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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 liveupdate= [KNL,EARLY]
3476 Format: <bool>
3477 Enable Live Update Orchestrator (LUO).
3478 Default: off.
3479
3480 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated]
3481
3482 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
3483 Format: <integer>
3484
3485 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
3486 Format: <integer>
3487
3488 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
3489 Format: <integer>
3490
3491 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
3492 Format: <integer>
3493
3494 lockdown= [SECURITY,EARLY]
3495 { integrity | confidentiality }
3496 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
3497 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
3498 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
3499 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
3500 to extract confidential information from the kernel
3501 are also disabled.
3502
3503 locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL]
3504 Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock
3505 acquisition. Acquisitions exceeding this limit
3506 will result in a splat once they do complete.
3507
3508 locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL]
3509 Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are
3510 to be bound.
3511
3512 locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL]
3513 Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are
3514 to be bound.
3515
3516 locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL]
3517 Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu()
3518 chains to set up. These are used to ensure that
3519 there is a high probability of an RCU grace period
3520 in progress at any given time. Defaults to 0,
3521 which disables these call_rcu() chains.
3522
3523 locktorture.long_hold= [KNL]
3524 Specify the duration in milliseconds for the
3525 occasional long-duration lock hold time. Defaults
3526 to 100 milliseconds. Select 0 to disable.
3527
3528 locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL]
3529 Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that
3530 locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8
3531 (MAX_NESTED_LOCKS). Specify zero to disable.
3532 Note that this parameter is ineffective on types
3533 of locks that do not support nested acquisition.
3534
3535 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
3536 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
3537 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
3538 number of online CPUs.
3539
3540 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
3541 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
3542
3543 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3544 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3545
3546 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3547 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3548 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3549
3550 locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL]
3551 Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority
3552 boosting. Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost
3553 only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally.
3554 Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an
3555 odd choice, but which should be harmless for
3556 non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling
3557 of preemption. Note that non-realtime mutexes
3558 disable boosting.
3559
3560 locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL]
3561 Number that determines how often and for how
3562 long priority boosting is exercised. This is
3563 scaled down by the number of writers, so that the
3564 number of boosts per unit time remains roughly
3565 constant as the number of writers increases.
3566 On the other hand, the duration of each boost
3567 increases with the number of writers.
3568
3569 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3570 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
3571 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
3572 mode during the locktorture test.
3573
3574 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3575 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3576 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3577
3578 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3579 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3580
3581 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
3582 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
3583 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
3584 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
3585 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
3586 transition abruptly to and from idle.
3587
3588 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3589 Specify the locking implementation to test.
3590
3591 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
3592 Enable additional printk() statements.
3593
3594 locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL]
3595 Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at
3596 sched_set_fifo() real-time priority.
3597
3598 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
3599 Format: <irq>
3600
3601 loglevel= [KNL,EARLY]
3602 All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
3603 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
3604 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
3605 loglevels are defined as follows:
3606
3607 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
3608 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
3609 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
3610 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
3611 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
3612 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
3613 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
3614 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
3615
3616 log_buf_len=n[KMG] [KNL,EARLY]
3617 Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes.
3618 n must be a power of two and greater than the
3619 minimal size. The minimal size is defined by
3620 LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There
3621 is also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
3622 parameter that allows to increase the default size
3623 depending on the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig
3624 for more details.
3625
3626 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
3627 This may be used to provide more screen space for
3628 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
3629 kernel boot problems.
3630
3631 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
3632 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
3633 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
3634 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
3635 specified in addition to the ports) causes
3636 attached printers to be reset. Using
3637 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
3638 to associate lp devices with, starting with
3639 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
3640 that lp device, or a parport name such as
3641 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
3642 port specification list means that device IDs
3643 from each port should be examined, to see if
3644 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
3645 so, the driver will manage that printer.
3646 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
3647
3648 lpj=n [KNL]
3649 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
3650 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
3651 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
3652 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
3653 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
3654 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
3655 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
3656 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
3657 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
3658 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
3659 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
3660 hardware.
3661
3662 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
3663
3664 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
3665 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
3666 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
3667
3668 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
3669 different yeeloong laptops.
3670 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
3671
3672 maxcpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3673 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
3674 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
3675 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
3676 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
3677 only takes effect during system bootup.
3678 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
3679 which also disables the IO APIC.
3680
3681 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
3682 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
3683 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
3684 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
3685 devices can be requested on-demand with the
3686 /dev/loop-control interface.
3687
3688 mce= [X86-{32,64}]
3689
3690 Please see Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/machinecheck.rst for sysfs runtime tunables.
3691
3692 off
3693 disable machine check
3694
3695 no_cmci
3696 disable CMCI(Corrected Machine Check Interrupt) that
3697 Intel processor supports. Usually this disablement is
3698 not recommended, but it might be handy if your
3699 hardware is misbehaving.
3700
3701 Note that you'll get more problems without CMCI than
3702 with due to the shared banks, i.e. you might get
3703 duplicated error logs.
3704
3705 dont_log_ce
3706 don't make logs for corrected errors. All events
3707 reported as corrected are silently cleared by OS. This
3708 option will be useful if you have no interest in any
3709 of corrected errors.
3710
3711 ignore_ce
3712 disable features for corrected errors, e.g.
3713 polling timer and CMCI. All events reported as
3714 corrected are not cleared by OS and remained in its
3715 error banks.
3716
3717 Usually this disablement is not recommended, however
3718 if there is an agent checking/clearing corrected
3719 errors (e.g. BIOS or hardware monitoring
3720 applications), conflicting with OS's error handling,
3721 and you cannot deactivate the agent, then this option
3722 will be a help.
3723
3724 no_lmce
3725 do not opt-in to Local MCE delivery. Use legacy method
3726 to broadcast MCEs.
3727
3728 bootlog
3729 enable logging of machine checks left over from
3730 booting. Disabled by default on AMD Fam10h and older
3731 because some BIOS leave bogus ones.
3732
3733 If your BIOS doesn't do that it's a good idea to
3734 enable though to make sure you log even machine check
3735 events that result in a reboot. On Intel systems it is
3736 enabled by default.
3737
3738 nobootlog
3739 disable boot machine check logging.
3740
3741 monarchtimeout (number)
3742 sets the time in us to wait for other CPUs on machine
3743 checks. 0 to disable.
3744
3745 bios_cmci_threshold
3746 don't overwrite the bios-set CMCI threshold. This boot
3747 option prevents Linux from overwriting the CMCI
3748 threshold set by the bios. Without this option, Linux
3749 always sets the CMCI threshold to 1. Enabling this may
3750 make memory predictive failure analysis less effective
3751 if the bios sets thresholds for memory errors since we
3752 will not see details for all errors.
3753
3754 recovery
3755 force-enable recoverable machine check code paths
3756
3757 Everything else is in sysfs now.
3758
3759
3760 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
3761 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3762
3763 mdacon= [MDA]
3764 Format: <first>,<last>
3765 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
3766
3767 mds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY]
3768 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
3769 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
3770
3771 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3772 internal buffers which can forward information to a
3773 disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
3774
3775 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
3776 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
3777 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3778 not have direct access.
3779
3780 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
3781 options are:
3782
3783 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3784 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
3785 SMT on vulnerable CPUs
3786 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
3787
3788 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
3789 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
3790 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
3791 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
3792 too.
3793
3794 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3795 mds=full.
3796
3797 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
3798
3799 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON,EARLY] Set the memory size.
3800 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
3801
3802 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Force usage of a specific amount
3803 of memory Amount of memory to be used in cases
3804 as follows:
3805
3806 1 for test;
3807 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
3808 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
3809 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
3810 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
3811
3812 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
3813 high memory is not affected.
3814
3815 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
3816 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
3817
3818 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
3819 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
3820 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
3821 belonging to unused RAM.
3822
3823 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
3824 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
3825 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
3826
3827 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3828 [ARM,MIPS,EARLY] - override the memory layout
3829 reported by firmware.
3830 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
3831 ss[KMG].
3832 Multiple different regions can be specified with
3833 multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
3834
3835 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3836 memory.
3837
3838 memblock=debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable memblock debug messages.
3839
3840 memchunk=nn[KMG]
3841 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3842 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3843
3844 memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable
3845 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3846 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
3847 set according to the
3848 CONFIG_MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE kernel config
3849 options.
3850 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3851
3852 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86,EARLY] Enable setting of an exact
3853 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3854 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3855 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3856 option description.
3857
3858 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3859 [KNL, X86,MIPS,XTENSA,EARLY] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3860 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3861 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3862 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3863 Multiple different regions can be specified,
3864 comma delimited.
3865 Example:
3866 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3867
3868 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3869 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3870 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3871
3872 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3873 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3874 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3875 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3876 memmap=64K$0x18690000
3877 or
3878 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3879 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3880 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3881 will be eaten.
3882
3883 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG,EARLY]
3884 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3885 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3886 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3887 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3888
3889 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3890 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Convert memory within the specified region
3891 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3892 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3893 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3894 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3895 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3896 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3897
3898 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86,EARLY]
3899 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3900 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3901 Setting this option will scan the memory
3902 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
3903 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3904 from using the memory being corrupted.
3905 However, it's intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3906 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3907 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3908 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3909
3910 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86,EARLY]
3911 By default it checks for corruption in the low
3912 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3913 use. Use this parameter to scan for
3914 corruption in more or less memory.
3915
3916 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86,EARLY]
3917 By default it checks for corruption every 60
3918 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
3919 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
3920
3921 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3922 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3923 Format: {on | off (default)}
3924 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3925 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages,
3926 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even
3927 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the
3928 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a
3929 lot of memory without requiring additional
3930 memory to do so.
3931 This feature is disabled by default because it
3932 has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3933 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3934 memory blocks).
3935 The state of the flag can be read in
3936 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3937 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3938 the feature is not effective.
3939
3940 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV,EARLY] Enable memtest
3941 Format: <integer>
3942 default : 0 <disable>
3943 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3944 performed. Each pass selects another test
3945 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3946 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3947 memory contents and reserves bad memory
3948 regions that are detected.
3949
3950 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3951 Valid arguments: on, off
3952 Default: off
3953 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
3954 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
3955
3956 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3957 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3958
3959 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3960 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
3961 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3962 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3963 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3964
3965 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3966 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3967 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3968 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3969
3970 mga= [HW,DRM]
3971
3972 microcode= [X86] Control the behavior of the microcode loader.
3973 Available options, comma separated:
3974
3975 base_rev=X - with <X> with format: <u32>
3976 Set the base microcode revision of each thread when in
3977 debug mode.
3978
3979 dis_ucode_ldr: disable the microcode loader
3980
3981 force_minrev:
3982 Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision
3983 enforcement for the runtime microcode loader.
3984
3985 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
3986 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3987 Default: "0tb"
3988 MINI2440 configuration specification:
3989 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3990 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3991 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3992 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3993 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3994 unconfigured.
3995 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3996 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3997 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3998 VGA shield.
3999 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
4000 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
4001 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
4002 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
4003 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
4004 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
4005
4006 mitigations=
4007 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64,EARLY] Control optional mitigations for
4008 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated,
4009 arch-independent options, each of which is an
4010 aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
4011
4012 Note, "mitigations" is supported if and only if the
4013 kernel was built with CPU_MITIGATIONS=y.
4014
4015 off
4016 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This
4017 improves system performance, but it may also
4018 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
4019 Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
4020 gather_data_sampling=off [X86]
4021 indirect_target_selection=off [X86]
4022 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
4023 l1tf=off [X86]
4024 mds=off [X86]
4025 mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
4026 no_entry_flush [PPC]
4027 no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
4028 nobp=0 [S390]
4029 nopti [X86,PPC]
4030 nospectre_bhb [ARM64]
4031 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
4032 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
4033 reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86]
4034 retbleed=off [X86]
4035 spec_rstack_overflow=off [X86]
4036 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
4037 spectre_bhi=off [X86]
4038 spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
4039 srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
4040 ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
4041 tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
4042 vmscape=off [X86]
4043
4044 Exceptions:
4045 This does not have any effect on
4046 kvm.nx_huge_pages when
4047 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
4048
4049 auto (default)
4050 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
4051 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for
4052 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
4053 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
4054 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
4055 Equivalent to: (default behavior)
4056
4057 auto,nosmt
4058 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
4059 if needed. This is for users who always want to
4060 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
4061 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
4062 mds=full,nosmt [X86]
4063 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
4064 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
4065 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
4066
4067 [X86] After one of the above options, additionally
4068 supports attack-vector based controls as documented in
4069 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/attack_vector_controls.rst
4070
4071 mminit_loglevel=
4072 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
4073 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
4074 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
4075 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
4076 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
4077 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
4078
4079 mmio_stale_data=
4080 [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the Processor
4081 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
4082
4083 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
4084 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
4085 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
4086 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
4087 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
4088 is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
4089
4090 This parameter controls the mitigation. The
4091 options are:
4092
4093 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
4094
4095 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
4096 vulnerable CPUs.
