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1 ACPI ACPI support is enabled.
2 AGP AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is enabled.
3 ALSA ALSA sound support is enabled.
4 APIC APIC support is enabled.
5 APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled.
6 APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled.
7 ARM ARM architecture is enabled.
8 ARM64 ARM64 architecture is enabled.
9 AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled.
10 CLK Common clock infrastructure is enabled.
11 CMA Contiguous Memory Area support is enabled.
12 DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
13 DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime
14 EARLY Parameter processed too early to be embedded in initrd.
15 EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
16 EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
17 EVM Extended Verification Module
18 FB The frame buffer device is enabled.
19 FTRACE Function tracing enabled.
20 GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled.
21 HIBERNATION HIBERNATION is enabled.
22 HW Appropriate hardware is enabled.
23 HYPER_V HYPERV support is enabled.
24 IMA Integrity measurement architecture is enabled.
25 IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled.
26 IPV6 IPv6 support is enabled.
27 ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled.
28 ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
29 ISOL CPU Isolation is enabled.
30 JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
31 KGDB Kernel debugger support is enabled.
32 KVM Kernel Virtual Machine support is enabled.
33 LIBATA Libata driver is enabled
34 LOONGARCH LoongArch architecture is enabled.
35 LOOP Loopback device support is enabled.
36 LP Printer support is enabled.
37 M68k M68k architecture is enabled.
38 These options have more detailed description inside of
39 Documentation/arch/m68k/kernel-options.rst.
40 MDA MDA console support is enabled.
41 MIPS MIPS architecture is enabled.
42 MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
43 MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
44 MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
45 NET Appropriate network support is enabled.
46 NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
47 NUMA NUMA support is enabled.
48 OF Devicetree is enabled.
49 PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
50 PCI PCI bus support is enabled.
51 PCIE PCI Express support is enabled.
52 PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
53 PNP Plug & Play support is enabled.
54 PPC PowerPC architecture is enabled.
55 PPT Parallel port support is enabled.
56 PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled.
57 PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled.
58 RAM RAM disk support is enabled.
59 RDT Intel Resource Director Technology.
60 RISCV RISCV architecture is enabled.
61 S390 S390 architecture is enabled.
62 SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
63 A lot of drivers have their options described inside
64 the Documentation/scsi/ sub-directory.
65 SDW SoundWire support is enabled.
66 SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
67 SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
68 SERIAL Serial support is enabled.
69 SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
70 SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel.
71 SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled.
72 SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled.
73 SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled.
74 TPM TPM drivers are enabled.
75 UMS USB Mass Storage support is enabled.
76 USB USB support is enabled.
77 USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
78 V4L Video For Linux support is enabled.
79 VGA The VGA console has been enabled.
80 VMMIO Driver for memory mapped virtio devices is enabled.
81 VT Virtual terminal support is enabled.
82 WDT Watchdog support is enabled.
83 X86-32 X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled.
84 X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled.
85 X86 Either 32-bit or 64-bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64)
86 X86_UV SGI UV support is enabled.
87 XEN Xen support is enabled
88 XTENSA xtensa architecture is enabled.
89
90In addition, the following text indicates that the option
91
92 BOOT Is a boot loader parameter.
93 BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor.
94 KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter.
95
96
97Kernel parameters
98
99 accept_memory= [MM]
100 Format: { eager | lazy }
101 default: lazy
102 By default, unaccepted memory is accepted lazily to
103 avoid prolonged boot times. The lazy option will add
104 some runtime overhead until all memory is eventually
105 accepted. In most cases the overhead is negligible.
106 For some workloads or for debugging purposes
107 accept_memory=eager can be used to accept all memory
108 at once during boot.
109
110 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64,EARLY]
111 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
112 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
113 copy_dsdt | nospcr }
114 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
115 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64,riscv64]
116 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
117 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
118 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
119 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
120 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
121 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
122 nocmcff -- Disable firmware first mode for corrected
123 errors. This disables parsing the HEST CMC error
124 source to check if firmware has set the FF flag. This
125 may result in duplicate corrected error reports.
126 nospcr -- disable console in ACPI SPCR table as
127 default _serial_ console on ARM64
128 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on", "acpi=force" or
129 "acpi=nospcr" are available
130 For RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
131 are available
132
133 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
134
135 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI,IOAPIC,EARLY]
136 Format: <int>
137 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
138 1,0: use 1st APIC table
139 default: 0
140
141 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
142 { vendor | video | native | none }
143 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
144 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
145 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
146 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
147 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
148 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
149
150 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr [ACPI,EARLY]
151 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
152 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
153 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
154 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
155
156 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
157 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
158 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
159 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
160 This option is useful for developers to identify the
161 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
162 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
163
164 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
165 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
166 Format: <int>
167 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
168 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
169 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
170 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
171 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
172 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
173 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
174 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
175 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
176 debug layers and levels.
177
178 Enable processor driver info messages:
179 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
180 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
181 object while interpreting AML:
182 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
183 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
184 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
185
186 Some values produce so much output that the system is
187 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
188 if you need to capture more output.
189
190 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
191 { strict | lax | no }
192 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
193 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
194 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
195 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
196 can interfere with legacy drivers.
197 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
198 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
199 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
200 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
201 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
202 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
203 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
204 no further checks are performed.
205
206 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
207 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
208 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
209 size limitation.
210
211 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
212 ACPI will balance active IRQs
213 default in APIC mode
214
215 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
216 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
217 default in PIC mode
218
219 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
220 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
221
222 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
223 use by PCI
224 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
225
226 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
227 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
228 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
229 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
230 the GPE dispatcher.
231 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
232 GPE floodings.
233 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
234
235 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
236 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
237 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
238 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
239 auto-serialization feature.
240 This feature is enabled by default.
241 This option allows to turn off the feature.
242
243 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
244 kernels.
245
246 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
247 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
248 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
249 installed automatically and they will appear under
250 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
251 This option turns off this feature.
252 Note that specifying this option does not affect
253 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
254 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
255
256 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT]
257 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
258 a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
259
260 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC,EARLY]
261 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
262 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
263 second kernel for kdump.
264
265 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
266 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
267
268 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
269 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
270 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
271 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
272 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
273
274 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
275 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
276 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
277 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
278 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
279 strings
280 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
281 strings
282 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
283
284 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
285 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
286 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
287 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
288 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
289 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
290 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
291 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
292 care about the state of the feature group strings which
293 should be controlled by the OSPM.
294 Examples:
295 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
296 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
297 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
298
299 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
300 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
301 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
302 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
303 multiple times through kernel command line is also
304 meaningless.
305 Examples:
306 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
307 FALSE.
308
309 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
310 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
311 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
312 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
313 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
314 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
315 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
316 there are quirks related to this string. This command
317 is useful when one want to control the state of the
318 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
319 the OSPM features.
320 Examples:
321 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
322 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
323 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
324 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
325 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
326 equivalent to
327 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
328 and
329 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
330 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
331
332 acpi_pm_good [X86]
333 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
334 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
335 and always returns good values.
336
337 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI,EARLY] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
338 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
339
340 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
341 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
342 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
343
344 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
345 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
346 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
347 sci_force_enable, nobl }
348 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
349 s3_bios and s3_mode.
350 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
351 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
352 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
353 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
354 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
355 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
356 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
357 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
358 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
359 s4_hwsig option is enabled.
360 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
361 used (or even warned about) during resume.
362 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
363 control method, with respect to putting devices into
364 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
365 of _PTS is used by default).
366 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
367 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
368 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
369 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
370 but some broken systems don't work without it).
371 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
372 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
373 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
374
375 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
376 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
377 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
378
379 add_efi_memmap [EFI,X86,EARLY] Include EFI memory map in
380 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
381
382 agp= [AGP]
383 { off | try_unsupported }
384 off: disable AGP support
385 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
386 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
387
388 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
389 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
390
391 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
392 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
393 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
394 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
395
396 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
397 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
398 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
399 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
400 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
401 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
402 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
403
404 32: only for 32-bit processes
405 64: only for 64-bit processes
406 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
407 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
408
409 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
410 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
411 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
412 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
413 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
414 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
415
416 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64,EARLY]
417 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
418 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
419 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
420 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
421 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
422 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
423
424 See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
425 information.
426
427 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
428 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
429 Possible values are:
430 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
431 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
432 the system
433 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
434 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
435 allowed anymore to lift isolation
436 requirements as needed. This option
437 does not override iommu=pt
438 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
439 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
440 option with care.
441 pgtbl_v1 - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default).
442 pgtbl_v2 - Use v2 page table for DMA-API.
443 irtcachedis - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching.
444 nohugepages - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables
445 to 4 KiB.
446 v2_pgsizes_only - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables
447 to 4KiB/2Mib/1GiB.
448
449
450 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
451 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
452 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
453 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
454 IOMMU initialization.
455
456 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
457 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
458 remapping modes:
459 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
460 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
461 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
462 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
463 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
464
465 amd_pstate= [X86,EARLY]
466 disable
467 Do not enable amd_pstate as the default
468 scaling driver for the supported processors
469 passive
470 Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver.
471 In this mode autonomous selection is disabled.
472 Driver requests a desired performance level and platform
473 tries to match the same performance level if it is
474 satisfied by guaranteed performance level.
475 active
476 Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver,
477 driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants
478 to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff)
479 to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will
480 calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores
481 frequency.
482 guided
483 Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and
484 maximum performance level and the platform autonomously
485 selects a performance level in this range and appropriate
486 to the current workload.
487
488 amd_prefcore=
489 [X86]
490 disable
491 Disable amd-pstate preferred core.
492
493 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
494 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
495 Format: <a>,<b>
496 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
497
498 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
499 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
500 connected to one of 16 gameports
501 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
502
503 apc= [HW,SPARC]
504 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
505 Format: noidle
506 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
507 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
508 APC and your system crashes randomly.
509
510 apic [APIC,X86-64] Use IO-APIC. Default.
511
512 apic= [APIC,X86,EARLY] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
513 Change the output verbosity while booting
514 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
515 Change the amount of debugging information output
516 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
517
518 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86,EARLY] External NMI delivery setting
519 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
520 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
521 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
522 backup of CPU 0
523 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
524 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
525 shot down by NMI
526
527 apicpmtimer Do APIC timer calibration using the pmtimer. Implies
528 apicmaintimer. Useful when your PIT timer is totally
529 broken.
530
531 autoconf= [IPV6]
532 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
533
534 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
535 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
536
537 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
538 Format: { "0" | "1" }
539 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
540 0 -- disable.
541 1 -- enable.
542 Default value is set via kernel config option.
543
544 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
545 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
546
547 arm64.no32bit_el0 [ARM64] Unconditionally disable the execution of
548 32 bit applications.
549
550 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
551 Identification support
552
553 arm64.nogcs [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Guarded Control Stack
554 support
555
556 arm64.nomops [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory
557 Set instructions support
558
559 arm64.nompam [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Partitioning And
560 Monitoring support
561
562 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
563 support
564
565 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
566 support
567
568 arm64.nosme [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix
569 Extension support
570
571 arm64.nosve [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector
572 Extension support
573
574 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
575
576 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
577
578 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
579 EzKey and similar keyboards
580
581 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
582
583 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
584 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
585
586 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
587 keyboards
588
589 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
590 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
591
592 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
593 Use software keyboard repeat
594
595 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
596 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
597 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
598 enabled until the next reboot
599 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
600 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
601 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
602 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
603 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
604 userspace auditd.
605 Default: unset
606
607 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
608 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
609 Default: 64
610
611 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
612 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
613 Format: { "0" | "1" }
614 0 - Disable the BAU.
615 1 - Enable the BAU.
616 unset - Disable the BAU.
617
618 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
619 Format: <io>,<mode>
620
621 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
622 Format: <io>,<mode>
623 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
624
625 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
626 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
627 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
628 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
629
630 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
631 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
632 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
633 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
634
635 bdev_allow_write_mounted=
636 Format: <bool>
637 Control the ability to open a mounted block device
638 for writing, i.e., allow / disallow writes that bypass
639 the FS. This was implemented as a means to prevent
640 fuzzers from crashing the kernel by overwriting the
641 metadata underneath a mounted FS without its awareness.
642 This also prevents destructive formatting of mounted
643 filesystems by naive storage tooling that don't use
644 O_EXCL. Default is Y and can be changed through the
645 Kconfig option CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED.
646
647 bert_disable [ACPI]
648 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
649
650 bgrt_disable [ACPI,X86,EARLY]
651 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
652
653 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
654 embedded devices based on command line input.
655 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
656
657 boot_delay= [KNL,EARLY]
658 Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
659 Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled,
660 and you may also have to specify "lpj=". Boot_delay
661 values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed
662 erroneous and ignored.
663 Format: integer
664
665 bootconfig [KNL,EARLY]
666 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
667 and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
668
669 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
670
671 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
672 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
673 kernel args too.
674 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
675 bttv.tuner=
676
677 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
678 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
679 at a time.
680
681 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
682
683 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
684 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
685 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
686 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
687 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
688 This option provides an override for these situations.
689
690 carrier_timeout=
691 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
692 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
693 it waits 120 seconds.
694
695 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
696 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
697 trust validation.
698 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
699
700 cca= [MIPS,EARLY] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
701 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
702 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
703 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
704 others).
705
706 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
707 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
708
709 cfi= [X86-64] Set Control Flow Integrity checking features
710 when CONFIG_FINEIBT is enabled.
711 Format: feature[,feature...]
712 Default: auto
713
714 auto: Use FineIBT if IBT available, otherwise kCFI.
715 Under FineIBT, enable "paranoid" mode when
716 FRED is not available.
717 off: Turn off CFI checking.
718 kcfi: Use kCFI (disable FineIBT).
719 fineibt: Use FineIBT (even if IBT not available).
720 norand: Do not re-randomize CFI hashes.
721 paranoid: Add caller hash checking under FineIBT.
722 bhi: Enable register poisoning to stop speculation
723 across FineIBT. (Disabled by default.)
724 warn: Do not enforce CFI checking: warn only.
725 debug: Report CFI initialization details.
726
727 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
728 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
729 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
730 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
731 a single hierarchy
732 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
733 subsystem
734 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
735 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
736 created
737 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
738 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
739 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
740 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
741 stall information accounting feature
742
743 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
744 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
745 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
746 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
747 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
748 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
749 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
750 all v1 hierarchies.
751
752 cgroup_v1_proc= [KNL] Show also missing controllers in /proc/cgroups
753 Format: { "true" | "false" }
754 /proc/cgroups lists only v1 controllers by default.
755 This compatibility option enables listing also v2
756 controllers (whose v1 code is not compiled!), so that
757 semi-legacy software can check this file to decide
758 about usage of v2 (sic) controllers.
759
760 cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods.
761 Format: { "true" | "false" }
762 Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS.
763
764 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
765 Format: <string>
766 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
767 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
768 nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting.
769
770 check_pages= [MM,EARLY] Enable sanity checking of pages after
771 allocations / before freeing. This adds checks to catch
772 double-frees, use-after-frees, and other sources of
773 page corruption by inspecting page internals (flags,
774 mapcount/refcount, memcg_data, etc.).
775 Format: { "0" | "1" }
776 Default: 0 (1 if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is set)
777
778 checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
779 Format: { "0" | "1" }
780 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
781 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
782 any implied execute protection).
783 1 -- check protection requested by application.
784 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
785 Value can be changed at runtime via
786 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
787 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
788
789 cio_ignore= [S390]
790 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
791
792 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86]
793 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
794 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
795 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
796 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
797 ones should be.
798 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line
799 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above
800 instability issue. However, not all features have names
801 in /proc/cpuinfo.
802 Note that using this option will taint your kernel.
803 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
804 or using the feature without checking anything
805 will still see it. This just prevents it from
806 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
807 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
808 some critical bits.
809
810 clk_ignore_unused
811 [CLK]
812 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
813 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
814 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
815 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
816 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
817 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
818 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
819 platform with proper driver support. For more
820 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
821
822 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
823 [Deprecated]
824 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
825 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
826 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
827 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
828
829 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
830 Format: <string>
831 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
832 with the name specified.
833 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
834 the platform:
835 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
836 [ACPI] acpi_pm
837 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
838 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
839 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
840 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
841 [MIPS] MIPS
842 [PARISC] cr16
843 [S390] tod
844 [SH] SuperH
845 [SPARC64] tick
846 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
847
848 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
849 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
850 Format: <bool>
851 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
852 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
853 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
854 systems.
855
856 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
857 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
858 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
859 are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
860 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
861 zero says not to check any. Values larger than
862 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
863 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
864 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
865
866 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
867 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
868 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
869 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
870 10 seconds when built into the kernel.
871
872 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
873 [KNL,CMA,EARLY]
874 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
875 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
876 placement constraint by the physical address range of
877 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
878 altogether. For more information, see
879 kernel/dma/contiguous.c
880
881 cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
882 [KNL,CMA,EARLY]
883 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
884 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
885 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
886 specified, the default value is 0.
887 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
888 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
889 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
890 they will fallback to the global default memory area.
891
892 numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]]
893 [KNL,CMA,EARLY]
894 Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for
895 contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA
896 area for the specified node.
897
898 With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
899 first try to allocate buffer from the numa area
900 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
901 they will fallback to the global default memory area.
902
903 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
904 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
905 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
906 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
907 a hypervisor.
908 Default: yes
909
910 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL,EARLY]
911 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
912 allocations, by default set to 256K.
913
914 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
915 Format:
916 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
917
918 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
919 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
920
921 com90xx= [HW,NET]
922 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
923 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
924
925 condev= [HW,S390] console device
926 conmode=
927
928 con3215_drop= [S390,EARLY] 3215 console drop mode.
929 Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0
930 When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when
931 the console buffer is full. In this case the
932 operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example
933 x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the
934 console output to advance and the kernel to continue.
935 This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270
936 terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal
937 emulator is used, this parameter has no effect.
938
939 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
940
941 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
942
943 ttyS<n>[,options]
944 ttyUSB0[,options]
945 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
946 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
947 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
948 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
949 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
950
951 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
952 information. See
953 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
954 alternative.
955
956 <DEVNAME>:<n>.<n>[,options]
957 Use the specified serial port on the serial core bus.
958 The addressing uses DEVNAME of the physical serial port
959 device, followed by the serial core controller instance,
960 and the serial port instance. The options are the same
961 as documented for the ttyS addressing above.
962
963 The mapping of the serial ports to the tty instances
964 can be viewed with:
965
966 $ ls -d /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/*:*.*/tty/*
967 /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/00:04:0.0/tty/ttyS0
968
969 In the above example, the console can be addressed with
970 console=00:04:0.0. Note that a console addressed this
971 way will only get added when the related device driver
972 is ready. The use of an earlycon parameter in addition to
973 the console may be desired for console output early on.
974
975 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
976 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
977 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
978 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
979 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
980 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
981 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
982 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
983 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
984 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
985 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
986 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
987 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
988 the h/w is not re-initialized.
989
990 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
991 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
992
993 { null | "" }
994 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
995 console messages discarded.
996 This must be the only console= parameter used on the
997 kernel command line.
998
999 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
1000 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
1001 console=brl,ttyS0
1002 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
1003
1004 console_msg_format=
1005 [KNL] Change console messages format
1006 default
1007 By default we print messages on consoles in
1008 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
1009 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
1010 `printk_time' param).
1011 syslog
1012 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
1013 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
1014 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
1015 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
1016 from /proc/kmsg.
1017
1018 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
1019 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
1020 Defaults to 0.
1021
1022 coredump_filter=
1023 [KNL] Change the default value for
1024 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
1025 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
1026
1027 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
1028 [ARM,ARM64]
1029 Format: <bool>
1030 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
1031 0: default value, disable debugging
1032 1: enable debugging at boot time
1033
1034 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
1035 Format:
1036 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
1037
1038 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
1039 disable the cpuidle sub-system
1040
1041 cpuidle.governor=
1042 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
1043
1044 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
1045 disable the cpufreq sub-system
1046
1047 cpufreq.default_governor=
1048 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
1049 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
1050 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
1051
1052 cpu_init_udelay=N
1053 [X86,EARLY] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
1054 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
1055 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
1056 Default: 10000
1057
1058 cpuhp.parallel=
1059 [SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs
1060 Format: <bool>
1061 Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise
1062 the parameter has no effect.
1063
1064 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
1065 Only jump to kdump kernel after running the panic
1066 notifiers and dumping kmsg. This option increases
1067 the risks of a kdump failure, since some panic
1068 notifiers can make the crashed kernel more unstable.
1069 In configurations where kdump may not be reliable,
1070 running the panic notifiers could allow collecting
1071 more data on dmesg, like stack traces from other CPUS
1072 or extra data dumped by panic_print. Note that some
1073 configurations enable this option unconditionally,
1074 like Hyper-V, PowerPC (fadump) and AMD SEV-SNP.
1075
1076 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
1077 [KNL,EARLY] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
1078 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
1079 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
1080 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
1081 is selected automatically.
1082 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] Select a region
1083 under 4G first, and fall back to reserve region above
1084 4G when '@offset' hasn't been specified.
1085 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
1086
1087 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
1088 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
1089 in the running system. The syntax of range is
1090 start-[end] where start and end are both
1091 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
1092 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
1093
1094 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
1095 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range could be
1096 above 4G.
1097 Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top,
1098 so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram
1099 installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated
1100 below 4G, if available.
1101 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
1102 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
1103 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range under 4G.
1104 When crashkernel=X,high is passed, kernel could allocate
1105 physical memory region above 4G, that cause second kernel
1106 crash on system that require some amount of low memory,
1107 e.g. swiotlb requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also
1108 enough extra low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers
1109 for 32-bit devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
1110 default size of memory below 4G automatically. The default
1111 size is platform dependent.
1112 --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB)
1113 --> arm64: 128MiB
1114 --> riscv: 128MiB
1115 --> loongarch: 128MiB
1116 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
1117 for second kernel instead.
1118 0: to disable low allocation.
1119 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
1120 or memory reserved is below 4G.
1121 crashkernel=size[KMG],cma
1122 [KNL, X86, ppc] Reserve additional crash kernel memory from
1123 CMA. This reservation is usable by the first system's
1124 userspace memory and kernel movable allocations (memory
1125 balloon, zswap). Pages allocated from this memory range
1126 will not be included in the vmcore so this should not
1127 be used if dumping of userspace memory is intended and
1128 it has to be expected that some movable kernel pages
1129 may be missing from the dump.
