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