4097
4098 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation
4099
4100 On MDS or TAA affected machines,
4101 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
4102 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
4103 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
4104 disable this mitigation, you need to specify
4105 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
4106
4107 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4108 mmio_stale_data=full.
4109
4110 For details see:
4111 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
4112
4113 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL]
4114 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value
4115 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous
4116 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable
4117 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the
4118 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe
4119
4120 module.async_probe=<bool>
4121 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing
4122 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a
4123 specific module, use the module specific control that
4124 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both
4125 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are
4126 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for
4127 the specific module.
4128
4129 module.enable_dups_trace
4130 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set,
4131 this means that duplicate request_module() calls will
4132 trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that
4133 if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s
4134 will always be issued and this option does nothing.
4135 module.sig_enforce
4136 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
4137 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
4138 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
4139 is always true, so this option does nothing.
4140
4141 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
4142 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
4143
4144 mousedev.tap_time=
4145 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
4146 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
4147 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
4148 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
4149 Format: <msecs>
4150 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
4151 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
4152 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
4153 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
4154
4155 movablecore= [KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY]
4156 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
4157 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
4158 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
4159 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is
4160 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
4161 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its
4162 own is specified, the administrator must be careful
4163 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
4164 is not too small.
4165
4166 movable_node [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
4167 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
4168 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
4169 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
4170 allocations. Use with caution!
4171
4172 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
4173 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
4174
4175 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
4176 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
4177
4178 mtdparts= [MTD]
4179 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
4180
4181 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
4182 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
4183 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
4184
4185 mtrr=debug [X86,EARLY]
4186 Enable printing debug information related to MTRR
4187 registers at boot time.
4188
4189 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
4190 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
4191 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
4192
4193 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
4194 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
4195 Default is 1.
4196 Large value could prevent small alignment from
4197 using up MTRRs.
4198
4199 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86,EARLY]
4200 Format: <integer>
4201 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
4202 Default : 1
4203 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
4204 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
4205
4206 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
4207 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
4208 at a time.
4209
4210 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
4211
4212 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
4213 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
4214 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
4215 something different and driver-specific.
4216 This usage is only documented in each driver source
4217 file if at all.
4218
4219 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
4220 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
4221 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
4222 waits 4 seconds.
4223
4224 nf_conntrack.acct=
4225 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
4226 0 to disable accounting
4227 1 to enable accounting
4228 Default value is 0.
4229
4230 nfs.cache_getent=
4231 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
4232 to update the NFS client cache entries.
4233
4234 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
4235 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
4236 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
4237
4238 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
4239 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
4240 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
4241 requests.
4242
4243 nfs.callback_tcpport=
4244 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
4245 channel should listen.
4246
4247 nfs.delay_retrans=
4248 [NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client
4249 retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error,
4250 after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server.
4251 Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled,
4252 and the specified value is >= 0.
4253
4254 nfs.enable_ino64=
4255 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
4256 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
4257 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
4258 of returning the full 64-bit number.
4259 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
4260
4261 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
4262 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
4263 entries.
4264
4265 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
4266 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
4267 slots the client will assign to the callback
4268 channel. This determines the maximum number of
4269 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
4270 a particular server.
4271
4272 nfs.max_session_slots=
4273 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
4274 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
4275 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
4276 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
4277 Note that there is little point in setting this
4278 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
4279
4280 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
4281 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
4282 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
4283 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
4284 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
4285 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
4286 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
4287 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
4288 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
4289 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
4290 back to using the idmapper.
4291 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
4292
4293 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
4294 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
4295 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
4296 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
4297 UUID that is generated at system install time.
4298
4299 nfs.recover_lost_locks=
4300 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
4301 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
4302 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
4303 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
4304 after the locks are lost.
4305 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
4306 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
4307 parameter to '1'.
4308 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
4309 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
4310
4311 nfs.send_implementation_id=
4312 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
4313 information in exchange_id requests.
4314 If zero, no implementation identification information
4315 will be sent.
4316 The default is to send the implementation identification
4317 information.
4318
4319 nfs4.layoutstats_timer=
4320 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
4321 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
4322
4323 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
4324 whatever value is the default set by the layout
4325 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
4326 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
4327
4328 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable=
4329 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
4330 server-to-server copies for which this server is
4331 the destination of the copy.
4332
4333 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
4334 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
4335 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
4336 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
4337 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
4338 migration from NFSv2/v3.
4339
4340 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout=
4341 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
4342 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
4343 the source server. It caches the mount in case
4344 it will be needed again, and discards it if not
4345 used for the number of milliseconds specified by
4346 this parameter.
4347
4348 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
4349 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4350
4351 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
4352 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4353
4354 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
4355 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4356
4357 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
4358 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
4359 NMI stack-backtrace request.
4360
4361 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
4362 when a NMI is triggered.
4363 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
4364
4365 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
4366 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][rNNN,][num]
4367 Valid num: 0 or 1
4368 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
4369 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
4370 rNNN - configure the watchdog with raw perf event 0xNNN
4371
4372 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
4373 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
4374 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
4375 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
4376 please see 'nowatchdog'.
4377 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
4378 need the box quickly up again.
4379
4380 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
4381 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
4382
4383 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
4384 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
4385 is present.
4386
4387 no4lvl [RISCV,EARLY] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes.
4388 Forces kernel to use 3-level paging instead.
4389
4390 no5lvl [X86-64,RISCV,EARLY] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
4391 kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
4392
4393 noalign [KNL,ARM]
4394
4395 noapic [SMP,APIC,EARLY] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
4396 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
4397
4398 noapictimer [APIC,X86] Don't set up the APIC timer
4399
4400 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
4401
4402 nocache [ARM,EARLY]
4403
4404 no_console_suspend
4405 [HW] Never suspend the console
4406 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
4407 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
4408 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
4409 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
4410 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
4411 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
4412 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
4413 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
4414 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
4415 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
4416 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
4417 turn on/off it dynamically.
4418
4419 no_debug_objects
4420 [KNL,EARLY] Disable object debugging
4421
4422 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
4423
4424 noefi [EFI,EARLY] Disable EFI runtime services support.
4425
4426 no_entry_flush [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
4427
4428 noexec32 [X86-64]
4429 This affects only 32-bit executables.
4430 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
4431 read doesn't imply executable mappings
4432 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
4433 read implies executable mappings
4434
4435 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
4436 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
4437 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
4438
4439 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
4440
4441 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
4442
4443 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4444 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
4445 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
4446
4447 nogbpages [X86] Do not use GB pages for kernel direct mappings.
4448
4449 no_hash_pointers
4450 [KNL,EARLY]
4451 Alias for "hash_pointers=never".
4452
4453 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
4454
4455 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,RISCV,SH] Forces the kernel to
4456 busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
4457 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
4458 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
4459 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
4460 correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate
4461 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
4462 useful when using JTAG debugger.
4463
4464 nohpet [X86] Don't use the HPET timer.
4465
4466 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
4467
4468 nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
4469
4470 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
4471 Valid arguments: on, off
4472 Default: on
4473
4474 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
4475 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
4476 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
4477 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
4478 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
4479 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
4480 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
4481 just as if they had also been called out in the
4482 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
4483
4484 Note that this argument takes precedence over
4485 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
4486
4487 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
4488 initial RAM disk.
4489
4490 nointremap [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] Do not enable interrupt
4491 remapping.
4492 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
4493
4494 noinvpcid [X86,EARLY] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
4495
4496 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
4497
4498 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
4499 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
4500
4501 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
4502
4503 nokaslr [KNL,EARLY]
4504 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
4505 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
4506 Layout Randomization).
4507
4508 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
4509 fault handling.
4510
4511 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
4512
4513 nolapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
4514
4515 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not use the local APIC timer.
4516
4517 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
4518
4519 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
4520 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
4521
4522 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware
4523 sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory
4524 for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will
4525 not load if they could possibly displace the pre-
4526 initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will
4527 be available for use. The respective drivers will not
4528 perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering.
4529
4530 Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging.
4531
4532 nomodule Disable module load
4533
4534 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
4535 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
4536 irq.
4537
4538 nopat [X86,EARLY] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
4539 pagetables) support.
4540
4541 nopcid [X86-64,EARLY] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
4542
4543 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
4544 in some Intel CPUs.
4545
4546 nopti [X86-64,EARLY]
4547 Equivalent to pti=off
4548
4549 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE,EARLY]
4550 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
4551 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
4552 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
4553
4554 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM,EARLY]
4555 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
4556 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
4557 contention.
4558
4559 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
4560 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
4561
4562 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
4563 with UP alternatives
4564
4565 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
4566 space.
4567
4568 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
4569 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
4570 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
4571
4572 nosgx [X86-64,SGX,EARLY] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
4573
4574 nosmap [PPC,EARLY]
4575 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
4576 even if it is supported by processor.
4577
4578 nosmep [PPC64s,EARLY]
4579 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
4580 even if it is supported by processor.
4581
4582 nosmp [SMP,EARLY] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
4583 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
4584
4585 nosmt [KNL,MIPS,PPC,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4586 Equivalent to smt=1.
4587
4588 [KNL,X86,PPC,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4589 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
4590 via the sysfs control file.
4591
4592 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
4593
4594 nospec_store_bypass_disable
4595 [HW,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative
4596 Store Bypass vulnerability
4597
4598 nospectre_bhb [ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch
4599 history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks
4600 with this option.
4601
4602 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC,EARLY] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
4603 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
4604 possible in the system.
4605
4606 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_E500,ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations
4607 for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch
4608 prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data
4609 leaks with this option.
4610
4611 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES,RISCV,LOONGARCH,EARLY]
4612 Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. steal time
4613 is computed, but won't influence scheduler behaviour
4614
4615 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
4616
4617 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for broken
4618 timer IRQ sources, i.e., the IO-APIC timer. This can
4619 work around problems with incorrect timer
4620 initialization on some boards.
4621
4622 no_uaccess_flush
4623 [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
4624
4625 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP]
4626 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
4627 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
4628 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data
4629 without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
4630 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling
4631 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
4632 data will be no longer available. This parameter
4633 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
4634 is set.
4635
4636 no-vmw-sched-clock
4637 [X86,PV_OPS,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized VMware
4638 scheduler clock and use the default one.
4639
4640 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
4641 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
4642
4643 nowb [ARM,EARLY]
4644
4645 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
4646
4647 NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the
4648 LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the
4649 IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR.
4650
4651 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
4652 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
4653 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
4654
4655 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
4656 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
4657 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
4658 performance of saving the states is degraded because
4659 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
4660 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
4661
4662 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
4663 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
4664 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
4665 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
4666 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
4667 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
4668 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
4669
4670 nr_cpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
4671 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
4672 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
4673 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
4674 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
4675 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
4676 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
4677 hot plugging.
4678
4679 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
4680
4681 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86, EARLY]
4682 Disable NUMA, Only set up a single NUMA node
4683 spanning all memory.
4684
4685 numa=fake=<size>[MG]
4686 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4687 If given as a memory unit, fills all system RAM with
4688 nodes of size interleaved over physical nodes.
4689
4690 numa=fake=<N>
4691 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4692 If given as an integer, fills all system RAM with N
4693 fake nodes interleaved over physical nodes.
4694
4695 numa=fake=<N>U
4696 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4697 If given as an integer followed by 'U', it will
4698 divide each physical node into N emulated nodes.
4699
4700 numa=noacpi [X86] Don't parse the SRAT table for NUMA setup
4701
4702 numa=nohmat [X86] Don't parse the HMAT table for NUMA setup, or
4703 soft-reserved memory partitioning.
4704
4705 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
4706 NUMA balancing.
4707 Allowed values are enable and disable
4708
4709 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
4710 'node', 'default' can be specified
4711 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
4712 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
4713
4714 ohci1394_dma=early [HW,EARLY] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
4715 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
4716 info.
4717
4718 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
4719 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
4720 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
4721 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
4722 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
4723 interrupts *may* be lost!
4724
4725 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
4726 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
4727 For example, to override I2C bus2:
4728 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
4729
4730 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
4731
4732 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
4733
4734 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
4735 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
4736 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
4737 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
4738 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
4739
4740 oops=panic [KNL,EARLY]
4741 Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
4742 process, but there is a small probability of
4743 deadlocking the machine.
4744 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
4745 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
4746
4747 page_alloc.shuffle=
4748 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
4749 should randomize its free lists. This parameter can be
4750 used to enable/disable page randomization. The state of
4751 the flag can be read from sysfs at:
4752 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
4753 This parameter is only available if CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y.
4754
4755 page_owner= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
4756 Storage of the information about who allocated
4757 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
4758 we can turn it on.
4759 on: enable the feature
4760
4761 page_poison= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
4762 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
4763 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
4764 off: turn off poisoning (default)
4765 on: turn on poisoning
4766
4767 page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
4768 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order
4769 Format: <integer>
4770 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
4771 reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER.
