 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2683 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2684 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2685 host link and device attached to it. 2686 2687 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2688 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 2689 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2690 The following configurations can be forced. 2691 2692 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2693 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2694 2695 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2696 2697 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2698 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2699 allowed. 2700 2701 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 2702 resets. 2703 2704 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 2705 link recovery. 2706 2707 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 2708 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 2709 detection. 2710 2711 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2712 2713 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 2714 2715 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 2716 2717 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 2718 2719 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 2720 2721 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 2722 2723 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 2724 2725 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 2726 2727 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 2728 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 2729 2730 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 2731 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 2732 2733 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 2734 identify device data log. 2735 2736 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 2737 purpose log directory. 2738 2739 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 2740 2741 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2742 1024 sectors. 2743 2744 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2745 65535 sectors. 2746 2747 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 2748 2749 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 2750 should be skipped. 2751 2752 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 2753 2754 * disable: Disable this device. 2755 2756 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2757 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2758 2759 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2760 2761 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2762 Format: <integer> 2763 2764 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2765 Format: <integer> 2766 2767 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2768 Format: <integer> 2769 2770 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2771 Format: <integer> 2772 2773 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2774 { integrity | confidentiality } 2775 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2776 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2777 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2778 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2779 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2780 are also disabled. 2781 2782 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2783 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2784 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2785 number of online CPUs. 2786 2787 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2788 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2789 2790 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2791 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2792 2793 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2794 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2795 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2796 2797 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2798 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2799 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2800 mode during the locktorture test. 2801 2802 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2803 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2804 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2805 2806 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2807 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2808 2809 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2810 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2811 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2812 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2813 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2814 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2815 2816 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2817 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2818 2819 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2820 Enable additional printk() statements. 2821 2822 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2823 Format: <irq> 2824 2825 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2826 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2827 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2828 loglevels are defined as follows: 2829 2830 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2831 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2832 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2833 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2834 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2835 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2836 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2837 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2838 2839 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2840 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2841 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2842 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2843 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2844 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2845 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2846 2847 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2848 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2849 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2850 kernel boot problems. 2851 2852 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2853 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2854 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2855 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2856 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2857 attached printers to be reset. Using 2858 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2859 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2860 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2861 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2862 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2863 port specification list means that device IDs 2864 from each port should be examined, to see if 2865 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2866 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2867 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2868 2869 lpj=n [KNL] 2870 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2871 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2872 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2873 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2874 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2875 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2876 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2877 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2878 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2879 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2880 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2881 hardware. 2882 2883 ltpc= [NET] 2884 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2885 2886 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2887 2888 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2889 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2890 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2891 2892 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2893 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2894 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2895 2896 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 2897 different yeeloong laptops. 2898 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2899 2900 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater 2901 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2902 2903 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2904 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2905 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2906 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2907 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2908 only takes effect during system bootup. 2909 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2910 which also disables the IO APIC. 2911 2912 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2913 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2914 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2915 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2916 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2917 /dev/loop-control interface. 2918 2919 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2920 2921 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2922 2923 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2924 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2925 2926 mdacon= [MDA] 2927 Format: <first>,<last> 2928 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2929 2930 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2931 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2932 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2933 2934 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2935 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2936 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2937 2938 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2939 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2940 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2941 not have direct access. 2942 2943 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2944 options are: 2945 2946 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2947 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2948 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2949 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2950 2951 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 2952 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 2953 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 2954 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 2955 too. 2956 2957 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 2958 mds=full. 2959 2960 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 2961 2962 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON] Set the memory size. 2963 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 2964 2965 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2966 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 2967 2968 1 for test; 2969 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 2970 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 2971 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 2972 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 2973 2974 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 2975 high memory is not affected. 2976 2977 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 2978 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 2979 2980 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2981 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2982 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2983 belonging to unused RAM. 2984 2985 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 2986 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 2987 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 2988 2989 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2990 [ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by 2991 firmware. 2992 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 2993 ss[KMG]. 2994 Multiple different regions can be specified with 2995 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 2996 2997 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2998 memory. 2999 3000 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 3001 3002 memchunk=nn[KMG] 3003 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 3004 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 3005 3006 memhp_default_state=online/offline 3007 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 3008 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 3009 set according to the 3010 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 3011 option. 3012 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 3013 3014 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 3015 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3016 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3017 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3018 option description. 3019 3020 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3021 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3022 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3023 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3024 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3025 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3026 comma delimited. 3027 Example: 3028 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3029 3030 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3031 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3032 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3033 3034 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3035 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3036 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3037 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3038 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3039 or 3040 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3041 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3042 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3043 will be eaten. 3044 3045 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 3046 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3047 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3048 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3049 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3050 3051 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3052 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 3053 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3054 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3055 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3056 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3057 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3058 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3059 3060 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 3061 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3062 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3063 Setting this option will scan the memory 3064 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3065 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3066 from using the memory being corrupted. 3067 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3068 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3069 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3070 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3071 3072 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 3073 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3074 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3075 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3076 corruption in more or less memory. 3077 3078 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 3079 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3080 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3081 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3082 3083 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3084 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3085 Format: {on | off (default)} 3086 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3087 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages) 3088 from the hotadded memory which will allow to 3089 hotadd a lot of memory without requiring 3090 additional memory to do so. 3091 This feature is disabled by default because it 3092 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3093 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3094 memory blocks). 3095 The state of the flag can be read in 3096 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3097 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3098 the feature is not effective. 3099 3100 This is not compatible with hugetlb_free_vmemmap. If 3101 both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes 3102 precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory. 3103 3104 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest 3105 Format: <integer> 3106 default : 0 <disable> 3107 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3108 performed. Each pass selects another test 3109 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3110 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3111 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3112 regions that are detected. 3113 3114 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3115 Valid arguments: on, off 3116 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 3117 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 3118 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 3119 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3120 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3121 3122 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3123 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3124 3125 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3126 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3127 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3128 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3129 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3130 3131 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 3132 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst. 3133 3134 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 3135 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 3136 platforms. 3137 3138 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3139 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3140 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3141 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3142 3143 mga= [HW,DRM] 3144 3145 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this 3146 physical address is ignored. 3147 3148 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3149 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3150 Default: "0tb" 3151 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3152 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3153 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3154 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3155 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3156 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3157 unconfigured. 3158 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3159 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3160 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3161 VGA shield. 