1130
1131 A standard crashkernel reservation, as described above,
1132 is still needed to hold the crash kernel and initrd.
1133
1134 This option increases the risk of a kdump failure: DMA
1135 transfers configured by the first kernel may end up
1136 corrupting the second kernel's memory.
1137
1138 This reservation method is intended for systems that
1139 can't afford to sacrifice enough memory for standard
1140 crashkernel reservation and where less reliable and
1141 possibly incomplete kdump is preferable to no kdump at
1142 all.
1143
1144 cryptomgr.notests
1145 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
1146
1147 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
1148 Format: <dma>
1149
1150 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
1151 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
1152
1153 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU
1154 function call handling. When switched on,
1155 additional debug data is printed to the console
1156 in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that
1157 CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve
1158 the hang situation. The default value of this
1159 option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT
1160 Kconfig option.
1161
1162 dasd= [HW,NET]
1163 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
1164
1165 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
1166 (one device per port)
1167 Format: <port#>,<type>
1168 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1169
1170 debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
1171
1172 debug_boot_weak_hash
1173 [KNL,EARLY] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
1174 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
1175 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are
1176 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
1177 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
1178 insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
1179
1180 debug_locks_verbose=
1181 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests
1182 Format: <int>
1183 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
1184 self-tests.
1185 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
1186 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
1187 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
1188 useful to lockdep developers.
1189
1190 debug_objects [KNL,EARLY] Enable object debugging
1191
1192 debug_guardpage_minorder=
1193 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
1194 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
1195 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
1196 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
1197 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
1198 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
1199 possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2. Setting this
1200 parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most
1201 random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in
1202 kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads
1203 from) a random memory location. Note that there exists
1204 a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy
1205 H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA
1206 (basically when memory is written at bus level and the
1207 CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by
1208 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not
1209 help tracking down these problems.
1210
1211 debug_pagealloc=
1212 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
1213 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
1214 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
1215 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
1216 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
1217 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
1218 on: enable the feature
1219
1220 debugfs= [KNL,EARLY] This parameter enables what is exposed to
1221 userspace and debugfs internal clients.
1222 Format: { on, off }
1223 on: All functions are enabled.
1224 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients
1225 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
1226 or directories within debugfs.
1227 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
1228 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
1229 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
1230
1231 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
1232
1233 default_hugepagesz=
1234 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
1235 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
1236 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
1237 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
1238 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the
1239 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page
1240 sizes are architecture dependent. See also
1241 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1242 Format: size[KMG]
1243
1244 deferred_probe_timeout=
1245 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
1246 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
1247 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
1248 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
1249 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time
1250 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
1251 successful driver registration. This option will also
1252 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
1253 retrying.
1254
1255 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
1256
1257 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
1258 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1259 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1260 hardware.
1261
1262 dell_smm_hwmon.force=
1263 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
1264 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
1265 blacklisted features.
1266
1267 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
1268 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1269 (disabled by default).
1270
1271 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
1272 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1273 capability is set.
1274
1275 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
1276 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1277
1278 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
1279 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
1280
1281 dfltcc= [HW,S390]
1282 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1283 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1284 level 1 and decompression (default)
1285 off: No s390 zlib hardware support
1286 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1287 only (compression on level 1)
1288 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1289 only (decompression)
1290 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1291 level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1292
1293 dhash_entries= [KNL]
1294 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1295
1296 disable_1tb_segments [PPC,EARLY]
1297 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1298 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1299 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1300 miss to occur.
1301
1302 disable= [IPV6]
1303 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1304
1305 disable_radix [PPC,EARLY]
1306 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1307
1308 disable_tlbie [PPC]
1309 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1310 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1311
1312 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES,EARLY]
1313 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1314 to workaround buggy firmware.
1315
1316 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
1317 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1318
1319 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY]
1320 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1321 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1322 entry later. This parameter disables that.
1323
1324 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only,EARLY]
1325 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1326 memory out of your available memory pool based on
1327 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
1328 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1329
1330 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86,EARLY]
1331 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1332 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1333
1334 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1335
1336 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1337 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1338
1339 dma_debug_entries=<number>
1340 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1341 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1342 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1343 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1344 architectural default is too low.
1345
1346 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1347 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1348 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1349 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1350 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1351 driver later using sysfs.
1352
1353 reg_file_data_sampling=
1354 [X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data
1355 Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability. RFDS is a CPU
1356 vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer
1357 kernel data values previously stored in floating point
1358 registers, vector registers, or integer registers.
1359 RFDS only affects Intel Atom processors.
1360
1361 on: Turns ON the mitigation.
1362 off: Turns OFF the mitigation.
1363
1364 This parameter overrides the compile time default set
1365 by CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS. Mitigation cannot be
1366 disabled when other VERW based mitigations (like MDS)
1367 are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all
1368 VERW based mitigations need to be disabled.
1369
1370 For details see:
1371 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst
1372
1373 driver_async_probe= [KNL]
1374 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1375 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
1376 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
1377 match the *.
1378 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1379
1380 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1381 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1382 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1383 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1384 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1385 An EDID data set will only be used for a particular
1386 connector, if its name and a colon are prepended to
1387 the EDID name. Each connector may use a unique EDID
1388 data set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
1389 data set with no connector name will be used for
1390 any connectors not explicitly specified.
1391
1392 dscc4.setup= [NET]
1393
1394 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC,EARLY]
1395 Format: {"off" | "known"}
1396 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1397 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1398 exists).
1399 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1400 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1401 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1402
1403 dump_apple_properties [X86]
1404 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1405 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
1406 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1407
1408 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1409 <module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1410 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
1411 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1412 for details.
1413
1414 early_ioremap_debug [KNL,EARLY]
1415 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1416 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1417 which are not unmapped.
1418
1419 earlycon= [KNL,EARLY] Output early console device and options.
1420
1421 When used with no options, the early console is
1422 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1423 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1424 the platform.
1425
1426 cdns,<addr>[,options]
1427 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1428 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1429 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1430 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1431 configured.
1432
1433 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1434 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1435 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1436 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1437 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1438 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1439 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1440 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1441 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1442 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1443 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1444 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1445 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is
1446 the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set
1447 to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16.
1448
1449 pl011,<addr>
1450 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1451 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1452 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1453 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1454 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1455 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1456 the device registers.
1457
1458 liteuart,<addr>
1459 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1460 specified address. The serial port must already be
1461 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1462
1463 meson,<addr>
1464 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1465 port at the specified address. The serial port must
1466 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1467 supported.
1468
1469 msm_serial,<addr>
1470 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1471 port at the specified address. The serial port
1472 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1473 yet supported.
1474
1475 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1476 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1477 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1478 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1479 yet supported.
1480
1481 owl,<addr>
1482 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1483 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1484 specified address. The serial port must already be
1485 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1486
1487 rda,<addr>
1488 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1489 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1490 specified address. The serial port must already be
1491 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1492
1493 sbi
1494 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1495 console.
1496
1497 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1498
1499 s3c2410,<addr>
1500 s3c2412,<addr>
1501 s3c2440,<addr>
1502 s3c6400,<addr>
1503 s5pv210,<addr>
1504 exynos4210,<addr>
1505 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1506 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1507 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1508 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1509 Options are not yet supported.
1510
1511 lantiq,<addr>
1512 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1513 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1514 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1515 yet supported.
1516
1517 lpuart,<addr>
1518 lpuart32,<addr>
1519 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1520 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1521 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1522 port must already be setup and configured.
1523
1524 ec_imx21,<addr>
1525 ec_imx6q,<addr>
1526 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1527 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1528 must already be setup and configured.
1529
1530 ar3700_uart,<addr>
1531 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1532 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1533 address. The serial port must already be setup
1534 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1535
1536 qcom_geni,<addr>
1537 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1538 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1539 specified address. The serial port must already be
1540 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1541
1542 efifb,[options]
1543 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1544 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1545 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1546 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1547 mapped with the correct attributes.
1548
1549 linflex,<addr>
1550 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1551 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1552 address must be provided, and the serial port must
1553 already be setup and configured.
1554
1555 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390,UM,EARLY]
1556 earlyprintk=vga
1557 earlyprintk=sclp
1558 earlyprintk=xen
1559 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1560 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1561 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1562 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1563 earlyprintk=mmio32,membase[,{nocfg|baudrate}]
1564 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,{nocfg|baudrate}]
1565 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1566 earlyprintk=bios
1567
1568 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1569 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1570 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1571
1572 Use "nocfg" to skip UART configuration, assume
1573 BIOS/firmware has configured UART correctly.
1574
1575 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1576 takes over.
1577
1578 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can
1579 be used at a time.
1580
1581 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1582 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1583 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1584 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1585 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1586 You can find the port for a given device in
1587 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1588 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1589
1590 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1591 very good.
1592
1593 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by
1594 the real console.
1595
1596 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1597
1598 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1599
1600 The bios output can only be used on SuperH.
1601
1602 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1603 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1604 UART class.
1605
1606 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1607 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1608 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1609 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1610 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1611 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1612 default: on.
1613
1614 edd= [EDD]
1615 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1616
1617 efi= [EFI,EARLY]
1618 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1619 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1620 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1621 debug: enable misc debug output.
1622 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1623 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1624 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1625 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1626 firmware implementations.
1627 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1628 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1629 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1630 memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1631 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1632 reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1633 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1634 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1635 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1636 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1637
1638 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI,X86,EARLY]
1639 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1640 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1641 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1642 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1643
1644 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1645 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1646 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1647 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1648 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1649
1650
1651 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1652 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1653
1654 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB,EARLY] Allow early kernel console debugging
1655 Format: ekgdboc=kbd
1656
1657 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1658 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1659
1660 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1661 but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1662 very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1663 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1664
1665 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1666 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1667 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1668
1669 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390,EARLY]
1670 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1671 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1672 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1673 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1674
1675 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY]
1676 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1677 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1678 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1679
1680 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1681 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1682 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1683 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1684 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1685
1686 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1687 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1688 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1689 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1690 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1691 Default value is 0.
1692 Value can be changed at runtime via
1693 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1694
1695 erst_disable [ACPI]
1696 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1697 support.
1698
1699 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1700 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1701 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1702
1703 evm= [EVM]
1704 Format: { "fix" }
1705 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1706 current integrity status.
1707
1708 early_page_ext [KNL,EARLY] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier
1709 stages so cover more early boot allocations.
1710 Please note that as side effect some optimizations
1711 might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized
1712 memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process
1713 might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of
1714 memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y.
1715
1716 failslab=
1717 fail_usercopy=
1718 fail_page_alloc=
1719 fail_skb_realloc=
1720 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1721 General fault injection mechanism.
1722 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1723 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1724
1725 fb_tunnels= [NET]
1726 Format: { initns | none }
1727 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1728 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1729
1730 floppy= [HW]
1731 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1732
1733 forcepae [X86-32]
1734 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1735 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1736 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1737 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1738 and may cause unknown problems.
1739
1740 fred= [X86-64]
1741 Enable/disable Flexible Return and Event Delivery.
1742 Format: { on | off }
1743 on: enable FRED when it's present.
1744 off: disable FRED, the default setting.
1745
1746 ftrace=[tracer]
1747 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1748 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1749 boot debugging.
1750
1751 ftrace_boot_snapshot
1752 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1753 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1754 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1755 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1756 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1757 start up functionality.
1758
1759 Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing
1760 instance that was created by the trace_instance= command
1761 line parameter.
1762
1763 trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo
1764
1765 The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger
1766 a snapshot at the end of boot up.
1767
1768 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=2(orig_cpu) | =<instance>][,<instance> |
1769 ,<instance>=2(orig_cpu)]
1770 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1771 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump global
1772 buffers of all CPUs, if you pass 2 or orig_cpu, it
1773 will dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered
1774 the oops, or the specific instance will be dumped if
1775 its name is passed. Multiple instance dump is also
1776 supported, and instances are separated by commas. Each
1777 instance supports only dump on CPU that triggered the
1778 oops by passing 2 or orig_cpu to it.
1779
1780 ftrace_dump_on_oops=foo=orig_cpu
1781
1782 The above will dump only the buffer of "foo" instance
1783 on CPU that triggered the oops.
1784
1785 ftrace_dump_on_oops,foo,bar=orig_cpu
1786
1787 The above will dump global buffer on all CPUs, the
1788 buffer of "foo" instance on all CPUs and the buffer
1789 of "bar" instance on CPU that triggered the oops.
1790
1791 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1792 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1793 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1794 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1795 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1796 tracing directory.
1797
1798 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1799 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1800 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1801 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1802 tracing directory.
1803
1804 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1805 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1806 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1807 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1808 that can be changed at run time by the
1809 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1810
1811 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1812 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1813 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of
1814 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1815 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1816
1817 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1818 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1819 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1820 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1821 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1822
1823 fw_devlink= [KNL,EARLY] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1824 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1825 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1826 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1827 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1828 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1829 clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1830 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1831 suppliers).
1832 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1833 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info.
1834 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1835 but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1836 up (sync_state() calls).
1837 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it
1838 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1839 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1840
1841 fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1842 [KNL,EARLY] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1843 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1844 Format: <bool>
1845
1846 fw_devlink.sync_state =
1847 [KNL,EARLY] When all devices that could probe have finished
1848 probing, this parameter controls what to do with
1849 devices that haven't yet received their sync_state()
1850 calls.
1851 Format: { strict | timeout }
1852 strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to
1853 probe successfully.
1854 timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call
1855 sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet
1856 received their sync_state() calls after
1857 deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by
1858 late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES.
1859
1860 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1861 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1862 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1863 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1864 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1865
1866 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1867
1868 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64,EARLY] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1869 Format: off | on
1870 default: on
1871
1872 gather_data_sampling=
1873 [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS)
1874 mitigation.
1875
1876 Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which
1877 allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was
1878 previously stored in vector registers.
1879
1880 This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode.
1881 The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be
1882 disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation
1883 disabling AVX serves as a mitigation.
1884
1885 force: Disable AVX to mitigate systems without
1886 microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode
1887 mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in
1888 userspace with buggy AVX enumeration.
1889
1890 off: Disable GDS mitigation.
1891
1892 gbpages [X86] Use GB pages for kernel direct mappings.
1893
1894 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1895 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1896 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1897 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1898 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1899
1900 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1901 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1902 android emulator
1903
1904 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1905 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1906 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1907 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1908 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1909
1910 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1911 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1912 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1913 GPT to be used instead.
1914
1915 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1916 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1917 Format: 0 | 1
1918 Default: 0
1919 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1920 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1921 Format: 0 | 1
1922 Default: 0
1923 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1924 Format: 0 | 1
1925 Default: 0
1926 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1927 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1928 Default: 1024
1929 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1930 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1931 Default: 1024
1932
1933 hardened_usercopy=
1934 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1935 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1936 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1937 from reading or writing beyond known memory
1938 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1939 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1940 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1941 The default is determined by
1942 CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY_DEFAULT_ON.
1943 on Perform hardened usercopy checks.
1944 off Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1945
1946 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1947 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1948 backtraces on all cpus.
1949 Format: 0 | 1
1950
1951 hash_pointers=
1952 [KNL,EARLY]
1953 By default, when pointers are printed to the console
1954 or buffers via the %p format string, that pointer is
1955 "hashed", i.e. obscured by hashing the pointer value.
1956 This is a security feature that hides actual kernel
1957 addresses from unprivileged users, but it also makes
1958 debugging the kernel more difficult since unequal
1959 pointers can no longer be compared. The choices are:
1960 Format: { auto | always | never }
1961 Default: auto
1962
1963 auto - Hash pointers unless slab_debug is enabled.
1964 always - Always hash pointers (even if slab_debug is
1965 enabled).
1966 never - Never hash pointers. This option should only
1967 be specified when debugging the kernel. Do
1968 not use on production kernels. The boot
1969 param "no_hash_pointers" is an alias for
1970 this mode.
1971
1972 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1973 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
1974 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1975 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1976
1977 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1978 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1979
1980 hest_disable [ACPI]
1981 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1982 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1983 logic will be disabled.
1984
1985 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
1986 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
1987 present during boot.
1988 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
1989 no Disable hibernation and resume.
1990 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
1991 (that will set all pages holding image data
1992 during restoration read-only).
1993
1994 hibernate.compressor= [HIBERNATION] Compression algorithm to be
1995 used with hibernation.
1996 Format: { lzo | lz4 }
1997 Default: lzo
1998
1999 lzo: Select LZO compression algorithm to
2000 compress/decompress hibernation image.
2001
2002 lz4: Select LZ4 compression algorithm to
2003 compress/decompress hibernation image.
2004
2005 hibernate.pm_test_delay=
2006 [HIBERNATION]
2007 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a hibernation test
2008 mode before resuming the system (see
2009 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
2010 is set. Default value is 5.
2011
2012 hibernate_compression_threads=
2013 [HIBERNATION]
2014 Set the number of threads used for compressing or decompressing
2015 hibernation images.
2016
2017 Format: <integer>
2018 Default: 3
2019 Minimum: 1
2020 Example: hibernate_compression_threads=4
2021
2022 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
2023 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
2024 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
2025 size on bigger boxes.
2026
2027 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
2028 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
2029 Default: "on"
2030
2031 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
2032
2033 hostname= [KNL,EARLY] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename).
2034 Format: <string>
2035 This allows setting the system's hostname during early
2036 startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname.
2037 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it
2038 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before
2039 any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility
2040 that a process may call gethostname before the hostname
2041 has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling
2042 process getting an incorrect result. The string must
2043 not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually
2044 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise.
2045
2046 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
2047 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
2048 verbose }
2049 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
2050 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
2051 VIA, nVidia)
2052 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
2053
2054 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
2055 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
2056
2057 hugepages= [HW,EARLY] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
2058 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
2059 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
2060 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
2061 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
2062 the default huge page size. If using node format, the
2063 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
2064 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
2065 Format: <integer> or (node format)
2066 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
2067
2068 hugepagesz=
2069 [HW,EARLY] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is
2070 used in conjunction with hugepages (above) to
2071 allocate huge pages of a specific size at boot. The
2072 pair hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once
2073 for each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes
2074 are architecture dependent. See also
2075 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
2076 Format: size[KMG]
2077
2078 hugepage_alloc_threads=
2079 [HW] The number of threads that should be used to
2080 allocate hugepages during boot. This option can be
2081 used to improve system bootup time when allocating
2082 a large amount of huge pages.
2083 The default value is 25% of the available hardware threads.
2084
2085 Note that this parameter only applies to non-gigantic huge pages.
2086
2087 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA,EARLY] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
2088 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
2089 of a CMA area per node can be specified.
2090 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
2091 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
2092
2093 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
2094 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
2095 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
2096
2097 hugetlb_cma_only=
2098 [HW,CMA,EARLY] When allocating new HugeTLB pages, only
2099 try to allocate from the CMA areas.
2100
2101 This option does nothing if hugetlb_cma= is not also
2102 specified.
2103
2104 hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
2105 [KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
2106 enabled.
2107 Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled.
2108 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
2109 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
2110 Format: { on | off (default) }
2111
2112 on: enable HVO
2113 off: disable HVO
2114
2115 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
2116 the default is on.
2117
2118 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added
2119 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is
2120 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this
2121 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from
2122 the added memory block itself do not be affected.
2123
2124 hung_task_panic=
2125 [KNL] Number of hung tasks to trigger kernel panic.
2126 Format: <int>
2127
2128 When set to a non-zero value, a kernel panic will be triggered if
2129 the number of detected hung tasks reaches this value.
2130
2131 0: don't panic
2132 1: panic immediately on first hung task
2133 N: panic after N hung tasks are detected in a single scan
2134
2135 The default value is controlled by the
2136 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time option. The value
2137 selected by this boot parameter can be changed later by the
2138 kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
2139
2140 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
2141 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
2142 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
2143 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
2144 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
2145
2146 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V,EARLY]
2147 Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
2148 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest
2149 on lock contention.
2150
2151 hw_protection= [HW]
2152 Format: reboot | shutdown
2153
2154 Hardware protection action taken on critical events like
2155 overtemperature or imminent voltage loss.
2156
2157 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
2158 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
2159 registered from board initialization code.
2160 Format:
2161 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
2162
2163 i2c_touchscreen_props= [HW,ACPI,X86]
2164 Set device-properties for ACPI-enumerated I2C-attached
2165 touchscreen, to e.g. fix coordinates of upside-down
2166 mounted touchscreens. If you need this option please
2167 submit a drivers/platform/x86/touchscreen_dmi.c patch
2168 adding a DMI quirk for this.
2169
2170 Format:
2171 <ACPI_HW_ID>:<prop_name>=<val>[:prop_name=val][:...]
2172 Where <val> is one of:
2173 Omit "=<val>" entirely Set a boolean device-property
2174 Unsigned number Set a u32 device-property
2175 Anything else Set a string device-property
2176
2177 Examples (split over multiple lines):
2178 i2c_touchscreen_props=GDIX1001:touchscreen-inverted-x:
2179 touchscreen-inverted-y
2180
2181 i2c_touchscreen_props=MSSL1680:touchscreen-size-x=1920:
2182 touchscreen-size-y=1080:touchscreen-inverted-y:
2183 firmware-name=gsl1680-vendor-model.fw:silead,home-button
2184
2185 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
2186 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
2187 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
2188 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
2189 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
2190 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
2191 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
2192 keyboard and cannot control its state
2193 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
2194 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
2195 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
2196 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
2197 for the AUX port
2198 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
2199 controller
2200 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
2201 controllers
2202 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
2203 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
2204 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
2205 transitions, or never reset
2206 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
2207 1, Y, y: always reset controller
2208 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
2209 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
2210 architectures force reset to be always executed
2211 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
2212 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
2213 i8042.probe_defer
2214 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
2215
2216 i810= [HW,DRM]
2217
2218 i915.invert_brightness=
2219 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
2220 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
2221 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
2222 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
2223 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
2224 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
2225 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
2226 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
2227 value switches the backlight off.
2228 -1 -- never invert brightness
2229 0 -- machine default
2230 1 -- force brightness inversion
2231
2232 ia32_emulation= [X86-64]
2233 Format: <bool>
2234 When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit
2235 syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at
2236 boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation.