4772
4773 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4774 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
4775 timeout = 0: wait forever
4776 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
4777 Format: <timeout>
4778
4779 panic_on_taint= [KNL,EARLY]
4780 Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
4781 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
4782 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
4783 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
4784 called with any of the flags in this set.
4785 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
4786 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
4787 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
4788 bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
4789 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
4790 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
4791 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
4792
4793 panic_on_warn=1 panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
4794 on a WARN().
4795
4796 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
4797 User can chose combination of the following bits:
4798 bit 0: print all tasks info
4799 bit 1: print system memory info
4800 bit 2: print timer info
4801 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
4802 bit 4: print ftrace buffer
4803 bit 5: replay all kernel messages on consoles at the end of panic
4804 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
4805 bit 7: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state
4806 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
4807 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
4808 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
4809 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
4810
4811 panic_sys_info= A comma separated list of extra information to be dumped
4812 on panic.
4813 Format: val[,val...]
4814 Where @val can be any of the following:
4815
4816 tasks: print all tasks info
4817 mem: print system memory info
4818 timers: print timers info
4819 locks: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
4820 ftrace: print ftrace buffer
4821 all_bt: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
4822 blocked_tasks: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state
4823
4824 This is a human readable alternative to the 'panic_print' option.
4825
4826 panic_console_replay
4827 When panic happens, replay all kernel messages on
4828 consoles at the end of panic.
4829
4830 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
4831 connected to, default is 0.
4832 Format: <parport#>
4833 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
4834 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
4835 Format: <mode>
4836
4837 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
4838 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
4839 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
4840 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
4841 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
4842 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
4843 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
4844 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
4845 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
4846 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
4847 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
4848 are specified on the command line, starting
4849 with parport0.
4850
4851 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
4852 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
4853 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
4854 computer where firmware has no options for setting
4855 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
4856 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
4857 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
4858
4859 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA]
4860 Format: <int>
4861 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
4862 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
4863 has been found at either range. Disabled by default.
4864
4865 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA]
4866 Format: <int>
4867 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
4868 changes. Disabled by default.
4869
4870 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA]
4871 Format: <int>
4872 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
4873 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4874 Disabled by default.
4875
4876 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA]
4877 Format: <int>
4878 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
4879 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4880 Disabled by default.
4881
4882 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA]
4883 Format: <int>
4884 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY
4885 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first
4886 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
4887 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often
4888 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
4889 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
4890 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
4891 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across
4892 all channels.
4893
4894 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA]
4895 Format: <int>
4896 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
4897 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4898 respectively. Disabled by default.
4899
4900 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA]
4901 Format: <int>
4902 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
4903 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4904 respectively. Disabled by default.
4905
4906 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA]
4907 Format: <int>
4908 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual
4909 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
4910 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
4911 All modes allowed by default.
4912
4913 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA]
4914 Format: <int>
4915 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
4916 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default.
4917
4918 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA]
4919 Format: <int>
4920 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on
4921 platform configuration and the use of other driver
4922 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
4923 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
4924 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
4925 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for
4926 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
4927 By default all supported ports are probed.
4928
4929 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA]
4930 Format: <int>
4931 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default
4932 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
4933
4934 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA]
4935 Format: <int>
4936 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use
4937 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
4938 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
4939 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
4940 0 otherwise.
4941
4942 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA]
4943 Format: <int>
4944 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow
4945 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for
4946 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only
4947 allowed by default.
4948
4949 pause_on_oops=<int>
4950 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
4951 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
4952 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
4953
4954 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
4955
4956 pci=option[,option...] [PCI,EARLY] various PCI subsystem options.
4957
4958 Some options herein operate on a specific device
4959 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
4960 specified in one of the following formats:
4961
4962 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
4963 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
4964
4965 Note: the first format specifies a PCI
4966 bus/device/function address which may change
4967 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
4968 firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4969 by other kernel parameters. If the
4970 domain is left unspecified, it is
4971 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4972 to a device through multiple device/function
4973 addresses can be specified after the base
4974 address (this is more robust against
4975 renumbering issues). The second format
4976 selects devices using IDs from the
4977 configuration space which may match multiple
4978 devices in the system.
4979
4980 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel
4981 changes anything
4982 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4983 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4984 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
4985 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4986 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4987 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
4988 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
4989 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
4990 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4991 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
4992 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4993 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4994 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4995 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4996 bus number. The config space is then accessed
4997 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4998 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4999 on the configuration access mechanisms.
5000 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
5001 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
5002 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
5003 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
5004 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
5005 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
5006 Configuration
5007 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
5008 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
5009 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
5010 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
5011 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
5012 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
5013 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
5014 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
5015 should never be necessary.
5016 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
5017 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
5018 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
5019 when the system masks IRQs.
5020 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
5021 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
5022 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
5023 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
5024 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
5025 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
5026 on several machines and they hang the machine
5027 when used, but on other computers it's the only
5028 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
5029 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
5030 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
5031 motherboard.
5032 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
5033 Use with caution as certain devices share
5034 address decoders between ROMs and other
5035 resources.
5036 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
5037 expansion ROMs that do not already have
5038 BIOS assigned address ranges.
5039 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
5040 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
5041 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
5042 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
5043 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
5044 this way.
5045 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
5046 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
5047 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
5048 F0000h-100000h range.
5049 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
5050 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
5051 secondary buses and you want to tell it
5052 explicitly which ones they are.
5053 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
5054 numbers ourselves, overriding
5055 whatever the firmware may have done.
5056 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
5057 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
5058 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
5059 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
5060 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
5061 IRQ routing is enabled.
5062 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
5063 or for PCI scanning.
5064 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
5065 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
5066 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
5067 please report a bug.
5068 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
5069 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
5070 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
5071 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
5072 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
5073 If you need to use this, please report a bug to
5074 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
5075 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
5076 bridge windows. This is the default on modern
5077 hardware. If you need to use this, please report
5078 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
5079 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
5080 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
5081 so this option is a temporary workaround
5082 for broken drivers that don't call it.
5083 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
5084 handle more pci cards
5085 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
5086 This might help on some broken boards which
5087 machine check when some devices' config space
5088 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
5089 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
5090 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
5091 This sorting is done to get a device
5092 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
5093 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
5094 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
5095 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
5096 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
5097 supported by all devices below the root complex.
5098 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
5099 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
5100 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
5101 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
5102 or bus can support) for best performance.
5103 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
5104 every device is guaranteed to support. This
5105 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
5106 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
5107 reduced performance. This also guarantees
5108 that hot-added devices will work.
5109 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
5110 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
5111 The default value is 256 bytes.
5112 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
5113 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
5114 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
5115 resource_alignment=
5116 Format:
5117 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
5118 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
5119 aligned memory resources. How to
5120 specify the device is described above.
5121 If <order of align> is not specified,
5122 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
5123 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
5124 windows need to be expanded.
5125 To specify the alignment for several
5126 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
5127 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
5128 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
5129 for 4096-byte alignment.
5130 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
5131 end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if
5132 OS has native AER control (either granted by
5133 ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native")
5134 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
5135 the default.
5136 off: Turn ECRC off
5137 on: Turn ECRC on.
5138 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
5139 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
5140 Default size is 256 bytes.
5141 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
5142 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
5143 Default size is 2 megabytes.
5144 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
5145 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
5146 Default size is 2 megabytes.
5147 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
5148 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
5149 MMIO_PREF window.
5150 Default size is 2 megabytes.
5151 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
5152 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
5153 Default is 1.
5154 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
5155 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
5156 accommodate resources required by all child
5157 devices.
5158 off: Turn realloc off
5159 on: Turn realloc on
5160 realloc same as realloc=on
5161 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
5162 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
5163 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
5164 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
5165 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
5166 port.
5167 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
5168 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
5169 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
5170 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
5171 conflict with unreported devices), so this
5172 taints the kernel.
5173 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
5174 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
5175 specified above) separated by semicolons.
5176 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
5177 redirect capabilities forced off which will
5178 allow P2P traffic between devices through
5179 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
5180 this removes isolation between devices and
5181 may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
5182 config_acs=
5183 Format:
5184 <ACS flags>@<pci_dev>[; ...]
5185 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
5186 specified above) optionally prepended with flags
5187 and separated by semicolons. The respective
5188 capabilities will be enabled, disabled or
5189 unchanged based on what is specified in
5190 flags.
5191
5192 ACS Flags is defined as follows:
5193 bit-0 : ACS Source Validation
5194 bit-1 : ACS Translation Blocking
5195 bit-2 : ACS P2P Request Redirect
5196 bit-3 : ACS P2P Completion Redirect
5197 bit-4 : ACS Upstream Forwarding
5198 bit-5 : ACS P2P Egress Control
5199 bit-6 : ACS Direct Translated P2P
5200 Each bit can be marked as:
5201 '0' – force disabled
5202 '1' – force enabled
5203 'x' – unchanged
5204 For example,
5205 pci=config_acs=10x@pci:0:0
5206 would configure all devices that support
5207 ACS to enable P2P Request Redirect, disable
5208 Translation Blocking, and leave Source
5209 Validation unchanged from whatever power-up
5210 or firmware set it to.
5211
5212 Note: this may remove isolation between devices
5213 and may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
5214 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
5215 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
5216 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
5217 one PCI domain per PCI function
5218 notph [PCIE] If the PCIE_TPH kernel config parameter
5219 is enabled, this kernel boot option can be used
5220 to disable PCIe TLP Processing Hints support
5221 system-wide.
5222
5223 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or ignore PCIe Active State Power
5224 Management.
5225 off Don't touch ASPM configuration at all. Leave any
5226 configuration done by firmware unchanged.
5227 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
5228 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
5229
5230 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
5231 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
5232 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
5233 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform
5234 also tries to use these services.
5235 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May
5236 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
5237 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
5238 hotplug).
5239
5240 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
5241 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
5242 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
5243
5244 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
5245 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
5246 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
5247
5248 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
5249
5250 pd_ignore_unused
5251 [PM]
5252 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
5253 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
5254 for debug and development, but should not be
5255 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
5256
5257 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
5258 boot time.
5259 Format: { 0 | 1 }
5260 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
5261
5262 percpu_alloc= [MM,EARLY]
5263 Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
5264 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
5265 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
5266 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
5267 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
5268 and performance comparison.
5269
5270 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
5271 See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
5272
5273 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
5274 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
5275 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
5276
5277 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
5278 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
5279 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
5280
5281 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU.
5282 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
5283 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
5284 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
5285 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
5286 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
5287 remains 0.
5288
5289 pm_async= [PM]
5290 Format: off
5291 This parameter sets the initial value of the
5292 /sys/power/pm_async sysfs knob at boot time.
5293 If set to "off", disables asynchronous suspend and
5294 resume of devices during system-wide power transitions.
5295 This can be useful on platforms where device
5296 dependencies are not well-defined, or for debugging
5297 power management issues. Asynchronous operations are
5298 enabled by default.
5299
5300
5301 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL]
5302 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
5303
5304 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
5305 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
5306 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
5307 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
5308 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
5309 possible settings and some assignment information.
5310
5311 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
5312 { off }
5313
5314 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
5315 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
5316
5317 pnp_reserve_irq=
5318 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
5319
5320 pnp_reserve_dma=
5321 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
5322
5323 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
5324 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
5325
5326 pnp_reserve_mem=
5327 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
5328 autoconfiguration.
5329 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
5330
5331 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
5332 Default is 21.
5333 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
5334 may be specified.
5335 Format: <port>,<port>....
5336
5337 possible_cpus= [SMP,S390,X86]
5338 Format: <unsigned int>
5339 Set the number of possible CPUs, overriding the
5340 regular discovery mechanisms (such as ACPI/FW, etc).
5341
5342 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
5343 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
5344 platform machine description specific power_save
5345 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
5346 execution priority.
5347
5348 ppc_strict_facility_enable
5349 [PPC,ENABLE] This option catches any kernel floating point,
5350 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
5351 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
5352 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
5353
5354 ppc_tm= [PPC,EARLY]
5355 Format: {"off"}
5356 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
5357
5358 preempt= [KNL]
5359 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
5360 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
5361 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
5362 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
5363 can be preempted anytime. Tasks will also yield
5364 contended spinlocks (if the critical section isn't
5365 explicitly preempt disabled beyond the lock itself).
5366 lazy - Scheduler controlled. Similar to full but instead
5367 of preempting the task immediately, the task gets
5368 one HZ tick time to yield itself before the
5369 preemption will be forced. One preemption is when the
5370 task returns to user space.
5371
5372 print-fatal-signals=
5373 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
5374
5375 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
5376 related application anomalies: too many signals,
5377 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
5378 coredump - etc.
5379
5380 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
5381 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
5382
5383 default: off.
5384
5385 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
5386 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
5387 panics
5388 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5389 default: disabled
5390
5391 printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
5392 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
5393 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
5394 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
5395 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
5396 in order to provide more debug information.