3162 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3163 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3164 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3165 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3166 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3167 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3168 3169 mitigations= 3170 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 3171 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3172 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3173 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3174 3175 off 3176 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3177 improves system performance, but it may also 3178 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3179 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 3180 kpti=0 [ARM64] 3181 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3182 nobp=0 [S390] 3183 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3184 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3185 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3186 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3187 l1tf=off [X86] 3188 mds=off [X86] 3189 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3190 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3191 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3192 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3193 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3194 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 3195 3196 Exceptions: 3197 This does not have any effect on 3198 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3199 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3200 3201 auto (default) 3202 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3203 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3204 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3205 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3206 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3207 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3208 3209 auto,nosmt 3210 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3211 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3212 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3213 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3214 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3215 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3216 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 3217 3218 mminit_loglevel= 3219 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3220 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3221 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3222 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3223 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3224 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3225 3226 mmio_stale_data= 3227 [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor 3228 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3229 3230 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3231 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3232 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3233 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3234 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3235 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3236 3237 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3238 options are: 3239 3240 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3241 3242 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3243 vulnerable CPUs. 3244 3245 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3246 3247 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3248 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3249 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3250 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3251 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3252 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3253 3254 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3255 mmio_stale_data=full. 3256 3257 For details see: 3258 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3259 3260 module.sig_enforce 3261 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3262 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3263 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3264 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3265 3266 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3267 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3268 3269 mousedev.tap_time= 3270 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3271 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3272 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3273 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3274 Format: <msecs> 3275 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3276 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3277 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3278 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3279 3280 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 3281 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3282 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3283 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3284 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3285 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3286 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3287 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3288 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3289 is not too small. 3290 3291 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3292 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3293 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3294 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3295 allocations. Use with caution! 3296 3297 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3298 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3299 3300 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3301 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3302 3303 mtdparts= [MTD] 3304 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3305 3306 mtdset= [ARM] 3307 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 3308 3309 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 3310 3311 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3312 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3313 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3314 3315 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3316 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3317 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3318 3319 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3320 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3321 Default is 1. 3322 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3323 using up MTRRs. 3324 3325 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 3326 Format: <integer> 3327 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3328 Default : 1 3329 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3330 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3331 3332 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3333 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3334 at a time. 3335 3336 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3337 3338 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3339 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3340 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3341 something different and driver-specific. 3342 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3343 file if at all. 3344 3345 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3346 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3347 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3348 waits 4 seconds. 3349 3350 nf_conntrack.acct= 3351 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3352 0 to disable accounting 3353 1 to enable accounting 3354 Default value is 0. 3355 3356 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3357 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3358 3359 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3360 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3361 3362 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3363 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3364 3365 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3366 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3367 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3368 requests. 3369 3370 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3371 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3372 channel should listen. 3373 3374 nfs.cache_getent= 3375 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3376 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3377 3378 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3379 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3380 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3381 3382 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3383 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3384 entries. 3385 3386 nfs.enable_ino64= 3387 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3388 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3389 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3390 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3391 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3392 3393 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3394 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3395 slots the client will assign to the callback 3396 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3397 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3398 a particular server. 3399 3400 nfs.max_session_slots= 3401 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3402 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3403 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3404 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3405 Note that there is little point in setting this 3406 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3407 3408 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3409 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3410 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3411 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3412 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3413 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3414 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3415 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3416 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3417 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3418 back to using the idmapper. 3419 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3420 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3421 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3422 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3423 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3424 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3425 3426 nfs.send_implementation_id = 3427 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3428 information in exchange_id requests. 3429 If zero, no implementation identification information 3430 will be sent. 3431 The default is to send the implementation identification 3432 information. 3433 3434 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 3435 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3436 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3437 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3438 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3439 after the locks are lost. 3440 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3441 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3442 parameter to '1'. 3443 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3444 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3445 3446 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 3447 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3448 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3449 3450 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3451 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3452 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3453 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3454 3455 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable = 3456 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3457 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3458 the destination of the copy. 3459 3460 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout = 3461 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3462 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3463 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3464 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3465 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3466 this parameter. 3467 3468 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3469 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3470 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3471 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3472 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3473 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3474 3475 3476 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3477 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3478 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3479 3480 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3481 when a NMI is triggered. 3482 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3483 3484 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3485 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3486 Valid num: 0 or 1 3487 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3488 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3489 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3490 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3491 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3492 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3493 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3494 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3495 need the box quickly up again. 3496 3497 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3498 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3499 3500 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3501 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3502 is present. 3503 3504 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3505 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3506 3507 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3508 3509 no_console_suspend 3510 [HW] Never suspend the console 3511 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3512 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3513 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3514 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3515 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3516 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3517 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3518 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3519 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3520 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3521 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3522 turn on/off it dynamically. 3523 3524 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3525 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3526 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3527 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3528 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3529 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3530 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3531 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3532 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3533 is set. 3534 3535 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3536 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3537 but will impact performance. 3538 3539 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3540 3541 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3542 (CPU alternatives feature). 3543 3544 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3545 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3546 3547 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3548 3549 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 3550 on "Classic" PPC cores. 3551 3552 nocache [ARM] 3553 3554 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3555 3556 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3557 3558 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3559 3560 noexec [IA-64] 3561 3562 nosmap [PPC] 3563 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3564 even if it is supported by processor. 3565 3566 nosmep [PPC64s] 3567 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3568 even if it is supported by processor. 3569 3570 noexec32 [X86-64] 3571 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3572 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3573 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3574 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3575 read implies executable mappings 3576 3577 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3578 3579 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3580 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3581 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3582 3583 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3584 3585 nohugevmalloc [PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3586 3587 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3588 Equivalent to smt=1. 3589 3590 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3591 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3592 via the sysfs control file. 3593 3594 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3595 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3596 possible in the system. 3597 3598 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3599 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3600 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3601 option. 3602 3603 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3604 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3605 3606 no_uaccess_flush 3607 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 3608 3609 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3610 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3611 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3612 3613 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3614 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3615 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3616 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3617 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3618 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3619 3620 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3621 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3622 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3623 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3624 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3625 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3626 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3627 3628 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait 3629 in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3630 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3631 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3632 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3633 correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute 3634 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3635 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3636 3637 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3638 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3639 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3640 3641 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3642 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3643 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3644 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3645 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3646 real-time systems. 3647 3648 no_hash_pointers 3649 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3650 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3651 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3652 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3653 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3654 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3655 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3656 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3657 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3658 value printed. This option should only be specified when 3659 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3660 kernels. 3661 3662 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3663 3664 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3665 Valid arguments: on, off 3666 Default: on 3667 3668 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3669 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3670 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3671 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3672 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3673 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3674 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3675 just as if they had also been called out in the 3676 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3677 3678 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3679 3680 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3681 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3682 3683 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3684 broken timer IRQ sources. 3685 3686 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3687 3688 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3689 initial RAM disk. 3690 3691 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3692 remapping. 3693 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3694 3695 nointroute [IA-64] 3696 3697 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3698 3699 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3700 3701 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3702 3703 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3704 fault handling. 3705 3706 no-vmw-sched-clock 3707 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3708 clock and use the default one. 3709 3710 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time 3711 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't 3712 influence scheduler behaviour 3713 3714 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3715 3716 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3717 3718 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 3719 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 3720 3721 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3722 3723 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3724 3725 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3726 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3727 3728 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3729 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3730 irq. 3731 3732 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. DRM drivers will not perform 3733 display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. Only the 3734 system framebuffer will be available for use if this was 3735 set-up by the firmware or boot loader. 