2237
2238 icn= [HW,ISDN]
2239 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
2240
2241
2242 idle= [X86,EARLY]
2243 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
2244
2245 idle=poll: Don't do power saving in the idle loop
2246 using HLT, but poll for rescheduling event. This will
2247 make the CPUs eat a lot more power, but may be useful
2248 to get slightly better performance in multiprocessor
2249 benchmarks. It also makes some profiling using
2250 performance counters more accurate. Please note that
2251 on systems with MONITOR/MWAIT support (like Intel
2252 EM64T CPUs) this option has no performance advantage
2253 over the normal idle loop. It may also interact badly
2254 with hyperthreading.
2255
2256 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
2257 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
2258
2259 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
2260
2261 idxd.sva= [HW]
2262 Format: <bool>
2263 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
2264 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
2265 true (1).
2266
2267 idxd.tc_override= [HW]
2268 Format: <bool>
2269 Allow override of default traffic class configuration
2270 for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
2271
2272 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
2273 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed | emulated }
2274 Default: strict
2275
2276 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
2277 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
2278 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
2279 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
2280 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
2281 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
2282 encoding mode.
2283
2284 Available settings are as follows:
2285 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
2286 supported by the FPU
2287 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
2288 by the FPU
2289 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
2290 by the FPU
2291 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
2292 supported by the FPU
2293 emulated accept any binaries but enable FPU emulator
2294 if binary mode is unsupported by the FPU.
2295
2296 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
2297 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
2298 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
2299 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
2300 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
2301 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
2302 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
2303 MIPS64 CPUs.
2304
2305 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
2306 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
2307 except where unsupported by hardware.
2308
2309 ignore_loglevel [KNL,EARLY]
2310 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
2311 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
2312 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
2313 could change it dynamically, usually by
2314 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
2315
2316 ignore_rlimit_data
2317 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
2318 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
2319 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
2320
2321 ihash_entries= [KNL]
2322 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
2323
2324 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2325 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2326 default: "enforce"
2327
2328 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
2329 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
2330 owned by uid=0.
2331
2332 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
2333 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
2334 measurements, instead of host native format.
2335
2336 ima_hash= [IMA]
2337 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
2338 | sha512 | ... }
2339 default: "sha1"
2340
2341 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
2342 in crypto/hash_info.h.
2343
2344 ima_policy= [IMA]
2345 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
2346 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
2347 fail_securely | critical_data"
2348
2349 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
2350 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
2351 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
2352 uid=0.
2353
2354 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
2355 all files owned by root.
2356
2357 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
2358 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
2359 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
2360
2361 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
2362 verification failure also on privileged mounted
2363 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
2364 flag.
2365
2366 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
2367 critical data.
2368
2369 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
2370 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
2371 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
2372 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
2373 opened for read by uid=0.
2374
2375 ima_template= [IMA]
2376 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
2377 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
2378 "ima-sigv2" }
2379 Default: "ima-ng"
2380
2381 ima_template_fmt=
2382 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
2383 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
2384
2385 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
2386 Format: <min_file_size>
2387 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
2388 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
2389
2390 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
2391 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2392 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
2393
2394 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
2395 Format: <bufsize>
2396 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
2397
2398 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
2399 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2400 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
2401
2402 ima= [IMA] Enable or disable IMA
2403 Format: { "off" | "on" }
2404 Default: "on"
2405 Note that disabling IMA is limited to kdump kernel.
2406
2407 indirect_target_selection= [X86,Intel] Mitigation control for Indirect
2408 Target Selection(ITS) bug in Intel CPUs. Updated
2409 microcode is also required for a fix in IBPB.
2410
2411 on: Enable mitigation (default).
2412 off: Disable mitigation.
2413 force: Force the ITS bug and deploy default
2414 mitigation.
2415 vmexit: Only deploy mitigation if CPU is affected by
2416 guest/host isolation part of ITS.
2417 stuff: Deploy RSB-fill mitigation when retpoline is
2418 also deployed. Otherwise, deploy the default
2419 mitigation.
2420
2421 For details see:
2422 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/indirect-target-selection.rst
2423
2424 init= [KNL]
2425 Format: <full_path>
2426 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
2427 process.
2428
2429 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
2430 for working out where the kernel is dying during
2431 startup.
2432
2433 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
2434 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
2435 modules and initcalls.
2436
2437 initramfs_async= [KNL]
2438 Format: <bool>
2439 Default: 1
2440 This parameter controls whether the initramfs
2441 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
2442 with devices being probed and
2443 initialized. This should normally just work,
2444 but as a debugging aid, one can get the
2445 historical behaviour of the initramfs
2446 unpacking being completed before device_ and
2447 late_ initcalls.
2448
2449 initrd= [BOOT,EARLY] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
2450
2451 initrdmem= [KNL,EARLY] Specify a physical address and size from which to
2452 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
2453 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
2454 setting.
2455 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
2456 Default is 0, 0
2457
2458 init_on_alloc= [MM,EARLY] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
2459 zeroes.
2460 Format: 0 | 1
2461 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
2462
2463 init_on_free= [MM,EARLY] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
2464 Format: 0 | 1
2465 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
2466
2467 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
2468 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
2469 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
2470 override in debugfs after boot.
2471
2472 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
2473 Format: <irq>
2474
2475 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
2476
2477 integrity_audit=[IMA]
2478 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2479 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2480 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2481
2482 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2483 on
2484 Enable intel iommu driver.
2485 off
2486 Disable intel iommu driver.
2487 igfx_off [Default Off]
2488 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2489 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2490 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2491 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2492 DMA.
2493 strict [Default Off]
2494 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2495 sp_off [Default Off]
2496 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2497 has the capability. With this option, super page will
2498 not be supported.
2499 sm_on
2500 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2501 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2502 translation.
2503 sm_off
2504 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2505 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2506 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2507 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2508 could harm performance of some high-throughput
2509 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2510 mapping is enabled.
2511 Note that using this option lowers the security
2512 provided by tboot because it makes the system
2513 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2514
2515 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2516 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2517 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2518
2519 intel_pstate= [X86,EARLY]
2520 disable
2521 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2522 scaling driver for the supported processors
2523 active
2524 Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling
2525 governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own
2526 algorithms for p-state selection. There are two
2527 P-state selection algorithms provided by
2528 intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and
2529 performance. The way they both operate depends
2530 on whether or not the hardware managed P-states
2531 (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor
2532 and possibly on the processor model.
2533 passive
2534 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2535 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2536 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
2537 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2538 feature.
2539 force
2540 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2541 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2542 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2543 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2544 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2545 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2546 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2547 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2548 no_hwp
2549 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2550 if available.
2551 hwp_only
2552 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2553 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2554 support_acpi_ppc
2555 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2556 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2557 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2558 then this feature is turned on by default.
2559 per_cpu_perf_limits
2560 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2561 cpufreq sysfs interface
2562 no_cas
2563 Do not enable capacity-aware scheduling (CAS) on
2564 hybrid systems
2565
2566 intremap= [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY]
2567 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2568 off disable Interrupt Remapping
2569 nosid disable Source ID checking
2570 no_x2apic_optout
2571 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2572 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
2573 posted_msi
2574 enable MSIs delivered as posted interrupts
2575
2576 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2577 strict regions from userspace.
2578 relaxed
2579
2580 iommu= [X86,EARLY]
2581
2582 off
2583 Don't initialize and use any kind of IOMMU.
2584
2585 force
2586 Force the use of the hardware IOMMU even when
2587 it is not actually needed (e.g. because < 3 GB
2588 memory).
2589
2590 noforce
2591 Don't force hardware IOMMU usage when it is not
2592 needed. (default).
2593
2594 biomerge
2595 panic
2596 nopanic
2597 merge
2598 nomerge
2599
2600 soft
2601 Use software bounce buffering (SWIOTLB) (default for
2602 Intel machines). This can be used to prevent the usage
2603 of an available hardware IOMMU.
2604
2605 [X86]
2606 pt
2607 [X86]
2608 nopt
2609 [PPC/POWERNV]
2610 nobypass
2611 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2612
2613 [X86]
2614 AMD Gart HW IOMMU-specific options:
2615
2616 <size>
2617 Set the size of the remapping area in bytes.
2618
2619 allowed
2620 Overwrite iommu off workarounds for specific chipsets
2621
2622 fullflush
2623 Flush IOMMU on each allocation (default).
2624
2625 nofullflush
2626 Don't use IOMMU fullflush.
2627
2628 memaper[=<order>]
2629 Allocate an own aperture over RAM with size
2630 32MB<<order. (default: order=1, i.e. 64MB)
2631
2632 merge
2633 Do scatter-gather (SG) merging. Implies "force"
2634 (experimental).
2635
2636 nomerge
2637 Don't do scatter-gather (SG) merging.
2638
2639 noaperture
2640 Ask the IOMMU not to touch the aperture for AGP.
2641
2642 noagp
2643 Don't initialize the AGP driver and use full aperture.
2644
2645 panic
2646 Always panic when IOMMU overflows.
2647
2648 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2649 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2650 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2651 falling back to the full range if needed.
2652 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2653 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2654 greater than 32-bit addressing.
2655
2656 iommu.strict= [ARM64,X86,S390,EARLY] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2657 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2658 0 - Lazy mode.
2659 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2660 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2661 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2662 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2663 the relevant IOMMU driver.
2664 1 - Strict mode.
2665 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2666 synchronously.
2667 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2668 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2669 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2670
2671 iommu.passthrough=
2672 [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2673 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2674 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2675 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2676 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2677
2678 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2679 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2680 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2681
2682 io_delay= [X86,EARLY] I/O delay method
2683 0x80
2684 Standard port 0x80 based delay
2685 0xed
2686 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2687 udelay
2688 Simple two microseconds delay
2689 none
2690 No delay
2691
2692 ip= [IP_PNP]
2693 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2694
2695 ipcmni_extend [KNL,EARLY] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2696 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2697
2698 ipe.enforce= [IPE]
2699 Format: <bool>
2700 Determine whether IPE starts in permissive (0) or
2701 enforce (1) mode. The default is enforce.
2702
2703 ipe.success_audit=
2704 [IPE]
2705 Format: <bool>
2706 Start IPE with success auditing enabled, emitting
2707 an audit event when a binary is allowed. The default
2708 is 0.
2709
2710 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2711 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2712
2713 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2714 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
2715 Format: <bool>
2716 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2717 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2718 exposed by the device tree is too small.
2719
2720 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2721 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
2722 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2723 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2724 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2725 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2726 LPIs.
2727
2728 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64,EARLY]
2729 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2730 requires the kernel to be built with
2731 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2732
2733 irqchip.riscv_imsic_noipi
2734 [RISC-V,EARLY]
2735 Force the kernel to not use IMSIC software injected MSIs
2736 as IPIs. Intended for system where IMSIC is trap-n-emulated,
2737 and thus want to reduce MMIO traps when triggering IPIs
2738 to multiple harts.
2739
2740 irqfixup [HW]
2741 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2742 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2743 firmware running.
2744
2745 irqhandler.duration_warn_us= [KNL]
2746 Warn if an IRQ handler exceeds the specified duration
2747 threshold in microseconds. Useful for identifying
2748 long-running IRQs in the system.
2749
2750 irqpoll [HW]
2751 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2752 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2753 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2754 firmware running.
2755
2756 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
2757 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2758
2759 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2760 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2761 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2762
2763 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2764 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2765
2766 nohz
2767 Disable the tick when a single task runs as well as
2768 disabling other kernel noises like having RCU callbacks
2769 offloaded. This is equivalent to the nohz_full parameter.
2770
2771 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2772 need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2773 workqueue's affinity configured via the
2774 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2775 by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2776
2777 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2778 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2779 be configured manually after bootup.
2780
2781 domain
2782 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2783 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2784 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2785 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2786 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2787 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2788 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2789 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2790
2791 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2792 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2793 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2794 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2795
2796 managed_irq
2797
2798 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2799 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2800 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2801 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2802 the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2803
2804 This isolation is best effort and only effective
2805 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2806 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2807 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2808 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2809 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2810 cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2811
2812 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2813 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2814 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2815 only delivered when tasks running on those
2816 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2817 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2818 queues.
2819
2820 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2821
2822 iucv= [HW,NET]
2823
2824 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64]
2825 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2826 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2827 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2828
2829 For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2830 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2831 write the parameter as:
2832 ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0
2833
2834 Deprecated formats:
2835 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2836 write the parameter as:
2837 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2838 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2839 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2840 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2841
2842 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64]
2843 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2844 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2845 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2846
2847 For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to
2848 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2849 write the parameter as:
2850 ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0
2851
2852 Deprecated formats:
2853 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2854 write the parameter as:
2855 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2856 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2857 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2858 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2859
2860 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64]
2861 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2862 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2863 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2864
2865 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2866 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5,
2867 write the parameter as:
2868 ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5
2869
2870 Deprecated formats:
2871 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0,
2872 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2873 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2874 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2875 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2876 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2877
2878 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2879 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2880
2881 kasan_multi_shot
2882 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2883 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2884 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2885 invalid access.
2886
2887 keep_bootcon [KNL,EARLY]
2888 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
2889 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
2890 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
2891 the real console.
2892
2893 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] See retain_initrd.
2894
2895 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY]
2896 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2897 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2898 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested
2899 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2900 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for
2901 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the
2902 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2903 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2904 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2905
2906 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2907 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2908 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2909 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2910 zone if it does not.
2911
2912 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2913 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2914 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror"
2915 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2916 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2917 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2918 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2919
2920 kfence.burst= [MM,KFENCE] The number of additional successive
2921 allocations to be attempted through KFENCE for each
2922 sample interval.
2923 Format: <unsigned integer>
2924 Default: 0
2925
2926 kfence.check_on_panic=
2927 [MM,KFENCE] Whether to check all KFENCE-managed objects'
2928 canaries on panic.
2929 Format: <bool>
2930 Default: false
2931
2932 kfence.deferrable=
2933 [MM,KFENCE] Whether to use a deferrable timer to trigger
2934 allocations. This avoids forcing CPU wake-ups if the
2935 system is idle, at the risk of a less predictable
2936 sample interval.
2937 Format: <bool>
2938 Default: CONFIG_KFENCE_DEFERRABLE
2939
2940 kfence.sample_interval=
2941 [MM,KFENCE] KFENCE's sample interval in milliseconds.
2942 Format: <unsigned integer>
2943 0 - Disable KFENCE.
2944 >0 - Enabled KFENCE with given sample interval.
2945 Default: CONFIG_KFENCE_SAMPLE_INTERVAL
2946
2947 kfence.skip_covered_thresh=
2948 [MM,KFENCE] If pool utilization reaches this threshold
2949 (pool usage%), KFENCE limits currently covered
2950 allocations of the same source from further filling
2951 up the pool.
2952 Format: <unsigned integer>
2953 Default: 75
2954
2955 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW,EARLY] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2956 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2957 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2958 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
2959 optional and is the number seconds in between
2960 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2961 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2962 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
2963 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2964 the kernel debugger.
2965
2966 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2967 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2968 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2969 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2970 keyboard only format: kbd
2971 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2972 Optional Kernel mode setting:
2973 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2974 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2975
2976 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW,EARLY]
2977 If the boot console provides the ability to read
2978 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2979 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2980 until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2981 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2982 specifies the normal console to transition to.
2983
2984 The name of the early console should be specified
2985 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2986 the early console might be different than the tty
2987 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2988 blank and the first boot console that implements
2989 read() will be picked.
2990
2991 kgdbwait [KGDB,EARLY] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2992 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2993
2994 kho= [KEXEC,EARLY]
2995 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" | "y" | "n" }
2996 Enables or disables Kexec HandOver.
2997 "0" | "off" | "n" - kexec handover is disabled
2998 "1" | "on" | "y" - kexec handover is enabled
2999
3000 kho_scratch= [KEXEC,EARLY]
3001 Format: ll[KMG],mm[KMG],nn[KMG] | nn%
3002 Defines the size of the KHO scratch region. The KHO
3003 scratch regions are physically contiguous memory
3004 ranges that can only be used for non-kernel
3005 allocations. That way, even when memory is heavily
3006 fragmented with handed over memory, the kexeced
3007 kernel will always have enough contiguous ranges to
3008 bootstrap itself.
3009
3010 It is possible to specify the exact amount of
3011 memory in the form of "ll[KMG],mm[KMG],nn[KMG]"
3012 where the first parameter defines the size of a low
3013 memory scratch area, the second parameter defines
3014 the size of a global scratch area and the third
3015 parameter defines the size of additional per-node
3016 scratch areas. The form "nn%" defines scale factor
3017 (in percents) of memory that was used during boot.
3018
3019 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
3020 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
3021 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
3022
3023 kmemleak= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
3024 Valid arguments: on, off
3025 Default: on
3026 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
3027 the default is off.
3028
3029 kprobe_event=[probe-list]
3030 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
3031 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
3032 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
3033 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
3034 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
3035 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
3036
3037 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
3038
3039 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
3040 Boot Parameter" section.
3041
3042 kpti= [ARM64,EARLY] Control page table isolation of
3043 user and kernel address spaces.
3044 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
3045 0: force disabled
3046 1: force enabled
3047
3048 kunit.enable= [KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires
3049 CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The
3050 default value can be overridden via
3051 KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED.
3052 Default is 1 (enabled)
3053
3054 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
3055 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
3056
3057 kvm.eager_page_split=
3058 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
3059 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
3060 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
3061 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
3062 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
3063 required to split huge pages lazily.
3064
3065 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
3066 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
3067 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
3068 still be used for reads.
3069
3070 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
3071 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
3072 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
3073 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
3074 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
3075 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
3076 cleared.
3077
3078 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y.
3079
3080 Default is Y (on).
3081
3082 kvm.enable_virt_at_load=[KVM,ARM64,LOONGARCH,MIPS,RISCV,X86]
3083 If enabled, KVM will enable virtualization in hardware
3084 when KVM is loaded, and disable virtualization when KVM
3085 is unloaded (if KVM is built as a module).
3086
3087 If disabled, KVM will dynamically enable and disable
3088 virtualization on-demand when creating and destroying
3089 VMs, i.e. on the 0=>1 and 1=>0 transitions of the
3090 number of VMs.
3091
3092 Enabling virtualization at module load avoids potential
3093 latency for creation of the 0=>1 VM, as KVM serializes
3094 virtualization enabling across all online CPUs. The
3095 "cost" of enabling virtualization when KVM is loaded,
3096 is that doing so may interfere with using out-of-tree
3097 hypervisors that want to "own" virtualization hardware.
3098
3099 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
3100 Default is false (don't support).
3101
3102 kvm.nx_huge_pages=
3103 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
3104 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
3105 force : Always deploy workaround.
3106 off : Never deploy workaround.
3107 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
3108 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
3109
3110 Default is 'auto'.
3111
3112 If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
3113 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
3114
3115 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
3116 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
3117 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
3118 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
3119 period (see below). The default is 60.
3120
3121 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
3122 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
3123 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
3124 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
3125 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
3126 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
3127
3128 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in
3129 KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled).
3130
3131 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables,
3132 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1
3133 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
3134 for NPT.
3135
3136 kvm-amd.ciphertext_hiding_asids=
3137 [KVM,AMD] Ciphertext hiding prevents disallowed accesses
3138 to SNP private memory from reading ciphertext. Instead,
3139 reads will see constant default values (0xff).
3140
3141 If ciphertext hiding is enabled, the joint SEV-ES and
3142 SEV-SNP ASID space is partitioned into separate SEV-ES
3143 and SEV-SNP ASID ranges, with the SEV-SNP range being
3144 [1..max_snp_asid] and the SEV-ES range being
3145 (max_snp_asid..min_sev_asid), where min_sev_asid is
3146 enumerated by CPUID.0x.8000_001F[EDX].
3147
3148 A non-zero value enables SEV-SNP ciphertext hiding and
3149 adjusts the ASID ranges for SEV-ES and SEV-SNP guests.
3150 KVM caps the number of SEV-SNP ASIDs at the maximum
3151 possible value, e.g. specifying -1u will assign all
3152 joint SEV-ES and SEV-SNP ASIDs to SEV-SNP. Note,
3153 assigning all joint ASIDs to SEV-SNP, i.e. configuring
3154 max_snp_asid == min_sev_asid-1, will effectively make
3155 SEV-ES unusable.
3156
3157 kvm-arm.mode=
3158 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of
3159 operation.
3160
3161 none: Forcefully disable KVM.
3162
3163 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
3164 protected guests.
3165
3166 protected: Mode with support for guests whose state is
3167 kept private from the host, using VHE or
3168 nVHE depending on HW support.
3169
3170 nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested
3171 virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.4
3172 hardware (with FEAT_NV2).
3173
3174 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
3175 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
3176 for the host. To force nVHE on VHE hardware, add
3177 "arm64_sw.hvhe=0 id_aa64mmfr1.vh=0" to the
3178 command-line.
3179 "nested" is experimental and should be used with
3180 extreme caution.
3181
3182 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
3183 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
3184 system registers
3185
3186 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
3187 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
3188 system registers
3189
3190 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
3191 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
3192 system registers
3193
3194 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
3195 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Allow use of GICv4 for direct
3196 injection of LPIs.
3197
3198 kvm-arm.wfe_trap_policy=
3199 [KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFE instruction trap for
3200 KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the
3201 CPU architecture.
3202
3203 trap: set WFE instruction trap
3204
3205 notrap: clear WFE instruction trap
3206
3207 kvm-arm.wfi_trap_policy=
3208 [KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFI instruction trap for
3209 KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the
3210 CPU architecture.
3211
3212 trap: set WFI instruction trap
3213
3214 notrap: clear WFI instruction trap
3215
3216 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC,EARLY]
3217 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
3218 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
3219 allocation.
3220 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
3221 Format: <integer>
3222 Default: 5
3223
3224 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables,
3225 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1
3226 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
3227 for EPT.
3228
3229 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
3230 [KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest
3231 state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1,
3232 as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted
3233 guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2),
3234 as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
3235 Default is 1 (enabled).
3236
3237 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
3238 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature
3239 (TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if
3240 hardware lacks support for it.