5397 Format: <bool>
5398 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
5399
5400 printk.debug_non_panic_cpus=
5401 Allows storing messages from non-panic CPUs into
5402 the printk log buffer during panic(). They are
5403 flushed to consoles by the panic-CPU on
5404 a best-effort basis.
5405 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5406 Default: disabled
5407
5408 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
5409 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
5410 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
5411 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
5412 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
5413 Default: ratelimit
5414
5415 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
5416 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5417
5418 proc_mem.force_override= [KNL]
5419 Format: {always | ptrace | never}
5420 Traditionally /proc/pid/mem allows memory permissions to be
5421 overridden without restrictions. This option may be set to
5422 restrict that. Can be one of:
5423 - 'always': traditional behavior always allows mem overrides.
5424 - 'ptrace': only allow mem overrides for active ptracers.
5425 - 'never': never allow mem overrides.
5426 If not specified, default is the CONFIG_PROC_MEM_* choice.
5427
5428 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
5429 Limit processor to maximum C-state
5430 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
5431
5432 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
5433 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
5434 instead using the legacy FADT method
5435
5436 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
5437 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
5438 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule" or "kvm"
5439 [defaults to kernel profiling]
5440 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
5441 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
5442 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
5443 statistical time based profiling.
5444
5445 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated]
5446
5447 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
5448 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
5449 that). If enabled, the default kernel base address
5450 might be overridden even when Kernel Address Space
5451 Layout Randomization is disabled.
5452 Format: <bool>
5453
5454 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
5455 tracking.
5456 Format: <bool>
5457
5458 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
5459 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
5460 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
5461 per second.
5462 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
5463 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
5464 (0 = never).
5465 psmouse.resolution=
5466 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
5467 psmouse.smartscroll=
5468 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
5469 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
5470
5471 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
5472
5473 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
5474 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
5475 removes hardening, but improves performance of
5476 system calls and interrupts.
5477
5478 on - unconditionally enable
5479 off - unconditionally disable
5480 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5481 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
5482
5483 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
5484
5485 pty.legacy_count=
5486 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
5487 default number.
5488
5489 quiet [KNL,EARLY] Disable most log messages
5490
5491 r128= [HW,DRM]
5492
5493 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES]
5494 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
5495 invalidate.
5496
5497 raid= [HW,RAID]
5498 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
5499
5500 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
5501 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
5502
5503 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address
5504
5505 random.trust_cpu=off
5506 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's
5507 random number generator (if available) to
5508 initialize the kernel's RNG.
5509
5510 random.trust_bootloader=off
5511 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the a seed
5512 passed by the bootloader (if available) to
5513 initialize the kernel's RNG.
5514
5515 randomize_kstack_offset=
5516 [KNL,EARLY] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
5517 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
5518 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
5519 that depend on stack address determinism or
5520 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
5521 available on architectures that have defined
5522 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
5523 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5524 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
5525
5526 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
5527
5528 cec_disable [X86]
5529 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
5530 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
5531
5532 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
5533 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
5534 as described above.
5535
5536 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
5537 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
5538 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
5539 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
5540 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
5541 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
5542 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
5543 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
5544 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
5545 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
5546 and real-time workloads. It can also improve
5547 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
5548
5549 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
5550 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
5551
5552 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
5553 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
5554 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
5555 toggled at runtime via cpusets.
5556
5557 Note that this argument takes precedence over
5558 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
5559
5560 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
5561 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
5562 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
5563 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
5564 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
5565 This improves the real-time response for the
5566 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
5567 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
5568 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
5569 periodically wake up to do the polling.
5570
5571 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
5572 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
5573 process in one batch.
5574
5575 rcutree.csd_lock_suppress_rcu_stall= [KNL]
5576 Do only a one-line RCU CPU stall warning when
5577 there is an ongoing too-long CSD-lock wait.
5578
5579 rcutree.do_rcu_barrier= [KNL]
5580 Request a call to rcu_barrier(). This is
5581 throttled so that userspace tests can safely
5582 hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose.
5583 If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery
5584 is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN.
5585
5586 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
5587 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
5588 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
5589 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
5590
5591 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
5592 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5593 RCU grace-period cleanup.
5594
5595 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
5596 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5597 RCU grace-period initialization.
5598
5599 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
5600 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5601 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
5602 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
5603 the rcu_node combining tree.
5604
5605 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
5606 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
5607 first attempt to force quiescent states.
5608 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
5609 and maximum value is HZ.
5610
5611 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
5612 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
5613 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
5614 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
5615
5616 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
5617 Set required age in jiffies for a
5618 given grace period before RCU starts
5619 soliciting quiescent-state help from
5620 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
5621 If not specified, the kernel will calculate
5622 a value based on the most recent settings
5623 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
5624 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
5625 This calculated value may be viewed in
5626 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set
5627 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
5628 overwritten.
5629
5630 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
5631 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
5632 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
5633 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
5634 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
5635 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
5636 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
5637 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
5638 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
5639 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
5640 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
5641 priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
5642
5643 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL]
5644 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
5645 RCU reduces the lock contention that would
5646 otherwise be caused by callback floods through
5647 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the
5648 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
5649 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
5650 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
5651 But if there are too many callbacks queued during
5652 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
5653 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too
5654 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter.
5655
5656 rcutree.nohz_full_patience_delay= [KNL]
5657 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, avoid
5658 disturbing RCU unless the grace period has
5659 reached the specified age in milliseconds.
5660 Defaults to zero. Large values will be capped
5661 at five seconds. All values will be rounded down
5662 to the nearest value representable by jiffies.
5663
5664 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
5665 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
5666 batch limiting is disabled.
5667
5668 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
5669 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
5670 batch limiting is re-enabled.
5671
5672 rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
5673 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
5674 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
5675 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
5676 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
5677 Set to less than zero to make this be set based
5678 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
5679 disable more aggressive help enlistment.
5680
5681 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
5682 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
5683 in response to low-memory conditions. The range
5684 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
5685
5686 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL]
5687 Set the shift-right count to use to compute
5688 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
5689 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU.
5690 The result will be bounded below by the value of
5691 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl
5692 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in
5693 order to allow the CPU to do other work.
5694
5695 Please note that this callback-invocation batch
5696 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
5697 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead
5698 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which
5699 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task.
5700
5701 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
5702 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
5703 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
5704 possibly be useful for architectures having high
5705 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
5706
5707 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
5708 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
5709 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
5710 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
5711 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
5712 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
5713 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
5714
5715 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
5716 Minimum number of objects which are cached and
5717 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
5718 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
5719 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
5720 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
5721 condition.
5722
5723 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
5724 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
5725 each group, which defaults to the square root
5726 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce
5727 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
5728 kthread, but increases that same overhead on
5729 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
5730
5731 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
5732 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
5733 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
5734 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
5735 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
5736 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
5737
5738 rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL]
5739 Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU
5740 callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds.
5741 By default, this limit is checked only once
5742 every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain
5743 inflicted by local_clock() overhead.
5744
5745 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
5746 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
5747 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
5748 in microseconds. This defaults to zero.
5749 Larger delays increase the probability of
5750 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
5751 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
5752 rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
5753
5754 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
5755 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
5756 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
5757 why a new grace period has not yet started.
5758
5759 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL]
5760 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
5761 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero
5762 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
5763 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
5764
5765 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
5766 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
5767 to zero.
5768
5769 rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy= [KNL]
5770 To save power, batch RCU callbacks and flush after
5771 delay, memory pressure or callback list growing too
5772 big.
5773
5774 rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp= [KNL]
5775 Reduces a latency of synchronize_rcu() call. This approach
5776 maintains its own track of synchronize_rcu() callers, so it
5777 does not interact with regular callbacks because it does not
5778 use a call_rcu[_hurry]() path. Please note, this is for a
5779 normal grace period.
5780
5781 How to enable it:
5782
5783 echo 1 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp
5784 or pass a boot parameter "rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=1"
5785
5786 Default is 1 if num_possible_cpus() <= 16 and it is not explicitly
5787 disabled by the boot parameter passing 0.
5788
5789 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
5790 Measure performance of asynchronous
5791 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
5792
5793 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
5794 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
5795 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
5796 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
5797 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
5798 previously posted callbacks to drain.
5799
5800 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
5801 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
5802 grace-period primitives.
5803
5804 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5805 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
5806 this parameter is to delay the start of the
5807 test until boot completes in order to avoid
5808 interference.
5809
5810 rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL]
5811 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test
5812 call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu().
5813
5814 rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL]
5815 Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj,
5816 allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj).
5817 Defaults to 1.
5818
5819 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
5820 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
5821
5822 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
5823 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5824 If this parameter has the same value as
5825 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
5826 and double-argument variants are tested.
5827
5828 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
5829 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5830 If this parameter has the same value as
5831 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
5832 and double-argument variants are tested.
5833
5834 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
5835 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
5836
5837 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
5838 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
5839
5840 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
5841 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
5842 of allocations and frees.
5843
5844 rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL]
5845 Set the minimum test run time in seconds. This
5846 does not affect the data-collection interval,
5847 but instead allows better measurement of things
5848 like CPU consumption.
5849
5850 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5851 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
5852 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
5853 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
5854 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
5855 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5856 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
5857 a single reader.
5858
5859 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
5860 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
5861 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
5862 N, where N is the number of CPUs
5863
5864 rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5865 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5866
5867 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5868 Shut the system down after performance tests
5869 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
5870 testing.
5871
5872 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
5873 Enable additional printk() statements.
5874
5875 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
5876 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
5877 in microseconds. The default of zero says
5878 no holdoff.
5879
5880 rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL]
5881 Additional write-side holdoff between grace
5882 periods, but in jiffies. The default of zero
5883 says no holdoff.
5884
5885 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
5886 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
5887 in microseconds.
5888
5889 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
5890 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
5891 in microseconds.
5892
5893 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
5894 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
5895 in seconds.
5896
5897 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
5898 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
5899 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
5900 for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
5901 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
5902 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
5903 of CPUs to be used.
5904
5905 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
5906 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
5907 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
5908
5909 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
5910 Number of seconds to wait between successive
5911 forward-progress tests.
5912
5913 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
5914 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
5915 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
5916 testing.
5917
5918 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
5919 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5920 normal-grace-period primitives, if available.
5921
5922 rcutorture.gp_cond_exp= [KNL]
5923 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5924 expedited-grace-period primitives, if available.
5925
5926 rcutorture.gp_cond_full= [KNL]
5927 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5928 normal-grace-period primitives that also take
5929 concurrent expedited grace periods into account,
5930 if available.
5931
5932 rcutorture.gp_cond_exp_full= [KNL]
5933 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5934 expedited-grace-period primitives that also take
5935 concurrent normal grace periods into account,
5936 if available.
5937
5938 rcutorture.gp_cond_wi= [KNL]
5939 Nominal wait interval for normal conditional
5940 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
5941 gp_cond and gp_cond_full module parameters),
5942 in microseconds. The actual wait interval will
5943 be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up
5944 to this wait interval. Defaults to 16 jiffies,
5945 for example, 16,000 microseconds on a system
5946 with HZ=1000.
5947
5948 rcutorture.gp_cond_wi_exp= [KNL]
5949 Nominal wait interval for expedited conditional
5950 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
5951 gp_cond_exp and gp_cond_exp_full module
5952 parameters), in microseconds. The actual wait
5953 interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond
5954 granularity up to this wait interval. Defaults to
5955 128 microseconds.
5956
5957 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
5958 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
5959
5960 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
5961 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
5962 update-side primitives, if available.
5963
5964 rcutorture.gp_poll= [KNL]
5965 Use polled update-side normal-grace-period
5966 primitives, if available.
5967
5968 rcutorture.gp_poll_exp= [KNL]
5969 Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period
5970 primitives, if available.
5971
5972 rcutorture.gp_poll_full= [KNL]
5973 Use polled update-side normal-grace-period
5974 primitives that also take concurrent expedited
5975 grace periods into account, if available.
5976
5977 rcutorture.gp_poll_exp_full= [KNL]
5978 Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period
5979 primitives that also take concurrent normal
5980 grace periods into account, if available.
5981
5982 rcutorture.gp_poll_wi= [KNL]
5983 Nominal wait interval for normal conditional
5984 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
5985 gp_poll and gp_poll_full module parameters),
5986 in microseconds. The actual wait interval will
5987 be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up
5988 to this wait interval. Defaults to 16 jiffies,
5989 for example, 16,000 microseconds on a system
5990 with HZ=1000.
5991
5992 rcutorture.gp_poll_wi_exp= [KNL]
5993 Nominal wait interval for expedited conditional
5994 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
5995 gp_poll_exp and gp_poll_exp_full module
5996 parameters), in microseconds. The actual wait
5997 interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond
5998 granularity up to this wait interval. Defaults to
5999 128 microseconds.