3736 3737 Useful as fallback, or for testing and debugging. 3738 3739 nomodule Disable module load 3740 3741 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3742 pagetables) support. 3743 3744 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3745 3746 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3747 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3748 3749 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3750 with UP alternatives 3751 3752 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 3753 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 3754 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 3755 available to user space applications. 3756 3757 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3758 space. 3759 3760 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3761 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3762 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3763 3764 nosbagart [IA-64] 3765 3766 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 3767 3768 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3769 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3770 3771 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3772 3773 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3774 3775 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3776 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3777 3778 nowb [ARM] 3779 3780 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3781 3782 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3783 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3784 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3785 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3786 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3787 parameter's value. 3788 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3789 Default: 255 3790 3791 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3792 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3793 SAL PALO. 3794 3795 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3796 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3797 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3798 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3799 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3800 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3801 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3802 hot plugging. 3803 3804 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3805 3806 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only 3807 set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. 3808 3809 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 3810 NUMA balancing. 3811 Allowed values are enable and disable 3812 3813 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3814 'node', 'default' can be specified 3815 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3816 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3817 3818 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3819 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 3820 info. 3821 3822 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3823 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3824 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3825 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3826 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3827 interrupts *may* be lost! 3828 3829 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3830 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3831 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3832 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3833 3834 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 3835 3836 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 3837 3838 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 3839 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 3840 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 3841 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 3842 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 3843 3844 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3845 process, but there is a small probability of 3846 deadlocking the machine. 3847 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3848 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3849 3850 page_alloc.shuffle= 3851 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3852 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3853 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3854 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3855 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3856 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3857 can be read from sysfs at: 3858 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3859 3860 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3861 Storage of the information about who allocated 3862 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3863 we can turn it on. 3864 on: enable the feature 3865 3866 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3867 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3868 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3869 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3870 on: turn on poisoning 3871 3872 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 3873 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 3874 Format: <integer> 3875 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 3876 reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1). 3877 3878 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3879 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3880 timeout = 0: wait forever 3881 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3882 Format: <timeout> 3883 3884 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3885 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3886 bit 0: print all tasks info 3887 bit 1: print system memory info 3888 bit 2: print timer info 3889 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3890 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3891 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3892 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 3893 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 3894 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 3895 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 3896 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 3897 3898 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 3899 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 3900 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 3901 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 3902 called with any of the flags in this set. 3903 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 3904 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 3905 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 3906 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 3907 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 3908 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 3909 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 3910 3911 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3912 on a WARN(). 3913 3914 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3915 connected to, default is 0. 3916 Format: <parport#> 3917 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3918 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3919 Format: <mode> 3920 3921 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3922 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3923 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3924 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3925 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3926 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3927 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3928 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3929 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3930 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3931 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3932 are specified on the command line, starting 3933 with parport0. 3934 3935 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3936 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3937 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3938 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3939 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3940 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3941 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3942 3943 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 3944 Format: <int> 3945 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 3946 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 3947 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 3948 3949 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 3950 Format: <int> 3951 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 3952 changes. Disabled by default. 3953 3954 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 3955 Format: <int> 3956 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 3957 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3958 Disabled by default. 3959 3960 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 3961 Format: <int> 3962 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 3963 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3964 Disabled by default. 3965 3966 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3967 Format: <int> 3968 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 3969 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 3970 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 3971 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 3972 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 3973 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 3974 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 3975 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 3976 all channels. 3977 3978 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 3979 Format: <int> 3980 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 3981 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 3982 respectively. Disabled by default. 3983 3984 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 3985 Format: <int> 3986 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 3987 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 3988 respectively. Disabled by default. 3989 3990 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3991 Format: <int> 3992 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 3993 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 3994 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 3995 All modes allowed by default. 3996 3997 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 3998 Format: <int> 3999 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4000 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4001 4002 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4003 Format: <int> 4004 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4005 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4006 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4007 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4008 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4009 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4010 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4011 By default all supported ports are probed. 4012 4013 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4014 Format: <int> 4015 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4016 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4017 4018 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4019 Format: <int> 4020 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4021 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4022 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4023 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4024 0 otherwise. 4025 4026 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4027 Format: <int> 4028 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4029 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4030 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4031 allowed by default. 4032 4033 pause_on_oops= 4034 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4035 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4036 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4037 4038 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4039 4040 pcd. [PARIDE] 4041 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 4042 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4043 4044 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 4045 4046 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4047 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4048 specified in one of the following formats: 4049 4050 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4051 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4052 4053 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4054 bus/device/function address which may change 4055 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4056 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4057 by other kernel parameters. If the 4058 domain is left unspecified, it is 4059 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4060 to a device through multiple device/function 4061 addresses can be specified after the base 4062 address (this is more robust against 4063 renumbering issues). The second format 4064 selects devices using IDs from the 4065 configuration space which may match multiple 4066 devices in the system. 4067 4068 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4069 changes anything 4070 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4071 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4072 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4073 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4074 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4075 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4076 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4077 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4078 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4079 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4080 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4081 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4082 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4083 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4084 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4085 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4086 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4087 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4088 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4089 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4090 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4091 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4092 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4093 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4094 Configuration 4095 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4096 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4097 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4098 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4099 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4100 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4101 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4102 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4103 should never be necessary. 4104 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4105 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4106 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4107 when the system masks IRQs. 4108 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4109 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4110 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4111 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4112 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4113 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4114 on several machines and they hang the machine 4115 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4116 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4117 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4118 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4119 motherboard. 4120 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4121 Use with caution as certain devices share 4122 address decoders between ROMs and other 4123 resources. 4124 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4125 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4126 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4127 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4128 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4129 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4130 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4131 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4132 this way. 4133 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4134 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4135 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4136 F0000h-100000h range. 4137 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4138 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4139 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4140 explicitly which ones they are. 4141 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4142 numbers ourselves, overriding 4143 whatever the firmware may have done. 4144 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4145 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4146 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4147 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4148 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4149 IRQ routing is enabled. 4150 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4151 or for PCI scanning. 4152 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4153 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4154 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4155 please report a bug. 4156 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4157 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4158 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4159 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4160 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4161 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4162 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4163 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4164 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4165 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4166 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4167 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4168 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4169 so this option is a temporary workaround 4170 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4171 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4172 handle more pci cards 4173 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4174 This might help on some broken boards which 4175 machine check when some devices' config space 4176 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4177 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4178 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4179 This sorting is done to get a device 4180 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4181 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4182 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4183 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4184 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4185 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4186 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4187 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4188 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4189 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4190 or bus can support) for best performance. 4191 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4192 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4193 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4194 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4195 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4196 that hot-added devices will work. 4197 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4198 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4199 The default value is 256 bytes. 4200 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4201 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4202 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4203 resource_alignment= 4204 Format: 4205 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4206 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4207 aligned memory resources. How to 4208 specify the device is described above. 4209 If <order of align> is not specified, 4210 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4211 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4212 windows need to be expanded. 4213 To specify the alignment for several 4214 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4215 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4216 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4217 for 4096-byte alignment. 4218 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4219 end-to-end CRC checking). 