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1 ACPI ACPI support is enabled.
2 AGP AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is enabled.
3 ALSA ALSA sound support is enabled.
4 APIC APIC support is enabled.
5 APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled.
6 APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled.
7 ARM ARM architecture is enabled.
8 ARM64 ARM64 architecture is enabled.
9 AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled.
10 CLK Common clock infrastructure is enabled.
11 CMA Contiguous Memory Area support is enabled.
12 DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
13 DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime
14 EARLY Parameter processed too early to be embedded in initrd.
15 EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
16 EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
17 EVM Extended Verification Module
18 FB The frame buffer device is enabled.
19 FTRACE Function tracing enabled.
20 GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled.
21 HIBERNATION HIBERNATION is enabled.
22 HW Appropriate hardware is enabled.
23 HYPER_V HYPERV support is enabled.
24 IMA Integrity measurement architecture is enabled.
25 IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled.
26 IPV6 IPv6 support is enabled.
27 ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled.
28 ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
29 ISOL CPU Isolation is enabled.
30 JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
31 KGDB Kernel debugger support is enabled.
32 KVM Kernel Virtual Machine support is enabled.
33 LIBATA Libata driver is enabled
34 LOONGARCH LoongArch architecture is enabled.
35 LOOP Loopback device support is enabled.
36 LP Printer support is enabled.
37 M68k M68k architecture is enabled.
38 These options have more detailed description inside of
39 Documentation/arch/m68k/kernel-options.rst.
40 MDA MDA console support is enabled.
41 MIPS MIPS architecture is enabled.
42 MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
43 MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
44 MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
45 NET Appropriate network support is enabled.
46 NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
47 NUMA NUMA support is enabled.
48 OF Devicetree is enabled.
49 PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
50 PCI PCI bus support is enabled.
51 PCIE PCI Express support is enabled.
52 PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
53 PNP Plug & Play support is enabled.
54 PPC PowerPC architecture is enabled.
55 PPT Parallel port support is enabled.
56 PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled.
57 PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled.
58 RAM RAM disk support is enabled.
59 RDT Intel Resource Director Technology.
60 RISCV RISCV architecture is enabled.
61 S390 S390 architecture is enabled.
62 SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
63 A lot of drivers have their options described inside
64 the Documentation/scsi/ sub-directory.
65 SDW SoundWire support is enabled.
66 SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
67 SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
68 SERIAL Serial support is enabled.
69 SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
70 SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel.
71 SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled.
72 SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled.
73 SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled.
74 TPM TPM drivers are enabled.
75 UMS USB Mass Storage support is enabled.
76 USB USB support is enabled.
77 USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
78 V4L Video For Linux support is enabled.
79 VGA The VGA console has been enabled.
80 VMMIO Driver for memory mapped virtio devices is enabled.
81 VT Virtual terminal support is enabled.
82 WDT Watchdog support is enabled.
83 X86-32 X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled.
84 X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled.
85 X86 Either 32-bit or 64-bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64)
86 X86_UV SGI UV support is enabled.
87 XEN Xen support is enabled
88 XTENSA xtensa architecture is enabled.
89
90In addition, the following text indicates that the option
91
92 BOOT Is a boot loader parameter.
93 BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor.
94 KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter.
95
96
97Kernel parameters
98
99 accept_memory= [MM]
100 Format: { eager | lazy }
101 default: lazy
102 By default, unaccepted memory is accepted lazily to
103 avoid prolonged boot times. The lazy option will add
104 some runtime overhead until all memory is eventually
105 accepted. In most cases the overhead is negligible.
106 For some workloads or for debugging purposes
107 accept_memory=eager can be used to accept all memory
108 at once during boot.
109
110 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64,EARLY]
111 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
112 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
113 copy_dsdt | nospcr }
114 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
115 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64,riscv64]
116 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
117 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
118 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
119 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
120 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
121 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
122 nocmcff -- Disable firmware first mode for corrected
123 errors. This disables parsing the HEST CMC error
124 source to check if firmware has set the FF flag. This
125 may result in duplicate corrected error reports.
126 nospcr -- disable console in ACPI SPCR table as
127 default _serial_ console on ARM64
128 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on", "acpi=force" or
129 "acpi=nospcr" are available
130 For RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
131 are available
132
133 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
134
135 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI,IOAPIC,EARLY]
136 Format: <int>
137 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
138 1,0: use 1st APIC table
139 default: 0
140
141 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
142 { vendor | video | native | none }
143 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
144 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
145 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
146 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
147 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
148 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
149
150 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr [ACPI,EARLY]
151 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
152 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
153 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
154 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
155
156 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
157 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
158 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
159 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
160 This option is useful for developers to identify the
161 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
162 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
163
164 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
165 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
166 Format: <int>
167 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
168 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
169 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
170 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
171 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
172 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
173 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
174 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
175 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
176 debug layers and levels.
177
178 Enable processor driver info messages:
179 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
180 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
181 object while interpreting AML:
182 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
183 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
184 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
185
186 Some values produce so much output that the system is
187 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
188 if you need to capture more output.
189
190 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
191 { strict | lax | no }
192 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
193 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
194 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
195 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
196 can interfere with legacy drivers.
197 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
198 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
199 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
200 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
201 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
202 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
203 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
204 no further checks are performed.
205
206 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
207 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
208 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
209 size limitation.
210
211 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
212 ACPI will balance active IRQs
213 default in APIC mode
214
215 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
216 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
217 default in PIC mode
218
219 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
220 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
221
222 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
223 use by PCI
224 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
225
226 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
227 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
228 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
229 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
230 the GPE dispatcher.
231 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
232 GPE floodings.
233 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
234
235 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
236 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
237 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
238 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
239 auto-serialization feature.
240 This feature is enabled by default.
241 This option allows to turn off the feature.
242
243 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
244 kernels.
245
246 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
247 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
248 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
249 installed automatically and they will appear under
250 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
251 This option turns off this feature.
252 Note that specifying this option does not affect
253 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
254 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
255
256 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT]
257 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
258 a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
259
260 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC,EARLY]
261 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
262 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
263 second kernel for kdump.
264
265 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
266 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
267
268 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
269 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
270 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
271 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
272 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
273
274 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
275 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
276 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
277 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
278 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
279 strings
280 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
281 strings
282 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
283
284 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
285 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
286 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
287 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
288 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
289 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
290 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
291 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
292 care about the state of the feature group strings which
293 should be controlled by the OSPM.
294 Examples:
295 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
296 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
297 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
298
299 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
300 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
301 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
302 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
303 multiple times through kernel command line is also
304 meaningless.
305 Examples:
306 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
307 FALSE.
308
309 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
310 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
311 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
312 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
313 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
314 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
315 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
316 there are quirks related to this string. This command
317 is useful when one want to control the state of the
318 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
319 the OSPM features.
320 Examples:
321 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
322 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
323 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
324 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
325 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
326 equivalent to
327 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
328 and
329 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
330 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
331
332 acpi_pm_good [X86]
333 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
334 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
335 and always returns good values.
336
337 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI,EARLY] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
338 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
339
340 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
341 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
342 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
343
344 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
345 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
346 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
347 sci_force_enable, nobl }
348 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
349 s3_bios and s3_mode.
350 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
351 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
352 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
353 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
354 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
355 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
356 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
357 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
358 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
359 s4_hwsig option is enabled.
360 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
361 used (or even warned about) during resume.
362 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
363 control method, with respect to putting devices into
364 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
365 of _PTS is used by default).
366 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
367 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
368 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
369 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
370 but some broken systems don't work without it).
371 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
372 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
373 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
374
375 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
376 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
377 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
378
379 add_efi_memmap [EFI,X86,EARLY] Include EFI memory map in
380 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
381
382 agp= [AGP]
383 { off | try_unsupported }
384 off: disable AGP support
385 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
386 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
387
388 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
389 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
390
391 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
392 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
393 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
394 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
395
396 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
397 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
398 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
399 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
400 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
401 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
402 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
403
404 32: only for 32-bit processes
405 64: only for 64-bit processes
406 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
407 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
408
409 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
410 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
411 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
412 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
413 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
414 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
415
416 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64,EARLY]
417 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
418 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
419 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
420 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
421 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
422 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
423
424 See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
425 information.
426
427 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
428 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
429 Possible values are:
430 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
431 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
432 the system
433 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
434 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
435 allowed anymore to lift isolation
436 requirements as needed. This option
437 does not override iommu=pt
438 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
439 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
440 option with care.
441 pgtbl_v1 - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default).
442 pgtbl_v2 - Use v2 page table for DMA-API.
443 irtcachedis - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching.
444 nohugepages - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables
445 to 4 KiB.
446 v2_pgsizes_only - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables
447 to 4KiB/2Mib/1GiB.
448
449
450 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
451 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
452 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
453 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
454 IOMMU initialization.
455
456 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
457 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
458 remapping modes:
459 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
460 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
461 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
462 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
463 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
464
465 amd_pstate= [X86,EARLY]
466 disable
467 Do not enable amd_pstate as the default
468 scaling driver for the supported processors
469 passive
470 Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver.
471 In this mode autonomous selection is disabled.
472 Driver requests a desired performance level and platform
473 tries to match the same performance level if it is
474 satisfied by guaranteed performance level.
475 active
476 Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver,
477 driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants
478 to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff)
479 to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will
480 calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores
481 frequency.
482 guided
483 Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and
484 maximum performance level and the platform autonomously
485 selects a performance level in this range and appropriate
486 to the current workload.
487
488 amd_prefcore=
489 [X86]
490 disable
491 Disable amd-pstate preferred core.
492
493 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
494 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
495 Format: <a>,<b>
496 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
497
498 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
499 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
500 connected to one of 16 gameports
501 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
502
503 apc= [HW,SPARC]
504 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
505 Format: noidle
506 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
507 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
508 APC and your system crashes randomly.
509
510 apic [APIC,X86-64] Use IO-APIC. Default.
511
512 apic= [APIC,X86,EARLY] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
513 Change the output verbosity while booting
514 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
515 Change the amount of debugging information output
516 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
517
518 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86,EARLY] External NMI delivery setting
519 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
520 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
521 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
522 backup of CPU 0
523 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
524 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
525 shot down by NMI
526
527 apicpmtimer Do APIC timer calibration using the pmtimer. Implies
528 apicmaintimer. Useful when your PIT timer is totally
529 broken.
530
531 autoconf= [IPV6]
532 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
533
534 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
535 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
536
537 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
538 Format: { "0" | "1" }
539 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
540 0 -- disable.
541 1 -- enable.
542 Default value is set via kernel config option.
543
544 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
545 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
546
547 arm64.no32bit_el0 [ARM64] Unconditionally disable the execution of
548 32 bit applications.
549
550 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
551 Identification support
552
553 arm64.nogcs [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Guarded Control Stack
554 support
555
556 arm64.nomops [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory
557 Set instructions support
558
559 arm64.nompam [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Partitioning And
560 Monitoring support
561
562 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
563 support
564
565 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
566 support
567
568 arm64.nosme [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix
569 Extension support
570
571 arm64.nosve [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector
572 Extension support
573
574 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
575
576 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
577
578 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
579 EzKey and similar keyboards
580
581 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
582
583 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
584 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
585
586 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
587 keyboards
588
589 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
590 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
591
592 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
593 Use software keyboard repeat
594
595 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
596 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
597 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
598 enabled until the next reboot
599 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
600 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
601 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
602 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
603 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
604 userspace auditd.
605 Default: unset
606
607 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
608 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
609 Default: 64
610
611 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
612 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
613 Format: { "0" | "1" }
614 0 - Disable the BAU.
615 1 - Enable the BAU.
616 unset - Disable the BAU.
617
618 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
619 Format: <io>,<mode>
620
621 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
622 Format: <io>,<mode>
623 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
624
625 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
626 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
627 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
628 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
629
630 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
631 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
632 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
633 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
634
635 bdev_allow_write_mounted=
636 Format: <bool>
637 Control the ability to open a mounted block device
638 for writing, i.e., allow / disallow writes that bypass
639 the FS. This was implemented as a means to prevent
640 fuzzers from crashing the kernel by overwriting the
641 metadata underneath a mounted FS without its awareness.
642 This also prevents destructive formatting of mounted
643 filesystems by naive storage tooling that don't use
644 O_EXCL. Default is Y and can be changed through the
645 Kconfig option CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED.
646
647 bert_disable [ACPI]
648 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
649
650 bgrt_disable [ACPI,X86,EARLY]
651 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
652
653 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
654 embedded devices based on command line input.
655 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
656
657 boot_delay= [KNL,EARLY]
658 Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
659 Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled,
660 and you may also have to specify "lpj=". Boot_delay
661 values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed
662 erroneous and ignored.
663 Format: integer
664
665 bootconfig [KNL,EARLY]
666 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
667 and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
668
669 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
670
671 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
672 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
673 kernel args too.
674 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
675 bttv.tuner=
676
677 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
678 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
679 at a time.
680
681 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
682
683 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
684 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
685 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
686 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
687 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
688 This option provides an override for these situations.
689
690 carrier_timeout=
691 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
692 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
693 it waits 120 seconds.
694
695 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
696 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
697 trust validation.
698 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
699
700 cca= [MIPS,EARLY] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
701 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
702 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
703 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
704 others).
705
706 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
707 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
708
709 cfi= [X86-64] Set Control Flow Integrity checking features
710 when CONFIG_FINEIBT is enabled.
711 Format: feature[,feature...]
712 Default: auto
713
714 auto: Use FineIBT if IBT available, otherwise kCFI.
715 Under FineIBT, enable "paranoid" mode when
716 FRED is not available.
717 off: Turn off CFI checking.
718 kcfi: Use kCFI (disable FineIBT).
719 fineibt: Use FineIBT (even if IBT not available).
720 norand: Do not re-randomize CFI hashes.
721 paranoid: Add caller hash checking under FineIBT.
722 bhi: Enable register poisoning to stop speculation
723 across FineIBT. (Disabled by default.)
724 warn: Do not enforce CFI checking: warn only.
725 debug: Report CFI initialization details.
726
727 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
728 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
729 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
730 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
731 a single hierarchy
732 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
733 subsystem
734 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
735 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
736 created
737 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
738 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
739 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
740 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
741 stall information accounting feature
742
743 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
744 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
745 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
746 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
747 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
748 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
749 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
750 all v1 hierarchies.
751
752 cgroup_v1_proc= [KNL] Show also missing controllers in /proc/cgroups
753 Format: { "true" | "false" }
754 /proc/cgroups lists only v1 controllers by default.
755 This compatibility option enables listing also v2
756 controllers (whose v1 code is not compiled!), so that
757 semi-legacy software can check this file to decide
758 about usage of v2 (sic) controllers.
759
760 cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods.
761 Format: { "true" | "false" }
762 Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS.
763
764 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
765 Format: <string>
766 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
767 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
768 nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting.
769
770 check_pages= [MM,EARLY] Enable sanity checking of pages after
771 allocations / before freeing. This adds checks to catch
772 double-frees, use-after-frees, and other sources of
773 page corruption by inspecting page internals (flags,
774 mapcount/refcount, memcg_data, etc.).
775 Format: { "0" | "1" }
776 Default: 0 (1 if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is set)
777
778 checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
779 Format: { "0" | "1" }
780 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
781 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
782 any implied execute protection).
783 1 -- check protection requested by application.
784 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
785 Value can be changed at runtime via
786 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
787 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
788
789 cio_ignore= [S390]
790 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
791
792 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86]
793 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
794 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
795 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
796 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
797 ones should be.
798 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line
799 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above
800 instability issue. However, not all features have names
801 in /proc/cpuinfo.
802 Note that using this option will taint your kernel.
803 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
804 or using the feature without checking anything
805 will still see it. This just prevents it from
806 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
807 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
808 some critical bits.
809
810 clk_ignore_unused
811 [CLK]
812 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
813 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
814 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
815 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
816 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
817 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
818 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
819 platform with proper driver support. For more
820 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
821
822 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
823 [Deprecated]
824 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
825 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
826 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
827 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
828
829 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
830 Format: <string>
831 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
832 with the name specified.
833 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
834 the platform:
835 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
836 [ACPI] acpi_pm
837 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
838 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
839 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
840 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
841 [MIPS] MIPS
842 [PARISC] cr16
843 [S390] tod
844 [SH] SuperH
845 [SPARC64] tick
846 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
847
848 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
849 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
850 Format: <bool>
851 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
852 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
853 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
854 systems.
855
856 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
857 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
858 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
859 are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
860 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
861 zero says not to check any. Values larger than
862 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
863 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
864 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
865
866 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
867 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
868 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
869 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
870 10 seconds when built into the kernel.
871
872 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
873 [KNL,CMA,EARLY]
874 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
875 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
876 placement constraint by the physical address range of
877 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
878 altogether. For more information, see
879 kernel/dma/contiguous.c
880
881 cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
882 [KNL,CMA,EARLY]
883 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
884 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
885 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
886 specified, the default value is 0.
887 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
888 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
889 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
890 they will fallback to the global default memory area.
891
892 numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]]
893 [KNL,CMA,EARLY]
894 Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for
895 contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA
896 area for the specified node.
897
898 With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
899 first try to allocate buffer from the numa area
900 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
901 they will fallback to the global default memory area.
902
903 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
904 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
905 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
906 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
907 a hypervisor.
908 Default: yes
909
910 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL,EARLY]
911 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
912 allocations, by default set to 256K.
913
914 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
915 Format:
916 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
917
918 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
919 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
920
921 com90xx= [HW,NET]
922 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
923 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
924
925 condev= [HW,S390] console device
926 conmode=
927
928 con3215_drop= [S390,EARLY] 3215 console drop mode.
929 Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0
930 When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when
931 the console buffer is full. In this case the
932 operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example
933 x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the
934 console output to advance and the kernel to continue.
935 This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270
936 terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal
937 emulator is used, this parameter has no effect.
938
939 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
940
941 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
942
943 ttyS<n>[,options]
944 ttyUSB0[,options]
945 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
946 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
947 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
948 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
949 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
950
951 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
952 information. See
953 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
954 alternative.
955
956 <DEVNAME>:<n>.<n>[,options]
957 Use the specified serial port on the serial core bus.
958 The addressing uses DEVNAME of the physical serial port
959 device, followed by the serial core controller instance,
960 and the serial port instance. The options are the same
961 as documented for the ttyS addressing above.
962
963 The mapping of the serial ports to the tty instances
964 can be viewed with:
965
966 $ ls -d /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/*:*.*/tty/*
967 /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/00:04:0.0/tty/ttyS0
968
969 In the above example, the console can be addressed with
970 console=00:04:0.0. Note that a console addressed this
971 way will only get added when the related device driver
972 is ready. The use of an earlycon parameter in addition to
973 the console may be desired for console output early on.
974
975 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
976 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
977 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
978 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
979 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
980 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
981 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
982 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
983 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
984 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
985 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
986 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
987 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
988 the h/w is not re-initialized.
989
990 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
991 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
992
993 { null | "" }
994 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
995 console messages discarded.
996 This must be the only console= parameter used on the
997 kernel command line.
998
999 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
1000 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
1001 console=brl,ttyS0
1002 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
1003
1004 console_msg_format=
1005 [KNL] Change console messages format
1006 default
1007 By default we print messages on consoles in
1008 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
1009 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
1010 `printk_time' param).
1011 syslog
1012 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
1013 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
1014 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
1015 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
1016 from /proc/kmsg.
1017
1018 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
1019 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
1020 Defaults to 0.
1021
1022 coredump_filter=
1023 [KNL] Change the default value for
1024 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
1025 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
1026
1027 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
1028 [ARM,ARM64]
1029 Format: <bool>
1030 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
1031 0: default value, disable debugging
1032 1: enable debugging at boot time
1033
1034 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
1035 Format:
1036 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
1037
1038 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
1039 disable the cpuidle sub-system
1040
1041 cpuidle.governor=
1042 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
1043
1044 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
1045 disable the cpufreq sub-system
1046
1047 cpufreq.default_governor=
1048 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
1049 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
1050 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
1051
1052 cpu_init_udelay=N
1053 [X86,EARLY] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
1054 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
1055 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
1056 Default: 10000
1057
1058 cpuhp.parallel=
1059 [SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs
1060 Format: <bool>
1061 Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise
1062 the parameter has no effect.
1063
1064 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
1065 Only jump to kdump kernel after running the panic
1066 notifiers and dumping kmsg. This option increases
1067 the risks of a kdump failure, since some panic
1068 notifiers can make the crashed kernel more unstable.
1069 In configurations where kdump may not be reliable,
1070 running the panic notifiers could allow collecting
1071 more data on dmesg, like stack traces from other CPUS
1072 or extra data dumped by panic_print. Note that some
1073 configurations enable this option unconditionally,
1074 like Hyper-V, PowerPC (fadump) and AMD SEV-SNP.
1075
1076 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
1077 [KNL,EARLY] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
1078 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
1079 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
1080 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
1081 is selected automatically.
1082 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] Select a region
1083 under 4G first, and fall back to reserve region above
1084 4G when '@offset' hasn't been specified.
1085 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
1086
1087 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
1088 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
1089 in the running system. The syntax of range is
1090 start-[end] where start and end are both
1091 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
1092 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
1093
1094 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
1095 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range could be
1096 above 4G.
1097 Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top,
1098 so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram
1099 installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated
1100 below 4G, if available.
1101 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
1102 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
1103 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range under 4G.
1104 When crashkernel=X,high is passed, kernel could allocate
1105 physical memory region above 4G, that cause second kernel
1106 crash on system that require some amount of low memory,
1107 e.g. swiotlb requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also
1108 enough extra low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers
1109 for 32-bit devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
1110 default size of memory below 4G automatically. The default
1111 size is platform dependent.
1112 --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB)
1113 --> arm64: 128MiB
1114 --> riscv: 128MiB
1115 --> loongarch: 128MiB
1116 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
1117 for second kernel instead.
1118 0: to disable low allocation.
1119 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
1120 or memory reserved is below 4G.