6000
6001 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
6002 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
6003 update-side primitives, if available. If all
6004 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
6005 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
6006 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
6007 they are all non-zero.
6008
6009 rcutorture.gpwrap_lag= [KNL]
6010 Enable grace-period wrap lag testing. Setting
6011 to false prevents the gpwrap lag test from
6012 running. Default is true.
6013
6014 rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_gps= [KNL]
6015 Set the value for grace-period wrap lag during
6016 active lag testing periods. This controls how many
6017 grace periods differences we tolerate between
6018 rdp and rnp's gp_seq before setting overflow flag.
6019 The default is always set to 8.
6020
6021 rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_cycle_mins= [KNL]
6022 Set the total cycle duration for gpwrap lag
6023 testing in minutes. This is the total time for
6024 one complete cycle of active and inactive
6025 testing periods. Default is 30 minutes.
6026
6027 rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_active_mins= [KNL]
6028 Set the duration for which gpwrap lag is active
6029 within each cycle, in minutes. During this time,
6030 the grace-period wrap lag will be set to the
6031 value specified by gpwrap_lag_gps. Default is
6032 5 minutes.
6033
6034 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
6035 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
6036 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU
6037 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
6038
6039 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
6040 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
6041 This can of course result in splats, and is
6042 intended to test the ability of things like
6043 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
6044 such leaks.
6045
6046 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
6047 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
6048
6049 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
6050 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
6051 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
6052 test, hence the "fake".
6053
6054 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
6055 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
6056 Zero (the default) disables toggling.
6057
6058 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
6059 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
6060 callback-offload toggling attempts.
6061
6062 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
6063 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
6064 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
6065 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
6066 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
6067 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
6068
6069 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
6070 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
6071
6072 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
6073 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
6074
6075 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
6076 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
6077 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
6078
6079 rcutorture.preempt_duration= [KNL]
6080 Set duration (in milliseconds) of preemptions
6081 by a high-priority FIFO real-time task. Set to
6082 zero (the default) to disable. The CPUs to
6083 preempt are selected randomly from the set that
6084 are online at a given point in time. Races with
6085 CPUs going offline are ignored, with that attempt
6086 at preemption skipped.
6087
6088 rcutorture.preempt_interval= [KNL]
6089 Set interval (in milliseconds, defaulting to one
6090 second) between preemptions by a high-priority
6091 FIFO real-time task. This delay is mediated
6092 by an hrtimer and is further fuzzed to avoid
6093 inadvertent synchronizations.
6094
6095 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
6096 The number of times in a given read-then-exit
6097 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
6098 is spawned.
6099
6100 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
6101 The delay, in seconds, between successive
6102 read-then-exit testing episodes.
6103
6104 rcutorture.reader_flavor= [KNL]
6105 A bit mask indicating which readers to use.
6106 If there is more than one bit set, the readers
6107 are entered from low-order bit up, and are
6108 exited in the opposite order. For SRCU, the
6109 0x1 bit is normal readers, 0x2 NMI-safe readers,
6110 and 0x4 light-weight readers.
6111
6112 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
6113 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
6114 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
6115 during the rcutorture test.
6116
6117 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
6118 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
6119 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
6120
6121 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
6122 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
6123 warnings, zero to disable.
6124
6125 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
6126 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result
6127 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to
6128 any other stall-related activity. Note that
6129 in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and
6130 CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will
6131 cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state.
6132 Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress
6133 RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result
6134 in scheduling-while-atomic splats.
6135
6136 Use of this module parameter results in splats.
6137
6138
6139 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
6140 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
6141
6142 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
6143 Disable interrupts while stalling if set, but only
6144 on the first stall in the set.
6145
6146 rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat= [KNL]
6147 Number of times to repeat the stall sequence,
6148 so that rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat=3 will result
6149 in four stall sequences.
6150
6151 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
6152 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
6153 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
6154 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu
6155 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
6156 kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
6157
6158 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
6159 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
6160
6161 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
6162 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
6163 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
6164 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
6165 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
6166
6167 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
6168 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
6169 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
6170 under test support RCU priority boosting.
6171
6172 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
6173 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
6174
6175 rcutorture.test_boost_holdoff= [KNL]
6176 Holdoff time (s) from start of test to the start
6177 of RCU priority-boost testing. Defaults to zero,
6178 that is, no holdoff.
6179
6180 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
6181 Interval (s) between each boost test.
6182
6183 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
6184 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
6185 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
6186
6187 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
6188 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
6189
6190 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
6191 Enable additional printk() statements.
6192
6193 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
6194 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
6195 stall warning.
6196
6197 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL]
6198 Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the
6199 warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig
6200 option's help text. TL;DR: You almost certainly
6201 do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers.
6202
6203 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
6204 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
6205
6206 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
6207 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
6208 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
6209 during early boot, that is, during the time
6210 before the init task is spawned.
6211
6212 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
6213 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
6214 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
6215 value is 300 seconds.
6216
6217 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
6218 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
6219 messages. The value is in milliseconds
6220 and the maximum allowed value is 21000
6221 milliseconds. Please note that this value is
6222 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
6223 Setting this to zero causes the value from
6224 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
6225 conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
6226
6227 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL]
6228 Provide statistics on the cputime and count of
6229 interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For
6230 multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods
6231 begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout.
6232
6233 rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL]
6234 Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the
6235 current expedited RCU grace period during an
6236 expedited RCU CPU stall warning.
6237
6238 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
6239 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
6240 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
6241 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
6242 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
6243 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
6244 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
6245
6246 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
6247 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
6248 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
6249 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
6250 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
6251 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
6252 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
6253 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
6254 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
6255
6256 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
6257 Once boot has completed (that is, after
6258 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
6259 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
6260 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
6261
6262 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
6263 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
6264 it to the value one, that is, converting any
6265 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
6266 period to instead use normal non-expedited
6267 grace-period processing.
6268
6269 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
6270 Set the maximum number of callbacks present
6271 at the beginning of a grace period that allows
6272 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
6273 a single callback queue. This switching only
6274 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
6275 set to the default value of -1.
6276
6277 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
6278 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
6279 lock-contention events per jiffy required to
6280 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
6281 callback queuing. This switching only occurs
6282 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
6283 the default value of -1.
6284
6285 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
6286 Set the number of callback queues to use for the
6287 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default
6288 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
6289 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended
6290 for use in testing.
6291
6292 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
6293 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
6294 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
6295 of a given grace period. Setting a large
6296 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
6297 but lengthens grace periods.
6298
6299 rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL]
6300 Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will
6301 cancel laziness on that CPU. Use -1 to disable
6302 cancellation of laziness, but be advised that
6303 doing so increases the danger of OOM due to
6304 callback flooding.
6305
6306 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
6307 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
6308 informational messages, which give some indication
6309 of the problem for those not patient enough to
6310 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are
6311 only printed prior to the stall-warning message
6312 for a given grace period. Disable with a value
6313 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten
6314 seconds. A change in value does not take effect
6315 until the beginning of the next grace period.
6316
6317 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
6318 Multiplier for time interval between successive
6319 RCU task stall informational messages for a given
6320 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped
6321 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to
6322 the value three, so that the first informational
6323 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
6324 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
6325 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
6326 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
6327
6328 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
6329 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
6330 warning messages. Disable with a value less
6331 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes.
6332 A change in value does not take effect until
6333 the beginning of the next grace period.
6334
6335 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL]
6336 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous
6337 callback batching for call_rcu_tasks().
6338 A negative value will take the default. A value
6339 of zero will disable batching. Batching is
6340 always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks().
6341
6342 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL]
6343 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks
6344 Trace asynchronous callback batching for
6345 call_rcu_tasks_trace(). A negative value
6346 will take the default. A value of zero will
6347 disable batching. Batching is always disabled
6348 for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace().
6349
6350 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
6351 Run the RCU early boot self tests
6352
6353 rdinit= [KNL]
6354 Format: <full_path>
6355 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
6356 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
6357
6358 rdrand= [X86,EARLY]
6359 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
6360 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
6361 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
6362 support, specifically around the suspend/resume
6363 path).
6364
6365 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
6366 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
6367 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
6368 mba, smba, bmec, abmc, sdciae.
6369 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
6370 rdt=cmt,!mba
6371
6372 reboot= [KNL]
6373 Format (x86 or x86_64):
6374 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
6375 [[,]s[mp]#### \
6376 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
6377 [[,]f[orce]
6378 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
6379 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
6380 reboot only),
6381 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
6382 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
6383 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
6384 to be used for rebooting.
6385
6386 acpi
6387 Use the ACPI RESET_REG in the FADT. If ACPI is not
6388 configured or the ACPI reset does not work, the reboot
6389 path attempts the reset using the keyboard controller.
6390
6391 bios
6392 Use the CPU reboot vector for warm reset
6393
6394 cold
6395 Set the cold reboot flag
6396
6397 default
6398 There are some built-in platform specific "quirks"
6399 - you may see: "reboot: <name> series board detected.
6400 Selecting <type> for reboots." In the case where you
6401 think the quirk is in error (e.g. you have newer BIOS,
6402 or newer board) using this option will ignore the
6403 built-in quirk table, and use the generic default
6404 reboot actions.
6405
6406 efi
6407 Use efi reset_system runtime service. If EFI is not
6408 configured or the EFI reset does not work, the reboot
6409 path attempts the reset using the keyboard controller.
6410
6411 force
6412 Don't stop other CPUs on reboot. This can make reboot
6413 more reliable in some cases.
6414
6415 kbd
6416 Use the keyboard controller. cold reset (default)
6417
6418 pci
6419 Use a write to the PCI config space register 0xcf9 to
6420 trigger reboot.
6421
6422 triple
6423 Force a triple fault (init)
6424
6425 warm
6426 Don't set the cold reboot flag
6427
6428 Using warm reset will be much faster especially on big
6429 memory systems because the BIOS will not go through
6430 the memory check. Disadvantage is that not all
6431 hardware will be completely reinitialized on reboot so
6432 there may be boot problems on some systems.
6433
6434
6435 refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
6436 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
6437 this parameter is to delay the start of the
6438 test until boot completes in order to avoid
6439 interference.
6440
6441 refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL]
6442 Number of data elements to use for the forms of
6443 SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing. A negative number
6444 is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while
6445 zero specifies nr_cpu_ids.
6446
6447 refscale.loops= [KNL]
6448 Set the number of loops over the synchronization
6449 primitive under test. Increasing this number
6450 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
6451 but the default has already reduced the per-pass
6452 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
6453 x86 laptops.
6454
6455 refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
6456 Set number of readers. The default value of -1
6457 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
6458 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice.
6459
6460 refscale.nruns= [KNL]
6461 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
6462 the console log.
6463
6464 refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
6465 Set the read-side critical-section duration,
6466 measured in microseconds.
6467
6468 refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
6469 Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
6470
6471 refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
6472 Shut down the system at the end of the performance
6473 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
6474 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
6475 it running) when refscale is built as a module.
6476
6477 refscale.verbose= [KNL]
6478 Enable additional printk() statements.
6479
6480 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
6481 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero
6482 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise,
6483 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
6484 specified.
6485
6486 regulator_ignore_unused
6487 [REGULATOR]
6488 Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators
6489 that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may
6490 be useful for debug and development, but should not be
6491 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
6492
6493 relax_domain_level=
6494 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
6495 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
6496
6497 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
6498 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
6499 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
6500 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
6501 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
6502
6503 reserve_mem= [RAM]
6504 Format: nn[KMG]:<align>:<label>
6505 Reserve physical memory and label it with a name that
6506 other subsystems can use to access it. This is typically
6507 used for systems that do not wipe the RAM, and this command
6508 line will try to reserve the same physical memory on
6509 soft reboots. Note, it is not guaranteed to be the same
6510 location. For example, if anything about the system changes
6511 or if booting a different kernel. It can also fail if KASLR
6512 places the kernel at the location of where the RAM reservation
6513 was from a previous boot, the new reservation will be at a
6514 different location.
6515 Any subsystem using this feature must add a way to verify
6516 that the contents of the physical memory is from a previous
6517 boot, as there may be cases where the memory will not be
6518 located at the same location.
6519
6520 The format is size:align:label for example, to request
6521 12 megabytes of 4096 alignment for ramoops:
6522
6523 reserve_mem=12M:4096:oops ramoops.mem_name=oops
6524
6525 reservetop= [X86-32,EARLY]
6526 Format: nn[KMG]
6527 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
6528 address space.
6529
6530 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
6531 during initialization.
6532
6533 resume= [SWSUSP]
6534 Specify the partition device for software suspend
6535 Format:
6536 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
6537
6538 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
6539 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
6540 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
6541 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
6542 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
6543
6544 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
6545 read the resume files
6546
6547 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
6548 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
6549 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
6550
6551 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction. After boot, it will
6552 be accessible via /sys/firmware/initrd.
6553
6554 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
6555 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
6556 vulnerability.