4220 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4221 the default. 4222 off: Turn ECRC off 4223 on: Turn ECRC on. 4224 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4225 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4226 Default size is 256 bytes. 4227 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4228 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4229 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4230 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4231 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4232 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4233 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4234 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4235 MMIO_PREF window. 4236 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4237 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4238 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4239 Default is 1. 4240 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4241 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4242 accommodate resources required by all child 4243 devices. 4244 off: Turn realloc off 4245 on: Turn realloc on 4246 realloc same as realloc=on 4247 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4248 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4249 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4250 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4251 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4252 port. 4253 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4254 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4255 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4256 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4257 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4258 taints the kernel. 4259 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4260 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4261 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4262 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4263 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4264 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4265 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4266 this removes isolation between devices and 4267 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4268 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4269 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4270 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4271 one PCI domain per PCI function 4272 4273 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 4274 Management. 4275 off Disable ASPM. 4276 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4277 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4278 4279 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4280 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4281 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4282 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4283 also tries to use these services. 4284 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4285 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4286 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4287 hotplug). 4288 4289 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4290 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4291 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4292 4293 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4294 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4295 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4296 4297 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4298 4299 pd_ignore_unused 4300 [PM] 4301 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4302 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4303 for debug and development, but should not be 4304 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4305 4306 pd. [PARIDE] 4307 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4308 4309 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4310 boot time. 4311 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4312 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4313 4314 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4315 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4316 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4317 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4318 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4319 and performance comparison. 4320 4321 pf. [PARIDE] 4322 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4323 4324 pg. [PARIDE] 4325 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4326 4327 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4328 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4329 4330 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4331 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4332 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4333 4334 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4335 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4336 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4337 4338 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4339 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4340 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4341 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4342 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4343 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4344 remains 0. 4345 4346 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4347 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4348 4349 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4350 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4351 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4352 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4353 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4354 possible settings and some assignment information. 4355 4356 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4357 { off } 4358 4359 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4360 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4361 4362 pnp_reserve_irq= 4363 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4364 4365 pnp_reserve_dma= 4366 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4367 4368 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4369 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4370 4371 pnp_reserve_mem= 4372 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4373 autoconfiguration. 4374 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4375 4376 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4377 Default is 21. 4378 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4379 may be specified. 4380 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4381 4382 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4383 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4384 platform machine description specific power_save 4385 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4386 execution priority. 4387 4388 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4389 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4390 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4391 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4392 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4393 4394 ppc_tm= [PPC] 4395 Format: {"off"} 4396 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4397 4398 preempt= [KNL] 4399 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4400 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4401 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4402 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4403 can be preempted anytime. 4404 4405 print-fatal-signals= 4406 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4407 4408 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4409 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4410 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4411 coredump - etc. 4412 4413 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4414 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4415 4416 default: off. 4417 4418 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4419 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4420 panics 4421 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4422 default: disabled 4423 4424 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4425 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4426 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4427 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4428 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4429 in order to provide more debug information. 4430 Format: <bool> 4431 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4432 4433 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4434 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4435 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4436 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4437 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4438 Default: ratelimit 4439 4440 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4441 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4442 4443 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4444 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4445 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4446 4447 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4448 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4449 instead using the legacy FADT method 4450 4451 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4452 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4453 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4454 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4455 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4456 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4457 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4458 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4459 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4460 statistical time based profiling. 4461 4462 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4463 4464 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4465 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4466 that). 4467 Format: <bool> 4468 4469 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4470 tracking. 4471 Format: <bool> 4472 4473 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4474 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4475 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4476 per second. 4477 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4478 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4479 (0 = never). 4480 psmouse.resolution= 4481 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4482 psmouse.smartscroll= 4483 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4484 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4485 4486 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4487 4488 pt. [PARIDE] 4489 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4490 4491 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4492 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4493 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4494 system calls and interrupts. 4495 4496 on - unconditionally enable 4497 off - unconditionally disable 4498 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4499 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4500 4501 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4502 4503 nopti [X86-64] 4504 Equivalent to pti=off 4505 4506 pty.legacy_count= 4507 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4508 default number. 4509 4510 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4511 4512 r128= [HW,DRM] 4513 4514 raid= [HW,RAID] 4515 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4516 4517 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4518 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4519 4520 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4521 4522 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 4523 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 4524 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 4525 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4526 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 4527 4528 random.trust_bootloader={on,off} 4529 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of a 4530 seed passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4531 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4532 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER. 4533 4534 randomize_kstack_offset= 4535 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4536 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4537 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4538 that depend on stack address determinism or 4539 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4540 available on architectures that have defined 4541 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4542 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4543 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4544 4545 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4546 4547 cec_disable [X86] 4548 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4549 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4550 4551 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 4552 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 4553 as described above. 4554 4555 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 4556 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 4557 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 4558 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 4559 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 4560 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 4561 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 4562 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 4563 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 4564 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 4565 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 4566 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4567 4568 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 4569 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 4570 4571 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 4572 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 4573 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 4574 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 4575 4576 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4577 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4578 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4579 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4580 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4581 This improves the real-time response for the 4582 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4583 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4584 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4585 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4586 4587 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4588 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4589 process in one batch. 4590 4591 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4592 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4593 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4594 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4595 4596 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4597 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4598 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4599 4600 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4601 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4602 RCU grace-period initialization. 4603 4604 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4605 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4606 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4607 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4608 the rcu_node combining tree. 4609 4610 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 4611 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 4612 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 4613 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 4614 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 4615 4616 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 4617 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 4618 to zero. 4619 4620 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4621 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4622 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4623 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4624 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4625 4626 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4627 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4628 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4629 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4630 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4631 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4632 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4633 4634 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4635 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4636 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4637 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4638 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4639 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4640 condition. 4641 4642 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 4643 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 4644 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 4645 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 4646 4647 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4648 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4649 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4650 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4651 and maximum value is HZ. 4652 4653 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4654 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4655 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4656 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4657 4658 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4659 Set required age in jiffies for a 4660 given grace period before RCU starts 4661 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4662 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4663 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4664 a value based on the most recent settings 4665 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4666 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4667 This calculated value may be viewed in 4668 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4669 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4670 overwritten. 4671 4672 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4673 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4674 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4675 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4676 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4677 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4678 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4679 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4680 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4681 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4682 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 4683 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 4684 4685 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4686 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4687 each group, which defaults to the square root 4688 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4689 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4690 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4691 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4692 4693 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4694 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4695 batch limiting is disabled. 4696 4697 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4698 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4699 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4700 4701 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4702 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4703 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4704 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4705 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4706 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4707 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4708 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4709 4710 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4711 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4712 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4713 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4714 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4715 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4716 4717 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 4718 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 4719 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 4720 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 4721 Larger delays increase the probability of 4722 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 4723 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 4724 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 4725 4726 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4727 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4728 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4729 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4730 4731 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 4732 Measure performance of asynchronous 4733 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4734 4735 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4736 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4737 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4738 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4739 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4740 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4741 4742 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 4743 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4744 grace-period primitives. 