1121 crashkernel=size[KMG],cma
1122 [KNL, X86, ppc] Reserve additional crash kernel memory from
1123 CMA. This reservation is usable by the first system's
1124 userspace memory and kernel movable allocations (memory
1125 balloon, zswap). Pages allocated from this memory range
1126 will not be included in the vmcore so this should not
1127 be used if dumping of userspace memory is intended and
1128 it has to be expected that some movable kernel pages
1129 may be missing from the dump.
1130
1131 A standard crashkernel reservation, as described above,
1132 is still needed to hold the crash kernel and initrd.
1133
1134 This option increases the risk of a kdump failure: DMA
1135 transfers configured by the first kernel may end up
1136 corrupting the second kernel's memory.
1137
1138 This reservation method is intended for systems that
1139 can't afford to sacrifice enough memory for standard
1140 crashkernel reservation and where less reliable and
1141 possibly incomplete kdump is preferable to no kdump at
1142 all.
1143
1144 cryptomgr.notests
1145 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
1146
1147 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
1148 Format: <dma>
1149
1150 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
1151 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
1152
1153 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU
1154 function call handling. When switched on,
1155 additional debug data is printed to the console
1156 in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that
1157 CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve
1158 the hang situation. The default value of this
1159 option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT
1160 Kconfig option.
1161
1162 dasd= [HW,NET]
1163 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
1164
1165 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
1166 (one device per port)
1167 Format: <port#>,<type>
1168 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1169
1170 debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
1171
1172 debug_boot_weak_hash
1173 [KNL,EARLY] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
1174 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
1175 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are
1176 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
1177 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
1178 insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
1179
1180 debug_locks_verbose=
1181 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests
1182 Format: <int>
1183 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
1184 self-tests.
1185 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
1186 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
1187 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
1188 useful to lockdep developers.
1189
1190 debug_objects [KNL,EARLY] Enable object debugging
1191
1192 debug_guardpage_minorder=
1193 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
1194 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
1195 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
1196 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
1197 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
1198 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
1199 possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2. Setting this
1200 parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most
1201 random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in
1202 kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads
1203 from) a random memory location. Note that there exists
1204 a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy
1205 H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA
1206 (basically when memory is written at bus level and the
1207 CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by
1208 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not
1209 help tracking down these problems.
1210
1211 debug_pagealloc=
1212 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
1213 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
1214 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
1215 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
1216 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
1217 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
1218 on: enable the feature
1219
1220 debugfs= [KNL,EARLY] This parameter enables what is exposed to
1221 userspace and debugfs internal clients.
1222 Format: { on, off }
1223 on: All functions are enabled.
1224 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients
1225 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
1226 or directories within debugfs.
1227 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
1228 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
1229 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
1230
1231 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
1232
1233 default_hugepagesz=
1234 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
1235 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
1236 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
1237 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
1238 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the
1239 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page
1240 sizes are architecture dependent. See also
1241 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1242 Format: size[KMG]
1243
1244 deferred_probe_timeout=
1245 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
1246 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
1247 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
1248 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
1249 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time
1250 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
1251 successful driver registration. This option will also
1252 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
1253 retrying.
1254
1255 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
1256
1257 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
1258 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1259 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1260 hardware.
1261
1262 dell_smm_hwmon.force=
1263 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
1264 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
1265 blacklisted features.
1266
1267 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
1268 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1269 (disabled by default).
1270
1271 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
1272 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1273 capability is set.
1274
1275 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
1276 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1277
1278 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
1279 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
1280
1281 dfltcc= [HW,S390]
1282 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1283 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1284 level 1 and decompression (default)
1285 off: No s390 zlib hardware support
1286 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1287 only (compression on level 1)
1288 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1289 only (decompression)
1290 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1291 level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1292
1293 dhash_entries= [KNL]
1294 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1295
1296 disable_1tb_segments [PPC,EARLY]
1297 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1298 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1299 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1300 miss to occur.
1301
1302 disable= [IPV6]
1303 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1304
1305 disable_radix [PPC,EARLY]
1306 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1307
1308 disable_tlbie [PPC]
1309 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1310 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1311
1312 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES,EARLY]
1313 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1314 to workaround buggy firmware.
1315
1316 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
1317 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1318
1319 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY]
1320 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1321 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1322 entry later. This parameter disables that.
1323
1324 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only,EARLY]
1325 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1326 memory out of your available memory pool based on
1327 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
1328 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1329
1330 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86,EARLY]
1331 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1332 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1333
1334 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1335
1336 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1337 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1338
1339 dma_debug_entries=<number>
1340 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1341 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1342 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1343 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1344 architectural default is too low.
1345
1346 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1347 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1348 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1349 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1350 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1351 driver later using sysfs.
1352
1353 reg_file_data_sampling=
1354 [X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data
1355 Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability. RFDS is a CPU
1356 vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer
1357 kernel data values previously stored in floating point
1358 registers, vector registers, or integer registers.
1359 RFDS only affects Intel Atom processors.
1360
1361 on: Turns ON the mitigation.
1362 off: Turns OFF the mitigation.
1363
1364 This parameter overrides the compile time default set
1365 by CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS. Mitigation cannot be
1366 disabled when other VERW based mitigations (like MDS)
1367 are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all
1368 VERW based mitigations need to be disabled.
1369
1370 For details see:
1371 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst
1372
1373 driver_async_probe= [KNL]
1374 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1375 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
1376 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
1377 match the *.
1378 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1379
1380 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1381 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1382 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1383 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1384 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1385 An EDID data set will only be used for a particular
1386 connector, if its name and a colon are prepended to
1387 the EDID name. Each connector may use a unique EDID
1388 data set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
1389 data set with no connector name will be used for
1390 any connectors not explicitly specified.
1391
1392 dscc4.setup= [NET]
1393
1394 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC,EARLY]
1395 Format: {"off" | "known"}
1396 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1397 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1398 exists).
1399 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1400 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1401 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1402
1403 dump_apple_properties [X86]
1404 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1405 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
1406 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1407
1408 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1409 <module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1410 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
1411 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1412 for details.
1413
1414 early_ioremap_debug [KNL,EARLY]
1415 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1416 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1417 which are not unmapped.
1418
1419 earlycon= [KNL,EARLY] Output early console device and options.
1420
1421 When used with no options, the early console is
1422 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1423 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1424 the platform.
1425
1426 cdns,<addr>[,options]
1427 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1428 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1429 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1430 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1431 configured.
1432
1433 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1434 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1435 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1436 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1437 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1438 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1439 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1440 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1441 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1442 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1443 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1444 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1445 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is
1446 the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set
1447 to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16.
1448
1449 pl011,<addr>
1450 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1451 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1452 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1453 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1454 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1455 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1456 the device registers.
1457
1458 liteuart,<addr>
1459 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1460 specified address. The serial port must already be
1461 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1462
1463 meson,<addr>
1464 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1465 port at the specified address. The serial port must
1466 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1467 supported.
1468
1469 msm_serial,<addr>
1470 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1471 port at the specified address. The serial port
1472 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1473 yet supported.
1474
1475 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1476 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1477 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1478 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1479 yet supported.
1480
1481 owl,<addr>
1482 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1483 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1484 specified address. The serial port must already be
1485 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1486
1487 rda,<addr>
1488 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1489 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1490 specified address. The serial port must already be
1491 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1492
1493 sbi
1494 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1495 console.
1496
1497 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1498
1499 s3c2410,<addr>
1500 s3c2412,<addr>
1501 s3c2440,<addr>
1502 s3c6400,<addr>
1503 s5pv210,<addr>
1504 exynos4210,<addr>
1505 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1506 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1507 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1508 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1509 Options are not yet supported.
1510
1511 lantiq,<addr>
1512 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1513 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1514 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1515 yet supported.
1516
1517 lpuart,<addr>
1518 lpuart32,<addr>
1519 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1520 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1521 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1522 port must already be setup and configured.
1523
1524 ec_imx21,<addr>
1525 ec_imx6q,<addr>
1526 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1527 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1528 must already be setup and configured.
1529
1530 ar3700_uart,<addr>
1531 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1532 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1533 address. The serial port must already be setup
1534 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1535
1536 qcom_geni,<addr>
1537 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1538 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1539 specified address. The serial port must already be
1540 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1541
1542 efifb,[options]
1543 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1544 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1545 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1546 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1547 mapped with the correct attributes.
1548
1549 linflex,<addr>
1550 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1551 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1552 address must be provided, and the serial port must
1553 already be setup and configured.
1554
1555 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390,UM,EARLY]
1556 earlyprintk=vga
1557 earlyprintk=sclp
1558 earlyprintk=xen
1559 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1560 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1561 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1562 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1563 earlyprintk=mmio32,membase[,{nocfg|baudrate}]
1564 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,{nocfg|baudrate}]
1565 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1566 earlyprintk=bios
1567
1568 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1569 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1570 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1571
1572 Use "nocfg" to skip UART configuration, assume
1573 BIOS/firmware has configured UART correctly.
1574
1575 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1576 takes over.
1577
1578 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can
1579 be used at a time.
1580
1581 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1582 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1583 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1584 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1585 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1586 You can find the port for a given device in
1587 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1588 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1589
1590 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1591 very good.
1592
1593 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by
1594 the real console.
1595
1596 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1597
1598 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1599
1600 The bios output can only be used on SuperH.
1601
1602 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1603 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1604 UART class.
1605
1606 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1607 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1608 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1609 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1610 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1611 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1612 default: on.
1613
1614 edd= [EDD]
1615 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1616
1617 efi= [EFI,EARLY]
1618 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1619 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1620 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1621 debug: enable misc debug output.
1622 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1623 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1624 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1625 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1626 firmware implementations.
1627 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1628 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1629 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1630 memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1631 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1632 reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1633 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1634 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1635 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1636 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1637
1638 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI,X86,EARLY]
1639 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1640 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1641 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1642 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1643
1644 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1645 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1646 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1647 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1648 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1649
1650
1651 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1652 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1653
1654 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB,EARLY] Allow early kernel console debugging
1655 Format: ekgdboc=kbd
1656
1657 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1658 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1659
1660 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1661 but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1662 very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1663 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1664
1665 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1666 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1667 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1668
1669 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390,EARLY]
1670 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1671 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1672 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1673 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1674
1675 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY]
1676 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1677 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1678 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1679
1680 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1681 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1682 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1683 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1684 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1685
1686 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1687 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1688 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1689 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1690 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1691 Default value is 0.
1692 Value can be changed at runtime via
1693 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1694
1695 erst_disable [ACPI]
1696 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1697 support.
1698
1699 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1700 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1701 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1702
1703 evm= [EVM]
1704 Format: { "fix" }
1705 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1706 current integrity status.
1707
1708 early_page_ext [KNL,EARLY] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier
1709 stages so cover more early boot allocations.
1710 Please note that as side effect some optimizations
1711 might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized
1712 memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process
1713 might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of
1714 memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y.
1715
1716 failslab=
1717 fail_usercopy=
1718 fail_page_alloc=
1719 fail_skb_realloc=
1720 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1721 General fault injection mechanism.
1722 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1723 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1724
1725 fb_tunnels= [NET]
1726 Format: { initns | none }
1727 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1728 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1729
1730 floppy= [HW]
1731 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1732
1733 forcepae [X86-32]
1734 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1735 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1736 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1737 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1738 and may cause unknown problems.
1739
1740 fred= [X86-64]
1741 Enable/disable Flexible Return and Event Delivery.
1742 Format: { on | off }
1743 on: enable FRED when it's present.
1744 off: disable FRED, the default setting.
1745
1746 ftrace=[tracer]
1747 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1748 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1749 boot debugging.
1750
1751 ftrace_boot_snapshot
1752 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1753 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1754 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1755 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1756 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1757 start up functionality.
1758
1759 Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing
1760 instance that was created by the trace_instance= command
1761 line parameter.
1762
1763 trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo
1764
1765 The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger
1766 a snapshot at the end of boot up.
1767
1768 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=2(orig_cpu) | =<instance>][,<instance> |
1769 ,<instance>=2(orig_cpu)]
1770 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1771 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump global
1772 buffers of all CPUs, if you pass 2 or orig_cpu, it
1773 will dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered
1774 the oops, or the specific instance will be dumped if
1775 its name is passed. Multiple instance dump is also
1776 supported, and instances are separated by commas. Each
1777 instance supports only dump on CPU that triggered the
1778 oops by passing 2 or orig_cpu to it.
1779
1780 ftrace_dump_on_oops=foo=orig_cpu
1781
1782 The above will dump only the buffer of "foo" instance
1783 on CPU that triggered the oops.
1784
1785 ftrace_dump_on_oops,foo,bar=orig_cpu
1786
1787 The above will dump global buffer on all CPUs, the
1788 buffer of "foo" instance on all CPUs and the buffer
1789 of "bar" instance on CPU that triggered the oops.
1790
1791 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1792 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1793 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1794 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1795 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1796 tracing directory.
1797
1798 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1799 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1800 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1801 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1802 tracing directory.
1803
1804 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1805 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1806 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1807 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1808 that can be changed at run time by the
1809 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1810
1811 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1812 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1813 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of
1814 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1815 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1816
1817 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1818 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1819 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1820 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1821 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1822
1823 fw_devlink= [KNL,EARLY] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1824 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1825 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1826 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1827 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1828 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1829 clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1830 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1831 suppliers).
1832 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1833 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info.
1834 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1835 but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1836 up (sync_state() calls).
1837 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it
1838 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1839 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1840
1841 fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1842 [KNL,EARLY] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1843 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1844 Format: <bool>
1845
1846 fw_devlink.sync_state =
1847 [KNL,EARLY] When all devices that could probe have finished
1848 probing, this parameter controls what to do with
1849 devices that haven't yet received their sync_state()
1850 calls.
1851 Format: { strict | timeout }
1852 strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to
1853 probe successfully.
1854 timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call
1855 sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet
1856 received their sync_state() calls after
1857 deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by
1858 late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES.
1859
1860 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1861 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1862 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1863 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1864 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1865
1866 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1867
1868 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64,EARLY] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1869 Format: off | on
1870 default: on
1871
1872 gather_data_sampling=
1873 [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS)
1874 mitigation.
1875
1876 Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which
1877 allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was
1878 previously stored in vector registers.
1879
1880 This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode.
1881 The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be
1882 disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation
1883 disabling AVX serves as a mitigation.
1884
1885 force: Disable AVX to mitigate systems without
1886 microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode
1887 mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in
1888 userspace with buggy AVX enumeration.
1889
1890 off: Disable GDS mitigation.
1891
1892 gbpages [X86] Use GB pages for kernel direct mappings.
1893
1894 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1895 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1896 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1897 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1898 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1899
1900 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1901 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1902 android emulator
1903
1904 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1905 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1906 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1907 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1908 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1909
1910 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1911 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1912 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1913 GPT to be used instead.
1914
1915 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1916 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1917 Format: 0 | 1
1918 Default: 0
1919 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1920 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1921 Format: 0 | 1
1922 Default: 0
1923 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1924 Format: 0 | 1
1925 Default: 0
1926 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1927 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1928 Default: 1024
1929 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1930 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1931 Default: 1024
1932
1933 hardened_usercopy=
1934 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1935 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1936 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1937 from reading or writing beyond known memory
1938 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1939 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1940 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1941 The default is determined by
1942 CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY_DEFAULT_ON.
1943 on Perform hardened usercopy checks.
1944 off Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1945
1946 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1947 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1948 backtraces on all cpus.
1949 Format: 0 | 1
1950
1951 hash_pointers=
1952 [KNL,EARLY]
1953 By default, when pointers are printed to the console
1954 or buffers via the %p format string, that pointer is
1955 "hashed", i.e. obscured by hashing the pointer value.
1956 This is a security feature that hides actual kernel
1957 addresses from unprivileged users, but it also makes
1958 debugging the kernel more difficult since unequal
1959 pointers can no longer be compared. The choices are:
1960 Format: { auto | always | never }
1961 Default: auto
1962
1963 auto - Hash pointers unless slab_debug is enabled.
1964 always - Always hash pointers (even if slab_debug is
1965 enabled).
1966 never - Never hash pointers. This option should only
1967 be specified when debugging the kernel. Do
1968 not use on production kernels. The boot
1969 param "no_hash_pointers" is an alias for
1970 this mode.
1971
1972 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1973 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
1974 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1975 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1976
1977 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1978 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1979
1980 hest_disable [ACPI]
1981 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1982 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1983 logic will be disabled.
1984
1985 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
1986 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
1987 present during boot.
1988 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
1989 no Disable hibernation and resume.
1990 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
1991 (that will set all pages holding image data
1992 during restoration read-only).
1993
1994 hibernate.compressor= [HIBERNATION] Compression algorithm to be
1995 used with hibernation.
1996 Format: { lzo | lz4 }
1997 Default: lzo
1998
1999 lzo: Select LZO compression algorithm to
2000 compress/decompress hibernation image.
2001
2002 lz4: Select LZ4 compression algorithm to
2003 compress/decompress hibernation image.
2004
2005 hibernate.pm_test_delay=
2006 [HIBERNATION]
2007 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a hibernation test
2008 mode before resuming the system (see
2009 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
2010 is set. Default value is 5.
2011
2012 hibernate_compression_threads=
2013 [HIBERNATION]
2014 Set the number of threads used for compressing or decompressing
2015 hibernation images.
2016
2017 Format: <integer>
2018 Default: 3
2019 Minimum: 1
2020 Example: hibernate_compression_threads=4
2021
2022 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
2023 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
2024 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
2025 size on bigger boxes.
2026
2027 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
2028 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
2029 Default: "on"
2030
2031 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
2032
2033 hostname= [KNL,EARLY] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename).
2034 Format: <string>
2035 This allows setting the system's hostname during early
2036 startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname.
2037 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it
2038 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before
2039 any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility
2040 that a process may call gethostname before the hostname
2041 has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling
2042 process getting an incorrect result. The string must
2043 not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually
2044 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise.
2045
2046 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
2047 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
2048 verbose }
2049 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
2050 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
2051 VIA, nVidia)
2052 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
2053
2054 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
2055 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
2056
2057 hugepages= [HW,EARLY] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
2058 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
2059 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
2060 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
2061 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
2062 the default huge page size. If using node format, the
2063 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
2064 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
2065 Format: <integer> or (node format)
2066 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
2067
2068 hugepagesz=
2069 [HW,EARLY] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is
2070 used in conjunction with hugepages (above) to
2071 allocate huge pages of a specific size at boot. The
2072 pair hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once
2073 for each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes
2074 are architecture dependent. See also
2075 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
2076 Format: size[KMG]
2077
2078 hugepage_alloc_threads=
2079 [HW] The number of threads that should be used to
2080 allocate hugepages during boot. This option can be
2081 used to improve system bootup time when allocating
2082 a large amount of huge pages.
2083 The default value is 25% of the available hardware threads.
2084
2085 Note that this parameter only applies to non-gigantic huge pages.
2086
2087 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA,EARLY] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
2088 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
2089 of a CMA area per node can be specified.
2090 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
2091 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
2092
2093 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
2094 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
2095 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
2096
2097 hugetlb_cma_only=
2098 [HW,CMA,EARLY] When allocating new HugeTLB pages, only
2099 try to allocate from the CMA areas.
2100
2101 This option does nothing if hugetlb_cma= is not also
2102 specified.
2103
2104 hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
2105 [KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
2106 enabled.
2107 Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled.
2108 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
2109 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
2110 Format: { on | off (default) }
2111
2112 on: enable HVO
2113 off: disable HVO
2114
2115 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
2116 the default is on.
2117
2118 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added
2119 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is
2120 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this
2121 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from
2122 the added memory block itself do not be affected.
2123
2124 hung_task_panic=
2125 [KNL] Number of hung tasks to trigger kernel panic.
2126 Format: <int>
2127
2128 When set to a non-zero value, a kernel panic will be triggered if
2129 the number of detected hung tasks reaches this value.
2130
2131 0: don't panic
2132 1: panic immediately on first hung task
2133 N: panic after N hung tasks are detected in a single scan
2134
2135 The default value is controlled by the
2136 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time option. The value
2137 selected by this boot parameter can be changed later by the
2138 kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
2139
2140 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
2141 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
2142 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
2143 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
2144 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
2145
2146 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V,EARLY]
2147 Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
2148 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest
2149 on lock contention.
2150
2151 hw_protection= [HW]
2152 Format: reboot | shutdown
2153
2154 Hardware protection action taken on critical events like
2155 overtemperature or imminent voltage loss.
2156
2157 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
2158 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
2159 registered from board initialization code.
2160 Format:
2161 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
2162
2163 i2c_touchscreen_props= [HW,ACPI,X86]
2164 Set device-properties for ACPI-enumerated I2C-attached
2165 touchscreen, to e.g. fix coordinates of upside-down
2166 mounted touchscreens. If you need this option please
2167 submit a drivers/platform/x86/touchscreen_dmi.c patch
2168 adding a DMI quirk for this.
2169
2170 Format:
2171 <ACPI_HW_ID>:<prop_name>=<val>[:prop_name=val][:...]
2172 Where <val> is one of:
2173 Omit "=<val>" entirely Set a boolean device-property
2174 Unsigned number Set a u32 device-property
2175 Anything else Set a string device-property
2176
2177 Examples (split over multiple lines):
2178 i2c_touchscreen_props=GDIX1001:touchscreen-inverted-x:
2179 touchscreen-inverted-y
2180
2181 i2c_touchscreen_props=MSSL1680:touchscreen-size-x=1920:
2182 touchscreen-size-y=1080:touchscreen-inverted-y:
2183 firmware-name=gsl1680-vendor-model.fw:silead,home-button
2184
2185 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
2186 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
2187 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
2188 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
2189 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
2190 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
2191 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
2192 keyboard and cannot control its state
2193 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
2194 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
2195 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
2196 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
2197 for the AUX port
2198 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
2199 controller
2200 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
2201 controllers
2202 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
2203 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
2204 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
2205 transitions, or never reset
2206 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
2207 1, Y, y: always reset controller
2208 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
2209 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
2210 architectures force reset to be always executed
2211 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
2212 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
2213 i8042.probe_defer
2214 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
2215
2216 i810= [HW,DRM]
2217
2218 i915.invert_brightness=
2219 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
2220 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
2221 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
2222 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
2223 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
2224 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
2225 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
2226 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
2227 value switches the backlight off.
