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