4745 4746 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4747 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4748 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4749 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4750 interference. 4751 4752 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4753 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4754 4755 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 4756 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4757 If this parameter has the same value as 4758 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 4759 and double-argument variants are tested. 4760 4761 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 4762 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4763 If this parameter has the same value as 4764 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 4765 and double-argument variants are tested. 4766 4767 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4768 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4769 4770 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4771 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4772 4773 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4774 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 4775 of allocations and frees. 4776 4777 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4778 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4779 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4780 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4781 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4782 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4783 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4784 a single reader. 4785 4786 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 4787 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4788 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 4789 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4790 4791 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL] 4792 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4793 4794 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4795 Shut the system down after performance tests 4796 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4797 testing. 4798 4799 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 4800 Enable additional printk() statements. 4801 4802 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4803 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4804 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4805 no holdoff. 4806 4807 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4808 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4809 in microseconds. 4810 4811 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4812 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4813 in microseconds. 4814 4815 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4816 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4817 in seconds. 4818 4819 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4820 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 4821 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4822 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4823 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 4824 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 4825 of CPUs to be used. 4826 4827 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4828 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4829 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4830 4831 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4832 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4833 forward-progress tests. 4834 4835 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4836 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4837 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4838 testing. 4839 4840 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4841 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4842 primitives, if available. 4843 4844 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4845 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4846 4847 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4848 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4849 update-side primitives, if available. 4850 4851 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4852 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4853 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4854 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4855 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4856 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4857 they are all non-zero. 4858 4859 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 4860 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 4861 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 4862 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 4863 4864 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 4865 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 4866 This can of course result in splats, and is 4867 intended to test the ability of things like 4868 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 4869 such leaks. 4870 4871 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 4872 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 4873 4874 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 4875 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 4876 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 4877 test, hence the "fake". 4878 4879 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 4880 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 4881 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 4882 4883 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 4884 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 4885 callback-offload toggling attempts. 4886 4887 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 4888 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4889 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4890 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 4891 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4892 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4893 4894 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 4895 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 4896 4897 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4898 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 4899 4900 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4901 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 4902 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 4903 4904 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 4905 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 4906 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 4907 task-exit processing. 4908 4909 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 4910 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 4911 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 4912 is spawned. 4913 4914 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 4915 The delay, in seconds, between successive 4916 read-then-exit testing episodes. 4917 4918 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 4919 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 4920 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 4921 during the rcutorture test. 4922 4923 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4924 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 4925 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 4926 4927 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 4928 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 4929 warnings, zero to disable. 4930 4931 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 4932 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 4933 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition 4934 to any other stall-related activity. 4935 4936 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 4937 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 4938 4939 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 4940 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 4941 4942 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 4943 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 4944 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 4945 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 4946 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 4947 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 4948 4949 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 4950 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 4951 4952 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 4953 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 4954 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 4955 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 4956 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 4957 4958 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 4959 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 4960 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 4961 under test support RCU priority boosting. 4962 4963 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 4964 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 4965 4966 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 4967 Interval (s) between each boost test. 4968 4969 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 4970 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 4971 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 4972 4973 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 4974 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4975 4976 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 4977 Enable additional printk() statements. 4978 4979 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 4980 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 4981 stall warning. 4982 4983 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 4984 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4985 4986 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 4987 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 4988 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 4989 during early boot, that is, during the time 4990 before the init task is spawned. 4991 4992 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4993 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4994 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 4995 value is 300 seconds. 4996 4997 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4998 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 4999 messages. The value is in milliseconds 5000 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 5001 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 5002 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 5003 Setting this to zero causes the value from 5004 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 5005 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 5006 5007 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 5008 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 5009 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 5010 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 5011 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 5012 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 5013 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5014 5015 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 5016 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 5017 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 5018 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 5019 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 5020 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 5021 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 5022 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 5023 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5024 5025 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 5026 Once boot has completed (that is, after 5027 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 5028 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 5029 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5030 5031 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 5032 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 5033 it to the value one, that is, converting any 5034 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 5035 period to instead use normal non-expedited 5036 grace-period processing. 5037 5038 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 5039 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 5040 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 5041 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 5042 a single callback queue. This switching only 5043 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 5044 set to the default value of -1. 5045 5046 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 5047 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 5048 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 5049 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 5050 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 5051 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 5052 the default value of -1. 5053 5054 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 5055 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 5056 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 5057 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 5058 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 5059 for use in testing. 5060 5061 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 5062 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 5063 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 5064 of a given grace period. Setting a large 5065 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 5066 but lengthens grace periods. 5067 5068 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 5069 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5070 informational messages, which give some indication 5071 of the problem for those not patient enough to 5072 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 5073 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 5074 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 5075 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 5076 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 5077 until the beginning of the next grace period. 5078 5079 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 5080 Multiplier for time interval between successive 5081 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 5082 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 5083 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 5084 the value three, so that the first informational 5085 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 5086 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 5087 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 5088 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 5089 5090 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5091 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5092 warning messages. Disable with a value less 5093 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 5094 A change in value does not take effect until 5095 the beginning of the next grace period. 5096 5097 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 5098 Run the RCU early boot self tests 5099 5100 rdinit= [KNL] 5101 Format: <full_path> 5102 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 5103 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 5104 5105 rdrand= [X86] 5106 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 5107 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 5108 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 5109 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 5110 path). 5111 5112 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 5113 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 5114 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 5115 mba. 5116 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 5117 rdt=cmt,!mba 5118 5119 reboot= [KNL] 5120 Format (x86 or x86_64): 5121 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 5122 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 5123 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 5124 [[,]f[orce] 5125 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 5126 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 5127 reboot only), 5128 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 5129 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 5130 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 5131 to be used for rebooting. 5132 5133 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5134 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5135 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5136 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5137 interference. 5138 5139 refscale.loops= [KNL] 5140 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 5141 primitive under test. Increasing this number 5142 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 5143 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 5144 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 5145 x86 laptops. 5146 5147 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5148 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 5149 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 5150 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 5151 5152 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 5153 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 5154 the console log. 5155 5156 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 5157 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 5158 measured in microseconds. 5159 5160 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5161 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 5162 5163 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5164 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 5165 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 5166 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 5167 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 5168 5169 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 5170 Enable additional printk() statements. 5171 5172 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 5173 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 5174 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 5175 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 5176 specified. 5177 5178 relax_domain_level= 5179 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 5180 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 5181 5182 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 5183 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 5184 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 5185 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 5186 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 5187 5188 reservetop= [X86-32] 5189 Format: nn[KMG] 5190 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 5191 address space. 5192 5193 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 5194 during initialization. 5195 5196 resume= [SWSUSP] 5197 Specify the partition device for software suspend 5198 Format: 5199 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 5200 5201 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 5202 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 5203 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 5204 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 5205 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 5206 5207 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5208 read the resume files 5209 5210 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 5211 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5212 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5213 5214 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 5215 5216 rfkill.default_state= 5217 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 5218 etc. communication is blocked by default. 5219 1 Unblocked. 5220 5221 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 5222 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 5223 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5224 blocked and the previous configuration. 5225 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5226 blocked and everything unblocked. 