2228 -1 -- never invert brightness
2229 0 -- machine default
2230 1 -- force brightness inversion
2231
2232 ia32_emulation= [X86-64]
2233 Format: <bool>
2234 When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit
2235 syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at
2236 boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation.
2237
2238 icn= [HW,ISDN]
2239 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
2240
2241
2242 idle= [X86,EARLY]
2243 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
2244
2245 idle=poll: Don't do power saving in the idle loop
2246 using HLT, but poll for rescheduling event. This will
2247 make the CPUs eat a lot more power, but may be useful
2248 to get slightly better performance in multiprocessor
2249 benchmarks. It also makes some profiling using
2250 performance counters more accurate. Please note that
2251 on systems with MONITOR/MWAIT support (like Intel
2252 EM64T CPUs) this option has no performance advantage
2253 over the normal idle loop. It may also interact badly
2254 with hyperthreading.
2255
2256 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
2257 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
2258
2259 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
2260
2261 idxd.sva= [HW]
2262 Format: <bool>
2263 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
2264 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
2265 true (1).
2266
2267 idxd.tc_override= [HW]
2268 Format: <bool>
2269 Allow override of default traffic class configuration
2270 for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
2271
2272 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
2273 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed | emulated }
2274 Default: strict
2275
2276 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
2277 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
2278 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
2279 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
2280 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
2281 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
2282 encoding mode.
2283
2284 Available settings are as follows:
2285 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
2286 supported by the FPU
2287 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
2288 by the FPU
2289 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
2290 by the FPU
2291 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
2292 supported by the FPU
2293 emulated accept any binaries but enable FPU emulator
2294 if binary mode is unsupported by the FPU.
2295
2296 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
2297 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
2298 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
2299 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
2300 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
2301 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
2302 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
2303 MIPS64 CPUs.
2304
2305 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
2306 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
2307 except where unsupported by hardware.
2308
2309 ignore_loglevel [KNL,EARLY]
2310 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
2311 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
2312 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
2313 could change it dynamically, usually by
2314 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
2315
2316 ignore_rlimit_data
2317 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
2318 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
2319 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
2320
2321 ihash_entries= [KNL]
2322 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
2323
2324 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2325 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2326 default: "enforce"
2327
2328 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
2329 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
2330 owned by uid=0.
2331
2332 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
2333 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
2334 measurements, instead of host native format.
2335
2336 ima_hash= [IMA]
2337 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
2338 | sha512 | ... }
2339 default: "sha1"
2340
2341 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
2342 in crypto/hash_info.h.
2343
2344 ima_policy= [IMA]
2345 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
2346 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
2347 fail_securely | critical_data"
2348
2349 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
2350 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
2351 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
2352 uid=0.
2353
2354 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
2355 all files owned by root.
2356
2357 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
2358 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
2359 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
2360
2361 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
2362 verification failure also on privileged mounted
2363 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
2364 flag.
2365
2366 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
2367 critical data.
2368
2369 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
2370 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
2371 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
2372 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
2373 opened for read by uid=0.
2374
2375 ima_template= [IMA]
2376 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
2377 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
2378 "ima-sigv2" }
2379 Default: "ima-ng"
2380
2381 ima_template_fmt=
2382 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
2383 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
2384
2385 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
2386 Format: <min_file_size>
2387 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
2388 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
2389
2390 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
2391 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2392 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
2393
2394 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
2395 Format: <bufsize>
2396 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
2397
2398 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
2399 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2400 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
2401
2402 ima= [IMA] Enable or disable IMA
2403 Format: { "off" | "on" }
2404 Default: "on"
2405 Note that disabling IMA is limited to kdump kernel.
2406
2407 indirect_target_selection= [X86,Intel] Mitigation control for Indirect
2408 Target Selection(ITS) bug in Intel CPUs. Updated
2409 microcode is also required for a fix in IBPB.
2410
2411 on: Enable mitigation (default).
2412 off: Disable mitigation.
2413 force: Force the ITS bug and deploy default
2414 mitigation.
2415 vmexit: Only deploy mitigation if CPU is affected by
2416 guest/host isolation part of ITS.
2417 stuff: Deploy RSB-fill mitigation when retpoline is
2418 also deployed. Otherwise, deploy the default
2419 mitigation.
2420
2421 For details see:
2422 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/indirect-target-selection.rst
2423
2424 init= [KNL]
2425 Format: <full_path>
2426 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
2427 process.
2428
2429 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
2430 for working out where the kernel is dying during
2431 startup.
2432
2433 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
2434 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
2435 modules and initcalls.
2436
2437 initramfs_async= [KNL]
2438 Format: <bool>
2439 Default: 1
2440 This parameter controls whether the initramfs
2441 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
2442 with devices being probed and
2443 initialized. This should normally just work,
2444 but as a debugging aid, one can get the
2445 historical behaviour of the initramfs
2446 unpacking being completed before device_ and
2447 late_ initcalls.
2448
2449 initrd= [BOOT,EARLY] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
2450
2451 initrdmem= [KNL,EARLY] Specify a physical address and size from which to
2452 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
2453 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
2454 setting.
2455 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
2456 Default is 0, 0
2457
2458 init_on_alloc= [MM,EARLY] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
2459 zeroes.
2460 Format: 0 | 1
2461 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
2462
2463 init_on_free= [MM,EARLY] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
2464 Format: 0 | 1
2465 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
2466
2467 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
2468 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
2469 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
2470 override in debugfs after boot.
2471
2472 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
2473 Format: <irq>
2474
2475 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
2476
2477 integrity_audit=[IMA]
2478 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2479 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2480 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2481
2482 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2483 on
2484 Enable intel iommu driver.
2485 off
2486 Disable intel iommu driver.
2487 igfx_off [Default Off]
2488 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2489 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2490 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2491 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2492 DMA.
2493 strict [Default Off]
2494 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2495 sp_off [Default Off]
2496 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2497 has the capability. With this option, super page will
2498 not be supported.
2499 sm_on
2500 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2501 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2502 translation.
2503 sm_off
2504 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2505 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2506 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2507 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2508 could harm performance of some high-throughput
2509 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2510 mapping is enabled.
2511 Note that using this option lowers the security
2512 provided by tboot because it makes the system
2513 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2514
2515 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2516 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2517 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2518
2519 intel_pstate= [X86,EARLY]
2520 disable
2521 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2522 scaling driver for the supported processors
2523 active
2524 Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling
2525 governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own
2526 algorithms for p-state selection. There are two
2527 P-state selection algorithms provided by
2528 intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and
2529 performance. The way they both operate depends
2530 on whether or not the hardware managed P-states
2531 (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor
2532 and possibly on the processor model.
2533 passive
2534 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2535 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2536 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
2537 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2538 feature.
2539 force
2540 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2541 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2542 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2543 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2544 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2545 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2546 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2547 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2548 no_hwp
2549 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2550 if available.
2551 hwp_only
2552 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2553 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2554 support_acpi_ppc
2555 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2556 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2557 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2558 then this feature is turned on by default.
2559 per_cpu_perf_limits
2560 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2561 cpufreq sysfs interface
2562 no_cas
2563 Do not enable capacity-aware scheduling (CAS) on
2564 hybrid systems
2565
2566 intremap= [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY]
2567 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2568 off disable Interrupt Remapping
2569 nosid disable Source ID checking
2570 no_x2apic_optout
2571 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2572 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
2573 posted_msi
2574 enable MSIs delivered as posted interrupts
2575
2576 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2577 strict regions from userspace.
2578 relaxed
2579
2580 iommu= [X86,EARLY]
2581
2582 off
2583 Don't initialize and use any kind of IOMMU.
2584
2585 force
2586 Force the use of the hardware IOMMU even when
2587 it is not actually needed (e.g. because < 3 GB
2588 memory).
2589
2590 noforce
2591 Don't force hardware IOMMU usage when it is not
2592 needed. (default).
2593
2594 biomerge
2595 panic
2596 nopanic
2597 merge
2598 nomerge
2599
2600 soft
2601 Use software bounce buffering (SWIOTLB) (default for
2602 Intel machines). This can be used to prevent the usage
2603 of an available hardware IOMMU.
2604
2605 [X86]
2606 pt
2607 [X86]
2608 nopt
2609 [PPC/POWERNV]
2610 nobypass
2611 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2612
2613 [X86]
2614 AMD Gart HW IOMMU-specific options:
2615
2616 <size>
2617 Set the size of the remapping area in bytes.
2618
2619 allowed
2620 Overwrite iommu off workarounds for specific chipsets
2621
2622 fullflush
2623 Flush IOMMU on each allocation (default).
2624
2625 nofullflush
2626 Don't use IOMMU fullflush.
2627
2628 memaper[=<order>]
2629 Allocate an own aperture over RAM with size
2630 32MB<<order. (default: order=1, i.e. 64MB)
2631
2632 merge
2633 Do scatter-gather (SG) merging. Implies "force"
2634 (experimental).
2635
2636 nomerge
2637 Don't do scatter-gather (SG) merging.
2638
2639 noaperture
2640 Ask the IOMMU not to touch the aperture for AGP.
2641
2642 noagp
2643 Don't initialize the AGP driver and use full aperture.
2644
2645 panic
2646 Always panic when IOMMU overflows.
2647
2648 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2649 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2650 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2651 falling back to the full range if needed.
2652 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2653 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2654 greater than 32-bit addressing.
2655
2656 iommu.strict= [ARM64,X86,S390,EARLY] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2657 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2658 0 - Lazy mode.
2659 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2660 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2661 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2662 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2663 the relevant IOMMU driver.
2664 1 - Strict mode.
2665 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2666 synchronously.
2667 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2668 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2669 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2670
2671 iommu.passthrough=
2672 [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2673 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2674 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2675 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2676 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2677
2678 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2679 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2680 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2681
2682 io_delay= [X86,EARLY] I/O delay method
2683 0x80
2684 Standard port 0x80 based delay
2685 0xed
2686 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2687 udelay
2688 Simple two microseconds delay
2689 none
2690 No delay
2691
2692 ip= [IP_PNP]
2693 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2694
2695 ipcmni_extend [KNL,EARLY] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2696 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2697
2698 ipe.enforce= [IPE]
2699 Format: <bool>
2700 Determine whether IPE starts in permissive (0) or
2701 enforce (1) mode. The default is enforce.
2702
2703 ipe.success_audit=
2704 [IPE]
2705 Format: <bool>
2706 Start IPE with success auditing enabled, emitting
2707 an audit event when a binary is allowed. The default
2708 is 0.
2709
2710 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2711 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2712
2713 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2714 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
2715 Format: <bool>
2716 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2717 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2718 exposed by the device tree is too small.
2719
2720 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2721 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
2722 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2723 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2724 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2725 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2726 LPIs.
2727
2728 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64,EARLY]
2729 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2730 requires the kernel to be built with
2731 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2732
2733 irqchip.riscv_imsic_noipi
2734 [RISC-V,EARLY]
2735 Force the kernel to not use IMSIC software injected MSIs
2736 as IPIs. Intended for system where IMSIC is trap-n-emulated,
2737 and thus want to reduce MMIO traps when triggering IPIs
2738 to multiple harts.
2739
2740 irqfixup [HW]
2741 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2742 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2743 firmware running.
2744
2745 irqhandler.duration_warn_us= [KNL]
2746 Warn if an IRQ handler exceeds the specified duration
2747 threshold in microseconds. Useful for identifying
2748 long-running IRQs in the system.
2749
2750 irqpoll [HW]
2751 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2752 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2753 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2754 firmware running.
2755
2756 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
2757 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2758
2759 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2760 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2761 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2762
2763 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2764 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2765
2766 nohz
2767 Disable the tick when a single task runs as well as
2768 disabling other kernel noises like having RCU callbacks
2769 offloaded. This is equivalent to the nohz_full parameter.
2770
2771 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2772 need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2773 workqueue's affinity configured via the
2774 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2775 by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2776
2777 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2778 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2779 be configured manually after bootup.
2780
2781 domain
2782 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2783 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2784 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2785 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2786 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2787 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2788 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2789 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2790
2791 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2792 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2793 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2794 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2795
2796 managed_irq
2797
2798 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2799 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2800 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2801 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2802 the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2803
2804 This isolation is best effort and only effective
2805 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2806 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2807 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2808 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2809 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2810 cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2811
2812 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2813 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2814 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2815 only delivered when tasks running on those
2816 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2817 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2818 queues.
2819
2820 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2821
2822 iucv= [HW,NET]
2823
2824 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64]
2825 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2826 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2827 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2828
2829 For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2830 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2831 write the parameter as:
2832 ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0
2833
2834 Deprecated formats:
2835 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2836 write the parameter as:
2837 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2838 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2839 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2840 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2841
2842 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64]
2843 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2844 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2845 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2846
2847 For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to
2848 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2849 write the parameter as:
2850 ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0
2851
2852 Deprecated formats:
2853 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2854 write the parameter as:
2855 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2856 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2857 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2858 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2859
2860 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64]
2861 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2862 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2863 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2864
2865 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2866 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5,
2867 write the parameter as:
2868 ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5
2869
2870 Deprecated formats:
2871 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0,
2872 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2873 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2874 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2875 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2876 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2877
2878 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2879 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2880
2881 kasan_multi_shot
2882 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2883 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2884 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2885 invalid access.
2886
2887 keep_bootcon [KNL,EARLY]
2888 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
2889 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
2890 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
2891 the real console.
2892
2893 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] See retain_initrd.
2894
2895 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY]
2896 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2897 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2898 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested
2899 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2900 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for
2901 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the
2902 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2903 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2904 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2905
2906 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2907 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2908 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2909 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2910 zone if it does not.
2911
2912 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2913 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2914 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror"
2915 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2916 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2917 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2918 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2919
2920 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW,EARLY] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2921 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2922 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2923 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
2924 optional and is the number seconds in between
2925 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2926 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2927 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
2928 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2929 the kernel debugger.
2930
2931 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2932 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2933 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2934 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2935 keyboard only format: kbd
2936 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2937 Optional Kernel mode setting:
2938 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2939 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2940
2941 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW,EARLY]
2942 If the boot console provides the ability to read
2943 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2944 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2945 until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2946 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2947 specifies the normal console to transition to.
2948
2949 The name of the early console should be specified
2950 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2951 the early console might be different than the tty
2952 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2953 blank and the first boot console that implements
2954 read() will be picked.
2955
2956 kgdbwait [KGDB,EARLY] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2957 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2958
2959 kho= [KEXEC,EARLY]
2960 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" | "y" | "n" }
2961 Enables or disables Kexec HandOver.
2962 "0" | "off" | "n" - kexec handover is disabled
2963 "1" | "on" | "y" - kexec handover is enabled
2964
2965 kho_scratch= [KEXEC,EARLY]
2966 Format: ll[KMG],mm[KMG],nn[KMG] | nn%
2967 Defines the size of the KHO scratch region. The KHO
2968 scratch regions are physically contiguous memory
2969 ranges that can only be used for non-kernel
2970 allocations. That way, even when memory is heavily
2971 fragmented with handed over memory, the kexeced
2972 kernel will always have enough contiguous ranges to
2973 bootstrap itself.
2974
2975 It is possible to specify the exact amount of
2976 memory in the form of "ll[KMG],mm[KMG],nn[KMG]"
2977 where the first parameter defines the size of a low
2978 memory scratch area, the second parameter defines
2979 the size of a global scratch area and the third
2980 parameter defines the size of additional per-node
2981 scratch areas. The form "nn%" defines scale factor
2982 (in percents) of memory that was used during boot.
2983
2984 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2985 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2986 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2987
2988 kmemleak= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2989 Valid arguments: on, off
2990 Default: on
2991 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2992 the default is off.
2993
2994 kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2995 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2996 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2997 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2998 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2999 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
3000 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
3001
3002 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
3003
3004 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
3005 Boot Parameter" section.
3006
3007 kpti= [ARM64,EARLY] Control page table isolation of
3008 user and kernel address spaces.
3009 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
3010 0: force disabled
3011 1: force enabled
3012
3013 kunit.enable= [KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires
3014 CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The
3015 default value can be overridden via
3016 KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED.
3017 Default is 1 (enabled)
3018
3019 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
3020 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
3021
3022 kvm.eager_page_split=
3023 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
3024 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
3025 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
3026 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
3027 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
3028 required to split huge pages lazily.
3029
3030 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
3031 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
3032 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
3033 still be used for reads.
3034
3035 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
3036 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
3037 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
3038 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
3039 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
3040 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
3041 cleared.
3042
3043 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y.
3044
3045 Default is Y (on).
3046
3047 kvm.enable_virt_at_load=[KVM,ARM64,LOONGARCH,MIPS,RISCV,X86]
3048 If enabled, KVM will enable virtualization in hardware
3049 when KVM is loaded, and disable virtualization when KVM
3050 is unloaded (if KVM is built as a module).
3051
3052 If disabled, KVM will dynamically enable and disable
3053 virtualization on-demand when creating and destroying
3054 VMs, i.e. on the 0=>1 and 1=>0 transitions of the
3055 number of VMs.
3056
3057 Enabling virtualization at module load avoids potential
3058 latency for creation of the 0=>1 VM, as KVM serializes
3059 virtualization enabling across all online CPUs. The
3060 "cost" of enabling virtualization when KVM is loaded,
3061 is that doing so may interfere with using out-of-tree
3062 hypervisors that want to "own" virtualization hardware.
3063
3064 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
3065 Default is false (don't support).
3066
3067 kvm.nx_huge_pages=
3068 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
3069 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
3070 force : Always deploy workaround.
3071 off : Never deploy workaround.
3072 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
3073 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
3074
3075 Default is 'auto'.
3076
3077 If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
3078 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
3079
3080 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
3081 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
3082 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
3083 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
3084 period (see below). The default is 60.
3085
3086 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
3087 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
3088 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
3089 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
3090 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
3091 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
3092
3093 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in
3094 KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled).
3095
3096 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables,
3097 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1
3098 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
3099 for NPT.
3100
3101 kvm-amd.ciphertext_hiding_asids=
3102 [KVM,AMD] Ciphertext hiding prevents disallowed accesses
3103 to SNP private memory from reading ciphertext. Instead,
3104 reads will see constant default values (0xff).
3105
3106 If ciphertext hiding is enabled, the joint SEV-ES and
3107 SEV-SNP ASID space is partitioned into separate SEV-ES
3108 and SEV-SNP ASID ranges, with the SEV-SNP range being
3109 [1..max_snp_asid] and the SEV-ES range being
3110 (max_snp_asid..min_sev_asid), where min_sev_asid is
3111 enumerated by CPUID.0x.8000_001F[EDX].
3112
3113 A non-zero value enables SEV-SNP ciphertext hiding and
3114 adjusts the ASID ranges for SEV-ES and SEV-SNP guests.
3115 KVM caps the number of SEV-SNP ASIDs at the maximum
3116 possible value, e.g. specifying -1u will assign all
3117 joint SEV-ES and SEV-SNP ASIDs to SEV-SNP. Note,
3118 assigning all joint ASIDs to SEV-SNP, i.e. configuring
3119 max_snp_asid == min_sev_asid-1, will effectively make
3120 SEV-ES unusable.
3121
3122 kvm-arm.mode=
3123 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of
3124 operation.
3125
3126 none: Forcefully disable KVM.
3127
3128 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
3129 protected guests.
3130
3131 protected: Mode with support for guests whose state is
3132 kept private from the host, using VHE or
3133 nVHE depending on HW support.
3134
3135 nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested
3136 virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.4
3137 hardware (with FEAT_NV2).
3138
3139 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
3140 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
3141 for the host. To force nVHE on VHE hardware, add
3142 "arm64_sw.hvhe=0 id_aa64mmfr1.vh=0" to the
3143 command-line.
3144 "nested" is experimental and should be used with
3145 extreme caution.
3146
3147 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
3148 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
3149 system registers
3150
3151 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
3152 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
3153 system registers
3154
3155 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
3156 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
3157 system registers
3158
3159 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
3160 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Allow use of GICv4 for direct
3161 injection of LPIs.
3162
3163 kvm-arm.wfe_trap_policy=
3164 [KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFE instruction trap for
3165 KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the
3166 CPU architecture.
3167
3168 trap: set WFE instruction trap
3169
3170 notrap: clear WFE instruction trap
3171
3172 kvm-arm.wfi_trap_policy=
3173 [KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFI instruction trap for
3174 KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the
3175 CPU architecture.
3176
3177 trap: set WFI instruction trap
3178
3179 notrap: clear WFI instruction trap
3180
3181 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC,EARLY]
3182 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
3183 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
3184 allocation.
3185 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
3186 Format: <integer>
3187 Default: 5
3188
3189 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables,
3190 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1
3191 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
3192 for EPT.
3193
3194 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
3195 [KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest
3196 state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1,
3197 as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted
3198 guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2),
3199 as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
3200 Default is 1 (enabled).
3201
3202 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
3203 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature
3204 (TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if
3205 hardware lacks support for it.
3206
3207 kvm-intel.nested=
3208 [KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in
3209 KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled).
3210
3211 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
3212 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest
3213 feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default
3214 is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or
3215 hardware lacks support for it.
3216
3217 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
3218 CVE-2018-3620.
3219
3220 Valid arguments: never, cond, always
3221
3222 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
3223 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
3224 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
3225 never: Disables the mitigation
3226
3227 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
3228
3229 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor
3230 Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1
3231 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
3232 for it.
3233
3234 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL,EARLY]
3235 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
3236
3237 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3238 internal buffers which can forward information to a
3239 disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
3240
3241 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
3242 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
3243 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3244 not have direct access.
3245
3246 This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3247 options are:
3248
3249 on - enable the interface for the mitigation
3250
3251 l1tf= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
3252 affected CPUs
3253
3254 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
3255 enabled and cannot be disabled.