3241
3242 kvm-intel.nested=
3243 [KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in
3244 KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled).
3245
3246 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
3247 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest
3248 feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default
3249 is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or
3250 hardware lacks support for it.
3251
3252 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
3253 CVE-2018-3620.
3254
3255 Valid arguments: never, cond, always
3256
3257 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
3258 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
3259 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
3260 never: Disables the mitigation
3261
3262 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
3263
3264 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor
3265 Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1
3266 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
3267 for it.
3268
3269 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL,EARLY]
3270 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
3271
3272 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3273 internal buffers which can forward information to a
3274 disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
3275
3276 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
3277 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
3278 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3279 not have direct access.
3280
3281 This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3282 options are:
3283
3284 on - enable the interface for the mitigation
3285
3286 l1tf= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
3287 affected CPUs
3288
3289 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
3290 enabled and cannot be disabled.
3291
3292 full
3293 Provides all available mitigations for the
3294 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
3295 enables all mitigations in the
3296 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
3297
3298 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
3299 sysfs interface is still possible after
3300 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
3301 when the first VM is started in a
3302 potentially insecure configuration,
3303 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
3304
3305 full,force
3306 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
3307 flush runtime control. Implies the
3308 'nosmt=force' command line option.
3309 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
3310
3311 flush
3312 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
3313 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
3314 L1D flush.
3315
3316 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
3317 sysfs interface is still possible after
3318 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
3319 when the first VM is started in a
3320 potentially insecure configuration,
3321 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
3322
3323 flush,nosmt
3324
3325 Disables SMT and enables the default
3326 hypervisor mitigation.
3327
3328 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
3329 sysfs interface is still possible after
3330 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
3331 when the first VM is started in a
3332 potentially insecure configuration,
3333 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
3334
3335 flush,nowarn
3336 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
3337 warn when a VM is started in a potentially
3338 insecure configuration.
3339
3340 off
3341 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
3342 emit any warnings.
3343 It also drops the swap size and available
3344 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
3345 bare metal.
3346
3347 Default is 'flush'.
3348
3349 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
3350
3351 l2cr= [PPC]
3352
3353 l3cr= [PPC]
3354
3355 lapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
3356 disabled it.
3357
3358 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
3359 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
3360 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
3361 Format: notscdeadline
3362
3363 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC,EARLY] trust the local apic timer
3364 in C2 power state.
3365
3366 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
3367 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
3368 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
3369 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
3370 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
3371 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
3372 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
3373
3374 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
3375 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
3376 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
3377
3378 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
3379 when set.
3380 Format: <int>
3381
3382 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma-
3383 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
3384 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
3385 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
3386 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is
3387 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If
3388 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
3389 to all ports, links and devices.
3390
3391 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
3392 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
3393 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
3394 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
3395 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
3396 host link and device attached to it.
3397
3398 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
3399 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
3400 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
3401 The following configurations can be forced.
3402
3403 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
3404 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
3405
3406 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
3407
3408 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
3409 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
3410 allowed.
3411
3412 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
3413 resets.
3414
3415 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
3416 link recovery.
3417
3418 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
3419 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
3420 detection.
3421
3422 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
3423
3424 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
3425
3426 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset.
3427
3428 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
3429
3430 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
3431
3432 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
3433
3434 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
3435
3436 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
3437
3438 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
3439 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
3440
3441 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
3442 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
3443
3444 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
3445 identify device data log.
3446
3447 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
3448 purpose log directory.
3449
3450 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
3451
3452 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
3453 1024 sectors.
3454
3455 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
3456 65535 sectors.
3457
3458 * external: Mark port as external (hotplug-capable).
3459
3460 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
3461
3462 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
3463 should be skipped.
3464
3465 * [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access)
3466 support for devices supporting this feature.
3467
3468 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
3469
3470 * disable: Disable this device.
3471
3472 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
3473 the same attribute, the last one is used.
3474
3475 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated]
3476
3477 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
3478 Format: <integer>
3479
3480 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
3481 Format: <integer>
3482
3483 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
3484 Format: <integer>
3485
3486 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
3487 Format: <integer>
3488
3489 lockdown= [SECURITY,EARLY]
3490 { integrity | confidentiality }
3491 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
3492 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
3493 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
3494 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
3495 to extract confidential information from the kernel
3496 are also disabled.
3497
3498 locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL]
3499 Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock
3500 acquisition. Acquisitions exceeding this limit
3501 will result in a splat once they do complete.
3502
3503 locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL]
3504 Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are
3505 to be bound.
3506
3507 locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL]
3508 Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are
3509 to be bound.
3510
3511 locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL]
3512 Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu()
3513 chains to set up. These are used to ensure that
3514 there is a high probability of an RCU grace period
3515 in progress at any given time. Defaults to 0,
3516 which disables these call_rcu() chains.
3517
3518 locktorture.long_hold= [KNL]
3519 Specify the duration in milliseconds for the
3520 occasional long-duration lock hold time. Defaults
3521 to 100 milliseconds. Select 0 to disable.
3522
3523 locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL]
3524 Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that
3525 locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8
3526 (MAX_NESTED_LOCKS). Specify zero to disable.
3527 Note that this parameter is ineffective on types
3528 of locks that do not support nested acquisition.
3529
3530 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
3531 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
3532 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
3533 number of online CPUs.
3534
3535 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
3536 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
3537
3538 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3539 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3540
3541 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3542 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3543 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3544
3545 locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL]
3546 Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority
3547 boosting. Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost
3548 only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally.
3549 Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an
3550 odd choice, but which should be harmless for
3551 non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling
3552 of preemption. Note that non-realtime mutexes
3553 disable boosting.
3554
3555 locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL]
3556 Number that determines how often and for how
3557 long priority boosting is exercised. This is
3558 scaled down by the number of writers, so that the
3559 number of boosts per unit time remains roughly
3560 constant as the number of writers increases.
3561 On the other hand, the duration of each boost
3562 increases with the number of writers.
3563
3564 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3565 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
3566 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
3567 mode during the locktorture test.
3568
3569 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3570 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3571 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3572
3573 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3574 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3575
3576 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
3577 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
3578 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
3579 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
3580 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
3581 transition abruptly to and from idle.
3582
3583 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3584 Specify the locking implementation to test.
3585
3586 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
3587 Enable additional printk() statements.
3588
3589 locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL]
3590 Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at
3591 sched_set_fifo() real-time priority.
3592
3593 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
3594 Format: <irq>
3595
3596 loglevel= [KNL,EARLY]
3597 All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
3598 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
3599 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
3600 loglevels are defined as follows:
3601
3602 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
3603 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
3604 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
3605 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
3606 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
3607 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
3608 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
3609 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
3610
3611 log_buf_len=n[KMG] [KNL,EARLY]
3612 Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes.
3613 n must be a power of two and greater than the
3614 minimal size. The minimal size is defined by
3615 LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There
3616 is also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
3617 parameter that allows to increase the default size
3618 depending on the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig
3619 for more details.
3620
3621 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
3622 This may be used to provide more screen space for
3623 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
3624 kernel boot problems.
3625
3626 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
3627 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
3628 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
3629 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
3630 specified in addition to the ports) causes
3631 attached printers to be reset. Using
3632 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
3633 to associate lp devices with, starting with
3634 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
3635 that lp device, or a parport name such as
3636 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
3637 port specification list means that device IDs
3638 from each port should be examined, to see if
3639 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
3640 so, the driver will manage that printer.
3641 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
3642
3643 lpj=n [KNL]
3644 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
3645 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
3646 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
3647 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
3648 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
3649 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
3650 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
3651 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
3652 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
3653 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
3654 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
3655 hardware.
3656
3657 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
3658
3659 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
3660 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
3661 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
3662
3663 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
3664 different yeeloong laptops.
3665 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
3666
3667 maxcpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3668 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
3669 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
3670 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
3671 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
3672 only takes effect during system bootup.
3673 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
3674 which also disables the IO APIC.
3675
3676 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
3677 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
3678 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
3679 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
3680 devices can be requested on-demand with the
3681 /dev/loop-control interface.
3682
3683 mce= [X86-{32,64}]
3684
3685 Please see Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/machinecheck.rst for sysfs runtime tunables.
3686
3687 off
3688 disable machine check
3689
3690 no_cmci
3691 disable CMCI(Corrected Machine Check Interrupt) that
3692 Intel processor supports. Usually this disablement is
3693 not recommended, but it might be handy if your
3694 hardware is misbehaving.
3695
3696 Note that you'll get more problems without CMCI than
3697 with due to the shared banks, i.e. you might get
3698 duplicated error logs.
3699
3700 dont_log_ce
3701 don't make logs for corrected errors. All events
3702 reported as corrected are silently cleared by OS. This
3703 option will be useful if you have no interest in any
3704 of corrected errors.
3705
3706 ignore_ce
3707 disable features for corrected errors, e.g.
3708 polling timer and CMCI. All events reported as
3709 corrected are not cleared by OS and remained in its
3710 error banks.
3711
3712 Usually this disablement is not recommended, however
3713 if there is an agent checking/clearing corrected
3714 errors (e.g. BIOS or hardware monitoring
3715 applications), conflicting with OS's error handling,
3716 and you cannot deactivate the agent, then this option
3717 will be a help.
3718
3719 no_lmce
3720 do not opt-in to Local MCE delivery. Use legacy method
3721 to broadcast MCEs.
3722
3723 bootlog
3724 enable logging of machine checks left over from
3725 booting. Disabled by default on AMD Fam10h and older
3726 because some BIOS leave bogus ones.
3727
3728 If your BIOS doesn't do that it's a good idea to
3729 enable though to make sure you log even machine check
3730 events that result in a reboot. On Intel systems it is
3731 enabled by default.
3732
3733 nobootlog
3734 disable boot machine check logging.
3735
3736 monarchtimeout (number)
3737 sets the time in us to wait for other CPUs on machine
3738 checks. 0 to disable.
3739
3740 bios_cmci_threshold
3741 don't overwrite the bios-set CMCI threshold. This boot
3742 option prevents Linux from overwriting the CMCI
3743 threshold set by the bios. Without this option, Linux
3744 always sets the CMCI threshold to 1. Enabling this may
3745 make memory predictive failure analysis less effective
3746 if the bios sets thresholds for memory errors since we
3747 will not see details for all errors.
3748
3749 recovery
3750 force-enable recoverable machine check code paths
3751
3752 Everything else is in sysfs now.
3753
3754
3755 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
3756 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3757
3758 mdacon= [MDA]
3759 Format: <first>,<last>
3760 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
3761
3762 mds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY]
3763 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
3764 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
3765
3766 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3767 internal buffers which can forward information to a
3768 disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
3769
3770 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
3771 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
3772 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3773 not have direct access.
3774
3775 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
3776 options are:
3777
3778 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3779 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
3780 SMT on vulnerable CPUs
3781 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
3782
3783 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
3784 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
3785 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
3786 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
3787 too.
3788
3789 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3790 mds=full.
3791
3792 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
3793
3794 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON,EARLY] Set the memory size.
3795 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
3796
3797 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Force usage of a specific amount
3798 of memory Amount of memory to be used in cases
3799 as follows:
3800
3801 1 for test;
3802 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
3803 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
3804 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
3805 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
3806
3807 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
3808 high memory is not affected.
3809
3810 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
3811 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
3812
3813 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
3814 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
3815 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
3816 belonging to unused RAM.
3817
3818 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
3819 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
3820 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
3821
3822 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3823 [ARM,MIPS,EARLY] - override the memory layout
3824 reported by firmware.
3825 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
3826 ss[KMG].
3827 Multiple different regions can be specified with
3828 multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
3829
3830 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3831 memory.
3832
3833 memblock=debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable memblock debug messages.
3834
3835 memchunk=nn[KMG]
3836 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3837 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3838
3839 memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable
3840 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3841 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
3842 set according to the
3843 CONFIG_MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE kernel config
3844 options.
3845 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3846
3847 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86,EARLY] Enable setting of an exact
3848 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3849 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3850 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3851 option description.
3852
3853 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3854 [KNL, X86,MIPS,XTENSA,EARLY] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3855 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3856 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3857 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3858 Multiple different regions can be specified,
3859 comma delimited.
3860 Example:
3861 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3862
3863 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3864 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3865 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3866
3867 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3868 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3869 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3870 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3871 memmap=64K$0x18690000
3872 or
3873 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3874 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3875 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3876 will be eaten.
3877
3878 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG,EARLY]
3879 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3880 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3881 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3882 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3883
3884 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3885 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Convert memory within the specified region
3886 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3887 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3888 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3889 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3890 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3891 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3892
3893 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86,EARLY]
3894 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3895 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3896 Setting this option will scan the memory
3897 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
3898 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3899 from using the memory being corrupted.
3900 However, it's intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3901 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3902 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3903 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3904
3905 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86,EARLY]
3906 By default it checks for corruption in the low
3907 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3908 use. Use this parameter to scan for
3909 corruption in more or less memory.
3910
3911 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86,EARLY]
3912 By default it checks for corruption every 60
3913 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
3914 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
3915
3916 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3917 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3918 Format: {on | off (default)}
3919 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3920 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages,
3921 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even
3922 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the
3923 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a
3924 lot of memory without requiring additional
3925 memory to do so.
3926 This feature is disabled by default because it
3927 has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3928 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3929 memory blocks).
3930 The state of the flag can be read in
3931 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3932 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3933 the feature is not effective.
3934
3935 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV,EARLY] Enable memtest
3936 Format: <integer>
3937 default : 0 <disable>
3938 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3939 performed. Each pass selects another test
3940 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3941 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3942 memory contents and reserves bad memory
3943 regions that are detected.
3944
3945 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3946 Valid arguments: on, off
3947 Default: off
3948 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
3949 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
3950
3951 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3952 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3953
3954 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3955 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
3956 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3957 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3958 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3959
3960 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3961 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3962 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3963 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3964
3965 mga= [HW,DRM]
3966
3967 microcode= [X86] Control the behavior of the microcode loader.
3968 Available options, comma separated:
3969
3970 base_rev=X - with <X> with format: <u32>
3971 Set the base microcode revision of each thread when in
3972 debug mode.
3973
3974 dis_ucode_ldr: disable the microcode loader
3975
3976 force_minrev:
3977 Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision
3978 enforcement for the runtime microcode loader.
3979
3980 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
3981 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3982 Default: "0tb"
3983 MINI2440 configuration specification:
3984 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3985 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3986 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3987 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3988 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3989 unconfigured.
3990 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3991 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3992 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3993 VGA shield.
3994 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3995 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3996 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3997 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3998 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3999 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
4000
4001 mitigations=
4002 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64,EARLY] Control optional mitigations for
4003 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated,
4004 arch-independent options, each of which is an
4005 aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
4006
4007 Note, "mitigations" is supported if and only if the
4008 kernel was built with CPU_MITIGATIONS=y.
4009
4010 off
4011 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This
4012 improves system performance, but it may also
4013 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
4014 Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
4015 gather_data_sampling=off [X86]
4016 indirect_target_selection=off [X86]
4017 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
4018 l1tf=off [X86]
4019 mds=off [X86]
4020 mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
4021 no_entry_flush [PPC]
4022 no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
4023 nobp=0 [S390]
4024 nopti [X86,PPC]
4025 nospectre_bhb [ARM64]
4026 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
4027 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
4028 reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86]
4029 retbleed=off [X86]
4030 spec_rstack_overflow=off [X86]
4031 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
4032 spectre_bhi=off [X86]
4033 spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
4034 srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
4035 ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
4036 tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
4037 vmscape=off [X86]
4038
4039 Exceptions:
4040 This does not have any effect on
4041 kvm.nx_huge_pages when
4042 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
4043
4044 auto (default)
4045 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
4046 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for
4047 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
4048 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
4049 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
4050 Equivalent to: (default behavior)
4051
4052 auto,nosmt
4053 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
4054 if needed. This is for users who always want to
4055 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
4056 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
4057 mds=full,nosmt [X86]
4058 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
4059 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
4060 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
4061
4062 [X86] After one of the above options, additionally
4063 supports attack-vector based controls as documented in
4064 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/attack_vector_controls.rst
4065
4066 mminit_loglevel=
4067 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
4068 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
4069 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
4070 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
4071 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
4072 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
4073
4074 mmio_stale_data=
4075 [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the Processor
4076 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
4077
4078 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
4079 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
4080 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
4081 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
4082 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
4083 is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
4084
4085 This parameter controls the mitigation. The
4086 options are:
4087
4088 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
4089
4090 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
4091 vulnerable CPUs.
4092
4093 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation
4094
4095 On MDS or TAA affected machines,
4096 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
4097 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
4098 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
4099 disable this mitigation, you need to specify
4100 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
4101
4102 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4103 mmio_stale_data=full.
4104
4105 For details see:
4106 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
4107
4108 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL]
4109 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value
4110 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous
4111 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable
4112 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the
4113 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe
4114
4115 module.async_probe=<bool>
4116 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing
4117 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a
4118 specific module, use the module specific control that
4119 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both
4120 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are
4121 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for
4122 the specific module.
4123
4124 module.enable_dups_trace
4125 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set,
4126 this means that duplicate request_module() calls will
4127 trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that
4128 if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s
4129 will always be issued and this option does nothing.
4130 module.sig_enforce
4131 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
4132 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
4133 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
4134 is always true, so this option does nothing.
4135
4136 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
4137 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
4138
4139 mousedev.tap_time=
4140 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
4141 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
4142 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
4143 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
4144 Format: <msecs>
4145 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
4146 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
4147 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
4148 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
4149
4150 movablecore= [KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY]
4151 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
4152 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
4153 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
4154 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is
4155 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
4156 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its
4157 own is specified, the administrator must be careful
4158 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
4159 is not too small.
4160
4161 movable_node [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
4162 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
4163 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
4164 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
4165 allocations. Use with caution!
4166
4167 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
4168 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
4169
4170 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
4171 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
4172
4173 mtdparts= [MTD]
4174 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
4175
4176 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
4177 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
4178 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
4179
4180 mtrr=debug [X86,EARLY]
4181 Enable printing debug information related to MTRR
4182 registers at boot time.
4183
4184 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
4185 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
4186 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
4187
4188 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
4189 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
4190 Default is 1.
4191 Large value could prevent small alignment from
4192 using up MTRRs.
4193
4194 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86,EARLY]
4195 Format: <integer>
4196 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
4197 Default : 1
4198 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
4199 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
4200
4201 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
4202 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
4203 at a time.
4204
4205 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
4206
4207 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
4208 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
4209 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
4210 something different and driver-specific.
4211 This usage is only documented in each driver source
4212 file if at all.
4213
4214 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
4215 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
4216 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
4217 waits 4 seconds.
4218
4219 nf_conntrack.acct=
4220 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
4221 0 to disable accounting
4222 1 to enable accounting
4223 Default value is 0.
4224
4225 nfs.cache_getent=
4226 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
4227 to update the NFS client cache entries.
4228
4229 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
4230 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
4231 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
4232
4233 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
4234 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
4235 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
4236 requests.
4237
4238 nfs.callback_tcpport=
4239 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
4240 channel should listen.
4241
4242 nfs.delay_retrans=
4243 [NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client
4244 retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error,
4245 after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server.
4246 Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled,
4247 and the specified value is >= 0.
4248
4249 nfs.enable_ino64=
4250 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
4251 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
4252 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
4253 of returning the full 64-bit number.
4254 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
4255
4256 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
4257 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
4258 entries.
4259
4260 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
4261 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
4262 slots the client will assign to the callback
4263 channel. This determines the maximum number of
4264 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
4265 a particular server.
4266
4267 nfs.max_session_slots=
4268 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
4269 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
4270 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
4271 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
4272 Note that there is little point in setting this
4273 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
4274
4275 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
4276 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
4277 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
4278 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
4279 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
4280 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
4281 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
4282 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
4283 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
4284 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
4285 back to using the idmapper.
4286 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
4287
4288 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
4289 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
4290 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
4291 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
4292 UUID that is generated at system install time.
4293
4294 nfs.recover_lost_locks=
4295 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
4296 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
4297 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
4298 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
4299 after the locks are lost.
4300 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
4301 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
4302 parameter to '1'.
4303 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
4304 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
4305
4306 nfs.send_implementation_id=
4307 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
4308 information in exchange_id requests.
4309 If zero, no implementation identification information
4310 will be sent.
4311 The default is to send the implementation identification
4312 information.
4313
4314 nfs4.layoutstats_timer=
4315 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
4316 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
4317
4318 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
4319 whatever value is the default set by the layout
4320 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
4321 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
4322
4323 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable=
4324 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
4325 server-to-server copies for which this server is
4326 the destination of the copy.
4327
4328 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
4329 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
4330 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
4331 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
4332 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
4333 migration from NFSv2/v3.
4334
4335 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout=
4336 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
4337 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
4338 the source server. It caches the mount in case
4339 it will be needed again, and discards it if not
4340 used for the number of milliseconds specified by
4341 this parameter.
4342
4343 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
4344 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4345
4346 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
4347 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4348
4349 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
4350 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4351
4352 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
4353 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
4354 NMI stack-backtrace request.
4355
4356 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
4357 when a NMI is triggered.
4358 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
4359
4360 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
4361 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][rNNN,][num]
4362 Valid num: 0 or 1
4363 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
4364 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
4365 rNNN - configure the watchdog with raw perf event 0xNNN
4366
4367 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
4368 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
4369 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
4370 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
4371 please see 'nowatchdog'.
4372 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
4373 need the box quickly up again.
4374
4375 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
4376 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
4377
4378 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
4379 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
4380 is present.
4381
4382 no4lvl [RISCV,EARLY] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes.
4383 Forces kernel to use 3-level paging instead.
4384
4385 no5lvl [X86-64,RISCV,EARLY] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
4386 kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
4387
4388 noalign [KNL,ARM]
4389
4390 noapic [SMP,APIC,EARLY] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
4391 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
4392
4393 noapictimer [APIC,X86] Don't set up the APIC timer
4394
4395 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
4396
4397 nocache [ARM,EARLY]
4398
4399 no_console_suspend
4400 [HW] Never suspend the console
4401 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
4402 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
4403 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
4404 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
4405 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
4406 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
4407 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
4408 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
4409 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
4410 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
4411 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
4412 turn on/off it dynamically.