5227 5228 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5229 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 5230 5231 ring3mwait=disable 5232 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 5233 CPUs. 5234 5235 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 5236 5237 rodata= [KNL] 5238 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 5239 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 5240 5241 rockchip.usb_uart 5242 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 5243 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 5244 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 5245 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 5246 5247 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 5248 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 5249 5250 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5251 mount the root filesystem 5252 5253 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 5254 5255 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 5256 5257 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 5258 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5259 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5260 5261 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 5262 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 5263 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 5264 managed by CMA. 5265 5266 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 5267 5268 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5269 5270 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5271 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5272 strict 5273 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 5274 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 5275 which is faster. 5276 5277 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5278 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5279 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5280 factor of the size of main memory. 5281 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5282 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5283 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5284 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5285 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5286 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5287 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5288 5289 sa1100ir [NET] 5290 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5291 5292 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5293 5294 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5295 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5296 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5297 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5298 5299 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5300 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5301 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5302 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5303 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5304 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5305 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5306 value. 5307 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5308 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5309 1 64 ms 5310 2 128 ms 5311 and so on. 5312 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5313 Default is 0. 5314 5315 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5316 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5317 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5318 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5319 tests. 5320 5321 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5322 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5323 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5324 default) disables this feature. Please note 5325 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5326 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5327 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5328 5329 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5330 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5331 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5332 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5333 equal to the number of CPUs. 5334 5335 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5336 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5337 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 5338 5339 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5340 Number seconds to wait between successive 5341 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 5342 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 5343 5344 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5345 The number of seconds following the start of the 5346 test after which to shut down the system. The 5347 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 5348 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 5349 5350 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5351 The number of seconds between outputting the 5352 current test statistics to the console. A value 5353 of zero disables statistics output. 5354 5355 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 5356 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 5357 to the set of CPUs under test. 5358 5359 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 5360 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 5361 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 5362 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 5363 functions. 5364 5365 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 5366 Enable additional printk() statements. 5367 5368 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 5369 The probability weighting to use for the 5370 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 5371 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 5372 default if all other weights are -1. However, 5373 if at least one weight has some other value, a 5374 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 5375 5376 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 5377 The probability weighting to use for the 5378 smp_call_function_single() function with a 5379 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5380 5381 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 5382 The probability weighting to use for the 5383 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 5384 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5385 Note well that setting a high probability for 5386 this weighting can place serious IPI load 5387 on the system. 5388 5389 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 5390 The probability weighting to use for the 5391 smp_call_function_many() function with a 5392 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5393 and weight_many. 5394 5395 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 5396 The probability weighting to use for the 5397 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 5398 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 5399 weight_many. 5400 5401 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 5402 The probability weighting to use for the 5403 smp_call_function_all() function with a 5404 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5405 and weight_many. 5406 5407 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 5408 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 5409 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 5410 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5411 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 5412 1 -- enable. 5413 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 5414 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 5415 5416 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 5417 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 5418 "lsm=" parameter. 5419 5420 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 5421 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5422 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 5423 0 -- disable. 5424 1 -- enable. 5425 Default value is 1. 5426 5427 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 5428 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5429 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 5430 0 -- disable. 5431 1 -- enable. 5432 Default value is set via kernel config option. 5433 5434 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 5435 5436 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 5437 5438 shapers= [NET] 5439 Maximal number of shapers. 5440 5441 simeth= [IA-64] 5442 simscsi= 5443 5444 slram= [HW,MTD] 5445 5446 slab_merge [MM] 5447 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 5448 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 5449 5450 slab_nomerge [MM] 5451 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 5452 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 5453 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 5454 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 5455 layout control by attackers can usually be 5456 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 5457 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 5458 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 5459 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 5460 own. 5461 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5462 5463 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 5464 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5465 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5466 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 5467 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 5468 5469 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 5470 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 5471 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5472 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5473 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5474 last alloc / free. For more information see 5475 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5476 5477 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 5478 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5479 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5480 fragmentation. For more information see 5481 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5482 5483 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 5484 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 5485 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 5486 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 5487 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 5488 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 5489 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 5490 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5491 5492 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 5493 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 5494 lower than slub_max_order. 5495 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5496 5497 slub_merge [MM, SLUB] 5498 Same with slab_merge. 5499 5500 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 5501 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 5502 See slab_nomerge for more information. 5503 5504 smart2= [HW] 5505 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 5506 5507 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 5508 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 5509 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 5510 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 5511 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 5512 disabling interrupts for extended periods 5513 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 5514 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 5515 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 5516 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 5517 5518 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 5519 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 5520 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 5521 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 5522 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 5523 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 5524 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 5525 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 5526 1: Fast pin select (default) 5527 2: ATC IRMode 5528 5529 smt= [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 5530 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 5531 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 5532 actual hardware limit. 5533 Format: <integer> 5534 Default: -1 (no limit) 5535 5536 softlockup_panic= 5537 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 5538 Format: 0 | 1 5539 5540 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 5541 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 5542 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 5543 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 5544 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 5545 5546 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 5547 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 5548 backtraces on all cpus. 5549 Format: 0 | 1 5550 5551 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 5552 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 5553 5554 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5555 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 5556 The default operation protects the kernel from 5557 user space attacks. 5558 5559 on - unconditionally enable, implies 5560 spectre_v2_user=on 5561 off - unconditionally disable, implies 5562 spectre_v2_user=off 5563 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5564 vulnerable 5565 5566 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 5567 mitigation method at run time according to the 5568 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 5569 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 5570 compiler with which the kernel was built. 5571 5572 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 5573 against user space to user space task attacks. 5574 5575 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 5576 the user space protections. 5577 5578 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 5579 5580 retpoline - replace indirect branches 5581 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 5582 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 5583 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 5584 eibrs - enhanced IBRS 5585 eibrs,retpoline - enhanced IBRS + Retpolines 5586 eibrs,lfence - enhanced IBRS + LFENCE 5587 5588 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5589 spectre_v2=auto. 5590 5591 spectre_v2_user= 5592 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5593 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 5594 user space tasks 5595 5596 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 5597 enforced by spectre_v2=on 5598 5599 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 5600 enforced by spectre_v2=off 5601 5602 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 5603 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 5604 per thread. The mitigation control state 5605 is inherited on fork. 5606 5607 prctl,ibpb 5608 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 5609 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5610 always when switching between different user 5611 space processes. 5612 5613 seccomp 5614 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 5615 threads will enable the mitigation unless 5616 they explicitly opt out. 5617 5618 seccomp,ibpb 5619 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 5620 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5621 always when switching between different 5622 user space processes. 5623 5624 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 5625 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 5626 5627 Default mitigation: "prctl" 5628 5629 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5630 spectre_v2_user=auto. 5631 5632 spec_store_bypass_disable= 5633 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 5634 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 5635 5636 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 5637 a common industry wide performance optimization known 5638 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 5639 to the same memory location may not be observed by 5640 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 5641 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 5642 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 5643 end of a particular speculation execution window. 5644 5645 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5646 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 5647 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 5648 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 5649 5650 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 5651 Bypass optimization is used. 5652 5653 On x86 the options are: 5654 5655 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 5656 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 5657 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 5658 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 5659 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 5660 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 5661 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 5662 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 5663 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 5664 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 5665 for a process by default. The state of the control 5666 is inherited on fork. 5667 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 5668 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 5669 5670 Default mitigations: 5671 X86: "prctl" 5672 5673 On powerpc the options are: 5674 5675 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 5676 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 5677 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 5678 exit. 5679 off - No action. 5680 5681 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5682 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 5683 5684 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 5685 spia_fio_base= 5686 spia_pedr= 5687 spia_peddr= 5688 5689 split_lock_detect= 5690 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 5691 5692 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 5693 instructions that access data across cache line 5694 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 5695 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 5696 bus lock detection. 5697 5698 off - not enabled 5699 5700 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 5701 about applications triggering the #AC 5702 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 5703 the default on CPUs that support split lock 5704 detection or bus lock detection. Default 5705 behavior is by #AC if both features are 5706 enabled in hardware. 5707 5708 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 5709 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 5710 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 5711 both features are enabled in hardware. 5712 5713 ratelimit:N - 5714 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 5715 per second for bus lock detection. 5716 0 < N <= 1000. 5717 5718 N/A for split lock detection. 5719 5720 5721 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 5722 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 5723 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 5724 mode. 5725 5726 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 5727 CPL > 0. 5728 5729 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 5730 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 5731 (SRBDS) mitigation. 5732 5733 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 5734 exploit which can leak bits from the random 5735 number generator. 5736 5737 By default, this issue is mitigated by 5738 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 5739 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 5740 much slower. Among other effects, this will 5741 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 5742 5743 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 5744 the following option: 5745 5746 off: Disable mitigation and remove 5747 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 5748 5749 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 5750 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 5751 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 5752 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 5753 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 5754 but takes effect only when the low-order four 5755 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 5756 (decide at boot). 5757 5758 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 5759 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 5760 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 5761 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 5762 5763 0: Never. 5764 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 5765 2: When rcutorture decides to. 5766 3: Decide at boot time (default). 5767 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 5768 5769 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 5770 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 5771 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 5772 5773 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 5774 Specifies how frequently to check for 5775 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 5776 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 5777 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 5778 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 5779 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 5780 are ignored. 