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