6557
6558 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
6559 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other
6560 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
6561 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors
6562 that don't.
6563
6564 off - no mitigation
6565 auto - automatically select a mitigation
6566 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation,
6567 disabling SMT if necessary for
6568 the full mitigation (only on Zen1
6569 and older without STIBP).
6570 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
6571 windows on basic block boundaries too.
6572 Safe, highest perf impact. It also
6573 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable
6574 on Intel.
6575 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
6576 when STIBP is not available. This is
6577 the alternative for systems which do not
6578 have STIBP.
6579 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks,
6580 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
6581 systems.
6582 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
6583 is not available. This is the alternative for
6584 systems which do not have STIBP.
6585
6586 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
6587 time according to the CPU.
6588
6589 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
6590
6591 rfkill.default_state=
6592 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
6593 etc. communication is blocked by default.
6594 1 Unblocked.
6595
6596 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
6597 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
6598 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
6599 blocked and the previous configuration.
6600 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
6601 blocked and everything unblocked.
6602
6603 ring3mwait=disable
6604 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
6605 CPUs.
6606
6607 riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV,EARLY]
6608 When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit
6609 falling back to detecting extension support by parsing
6610 "riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the
6611 replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig
6612 entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK.
6613
6614 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
6615
6616 rodata= [KNL,EARLY]
6617 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
6618 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
6619 noalias Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only but retain
6620 writable aliases in the direct map for regions outside
6621 of the kernel image. [arm64]
6622
6623 rockchip.usb_uart
6624 [EARLY]
6625 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
6626 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
6627 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
6628 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
6629
6630 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
6631 Usually this is a block device specifier of some kind,
6632 see the early_lookup_bdev comment in
6633 block/early-lookup.c for details.
6634 Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial
6635 ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file
6636 system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash.
6637
6638 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
6639 mount the root filesystem
6640
6641 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
6642
6643 initramfs_options= [KNL]
6644 Specify mount options for for the initramfs mount.
6645
6646 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
6647
6648 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
6649 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
6650 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
6651
6652 rootwait= [KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device
6653 to show up before attempting to mount the root
6654 filesystem.
6655
6656 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
6657 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
6658 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
6659 managed by CMA.
6660
6661 rseq_debug= [KNL] Enable or disable restartable sequence
6662 debug mode. Defaults to CONFIG_RSEQ_DEBUG_DEFAULT_ENABLE.
6663 Format: <bool>
6664
6665 rt_group_sched= [KNL] Enable or disable SCHED_RR/FIFO group scheduling
6666 when CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=y. Defaults to
6667 !CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED_DEFAULT_DISABLED.
6668 Format: <bool>
6669
6670 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
6671
6672 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
6673
6674 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
6675 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
6676 strict
6677 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result
6678 in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before
6679 reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to
6680 iommu.strict=1.
6681
6682 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390]
6683 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
6684 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
6685 factor of the size of main memory.
6686 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
6687 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
6688 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
6689 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
6690 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
6691 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
6692 cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
6693
6694 sa1100ir [NET]
6695 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
6696
6697 sched_proxy_exec= [KNL]
6698 Enables or disables "proxy execution" style
6699 solution to mutex-based priority inversion.
6700 Format: <bool>
6701
6702 sched_verbose [KNL,EARLY] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
6703
6704 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
6705 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
6706 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
6707 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
6708
6709 sched_thermal_decay_shift=
6710 [Deprecated]
6711 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
6712 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
6713 default decay period of other scheduler pelt
6714 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
6715 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
6716 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
6717 value.
6718 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
6719 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr
6720 1 64 ms
6721 2 128 ms
6722 and so on.
6723 Format: integer between 0 and 10
6724 Default is 0.
6725
6726 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
6727 Number of seconds to hold off before starting
6728 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and
6729 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
6730 tests.
6731
6732 scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
6733 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
6734 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the
6735 default) disables this feature. Please note
6736 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
6737 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
6738 softlockup complaints, and so on.
6739
6740 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
6741 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
6742 smp_call_function() family of functions.
6743 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
6744 equal to the number of CPUs.
6745
6746 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
6747 Number seconds to wait after the start of the
6748 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
6749
6750 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
6751 Number seconds to wait between successive
6752 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which
6753 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
6754
6755 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
6756 The number of seconds following the start of the
6757 test after which to shut down the system. The
6758 default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
6759 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
6760
6761 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
6762 The number of seconds between outputting the
6763 current test statistics to the console. A value
6764 of zero disables statistics output.
6765
6766 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
6767 The number of jiffies to wait between each change
6768 to the set of CPUs under test.
6769
6770 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
6771 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
6772 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
6773 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
6774 functions.
6775
6776 scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
6777 Enable additional printk() statements.
6778
6779 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
6780 The probability weighting to use for the
6781 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
6782 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the
6783 default if all other weights are -1. However,
6784 if at least one weight has some other value, a
6785 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
6786
6787 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
6788 The probability weighting to use for the
6789 smp_call_function_single() function with a
6790 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single.
6791
6792 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
6793 The probability weighting to use for the
6794 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
6795 "wait" parameter. See weight_single.
6796 Note well that setting a high probability for
6797 this weighting can place serious IPI load
6798 on the system.
6799
6800 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
6801 The probability weighting to use for the
6802 smp_call_function_many() function with a
6803 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single
6804 and weight_many.
6805
6806 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
6807 The probability weighting to use for the
6808 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
6809 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and
6810 weight_many.
6811
6812 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
6813 The probability weighting to use for the
6814 smp_call_function_all() function with a
6815 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single
6816 and weight_many.
6817
6818 sdw_mclk_divider=[SDW]
6819 Specify the MCLK divider for Intel SoundWire buses in
6820 case the BIOS does not provide the clock rate properly.
6821
6822 skew_tick= [KNL,EARLY] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
6823 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
6824 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
6825 Format: { "0" | "1" }
6826 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
6827 1 -- enable.
6828 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
6829 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
6830
6831 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
6832 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
6833 "lsm=" parameter.
6834
6835 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
6836 Format: { "0" | "1" }
6837 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
6838 0 -- disable.
6839 1 -- enable.
6840 Default value is 1.
6841
6842 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
6843
6844 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64]
6845
6846 debug
6847 Enable debug messages.
6848
6849 nosnp
6850 Do not enable SEV-SNP (applies to host/hypervisor
6851 only). Setting 'nosnp' avoids the RMP check overhead
6852 in memory accesses when users do not want to run
6853 SEV-SNP guests.
6854
6855 shapers= [NET]
6856 Maximal number of shapers.
6857
6858 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
6859 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
6860 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
6861 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
6862 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
6863 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
6864 apic=verbose is specified.
6865 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
6866
6867 slab_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM]
6868 Enabling slab_debug allows one to determine the
6869 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
6870 slab_debug can create guard zones around objects and
6871 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
6872 last alloc / free. For more information see
6873 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6874 (slub_debug legacy name also accepted for now)
6875
6876 Using this option implies the "no_hash_pointers"
6877 option which can be undone by adding the
6878 "hash_pointers=always" option.
6879
6880 slab_max_order= [MM]
6881 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
6882 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
6883 fragmentation. For more information see
6884 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6885 (slub_max_order legacy name also accepted for now)
6886
6887 slab_merge [MM]
6888 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
6889 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
6890 (slub_merge legacy name also accepted for now)
6891
6892 slab_min_objects= [MM]
6893 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
6894 increase the slab order up to slab_max_order to
6895 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
6896 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
6897 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
6898 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
6899 For more information see
6900 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6901 (slub_min_objects legacy name also accepted for now)
6902
6903 slab_min_order= [MM]
6904 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
6905 lower or equal to slab_max_order. For more information see
6906 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6907 (slub_min_order legacy name also accepted for now)
6908
6909 slab_nomerge [MM]
6910 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
6911 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
6912 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
6913 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
6914 layout control by attackers can usually be
6915 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
6916 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
6917 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
6918 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
6919 own.
6920 For more information see
6921 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6922 (slub_nomerge legacy name also accepted for now)
6923
6924 slab_strict_numa [MM]
6925 Support memory policies on a per object level
6926 in the slab allocator. The default is for memory
6927 policies to be applied at the folio level when
6928 a new folio is needed or a partial folio is
6929 retrieved from the lists. Increases overhead
6930 in the slab fastpaths but gains more accurate
6931 NUMA kernel object placement which helps with slow
6932 interconnects in NUMA systems.
6933
6934 slram= [HW,MTD]
6935
6936 smart2= [HW]
6937 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
6938
6939 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
6940 Specify the period of time in milliseconds
6941 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
6942 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is
6943 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
6944 disabling interrupts for extended periods
6945 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
6946 setting a value of zero disables this feature.
6947 This feature may be more efficiently disabled
6948 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
6949
6950 smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL]
6951 If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than
6952 the specified number of milliseconds, panic the
6953 system. By default, let CSD-lock acquisition
6954 take as long as they take. Specifying 300,000
6955 for this value provides a 5-minute timeout.
6956
6957 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
6958 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
6959 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
6960 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
6961 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
6962 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
6963 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
6964 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
6965 1: Fast pin select (default)
6966 2: ATC IRMode
6967
6968 smt= [KNL,MIPS,S390,EARLY] Set the maximum number of threads
6969 (logical CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems
6970 capable of symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will
6971 be capped to the actual hardware limit.
6972 Format: <integer>
6973 Default: -1 (no limit)
6974
6975 softlockup_panic=
6976 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
6977 Format: 0 | 1
6978
6979 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
6980 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
6981 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
6982 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
6983 respective build-time switch to that functionality.
6984
6985 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
6986 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
6987 backtraces on all cpus.
6988 Format: 0 | 1
6989
6990 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
6991 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
6992
6993 spectre_bhi= [X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection
6994 (BHI) vulnerability. This setting affects the
6995 deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB
6996 clearing sequence.
6997
6998 on - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation as
6999 needed. This protects the kernel from
7000 both syscalls and VMs.
7001 vmexit - On systems which don't have the HW mitigation
7002 available, enable the SW mitigation on vmexit
7003 ONLY. On such systems, the host kernel is
7004 protected from VM-originated BHI attacks, but
7005 may still be vulnerable to syscall attacks.
7006 off - Disable the mitigation.
7007
7008 spectre_v2= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
7009 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
7010 The default operation protects the kernel from
7011 user space attacks.
7012
7013 on - unconditionally enable, implies
7014 spectre_v2_user=on
7015 off - unconditionally disable, implies
7016 spectre_v2_user=off
7017 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
7018 vulnerable
7019
7020 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
7021 mitigation method at run time according to the
7022 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
7023 CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE configuration option,
7024 and the compiler with which the kernel was built.
7025
7026 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
7027 against user space to user space task attacks.
7028 Selecting specific mitigation does not force enable
7029 user mitigations.
7030
7031 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
7032 the user space protections.
7033
7034 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
7035
7036 retpoline - replace indirect branches
7037 retpoline,generic - Retpolines
7038 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch
7039 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence
7040 eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS
7041 eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines
7042 eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE
7043 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel
7044
7045 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
7046 spectre_v2=auto.
7047
7048 spectre_v2_user=
7049 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
7050 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
7051 user space tasks
7052
7053 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
7054 enforced by spectre_v2=on
7055
7056 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
7057 enforced by spectre_v2=off
7058
7059 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
7060 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
7061 per thread. The mitigation control state
7062 is inherited on fork.
7063
7064 prctl,ibpb
7065 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
7066 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
7067 always when switching between different user
7068 space processes.
7069
7070 seccomp
7071 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
7072 threads will enable the mitigation unless
7073 they explicitly opt out.
7074
7075 seccomp,ibpb
7076 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
7077 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
7078 always when switching between different
7079 user space processes.
7080
7081 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
7082 the available CPU features and vulnerability.
7083
7084 Default mitigation: "prctl"
7085
7086 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
7087 spectre_v2_user=auto.
7088
7089 spec_rstack_overflow=
7090 [X86,EARLY] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs
7091
7092 off - Disable mitigation
7093 microcode - Enable microcode mitigation only
7094 safe-ret - Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default)
7095 ibpb - Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on
7096 kernel entry
7097 ibpb-vmexit - Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT
7098 (cloud-specific mitigation)
7099
7100 spec_store_bypass_disable=
7101 [HW,EARLY] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
7102 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
7103
7104 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
7105 a common industry wide performance optimization known
7106 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
7107 to the same memory location may not be observed by
7108 later loads during speculative execution. The idea
7109 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
7110 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
7111 end of a particular speculation execution window.
7112
7113 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
7114 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
7115 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
7116 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
7117
7118 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
7119 Bypass optimization is used.
7120
7121 On x86 the options are:
7122
7123 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
7124 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
7125 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
7126 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
7127 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
7128 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
7129 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
7130 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
7131 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
7132 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
7133 for a process by default. The state of the control
7134 is inherited on fork.