4413
4414 no_debug_objects
4415 [KNL,EARLY] Disable object debugging
4416
4417 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
4418
4419 noefi [EFI,EARLY] Disable EFI runtime services support.
4420
4421 no_entry_flush [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
4422
4423 noexec32 [X86-64]
4424 This affects only 32-bit executables.
4425 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
4426 read doesn't imply executable mappings
4427 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
4428 read implies executable mappings
4429
4430 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
4431 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
4432 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
4433
4434 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
4435
4436 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
4437
4438 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4439 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
4440 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
4441
4442 nogbpages [X86] Do not use GB pages for kernel direct mappings.
4443
4444 no_hash_pointers
4445 [KNL,EARLY]
4446 Alias for "hash_pointers=never".
4447
4448 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
4449
4450 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,RISCV,SH] Forces the kernel to
4451 busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
4452 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
4453 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
4454 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
4455 correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate
4456 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
4457 useful when using JTAG debugger.
4458
4459 nohpet [X86] Don't use the HPET timer.
4460
4461 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
4462
4463 nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
4464
4465 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
4466 Valid arguments: on, off
4467 Default: on
4468
4469 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
4470 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
4471 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
4472 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
4473 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
4474 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
4475 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
4476 just as if they had also been called out in the
4477 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
4478
4479 Note that this argument takes precedence over
4480 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
4481
4482 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
4483 initial RAM disk.
4484
4485 nointremap [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] Do not enable interrupt
4486 remapping.
4487 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
4488
4489 noinvpcid [X86,EARLY] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
4490
4491 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
4492
4493 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
4494 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
4495
4496 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
4497
4498 nokaslr [KNL,EARLY]
4499 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
4500 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
4501 Layout Randomization).
4502
4503 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
4504 fault handling.
4505
4506 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
4507
4508 nolapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
4509
4510 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not use the local APIC timer.
4511
4512 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
4513
4514 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
4515 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
4516
4517 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware
4518 sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory
4519 for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will
4520 not load if they could possibly displace the pre-
4521 initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will
4522 be available for use. The respective drivers will not
4523 perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering.
4524
4525 Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging.
4526
4527 nomodule Disable module load
4528
4529 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
4530 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
4531 irq.
4532
4533 nopat [X86,EARLY] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
4534 pagetables) support.
4535
4536 nopcid [X86-64,EARLY] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
4537
4538 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
4539 in some Intel CPUs.
4540
4541 nopti [X86-64,EARLY]
4542 Equivalent to pti=off
4543
4544 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE,EARLY]
4545 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
4546 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
4547 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
4548
4549 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM,EARLY]
4550 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
4551 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
4552 contention.
4553
4554 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
4555 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
4556
4557 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
4558 with UP alternatives
4559
4560 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
4561 space.
4562
4563 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
4564 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
4565 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
4566
4567 nosgx [X86-64,SGX,EARLY] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
4568
4569 nosmap [PPC,EARLY]
4570 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
4571 even if it is supported by processor.
4572
4573 nosmep [PPC64s,EARLY]
4574 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
4575 even if it is supported by processor.
4576
4577 nosmp [SMP,EARLY] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
4578 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
4579
4580 nosmt [KNL,MIPS,PPC,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4581 Equivalent to smt=1.
4582
4583 [KNL,X86,PPC,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4584 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
4585 via the sysfs control file.
4586
4587 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
4588
4589 nospec_store_bypass_disable
4590 [HW,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative
4591 Store Bypass vulnerability
4592
4593 nospectre_bhb [ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch
4594 history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks
4595 with this option.
4596
4597 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC,EARLY] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
4598 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
4599 possible in the system.
4600
4601 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_E500,ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations
4602 for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch
4603 prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data
4604 leaks with this option.
4605
4606 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES,RISCV,LOONGARCH,EARLY]
4607 Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. steal time
4608 is computed, but won't influence scheduler behaviour
4609
4610 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
4611
4612 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for broken
4613 timer IRQ sources, i.e., the IO-APIC timer. This can
4614 work around problems with incorrect timer
4615 initialization on some boards.
4616
4617 no_uaccess_flush
4618 [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
4619
4620 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP]
4621 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
4622 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
4623 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data
4624 without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
4625 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling
4626 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
4627 data will be no longer available. This parameter
4628 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
4629 is set.
4630
4631 no-vmw-sched-clock
4632 [X86,PV_OPS,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized VMware
4633 scheduler clock and use the default one.
4634
4635 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
4636 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
4637
4638 nowb [ARM,EARLY]
4639
4640 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
4641
4642 NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the
4643 LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the
4644 IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR.
4645
4646 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
4647 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
4648 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
4649
4650 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
4651 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
4652 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
4653 performance of saving the states is degraded because
4654 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
4655 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
4656
4657 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
4658 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
4659 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
4660 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
4661 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
4662 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
4663 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
4664
4665 nr_cpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
4666 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
4667 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
4668 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
4669 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
4670 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
4671 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
4672 hot plugging.
4673
4674 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
4675
4676 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86, EARLY]
4677 Disable NUMA, Only set up a single NUMA node
4678 spanning all memory.
4679
4680 numa=fake=<size>[MG]
4681 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4682 If given as a memory unit, fills all system RAM with
4683 nodes of size interleaved over physical nodes.
4684
4685 numa=fake=<N>
4686 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4687 If given as an integer, fills all system RAM with N
4688 fake nodes interleaved over physical nodes.
4689
4690 numa=fake=<N>U
4691 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4692 If given as an integer followed by 'U', it will
4693 divide each physical node into N emulated nodes.
4694
4695 numa=noacpi [X86] Don't parse the SRAT table for NUMA setup
4696
4697 numa=nohmat [X86] Don't parse the HMAT table for NUMA setup, or
4698 soft-reserved memory partitioning.
4699
4700 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
4701 NUMA balancing.
4702 Allowed values are enable and disable
4703
4704 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
4705 'node', 'default' can be specified
4706 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
4707 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
4708
4709 ohci1394_dma=early [HW,EARLY] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
4710 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
4711 info.
4712
4713 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
4714 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
4715 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
4716 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
4717 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
4718 interrupts *may* be lost!
4719
4720 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
4721 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
4722 For example, to override I2C bus2:
4723 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
4724
4725 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
4726
4727 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
4728
4729 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
4730 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
4731 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
4732 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
4733 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
4734
4735 oops=panic [KNL,EARLY]
4736 Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
4737 process, but there is a small probability of
4738 deadlocking the machine.
4739 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
4740 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
4741
4742 page_alloc.shuffle=
4743 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
4744 should randomize its free lists. This parameter can be
4745 used to enable/disable page randomization. The state of
4746 the flag can be read from sysfs at:
4747 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
4748 This parameter is only available if CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y.
4749
4750 page_owner= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
4751 Storage of the information about who allocated
4752 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
4753 we can turn it on.
4754 on: enable the feature
4755
4756 page_poison= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
4757 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
4758 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
4759 off: turn off poisoning (default)
4760 on: turn on poisoning
4761
4762 page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
4763 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order
4764 Format: <integer>
4765 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
4766 reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER.
4767
4768 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4769 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
4770 timeout = 0: wait forever
4771 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
4772 Format: <timeout>
4773
4774 panic_on_taint= [KNL,EARLY]
4775 Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
4776 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
4777 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
4778 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
4779 called with any of the flags in this set.
4780 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
4781 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
4782 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
4783 bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
4784 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
4785 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
4786 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
4787
4788 panic_on_warn=1 panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
4789 on a WARN().
4790
4791 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
4792 User can chose combination of the following bits:
4793 bit 0: print all tasks info
4794 bit 1: print system memory info
4795 bit 2: print timer info
4796 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
4797 bit 4: print ftrace buffer
4798 bit 5: replay all kernel messages on consoles at the end of panic
4799 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
4800 bit 7: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state
4801 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
4802 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
4803 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
4804 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
4805
4806 panic_sys_info= A comma separated list of extra information to be dumped
4807 on panic.
4808 Format: val[,val...]
4809 Where @val can be any of the following:
4810
4811 tasks: print all tasks info
4812 mem: print system memory info
4813 timers: print timers info
4814 locks: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
4815 ftrace: print ftrace buffer
4816 all_bt: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
4817 blocked_tasks: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state
4818
4819 This is a human readable alternative to the 'panic_print' option.
4820
4821 panic_console_replay
4822 When panic happens, replay all kernel messages on
4823 consoles at the end of panic.
4824
4825 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
4826 connected to, default is 0.
4827 Format: <parport#>
4828 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
4829 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
4830 Format: <mode>
4831
4832 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
4833 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
4834 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
4835 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
4836 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
4837 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
4838 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
4839 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
4840 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
4841 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
4842 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
4843 are specified on the command line, starting
4844 with parport0.
4845
4846 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
4847 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
4848 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
4849 computer where firmware has no options for setting
4850 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
4851 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
4852 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
4853
4854 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA]
4855 Format: <int>
4856 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
4857 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
4858 has been found at either range. Disabled by default.
4859
4860 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA]
4861 Format: <int>
4862 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
4863 changes. Disabled by default.
4864
4865 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA]
4866 Format: <int>
4867 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
4868 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4869 Disabled by default.
4870
4871 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA]
4872 Format: <int>
4873 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
4874 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4875 Disabled by default.
4876
4877 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA]
4878 Format: <int>
4879 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY
4880 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first
4881 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
4882 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often
4883 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
4884 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
4885 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
4886 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across
4887 all channels.
4888
4889 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA]
4890 Format: <int>
4891 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
4892 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4893 respectively. Disabled by default.
4894
4895 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA]
4896 Format: <int>
4897 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
4898 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4899 respectively. Disabled by default.
4900
4901 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA]
4902 Format: <int>
4903 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual
4904 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
4905 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
4906 All modes allowed by default.
4907
4908 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA]
4909 Format: <int>
4910 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
4911 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default.
4912
4913 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA]
4914 Format: <int>
4915 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on
4916 platform configuration and the use of other driver
4917 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
4918 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
4919 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
4920 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for
4921 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
4922 By default all supported ports are probed.
4923
4924 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA]
4925 Format: <int>
4926 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default
4927 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
4928
4929 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA]
4930 Format: <int>
4931 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use
4932 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
4933 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
4934 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
4935 0 otherwise.
4936
4937 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA]
4938 Format: <int>
4939 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow
4940 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for
4941 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only
4942 allowed by default.
4943
4944 pause_on_oops=<int>
4945 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
4946 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
4947 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
4948
4949 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
4950
4951 pci=option[,option...] [PCI,EARLY] various PCI subsystem options.
4952
4953 Some options herein operate on a specific device
4954 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
4955 specified in one of the following formats:
4956
4957 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
4958 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
4959
4960 Note: the first format specifies a PCI
4961 bus/device/function address which may change
4962 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
4963 firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4964 by other kernel parameters. If the
4965 domain is left unspecified, it is
4966 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4967 to a device through multiple device/function
4968 addresses can be specified after the base
4969 address (this is more robust against
4970 renumbering issues). The second format
4971 selects devices using IDs from the
4972 configuration space which may match multiple
4973 devices in the system.
4974
4975 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel
4976 changes anything
4977 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4978 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4979 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
4980 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4981 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4982 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
4983 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
4984 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
4985 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4986 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
4987 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4988 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4989 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4990 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4991 bus number. The config space is then accessed
4992 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4993 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4994 on the configuration access mechanisms.
4995 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4996 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4997 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
4998 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4999 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
5000 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
5001 Configuration
5002 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
5003 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
5004 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
5005 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
5006 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
5007 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
5008 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
5009 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
5010 should never be necessary.
5011 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
5012 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
5013 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
5014 when the system masks IRQs.
5015 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
5016 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
5017 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
5018 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
5019 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
5020 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
5021 on several machines and they hang the machine
5022 when used, but on other computers it's the only
5023 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
5024 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
5025 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
5026 motherboard.
5027 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
5028 Use with caution as certain devices share
5029 address decoders between ROMs and other
5030 resources.
5031 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
5032 expansion ROMs that do not already have
5033 BIOS assigned address ranges.
5034 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
5035 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
5036 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
5037 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
5038 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
5039 this way.
5040 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
5041 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
5042 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
5043 F0000h-100000h range.
5044 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
5045 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
5046 secondary buses and you want to tell it
5047 explicitly which ones they are.
5048 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
5049 numbers ourselves, overriding
5050 whatever the firmware may have done.
5051 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
5052 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
5053 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
5054 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
5055 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
5056 IRQ routing is enabled.
5057 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
5058 or for PCI scanning.
5059 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
5060 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
5061 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
5062 please report a bug.
5063 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
5064 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
5065 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
5066 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
5067 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
5068 If you need to use this, please report a bug to
5069 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
5070 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
5071 bridge windows. This is the default on modern
5072 hardware. If you need to use this, please report
5073 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
5074 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
5075 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
5076 so this option is a temporary workaround
5077 for broken drivers that don't call it.
5078 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
5079 handle more pci cards
5080 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
5081 This might help on some broken boards which
5082 machine check when some devices' config space
5083 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
5084 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
5085 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
5086 This sorting is done to get a device
5087 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
5088 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
5089 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
5090 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
5091 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
5092 supported by all devices below the root complex.
5093 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
5094 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
5095 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
5096 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
5097 or bus can support) for best performance.
5098 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
5099 every device is guaranteed to support. This
5100 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
5101 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
5102 reduced performance. This also guarantees
5103 that hot-added devices will work.
5104 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
5105 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
5106 The default value is 256 bytes.
5107 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
5108 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
5109 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
5110 resource_alignment=
5111 Format:
5112 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
5113 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
5114 aligned memory resources. How to
5115 specify the device is described above.
5116 If <order of align> is not specified,
5117 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
5118 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
5119 windows need to be expanded.
5120 To specify the alignment for several
5121 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
5122 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
5123 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
5124 for 4096-byte alignment.
5125 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
5126 end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if
5127 OS has native AER control (either granted by
5128 ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native")
5129 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
5130 the default.
5131 off: Turn ECRC off
5132 on: Turn ECRC on.
5133 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
5134 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
5135 Default size is 256 bytes.
5136 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
5137 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
5138 Default size is 2 megabytes.
5139 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
5140 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
5141 Default size is 2 megabytes.
5142 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
5143 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
5144 MMIO_PREF window.
5145 Default size is 2 megabytes.
5146 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
5147 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
5148 Default is 1.
5149 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
5150 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
5151 accommodate resources required by all child
5152 devices.
5153 off: Turn realloc off
5154 on: Turn realloc on
5155 realloc same as realloc=on
5156 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
5157 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
5158 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
5159 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
5160 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
5161 port.
5162 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
5163 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
5164 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
5165 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
5166 conflict with unreported devices), so this
5167 taints the kernel.
5168 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
5169 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
5170 specified above) separated by semicolons.
5171 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
5172 redirect capabilities forced off which will
5173 allow P2P traffic between devices through
5174 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
5175 this removes isolation between devices and
5176 may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
5177 config_acs=
5178 Format:
5179 <ACS flags>@<pci_dev>[; ...]
5180 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
5181 specified above) optionally prepended with flags
5182 and separated by semicolons. The respective
5183 capabilities will be enabled, disabled or
5184 unchanged based on what is specified in
5185 flags.
5186
5187 ACS Flags is defined as follows:
5188 bit-0 : ACS Source Validation
5189 bit-1 : ACS Translation Blocking
5190 bit-2 : ACS P2P Request Redirect
5191 bit-3 : ACS P2P Completion Redirect
5192 bit-4 : ACS Upstream Forwarding
5193 bit-5 : ACS P2P Egress Control
5194 bit-6 : ACS Direct Translated P2P
5195 Each bit can be marked as:
5196 '0' – force disabled
5197 '1' – force enabled
5198 'x' – unchanged
5199 For example,
5200 pci=config_acs=10x@pci:0:0
5201 would configure all devices that support
5202 ACS to enable P2P Request Redirect, disable
5203 Translation Blocking, and leave Source
5204 Validation unchanged from whatever power-up
5205 or firmware set it to.
5206
5207 Note: this may remove isolation between devices
5208 and may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
5209 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
5210 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
5211 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
5212 one PCI domain per PCI function
5213 notph [PCIE] If the PCIE_TPH kernel config parameter
5214 is enabled, this kernel boot option can be used
5215 to disable PCIe TLP Processing Hints support
5216 system-wide.
5217
5218 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or ignore PCIe Active State Power
5219 Management.
5220 off Don't touch ASPM configuration at all. Leave any
5221 configuration done by firmware unchanged.
5222 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
5223 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
5224
5225 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
5226 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
5227 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
5228 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform
5229 also tries to use these services.
5230 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May
5231 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
5232 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
5233 hotplug).
5234
5235 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
5236 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
5237 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
5238
5239 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
5240 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
5241 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
5242
5243 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
5244
5245 pd_ignore_unused
5246 [PM]
5247 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
5248 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
5249 for debug and development, but should not be
5250 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
5251
5252 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
5253 boot time.
5254 Format: { 0 | 1 }
5255 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
5256
5257 percpu_alloc= [MM,EARLY]
5258 Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
5259 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
5260 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
5261 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
5262 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
5263 and performance comparison.
5264
5265 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
5266 See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
5267
5268 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
5269 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
5270 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
5271
5272 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
5273 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
5274 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
5275
5276 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU.
5277 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
5278 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
5279 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
5280 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
5281 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
5282 remains 0.
5283
5284 pm_async= [PM]
5285 Format: off
5286 This parameter sets the initial value of the
5287 /sys/power/pm_async sysfs knob at boot time.
5288 If set to "off", disables asynchronous suspend and
5289 resume of devices during system-wide power transitions.
5290 This can be useful on platforms where device
5291 dependencies are not well-defined, or for debugging
5292 power management issues. Asynchronous operations are
5293 enabled by default.
5294
5295
5296 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL]
5297 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
5298
5299 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
5300 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
5301 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
5302 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
5303 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
5304 possible settings and some assignment information.
5305
5306 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
5307 { off }
5308
5309 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
5310 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
5311
5312 pnp_reserve_irq=
5313 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
5314
5315 pnp_reserve_dma=
5316 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
5317
5318 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
5319 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
5320
5321 pnp_reserve_mem=
5322 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
5323 autoconfiguration.
5324 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
5325
5326 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
5327 Default is 21.
5328 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
5329 may be specified.
5330 Format: <port>,<port>....
5331
5332 possible_cpus= [SMP,S390,X86]
5333 Format: <unsigned int>
5334 Set the number of possible CPUs, overriding the
5335 regular discovery mechanisms (such as ACPI/FW, etc).
5336
5337 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
5338 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
5339 platform machine description specific power_save
5340 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
5341 execution priority.
5342
5343 ppc_strict_facility_enable
5344 [PPC,ENABLE] This option catches any kernel floating point,
5345 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
5346 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
5347 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
5348
5349 ppc_tm= [PPC,EARLY]
5350 Format: {"off"}
5351 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
5352
5353 preempt= [KNL]
5354 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
5355 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
5356 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
5357 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
5358 can be preempted anytime. Tasks will also yield
5359 contended spinlocks (if the critical section isn't
5360 explicitly preempt disabled beyond the lock itself).
5361 lazy - Scheduler controlled. Similar to full but instead
5362 of preempting the task immediately, the task gets
5363 one HZ tick time to yield itself before the
5364 preemption will be forced. One preemption is when the
5365 task returns to user space.
5366
5367 print-fatal-signals=
5368 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
5369
5370 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
5371 related application anomalies: too many signals,
5372 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
5373 coredump - etc.
5374
5375 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
5376 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
5377
5378 default: off.
5379
5380 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
5381 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
5382 panics
5383 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5384 default: disabled
5385
5386 printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
5387 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
5388 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
5389 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
5390 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
5391 in order to provide more debug information.
5392 Format: <bool>
5393 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
5394
5395 printk.debug_non_panic_cpus=
5396 Allows storing messages from non-panic CPUs into
5397 the printk log buffer during panic(). They are
5398 flushed to consoles by the panic-CPU on
5399 a best-effort basis.
5400 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5401 Default: disabled
5402
5403 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
5404 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
5405 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
5406 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
5407 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
5408 Default: ratelimit
5409
5410 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
5411 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5412
5413 proc_mem.force_override= [KNL]
5414 Format: {always | ptrace | never}
5415 Traditionally /proc/pid/mem allows memory permissions to be
5416 overridden without restrictions. This option may be set to
5417 restrict that. Can be one of:
5418 - 'always': traditional behavior always allows mem overrides.
5419 - 'ptrace': only allow mem overrides for active ptracers.
5420 - 'never': never allow mem overrides.
5421 If not specified, default is the CONFIG_PROC_MEM_* choice.
5422
5423 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
5424 Limit processor to maximum C-state
5425 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
5426
5427 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
5428 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
5429 instead using the legacy FADT method
5430
5431 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
5432 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
5433 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule" or "kvm"
5434 [defaults to kernel profiling]
5435 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
5436 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
5437 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
5438 statistical time based profiling.
5439
5440 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated]
5441
5442 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
5443 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
5444 that). If enabled, the default kernel base address
5445 might be overridden even when Kernel Address Space
5446 Layout Randomization is disabled.
5447 Format: <bool>
5448
5449 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
5450 tracking.
5451 Format: <bool>
5452
5453 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
5454 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
5455 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
5456 per second.
5457 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
5458 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
5459 (0 = never).
5460 psmouse.resolution=
5461 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
5462 psmouse.smartscroll=
5463 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
5464 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
5465
5466 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
5467
5468 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
5469 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
5470 removes hardening, but improves performance of
5471 system calls and interrupts.
5472
5473 on - unconditionally enable
5474 off - unconditionally disable
5475 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5476 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
5477
5478 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
5479
5480 pty.legacy_count=
5481 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
5482 default number.
5483
5484 quiet [KNL,EARLY] Disable most log messages
5485
5486 r128= [HW,DRM]
5487
5488 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES]
5489 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
5490 invalidate.
5491
5492 raid= [HW,RAID]
5493 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
5494
5495 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
5496 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
5497
5498 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address
5499
5500 random.trust_cpu=off
5501 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's
5502 random number generator (if available) to
5503 initialize the kernel's RNG.
5504
5505 random.trust_bootloader=off
5506 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the a seed
5507 passed by the bootloader (if available) to
5508 initialize the kernel's RNG.