3256
3257 full
3258 Provides all available mitigations for the
3259 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
3260 enables all mitigations in the
3261 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
3262
3263 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
3264 sysfs interface is still possible after
3265 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
3266 when the first VM is started in a
3267 potentially insecure configuration,
3268 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
3269
3270 full,force
3271 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
3272 flush runtime control. Implies the
3273 'nosmt=force' command line option.
3274 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
3275
3276 flush
3277 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
3278 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
3279 L1D flush.
3280
3281 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
3282 sysfs interface is still possible after
3283 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
3284 when the first VM is started in a
3285 potentially insecure configuration,
3286 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
3287
3288 flush,nosmt
3289
3290 Disables SMT and enables the default
3291 hypervisor mitigation.
3292
3293 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
3294 sysfs interface is still possible after
3295 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
3296 when the first VM is started in a
3297 potentially insecure configuration,
3298 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
3299
3300 flush,nowarn
3301 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
3302 warn when a VM is started in a potentially
3303 insecure configuration.
3304
3305 off
3306 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
3307 emit any warnings.
3308 It also drops the swap size and available
3309 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
3310 bare metal.
3311
3312 Default is 'flush'.
3313
3314 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
3315
3316 l2cr= [PPC]
3317
3318 l3cr= [PPC]
3319
3320 lapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
3321 disabled it.
3322
3323 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
3324 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
3325 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
3326 Format: notscdeadline
3327
3328 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC,EARLY] trust the local apic timer
3329 in C2 power state.
3330
3331 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
3332 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
3333 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
3334 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
3335 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
3336 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
3337 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
3338
3339 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
3340 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
3341 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
3342
3343 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
3344 when set.
3345 Format: <int>
3346
3347 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma-
3348 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
3349 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
3350 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
3351 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is
3352 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If
3353 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
3354 to all ports, links and devices.
3355
3356 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
3357 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
3358 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
3359 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
3360 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
3361 host link and device attached to it.
3362
3363 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
3364 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
3365 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
3366 The following configurations can be forced.
3367
3368 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
3369 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
3370
3371 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
3372
3373 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
3374 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
3375 allowed.
3376
3377 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
3378 resets.
3379
3380 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
3381 link recovery.
3382
3383 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
3384 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
3385 detection.
3386
3387 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
3388
3389 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
3390
3391 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset.
3392
3393 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
3394
3395 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
3396
3397 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
3398
3399 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
3400
3401 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
3402
3403 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
3404 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
3405
3406 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
3407 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
3408
3409 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
3410 identify device data log.
3411
3412 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
3413 purpose log directory.
3414
3415 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
3416
3417 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
3418 1024 sectors.
3419
3420 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
3421 65535 sectors.
3422
3423 * external: Mark port as external (hotplug-capable).
3424
3425 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
3426
3427 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
3428 should be skipped.
3429
3430 * [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access)
3431 support for devices supporting this feature.
3432
3433 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
3434
3435 * disable: Disable this device.
3436
3437 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
3438 the same attribute, the last one is used.
3439
3440 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated]
3441
3442 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
3443 Format: <integer>
3444
3445 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
3446 Format: <integer>
3447
3448 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
3449 Format: <integer>
3450
3451 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
3452 Format: <integer>
3453
3454 lockdown= [SECURITY,EARLY]
3455 { integrity | confidentiality }
3456 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
3457 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
3458 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
3459 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
3460 to extract confidential information from the kernel
3461 are also disabled.
3462
3463 locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL]
3464 Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock
3465 acquisition. Acquisitions exceeding this limit
3466 will result in a splat once they do complete.
3467
3468 locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL]
3469 Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are
3470 to be bound.
3471
3472 locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL]
3473 Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are
3474 to be bound.
3475
3476 locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL]
3477 Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu()
3478 chains to set up. These are used to ensure that
3479 there is a high probability of an RCU grace period
3480 in progress at any given time. Defaults to 0,
3481 which disables these call_rcu() chains.
3482
3483 locktorture.long_hold= [KNL]
3484 Specify the duration in milliseconds for the
3485 occasional long-duration lock hold time. Defaults
3486 to 100 milliseconds. Select 0 to disable.
3487
3488 locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL]
3489 Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that
3490 locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8
3491 (MAX_NESTED_LOCKS). Specify zero to disable.
3492 Note that this parameter is ineffective on types
3493 of locks that do not support nested acquisition.
3494
3495 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
3496 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
3497 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
3498 number of online CPUs.
3499
3500 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
3501 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
3502
3503 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3504 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3505
3506 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3507 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3508 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3509
3510 locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL]
3511 Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority
3512 boosting. Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost
3513 only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally.
3514 Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an
3515 odd choice, but which should be harmless for
3516 non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling
3517 of preemption. Note that non-realtime mutexes
3518 disable boosting.
3519
3520 locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL]
3521 Number that determines how often and for how
3522 long priority boosting is exercised. This is
3523 scaled down by the number of writers, so that the
3524 number of boosts per unit time remains roughly
3525 constant as the number of writers increases.
3526 On the other hand, the duration of each boost
3527 increases with the number of writers.
3528
3529 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3530 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
3531 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
3532 mode during the locktorture test.
3533
3534 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3535 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3536 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3537
3538 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3539 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3540
3541 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
3542 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
3543 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
3544 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
3545 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
3546 transition abruptly to and from idle.
3547
3548 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3549 Specify the locking implementation to test.
3550
3551 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
3552 Enable additional printk() statements.
3553
3554 locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL]
3555 Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at
3556 sched_set_fifo() real-time priority.
3557
3558 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
3559 Format: <irq>
3560
3561 loglevel= [KNL,EARLY]
3562 All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
3563 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
3564 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
3565 loglevels are defined as follows:
3566
3567 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
3568 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
3569 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
3570 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
3571 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
3572 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
3573 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
3574 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
3575
3576 log_buf_len=n[KMG] [KNL,EARLY]
3577 Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes.
3578 n must be a power of two and greater than the
3579 minimal size. The minimal size is defined by
3580 LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There
3581 is also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
3582 parameter that allows to increase the default size
3583 depending on the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig
3584 for more details.
3585
3586 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
3587 This may be used to provide more screen space for
3588 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
3589 kernel boot problems.
3590
3591 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
3592 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
3593 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
3594 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
3595 specified in addition to the ports) causes
3596 attached printers to be reset. Using
3597 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
3598 to associate lp devices with, starting with
3599 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
3600 that lp device, or a parport name such as
3601 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
3602 port specification list means that device IDs
3603 from each port should be examined, to see if
3604 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
3605 so, the driver will manage that printer.
3606 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
3607
3608 lpj=n [KNL]
3609 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
3610 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
3611 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
3612 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
3613 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
3614 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
3615 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
3616 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
3617 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
3618 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
3619 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
3620 hardware.
3621
3622 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
3623
3624 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
3625 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
3626 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
3627
3628 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
3629 different yeeloong laptops.
3630 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
3631
3632 maxcpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3633 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
3634 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
3635 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
3636 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
3637 only takes effect during system bootup.
3638 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
3639 which also disables the IO APIC.
3640
3641 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
3642 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
3643 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
3644 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
3645 devices can be requested on-demand with the
3646 /dev/loop-control interface.
3647
3648 mce= [X86-{32,64}]
3649
3650 Please see Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/machinecheck.rst for sysfs runtime tunables.
3651
3652 off
3653 disable machine check
3654
3655 no_cmci
3656 disable CMCI(Corrected Machine Check Interrupt) that
3657 Intel processor supports. Usually this disablement is
3658 not recommended, but it might be handy if your
3659 hardware is misbehaving.
3660
3661 Note that you'll get more problems without CMCI than
3662 with due to the shared banks, i.e. you might get
3663 duplicated error logs.
3664
3665 dont_log_ce
3666 don't make logs for corrected errors. All events
3667 reported as corrected are silently cleared by OS. This
3668 option will be useful if you have no interest in any
3669 of corrected errors.
3670
3671 ignore_ce
3672 disable features for corrected errors, e.g.
3673 polling timer and CMCI. All events reported as
3674 corrected are not cleared by OS and remained in its
3675 error banks.
3676
3677 Usually this disablement is not recommended, however
3678 if there is an agent checking/clearing corrected
3679 errors (e.g. BIOS or hardware monitoring
3680 applications), conflicting with OS's error handling,
3681 and you cannot deactivate the agent, then this option
3682 will be a help.
3683
3684 no_lmce
3685 do not opt-in to Local MCE delivery. Use legacy method
3686 to broadcast MCEs.
3687
3688 bootlog
3689 enable logging of machine checks left over from
3690 booting. Disabled by default on AMD Fam10h and older
3691 because some BIOS leave bogus ones.
3692
3693 If your BIOS doesn't do that it's a good idea to
3694 enable though to make sure you log even machine check
3695 events that result in a reboot. On Intel systems it is
3696 enabled by default.
3697
3698 nobootlog
3699 disable boot machine check logging.
3700
3701 monarchtimeout (number)
3702 sets the time in us to wait for other CPUs on machine
3703 checks. 0 to disable.
3704
3705 bios_cmci_threshold
3706 don't overwrite the bios-set CMCI threshold. This boot
3707 option prevents Linux from overwriting the CMCI
3708 threshold set by the bios. Without this option, Linux
3709 always sets the CMCI threshold to 1. Enabling this may
3710 make memory predictive failure analysis less effective
3711 if the bios sets thresholds for memory errors since we
3712 will not see details for all errors.
3713
3714 recovery
3715 force-enable recoverable machine check code paths
3716
3717 Everything else is in sysfs now.
3718
3719
3720 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
3721 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3722
3723 mdacon= [MDA]
3724 Format: <first>,<last>
3725 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
3726
3727 mds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY]
3728 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
3729 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
3730
3731 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3732 internal buffers which can forward information to a
3733 disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
3734
3735 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
3736 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
3737 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3738 not have direct access.
3739
3740 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
3741 options are:
3742
3743 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3744 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
3745 SMT on vulnerable CPUs
3746 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
3747
3748 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
3749 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
3750 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
3751 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
3752 too.
3753
3754 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3755 mds=full.
3756
3757 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
3758
3759 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON,EARLY] Set the memory size.
3760 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
3761
3762 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Force usage of a specific amount
3763 of memory Amount of memory to be used in cases
3764 as follows:
3765
3766 1 for test;
3767 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
3768 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
3769 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
3770 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
3771
3772 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
3773 high memory is not affected.
3774
3775 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
3776 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
3777
3778 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
3779 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
3780 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
3781 belonging to unused RAM.
3782
3783 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
3784 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
3785 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
3786
3787 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3788 [ARM,MIPS,EARLY] - override the memory layout
3789 reported by firmware.
3790 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
3791 ss[KMG].
3792 Multiple different regions can be specified with
3793 multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
3794
3795 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3796 memory.
3797
3798 memblock=debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable memblock debug messages.
3799
3800 memchunk=nn[KMG]
3801 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3802 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3803
3804 memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable
3805 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3806 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
3807 set according to the
3808 CONFIG_MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE kernel config
3809 options.
3810 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3811
3812 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86,EARLY] Enable setting of an exact
3813 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3814 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3815 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3816 option description.
3817
3818 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3819 [KNL, X86,MIPS,XTENSA,EARLY] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3820 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3821 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3822 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3823 Multiple different regions can be specified,
3824 comma delimited.
3825 Example:
3826 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3827
3828 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3829 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3830 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3831
3832 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3833 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3834 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3835 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3836 memmap=64K$0x18690000
3837 or
3838 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3839 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3840 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3841 will be eaten.
3842
3843 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG,EARLY]
3844 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3845 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3846 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3847 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3848
3849 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3850 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Convert memory within the specified region
3851 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3852 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3853 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3854 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3855 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3856 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3857
3858 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86,EARLY]
3859 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3860 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3861 Setting this option will scan the memory
3862 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
3863 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3864 from using the memory being corrupted.
3865 However, it's intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3866 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3867 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3868 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3869
3870 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86,EARLY]
3871 By default it checks for corruption in the low
3872 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3873 use. Use this parameter to scan for
3874 corruption in more or less memory.
3875
3876 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86,EARLY]
3877 By default it checks for corruption every 60
3878 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
3879 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
3880
3881 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3882 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3883 Format: {on | off (default)}
3884 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3885 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages,
3886 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even
3887 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the
3888 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a
3889 lot of memory without requiring additional
3890 memory to do so.
3891 This feature is disabled by default because it
3892 has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3893 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3894 memory blocks).
3895 The state of the flag can be read in
3896 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3897 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3898 the feature is not effective.
3899
3900 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV,EARLY] Enable memtest
3901 Format: <integer>
3902 default : 0 <disable>
3903 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3904 performed. Each pass selects another test
3905 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3906 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3907 memory contents and reserves bad memory
3908 regions that are detected.
3909
3910 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3911 Valid arguments: on, off
3912 Default: off
3913 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
3914 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
3915
3916 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3917 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3918
3919 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3920 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
3921 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3922 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3923 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3924
3925 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3926 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3927 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3928 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3929
3930 mga= [HW,DRM]
3931
3932 microcode= [X86] Control the behavior of the microcode loader.
3933 Available options, comma separated:
3934
3935 base_rev=X - with <X> with format: <u32>
3936 Set the base microcode revision of each thread when in
3937 debug mode.
3938
3939 dis_ucode_ldr: disable the microcode loader
3940
3941 force_minrev:
3942 Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision
3943 enforcement for the runtime microcode loader.
3944
3945 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
3946 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3947 Default: "0tb"
3948 MINI2440 configuration specification:
3949 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3950 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3951 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3952 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3953 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3954 unconfigured.
3955 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3956 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3957 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3958 VGA shield.
3959 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3960 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3961 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3962 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3963 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3964 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3965
3966 mitigations=
3967 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64,EARLY] Control optional mitigations for
3968 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated,
3969 arch-independent options, each of which is an
3970 aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3971
3972 Note, "mitigations" is supported if and only if the
3973 kernel was built with CPU_MITIGATIONS=y.
3974
3975 off
3976 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This
3977 improves system performance, but it may also
3978 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3979 Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
3980 gather_data_sampling=off [X86]
3981 indirect_target_selection=off [X86]
3982 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3983 l1tf=off [X86]
3984 mds=off [X86]
3985 mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
3986 no_entry_flush [PPC]
3987 no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3988 nobp=0 [S390]
3989 nopti [X86,PPC]
3990 nospectre_bhb [ARM64]
3991 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3992 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3993 reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86]
3994 retbleed=off [X86]
3995 spec_rstack_overflow=off [X86]
3996 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3997 spectre_bhi=off [X86]
3998 spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3999 srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
4000 ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
4001 tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
4002 vmscape=off [X86]
4003
4004 Exceptions:
4005 This does not have any effect on
4006 kvm.nx_huge_pages when
4007 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
4008
4009 auto (default)
4010 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
4011 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for
4012 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
4013 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
4014 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
4015 Equivalent to: (default behavior)
4016
4017 auto,nosmt
4018 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
4019 if needed. This is for users who always want to
4020 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
4021 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
4022 mds=full,nosmt [X86]
4023 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
4024 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
4025 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
4026
4027 [X86] After one of the above options, additionally
4028 supports attack-vector based controls as documented in
4029 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/attack_vector_controls.rst
4030
4031 mminit_loglevel=
4032 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
4033 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
4034 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
4035 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
4036 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
4037 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
4038
4039 mmio_stale_data=
4040 [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the Processor
4041 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
4042
4043 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
4044 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
4045 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
4046 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
4047 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
4048 is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
4049
4050 This parameter controls the mitigation. The
4051 options are:
4052
4053 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
4054
4055 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
4056 vulnerable CPUs.
4057
4058 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation
4059
4060 On MDS or TAA affected machines,
4061 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
4062 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
4063 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
4064 disable this mitigation, you need to specify
4065 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
4066
4067 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4068 mmio_stale_data=full.
4069
4070 For details see:
4071 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
4072
4073 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL]
4074 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value
4075 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous
4076 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable
4077 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the
4078 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe
4079
4080 module.async_probe=<bool>
4081 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing
4082 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a
4083 specific module, use the module specific control that
4084 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both
4085 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are
4086 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for
4087 the specific module.
4088
4089 module.enable_dups_trace
4090 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set,
4091 this means that duplicate request_module() calls will
4092 trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that
4093 if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s
4094 will always be issued and this option does nothing.
4095 module.sig_enforce
4096 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
4097 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
4098 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
4099 is always true, so this option does nothing.
4100
4101 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
4102 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
4103
4104 mousedev.tap_time=
4105 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
4106 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
4107 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
4108 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
4109 Format: <msecs>
4110 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
4111 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
4112 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
4113 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
4114
4115 movablecore= [KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY]
4116 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
4117 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
4118 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
4119 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is
4120 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
4121 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its
4122 own is specified, the administrator must be careful
4123 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
4124 is not too small.
4125
4126 movable_node [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
4127 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
4128 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
4129 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
4130 allocations. Use with caution!
4131
4132 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
4133 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
4134
4135 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
4136 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
4137
4138 mtdparts= [MTD]
4139 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
4140
4141 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
4142 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
4143 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
4144
4145 mtrr=debug [X86,EARLY]
4146 Enable printing debug information related to MTRR
4147 registers at boot time.
4148
4149 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
4150 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
4151 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
4152
4153 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
4154 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
4155 Default is 1.
4156 Large value could prevent small alignment from
4157 using up MTRRs.
4158
4159 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86,EARLY]
4160 Format: <integer>
4161 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
4162 Default : 1
4163 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
4164 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
4165
4166 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
4167 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
4168 at a time.
4169
4170 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
4171
4172 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
4173 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
4174 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
4175 something different and driver-specific.
4176 This usage is only documented in each driver source
4177 file if at all.
4178
4179 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
4180 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
4181 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
4182 waits 4 seconds.
4183
4184 nf_conntrack.acct=
4185 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
4186 0 to disable accounting
4187 1 to enable accounting
4188 Default value is 0.
4189
4190 nfs.cache_getent=
4191 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
4192 to update the NFS client cache entries.
4193
4194 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
4195 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
4196 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
4197
4198 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
4199 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
4200 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
4201 requests.
4202
4203 nfs.callback_tcpport=
4204 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
4205 channel should listen.
4206
4207 nfs.delay_retrans=
4208 [NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client
4209 retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error,
4210 after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server.
4211 Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled,
4212 and the specified value is >= 0.
4213
4214 nfs.enable_ino64=
4215 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
4216 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
4217 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
4218 of returning the full 64-bit number.
4219 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
4220
4221 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
4222 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
4223 entries.
4224
4225 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
4226 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
4227 slots the client will assign to the callback
4228 channel. This determines the maximum number of
4229 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
4230 a particular server.
4231
4232 nfs.max_session_slots=
4233 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
4234 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
4235 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
4236 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
4237 Note that there is little point in setting this
4238 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
4239
4240 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
4241 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
4242 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
4243 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
4244 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
4245 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
4246 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
4247 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
4248 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
4249 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
4250 back to using the idmapper.
4251 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
4252
4253 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
4254 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
4255 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
4256 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
4257 UUID that is generated at system install time.
4258
4259 nfs.recover_lost_locks=
4260 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
4261 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
4262 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
4263 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
4264 after the locks are lost.
4265 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
4266 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
4267 parameter to '1'.
4268 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
4269 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
4270
4271 nfs.send_implementation_id=
4272 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
4273 information in exchange_id requests.
4274 If zero, no implementation identification information
4275 will be sent.
4276 The default is to send the implementation identification
4277 information.
4278
4279 nfs4.layoutstats_timer=
4280 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
4281 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
4282
4283 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
4284 whatever value is the default set by the layout
4285 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
4286 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
4287
4288 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable=
4289 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
4290 server-to-server copies for which this server is
4291 the destination of the copy.
4292
4293 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
4294 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
4295 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
4296 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
4297 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
4298 migration from NFSv2/v3.
4299
4300 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout=
4301 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
4302 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
4303 the source server. It caches the mount in case
4304 it will be needed again, and discards it if not
4305 used for the number of milliseconds specified by
4306 this parameter.
4307
4308 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
4309 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4310
4311 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
4312 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4313
4314 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
4315 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4316
4317 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
4318 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
4319 NMI stack-backtrace request.
4320
4321 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
4322 when a NMI is triggered.
4323 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
4324
4325 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
4326 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][rNNN,][num]
4327 Valid num: 0 or 1
4328 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
4329 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
4330 rNNN - configure the watchdog with raw perf event 0xNNN
4331
4332 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
4333 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
4334 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
4335 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
4336 please see 'nowatchdog'.
4337 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
4338 need the box quickly up again.
4339
4340 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
4341 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
4342
4343 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
4344 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
4345 is present.
4346
4347 no4lvl [RISCV,EARLY] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes.
4348 Forces kernel to use 3-level paging instead.
4349
4350 no5lvl [X86-64,RISCV,EARLY] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
4351 kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
4352
4353 noalign [KNL,ARM]
4354
4355 noapic [SMP,APIC,EARLY] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
4356 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
4357
4358 noapictimer [APIC,X86] Don't set up the APIC timer
4359
4360 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
4361
4362 nocache [ARM,EARLY]
4363
4364 no_console_suspend
4365 [HW] Never suspend the console
4366 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
4367 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
4368 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
4369 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
4370 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
4371 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
4372 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
4373 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
4374 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
4375 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
4376 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
4377 turn on/off it dynamically.
4378
4379 no_debug_objects
4380 [KNL,EARLY] Disable object debugging
4381
4382 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
4383
4384 noefi [EFI,EARLY] Disable EFI runtime services support.
4385
4386 no_entry_flush [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
4387
4388 noexec32 [X86-64]
4389 This affects only 32-bit executables.
4390 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
4391 read doesn't imply executable mappings
4392 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
4393 read implies executable mappings
4394
4395 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
4396 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
4397 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
4398
4399 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
4400
4401 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
4402
4403 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4404 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
4405 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
4406
4407 nogbpages [X86] Do not use GB pages for kernel direct mappings.
4408
4409 no_hash_pointers
4410 [KNL,EARLY]
4411 Alias for "hash_pointers=never".
4412
4413 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
4414
4415 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,RISCV,SH] Forces the kernel to
4416 busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
4417 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
4418 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
4419 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
4420 correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate
4421 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
4422 useful when using JTAG debugger.