5781 5782 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 5783 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 5784 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 5785 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 5786 grace period will be considered for automatic 5787 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 5788 expediting. 5789 5790 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 5791 Specifies the number of update-side contention 5792 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 5793 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 5794 structure to big form. Note that the value of 5795 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 5796 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 5797 5798 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 5799 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 5800 5801 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 5802 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 5803 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 5804 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 5805 5806 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 5807 for both kernel and userspace 5808 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 5809 for both kernel and userspace 5810 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 5811 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 5812 to allow userspace to register its 5813 interest in being mitigated too. 5814 5815 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 5816 override the default stack gap protection. The value 5817 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 5818 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 5819 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 5820 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 5821 5822 stack_depot_disable= [KNL] 5823 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 5824 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 5825 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 5826 to false. 5827 5828 stacktrace [FTRACE] 5829 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 5830 5831 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 5832 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 5833 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 5834 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 5835 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 5836 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 5837 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 5838 5839 sti= [PARISC,HW] 5840 Format: <num> 5841 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 5842 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 5843 as the initial boot-console. 5844 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5845 5846 sti_font= [HW] 5847 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5848 5849 stifb= [HW] 5850 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 5851 5852 strict_sas_size= 5853 [X86] 5854 Format: <bool> 5855 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 5856 against the required signal frame size which 5857 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 5858 be used to filter out binaries which have 5859 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 5860 5861 sunrpc.min_resvport= 5862 sunrpc.max_resvport= 5863 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5864 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 5865 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 5866 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 5867 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 5868 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 5869 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 5870 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 5871 maximum port values. 5872 5873 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 5874 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5875 Limit the number of requests that the server will 5876 process in parallel from a single connection. 5877 The default value is 0 (no limit). 5878 5879 sunrpc.pool_mode= 5880 [NFS] 5881 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 5882 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 5883 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 5884 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 5885 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 5886 NFS server is running. 5887 5888 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 5889 automatically using heuristics 5890 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 5891 percpu one pool for each CPU 5892 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 5893 to global on non-NUMA machines) 5894 5895 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 5896 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 5897 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5898 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 5899 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 5900 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 5901 improve throughput, but will also increase the 5902 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 5903 5904 suspend.pm_test_delay= 5905 [SUSPEND] 5906 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 5907 mode before resuming the system (see 5908 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 5909 is set. Default value is 5. 5910 5911 svm= [PPC] 5912 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 5913 This parameter controls use of the Protected 5914 Execution Facility on pSeries. 5915 5916 swapaccount= [KNL] 5917 Format: [0|1] 5918 Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 5919 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 5920 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) 5921 5922 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 5923 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 5924 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 5925 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 5926 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 5927 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 5928 5929 switches= [HW,M68k] 5930 5931 sysctl.*= [KNL] 5932 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 5933 process, as if the value was written to the respective 5934 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 5935 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 5936 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 5937 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 5938 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 5939 5940 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 5941 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 5942 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 5943 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 5944 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 5945 in older udev will not work anymore. 5946 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 5947 the kernel configuration. 5948 5949 sysrq_always_enabled 5950 [KNL] 5951 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 5952 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 5953 Useful for debugging. 5954 5955 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5956 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 5957 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 5958 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 5959 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 5960 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 5961 5962 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 5963 5964 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 5965 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 5966 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 5967 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 5968 as the system sleep state during system startup with 5969 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 5970 The system is woken from this state using a 5971 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 5972 5973 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5974 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 5975 5976 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 5977 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 5978 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 5979 5980 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 5981 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 5982 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 5983 5984 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 5985 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 5986 critical and hot trip points. 5987 5988 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 5989 1: disable ACPI thermal control 5990 5991 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 5992 -1: disable all passive trip points 5993 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 5994 value 5995 5996 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 5997 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 5998 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 5999 0: no polling (default) 6000 6001 threadirqs [KNL] 6002 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 6003 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 6004 6005 topology= [S390] 6006 Format: {off | on} 6007 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 6008 topology information if the hardware supports this. 6009 The scheduler will make use of this information and 6010 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 6011 Default is on. 6012 6013 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 6014 Format: {off} 6015 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 6016 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 6017 LPAR. 6018 6019 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 6020 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 6021 until after init has spawned. 6022 6023 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 6024 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 6025 even if there were no errors. This can be a 6026 very costly operation when many torture tests 6027 are running concurrently, especially on systems 6028 with rotating-rust storage. 6029 6030 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 6031 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 6032 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 6033 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 6034 6035 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 6036 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 6037 6038 tp720= [HW,PS2] 6039 6040 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 6041 Format: integer pcr id 6042 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 6043 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 6044 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 6045 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 6046 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 6047 are saved. 6048 6049 tp_printk [FTRACE] 6050 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 6051 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 6052 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 6053 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 6054 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 6055 6056 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 6057 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 6058 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 6059 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 6060 6061 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 6062 to stop the printing of events to console at 6063 late_initcall_sync. 6064 6065 ** CAUTION ** 6066 6067 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 6068 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 6069 the system to live lock. 6070 6071 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 6072 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 6073 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 6074 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 6075 make the system inoperable. 6076 6077 This command line option will stop the printing of events 6078 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 6079 6080 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 6081 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 6082 6083 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 6084 at boot up. 6085 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 6086 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 6087 depending on the architecture, may not be 6088 in sync between CPUs. 6089 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 6090 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 6091 but better for some race conditions. 6092 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 6093 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 6094 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 6095 once per event. 6096 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 6097 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 6098 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6099 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 6100 stamps. 6101 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6102 Architectures may add more clocks. See 6103 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 6104 6105 trace_event=[event-list] 6106 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 6107 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 6108 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 6109 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 6110 6111 trace_options=[option-list] 6112 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 6113 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 6114 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 6115 to echo the option name into 6116 6117 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 6118 6119 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 6120 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 6121 6122 trace_options=stacktrace 6123 6124 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 6125 section. 6126 6127 traceoff_on_warning 6128 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 6129 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 6130 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 6131 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 6132 6133 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 6134 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 6135 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 6136 6137 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 6138 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 6139 6140 transparent_hugepage= 6141 [KNL] 6142 Format: [always|madvise|never] 6143 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 6144 with respect to transparent hugepages. 6145 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 6146 for more details. 6147 6148 trusted.source= [KEYS] 6149 Format: <string> 6150 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 6151 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 6152 sources: 6153 - "tpm" 6154 - "tee" 6155 - "caam" 6156 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 6157 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 6158 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 6159 successfully during iteration. 6160 6161 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 6162 Format: <string> 6163 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 6164 Can be one of: 6165 - "kernel" 6166 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 6167 - "default" 6168 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 6169 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 6170 6171 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 6172 Format: <string> 6173 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 6174 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 6175 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 6176 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 6177 virtualized environment. 6178 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 6179 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 6180 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 6181 can add overhead. 6182 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 6183 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 6184 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 6185 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 6186 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 6187 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 6188 acceptable). 6189 6190 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 6191 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 6192 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 6193 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 6194 Format: <unsigned int> 6195 6196 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 6197 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 6198 support TSX control. 6199 6200 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 6201 6202 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 6203 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 6204 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 6205 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 6206 so there may be unknown security risks associated 6207 with leaving it enabled. 6208 6209 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 6210 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 6211 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 6212 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 6213 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 6214 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 6215 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 6216 6217 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 6218 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 6219 6220 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 6221 6222 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6223 for more details. 6224 6225 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 6226 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 6227 6228 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 6229 certain CPUs that support Transactional 6230 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 6231 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 6232 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 6233 conditions. 6234 6235 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6236 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 6237 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 6238 access. 6239 6240 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 6241 options are: 6242 6243 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 6244 if TSX is enabled. 6245 6246 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 6247 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 6248 is not disabled because CPU is not 6249 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 6250 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 6251 6252 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 6253 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 6254 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 6255 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 6256 6257 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6258 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 6259 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 6260 required and doesn't provide any additional 6261 mitigation. 6262 6263 For details see: 6264 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6265 6266 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 6267 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 6268 Format: 6269 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 6270 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 6271 6272 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 6273 happen after console_init() and before a proper 6274 console driver takes over, this boot options might 6275 help "seeing" what's going on. 6276 6277 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6278 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 6279 6280 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 6281 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 6282 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 6283 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 6284 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 6285 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 6286 reported either. 6287 6288 unknown_nmi_panic 6289 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 6290 6291 usbcore.authorized_default= 6292 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 6293 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 6294 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 6295 if device connected to internal port) 6296 6297 usbcore.autosuspend= 6298 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 6299 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 6300 is the time required before an idle device will be 6301 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 6302 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 6303 6304 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 6305 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 6306 6307 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 6308 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 6309 (default = 65536). 