5509
5510 randomize_kstack_offset=
5511 [KNL,EARLY] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
5512 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
5513 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
5514 that depend on stack address determinism or
5515 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
5516 available on architectures that have defined
5517 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
5518 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5519 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
5520
5521 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
5522
5523 cec_disable [X86]
5524 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
5525 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
5526
5527 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
5528 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
5529 as described above.
5530
5531 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
5532 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
5533 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
5534 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
5535 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
5536 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
5537 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
5538 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
5539 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
5540 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
5541 and real-time workloads. It can also improve
5542 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
5543
5544 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
5545 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
5546
5547 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
5548 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
5549 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
5550 toggled at runtime via cpusets.
5551
5552 Note that this argument takes precedence over
5553 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
5554
5555 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
5556 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
5557 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
5558 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
5559 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
5560 This improves the real-time response for the
5561 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
5562 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
5563 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
5564 periodically wake up to do the polling.
5565
5566 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
5567 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
5568 process in one batch.
5569
5570 rcutree.csd_lock_suppress_rcu_stall= [KNL]
5571 Do only a one-line RCU CPU stall warning when
5572 there is an ongoing too-long CSD-lock wait.
5573
5574 rcutree.do_rcu_barrier= [KNL]
5575 Request a call to rcu_barrier(). This is
5576 throttled so that userspace tests can safely
5577 hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose.
5578 If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery
5579 is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN.
5580
5581 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
5582 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
5583 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
5584 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
5585
5586 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
5587 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5588 RCU grace-period cleanup.
5589
5590 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
5591 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5592 RCU grace-period initialization.
5593
5594 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
5595 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5596 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
5597 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
5598 the rcu_node combining tree.
5599
5600 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
5601 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
5602 first attempt to force quiescent states.
5603 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
5604 and maximum value is HZ.
5605
5606 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
5607 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
5608 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
5609 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
5610
5611 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
5612 Set required age in jiffies for a
5613 given grace period before RCU starts
5614 soliciting quiescent-state help from
5615 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
5616 If not specified, the kernel will calculate
5617 a value based on the most recent settings
5618 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
5619 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
5620 This calculated value may be viewed in
5621 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set
5622 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
5623 overwritten.
5624
5625 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
5626 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
5627 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
5628 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
5629 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
5630 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
5631 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
5632 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
5633 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
5634 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
5635 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
5636 priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
5637
5638 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL]
5639 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
5640 RCU reduces the lock contention that would
5641 otherwise be caused by callback floods through
5642 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the
5643 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
5644 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
5645 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
5646 But if there are too many callbacks queued during
5647 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
5648 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too
5649 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter.
5650
5651 rcutree.nohz_full_patience_delay= [KNL]
5652 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, avoid
5653 disturbing RCU unless the grace period has
5654 reached the specified age in milliseconds.
5655 Defaults to zero. Large values will be capped
5656 at five seconds. All values will be rounded down
5657 to the nearest value representable by jiffies.
5658
5659 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
5660 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
5661 batch limiting is disabled.
5662
5663 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
5664 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
5665 batch limiting is re-enabled.
5666
5667 rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
5668 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
5669 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
5670 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
5671 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
5672 Set to less than zero to make this be set based
5673 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
5674 disable more aggressive help enlistment.
5675
5676 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
5677 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
5678 in response to low-memory conditions. The range
5679 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
5680
5681 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL]
5682 Set the shift-right count to use to compute
5683 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
5684 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU.
5685 The result will be bounded below by the value of
5686 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl
5687 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in
5688 order to allow the CPU to do other work.
5689
5690 Please note that this callback-invocation batch
5691 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
5692 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead
5693 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which
5694 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task.
5695
5696 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
5697 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
5698 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
5699 possibly be useful for architectures having high
5700 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
5701
5702 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
5703 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
5704 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
5705 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
5706 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
5707 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
5708 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
5709
5710 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
5711 Minimum number of objects which are cached and
5712 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
5713 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
5714 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
5715 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
5716 condition.
5717
5718 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
5719 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
5720 each group, which defaults to the square root
5721 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce
5722 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
5723 kthread, but increases that same overhead on
5724 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
5725
5726 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
5727 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
5728 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
5729 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
5730 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
5731 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
5732
5733 rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL]
5734 Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU
5735 callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds.
5736 By default, this limit is checked only once
5737 every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain
5738 inflicted by local_clock() overhead.
5739
5740 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
5741 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
5742 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
5743 in microseconds. This defaults to zero.
5744 Larger delays increase the probability of
5745 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
5746 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
5747 rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
5748
5749 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
5750 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
5751 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
5752 why a new grace period has not yet started.
5753
5754 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL]
5755 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
5756 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero
5757 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
5758 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
5759
5760 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
5761 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
5762 to zero.
5763
5764 rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy= [KNL]
5765 To save power, batch RCU callbacks and flush after
5766 delay, memory pressure or callback list growing too
5767 big.
5768
5769 rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp= [KNL]
5770 Reduces a latency of synchronize_rcu() call. This approach
5771 maintains its own track of synchronize_rcu() callers, so it
5772 does not interact with regular callbacks because it does not
5773 use a call_rcu[_hurry]() path. Please note, this is for a
5774 normal grace period.
5775
5776 How to enable it:
5777
5778 echo 1 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp
5779 or pass a boot parameter "rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=1"
5780
5781 Default is 1 if num_possible_cpus() <= 16 and it is not explicitly
5782 disabled by the boot parameter passing 0.
5783
5784 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
5785 Measure performance of asynchronous
5786 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
5787
5788 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
5789 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
5790 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
5791 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
5792 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
5793 previously posted callbacks to drain.
5794
5795 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
5796 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
5797 grace-period primitives.
5798
5799 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5800 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
5801 this parameter is to delay the start of the
5802 test until boot completes in order to avoid
5803 interference.
5804
5805 rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL]
5806 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test
5807 call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu().
5808
5809 rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL]
5810 Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj,
5811 allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj).
5812 Defaults to 1.
5813
5814 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
5815 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
5816
5817 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
5818 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5819 If this parameter has the same value as
5820 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
5821 and double-argument variants are tested.
5822
5823 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
5824 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5825 If this parameter has the same value as
5826 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
5827 and double-argument variants are tested.
5828
5829 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
5830 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
5831
5832 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
5833 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
5834
5835 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
5836 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
5837 of allocations and frees.
5838
5839 rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL]
5840 Set the minimum test run time in seconds. This
5841 does not affect the data-collection interval,
5842 but instead allows better measurement of things
5843 like CPU consumption.
5844
5845 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5846 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
5847 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
5848 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
5849 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
5850 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5851 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
5852 a single reader.
5853
5854 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
5855 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
5856 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
5857 N, where N is the number of CPUs
5858
5859 rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5860 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5861
5862 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5863 Shut the system down after performance tests
5864 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
5865 testing.
5866
5867 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
5868 Enable additional printk() statements.
5869
5870 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
5871 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
5872 in microseconds. The default of zero says
5873 no holdoff.
5874
5875 rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL]
5876 Additional write-side holdoff between grace
5877 periods, but in jiffies. The default of zero
5878 says no holdoff.
5879
5880 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
5881 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
5882 in microseconds.
5883
5884 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
5885 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
5886 in microseconds.
5887
5888 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
5889 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
5890 in seconds.
5891
5892 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
5893 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
5894 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
5895 for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
5896 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
5897 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
5898 of CPUs to be used.
5899
5900 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
5901 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
5902 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
5903
5904 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
5905 Number of seconds to wait between successive
5906 forward-progress tests.
5907
5908 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
5909 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
5910 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
5911 testing.
5912
5913 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
5914 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5915 normal-grace-period primitives, if available.
5916
5917 rcutorture.gp_cond_exp= [KNL]
5918 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5919 expedited-grace-period primitives, if available.
5920
5921 rcutorture.gp_cond_full= [KNL]
5922 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5923 normal-grace-period primitives that also take
5924 concurrent expedited grace periods into account,
5925 if available.
5926
5927 rcutorture.gp_cond_exp_full= [KNL]
5928 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5929 expedited-grace-period primitives that also take
5930 concurrent normal grace periods into account,
5931 if available.
5932
5933 rcutorture.gp_cond_wi= [KNL]
5934 Nominal wait interval for normal conditional
5935 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
5936 gp_cond and gp_cond_full module parameters),
5937 in microseconds. The actual wait interval will
5938 be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up
5939 to this wait interval. Defaults to 16 jiffies,
5940 for example, 16,000 microseconds on a system
5941 with HZ=1000.
5942
5943 rcutorture.gp_cond_wi_exp= [KNL]
5944 Nominal wait interval for expedited conditional
5945 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
5946 gp_cond_exp and gp_cond_exp_full module
5947 parameters), in microseconds. The actual wait
5948 interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond
5949 granularity up to this wait interval. Defaults to
5950 128 microseconds.
5951
5952 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
5953 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
5954
5955 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
5956 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
5957 update-side primitives, if available.
5958
5959 rcutorture.gp_poll= [KNL]
5960 Use polled update-side normal-grace-period
5961 primitives, if available.
5962
5963 rcutorture.gp_poll_exp= [KNL]
5964 Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period
5965 primitives, if available.
5966
5967 rcutorture.gp_poll_full= [KNL]
5968 Use polled update-side normal-grace-period
5969 primitives that also take concurrent expedited
5970 grace periods into account, if available.
5971
5972 rcutorture.gp_poll_exp_full= [KNL]
5973 Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period
5974 primitives that also take concurrent normal
5975 grace periods into account, if available.
5976
5977 rcutorture.gp_poll_wi= [KNL]
5978 Nominal wait interval for normal conditional
5979 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
5980 gp_poll and gp_poll_full module parameters),
5981 in microseconds. The actual wait interval will
5982 be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up
5983 to this wait interval. Defaults to 16 jiffies,
5984 for example, 16,000 microseconds on a system
5985 with HZ=1000.
5986
5987 rcutorture.gp_poll_wi_exp= [KNL]
5988 Nominal wait interval for expedited conditional
5989 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
5990 gp_poll_exp and gp_poll_exp_full module
5991 parameters), in microseconds. The actual wait
5992 interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond
5993 granularity up to this wait interval. Defaults to
5994 128 microseconds.
5995
5996 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
5997 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
5998 update-side primitives, if available. If all
5999 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
6000 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
6001 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
6002 they are all non-zero.
6003
6004 rcutorture.gpwrap_lag= [KNL]
6005 Enable grace-period wrap lag testing. Setting
6006 to false prevents the gpwrap lag test from
6007 running. Default is true.
6008
6009 rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_gps= [KNL]
6010 Set the value for grace-period wrap lag during
6011 active lag testing periods. This controls how many
6012 grace periods differences we tolerate between
6013 rdp and rnp's gp_seq before setting overflow flag.
6014 The default is always set to 8.
6015
6016 rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_cycle_mins= [KNL]
6017 Set the total cycle duration for gpwrap lag
6018 testing in minutes. This is the total time for
6019 one complete cycle of active and inactive
6020 testing periods. Default is 30 minutes.
6021
6022 rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_active_mins= [KNL]
6023 Set the duration for which gpwrap lag is active
6024 within each cycle, in minutes. During this time,
6025 the grace-period wrap lag will be set to the
6026 value specified by gpwrap_lag_gps. Default is
6027 5 minutes.
6028
6029 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
6030 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
6031 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU
6032 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
6033
6034 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
6035 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
6036 This can of course result in splats, and is
6037 intended to test the ability of things like
6038 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
6039 such leaks.
6040
6041 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
6042 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
6043
6044 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
6045 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
6046 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
6047 test, hence the "fake".
6048
6049 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
6050 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
6051 Zero (the default) disables toggling.
6052
6053 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
6054 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
6055 callback-offload toggling attempts.
6056
6057 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
6058 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
6059 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
6060 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
6061 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
6062 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
6063
6064 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
6065 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
6066
6067 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
6068 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
6069
6070 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
6071 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
6072 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
6073
6074 rcutorture.preempt_duration= [KNL]
6075 Set duration (in milliseconds) of preemptions
6076 by a high-priority FIFO real-time task. Set to
6077 zero (the default) to disable. The CPUs to
6078 preempt are selected randomly from the set that
6079 are online at a given point in time. Races with
6080 CPUs going offline are ignored, with that attempt
6081 at preemption skipped.
6082
6083 rcutorture.preempt_interval= [KNL]
6084 Set interval (in milliseconds, defaulting to one
6085 second) between preemptions by a high-priority
6086 FIFO real-time task. This delay is mediated
6087 by an hrtimer and is further fuzzed to avoid
6088 inadvertent synchronizations.
6089
6090 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
6091 The number of times in a given read-then-exit
6092 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
6093 is spawned.
6094
6095 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
6096 The delay, in seconds, between successive
6097 read-then-exit testing episodes.
6098
6099 rcutorture.reader_flavor= [KNL]
6100 A bit mask indicating which readers to use.
6101 If there is more than one bit set, the readers
6102 are entered from low-order bit up, and are
6103 exited in the opposite order. For SRCU, the
6104 0x1 bit is normal readers, 0x2 NMI-safe readers,
6105 and 0x4 light-weight readers.
6106
6107 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
6108 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
6109 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
6110 during the rcutorture test.
6111
6112 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
6113 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
6114 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
6115
6116 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
6117 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
6118 warnings, zero to disable.
6119
6120 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
6121 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result
6122 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to
6123 any other stall-related activity. Note that
6124 in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and
6125 CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will
6126 cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state.
6127 Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress
6128 RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result
6129 in scheduling-while-atomic splats.
6130
6131 Use of this module parameter results in splats.
6132
6133
6134 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
6135 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
6136
6137 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
6138 Disable interrupts while stalling if set, but only
6139 on the first stall in the set.
6140
6141 rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat= [KNL]
6142 Number of times to repeat the stall sequence,
6143 so that rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat=3 will result
6144 in four stall sequences.
6145
6146 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
6147 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
6148 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
6149 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu
6150 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
6151 kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
6152
6153 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
6154 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
6155
6156 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
6157 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
6158 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
6159 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
6160 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
6161
6162 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
6163 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
6164 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
6165 under test support RCU priority boosting.
6166
6167 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
6168 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
6169
6170 rcutorture.test_boost_holdoff= [KNL]
6171 Holdoff time (s) from start of test to the start
6172 of RCU priority-boost testing. Defaults to zero,
6173 that is, no holdoff.
6174
6175 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
6176 Interval (s) between each boost test.
6177
6178 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
6179 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
6180 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
6181
6182 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
6183 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
6184
6185 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
6186 Enable additional printk() statements.
6187
6188 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
6189 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
6190 stall warning.
6191
6192 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL]
6193 Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the
6194 warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig
6195 option's help text. TL;DR: You almost certainly
6196 do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers.
6197
6198 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
6199 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
6200
6201 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
6202 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
6203 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
6204 during early boot, that is, during the time
6205 before the init task is spawned.
6206
6207 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
6208 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
6209 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
6210 value is 300 seconds.
6211
6212 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
6213 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
6214 messages. The value is in milliseconds
6215 and the maximum allowed value is 21000
6216 milliseconds. Please note that this value is
6217 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
6218 Setting this to zero causes the value from
6219 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
6220 conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
6221
6222 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL]
6223 Provide statistics on the cputime and count of
6224 interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For
6225 multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods
6226 begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout.
6227
6228 rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL]
6229 Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the
6230 current expedited RCU grace period during an
6231 expedited RCU CPU stall warning.
6232
6233 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
6234 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
6235 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
6236 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
6237 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
6238 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
6239 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
6240
6241 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
6242 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
6243 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
6244 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
6245 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
6246 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
6247 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
6248 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
6249 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
6250
6251 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
6252 Once boot has completed (that is, after
6253 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
6254 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
6255 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
6256
6257 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
6258 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
6259 it to the value one, that is, converting any
6260 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
6261 period to instead use normal non-expedited
6262 grace-period processing.
6263
6264 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
6265 Set the maximum number of callbacks present
6266 at the beginning of a grace period that allows
6267 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
6268 a single callback queue. This switching only
6269 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
6270 set to the default value of -1.
6271
6272 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
6273 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
6274 lock-contention events per jiffy required to
6275 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
6276 callback queuing. This switching only occurs
6277 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
6278 the default value of -1.
6279
6280 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
6281 Set the number of callback queues to use for the
6282 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default
6283 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
6284 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended
6285 for use in testing.
6286
6287 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
6288 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
6289 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
6290 of a given grace period. Setting a large
6291 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
6292 but lengthens grace periods.
6293
6294 rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL]
6295 Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will
6296 cancel laziness on that CPU. Use -1 to disable
6297 cancellation of laziness, but be advised that
6298 doing so increases the danger of OOM due to
6299 callback flooding.
6300
6301 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
6302 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
6303 informational messages, which give some indication
6304 of the problem for those not patient enough to
6305 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are
6306 only printed prior to the stall-warning message
6307 for a given grace period. Disable with a value
6308 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten
6309 seconds. A change in value does not take effect
6310 until the beginning of the next grace period.
6311
6312 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
6313 Multiplier for time interval between successive
6314 RCU task stall informational messages for a given
6315 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped
6316 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to
6317 the value three, so that the first informational
6318 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
6319 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
6320 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
6321 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
6322
6323 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
6324 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
6325 warning messages. Disable with a value less
6326 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes.
6327 A change in value does not take effect until
6328 the beginning of the next grace period.
6329
6330 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL]
6331 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous
6332 callback batching for call_rcu_tasks().
6333 A negative value will take the default. A value
6334 of zero will disable batching. Batching is
6335 always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks().
6336
6337 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL]
6338 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks
6339 Trace asynchronous callback batching for
6340 call_rcu_tasks_trace(). A negative value
6341 will take the default. A value of zero will
6342 disable batching. Batching is always disabled
6343 for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace().
6344
6345 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
6346 Run the RCU early boot self tests
6347
6348 rdinit= [KNL]
6349 Format: <full_path>
6350 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
6351 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
6352
6353 rdrand= [X86,EARLY]
6354 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
6355 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
6356 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
6357 support, specifically around the suspend/resume
6358 path).
6359
6360 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
6361 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
6362 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
6363 mba, smba, bmec, abmc, sdciae.
6364 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
6365 rdt=cmt,!mba
6366
6367 reboot= [KNL]
6368 Format (x86 or x86_64):
6369 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
6370 [[,]s[mp]#### \
6371 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
6372 [[,]f[orce]
6373 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
6374 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
6375 reboot only),
6376 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
6377 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
6378 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
6379 to be used for rebooting.
6380
6381 acpi
6382 Use the ACPI RESET_REG in the FADT. If ACPI is not
6383 configured or the ACPI reset does not work, the reboot
6384 path attempts the reset using the keyboard controller.
6385
6386 bios
6387 Use the CPU reboot vector for warm reset
6388
6389 cold
6390 Set the cold reboot flag
6391
6392 default
6393 There are some built-in platform specific "quirks"
6394 - you may see: "reboot: <name> series board detected.
6395 Selecting <type> for reboots." In the case where you
6396 think the quirk is in error (e.g. you have newer BIOS,
6397 or newer board) using this option will ignore the
6398 built-in quirk table, and use the generic default
6399 reboot actions.
6400
6401 efi
6402 Use efi reset_system runtime service. If EFI is not
6403 configured or the EFI reset does not work, the reboot
6404 path attempts the reset using the keyboard controller.
6405
6406 force
6407 Don't stop other CPUs on reboot. This can make reboot
6408 more reliable in some cases.
6409
6410 kbd
6411 Use the keyboard controller. cold reset (default)
6412
6413 pci
6414 Use a write to the PCI config space register 0xcf9 to
6415 trigger reboot.
6416
6417 triple
6418 Force a triple fault (init)
6419
6420 warm
6421 Don't set the cold reboot flag
6422
6423 Using warm reset will be much faster especially on big
6424 memory systems because the BIOS will not go through
6425 the memory check. Disadvantage is that not all
6426 hardware will be completely reinitialized on reboot so
6427 there may be boot problems on some systems.
6428
6429
6430 refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
6431 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
6432 this parameter is to delay the start of the
6433 test until boot completes in order to avoid
6434 interference.
6435
6436 refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL]
6437 Number of data elements to use for the forms of
6438 SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing. A negative number
6439 is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while
6440 zero specifies nr_cpu_ids.
6441
6442 refscale.loops= [KNL]
6443 Set the number of loops over the synchronization
6444 primitive under test. Increasing this number
6445 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
6446 but the default has already reduced the per-pass
6447 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
6448 x86 laptops.
6449
6450 refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
6451 Set number of readers. The default value of -1
6452 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
6453 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice.
6454
6455 refscale.nruns= [KNL]
6456 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
6457 the console log.
6458
6459 refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
6460 Set the read-side critical-section duration,
6461 measured in microseconds.
6462
6463 refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
6464 Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
6465
6466 refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
6467 Shut down the system at the end of the performance
6468 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
6469 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
6470 it running) when refscale is built as a module.
6471
6472 refscale.verbose= [KNL]
6473 Enable additional printk() statements.
6474
6475 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
6476 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero
6477 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise,
6478 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
6479 specified.
6480
6481 regulator_ignore_unused
6482 [REGULATOR]
6483 Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators
6484 that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may
6485 be useful for debug and development, but should not be
6486 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
6487
6488 relax_domain_level=
6489 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
6490 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
6491
6492 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
6493 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
6494 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
6495 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
6496 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
6497
6498 reserve_mem= [RAM]
6499 Format: nn[KMG]:<align>:<label>
6500 Reserve physical memory and label it with a name that
6501 other subsystems can use to access it. This is typically
6502 used for systems that do not wipe the RAM, and this command
6503 line will try to reserve the same physical memory on
6504 soft reboots. Note, it is not guaranteed to be the same
6505 location. For example, if anything about the system changes
6506 or if booting a different kernel. It can also fail if KASLR
6507 places the kernel at the location of where the RAM reservation
6508 was from a previous boot, the new reservation will be at a
6509 different location.
6510 Any subsystem using this feature must add a way to verify
6511 that the contents of the physical memory is from a previous
6512 boot, as there may be cases where the memory will not be
6513 located at the same location.