4423
4424 nohpet [X86] Don't use the HPET timer.
4425
4426 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
4427
4428 nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
4429
4430 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
4431 Valid arguments: on, off
4432 Default: on
4433
4434 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
4435 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
4436 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
4437 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
4438 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
4439 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
4440 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
4441 just as if they had also been called out in the
4442 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
4443
4444 Note that this argument takes precedence over
4445 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
4446
4447 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
4448 initial RAM disk.
4449
4450 nointremap [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] Do not enable interrupt
4451 remapping.
4452 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
4453
4454 noinvpcid [X86,EARLY] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
4455
4456 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
4457
4458 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
4459 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
4460
4461 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
4462
4463 nokaslr [KNL,EARLY]
4464 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
4465 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
4466 Layout Randomization).
4467
4468 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
4469 fault handling.
4470
4471 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
4472
4473 nolapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
4474
4475 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not use the local APIC timer.
4476
4477 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
4478
4479 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
4480 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
4481
4482 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware
4483 sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory
4484 for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will
4485 not load if they could possibly displace the pre-
4486 initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will
4487 be available for use. The respective drivers will not
4488 perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering.
4489
4490 Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging.
4491
4492 nomodule Disable module load
4493
4494 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
4495 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
4496 irq.
4497
4498 nopat [X86,EARLY] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
4499 pagetables) support.
4500
4501 nopcid [X86-64,EARLY] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
4502
4503 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
4504 in some Intel CPUs.
4505
4506 nopti [X86-64,EARLY]
4507 Equivalent to pti=off
4508
4509 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE,EARLY]
4510 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
4511 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
4512 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
4513
4514 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM,EARLY]
4515 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
4516 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
4517 contention.
4518
4519 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
4520 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
4521
4522 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
4523 with UP alternatives
4524
4525 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
4526 space.
4527
4528 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
4529 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
4530 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
4531
4532 nosgx [X86-64,SGX,EARLY] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
4533
4534 nosmap [PPC,EARLY]
4535 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
4536 even if it is supported by processor.
4537
4538 nosmep [PPC64s,EARLY]
4539 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
4540 even if it is supported by processor.
4541
4542 nosmp [SMP,EARLY] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
4543 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
4544
4545 nosmt [KNL,MIPS,PPC,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4546 Equivalent to smt=1.
4547
4548 [KNL,X86,PPC,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4549 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
4550 via the sysfs control file.
4551
4552 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
4553
4554 nospec_store_bypass_disable
4555 [HW,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative
4556 Store Bypass vulnerability
4557
4558 nospectre_bhb [ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch
4559 history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks
4560 with this option.
4561
4562 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC,EARLY] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
4563 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
4564 possible in the system.
4565
4566 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_E500,ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations
4567 for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch
4568 prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data
4569 leaks with this option.
4570
4571 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES,RISCV,LOONGARCH,EARLY]
4572 Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. steal time
4573 is computed, but won't influence scheduler behaviour
4574
4575 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
4576
4577 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for broken
4578 timer IRQ sources, i.e., the IO-APIC timer. This can
4579 work around problems with incorrect timer
4580 initialization on some boards.
4581
4582 no_uaccess_flush
4583 [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
4584
4585 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP]
4586 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
4587 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
4588 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data
4589 without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
4590 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling
4591 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
4592 data will be no longer available. This parameter
4593 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
4594 is set.
4595
4596 no-vmw-sched-clock
4597 [X86,PV_OPS,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized VMware
4598 scheduler clock and use the default one.
4599
4600 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
4601 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
4602
4603 nowb [ARM,EARLY]
4604
4605 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
4606
4607 NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the
4608 LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the
4609 IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR.
4610
4611 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
4612 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
4613 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
4614
4615 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
4616 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
4617 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
4618 performance of saving the states is degraded because
4619 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
4620 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
4621
4622 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
4623 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
4624 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
4625 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
4626 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
4627 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
4628 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
4629
4630 nr_cpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
4631 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
4632 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
4633 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
4634 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
4635 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
4636 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
4637 hot plugging.
4638
4639 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
4640
4641 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86, EARLY]
4642 Disable NUMA, Only set up a single NUMA node
4643 spanning all memory.
4644
4645 numa=fake=<size>[MG]
4646 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4647 If given as a memory unit, fills all system RAM with
4648 nodes of size interleaved over physical nodes.
4649
4650 numa=fake=<N>
4651 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4652 If given as an integer, fills all system RAM with N
4653 fake nodes interleaved over physical nodes.
4654
4655 numa=fake=<N>U
4656 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4657 If given as an integer followed by 'U', it will
4658 divide each physical node into N emulated nodes.
4659
4660 numa=noacpi [X86] Don't parse the SRAT table for NUMA setup
4661
4662 numa=nohmat [X86] Don't parse the HMAT table for NUMA setup, or
4663 soft-reserved memory partitioning.
4664
4665 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
4666 NUMA balancing.
4667 Allowed values are enable and disable
4668
4669 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
4670 'node', 'default' can be specified
4671 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
4672 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
4673
4674 ohci1394_dma=early [HW,EARLY] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
4675 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
4676 info.
4677
4678 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
4679 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
4680 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
4681 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
4682 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
4683 interrupts *may* be lost!
4684
4685 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
4686 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
4687 For example, to override I2C bus2:
4688 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
4689
4690 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
4691
4692 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
4693
4694 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
4695 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
4696 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
4697 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
4698 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
4699
4700 oops=panic [KNL,EARLY]
4701 Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
4702 process, but there is a small probability of
4703 deadlocking the machine.
4704 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
4705 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
4706
4707 page_alloc.shuffle=
4708 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
4709 should randomize its free lists. This parameter can be
4710 used to enable/disable page randomization. The state of
4711 the flag can be read from sysfs at:
4712 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
4713 This parameter is only available if CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y.
4714
4715 page_owner= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
4716 Storage of the information about who allocated
4717 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
4718 we can turn it on.
4719 on: enable the feature
4720
4721 page_poison= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
4722 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
4723 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
4724 off: turn off poisoning (default)
4725 on: turn on poisoning
4726
4727 page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
4728 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order
4729 Format: <integer>
4730 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
4731 reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER.
4732
4733 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4734 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
4735 timeout = 0: wait forever
4736 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
4737 Format: <timeout>
4738
4739 panic_on_taint= [KNL,EARLY]
4740 Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
4741 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
4742 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
4743 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
4744 called with any of the flags in this set.
4745 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
4746 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
4747 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
4748 bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
4749 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
4750 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
4751 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
4752
4753 panic_on_warn=1 panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
4754 on a WARN().
4755
4756 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
4757 User can chose combination of the following bits:
4758 bit 0: print all tasks info
4759 bit 1: print system memory info
4760 bit 2: print timer info
4761 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
4762 bit 4: print ftrace buffer
4763 bit 5: replay all kernel messages on consoles at the end of panic
4764 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
4765 bit 7: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state
4766 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
4767 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
4768 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
4769 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
4770
4771 panic_sys_info= A comma separated list of extra information to be dumped
4772 on panic.
4773 Format: val[,val...]
4774 Where @val can be any of the following:
4775
4776 tasks: print all tasks info
4777 mem: print system memory info
4778 timers: print timers info
4779 locks: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
4780 ftrace: print ftrace buffer
4781 all_bt: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
4782 blocked_tasks: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state
4783
4784 This is a human readable alternative to the 'panic_print' option.
4785
4786 panic_console_replay
4787 When panic happens, replay all kernel messages on
4788 consoles at the end of panic.
4789
4790 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
4791 connected to, default is 0.
4792 Format: <parport#>
4793 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
4794 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
4795 Format: <mode>
4796
4797 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
4798 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
4799 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
4800 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
4801 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
4802 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
4803 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
4804 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
4805 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
4806 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
4807 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
4808 are specified on the command line, starting
4809 with parport0.
4810
4811 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
4812 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
4813 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
4814 computer where firmware has no options for setting
4815 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
4816 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
4817 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
4818
4819 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA]
4820 Format: <int>
4821 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
4822 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
4823 has been found at either range. Disabled by default.
4824
4825 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA]
4826 Format: <int>
4827 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
4828 changes. Disabled by default.
4829
4830 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA]
4831 Format: <int>
4832 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
4833 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4834 Disabled by default.
4835
4836 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA]
4837 Format: <int>
4838 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
4839 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4840 Disabled by default.
4841
4842 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA]
4843 Format: <int>
4844 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY
4845 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first
4846 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
4847 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often
4848 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
4849 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
4850 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
4851 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across
4852 all channels.
4853
4854 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA]
4855 Format: <int>
4856 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
4857 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4858 respectively. Disabled by default.
4859
4860 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA]
4861 Format: <int>
4862 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
4863 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4864 respectively. Disabled by default.
4865
4866 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA]
4867 Format: <int>
4868 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual
4869 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
4870 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
4871 All modes allowed by default.
4872
4873 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA]
4874 Format: <int>
4875 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
4876 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default.
4877
4878 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA]
4879 Format: <int>
4880 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on
4881 platform configuration and the use of other driver
4882 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
4883 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
4884 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
4885 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for
4886 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
4887 By default all supported ports are probed.
4888
4889 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA]
4890 Format: <int>
4891 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default
4892 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
4893
4894 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA]
4895 Format: <int>
4896 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use
4897 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
4898 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
4899 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
4900 0 otherwise.
4901
4902 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA]
4903 Format: <int>
4904 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow
4905 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for
4906 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only
4907 allowed by default.
4908
4909 pause_on_oops=<int>
4910 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
4911 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
4912 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
4913
4914 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
4915
4916 pci=option[,option...] [PCI,EARLY] various PCI subsystem options.
4917
4918 Some options herein operate on a specific device
4919 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
4920 specified in one of the following formats:
4921
4922 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
4923 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
4924
4925 Note: the first format specifies a PCI
4926 bus/device/function address which may change
4927 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
4928 firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4929 by other kernel parameters. If the
4930 domain is left unspecified, it is
4931 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4932 to a device through multiple device/function
4933 addresses can be specified after the base
4934 address (this is more robust against
4935 renumbering issues). The second format
4936 selects devices using IDs from the
4937 configuration space which may match multiple
4938 devices in the system.
4939
4940 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel
4941 changes anything
4942 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4943 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4944 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
4945 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4946 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4947 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
4948 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
4949 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
4950 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4951 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
4952 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4953 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4954 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4955 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4956 bus number. The config space is then accessed
4957 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4958 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4959 on the configuration access mechanisms.
4960 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4961 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4962 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
4963 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4964 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4965 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
4966 Configuration
4967 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4968 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4969 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
4970 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
4971 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4972 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4973 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
4974 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4975 should never be necessary.
4976 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4977 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4978 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
4979 when the system masks IRQs.
4980 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
4981 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4982 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
4983 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
4984 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4985 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4986 on several machines and they hang the machine
4987 when used, but on other computers it's the only
4988 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4989 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4990 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
4991 motherboard.
4992 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
4993 Use with caution as certain devices share
4994 address decoders between ROMs and other
4995 resources.
4996 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
4997 expansion ROMs that do not already have
4998 BIOS assigned address ranges.
4999 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
5000 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
5001 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
5002 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
5003 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
5004 this way.
5005 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
5006 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
5007 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
5008 F0000h-100000h range.
5009 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
5010 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
5011 secondary buses and you want to tell it
5012 explicitly which ones they are.
5013 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
5014 numbers ourselves, overriding
5015 whatever the firmware may have done.
5016 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
5017 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
5018 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
5019 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
5020 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
5021 IRQ routing is enabled.
5022 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
5023 or for PCI scanning.
5024 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
5025 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
5026 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
5027 please report a bug.
5028 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
5029 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
5030 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
5031 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
5032 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
5033 If you need to use this, please report a bug to
5034 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
5035 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
5036 bridge windows. This is the default on modern
5037 hardware. If you need to use this, please report
5038 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
5039 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
5040 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
5041 so this option is a temporary workaround
5042 for broken drivers that don't call it.
5043 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
5044 handle more pci cards
5045 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
5046 This might help on some broken boards which
5047 machine check when some devices' config space
5048 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
5049 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
5050 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
5051 This sorting is done to get a device
5052 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
5053 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
5054 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
5055 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
5056 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
5057 supported by all devices below the root complex.
5058 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
5059 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
5060 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
5061 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
5062 or bus can support) for best performance.
5063 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
5064 every device is guaranteed to support. This
5065 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
5066 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
5067 reduced performance. This also guarantees
5068 that hot-added devices will work.
5069 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
5070 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
5071 The default value is 256 bytes.
5072 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
5073 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
5074 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
5075 resource_alignment=
5076 Format:
5077 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
5078 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
5079 aligned memory resources. How to
5080 specify the device is described above.
5081 If <order of align> is not specified,
5082 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
5083 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
5084 windows need to be expanded.
5085 To specify the alignment for several
5086 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
5087 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
5088 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
5089 for 4096-byte alignment.
5090 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
5091 end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if
5092 OS has native AER control (either granted by
5093 ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native")
5094 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
5095 the default.
5096 off: Turn ECRC off
5097 on: Turn ECRC on.
5098 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
5099 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
5100 Default size is 256 bytes.
5101 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
5102 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
5103 Default size is 2 megabytes.
5104 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
5105 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
5106 Default size is 2 megabytes.
5107 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
5108 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
5109 MMIO_PREF window.
5110 Default size is 2 megabytes.
5111 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
5112 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
5113 Default is 1.
5114 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
5115 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
5116 accommodate resources required by all child
5117 devices.
5118 off: Turn realloc off
5119 on: Turn realloc on
5120 realloc same as realloc=on
5121 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
5122 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
5123 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
5124 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
5125 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
5126 port.
5127 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
5128 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
5129 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
5130 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
5131 conflict with unreported devices), so this
5132 taints the kernel.
5133 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
5134 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
5135 specified above) separated by semicolons.
5136 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
5137 redirect capabilities forced off which will
5138 allow P2P traffic between devices through
5139 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
5140 this removes isolation between devices and
5141 may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
5142 config_acs=
5143 Format:
5144 <ACS flags>@<pci_dev>[; ...]
5145 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
5146 specified above) optionally prepended with flags
5147 and separated by semicolons. The respective
5148 capabilities will be enabled, disabled or
5149 unchanged based on what is specified in
5150 flags.
5151
5152 ACS Flags is defined as follows:
5153 bit-0 : ACS Source Validation
5154 bit-1 : ACS Translation Blocking
5155 bit-2 : ACS P2P Request Redirect
5156 bit-3 : ACS P2P Completion Redirect
5157 bit-4 : ACS Upstream Forwarding
5158 bit-5 : ACS P2P Egress Control
5159 bit-6 : ACS Direct Translated P2P
5160 Each bit can be marked as:
5161 '0' – force disabled
5162 '1' – force enabled
5163 'x' – unchanged
5164 For example,
5165 pci=config_acs=10x@pci:0:0
5166 would configure all devices that support
5167 ACS to enable P2P Request Redirect, disable
5168 Translation Blocking, and leave Source
5169 Validation unchanged from whatever power-up
5170 or firmware set it to.
5171
5172 Note: this may remove isolation between devices
5173 and may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
5174 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
5175 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
5176 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
5177 one PCI domain per PCI function
5178 notph [PCIE] If the PCIE_TPH kernel config parameter
5179 is enabled, this kernel boot option can be used
5180 to disable PCIe TLP Processing Hints support
5181 system-wide.
5182
5183 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or ignore PCIe Active State Power
5184 Management.
5185 off Don't touch ASPM configuration at all. Leave any
5186 configuration done by firmware unchanged.
5187 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
5188 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
5189
5190 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
5191 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
5192 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
5193 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform
5194 also tries to use these services.
5195 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May
5196 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
5197 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
5198 hotplug).
5199
5200 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
5201 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
5202 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
5203
5204 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
5205 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
5206 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
5207
5208 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
5209
5210 pd_ignore_unused
5211 [PM]
5212 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
5213 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
5214 for debug and development, but should not be
5215 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
5216
5217 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
5218 boot time.
5219 Format: { 0 | 1 }
5220 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
5221
5222 percpu_alloc= [MM,EARLY]
5223 Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
5224 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
5225 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
5226 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
5227 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
5228 and performance comparison.
5229
5230 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
5231 See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
5232
5233 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
5234 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
5235 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
5236
5237 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
5238 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
5239 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
5240
5241 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU.
5242 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
5243 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
5244 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
5245 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
5246 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
5247 remains 0.
5248
5249 pm_async= [PM]
5250 Format: off
5251 This parameter sets the initial value of the
5252 /sys/power/pm_async sysfs knob at boot time.
5253 If set to "off", disables asynchronous suspend and
5254 resume of devices during system-wide power transitions.
5255 This can be useful on platforms where device
5256 dependencies are not well-defined, or for debugging
5257 power management issues. Asynchronous operations are
5258 enabled by default.
5259
5260
5261 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL]
5262 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
5263
5264 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
5265 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
5266 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
5267 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
5268 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
5269 possible settings and some assignment information.
5270
5271 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
5272 { off }
5273
5274 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
5275 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
5276
5277 pnp_reserve_irq=
5278 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
5279
5280 pnp_reserve_dma=
5281 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
5282
5283 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
5284 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
5285
5286 pnp_reserve_mem=
5287 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
5288 autoconfiguration.
5289 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
5290
5291 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
5292 Default is 21.
5293 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
5294 may be specified.
5295 Format: <port>,<port>....
5296
5297 possible_cpus= [SMP,S390,X86]
5298 Format: <unsigned int>
5299 Set the number of possible CPUs, overriding the
5300 regular discovery mechanisms (such as ACPI/FW, etc).
5301
5302 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
5303 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
5304 platform machine description specific power_save
5305 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
5306 execution priority.
5307
5308 ppc_strict_facility_enable
5309 [PPC,ENABLE] This option catches any kernel floating point,
5310 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
5311 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
5312 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
5313
5314 ppc_tm= [PPC,EARLY]
5315 Format: {"off"}
5316 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
5317
5318 preempt= [KNL]
5319 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
5320 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
5321 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
5322 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
5323 can be preempted anytime. Tasks will also yield
5324 contended spinlocks (if the critical section isn't
5325 explicitly preempt disabled beyond the lock itself).
5326 lazy - Scheduler controlled. Similar to full but instead
5327 of preempting the task immediately, the task gets
5328 one HZ tick time to yield itself before the
5329 preemption will be forced. One preemption is when the
5330 task returns to user space.
5331
5332 print-fatal-signals=
5333 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
5334
5335 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
5336 related application anomalies: too many signals,
5337 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
5338 coredump - etc.
5339
5340 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
5341 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
5342
5343 default: off.
5344
5345 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
5346 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
5347 panics
5348 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5349 default: disabled
5350
5351 printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
5352 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
5353 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
5354 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
5355 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
5356 in order to provide more debug information.
5357 Format: <bool>
5358 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
5359
5360 printk.debug_non_panic_cpus=
5361 Allows storing messages from non-panic CPUs into
5362 the printk log buffer during panic(). They are
5363 flushed to consoles by the panic-CPU on
5364 a best-effort basis.
5365 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5366 Default: disabled
5367
5368 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
5369 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
5370 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
5371 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
5372 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
5373 Default: ratelimit
5374
5375 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
5376 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5377
5378 proc_mem.force_override= [KNL]
5379 Format: {always | ptrace | never}
5380 Traditionally /proc/pid/mem allows memory permissions to be
5381 overridden without restrictions. This option may be set to
5382 restrict that. Can be one of:
5383 - 'always': traditional behavior always allows mem overrides.
5384 - 'ptrace': only allow mem overrides for active ptracers.
5385 - 'never': never allow mem overrides.
5386 If not specified, default is the CONFIG_PROC_MEM_* choice.
5387
5388 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
5389 Limit processor to maximum C-state
5390 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
5391
5392 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
5393 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
5394 instead using the legacy FADT method
5395
5396 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
5397 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
5398 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule" or "kvm"
5399 [defaults to kernel profiling]
5400 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
5401 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
5402 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
5403 statistical time based profiling.
5404
5405 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated]
5406
5407 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
5408 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
5409 that). If enabled, the default kernel base address
5410 might be overridden even when Kernel Address Space
5411 Layout Randomization is disabled.
5412 Format: <bool>
5413
5414 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
5415 tracking.
5416 Format: <bool>
5417
5418 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
5419 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
5420 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
5421 per second.
5422 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
5423 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
5424 (0 = never).
5425 psmouse.resolution=
5426 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
5427 psmouse.smartscroll=
5428 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
5429 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
5430
5431 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
5432
5433 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
5434 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
5435 removes hardening, but improves performance of
5436 system calls and interrupts.
5437
5438 on - unconditionally enable
5439 off - unconditionally disable
5440 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5441 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
5442
5443 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
5444
5445 pty.legacy_count=
5446 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
5447 default number.
5448
5449 quiet [KNL,EARLY] Disable most log messages
5450
5451 r128= [HW,DRM]
5452
5453 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES]
5454 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
5455 invalidate.
5456
5457 raid= [HW,RAID]
5458 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
5459
5460 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
5461 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
5462
5463 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address
5464
5465 random.trust_cpu=off
5466 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's
5467 random number generator (if available) to
5468 initialize the kernel's RNG.
5469
5470 random.trust_bootloader=off
5471 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the a seed
5472 passed by the bootloader (if available) to
5473 initialize the kernel's RNG.
5474
5475 randomize_kstack_offset=
5476 [KNL,EARLY] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
5477 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
5478 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
5479 that depend on stack address determinism or
5480 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
5481 available on architectures that have defined
5482 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
5483 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5484 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
5485
5486 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
5487
5488 cec_disable [X86]
5489 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
5490 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
5491
5492 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
5493 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
5494 as described above.
5495
5496 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
5497 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
5498 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
5499 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
5500 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
5501 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
5502 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
5503 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
5504 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
5505 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
5506 and real-time workloads. It can also improve
5507 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
5508
5509 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
5510 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
5511
5512 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
5513 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
5514 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
5515 toggled at runtime via cpusets.