6310 6311 usbcore.blinkenlights= 6312 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 6313 6314 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 6315 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 6316 scheme (default 0 = off). 6317 6318 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 6319 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 6320 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 6321 6322 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 6323 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 6324 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 6325 6326 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 6327 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 6328 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 6329 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 6330 6331 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 6332 6333 usbcore.quirks= 6334 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 6335 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 6336 commas. Each entry has the form 6337 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 6338 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 6339 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 6340 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 6341 the following meanings: 6342 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 6343 descriptors must not be fetched using 6344 a 255-byte read); 6345 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 6346 correctly so reset it instead); 6347 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 6348 Set-Interface requests); 6349 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 6350 handle its Configuration or Interface 6351 strings); 6352 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 6353 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 6354 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 6355 more interface descriptions than the 6356 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 6357 talking to these interfaces); 6358 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 6359 during initialization, after we read 6360 the device descriptor); 6361 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 6362 high speed and super speed interrupt 6363 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 6364 require the interval in microframes (1 6365 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 6366 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 6367 (bInterval-1). 6368 Devices with this quirk report their 6369 bInterval as the result of this 6370 calculation instead of the exponent 6371 variable used in the calculation); 6372 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 6373 handle device_qualifier descriptor 6374 requests); 6375 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 6376 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 6377 remote wakeup capability); 6378 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 6379 Power Management); 6380 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 6381 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 6382 frames instead of the USB 2.0 6383 calculation); 6384 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 6385 to be disconnected before suspend to 6386 prevent spurious wakeup); 6387 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 6388 pause after every control message); 6389 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 6390 delay after resetting its port); 6391 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 6392 6393 usbhid.mousepoll= 6394 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 6395 6396 usbhid.jspoll= 6397 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 6398 6399 usbhid.kbpoll= 6400 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 6401 6402 usb-storage.delay_use= 6403 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 6404 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 6405 6406 usb-storage.quirks= 6407 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 6408 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 6409 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 6410 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 6411 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 6412 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 6413 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 6414 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 6415 of sense data, not on uas); 6416 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 6417 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 6418 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 6419 device capacity by one sector); 6420 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 6421 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 6422 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 6423 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 6424 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 6425 command, uas only); 6426 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 6427 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 6428 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 6429 reported device capacity by one 6430 sector if the number is odd); 6431 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 6432 device); 6433 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 6434 command, uas only); 6435 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 6436 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 6437 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 6438 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 6439 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 6440 not on uas); 6441 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 6442 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 6443 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 6444 reported by the device, not on uas); 6445 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 6446 by default, not on uas); 6447 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 6448 bogus residue values, not on uas); 6449 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 6450 Logical Unit); 6451 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 6452 commands, uas only); 6453 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 6454 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 6455 medium is write-protected). 6456 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 6457 even if the device claims no cache, 6458 not on uas) 6459 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 6460 6461 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 6462 Format: <int> 6463 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 6464 1 - undefined instruction events 6465 2 - system calls 6466 4 - invalid data aborts 6467 8 - SIGSEGV faults 6468 16 - SIGBUS faults 6469 Example: user_debug=31 6470 6471 userpte= 6472 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 6473 6474 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 6475 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 6476 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 6477 6478 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 6479 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 6480 6481 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 6482 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 6483 6484 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 6485 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 6486 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 6487 6488 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 6489 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 6490 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 6491 6492 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 6493 alias for vdso32=0. 6494 6495 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 6496 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 6497 6498 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 6499 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 6500 6501 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 6502 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 6503 6504 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 6505 Format: [0|1] 6506 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 6507 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 6508 level and then send out the event to user space through 6509 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 6510 will only send out the event without touching backlight 6511 brightness level. 6512 default: 1 6513 6514 virtio_mmio.device= 6515 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 6516 6517 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 6518 where: 6519 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 6520 like K, M and G) 6521 <baseaddr> := physical base address 6522 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 6523 request_irq()) 6524 <id> := (optional) platform device id 6525 example: 6526 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 6527 6528 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 6529 6530 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 6531 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 6532 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 6533 Use vga=ask for menu. 6534 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 6535 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 6536 6537 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 6538 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 6539 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 6540 All options are enabled by default, and this 6541 interface is meant to allow for selectively 6542 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 6543 debugging features. 6544 6545 Available options are: 6546 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 6547 - Disable all of the above options 6548 6549 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 6550 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 6551 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 6552 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 6553 mapped kernel RAM. 6554 6555 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 6556 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 6557 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 6558 6559 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 6560 Format: <command> 6561 6562 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 6563 Format: <command> 6564 6565 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 6566 Format: <command> 6567 6568 vsyscall= [X86-64] 6569 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 6570 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 6571 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 6572 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 6573 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 6574 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 6575 6576 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6577 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6578 page is readable. 6579 6580 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6581 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6582 page is not readable. 6583 6584 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 6585 them quite hard to use for exploits but 6586 might break your system. 6587 6588 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 6589 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 6590 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 6591 6592 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 6593 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 6594 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 6595 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 6596 6597 vt.default_blu= [VT] 6598 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 6599 Change the default blue palette of the console. 6600 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6601 ranging from 0-255. 6602 6603 vt.default_grn= [VT] 6604 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 6605 Change the default green palette of the console. 6606 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6607 ranging from 0-255. 6608 6609 vt.default_red= [VT] 6610 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 6611 Change the default red palette of the console. 6612 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6613 ranging from 0-255. 6614 6615 vt.default_utf8= 6616 [VT] 6617 Format=<0|1> 6618 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 6619 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 6620 newly opened terminals. 6621 6622 vt.global_cursor_default= 6623 [VT] 6624 Format=<-1|0|1> 6625 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 6626 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 6627 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 6628 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 6629 cursors, 1 will display them. 6630 6631 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 6632 Default: 2 = green. 6633 6634 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 6635 Default: 3 = cyan. 6636 6637 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 6638 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 6639 or other driver-specific files in the 6640 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 6641 6642 watchdog_thresh= 6643 [KNL] 6644 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 6645 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 6646 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 6647 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 6648 seconds. 6649 6650 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 6651 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 6652 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 6653 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 6654 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 6655 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 6656 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 6657 corresponding sysfs file. 6658 6659 workqueue.disable_numa 6660 By default, all work items queued to unbound 6661 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 6662 issued on, which results in better behavior in 6663 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 6664 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 6665 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 6666 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 6667 6668 workqueue.power_efficient 6669 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 6670 they show better performance thanks to cache 6671 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 6672 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 6673 6674 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 6675 were observed to contribute significantly to power 6676 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 6677 power usage at the cost of small performance 6678 overhead. 6679 6680 The default value of this parameter is determined by 6681 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 6682 6683 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 6684 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 6685 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 6686 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 6687 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 6688 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 6689 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 6690 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 6691 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 6692 impacted. 6693 6694 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 6695 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 6696 supporting x2apic. 6697 6698 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 6699 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 6700 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 6701 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 6702 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 6703 domains. 6704 6705 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 6706 Unplug Xen emulated devices 6707 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 6708 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 6709 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 6710 nics -- unplug network devices 6711 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 6712 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 6713 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 6714 the unplug protocol 6715 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 6716 6717 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 6718 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 6719 panic() code such as dumping handler. 6720 6721 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 6722 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 6723 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 6724 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6725 6726 xen_nopv [X86] 6727 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 6728 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 6729 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 6730 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6731 6732 xen_no_vector_callback 6733 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 6734 event channel interrupts. 6735 6736 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 6737 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 6738 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 6739 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 6740 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 6741 6742 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 6743 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 6744 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 6745 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 6746 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 6747 more timer interrupts. 6748 6749 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 6750 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 6751 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 6752 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 6753 started with less memory configured than allowed at 6754 max. Default is 180. 6755 6756 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 6757 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 6758 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 6759 6760 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 6761 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 6762 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 6763 6764 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 6765 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 6766 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 6767 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 6768 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 6769 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 6770 6771 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 6772 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 6773 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 6774 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 6775 6776 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 6777 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 6778 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 6779 contention. 6780 6781 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 6782 Format: 6783 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 6784 6785 xive= [PPC] 6786 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 6787 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 6788 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 6789 6790 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 6791 controller on both pseries and powernv 6792 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 6793 6794 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 6795 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 6796 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 6797 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 6798 loads instead, as on POWER9. 6799 6800 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 6801 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 6802 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 6803 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 6804 6805 xmon [PPC] 6806 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 6807 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 6808 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 6809 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 6810 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 6811 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6812 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 6813 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 6814 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 6815 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6816 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 6817 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 6818 can be written using xmon commands. 6819 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 6820 memory, and other data can't be written using 6821 xmon commands. 6822 off xmon is disabled.