6514
6515 The format is size:align:label for example, to request
6516 12 megabytes of 4096 alignment for ramoops:
6517
6518 reserve_mem=12M:4096:oops ramoops.mem_name=oops
6519
6520 reservetop= [X86-32,EARLY]
6521 Format: nn[KMG]
6522 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
6523 address space.
6524
6525 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
6526 during initialization.
6527
6528 resume= [SWSUSP]
6529 Specify the partition device for software suspend
6530 Format:
6531 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
6532
6533 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
6534 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
6535 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
6536 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
6537 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
6538
6539 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
6540 read the resume files
6541
6542 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
6543 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
6544 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
6545
6546 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction. After boot, it will
6547 be accessible via /sys/firmware/initrd.
6548
6549 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
6550 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
6551 vulnerability.
6552
6553 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
6554 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other
6555 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
6556 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors
6557 that don't.
6558
6559 off - no mitigation
6560 auto - automatically select a mitigation
6561 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation,
6562 disabling SMT if necessary for
6563 the full mitigation (only on Zen1
6564 and older without STIBP).
6565 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
6566 windows on basic block boundaries too.
6567 Safe, highest perf impact. It also
6568 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable
6569 on Intel.
6570 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
6571 when STIBP is not available. This is
6572 the alternative for systems which do not
6573 have STIBP.
6574 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks,
6575 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
6576 systems.
6577 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
6578 is not available. This is the alternative for
6579 systems which do not have STIBP.
6580
6581 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
6582 time according to the CPU.
6583
6584 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
6585
6586 rfkill.default_state=
6587 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
6588 etc. communication is blocked by default.
6589 1 Unblocked.
6590
6591 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
6592 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
6593 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
6594 blocked and the previous configuration.
6595 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
6596 blocked and everything unblocked.
6597
6598 ring3mwait=disable
6599 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
6600 CPUs.
6601
6602 riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV,EARLY]
6603 When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit
6604 falling back to detecting extension support by parsing
6605 "riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the
6606 replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig
6607 entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK.
6608
6609 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
6610
6611 rodata= [KNL,EARLY]
6612 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
6613 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
6614 noalias Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only but retain
6615 writable aliases in the direct map for regions outside
6616 of the kernel image. [arm64]
6617
6618 rockchip.usb_uart
6619 [EARLY]
6620 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
6621 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
6622 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
6623 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
6624
6625 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
6626 Usually this is a block device specifier of some kind,
6627 see the early_lookup_bdev comment in
6628 block/early-lookup.c for details.
6629 Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial
6630 ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file
6631 system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash.
6632
6633 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
6634 mount the root filesystem
6635
6636 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
6637
6638 initramfs_options= [KNL]
6639 Specify mount options for for the initramfs mount.
6640
6641 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
6642
6643 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
6644 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
6645 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
6646
6647 rootwait= [KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device
6648 to show up before attempting to mount the root
6649 filesystem.
6650
6651 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
6652 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
6653 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
6654 managed by CMA.
6655
6656 rseq_debug= [KNL] Enable or disable restartable sequence
6657 debug mode. Defaults to CONFIG_RSEQ_DEBUG_DEFAULT_ENABLE.
6658 Format: <bool>
6659
6660 rt_group_sched= [KNL] Enable or disable SCHED_RR/FIFO group scheduling
6661 when CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=y. Defaults to
6662 !CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED_DEFAULT_DISABLED.
6663 Format: <bool>
6664
6665 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
6666
6667 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
6668
6669 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
6670 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
6671 strict
6672 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result
6673 in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before
6674 reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to
6675 iommu.strict=1.
6676
6677 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390]
6678 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
6679 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
6680 factor of the size of main memory.
6681 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
6682 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
6683 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
6684 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
6685 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
6686 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
6687 cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
6688
6689 sa1100ir [NET]
6690 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
6691
6692 sched_proxy_exec= [KNL]
6693 Enables or disables "proxy execution" style
6694 solution to mutex-based priority inversion.
6695 Format: <bool>
6696
6697 sched_verbose [KNL,EARLY] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
6698
6699 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
6700 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
6701 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
6702 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
6703
6704 sched_thermal_decay_shift=
6705 [Deprecated]
6706 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
6707 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
6708 default decay period of other scheduler pelt
6709 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
6710 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
6711 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
6712 value.
6713 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
6714 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr
6715 1 64 ms
6716 2 128 ms
6717 and so on.
6718 Format: integer between 0 and 10
6719 Default is 0.
6720
6721 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
6722 Number of seconds to hold off before starting
6723 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and
6724 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
6725 tests.
6726
6727 scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
6728 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
6729 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the
6730 default) disables this feature. Please note
6731 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
6732 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
6733 softlockup complaints, and so on.
6734
6735 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
6736 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
6737 smp_call_function() family of functions.
6738 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
6739 equal to the number of CPUs.
6740
6741 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
6742 Number seconds to wait after the start of the
6743 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
6744
6745 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
6746 Number seconds to wait between successive
6747 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which
6748 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
6749
6750 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
6751 The number of seconds following the start of the
6752 test after which to shut down the system. The
6753 default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
6754 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
6755
6756 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
6757 The number of seconds between outputting the
6758 current test statistics to the console. A value
6759 of zero disables statistics output.
6760
6761 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
6762 The number of jiffies to wait between each change
6763 to the set of CPUs under test.
6764
6765 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
6766 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
6767 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
6768 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
6769 functions.
6770
6771 scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
6772 Enable additional printk() statements.
6773
6774 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
6775 The probability weighting to use for the
6776 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
6777 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the
6778 default if all other weights are -1. However,
6779 if at least one weight has some other value, a
6780 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
6781
6782 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
6783 The probability weighting to use for the
6784 smp_call_function_single() function with a
6785 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single.
6786
6787 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
6788 The probability weighting to use for the
6789 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
6790 "wait" parameter. See weight_single.
6791 Note well that setting a high probability for
6792 this weighting can place serious IPI load
6793 on the system.
6794
6795 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
6796 The probability weighting to use for the
6797 smp_call_function_many() function with a
6798 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single
6799 and weight_many.
6800
6801 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
6802 The probability weighting to use for the
6803 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
6804 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and
6805 weight_many.
6806
6807 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
6808 The probability weighting to use for the
6809 smp_call_function_all() function with a
6810 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single
6811 and weight_many.
6812
6813 sdw_mclk_divider=[SDW]
6814 Specify the MCLK divider for Intel SoundWire buses in
6815 case the BIOS does not provide the clock rate properly.
6816
6817 skew_tick= [KNL,EARLY] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
6818 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
6819 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
6820 Format: { "0" | "1" }
6821 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
6822 1 -- enable.
6823 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
6824 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
6825
6826 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
6827 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
6828 "lsm=" parameter.
6829
6830 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
6831 Format: { "0" | "1" }
6832 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
6833 0 -- disable.
6834 1 -- enable.
6835 Default value is 1.
6836
6837 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
6838
6839 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64]
6840
6841 debug
6842 Enable debug messages.
6843
6844 nosnp
6845 Do not enable SEV-SNP (applies to host/hypervisor
6846 only). Setting 'nosnp' avoids the RMP check overhead
6847 in memory accesses when users do not want to run
6848 SEV-SNP guests.
6849
6850 shapers= [NET]
6851 Maximal number of shapers.
6852
6853 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
6854 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
6855 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
6856 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
6857 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
6858 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
6859 apic=verbose is specified.
6860 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
6861
6862 slab_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM]
6863 Enabling slab_debug allows one to determine the
6864 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
6865 slab_debug can create guard zones around objects and
6866 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
6867 last alloc / free. For more information see
6868 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6869 (slub_debug legacy name also accepted for now)
6870
6871 Using this option implies the "no_hash_pointers"
6872 option which can be undone by adding the
6873 "hash_pointers=always" option.
6874
6875 slab_max_order= [MM]
6876 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
6877 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
6878 fragmentation. For more information see
6879 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6880 (slub_max_order legacy name also accepted for now)
6881
6882 slab_merge [MM]
6883 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
6884 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
6885 (slub_merge legacy name also accepted for now)
6886
6887 slab_min_objects= [MM]
6888 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
6889 increase the slab order up to slab_max_order to
6890 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
6891 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
6892 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
6893 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
6894 For more information see
6895 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6896 (slub_min_objects legacy name also accepted for now)
6897
6898 slab_min_order= [MM]
6899 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
6900 lower or equal to slab_max_order. For more information see
6901 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6902 (slub_min_order legacy name also accepted for now)
6903
6904 slab_nomerge [MM]
6905 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
6906 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
6907 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
6908 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
6909 layout control by attackers can usually be
6910 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
6911 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
6912 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
6913 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
6914 own.
6915 For more information see
6916 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6917 (slub_nomerge legacy name also accepted for now)
6918
6919 slab_strict_numa [MM]
6920 Support memory policies on a per object level
6921 in the slab allocator. The default is for memory
6922 policies to be applied at the folio level when
6923 a new folio is needed or a partial folio is
6924 retrieved from the lists. Increases overhead
6925 in the slab fastpaths but gains more accurate
6926 NUMA kernel object placement which helps with slow
6927 interconnects in NUMA systems.
6928
6929 slram= [HW,MTD]
6930
6931 smart2= [HW]
6932 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
6933
6934 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
6935 Specify the period of time in milliseconds
6936 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
6937 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is
6938 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
6939 disabling interrupts for extended periods
6940 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
6941 setting a value of zero disables this feature.
6942 This feature may be more efficiently disabled
6943 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
6944
6945 smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL]
6946 If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than
6947 the specified number of milliseconds, panic the
6948 system. By default, let CSD-lock acquisition
6949 take as long as they take. Specifying 300,000
6950 for this value provides a 5-minute timeout.
6951
6952 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
6953 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
6954 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
6955 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
6956 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
6957 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
6958 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
6959 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
6960 1: Fast pin select (default)
6961 2: ATC IRMode
6962
6963 smt= [KNL,MIPS,S390,EARLY] Set the maximum number of threads
6964 (logical CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems
6965 capable of symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will
6966 be capped to the actual hardware limit.
6967 Format: <integer>
6968 Default: -1 (no limit)
6969
6970 softlockup_panic=
6971 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
6972 Format: 0 | 1
6973
6974 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
6975 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
6976 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
6977 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
6978 respective build-time switch to that functionality.
6979
6980 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
6981 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
6982 backtraces on all cpus.
6983 Format: 0 | 1
6984
6985 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
6986 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
6987
6988 spectre_bhi= [X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection
6989 (BHI) vulnerability. This setting affects the
6990 deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB
6991 clearing sequence.
6992
6993 on - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation as
6994 needed. This protects the kernel from
6995 both syscalls and VMs.
6996 vmexit - On systems which don't have the HW mitigation
6997 available, enable the SW mitigation on vmexit
6998 ONLY. On such systems, the host kernel is
6999 protected from VM-originated BHI attacks, but
7000 may still be vulnerable to syscall attacks.
7001 off - Disable the mitigation.
7002
7003 spectre_v2= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
7004 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
7005 The default operation protects the kernel from
7006 user space attacks.
7007
7008 on - unconditionally enable, implies
7009 spectre_v2_user=on
7010 off - unconditionally disable, implies
7011 spectre_v2_user=off
7012 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
7013 vulnerable
7014
7015 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
7016 mitigation method at run time according to the
7017 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
7018 CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE configuration option,
7019 and the compiler with which the kernel was built.
7020
7021 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
7022 against user space to user space task attacks.
7023 Selecting specific mitigation does not force enable
7024 user mitigations.
7025
7026 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
7027 the user space protections.
7028
7029 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
7030
7031 retpoline - replace indirect branches
7032 retpoline,generic - Retpolines
7033 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch
7034 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence
7035 eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS
7036 eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines
7037 eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE
7038 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel
7039
7040 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
7041 spectre_v2=auto.
7042
7043 spectre_v2_user=
7044 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
7045 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
7046 user space tasks
7047
7048 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
7049 enforced by spectre_v2=on
7050
7051 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
7052 enforced by spectre_v2=off
7053
7054 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
7055 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
7056 per thread. The mitigation control state
7057 is inherited on fork.
7058
7059 prctl,ibpb
7060 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
7061 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
7062 always when switching between different user
7063 space processes.
7064
7065 seccomp
7066 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
7067 threads will enable the mitigation unless
7068 they explicitly opt out.
7069
7070 seccomp,ibpb
7071 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
7072 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
7073 always when switching between different
7074 user space processes.
7075
7076 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
7077 the available CPU features and vulnerability.
7078
7079 Default mitigation: "prctl"
7080
7081 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
7082 spectre_v2_user=auto.
7083
7084 spec_rstack_overflow=
7085 [X86,EARLY] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs
7086
7087 off - Disable mitigation
7088 microcode - Enable microcode mitigation only
7089 safe-ret - Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default)
7090 ibpb - Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on
7091 kernel entry
7092 ibpb-vmexit - Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT
7093 (cloud-specific mitigation)
7094
7095 spec_store_bypass_disable=
7096 [HW,EARLY] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
7097 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
7098
7099 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
7100 a common industry wide performance optimization known
7101 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
7102 to the same memory location may not be observed by
7103 later loads during speculative execution. The idea
7104 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
7105 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
7106 end of a particular speculation execution window.
7107
7108 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
7109 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
7110 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
7111 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
7112
7113 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
7114 Bypass optimization is used.
7115
7116 On x86 the options are:
7117
7118 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
7119 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
7120 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
7121 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
7122 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
7123 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
7124 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
7125 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
7126 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
7127 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
7128 for a process by default. The state of the control
7129 is inherited on fork.
7130 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
7131 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
7132
7133 Default mitigations:
7134 X86: "prctl"
7135
7136 On powerpc the options are:
7137
7138 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
7139 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
7140 perform a software flush on kernel entry and
7141 exit.
7142 off - No action.
7143
7144 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
7145 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
7146
7147 split_lock_detect=
7148 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
7149
7150 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
7151 instructions that access data across cache line
7152 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
7153 for split lock detection or a debug exception for
7154 bus lock detection.
7155
7156 off - not enabled
7157
7158 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
7159 about applications triggering the #AC
7160 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
7161 the default on CPUs that support split lock
7162 detection or bus lock detection. Default
7163 behavior is by #AC if both features are
7164 enabled in hardware.
7165
7166 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
7167 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
7168 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
7169 both features are enabled in hardware.
7170
7171 ratelimit:N -
7172 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
7173 per second for bus lock detection.
7174 0 < N <= 1000.
7175
7176 N/A for split lock detection.
7177
7178
7179 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
7180 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
7181 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
7182 mode.
7183
7184 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
7185 CPL > 0.
7186
7187 srbds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY]
7188 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
7189 (SRBDS) mitigation.
7190
7191 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
7192 exploit which can leak bits from the random
7193 number generator.
7194
7195 By default, this issue is mitigated by
7196 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause
7197 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
7198 much slower. Among other effects, this will
7199 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
7200
7201 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
7202 the following option:
7203
7204 off: Disable mitigation and remove
7205 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
7206
7207 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
7208 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
7209 large system, such that srcu_struct structures
7210 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
7211 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
7212 but takes effect only when the low-order four
7213 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
7214 (decide at boot).
7215
7216 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
7217 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
7218 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
7219 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
7220
7221 0: Never.
7222 1: At init_srcu_struct() time.
7223 2: When rcutorture decides to.
7224 3: Decide at boot time (default).
7225 0x1X: Above plus if high contention.
7226
7227 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
7228 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
7229 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
7230
7231 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
7232 Specifies how frequently to check for
7233 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
7234 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
7235 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
7236 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
7237 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
7238 are ignored.
7239
7240 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
7241 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
7242 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
7243 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
7244 grace period will be considered for automatic
7245 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
7246 expediting.
7247
7248 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL]
7249 Specifies the number of no-delay instances
7250 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period
7251 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero
7252 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will
7253 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy.
7254
7255 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL]
7256 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
7257 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
7258 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled
7259 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each
7260 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase.
7261
7262 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL]
7263 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
7264 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
7265
7266 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
7267 Specifies the number of update-side contention
7268 events per jiffy will be tolerated before
7269 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
7270 structure to big form. Note that the value of
7271 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
7272 set for contention-based conversions to occur.
7273
7274 ssbd= [ARM64,HW,EARLY]
7275 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
7276
7277 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
7278 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
7279 firmware based mitigation, this parameter
7280 indicates how the mitigation should be used:
7281
7282 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
7283 for both kernel and userspace
7284 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
7285 for both kernel and userspace
7286 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
7287 kernel, and offer a prctl interface
7288 to allow userspace to register its
7289 interest in being mitigated too.
7290
7291 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
7292 override the default stack gap protection. The value
7293 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
7294 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
7295 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
7296 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
7297
7298 stack_depot_disable= [KNL,EARLY]
7299 Setting this to true through kernel command line will
7300 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
7301 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
7302 to false.
7303
7304 stack_depot_max_pools= [KNL,EARLY]
7305 Specify the maximum number of pools to use for storing
7306 stack traces. Pools are allocated on-demand up to this
7307 limit. Default value is 8191 pools.
7308
7309 stacktrace [FTRACE]
7310 Enable the stack tracer on boot up.
7311
7312 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
7313 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
7314 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
7315 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
7316 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
7317 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
7318 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
7319
7320 sti= [PARISC,HW]
7321 Format: <num>
7322 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
7323 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
7324 as the initial boot-console.
7325 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
7326
7327 sti_font= [HW]
7328 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
7329
7330 stifb= [HW]
7331 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
7332
7333 strict_sas_size=
7334 [X86]
7335 Format: <bool>
7336 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
7337 against the required signal frame size which
7338 depends on the supported FPU features. This can
7339 be used to filter out binaries which have
7340 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
7341
7342 stress_hpt [PPC,EARLY]
7343 Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash
7344 page table to increase the rate of hash page table
7345 faults on kernel addresses.
7346
7347 stress_slb [PPC,EARLY]
7348 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
7349 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
7350 on kernel addresses.
7351
7352 no_slb_preload [PPC,EARLY]
7353 Disables slb preloading for userspace.
7354
7355 sunrpc.min_resvport=
7356 sunrpc.max_resvport=
7357 [NFS,SUNRPC]
7358 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
7359 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
7360 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
7361 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
7362 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
7363 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
7364 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
7365 maximum port values.
7366
7367 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
7368 [NFS,SUNRPC]
7369 Limit the number of requests that the server will
7370 process in parallel from a single connection.
7371 The default value is 0 (no limit).
7372
7373 sunrpc.pool_mode=
7374 [NFS]
7375 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
7376 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
7377 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
7378 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
7379 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
7380 NFS server is running.
7381
7382 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
7383 automatically using heuristics
7384 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
7385 percpu one pool for each CPU
7386 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
7387 to global on non-NUMA machines)
7388
7389 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
7390 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
7391 [NFS,SUNRPC]
7392 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
7393 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
7394 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
7395 improve throughput, but will also increase the
7396 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
7397
7398 suspend.pm_test_delay=
7399 [SUSPEND]
7400 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
7401 mode before resuming the system (see
7402 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
7403 is set. Default value is 5.
7404
7405 svm= [PPC]
7406 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
7407 This parameter controls use of the Protected
7408 Execution Facility on pSeries.
7409
7410 swiotlb= [ARM,PPC,MIPS,X86,S390,EARLY]
7411 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce }
7412 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
7413 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
7414 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up
7415 to a power of 2.
7416 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
7417 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
7418 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
7419
7420 switches= [HW,M68k,EARLY]
7421
7422 sysctl.*= [KNL]
7423 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
7424 process, as if the value was written to the respective
7425 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
7426 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
7427 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
7428 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
7429 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
7430
7431 sysrq_always_enabled
7432 [KNL]
7433 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
7434 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
7435 Useful for debugging.
7436
7437 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
7438 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
7439 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
7440 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
7441 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
7442 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
7443
7444 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
7445
7446 test_suspend= [SUSPEND]
7447 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
7448 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
7449 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
7450 as the system sleep state during system startup with
7451 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
7452 The system is woken from this state using a
7453 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
7454
7455 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
7456 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
7457
7458 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
7459 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
7460 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
7461
7462 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
7463 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
7464 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
7465
7466 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
7467 1: disable ACPI thermal control
7468
7469 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
7470 -1: disable all passive trip points
7471 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
7472 value
7473
7474 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
7475 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
7476 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
7477 0: no polling (default)
7478
7479 thp_anon= [KNL]
7480 Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<state>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<state>
7481 state is one of "always", "madvise", "never" or "inherit".
7482 Control the default behavior of the system with respect
7483 to anonymous transparent hugepages.
7484 Can be used multiple times for multiple anon THP sizes.
7485 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more
7486 details.
7487
7488 threadirqs [KNL,EARLY]
7489 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
7490 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
7491
7492 thp_shmem= [KNL]
7493 Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<policy>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<policy>
7494 Control the default policy of each hugepage size for the
7495 internal shmem mount. <policy> is one of policies available
7496 for the shmem mount ("always", "inherit", "never", "within_size",
7497 and "advise").
7498 It can be used multiple times for multiple shmem THP sizes.
7499 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more
7500 details.
7501
7502 topology= [S390,EARLY]
7503 Format: {off | on}
7504 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
7505 topology information if the hardware supports this.
7506 The scheduler will make use of this information and
7507 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
7508 Default is on.
7509
7510 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
7511 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
7512 until after init has spawned.
7513
7514 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
7515 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
7516 even if there were no errors. This can be a
7517 very costly operation when many torture tests
7518 are running concurrently, especially on systems
7519 with rotating-rust storage.
7520
7521 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
7522 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
7523 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero
7524 disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
7525
7526 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
7527 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
7528
7529 tpm.disable_pcr_integrity= [HW,TPM]
7530 Do not protect PCR registers from unintended physical
7531 access, or interposers in the bus by the means of
7532 having an integrity protected session wrapped around
7533 TPM2_PCR_Extend command. Consider this in a situation
7534 where TPM is heavily utilized by IMA, thus protection
7535 causing a major performance hit, and the space where
7536 machines are deployed is by other means guarded.
7537
7538 tpm_crb_ffa.busy_timeout_ms= [ARM64,TPM]
7539 Maximum time in milliseconds to retry sending a message
7540 to the TPM service before giving up. This parameter controls
7541 how long the system will continue retrying when the TPM
7542 service is busy.