5516
5517 Note that this argument takes precedence over
5518 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
5519
5520 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
5521 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
5522 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
5523 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
5524 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
5525 This improves the real-time response for the
5526 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
5527 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
5528 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
5529 periodically wake up to do the polling.
5530
5531 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
5532 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
5533 process in one batch.
5534
5535 rcutree.csd_lock_suppress_rcu_stall= [KNL]
5536 Do only a one-line RCU CPU stall warning when
5537 there is an ongoing too-long CSD-lock wait.
5538
5539 rcutree.do_rcu_barrier= [KNL]
5540 Request a call to rcu_barrier(). This is
5541 throttled so that userspace tests can safely
5542 hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose.
5543 If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery
5544 is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN.
5545
5546 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
5547 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
5548 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
5549 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
5550
5551 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
5552 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5553 RCU grace-period cleanup.
5554
5555 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
5556 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5557 RCU grace-period initialization.
5558
5559 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
5560 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5561 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
5562 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
5563 the rcu_node combining tree.
5564
5565 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
5566 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
5567 first attempt to force quiescent states.
5568 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
5569 and maximum value is HZ.
5570
5571 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
5572 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
5573 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
5574 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
5575
5576 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
5577 Set required age in jiffies for a
5578 given grace period before RCU starts
5579 soliciting quiescent-state help from
5580 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
5581 If not specified, the kernel will calculate
5582 a value based on the most recent settings
5583 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
5584 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
5585 This calculated value may be viewed in
5586 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set
5587 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
5588 overwritten.
5589
5590 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
5591 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
5592 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
5593 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
5594 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
5595 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
5596 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
5597 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
5598 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
5599 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
5600 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
5601 priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
5602
5603 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL]
5604 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
5605 RCU reduces the lock contention that would
5606 otherwise be caused by callback floods through
5607 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the
5608 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
5609 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
5610 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
5611 But if there are too many callbacks queued during
5612 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
5613 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too
5614 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter.
5615
5616 rcutree.nohz_full_patience_delay= [KNL]
5617 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, avoid
5618 disturbing RCU unless the grace period has
5619 reached the specified age in milliseconds.
5620 Defaults to zero. Large values will be capped
5621 at five seconds. All values will be rounded down
5622 to the nearest value representable by jiffies.
5623
5624 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
5625 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
5626 batch limiting is disabled.
5627
5628 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
5629 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
5630 batch limiting is re-enabled.
5631
5632 rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
5633 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
5634 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
5635 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
5636 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
5637 Set to less than zero to make this be set based
5638 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
5639 disable more aggressive help enlistment.
5640
5641 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
5642 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
5643 in response to low-memory conditions. The range
5644 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
5645
5646 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL]
5647 Set the shift-right count to use to compute
5648 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
5649 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU.
5650 The result will be bounded below by the value of
5651 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl
5652 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in
5653 order to allow the CPU to do other work.
5654
5655 Please note that this callback-invocation batch
5656 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
5657 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead
5658 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which
5659 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task.
5660
5661 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
5662 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
5663 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
5664 possibly be useful for architectures having high
5665 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
5666
5667 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
5668 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
5669 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
5670 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
5671 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
5672 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
5673 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
5674
5675 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
5676 Minimum number of objects which are cached and
5677 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
5678 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
5679 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
5680 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
5681 condition.
5682
5683 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
5684 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
5685 each group, which defaults to the square root
5686 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce
5687 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
5688 kthread, but increases that same overhead on
5689 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
5690
5691 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
5692 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
5693 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
5694 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
5695 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
5696 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
5697
5698 rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL]
5699 Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU
5700 callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds.
5701 By default, this limit is checked only once
5702 every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain
5703 inflicted by local_clock() overhead.
5704
5705 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
5706 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
5707 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
5708 in microseconds. This defaults to zero.
5709 Larger delays increase the probability of
5710 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
5711 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
5712 rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
5713
5714 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
5715 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
5716 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
5717 why a new grace period has not yet started.
5718
5719 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL]
5720 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
5721 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero
5722 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
5723 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
5724
5725 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
5726 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
5727 to zero.
5728
5729 rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy= [KNL]
5730 To save power, batch RCU callbacks and flush after
5731 delay, memory pressure or callback list growing too
5732 big.
5733
5734 rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp= [KNL]
5735 Reduces a latency of synchronize_rcu() call. This approach
5736 maintains its own track of synchronize_rcu() callers, so it
5737 does not interact with regular callbacks because it does not
5738 use a call_rcu[_hurry]() path. Please note, this is for a
5739 normal grace period.
5740
5741 How to enable it:
5742
5743 echo 1 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp
5744 or pass a boot parameter "rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=1"
5745
5746 Default is 1 if num_possible_cpus() <= 16 and it is not explicitly
5747 disabled by the boot parameter passing 0.
5748
5749 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
5750 Measure performance of asynchronous
5751 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
5752
5753 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
5754 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
5755 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
5756 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
5757 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
5758 previously posted callbacks to drain.
5759
5760 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
5761 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
5762 grace-period primitives.
5763
5764 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5765 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
5766 this parameter is to delay the start of the
5767 test until boot completes in order to avoid
5768 interference.
5769
5770 rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL]
5771 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test
5772 call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu().
5773
5774 rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL]
5775 Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj,
5776 allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj).
5777 Defaults to 1.
5778
5779 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
5780 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
5781
5782 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
5783 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5784 If this parameter has the same value as
5785 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
5786 and double-argument variants are tested.
5787
5788 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
5789 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5790 If this parameter has the same value as
5791 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
5792 and double-argument variants are tested.
5793
5794 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
5795 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
5796
5797 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
5798 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
5799
5800 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
5801 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
5802 of allocations and frees.
5803
5804 rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL]
5805 Set the minimum test run time in seconds. This
5806 does not affect the data-collection interval,
5807 but instead allows better measurement of things
5808 like CPU consumption.
5809
5810 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5811 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
5812 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
5813 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
5814 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
5815 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5816 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
5817 a single reader.
5818
5819 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
5820 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
5821 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
5822 N, where N is the number of CPUs
5823
5824 rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5825 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5826
5827 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5828 Shut the system down after performance tests
5829 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
5830 testing.
5831
5832 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
5833 Enable additional printk() statements.
5834
5835 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
5836 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
5837 in microseconds. The default of zero says
5838 no holdoff.
5839
5840 rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL]
5841 Additional write-side holdoff between grace
5842 periods, but in jiffies. The default of zero
5843 says no holdoff.
5844
5845 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
5846 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
5847 in microseconds.
5848
5849 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
5850 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
5851 in microseconds.
5852
5853 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
5854 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
5855 in seconds.
5856
5857 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
5858 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
5859 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
5860 for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
5861 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
5862 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
5863 of CPUs to be used.
5864
5865 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
5866 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
5867 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
5868
5869 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
5870 Number of seconds to wait between successive
5871 forward-progress tests.
5872
5873 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
5874 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
5875 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
5876 testing.
5877
5878 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
5879 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5880 normal-grace-period primitives, if available.
5881
5882 rcutorture.gp_cond_exp= [KNL]
5883 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5884 expedited-grace-period primitives, if available.
5885
5886 rcutorture.gp_cond_full= [KNL]
5887 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5888 normal-grace-period primitives that also take
5889 concurrent expedited grace periods into account,
5890 if available.
5891
5892 rcutorture.gp_cond_exp_full= [KNL]
5893 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5894 expedited-grace-period primitives that also take
5895 concurrent normal grace periods into account,
5896 if available.
5897
5898 rcutorture.gp_cond_wi= [KNL]
5899 Nominal wait interval for normal conditional
5900 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
5901 gp_cond and gp_cond_full module parameters),
5902 in microseconds. The actual wait interval will
5903 be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up
5904 to this wait interval. Defaults to 16 jiffies,
5905 for example, 16,000 microseconds on a system
5906 with HZ=1000.
5907
5908 rcutorture.gp_cond_wi_exp= [KNL]
5909 Nominal wait interval for expedited conditional
5910 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
5911 gp_cond_exp and gp_cond_exp_full module
5912 parameters), in microseconds. The actual wait
5913 interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond
5914 granularity up to this wait interval. Defaults to
5915 128 microseconds.
5916
5917 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
5918 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
5919
5920 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
5921 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
5922 update-side primitives, if available.
5923
5924 rcutorture.gp_poll= [KNL]
5925 Use polled update-side normal-grace-period
5926 primitives, if available.
5927
5928 rcutorture.gp_poll_exp= [KNL]
5929 Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period
5930 primitives, if available.
5931
5932 rcutorture.gp_poll_full= [KNL]
5933 Use polled update-side normal-grace-period
5934 primitives that also take concurrent expedited
5935 grace periods into account, if available.
5936
5937 rcutorture.gp_poll_exp_full= [KNL]
5938 Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period
5939 primitives that also take concurrent normal
5940 grace periods into account, if available.
5941
5942 rcutorture.gp_poll_wi= [KNL]
5943 Nominal wait interval for normal conditional
5944 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
5945 gp_poll and gp_poll_full module parameters),
5946 in microseconds. The actual wait interval will
5947 be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up
5948 to this wait interval. Defaults to 16 jiffies,
5949 for example, 16,000 microseconds on a system
5950 with HZ=1000.
5951
5952 rcutorture.gp_poll_wi_exp= [KNL]
5953 Nominal wait interval for expedited conditional
5954 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
5955 gp_poll_exp and gp_poll_exp_full module
5956 parameters), in microseconds. The actual wait
5957 interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond
5958 granularity up to this wait interval. Defaults to
5959 128 microseconds.
5960
5961 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
5962 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
5963 update-side primitives, if available. If all
5964 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
5965 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
5966 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
5967 they are all non-zero.
5968
5969 rcutorture.gpwrap_lag= [KNL]
5970 Enable grace-period wrap lag testing. Setting
5971 to false prevents the gpwrap lag test from
5972 running. Default is true.
5973
5974 rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_gps= [KNL]
5975 Set the value for grace-period wrap lag during
5976 active lag testing periods. This controls how many
5977 grace periods differences we tolerate between
5978 rdp and rnp's gp_seq before setting overflow flag.
5979 The default is always set to 8.
5980
5981 rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_cycle_mins= [KNL]
5982 Set the total cycle duration for gpwrap lag
5983 testing in minutes. This is the total time for
5984 one complete cycle of active and inactive
5985 testing periods. Default is 30 minutes.
5986
5987 rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_active_mins= [KNL]
5988 Set the duration for which gpwrap lag is active
5989 within each cycle, in minutes. During this time,
5990 the grace-period wrap lag will be set to the
5991 value specified by gpwrap_lag_gps. Default is
5992 5 minutes.
5993
5994 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
5995 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
5996 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU
5997 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
5998
5999 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
6000 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
6001 This can of course result in splats, and is
6002 intended to test the ability of things like
6003 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
6004 such leaks.
6005
6006 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
6007 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
6008
6009 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
6010 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
6011 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
6012 test, hence the "fake".
6013
6014 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
6015 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
6016 Zero (the default) disables toggling.
6017
6018 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
6019 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
6020 callback-offload toggling attempts.
6021
6022 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
6023 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
6024 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
6025 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
6026 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
6027 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
6028
6029 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
6030 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
6031
6032 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
6033 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
6034
6035 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
6036 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
6037 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
6038
6039 rcutorture.preempt_duration= [KNL]
6040 Set duration (in milliseconds) of preemptions
6041 by a high-priority FIFO real-time task. Set to
6042 zero (the default) to disable. The CPUs to
6043 preempt are selected randomly from the set that
6044 are online at a given point in time. Races with
6045 CPUs going offline are ignored, with that attempt
6046 at preemption skipped.
6047
6048 rcutorture.preempt_interval= [KNL]
6049 Set interval (in milliseconds, defaulting to one
6050 second) between preemptions by a high-priority
6051 FIFO real-time task. This delay is mediated
6052 by an hrtimer and is further fuzzed to avoid
6053 inadvertent synchronizations.
6054
6055 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
6056 The number of times in a given read-then-exit
6057 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
6058 is spawned.
6059
6060 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
6061 The delay, in seconds, between successive
6062 read-then-exit testing episodes.
6063
6064 rcutorture.reader_flavor= [KNL]
6065 A bit mask indicating which readers to use.
6066 If there is more than one bit set, the readers
6067 are entered from low-order bit up, and are
6068 exited in the opposite order. For SRCU, the
6069 0x1 bit is normal readers, 0x2 NMI-safe readers,
6070 and 0x4 light-weight readers.
6071
6072 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
6073 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
6074 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
6075 during the rcutorture test.
6076
6077 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
6078 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
6079 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
6080
6081 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
6082 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
6083 warnings, zero to disable.
6084
6085 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
6086 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result
6087 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to
6088 any other stall-related activity. Note that
6089 in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and
6090 CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will
6091 cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state.
6092 Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress
6093 RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result
6094 in scheduling-while-atomic splats.
6095
6096 Use of this module parameter results in splats.
6097
6098
6099 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
6100 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
6101
6102 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
6103 Disable interrupts while stalling if set, but only
6104 on the first stall in the set.
6105
6106 rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat= [KNL]
6107 Number of times to repeat the stall sequence,
6108 so that rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat=3 will result
6109 in four stall sequences.
6110
6111 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
6112 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
6113 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
6114 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu
6115 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
6116 kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
6117
6118 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
6119 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
6120
6121 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
6122 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
6123 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
6124 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
6125 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
6126
6127 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
6128 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
6129 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
6130 under test support RCU priority boosting.
6131
6132 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
6133 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
6134
6135 rcutorture.test_boost_holdoff= [KNL]
6136 Holdoff time (s) from start of test to the start
6137 of RCU priority-boost testing. Defaults to zero,
6138 that is, no holdoff.
6139
6140 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
6141 Interval (s) between each boost test.
6142
6143 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
6144 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
6145 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
6146
6147 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
6148 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
6149
6150 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
6151 Enable additional printk() statements.
6152
6153 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
6154 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
6155 stall warning.
6156
6157 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL]
6158 Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the
6159 warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig
6160 option's help text. TL;DR: You almost certainly
6161 do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers.
6162
6163 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
6164 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
6165
6166 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
6167 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
6168 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
6169 during early boot, that is, during the time
6170 before the init task is spawned.
6171
6172 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
6173 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
6174 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
6175 value is 300 seconds.
6176
6177 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
6178 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
6179 messages. The value is in milliseconds
6180 and the maximum allowed value is 21000
6181 milliseconds. Please note that this value is
6182 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
6183 Setting this to zero causes the value from
6184 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
6185 conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
6186
6187 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL]
6188 Provide statistics on the cputime and count of
6189 interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For
6190 multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods
6191 begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout.
6192
6193 rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL]
6194 Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the
6195 current expedited RCU grace period during an
6196 expedited RCU CPU stall warning.
6197
6198 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
6199 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
6200 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
6201 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
6202 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
6203 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
6204 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
6205
6206 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
6207 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
6208 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
6209 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
6210 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
6211 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
6212 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
6213 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
6214 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
6215
6216 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
6217 Once boot has completed (that is, after
6218 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
6219 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
6220 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
6221
6222 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
6223 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
6224 it to the value one, that is, converting any
6225 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
6226 period to instead use normal non-expedited
6227 grace-period processing.
6228
6229 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
6230 Set the maximum number of callbacks present
6231 at the beginning of a grace period that allows
6232 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
6233 a single callback queue. This switching only
6234 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
6235 set to the default value of -1.
6236
6237 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
6238 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
6239 lock-contention events per jiffy required to
6240 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
6241 callback queuing. This switching only occurs
6242 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
6243 the default value of -1.
6244
6245 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
6246 Set the number of callback queues to use for the
6247 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default
6248 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
6249 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended
6250 for use in testing.
6251
6252 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
6253 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
6254 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
6255 of a given grace period. Setting a large
6256 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
6257 but lengthens grace periods.
6258
6259 rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL]
6260 Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will
6261 cancel laziness on that CPU. Use -1 to disable
6262 cancellation of laziness, but be advised that
6263 doing so increases the danger of OOM due to
6264 callback flooding.
6265
6266 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
6267 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
6268 informational messages, which give some indication
6269 of the problem for those not patient enough to
6270 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are
6271 only printed prior to the stall-warning message
6272 for a given grace period. Disable with a value
6273 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten
6274 seconds. A change in value does not take effect
6275 until the beginning of the next grace period.
6276
6277 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
6278 Multiplier for time interval between successive
6279 RCU task stall informational messages for a given
6280 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped
6281 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to
6282 the value three, so that the first informational
6283 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
6284 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
6285 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
6286 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
6287
6288 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
6289 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
6290 warning messages. Disable with a value less
6291 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes.
6292 A change in value does not take effect until
6293 the beginning of the next grace period.
6294
6295 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL]
6296 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous
6297 callback batching for call_rcu_tasks().
6298 A negative value will take the default. A value
6299 of zero will disable batching. Batching is
6300 always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks().
6301
6302 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL]
6303 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks
6304 Trace asynchronous callback batching for
6305 call_rcu_tasks_trace(). A negative value
6306 will take the default. A value of zero will
6307 disable batching. Batching is always disabled
6308 for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace().
6309
6310 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
6311 Run the RCU early boot self tests
6312
6313 rdinit= [KNL]
6314 Format: <full_path>
6315 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
6316 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
6317
6318 rdrand= [X86,EARLY]
6319 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
6320 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
6321 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
6322 support, specifically around the suspend/resume
6323 path).
6324
6325 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
6326 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
6327 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
6328 mba, smba, bmec, abmc, sdciae.
6329 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
6330 rdt=cmt,!mba
6331
6332 reboot= [KNL]
6333 Format (x86 or x86_64):
6334 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
6335 [[,]s[mp]#### \
6336 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
6337 [[,]f[orce]
6338 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
6339 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
6340 reboot only),
6341 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
6342 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
6343 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
6344 to be used for rebooting.
6345
6346 acpi
6347 Use the ACPI RESET_REG in the FADT. If ACPI is not
6348 configured or the ACPI reset does not work, the reboot
6349 path attempts the reset using the keyboard controller.
6350
6351 bios
6352 Use the CPU reboot vector for warm reset
6353
6354 cold
6355 Set the cold reboot flag
6356
6357 default
6358 There are some built-in platform specific "quirks"
6359 - you may see: "reboot: <name> series board detected.
6360 Selecting <type> for reboots." In the case where you
6361 think the quirk is in error (e.g. you have newer BIOS,
6362 or newer board) using this option will ignore the
6363 built-in quirk table, and use the generic default
6364 reboot actions.
6365
6366 efi
6367 Use efi reset_system runtime service. If EFI is not
6368 configured or the EFI reset does not work, the reboot
6369 path attempts the reset using the keyboard controller.
6370
6371 force
6372 Don't stop other CPUs on reboot. This can make reboot
6373 more reliable in some cases.
6374
6375 kbd
6376 Use the keyboard controller. cold reset (default)
6377
6378 pci
6379 Use a write to the PCI config space register 0xcf9 to
6380 trigger reboot.
6381
6382 triple
6383 Force a triple fault (init)
6384
6385 warm
6386 Don't set the cold reboot flag
6387
6388 Using warm reset will be much faster especially on big
6389 memory systems because the BIOS will not go through
6390 the memory check. Disadvantage is that not all
6391 hardware will be completely reinitialized on reboot so
6392 there may be boot problems on some systems.
6393
6394
6395 refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
6396 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
6397 this parameter is to delay the start of the
6398 test until boot completes in order to avoid
6399 interference.
6400
6401 refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL]
6402 Number of data elements to use for the forms of
6403 SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing. A negative number
6404 is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while
6405 zero specifies nr_cpu_ids.
6406
6407 refscale.loops= [KNL]
6408 Set the number of loops over the synchronization
6409 primitive under test. Increasing this number
6410 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
6411 but the default has already reduced the per-pass
6412 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
6413 x86 laptops.
6414
6415 refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
6416 Set number of readers. The default value of -1
6417 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
6418 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice.
6419
6420 refscale.nruns= [KNL]
6421 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
6422 the console log.
6423
6424 refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
6425 Set the read-side critical-section duration,
6426 measured in microseconds.
6427
6428 refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
6429 Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
6430
6431 refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
6432 Shut down the system at the end of the performance
6433 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
6434 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
6435 it running) when refscale is built as a module.
6436
6437 refscale.verbose= [KNL]
6438 Enable additional printk() statements.
6439
6440 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
6441 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero
6442 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise,
6443 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
6444 specified.
6445
6446 regulator_ignore_unused
6447 [REGULATOR]
6448 Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators
6449 that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may
6450 be useful for debug and development, but should not be
6451 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
6452
6453 relax_domain_level=
6454 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
6455 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
6456
6457 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
6458 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
6459 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
6460 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
6461 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
6462
6463 reserve_mem= [RAM]
6464 Format: nn[KMG]:<align>:<label>
6465 Reserve physical memory and label it with a name that
6466 other subsystems can use to access it. This is typically
6467 used for systems that do not wipe the RAM, and this command
6468 line will try to reserve the same physical memory on
6469 soft reboots. Note, it is not guaranteed to be the same
6470 location. For example, if anything about the system changes
6471 or if booting a different kernel. It can also fail if KASLR
6472 places the kernel at the location of where the RAM reservation
6473 was from a previous boot, the new reservation will be at a
6474 different location.
6475 Any subsystem using this feature must add a way to verify
6476 that the contents of the physical memory is from a previous
6477 boot, as there may be cases where the memory will not be
6478 located at the same location.
6479
6480 The format is size:align:label for example, to request
6481 12 megabytes of 4096 alignment for ramoops:
6482
6483 reserve_mem=12M:4096:oops ramoops.mem_name=oops
6484
6485 reservetop= [X86-32,EARLY]
6486 Format: nn[KMG]
6487 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
6488 address space.
6489
6490 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
6491 during initialization.