7135 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
7136 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
7137
7138 Default mitigations:
7139 X86: "prctl"
7140
7141 On powerpc the options are:
7142
7143 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
7144 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
7145 perform a software flush on kernel entry and
7146 exit.
7147 off - No action.
7148
7149 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
7150 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
7151
7152 split_lock_detect=
7153 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
7154
7155 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
7156 instructions that access data across cache line
7157 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
7158 for split lock detection or a debug exception for
7159 bus lock detection.
7160
7161 off - not enabled
7162
7163 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
7164 about applications triggering the #AC
7165 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
7166 the default on CPUs that support split lock
7167 detection or bus lock detection. Default
7168 behavior is by #AC if both features are
7169 enabled in hardware.
7170
7171 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
7172 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
7173 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
7174 both features are enabled in hardware.
7175
7176 ratelimit:N -
7177 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
7178 per second for bus lock detection.
7179 0 < N <= 1000.
7180
7181 N/A for split lock detection.
7182
7183
7184 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
7185 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
7186 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
7187 mode.
7188
7189 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
7190 CPL > 0.
7191
7192 srbds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY]
7193 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
7194 (SRBDS) mitigation.
7195
7196 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
7197 exploit which can leak bits from the random
7198 number generator.
7199
7200 By default, this issue is mitigated by
7201 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause
7202 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
7203 much slower. Among other effects, this will
7204 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
7205
7206 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
7207 the following option:
7208
7209 off: Disable mitigation and remove
7210 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
7211
7212 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
7213 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
7214 large system, such that srcu_struct structures
7215 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
7216 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
7217 but takes effect only when the low-order four
7218 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
7219 (decide at boot).
7220
7221 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
7222 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
7223 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
7224 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
7225
7226 0: Never.
7227 1: At init_srcu_struct() time.
7228 2: When rcutorture decides to.
7229 3: Decide at boot time (default).
7230 0x1X: Above plus if high contention.
7231
7232 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
7233 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
7234 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
7235
7236 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
7237 Specifies how frequently to check for
7238 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
7239 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
7240 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
7241 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
7242 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
7243 are ignored.
7244
7245 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
7246 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
7247 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
7248 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
7249 grace period will be considered for automatic
7250 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
7251 expediting.
7252
7253 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL]
7254 Specifies the number of no-delay instances
7255 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period
7256 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero
7257 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will
7258 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy.
7259
7260 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL]
7261 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
7262 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
7263 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled
7264 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each
7265 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase.
7266
7267 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL]
7268 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
7269 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
7270
7271 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
7272 Specifies the number of update-side contention
7273 events per jiffy will be tolerated before
7274 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
7275 structure to big form. Note that the value of
7276 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
7277 set for contention-based conversions to occur.
7278
7279 ssbd= [ARM64,HW,EARLY]
7280 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
7281
7282 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
7283 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
7284 firmware based mitigation, this parameter
7285 indicates how the mitigation should be used:
7286
7287 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
7288 for both kernel and userspace
7289 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
7290 for both kernel and userspace
7291 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
7292 kernel, and offer a prctl interface
7293 to allow userspace to register its
7294 interest in being mitigated too.
7295
7296 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
7297 override the default stack gap protection. The value
7298 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
7299 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
7300 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
7301 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
7302
7303 stack_depot_disable= [KNL,EARLY]
7304 Setting this to true through kernel command line will
7305 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
7306 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
7307 to false.
7308
7309 stack_depot_max_pools= [KNL,EARLY]
7310 Specify the maximum number of pools to use for storing
7311 stack traces. Pools are allocated on-demand up to this
7312 limit. Default value is 8191 pools.
7313
7314 stacktrace [FTRACE]
7315 Enable the stack tracer on boot up.
7316
7317 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
7318 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
7319 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
7320 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
7321 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
7322 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
7323 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
7324
7325 sti= [PARISC,HW]
7326 Format: <num>
7327 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
7328 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
7329 as the initial boot-console.
7330 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
7331
7332 sti_font= [HW]
7333 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
7334
7335 stifb= [HW]
7336 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
7337
7338 strict_sas_size=
7339 [X86]
7340 Format: <bool>
7341 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
7342 against the required signal frame size which
7343 depends on the supported FPU features. This can
7344 be used to filter out binaries which have
7345 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
7346
7347 stress_hpt [PPC,EARLY]
7348 Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash
7349 page table to increase the rate of hash page table
7350 faults on kernel addresses.
7351
7352 stress_slb [PPC,EARLY]
7353 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
7354 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
7355 on kernel addresses.
7356
7357 no_slb_preload [PPC,EARLY]
7358 Disables slb preloading for userspace.
7359
7360 sunrpc.min_resvport=
7361 sunrpc.max_resvport=
7362 [NFS,SUNRPC]
7363 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
7364 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
7365 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
7366 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
7367 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
7368 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
7369 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
7370 maximum port values.
7371
7372 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
7373 [NFS,SUNRPC]
7374 Limit the number of requests that the server will
7375 process in parallel from a single connection.
7376 The default value is 0 (no limit).
7377
7378 sunrpc.pool_mode=
7379 [NFS]
7380 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
7381 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
7382 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
7383 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
7384 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
7385 NFS server is running.
7386
7387 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
7388 automatically using heuristics
7389 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
7390 percpu one pool for each CPU
7391 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
7392 to global on non-NUMA machines)
7393
7394 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
7395 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
7396 [NFS,SUNRPC]
7397 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
7398 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
7399 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
7400 improve throughput, but will also increase the
7401 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
7402
7403 suspend.pm_test_delay=
7404 [SUSPEND]
7405 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
7406 mode before resuming the system (see
7407 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
7408 is set. Default value is 5.
7409
7410 svm= [PPC]
7411 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
7412 This parameter controls use of the Protected
7413 Execution Facility on pSeries.
7414
7415 swiotlb= [ARM,PPC,MIPS,X86,S390,EARLY]
7416 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce }
7417 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
7418 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
7419 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up
7420 to a power of 2.
7421 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
7422 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
7423 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
7424
7425 switches= [HW,M68k,EARLY]
7426
7427 sysctl.*= [KNL]
7428 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
7429 process, as if the value was written to the respective
7430 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
7431 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
7432 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
7433 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
7434 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
7435
7436 sysrq_always_enabled
7437 [KNL]
7438 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
7439 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
7440 Useful for debugging.
7441
7442 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
7443 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
7444 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
7445 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
7446 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
7447 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
7448
7449 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
7450
7451 test_suspend= [SUSPEND]
7452 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
7453 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
7454 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
7455 as the system sleep state during system startup with
7456 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
7457 The system is woken from this state using a
7458 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
7459
7460 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
7461 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
7462
7463 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
7464 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
7465 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
7466
7467 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
7468 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
7469 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
7470
7471 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
7472 1: disable ACPI thermal control
7473
7474 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
7475 -1: disable all passive trip points
7476 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
7477 value
7478
7479 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
7480 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
7481 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
7482 0: no polling (default)
7483
7484 thp_anon= [KNL]
7485 Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<state>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<state>
7486 state is one of "always", "madvise", "never" or "inherit".
7487 Control the default behavior of the system with respect
7488 to anonymous transparent hugepages.
7489 Can be used multiple times for multiple anon THP sizes.
7490 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more
7491 details.
7492
7493 threadirqs [KNL,EARLY]
7494 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
7495 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
7496
7497 thp_shmem= [KNL]
7498 Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<policy>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<policy>
7499 Control the default policy of each hugepage size for the
7500 internal shmem mount. <policy> is one of policies available
7501 for the shmem mount ("always", "inherit", "never", "within_size",
7502 and "advise").
7503 It can be used multiple times for multiple shmem THP sizes.
7504 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more
7505 details.
7506
7507 topology= [S390,EARLY]
7508 Format: {off | on}
7509 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
7510 topology information if the hardware supports this.
7511 The scheduler will make use of this information and
7512 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
7513 Default is on.
7514
7515 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
7516 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
7517 until after init has spawned.
7518
7519 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
7520 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
7521 even if there were no errors. This can be a
7522 very costly operation when many torture tests
7523 are running concurrently, especially on systems
7524 with rotating-rust storage.
7525
7526 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
7527 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
7528 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero
7529 disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
7530
7531 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
7532 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
7533
7534 tpm.disable_pcr_integrity= [HW,TPM]
7535 Do not protect PCR registers from unintended physical
7536 access, or interposers in the bus by the means of
7537 having an integrity protected session wrapped around
7538 TPM2_PCR_Extend command. Consider this in a situation
7539 where TPM is heavily utilized by IMA, thus protection
7540 causing a major performance hit, and the space where
7541 machines are deployed is by other means guarded.
7542
7543 tpm_crb_ffa.busy_timeout_ms= [ARM64,TPM]
7544 Maximum time in milliseconds to retry sending a message
7545 to the TPM service before giving up. This parameter controls
7546 how long the system will continue retrying when the TPM
7547 service is busy.
7548 Format: <unsigned int>
7549 Default: 2000 (2 seconds)
7550
7551 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
7552 Format: integer pcr id
7553 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
7554 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
7555 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
7556 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
7557 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
7558 are saved.
7559
7560 tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM]
7561 Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer
7562 for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false
7563 (0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces
7564 defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see
7565 https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/
7566
7567 tp_printk [FTRACE]
7568 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
7569 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
7570 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
7571 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
7572 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
7573
7574 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
7575 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
7576 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
7577 tp_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
7578
7579 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
7580 to stop the printing of events to console at
7581 late_initcall_sync.
7582
7583 ** CAUTION **
7584
7585 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
7586 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
7587 the system to live lock.
7588
7589 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
7590 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
7591 on the console. It may be useful to only include the
7592 printing of events during boot up, as user space may
7593 make the system inoperable.
7594
7595 This command line option will stop the printing of events
7596 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
7597
7598 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
7599 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
7600
7601 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
7602 at boot up.
7603 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
7604 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
7605 depending on the architecture, may not be
7606 in sync between CPUs.
7607 global - Event time stamps are synchronized across
7608 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
7609 but better for some race conditions.
7610 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
7611 note, some counts may be skipped due to the
7612 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
7613 once per event.
7614 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
7615 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
7616 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
7617 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
7618 stamps.
7619 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
7620 Architectures may add more clocks. See
7621 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
7622
7623 trace_event=[event-list]
7624 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
7625 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
7626 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
7627 also Documentation/trace/events.rst
7628
7629 To enable modules, use :mod: keyword:
7630
7631 trace_event=:mod:<module>
7632
7633 The value before :mod: will only enable specific events
7634 that are part of the module. See the above mentioned
7635 document for more information.
7636
7637 trace_instance=[instance-info]
7638 [FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up.
7639 This will be listed in:
7640
7641 /sys/kernel/tracing/instances
7642
7643 Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created
7644 via:
7645
7646 trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2>
7647
7648 Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is
7649 unique.
7650
7651 trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall
7652
7653 will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and
7654 the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry
7655 event, and all events under the "initcall" system.
7656
7657 Flags can be added to the instance to modify its behavior when it is
7658 created. The flags are separated by '^'.
7659
7660 The available flags are:
7661
7662 traceoff - Have the tracing instance tracing disabled after it is created.
7663 traceprintk - Have trace_printk() write into this trace instance
7664 (note, "printk" and "trace_printk" can also be used)
7665
7666 trace_instance=foo^traceoff^traceprintk,sched,irq
7667
7668 The flags must come before the defined events.
7669
7670 If memory has been reserved (see memmap for x86), the instance
7671 can use that memory:
7672
7673 memmap=12M$0x284500000 trace_instance=boot_map@0x284500000:12M
7674
7675 The above will create a "boot_map" instance that uses the physical
7676 memory at 0x284500000 that is 12Megs. The per CPU buffers of that
7677 instance will be split up accordingly.
7678
7679 Alternatively, the memory can be reserved by the reserve_mem option:
7680
7681 reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map@trace
7682
7683 This will reserve 12 megabytes at boot up with a 4096 byte alignment
7684 and place the ring buffer in this memory. Note that due to KASLR, the
7685 memory may not be the same location each time, which will not preserve
7686 the buffer content.
7687
7688 Also note that the layout of the ring buffer data may change between
7689 kernel versions where the validator will fail and reset the ring buffer
7690 if the layout is not the same as the previous kernel.
7691
7692 If the ring buffer is used for persistent bootups and has events enabled,
7693 it is recommend to disable tracing so that events from a previous boot do not
7694 mix with events of the current boot (unless you are debugging a random crash
7695 at boot up).
7696
7697 reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map^traceoff^traceprintk@trace,sched,irq
7698
7699 Note, saving the trace buffer across reboots does require that the system
7700 is set up to not wipe memory. For instance, CONFIG_RESET_ATTACK_MITIGATION
7701 can force a memory reset on boot which will clear any trace that was stored.
7702 This is just one of many ways that can clear memory. Make sure your system
7703 keeps the content of memory across reboots before relying on this option.