7543 Format: <unsigned int>
7544 Default: 2000 (2 seconds)
7545
7546 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
7547 Format: integer pcr id
7548 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
7549 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
7550 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
7551 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
7552 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
7553 are saved.
7554
7555 tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM]
7556 Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer
7557 for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false
7558 (0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces
7559 defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see
7560 https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/
7561
7562 tp_printk [FTRACE]
7563 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
7564 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
7565 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
7566 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
7567 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
7568
7569 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
7570 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
7571 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
7572 tp_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
7573
7574 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
7575 to stop the printing of events to console at
7576 late_initcall_sync.
7577
7578 ** CAUTION **
7579
7580 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
7581 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
7582 the system to live lock.
7583
7584 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
7585 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
7586 on the console. It may be useful to only include the
7587 printing of events during boot up, as user space may
7588 make the system inoperable.
7589
7590 This command line option will stop the printing of events
7591 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
7592
7593 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
7594 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
7595
7596 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
7597 at boot up.
7598 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
7599 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
7600 depending on the architecture, may not be
7601 in sync between CPUs.
7602 global - Event time stamps are synchronized across
7603 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
7604 but better for some race conditions.
7605 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
7606 note, some counts may be skipped due to the
7607 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
7608 once per event.
7609 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
7610 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
7611 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
7612 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
7613 stamps.
7614 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
7615 Architectures may add more clocks. See
7616 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
7617
7618 trace_event=[event-list]
7619 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
7620 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
7621 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
7622 also Documentation/trace/events.rst
7623
7624 To enable modules, use :mod: keyword:
7625
7626 trace_event=:mod:<module>
7627
7628 The value before :mod: will only enable specific events
7629 that are part of the module. See the above mentioned
7630 document for more information.
7631
7632 trace_instance=[instance-info]
7633 [FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up.
7634 This will be listed in:
7635
7636 /sys/kernel/tracing/instances
7637
7638 Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created
7639 via:
7640
7641 trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2>
7642
7643 Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is
7644 unique.
7645
7646 trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall
7647
7648 will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and
7649 the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry
7650 event, and all events under the "initcall" system.
7651
7652 Flags can be added to the instance to modify its behavior when it is
7653 created. The flags are separated by '^'.
7654
7655 The available flags are:
7656
7657 traceoff - Have the tracing instance tracing disabled after it is created.
7658 traceprintk - Have trace_printk() write into this trace instance
7659 (note, "printk" and "trace_printk" can also be used)
7660
7661 trace_instance=foo^traceoff^traceprintk,sched,irq
7662
7663 The flags must come before the defined events.
7664
7665 If memory has been reserved (see memmap for x86), the instance
7666 can use that memory:
7667
7668 memmap=12M$0x284500000 trace_instance=boot_map@0x284500000:12M
7669
7670 The above will create a "boot_map" instance that uses the physical
7671 memory at 0x284500000 that is 12Megs. The per CPU buffers of that
7672 instance will be split up accordingly.
7673
7674 Alternatively, the memory can be reserved by the reserve_mem option:
7675
7676 reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map@trace
7677
7678 This will reserve 12 megabytes at boot up with a 4096 byte alignment
7679 and place the ring buffer in this memory. Note that due to KASLR, the
7680 memory may not be the same location each time, which will not preserve
7681 the buffer content.
7682
7683 Also note that the layout of the ring buffer data may change between
7684 kernel versions where the validator will fail and reset the ring buffer
7685 if the layout is not the same as the previous kernel.
7686
7687 If the ring buffer is used for persistent bootups and has events enabled,
7688 it is recommend to disable tracing so that events from a previous boot do not
7689 mix with events of the current boot (unless you are debugging a random crash
7690 at boot up).
7691
7692 reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map^traceoff^traceprintk@trace,sched,irq
7693
7694 Note, saving the trace buffer across reboots does require that the system
7695 is set up to not wipe memory. For instance, CONFIG_RESET_ATTACK_MITIGATION
7696 can force a memory reset on boot which will clear any trace that was stored.
7697 This is just one of many ways that can clear memory. Make sure your system
7698 keeps the content of memory across reboots before relying on this option.
7699
7700 NB: Both the mapped address and size must be page aligned for the architecture.
7701
7702 See also Documentation/trace/debugging.rst
7703
7704
7705 trace_options=[option-list]
7706 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
7707 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
7708 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
7709 to echo the option name into
7710
7711 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options
7712
7713 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
7714 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
7715
7716 trace_options=stacktrace
7717
7718 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
7719 section.
7720
7721 trace_trigger=[trigger-list]
7722 [FTRACE] Add an event trigger on specific events.
7723 Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional
7724 filter.
7725
7726 The format is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..."
7727 Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma delimited.
7728
7729 For example:
7730
7731 trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2"
7732
7733 The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch"
7734 event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch"
7735 event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE).
7736
7737 See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst
7738
7739
7740 traceoff_after_boot
7741 [FTRACE] Sometimes tracing is used to debug issues
7742 during the boot process. Since the trace buffer has a
7743 limited amount of storage, it may be prudent to
7744 disable tracing after the boot is finished, otherwise
7745 the critical information may be overwritten. With this
7746 option, the main tracing buffer will be turned off at
7747 the end of the boot process.
7748
7749 traceoff_on_warning
7750 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
7751 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
7752 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
7753 file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/
7754
7755 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
7756 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
7757 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
7758
7759 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
7760 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
7761
7762 transparent_hugepage=
7763 [KNL]
7764 Format: [always|madvise|never]
7765 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
7766 with respect to transparent hugepages.
7767 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7768 for more details.
7769
7770 transparent_hugepage_shmem= [KNL]
7771 Format: [always|within_size|advise|never|deny|force]
7772 Can be used to control the hugepage allocation policy for
7773 the internal shmem mount.
7774 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7775 for more details.
7776
7777 transparent_hugepage_tmpfs= [KNL]
7778 Format: [always|within_size|advise|never]
7779 Can be used to control the default hugepage allocation policy
7780 for the tmpfs mount.
7781 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7782 for more details.
7783
7784 trusted.source= [KEYS]
7785 Format: <string>
7786 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
7787 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
7788 sources:
7789 - "tpm"
7790 - "tee"
7791 - "caam"
7792 - "dcp"
7793 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
7794 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
7795 first trust source as a backend which is initialized
7796 successfully during iteration.
7797
7798 trusted.rng= [KEYS]
7799 Format: <string>
7800 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
7801 Can be one of:
7802 - "kernel"
7803 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
7804 - "default"
7805 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
7806 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
7807
7808 trusted.dcp_use_otp_key
7809 This is intended to be used in combination with
7810 trusted.source=dcp and will select the DCP OTP key
7811 instead of the DCP UNIQUE key blob encryption.
7812
7813 trusted.dcp_skip_zk_test
7814 This is intended to be used in combination with
7815 trusted.source=dcp and will disable the check if the
7816 blob key is all zeros. This is helpful for situations where
7817 having this key zero'ed is acceptable. E.g. in testing
7818 scenarios.
7819
7820 tsa= [X86] Control mitigation for Transient Scheduler
7821 Attacks on AMD CPUs. Search the following in your
7822 favourite search engine for more details:
7823
7824 "Technical guidance for mitigating transient scheduler
7825 attacks".
7826
7827 off - disable the mitigation
7828 on - enable the mitigation (default)
7829 user - mitigate only user/kernel transitions
7830 vm - mitigate only guest/host transitions
7831
7832
7833 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
7834 Format: <string>
7835 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
7836 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
7837 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
7838 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
7839 virtualized environment.
7840 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
7841 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
7842 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
7843 can add overhead.
7844 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
7845 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
7846 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
7847 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
7848 in situations with strict latency requirements (where
7849 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
7850 acceptable).
7851 [x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer
7852 (HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was
7853 obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15).
7854 Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm.
7855 [x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with
7856 which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but
7857 only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy.
7858 This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and
7859 can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog. A console
7860 message will flag any such suppression or overriding.
7861
7862 tsc_early_khz= [X86,EARLY] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
7863 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
7864 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
7865 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
7866 Format: <unsigned int>
7867
7868 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
7869 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
7870 support TSX control.
7871
7872 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
7873
7874 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
7875 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
7876 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
7877 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
7878 so there may be unknown security risks associated
7879 with leaving it enabled.
7880
7881 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
7882 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
7883 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
7884 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
7885 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
7886 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
7887 deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
7888
7889 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
7890 otherwise enable TSX on the system.
7891
7892 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
7893
7894 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
7895 for more details.
7896
7897 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
7898 Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
7899
7900 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
7901 certain CPUs that support Transactional
7902 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
7903 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
7904 information to a disclosure gadget under certain
7905 conditions.
7906
7907 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
7908 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
7909 access data to which the attacker does not have direct
7910 access.
7911
7912 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The
7913 options are:
7914
7915 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
7916 if TSX is enabled.
7917
7918 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
7919 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
7920 is not disabled because CPU is not
7921 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
7922 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
7923
7924 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
7925 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
7926 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
7927 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
7928
7929 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
7930 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected
7931 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
7932 required and doesn't provide any additional
7933 mitigation.
7934
7935 For details see:
7936 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
7937
7938 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
7939 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
7940 Format:
7941 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
7942 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
7943
7944 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
7945 happen after console_init() and before a proper
7946 console driver takes over, this boot options might
7947 help "seeing" what's going on.
7948
7949 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
7950 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
7951
7952 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
7953 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
7954 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
7955 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
7956 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
7957 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
7958 reported either.
7959
7960 unaligned_scalar_speed=
7961 [RISCV]
7962 Format: {slow | fast | unsupported}
7963 Allow skipping scalar unaligned access speed tests. This
7964 is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip
7965 the tests in environments where they run too slowly. All
7966 CPUs must have the same scalar unaligned access speed.
7967
7968 unaligned_vector_speed=
7969 [RISCV]
7970 Format: {slow | fast | unsupported}
7971 Allow skipping vector unaligned access speed tests. This
7972 is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip
7973 the tests in environments where they run too slowly. All
7974 CPUs must have the same vector unaligned access speed.
7975
7976 unknown_nmi_panic
7977 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
7978
7979 unwind_debug [X86-64,EARLY]
7980 Enable unwinder debug output. This can be
7981 useful for debugging certain unwinder error
7982 conditions, including corrupt stacks and
7983 bad/missing unwinder metadata.
7984
7985 usbcore.authorized_default=
7986 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
7987 (default -1 = authorized (same as 1),
7988 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
7989 if device connected to internal port)
7990
7991 usbcore.autosuspend=
7992 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
7993 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
7994 is the time required before an idle device will be
7995 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
7996 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
7997
7998 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
7999 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
8000
8001 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
8002 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
8003 (default = 65536).
8004
8005 usbcore.blinkenlights=
8006 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
8007
8008 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
8009 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
8010 scheme (default 0 = off).
8011
8012 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
8013 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
8014 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
8015
8016 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
8017 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
8018 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
8019
8020 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
8021 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
8022 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
8023 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
8024
8025 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
8026
8027 usbcore.quirks=
8028 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
8029 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
8030 commas. Each entry has the form
8031 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
8032 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
8033 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
8034 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
8035 the following meanings:
8036 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
8037 descriptors must not be fetched using
8038 a 255-byte read);
8039 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
8040 correctly so reset it instead);
8041 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
8042 Set-Interface requests);
8043 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
8044 handle its Configuration or Interface
8045 strings);
8046 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
8047 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
8048 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
8049 more interface descriptions than the
8050 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
8051 talking to these interfaces);
8052 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
8053 during initialization, after we read
8054 the device descriptor);
8055 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
8056 high speed and super speed interrupt
8057 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
8058 require the interval in microframes (1
8059 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
8060 calculated as interval = 2 ^
8061 (bInterval-1).
8062 Devices with this quirk report their
8063 bInterval as the result of this
8064 calculation instead of the exponent
8065 variable used in the calculation);
8066 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
8067 handle device_qualifier descriptor
8068 requests);
8069 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
8070 generates spurious wakeup, ignore
8071 remote wakeup capability);
8072 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
8073 Power Management);
8074 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
8075 (Device reports its bInterval as linear
8076 frames instead of the USB 2.0
8077 calculation);
8078 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
8079 to be disconnected before suspend to
8080 prevent spurious wakeup);
8081 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
8082 pause after every control message);
8083 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
8084 delay after resetting its port);
8085 p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT
8086 (Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS
8087 request from 5000 ms to 500 ms);
8088 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
8089
8090 usbhid.mousepoll=
8091 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
8092
8093 usbhid.jspoll=
8094 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
8095
8096 usbhid.kbpoll=
8097 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
8098
8099 usb-storage.delay_use=
8100 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
8101 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
8102 Optionally the delay in milliseconds if the value has
8103 suffix with "ms".
8104 Example: delay_use=2567ms
8105
8106 usb-storage.quirks=
8107 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
8108 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
8109 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
8110 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
8111 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
8112 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
8113 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
8114 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
8115 of sense data, not on uas);
8116 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
8117 bytes of sense data, not on uas);
8118 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
8119 device capacity by one sector);
8120 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
8121 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
8122 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
8123 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
8124 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
8125 command, uas only);
8126 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
8127 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
8128 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
8129 reported device capacity by one
8130 sector if the number is odd);
8131 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
8132 device);
8133 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
8134 command, uas only);
8135 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
8136 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
8137 unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
8138 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
8139 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
8140 not on uas);
8141 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
8142 initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
8143 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
8144 reported by the device, not on uas);
8145 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
8146 by default, not on uas);
8147 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
8148 bogus residue values, not on uas);
8149 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
8150 Logical Unit);
8151 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
8152 commands, uas only);
8153 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
8154 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
8155 medium is write-protected).
8156 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
8157 even if the device claims no cache,
8158 not on uas)
8159 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
8160
8161 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
8162 Format: <int>
8163 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
8164 1 - undefined instruction events
8165 2 - system calls
8166 4 - invalid data aborts
8167 8 - SIGSEGV faults
8168 16 - SIGBUS faults
8169 Example: user_debug=31
8170
8171 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC]
8172 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
8173
8174 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
8175 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
8176
8177 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
8178 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
8179 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
8180
8181 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
8182 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
8183 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
8184
8185 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
8186 alias for vdso32=0.
8187
8188 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
8189 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
8190
8191 video= [FB,EARLY] Frame buffer configuration
8192 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
8193
8194 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
8195 Format: [0|1]
8196 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
8197 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
8198 level and then send out the event to user space through
8199 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
8200 will only send out the event without touching backlight
8201 brightness level.
8202 default: 1
8203
8204 virtio_mmio.device=
8205 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
8206
8207 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
8208 where:
8209 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
8210 like K, M and G)
8211 <baseaddr> := physical base address
8212 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
8213 request_irq())
8214 <id> := (optional) platform device id
8215 example:
8216 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
8217
8218 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
8219
8220 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
8221 See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and
8222 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
8223 Use vga=ask for menu.
8224 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
8225 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
8226
8227 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
8228 May slow down system boot speed, especially when
8229 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
8230 All options are enabled by default, and this
8231 interface is meant to allow for selectively
8232 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
8233 debugging features.
8234
8235 Available options are:
8236 P Enable page structure init time poisoning
8237 - Disable all of the above options
8238
8239 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Forces the vmalloc area to have an
8240 exact size of <nn>. This can be used to increase
8241 the minimum size (128MB on x86, arm32 platforms).
8242 It can also be used to decrease the size and leave more room
8243 for directly mapped kernel RAM. Note that this parameter does
8244 not exist on many other platforms (including arm64, alpha,
8245 loongarch, arc, csky, hexagon, microblaze, mips, nios2, openrisc,
8246 parisc, m64k, powerpc, riscv, sh, um, xtensa, s390, sparc).
8247
8248 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390,EARLY]
8249 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
8250 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
8251
8252 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
8253 Format: <command>
8254
8255 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
8256 Format: <command>
8257
8258 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
8259 Format: <command>
8260
8261 vmscape= [X86] Controls mitigation for VMscape attacks.
8262 VMscape attacks can leak information from a userspace
8263 hypervisor to a guest via speculative side-channels.
8264
8265 off - disable the mitigation
8266 ibpb - use Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier
8267 (IBPB) mitigation (default)
8268 force - force vulnerability detection even on
8269 unaffected processors
8270
8271 vsyscall= [X86-64,EARLY]
8272 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
8273 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
8274 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
8275 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
8276 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
8277 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
8278
8279 emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
8280 reasonably safely. The vsyscall page is
8281 readable.
8282
8283 xonly [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
8284 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
8285 page is not readable.
8286
8287 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
8288 them quite hard to use for exploits but
8289 might break your system.
8290
8291 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
8292 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
8293 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
8294
8295 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
8296 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
8297 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
8298 see vga-softcursor.rst. Default: 2 = underline.
8299
8300 vt.default_blu= [VT]
8301 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
8302 Change the default blue palette of the console.
8303 This is a 16-member array composed of values
8304 ranging from 0-255.
8305
8306 vt.default_grn= [VT]
8307 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
8308 Change the default green palette of the console.
8309 This is a 16-member array composed of values
8310 ranging from 0-255.
8311
8312 vt.default_red= [VT]
8313 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
8314 Change the default red palette of the console.
8315 This is a 16-member array composed of values
8316 ranging from 0-255.
8317
8318 vt.default_utf8=
8319 [VT]
8320 Format=<0|1>
8321 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
8322 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
8323 newly opened terminals.
8324
8325 vt.global_cursor_default=
8326 [VT]
8327 Format=<-1|0|1>
8328 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
8329 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
8330 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
8331 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
8332 cursors, 1 will display them.
8333
8334 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
8335 Default: 2 = green.
8336
8337 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
8338 Default: 3 = cyan.
8339
8340 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
8341 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
8342 or other driver-specific files in the
8343 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
8344
8345 watchdog_thresh=
8346 [KNL]
8347 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
8348 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
8349 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
8350 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
8351 seconds.
8352
8353 workqueue.unbound_cpus=
8354 [KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs
8355 to use in unbound workqueues.
8356 Format: <cpu-list>
8357 By default, all online CPUs are available for
8358 unbound workqueues.
8359
8360 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
8361 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
8362 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
8363 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
8364 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
8365 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
8366 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
8367 corresponding sysfs file.
8368
8369 workqueue.panic_on_stall=<uint>
8370 Panic when workqueue stall is detected by
8371 CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG. It sets the number times of the
8372 stall to trigger panic.
8373
8374 The default is 0, which disables the panic on stall.
8375
8376 workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us=
8377 Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this
8378 threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive
8379 and excluded from concurrency management to prevent
8380 them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work
8381 items. Default is 10000 (10ms).
8382
8383 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
8384 will report the work functions which violate this
8385 threshold repeatedly. They are likely good
8386 candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead.
8387
8388 workqueue.cpu_intensive_warning_thresh=<uint>
8389 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
8390 will report the work functions which violate the
8391 intensive_threshold_us repeatedly. In order to prevent
8392 spurious warnings, start printing only after a work
8393 function has violated this threshold number of times.
8394
8395 The default is 4 times. 0 disables the warning.
8396
8397 workqueue.power_efficient
8398 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
8399 they show better performance thanks to cache
8400 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
8401 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
8402
8403 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
8404 were observed to contribute significantly to power
8405 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
8406 power usage at the cost of small performance
8407 overhead.
8408
8409 The default value of this parameter is determined by
8410 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
8411
8412 workqueue.default_affinity_scope=
8413 Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound
8414 workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache",
8415 "numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more
8416 information, see the Affinity Scopes section in
8417 Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst.
8418
8419 This can be changed after boot by writing to the
8420 matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All
8421 workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be
8422 updated accordingly.
8423
8424 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
8425 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
8426 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
8427 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
8428 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
8429 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
8430 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
8431 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
8432 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
8433 impacted.
8434
8435 writecombine= [LOONGARCH,EARLY] Control the MAT (Memory Access
8436 Type) of ioremap_wc().
8437
8438 on - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc()
8439 off - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc()
8440
8441 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
8442 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
8443 supporting x2apic.
8444
8445 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
8446 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
8447 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
8448 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
8449 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
8450 domains.
8451
8452 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN,EARLY]
8453 Unplug Xen emulated devices
8454 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
8455 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
8456 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
8457 nics -- unplug network devices
8458 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
8459 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
8460 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
8461 the unplug protocol
8462 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
8463
8464 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN,EARLY]
8465 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
8466 panic() code such as dumping handler.
8467
8468 xen_mc_debug [X86,XEN,EARLY]
8469 Enable multicall debugging when running as a Xen PV guest.
8470 Enabling this feature will reduce performance a little
8471 bit, so it should only be enabled for obtaining extended
8472 debug data in case of multicall errors.
8473
8474 xen_msr_safe= [X86,XEN,EARLY]
8475 Format: <bool>
8476 Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR
8477 access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The
8478 default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE.
8479
8480 xen_nopv [X86]
8481 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
8482 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
8483 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
8484 has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
8485
8486 xen_no_vector_callback
8487 [KNL,X86,XEN,EARLY] Disable the vector callback for Xen
8488 event channel interrupts.
8489
8490 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN]
8491 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
8492 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
8493 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
8494 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
8495
8496 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN,EARLY]
8497 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
8498 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
8499 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
8500 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
8501 more timer interrupts.
8502
8503 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
8504 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
8505 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
8506 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
8507 started with less memory configured than allowed at
8508 max. Default is 180.
8509
8510 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN]
8511 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
8512 storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
8513
8514 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN]
8515 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
8516 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
8517
8518 xen.fifo_events= [XEN]
8519 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
8520 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
8521 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
8522 fairer and the number of possible event channels is
8523 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
8524
8525 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
8526 Format:
8527 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
8528
8529 xive= [PPC]
8530 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
8531 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
8532 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
8533
8534 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
8535 controller on both pseries and powernv
8536 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
8537
8538 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC]
8539 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
8540 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
8541 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
8542 loads instead, as on POWER9.
8543
8544 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL]
8545 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
8546 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
8547 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
8548
8549 xmon [PPC,EARLY]
8550 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
8551 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
8552 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
8553 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
8554 debugger is called from setup_arch().
8555 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
8556 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
8557 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
8558 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
8559 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
8560 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
8561 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
8562 can be written using xmon commands.
8563 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
8564 memory, and other data can't be written using
8565 xmon commands.
8566 off xmon is disabled.