6492
6493 resume= [SWSUSP]
6494 Specify the partition device for software suspend
6495 Format:
6496 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
6497
6498 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
6499 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
6500 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
6501 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
6502 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
6503
6504 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
6505 read the resume files
6506
6507 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
6508 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
6509 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
6510
6511 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction. After boot, it will
6512 be accessible via /sys/firmware/initrd.
6513
6514 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
6515 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
6516 vulnerability.
6517
6518 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
6519 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other
6520 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
6521 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors
6522 that don't.
6523
6524 off - no mitigation
6525 auto - automatically select a mitigation
6526 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation,
6527 disabling SMT if necessary for
6528 the full mitigation (only on Zen1
6529 and older without STIBP).
6530 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
6531 windows on basic block boundaries too.
6532 Safe, highest perf impact. It also
6533 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable
6534 on Intel.
6535 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
6536 when STIBP is not available. This is
6537 the alternative for systems which do not
6538 have STIBP.
6539 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks,
6540 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
6541 systems.
6542 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
6543 is not available. This is the alternative for
6544 systems which do not have STIBP.
6545
6546 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
6547 time according to the CPU.
6548
6549 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
6550
6551 rfkill.default_state=
6552 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
6553 etc. communication is blocked by default.
6554 1 Unblocked.
6555
6556 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
6557 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
6558 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
6559 blocked and the previous configuration.
6560 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
6561 blocked and everything unblocked.
6562
6563 ring3mwait=disable
6564 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
6565 CPUs.
6566
6567 riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV,EARLY]
6568 When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit
6569 falling back to detecting extension support by parsing
6570 "riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the
6571 replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig
6572 entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK.
6573
6574 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
6575
6576 rodata= [KNL,EARLY]
6577 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
6578 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
6579 noalias Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only but retain
6580 writable aliases in the direct map for regions outside
6581 of the kernel image. [arm64]
6582
6583 rockchip.usb_uart
6584 [EARLY]
6585 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
6586 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
6587 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
6588 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
6589
6590 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
6591 Usually this is a block device specifier of some kind,
6592 see the early_lookup_bdev comment in
6593 block/early-lookup.c for details.
6594 Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial
6595 ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file
6596 system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash.
6597
6598 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
6599 mount the root filesystem
6600
6601 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
6602
6603 initramfs_options= [KNL]
6604 Specify mount options for for the initramfs mount.
6605
6606 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
6607
6608 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
6609 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
6610 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
6611
6612 rootwait= [KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device
6613 to show up before attempting to mount the root
6614 filesystem.
6615
6616 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
6617 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
6618 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
6619 managed by CMA.
6620
6621 rseq_debug= [KNL] Enable or disable restartable sequence
6622 debug mode. Defaults to CONFIG_RSEQ_DEBUG_DEFAULT_ENABLE.
6623 Format: <bool>
6624
6625 rt_group_sched= [KNL] Enable or disable SCHED_RR/FIFO group scheduling
6626 when CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=y. Defaults to
6627 !CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED_DEFAULT_DISABLED.
6628 Format: <bool>
6629
6630 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
6631
6632 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
6633
6634 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
6635 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
6636 strict
6637 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result
6638 in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before
6639 reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to
6640 iommu.strict=1.
6641
6642 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390]
6643 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
6644 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
6645 factor of the size of main memory.
6646 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
6647 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
6648 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
6649 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
6650 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
6651 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
6652 cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
6653
6654 sa1100ir [NET]
6655 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
6656
6657 sched_proxy_exec= [KNL]
6658 Enables or disables "proxy execution" style
6659 solution to mutex-based priority inversion.
6660 Format: <bool>
6661
6662 sched_verbose [KNL,EARLY] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
6663
6664 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
6665 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
6666 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
6667 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
6668
6669 sched_thermal_decay_shift=
6670 [Deprecated]
6671 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
6672 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
6673 default decay period of other scheduler pelt
6674 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
6675 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
6676 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
6677 value.
6678 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
6679 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr
6680 1 64 ms
6681 2 128 ms
6682 and so on.
6683 Format: integer between 0 and 10
6684 Default is 0.
6685
6686 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
6687 Number of seconds to hold off before starting
6688 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and
6689 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
6690 tests.
6691
6692 scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
6693 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
6694 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the
6695 default) disables this feature. Please note
6696 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
6697 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
6698 softlockup complaints, and so on.
6699
6700 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
6701 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
6702 smp_call_function() family of functions.
6703 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
6704 equal to the number of CPUs.
6705
6706 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
6707 Number seconds to wait after the start of the
6708 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
6709
6710 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
6711 Number seconds to wait between successive
6712 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which
6713 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
6714
6715 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
6716 The number of seconds following the start of the
6717 test after which to shut down the system. The
6718 default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
6719 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
6720
6721 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
6722 The number of seconds between outputting the
6723 current test statistics to the console. A value
6724 of zero disables statistics output.
6725
6726 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
6727 The number of jiffies to wait between each change
6728 to the set of CPUs under test.
6729
6730 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
6731 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
6732 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
6733 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
6734 functions.
6735
6736 scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
6737 Enable additional printk() statements.
6738
6739 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
6740 The probability weighting to use for the
6741 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
6742 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the
6743 default if all other weights are -1. However,
6744 if at least one weight has some other value, a
6745 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
6746
6747 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
6748 The probability weighting to use for the
6749 smp_call_function_single() function with a
6750 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single.
6751
6752 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
6753 The probability weighting to use for the
6754 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
6755 "wait" parameter. See weight_single.
6756 Note well that setting a high probability for
6757 this weighting can place serious IPI load
6758 on the system.
6759
6760 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
6761 The probability weighting to use for the
6762 smp_call_function_many() function with a
6763 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single
6764 and weight_many.
6765
6766 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
6767 The probability weighting to use for the
6768 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
6769 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and
6770 weight_many.
6771
6772 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
6773 The probability weighting to use for the
6774 smp_call_function_all() function with a
6775 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single
6776 and weight_many.
6777
6778 sdw_mclk_divider=[SDW]
6779 Specify the MCLK divider for Intel SoundWire buses in
6780 case the BIOS does not provide the clock rate properly.
6781
6782 skew_tick= [KNL,EARLY] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
6783 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
6784 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
6785 Format: { "0" | "1" }
6786 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
6787 1 -- enable.
6788 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
6789 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
6790
6791 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
6792 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
6793 "lsm=" parameter.
6794
6795 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
6796 Format: { "0" | "1" }
6797 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
6798 0 -- disable.
6799 1 -- enable.
6800 Default value is 1.
6801
6802 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
6803
6804 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64]
6805
6806 debug
6807 Enable debug messages.
6808
6809 nosnp
6810 Do not enable SEV-SNP (applies to host/hypervisor
6811 only). Setting 'nosnp' avoids the RMP check overhead
6812 in memory accesses when users do not want to run
6813 SEV-SNP guests.
6814
6815 shapers= [NET]
6816 Maximal number of shapers.
6817
6818 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
6819 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
6820 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
6821 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
6822 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
6823 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
6824 apic=verbose is specified.
6825 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
6826
6827 slab_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM]
6828 Enabling slab_debug allows one to determine the
6829 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
6830 slab_debug can create guard zones around objects and
6831 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
6832 last alloc / free. For more information see
6833 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6834 (slub_debug legacy name also accepted for now)
6835
6836 Using this option implies the "no_hash_pointers"
6837 option which can be undone by adding the
6838 "hash_pointers=always" option.
6839
6840 slab_max_order= [MM]
6841 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
6842 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
6843 fragmentation. For more information see
6844 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6845 (slub_max_order legacy name also accepted for now)
6846
6847 slab_merge [MM]
6848 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
6849 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
6850 (slub_merge legacy name also accepted for now)
6851
6852 slab_min_objects= [MM]
6853 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
6854 increase the slab order up to slab_max_order to
6855 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
6856 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
6857 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
6858 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
6859 For more information see
6860 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6861 (slub_min_objects legacy name also accepted for now)
6862
6863 slab_min_order= [MM]
6864 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
6865 lower or equal to slab_max_order. For more information see
6866 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6867 (slub_min_order legacy name also accepted for now)
6868
6869 slab_nomerge [MM]
6870 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
6871 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
6872 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
6873 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
6874 layout control by attackers can usually be
6875 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
6876 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
6877 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
6878 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
6879 own.
6880 For more information see
6881 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6882 (slub_nomerge legacy name also accepted for now)
6883
6884 slab_strict_numa [MM]
6885 Support memory policies on a per object level
6886 in the slab allocator. The default is for memory
6887 policies to be applied at the folio level when
6888 a new folio is needed or a partial folio is
6889 retrieved from the lists. Increases overhead
6890 in the slab fastpaths but gains more accurate
6891 NUMA kernel object placement which helps with slow
6892 interconnects in NUMA systems.
6893
6894 slram= [HW,MTD]
6895
6896 smart2= [HW]
6897 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
6898
6899 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
6900 Specify the period of time in milliseconds
6901 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
6902 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is
6903 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
6904 disabling interrupts for extended periods
6905 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
6906 setting a value of zero disables this feature.
6907 This feature may be more efficiently disabled
6908 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
6909
6910 smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL]
6911 If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than
6912 the specified number of milliseconds, panic the
6913 system. By default, let CSD-lock acquisition
6914 take as long as they take. Specifying 300,000
6915 for this value provides a 5-minute timeout.
6916
6917 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
6918 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
6919 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
6920 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
6921 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
6922 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
6923 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
6924 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
6925 1: Fast pin select (default)
6926 2: ATC IRMode
6927
6928 smt= [KNL,MIPS,S390,EARLY] Set the maximum number of threads
6929 (logical CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems
6930 capable of symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will
6931 be capped to the actual hardware limit.
6932 Format: <integer>
6933 Default: -1 (no limit)
6934
6935 softlockup_panic=
6936 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
6937 Format: 0 | 1
6938
6939 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
6940 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
6941 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
6942 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
6943 respective build-time switch to that functionality.
6944
6945 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
6946 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
6947 backtraces on all cpus.
6948 Format: 0 | 1
6949
6950 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
6951 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
6952
6953 spectre_bhi= [X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection
6954 (BHI) vulnerability. This setting affects the
6955 deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB
6956 clearing sequence.
6957
6958 on - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation as
6959 needed. This protects the kernel from
6960 both syscalls and VMs.
6961 vmexit - On systems which don't have the HW mitigation
6962 available, enable the SW mitigation on vmexit
6963 ONLY. On such systems, the host kernel is
6964 protected from VM-originated BHI attacks, but
6965 may still be vulnerable to syscall attacks.
6966 off - Disable the mitigation.
6967
6968 spectre_v2= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
6969 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
6970 The default operation protects the kernel from
6971 user space attacks.
6972
6973 on - unconditionally enable, implies
6974 spectre_v2_user=on
6975 off - unconditionally disable, implies
6976 spectre_v2_user=off
6977 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
6978 vulnerable
6979
6980 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
6981 mitigation method at run time according to the
6982 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
6983 CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE configuration option,
6984 and the compiler with which the kernel was built.
6985
6986 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
6987 against user space to user space task attacks.
6988 Selecting specific mitigation does not force enable
6989 user mitigations.
6990
6991 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
6992 the user space protections.
6993
6994 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
6995
6996 retpoline - replace indirect branches
6997 retpoline,generic - Retpolines
6998 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch
6999 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence
7000 eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS
7001 eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines
7002 eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE
7003 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel
7004
7005 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
7006 spectre_v2=auto.
7007
7008 spectre_v2_user=
7009 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
7010 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
7011 user space tasks
7012
7013 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
7014 enforced by spectre_v2=on
7015
7016 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
7017 enforced by spectre_v2=off
7018
7019 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
7020 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
7021 per thread. The mitigation control state
7022 is inherited on fork.
7023
7024 prctl,ibpb
7025 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
7026 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
7027 always when switching between different user
7028 space processes.
7029
7030 seccomp
7031 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
7032 threads will enable the mitigation unless
7033 they explicitly opt out.
7034
7035 seccomp,ibpb
7036 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
7037 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
7038 always when switching between different
7039 user space processes.
7040
7041 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
7042 the available CPU features and vulnerability.
7043
7044 Default mitigation: "prctl"
7045
7046 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
7047 spectre_v2_user=auto.
7048
7049 spec_rstack_overflow=
7050 [X86,EARLY] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs
7051
7052 off - Disable mitigation
7053 microcode - Enable microcode mitigation only
7054 safe-ret - Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default)
7055 ibpb - Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on
7056 kernel entry
7057 ibpb-vmexit - Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT
7058 (cloud-specific mitigation)
7059
7060 spec_store_bypass_disable=
7061 [HW,EARLY] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
7062 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
7063
7064 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
7065 a common industry wide performance optimization known
7066 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
7067 to the same memory location may not be observed by
7068 later loads during speculative execution. The idea
7069 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
7070 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
7071 end of a particular speculation execution window.
7072
7073 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
7074 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
7075 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
7076 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
7077
7078 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
7079 Bypass optimization is used.
7080
7081 On x86 the options are:
7082
7083 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
7084 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
7085 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
7086 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
7087 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
7088 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
7089 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
7090 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
7091 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
7092 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
7093 for a process by default. The state of the control
7094 is inherited on fork.
7095 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
7096 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
7097
7098 Default mitigations:
7099 X86: "prctl"
7100
7101 On powerpc the options are:
7102
7103 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
7104 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
7105 perform a software flush on kernel entry and
7106 exit.
7107 off - No action.
7108
7109 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
7110 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
7111
7112 split_lock_detect=
7113 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
7114
7115 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
7116 instructions that access data across cache line
7117 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
7118 for split lock detection or a debug exception for
7119 bus lock detection.
7120
7121 off - not enabled
7122
7123 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
7124 about applications triggering the #AC
7125 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
7126 the default on CPUs that support split lock
7127 detection or bus lock detection. Default
7128 behavior is by #AC if both features are
7129 enabled in hardware.
7130
7131 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
7132 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
7133 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
7134 both features are enabled in hardware.
7135
7136 ratelimit:N -
7137 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
7138 per second for bus lock detection.
7139 0 < N <= 1000.
7140
7141 N/A for split lock detection.
7142
7143
7144 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
7145 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
7146 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
7147 mode.
7148
7149 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
7150 CPL > 0.
7151
7152 srbds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY]
7153 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
7154 (SRBDS) mitigation.
7155
7156 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
7157 exploit which can leak bits from the random
7158 number generator.
7159
7160 By default, this issue is mitigated by
7161 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause
7162 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
7163 much slower. Among other effects, this will
7164 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
7165
7166 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
7167 the following option:
7168
7169 off: Disable mitigation and remove
7170 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
7171
7172 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
7173 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
7174 large system, such that srcu_struct structures
7175 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
7176 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
7177 but takes effect only when the low-order four
7178 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
7179 (decide at boot).
7180
7181 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
7182 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
7183 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
7184 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
7185
7186 0: Never.
7187 1: At init_srcu_struct() time.
7188 2: When rcutorture decides to.
7189 3: Decide at boot time (default).
7190 0x1X: Above plus if high contention.
7191
7192 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
7193 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
7194 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
7195
7196 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
7197 Specifies how frequently to check for
7198 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
7199 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
7200 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
7201 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
7202 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
7203 are ignored.
7204
7205 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
7206 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
7207 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
7208 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
7209 grace period will be considered for automatic
7210 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
7211 expediting.
7212
7213 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL]
7214 Specifies the number of no-delay instances
7215 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period
7216 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero
7217 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will
7218 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy.
7219
7220 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL]
7221 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
7222 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
7223 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled
7224 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each
7225 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase.
7226
7227 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL]
7228 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
7229 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
7230
7231 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
7232 Specifies the number of update-side contention
7233 events per jiffy will be tolerated before
7234 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
7235 structure to big form. Note that the value of
7236 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
7237 set for contention-based conversions to occur.
7238
7239 ssbd= [ARM64,HW,EARLY]
7240 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
7241
7242 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
7243 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
7244 firmware based mitigation, this parameter
7245 indicates how the mitigation should be used:
7246
7247 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
7248 for both kernel and userspace
7249 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
7250 for both kernel and userspace
7251 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
7252 kernel, and offer a prctl interface
7253 to allow userspace to register its
7254 interest in being mitigated too.
7255
7256 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
7257 override the default stack gap protection. The value
7258 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
7259 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
7260 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
7261 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
7262
7263 stack_depot_disable= [KNL,EARLY]
7264 Setting this to true through kernel command line will
7265 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
7266 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
7267 to false.
7268
7269 stack_depot_max_pools= [KNL,EARLY]
7270 Specify the maximum number of pools to use for storing
7271 stack traces. Pools are allocated on-demand up to this
7272 limit. Default value is 8191 pools.
7273
7274 stacktrace [FTRACE]
7275 Enable the stack tracer on boot up.
7276
7277 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
7278 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
7279 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
7280 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
7281 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
7282 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
7283 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
7284
7285 sti= [PARISC,HW]
7286 Format: <num>
7287 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
7288 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
7289 as the initial boot-console.
7290 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
7291
7292 sti_font= [HW]
7293 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
7294
7295 stifb= [HW]
7296 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
7297
7298 strict_sas_size=
7299 [X86]
7300 Format: <bool>
7301 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
7302 against the required signal frame size which
7303 depends on the supported FPU features. This can
7304 be used to filter out binaries which have
7305 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
7306
7307 stress_hpt [PPC,EARLY]
7308 Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash
7309 page table to increase the rate of hash page table
7310 faults on kernel addresses.
7311
7312 stress_slb [PPC,EARLY]
7313 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
7314 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
7315 on kernel addresses.
7316
7317 no_slb_preload [PPC,EARLY]
7318 Disables slb preloading for userspace.
7319
7320 sunrpc.min_resvport=
7321 sunrpc.max_resvport=
7322 [NFS,SUNRPC]
7323 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
7324 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
7325 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
7326 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
7327 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
7328 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
7329 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
7330 maximum port values.
7331
7332 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
7333 [NFS,SUNRPC]
7334 Limit the number of requests that the server will
7335 process in parallel from a single connection.
7336 The default value is 0 (no limit).
7337
7338 sunrpc.pool_mode=
7339 [NFS]
7340 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
7341 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
7342 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
7343 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
7344 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
7345 NFS server is running.
7346
7347 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
7348 automatically using heuristics
7349 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
7350 percpu one pool for each CPU
7351 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
7352 to global on non-NUMA machines)
7353
7354 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
7355 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
7356 [NFS,SUNRPC]
7357 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
7358 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
7359 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
7360 improve throughput, but will also increase the
7361 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
7362
7363 suspend.pm_test_delay=
7364 [SUSPEND]
7365 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
7366 mode before resuming the system (see
7367 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
7368 is set. Default value is 5.
7369
7370 svm= [PPC]
7371 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
7372 This parameter controls use of the Protected
7373 Execution Facility on pSeries.
7374
7375 swiotlb= [ARM,PPC,MIPS,X86,S390,EARLY]
7376 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce }
7377 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
7378 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
7379 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up
7380 to a power of 2.
7381 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
7382 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
7383 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
7384
7385 switches= [HW,M68k,EARLY]
7386
7387 sysctl.*= [KNL]
7388 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
7389 process, as if the value was written to the respective
7390 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
7391 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
7392 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
7393 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
7394 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
7395
7396 sysrq_always_enabled
7397 [KNL]
7398 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
7399 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
7400 Useful for debugging.
7401
7402 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
7403 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
7404 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
7405 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
7406 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
7407 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
7408
7409 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
7410
7411 test_suspend= [SUSPEND]
7412 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
7413 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
7414 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
7415 as the system sleep state during system startup with
7416 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
7417 The system is woken from this state using a
7418 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
7419
7420 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
7421 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
7422
7423 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
7424 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
7425 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
7426
7427 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
7428 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
7429 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
7430
7431 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
7432 1: disable ACPI thermal control
7433
7434 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
7435 -1: disable all passive trip points
7436 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
7437 value
7438
7439 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
7440 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
7441 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
7442 0: no polling (default)
7443
7444 thp_anon= [KNL]
7445 Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<state>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<state>
7446 state is one of "always", "madvise", "never" or "inherit".
7447 Control the default behavior of the system with respect
7448 to anonymous transparent hugepages.
7449 Can be used multiple times for multiple anon THP sizes.
7450 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more
7451 details.
7452
7453 threadirqs [KNL,EARLY]
7454 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
7455 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
7456
7457 thp_shmem= [KNL]
7458 Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<policy>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<policy>
7459 Control the default policy of each hugepage size for the
7460 internal shmem mount. <policy> is one of policies available
7461 for the shmem mount ("always", "inherit", "never", "within_size",
7462 and "advise").
7463 It can be used multiple times for multiple shmem THP sizes.
7464 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more
7465 details.
7466
7467 topology= [S390,EARLY]
7468 Format: {off | on}
7469 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
7470 topology information if the hardware supports this.
7471 The scheduler will make use of this information and
7472 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
7473 Default is on.
7474
7475 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
7476 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
7477 until after init has spawned.
7478
7479 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
7480 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
7481 even if there were no errors. This can be a
7482 very costly operation when many torture tests
7483 are running concurrently, especially on systems
7484 with rotating-rust storage.
7485
7486 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
7487 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
7488 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero
7489 disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
7490
7491 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
7492 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
7493
7494 tpm.disable_pcr_integrity= [HW,TPM]
7495 Do not protect PCR registers from unintended physical
7496 access, or interposers in the bus by the means of
7497 having an integrity protected session wrapped around
7498 TPM2_PCR_Extend command. Consider this in a situation
7499 where TPM is heavily utilized by IMA, thus protection
7500 causing a major performance hit, and the space where
7501 machines are deployed is by other means guarded.
7502
7503 tpm_crb_ffa.busy_timeout_ms= [ARM64,TPM]
7504 Maximum time in milliseconds to retry sending a message
7505 to the TPM service before giving up. This parameter controls
7506 how long the system will continue retrying when the TPM
7507 service is busy.
7508 Format: <unsigned int>
7509 Default: 2000 (2 seconds)
7510
7511 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
7512 Format: integer pcr id
7513 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
7514 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
7515 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
7516 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
7517 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
7518 are saved.
7519
7520 tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM]
7521 Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer
7522 for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false
7523 (0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces
7524 defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see
7525 https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/
7526
7527 tp_printk [FTRACE]
7528 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
7529 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
7530 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
7531 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
7532 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
7533
7534 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
7535 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
7536 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
7537 tp_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
7538
7539 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
7540 to stop the printing of events to console at
7541 late_initcall_sync.
7542
7543 ** CAUTION **
7544
7545 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
7546 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
7547 the system to live lock.
7548
7549 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
7550 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
7551 on the console. It may be useful to only include the
7552 printing of events during boot up, as user space may
7553 make the system inoperable.
7554
7555 This command line option will stop the printing of events
7556 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
7557
7558 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
7559 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
7560
7561 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
7562 at boot up.
7563 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
7564 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
7565 depending on the architecture, may not be
7566 in sync between CPUs.
7567 global - Event time stamps are synchronized across
7568 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
7569 but better for some race conditions.
7570 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
7571 note, some counts may be skipped due to the
7572 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
7573 once per event.
7574 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
7575 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
7576 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
7577 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
7578 stamps.
7579 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
7580 Architectures may add more clocks. See
7581 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
7582
7583 trace_event=[event-list]
7584 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
7585 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
7586 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
7587 also Documentation/trace/events.rst
7588
7589 To enable modules, use :mod: keyword:
7590
7591 trace_event=:mod:<module>
7592
7593 The value before :mod: will only enable specific events
7594 that are part of the module. See the above mentioned
7595 document for more information.
7596
7597 trace_instance=[instance-info]
7598 [FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up.
7599 This will be listed in:
7600
7601 /sys/kernel/tracing/instances
7602
7603 Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created
7604 via:
7605
7606 trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2>
7607
7608 Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is
7609 unique.
7610
7611 trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall
7612
7613 will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and
7614 the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry
7615 event, and all events under the "initcall" system.
7616
7617 Flags can be added to the instance to modify its behavior when it is
7618 created. The flags are separated by '^'.
7619
7620 The available flags are:
7621
7622 traceoff - Have the tracing instance tracing disabled after it is created.
7623 traceprintk - Have trace_printk() write into this trace instance
7624 (note, "printk" and "trace_printk" can also be used)
7625
7626 trace_instance=foo^traceoff^traceprintk,sched,irq
7627
7628 The flags must come before the defined events.
7629
7630 If memory has been reserved (see memmap for x86), the instance
7631 can use that memory:
7632
7633 memmap=12M$0x284500000 trace_instance=boot_map@0x284500000:12M
7634
7635 The above will create a "boot_map" instance that uses the physical
7636 memory at 0x284500000 that is 12Megs. The per CPU buffers of that
7637 instance will be split up accordingly.
7638
7639 Alternatively, the memory can be reserved by the reserve_mem option:
7640
7641 reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map@trace
7642
7643 This will reserve 12 megabytes at boot up with a 4096 byte alignment
7644 and place the ring buffer in this memory. Note that due to KASLR, the
7645 memory may not be the same location each time, which will not preserve
7646 the buffer content.
7647
7648 Also note that the layout of the ring buffer data may change between
7649 kernel versions where the validator will fail and reset the ring buffer
7650 if the layout is not the same as the previous kernel.
7651
7652 If the ring buffer is used for persistent bootups and has events enabled,
7653 it is recommend to disable tracing so that events from a previous boot do not
7654 mix with events of the current boot (unless you are debugging a random crash
7655 at boot up).
7656
7657 reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map^traceoff^traceprintk@trace,sched,irq
7658
7659 Note, saving the trace buffer across reboots does require that the system
7660 is set up to not wipe memory. For instance, CONFIG_RESET_ATTACK_MITIGATION
7661 can force a memory reset on boot which will clear any trace that was stored.
7662 This is just one of many ways that can clear memory. Make sure your system
7663 keeps the content of memory across reboots before relying on this option.
7664
7665 NB: Both the mapped address and size must be page aligned for the architecture.
7666
7667 See also Documentation/trace/debugging.rst
7668
7669
7670 trace_options=[option-list]
7671 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
7672 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
7673 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
7674 to echo the option name into
7675
7676 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options
7677
7678 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
7679 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
7680
7681 trace_options=stacktrace
7682
7683 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
7684 section.
7685
7686 trace_trigger=[trigger-list]
7687 [FTRACE] Add an event trigger on specific events.
7688 Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional
7689 filter.
7690
7691 The format is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..."
7692 Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma delimited.
7693
7694 For example:
7695
7696 trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2"
7697
7698 The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch"
7699 event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch"
7700 event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE).
7701
7702 See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst
7703
7704
7705 traceoff_after_boot
7706 [FTRACE] Sometimes tracing is used to debug issues
7707 during the boot process. Since the trace buffer has a
7708 limited amount of storage, it may be prudent to
7709 disable tracing after the boot is finished, otherwise
7710 the critical information may be overwritten. With this
7711 option, the main tracing buffer will be turned off at
7712 the end of the boot process.
7713
7714 traceoff_on_warning
7715 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
7716 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
7717 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
7718 file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/
7719
7720 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
7721 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
7722 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
7723
7724 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
7725 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
7726
7727 transparent_hugepage=
7728 [KNL]
7729 Format: [always|madvise|never]
7730 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
7731 with respect to transparent hugepages.
7732 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7733 for more details.
7734
7735 transparent_hugepage_shmem= [KNL]
7736 Format: [always|within_size|advise|never|deny|force]
7737 Can be used to control the hugepage allocation policy for
7738 the internal shmem mount.
7739 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7740 for more details.
7741
7742 transparent_hugepage_tmpfs= [KNL]
7743 Format: [always|within_size|advise|never]
7744 Can be used to control the default hugepage allocation policy
7745 for the tmpfs mount.
7746 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7747 for more details.
7748
7749 trusted.source= [KEYS]
7750 Format: <string>
7751 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
7752 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
7753 sources:
7754 - "tpm"
7755 - "tee"
7756 - "caam"
7757 - "dcp"
7758 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
7759 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
7760 first trust source as a backend which is initialized
7761 successfully during iteration.
7762
7763 trusted.rng= [KEYS]
7764 Format: <string>
7765 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
7766 Can be one of:
7767 - "kernel"
7768 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
7769 - "default"
7770 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
7771 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
7772
7773 trusted.dcp_use_otp_key
7774 This is intended to be used in combination with
7775 trusted.source=dcp and will select the DCP OTP key
7776 instead of the DCP UNIQUE key blob encryption.
7777
7778 trusted.dcp_skip_zk_test
7779 This is intended to be used in combination with
7780 trusted.source=dcp and will disable the check if the
7781 blob key is all zeros. This is helpful for situations where
7782 having this key zero'ed is acceptable. E.g. in testing
7783 scenarios.
7784
7785 tsa= [X86] Control mitigation for Transient Scheduler
7786 Attacks on AMD CPUs. Search the following in your
7787 favourite search engine for more details:
7788
7789 "Technical guidance for mitigating transient scheduler
7790 attacks".
7791
7792 off - disable the mitigation
7793 on - enable the mitigation (default)
7794 user - mitigate only user/kernel transitions
7795 vm - mitigate only guest/host transitions
7796
7797
7798 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
7799 Format: <string>
7800 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
7801 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
7802 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
7803 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
7804 virtualized environment.
7805 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
7806 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
7807 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
7808 can add overhead.
7809 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
7810 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
7811 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
7812 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
7813 in situations with strict latency requirements (where
7814 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
7815 acceptable).
7816 [x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer
7817 (HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was
7818 obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15).
7819 Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm.
7820 [x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with
7821 which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but
7822 only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy.
7823 This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and
7824 can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog. A console
7825 message will flag any such suppression or overriding.
7826
7827 tsc_early_khz= [X86,EARLY] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
7828 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
7829 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
7830 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
7831 Format: <unsigned int>
7832
7833 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
7834 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
7835 support TSX control.
7836
7837 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
7838
7839 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
7840 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
7841 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
7842 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
7843 so there may be unknown security risks associated
7844 with leaving it enabled.
7845
7846 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
7847 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
7848 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
7849 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
7850 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
7851 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
7852 deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
7853
7854 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
7855 otherwise enable TSX on the system.
7856
7857 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
7858
7859 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
7860 for more details.
7861
7862 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
7863 Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
7864
7865 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
7866 certain CPUs that support Transactional
7867 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
7868 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
7869 information to a disclosure gadget under certain
7870 conditions.
7871
7872 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
7873 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
7874 access data to which the attacker does not have direct
7875 access.
7876
7877 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The
7878 options are:
7879
7880 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
7881 if TSX is enabled.
7882
7883 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
7884 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
7885 is not disabled because CPU is not
7886 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
7887 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
7888
7889 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
7890 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
7891 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
7892 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
7893
7894 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
7895 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected
7896 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
7897 required and doesn't provide any additional
7898 mitigation.
7899
7900 For details see:
7901 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
7902
7903 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
7904 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
7905 Format:
7906 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
7907 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
7908
7909 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
7910 happen after console_init() and before a proper
7911 console driver takes over, this boot options might
7912 help "seeing" what's going on.
7913
7914 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
7915 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
7916
7917 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
7918 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
7919 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
7920 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
7921 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
7922 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
7923 reported either.
7924
7925 unaligned_scalar_speed=
7926 [RISCV]
7927 Format: {slow | fast | unsupported}
7928 Allow skipping scalar unaligned access speed tests. This
7929 is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip
7930 the tests in environments where they run too slowly. All
7931 CPUs must have the same scalar unaligned access speed.
7932
7933 unaligned_vector_speed=
7934 [RISCV]
7935 Format: {slow | fast | unsupported}
7936 Allow skipping vector unaligned access speed tests. This
7937 is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip
7938 the tests in environments where they run too slowly. All
7939 CPUs must have the same vector unaligned access speed.
7940
7941 unknown_nmi_panic
7942 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
7943
7944 unwind_debug [X86-64,EARLY]
7945 Enable unwinder debug output. This can be
7946 useful for debugging certain unwinder error
7947 conditions, including corrupt stacks and
7948 bad/missing unwinder metadata.
7949
7950 usbcore.authorized_default=
7951 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
7952 (default -1 = authorized (same as 1),
7953 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
7954 if device connected to internal port)
7955
7956 usbcore.autosuspend=
7957 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
7958 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
7959 is the time required before an idle device will be
7960 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
7961 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
7962
7963 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
7964 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
7965
7966 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
7967 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
7968 (default = 65536).
7969
7970 usbcore.blinkenlights=
7971 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
7972
7973 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
7974 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
7975 scheme (default 0 = off).
7976
7977 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
7978 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
7979 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
7980
7981 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
7982 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
7983 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
7984
7985 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
7986 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
7987 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
7988 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
7989
7990 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
7991
7992 usbcore.quirks=
7993 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
7994 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
7995 commas. Each entry has the form
7996 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
7997 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
7998 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
7999 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
8000 the following meanings:
8001 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
8002 descriptors must not be fetched using
8003 a 255-byte read);
8004 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
8005 correctly so reset it instead);
8006 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
8007 Set-Interface requests);
8008 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
8009 handle its Configuration or Interface
8010 strings);
8011 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
8012 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
8013 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
8014 more interface descriptions than the
8015 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
8016 talking to these interfaces);
8017 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
8018 during initialization, after we read
8019 the device descriptor);
8020 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
8021 high speed and super speed interrupt
8022 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
8023 require the interval in microframes (1
8024 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
8025 calculated as interval = 2 ^
8026 (bInterval-1).
8027 Devices with this quirk report their
8028 bInterval as the result of this
8029 calculation instead of the exponent
8030 variable used in the calculation);
8031 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
8032 handle device_qualifier descriptor
8033 requests);
8034 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
8035 generates spurious wakeup, ignore
8036 remote wakeup capability);
8037 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
8038 Power Management);
8039 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
8040 (Device reports its bInterval as linear
8041 frames instead of the USB 2.0
8042 calculation);
8043 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
8044 to be disconnected before suspend to
8045 prevent spurious wakeup);
8046 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
8047 pause after every control message);
8048 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
8049 delay after resetting its port);
8050 p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT
8051 (Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS
8052 request from 5000 ms to 500 ms);
8053 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
8054
8055 usbhid.mousepoll=
8056 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
8057
8058 usbhid.jspoll=
8059 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
8060
8061 usbhid.kbpoll=
8062 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
8063
8064 usb-storage.delay_use=
8065 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
8066 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
8067 Optionally the delay in milliseconds if the value has
8068 suffix with "ms".
8069 Example: delay_use=2567ms
8070
8071 usb-storage.quirks=
8072 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
8073 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
8074 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
8075 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
8076 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
8077 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
8078 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
8079 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
8080 of sense data, not on uas);
8081 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
8082 bytes of sense data, not on uas);
8083 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
8084 device capacity by one sector);
8085 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
8086 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
8087 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
8088 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
8089 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
8090 command, uas only);
8091 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
8092 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
8093 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
8094 reported device capacity by one
8095 sector if the number is odd);
8096 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
8097 device);
8098 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
8099 command, uas only);
8100 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
8101 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
8102 unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
8103 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
8104 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
8105 not on uas);
8106 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
8107 initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
8108 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
8109 reported by the device, not on uas);
8110 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
8111 by default, not on uas);
8112 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
8113 bogus residue values, not on uas);
8114 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
8115 Logical Unit);
8116 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
8117 commands, uas only);
8118 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
8119 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
8120 medium is write-protected).
8121 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
8122 even if the device claims no cache,
8123 not on uas)
8124 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
8125
8126 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
8127 Format: <int>
8128 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
8129 1 - undefined instruction events
8130 2 - system calls
8131 4 - invalid data aborts
8132 8 - SIGSEGV faults
8133 16 - SIGBUS faults
8134 Example: user_debug=31
8135
8136 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC]
8137 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
8138
8139 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
8140 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
8141
8142 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
8143 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
8144 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
8145
8146 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
8147 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
8148 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
8149
8150 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
8151 alias for vdso32=0.
8152
8153 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
8154 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
8155
8156 video= [FB,EARLY] Frame buffer configuration
8157 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
8158
8159 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
8160 Format: [0|1]
8161 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
8162 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
8163 level and then send out the event to user space through
8164 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
8165 will only send out the event without touching backlight
8166 brightness level.
8167 default: 1
8168
8169 virtio_mmio.device=
8170 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
8171
8172 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
8173 where:
8174 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
8175 like K, M and G)
8176 <baseaddr> := physical base address
8177 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
8178 request_irq())
8179 <id> := (optional) platform device id
8180 example:
8181 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
8182
8183 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
8184
8185 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
8186 See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and
8187 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
8188 Use vga=ask for menu.
8189 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
8190 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
8191
8192 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
8193 May slow down system boot speed, especially when
8194 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
8195 All options are enabled by default, and this
8196 interface is meant to allow for selectively
8197 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
8198 debugging features.
8199
8200 Available options are:
8201 P Enable page structure init time poisoning
8202 - Disable all of the above options
8203
8204 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Forces the vmalloc area to have an
8205 exact size of <nn>. This can be used to increase
8206 the minimum size (128MB on x86, arm32 platforms).
8207 It can also be used to decrease the size and leave more room
8208 for directly mapped kernel RAM. Note that this parameter does
8209 not exist on many other platforms (including arm64, alpha,
8210 loongarch, arc, csky, hexagon, microblaze, mips, nios2, openrisc,
8211 parisc, m64k, powerpc, riscv, sh, um, xtensa, s390, sparc).
8212
8213 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390,EARLY]
8214 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
8215 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
8216
8217 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
8218 Format: <command>
8219
8220 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
8221 Format: <command>
8222
8223 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
8224 Format: <command>
8225
8226 vmscape= [X86] Controls mitigation for VMscape attacks.
8227 VMscape attacks can leak information from a userspace
8228 hypervisor to a guest via speculative side-channels.
8229
8230 off - disable the mitigation
8231 ibpb - use Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier
8232 (IBPB) mitigation (default)
8233 force - force vulnerability detection even on
8234 unaffected processors
8235
8236 vsyscall= [X86-64,EARLY]
8237 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
8238 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
8239 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
8240 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
8241 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
8242 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
8243
8244 emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
8245 reasonably safely. The vsyscall page is
8246 readable.
8247
8248 xonly [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
8249 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
8250 page is not readable.
8251
8252 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
8253 them quite hard to use for exploits but
8254 might break your system.
8255
8256 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
8257 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
8258 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
8259
8260 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
8261 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
8262 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
8263 see vga-softcursor.rst. Default: 2 = underline.
8264
8265 vt.default_blu= [VT]
8266 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
8267 Change the default blue palette of the console.
8268 This is a 16-member array composed of values
8269 ranging from 0-255.
8270
8271 vt.default_grn= [VT]
8272 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
8273 Change the default green palette of the console.
8274 This is a 16-member array composed of values
8275 ranging from 0-255.
8276
8277 vt.default_red= [VT]
8278 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
8279 Change the default red palette of the console.
8280 This is a 16-member array composed of values
8281 ranging from 0-255.
8282
8283 vt.default_utf8=
8284 [VT]
8285 Format=<0|1>
8286 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
8287 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
8288 newly opened terminals.
8289
8290 vt.global_cursor_default=
8291 [VT]
8292 Format=<-1|0|1>
8293 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
8294 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
8295 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
8296 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
8297 cursors, 1 will display them.
8298
8299 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
8300 Default: 2 = green.
8301
8302 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
8303 Default: 3 = cyan.
8304
8305 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
8306 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
8307 or other driver-specific files in the
8308 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
8309
8310 watchdog_thresh=
8311 [KNL]
8312 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
8313 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
8314 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
8315 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
8316 seconds.
8317
8318 workqueue.unbound_cpus=
8319 [KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs
8320 to use in unbound workqueues.
8321 Format: <cpu-list>
8322 By default, all online CPUs are available for
8323 unbound workqueues.
8324
8325 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
8326 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
8327 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
8328 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
8329 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
8330 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
8331 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
8332 corresponding sysfs file.
8333
8334 workqueue.panic_on_stall=<uint>
8335 Panic when workqueue stall is detected by
8336 CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG. It sets the number times of the
8337 stall to trigger panic.
8338
8339 The default is 0, which disables the panic on stall.
8340
8341 workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us=
8342 Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this
8343 threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive
8344 and excluded from concurrency management to prevent
8345 them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work
8346 items. Default is 10000 (10ms).
8347
8348 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
8349 will report the work functions which violate this
8350 threshold repeatedly. They are likely good
8351 candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead.
8352
8353 workqueue.cpu_intensive_warning_thresh=<uint>
8354 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
8355 will report the work functions which violate the
8356 intensive_threshold_us repeatedly. In order to prevent
8357 spurious warnings, start printing only after a work
8358 function has violated this threshold number of times.
8359
8360 The default is 4 times. 0 disables the warning.
8361
8362 workqueue.power_efficient
8363 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
8364 they show better performance thanks to cache
8365 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
8366 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
8367
8368 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
8369 were observed to contribute significantly to power
8370 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
8371 power usage at the cost of small performance
8372 overhead.
8373
8374 The default value of this parameter is determined by
8375 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
8376
8377 workqueue.default_affinity_scope=
8378 Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound
8379 workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache",
8380 "numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more
8381 information, see the Affinity Scopes section in
8382 Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst.
8383
8384 This can be changed after boot by writing to the
8385 matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All
8386 workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be
8387 updated accordingly.
8388
8389 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
8390 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
8391 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
8392 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
8393 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
8394 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
8395 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
8396 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
8397 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
8398 impacted.
8399
8400 writecombine= [LOONGARCH,EARLY] Control the MAT (Memory Access
8401 Type) of ioremap_wc().
8402
8403 on - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc()
8404 off - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc()
8405
8406 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
8407 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
8408 supporting x2apic.
8409
8410 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
8411 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
8412 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
8413 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
8414 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
8415 domains.
8416
8417 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN,EARLY]
8418 Unplug Xen emulated devices
8419 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
8420 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
8421 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
8422 nics -- unplug network devices
8423 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
8424 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
8425 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
8426 the unplug protocol
8427 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
8428
8429 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN,EARLY]
8430 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
8431 panic() code such as dumping handler.
8432
8433 xen_mc_debug [X86,XEN,EARLY]
8434 Enable multicall debugging when running as a Xen PV guest.
8435 Enabling this feature will reduce performance a little
8436 bit, so it should only be enabled for obtaining extended
8437 debug data in case of multicall errors.
8438
8439 xen_msr_safe= [X86,XEN,EARLY]
8440 Format: <bool>
8441 Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR
8442 access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The
8443 default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE.
8444
8445 xen_nopv [X86]
8446 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
8447 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
8448 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
8449 has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
8450
8451 xen_no_vector_callback
8452 [KNL,X86,XEN,EARLY] Disable the vector callback for Xen
8453 event channel interrupts.
8454
8455 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN]
8456 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
8457 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
8458 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
8459 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
8460
8461 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN,EARLY]
8462 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
8463 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
8464 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
8465 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
8466 more timer interrupts.
8467
8468 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
8469 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
8470 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
8471 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
8472 started with less memory configured than allowed at
8473 max. Default is 180.
8474
8475 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN]
8476 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
8477 storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
8478
8479 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN]
8480 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
8481 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
8482
8483 xen.fifo_events= [XEN]
8484 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
8485 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
8486 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
8487 fairer and the number of possible event channels is
8488 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
8489
8490 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
8491 Format:
8492 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
8493
8494 xive= [PPC]
8495 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
8496 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
8497 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
8498
8499 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
8500 controller on both pseries and powernv
8501 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
8502
8503 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC]
8504 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
8505 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
8506 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
8507 loads instead, as on POWER9.
8508
8509 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL]
8510 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
8511 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
8512 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
8513
8514 xmon [PPC,EARLY]
8515 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
8516 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
8517 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
8518 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
8519 debugger is called from setup_arch().
8520 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
8521 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
8522 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
8523 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
8524 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
8525 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
8526 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
8527 can be written using xmon commands.
8528 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
8529 memory, and other data can't be written using
8530 xmon commands.
8531 off xmon is disabled.