7704
7705 NB: Both the mapped address and size must be page aligned for the architecture.
7706
7707 See also Documentation/trace/debugging.rst
7708
7709
7710 trace_options=[option-list]
7711 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
7712 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
7713 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
7714 to echo the option name into
7715
7716 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options
7717
7718 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
7719 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
7720
7721 trace_options=stacktrace
7722
7723 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
7724 section.
7725
7726 trace_trigger=[trigger-list]
7727 [FTRACE] Add an event trigger on specific events.
7728 Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional
7729 filter.
7730
7731 The format is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..."
7732 Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma delimited.
7733
7734 For example:
7735
7736 trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2"
7737
7738 The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch"
7739 event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch"
7740 event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE).
7741
7742 See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst
7743
7744
7745 traceoff_after_boot
7746 [FTRACE] Sometimes tracing is used to debug issues
7747 during the boot process. Since the trace buffer has a
7748 limited amount of storage, it may be prudent to
7749 disable tracing after the boot is finished, otherwise
7750 the critical information may be overwritten. With this
7751 option, the main tracing buffer will be turned off at
7752 the end of the boot process.
7753
7754 traceoff_on_warning
7755 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
7756 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
7757 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
7758 file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/
7759
7760 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
7761 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
7762 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
7763
7764 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
7765 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
7766
7767 transparent_hugepage=
7768 [KNL]
7769 Format: [always|madvise|never]
7770 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
7771 with respect to transparent hugepages.
7772 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7773 for more details.
7774
7775 transparent_hugepage_shmem= [KNL]
7776 Format: [always|within_size|advise|never|deny|force]
7777 Can be used to control the hugepage allocation policy for
7778 the internal shmem mount.
7779 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7780 for more details.
7781
7782 transparent_hugepage_tmpfs= [KNL]
7783 Format: [always|within_size|advise|never]
7784 Can be used to control the default hugepage allocation policy
7785 for the tmpfs mount.
7786 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7787 for more details.
7788
7789 trusted.source= [KEYS]
7790 Format: <string>
7791 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
7792 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
7793 sources:
7794 - "tpm"
7795 - "tee"
7796 - "caam"
7797 - "dcp"
7798 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
7799 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
7800 first trust source as a backend which is initialized
7801 successfully during iteration.
7802
7803 trusted.rng= [KEYS]
7804 Format: <string>
7805 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
7806 Can be one of:
7807 - "kernel"
7808 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
7809 - "default"
7810 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
7811 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
7812
7813 trusted.dcp_use_otp_key
7814 This is intended to be used in combination with
7815 trusted.source=dcp and will select the DCP OTP key
7816 instead of the DCP UNIQUE key blob encryption.
7817
7818 trusted.dcp_skip_zk_test
7819 This is intended to be used in combination with
7820 trusted.source=dcp and will disable the check if the
7821 blob key is all zeros. This is helpful for situations where
7822 having this key zero'ed is acceptable. E.g. in testing
7823 scenarios.
7824
7825 tsa= [X86] Control mitigation for Transient Scheduler
7826 Attacks on AMD CPUs. Search the following in your
7827 favourite search engine for more details:
7828
7829 "Technical guidance for mitigating transient scheduler
7830 attacks".
7831
7832 off - disable the mitigation
7833 on - enable the mitigation (default)
7834 user - mitigate only user/kernel transitions
7835 vm - mitigate only guest/host transitions
7836
7837
7838 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
7839 Format: <string>
7840 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
7841 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
7842 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
7843 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
7844 virtualized environment.
7845 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
7846 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
7847 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
7848 can add overhead.
7849 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
7850 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
7851 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
7852 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
7853 in situations with strict latency requirements (where
7854 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
7855 acceptable).
7856 [x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer
7857 (HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was
7858 obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15).
7859 Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm.
7860 [x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with
7861 which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but
7862 only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy.
7863 This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and
7864 can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog. A console
7865 message will flag any such suppression or overriding.
7866
7867 tsc_early_khz= [X86,EARLY] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
7868 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
7869 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
7870 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
7871 Format: <unsigned int>
7872
7873 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
7874 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
7875 support TSX control.
7876
7877 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
7878
7879 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
7880 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
7881 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
7882 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
7883 so there may be unknown security risks associated
7884 with leaving it enabled.
7885
7886 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
7887 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
7888 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
7889 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
7890 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
7891 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
7892 deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
7893
7894 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
7895 otherwise enable TSX on the system.
7896
7897 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
7898
7899 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
7900 for more details.
7901
7902 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
7903 Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
7904
7905 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
7906 certain CPUs that support Transactional
7907 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
7908 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
7909 information to a disclosure gadget under certain
7910 conditions.
7911
7912 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
7913 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
7914 access data to which the attacker does not have direct
7915 access.
7916
7917 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The
7918 options are:
7919
7920 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
7921 if TSX is enabled.
7922
7923 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
7924 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
7925 is not disabled because CPU is not
7926 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
7927 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
7928
7929 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
7930 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
7931 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
7932 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
7933
7934 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
7935 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected
7936 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
7937 required and doesn't provide any additional
7938 mitigation.
7939
7940 For details see:
7941 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
7942
7943 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
7944 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
7945 Format:
7946 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
7947 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
7948
7949 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
7950 happen after console_init() and before a proper
7951 console driver takes over, this boot options might
7952 help "seeing" what's going on.
7953
7954 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
7955 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
7956
7957 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
7958 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
7959 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
7960 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
7961 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
7962 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
7963 reported either.
7964
7965 unaligned_scalar_speed=
7966 [RISCV]
7967 Format: {slow | fast | unsupported}
7968 Allow skipping scalar unaligned access speed tests. This
7969 is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip
7970 the tests in environments where they run too slowly. All
7971 CPUs must have the same scalar unaligned access speed.
7972
7973 unaligned_vector_speed=
7974 [RISCV]
7975 Format: {slow | fast | unsupported}
7976 Allow skipping vector unaligned access speed tests. This
7977 is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip
7978 the tests in environments where they run too slowly. All
7979 CPUs must have the same vector unaligned access speed.
7980
7981 unknown_nmi_panic
7982 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
7983
7984 unwind_debug [X86-64,EARLY]
7985 Enable unwinder debug output. This can be
7986 useful for debugging certain unwinder error
7987 conditions, including corrupt stacks and
7988 bad/missing unwinder metadata.
7989
7990 usbcore.authorized_default=
7991 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
7992 (default -1 = authorized (same as 1),
7993 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
7994 if device connected to internal port)
7995
7996 usbcore.autosuspend=
7997 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
7998 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
7999 is the time required before an idle device will be
8000 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
8001 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
8002
8003 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
8004 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
8005
8006 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
8007 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
8008 (default = 65536).
8009
8010 usbcore.blinkenlights=
8011 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
8012
8013 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
8014 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
8015 scheme (default 0 = off).
8016
8017 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
8018 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
8019 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
8020
8021 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
8022 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
8023 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
8024
8025 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
8026 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
8027 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
8028 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
8029
8030 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
8031
8032 usbcore.quirks=
8033 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
8034 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
8035 commas. Each entry has the form
8036 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
8037 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
8038 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
8039 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
8040 the following meanings:
8041 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
8042 descriptors must not be fetched using
8043 a 255-byte read);
8044 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
8045 correctly so reset it instead);
8046 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
8047 Set-Interface requests);
8048 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
8049 handle its Configuration or Interface
8050 strings);
8051 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
8052 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
8053 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
8054 more interface descriptions than the
8055 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
8056 talking to these interfaces);
8057 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
8058 during initialization, after we read
8059 the device descriptor);
8060 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
8061 high speed and super speed interrupt
8062 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
8063 require the interval in microframes (1
8064 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
8065 calculated as interval = 2 ^
8066 (bInterval-1).
8067 Devices with this quirk report their
8068 bInterval as the result of this
8069 calculation instead of the exponent
8070 variable used in the calculation);
8071 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
8072 handle device_qualifier descriptor
8073 requests);
8074 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
8075 generates spurious wakeup, ignore
8076 remote wakeup capability);
8077 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
8078 Power Management);
8079 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
8080 (Device reports its bInterval as linear
8081 frames instead of the USB 2.0
8082 calculation);
8083 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
8084 to be disconnected before suspend to
8085 prevent spurious wakeup);
8086 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
8087 pause after every control message);
8088 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
8089 delay after resetting its port);
8090 p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT
8091 (Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS
8092 request from 5000 ms to 500 ms);
8093 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
8094
8095 usbhid.mousepoll=
8096 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
8097
8098 usbhid.jspoll=
8099 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
8100
8101 usbhid.kbpoll=
8102 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
8103
8104 usb-storage.delay_use=
8105 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
8106 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
8107 Optionally the delay in milliseconds if the value has
8108 suffix with "ms".
8109 Example: delay_use=2567ms
8110
8111 usb-storage.quirks=
8112 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
8113 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
8114 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
8115 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
8116 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
8117 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
8118 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
8119 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
8120 of sense data, not on uas);
8121 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
8122 bytes of sense data, not on uas);
8123 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
8124 device capacity by one sector);
8125 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
8126 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
8127 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
8128 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
8129 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
8130 command, uas only);
8131 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
8132 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
8133 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
8134 reported device capacity by one
8135 sector if the number is odd);
8136 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
8137 device);
8138 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
8139 command, uas only);
8140 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
8141 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
8142 unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
8143 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
8144 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
8145 not on uas);
8146 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
8147 initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
8148 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
8149 reported by the device, not on uas);
8150 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
8151 by default, not on uas);
8152 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
8153 bogus residue values, not on uas);
8154 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
8155 Logical Unit);
8156 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
8157 commands, uas only);
8158 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
8159 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
8160 medium is write-protected).
8161 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
8162 even if the device claims no cache,
8163 not on uas)
8164 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
8165
8166 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
8167 Format: <int>
8168 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
8169 1 - undefined instruction events
8170 2 - system calls
8171 4 - invalid data aborts
8172 8 - SIGSEGV faults
8173 16 - SIGBUS faults
8174 Example: user_debug=31
8175
8176 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC]
8177 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
8178
8179 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
8180 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
8181
8182 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
8183 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
8184 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
8185
8186 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
8187 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
8188 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
8189
8190 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
8191 alias for vdso32=0.
8192
8193 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
8194 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
8195
8196 video= [FB,EARLY] Frame buffer configuration
8197 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
8198
8199 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
8200 Format: [0|1]
8201 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
8202 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
8203 level and then send out the event to user space through
8204 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
8205 will only send out the event without touching backlight
8206 brightness level.
8207 default: 1
8208
8209 virtio_mmio.device=
8210 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
8211
8212 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
8213 where:
8214 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
8215 like K, M and G)
8216 <baseaddr> := physical base address
8217 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
8218 request_irq())
8219 <id> := (optional) platform device id
8220 example:
8221 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
8222
8223 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
8224
8225 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
8226 See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and
8227 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
8228 Use vga=ask for menu.
8229 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
8230 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
8231
8232 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
8233 May slow down system boot speed, especially when
8234 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
8235 All options are enabled by default, and this
8236 interface is meant to allow for selectively
8237 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
8238 debugging features.
8239
8240 Available options are:
8241 P Enable page structure init time poisoning
8242 - Disable all of the above options
8243
8244 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Forces the vmalloc area to have an
8245 exact size of <nn>. This can be used to increase
8246 the minimum size (128MB on x86, arm32 platforms).
8247 It can also be used to decrease the size and leave more room
8248 for directly mapped kernel RAM. Note that this parameter does
8249 not exist on many other platforms (including arm64, alpha,
8250 loongarch, arc, csky, hexagon, microblaze, mips, nios2, openrisc,
8251 parisc, m64k, powerpc, riscv, sh, um, xtensa, s390, sparc).
8252
8253 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390,EARLY]
8254 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
8255 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
8256
8257 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
8258 Format: <command>
8259
8260 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
8261 Format: <command>
8262
8263 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
8264 Format: <command>
8265
8266 vmscape= [X86] Controls mitigation for VMscape attacks.
8267 VMscape attacks can leak information from a userspace
8268 hypervisor to a guest via speculative side-channels.
8269
8270 off - disable the mitigation
8271 ibpb - use Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier
8272 (IBPB) mitigation (default)
8273 force - force vulnerability detection even on
8274 unaffected processors
8275
8276 vsyscall= [X86-64,EARLY]
8277 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
8278 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
8279 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
8280 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
8281 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
8282 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
8283
8284 emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
8285 reasonably safely. The vsyscall page is
8286 readable.
8287
8288 xonly [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
8289 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
8290 page is not readable.
8291
8292 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
8293 them quite hard to use for exploits but
8294 might break your system.
8295
8296 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
8297 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
8298 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
8299
8300 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
8301 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
8302 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
8303 see vga-softcursor.rst. Default: 2 = underline.
8304
8305 vt.default_blu= [VT]
8306 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
8307 Change the default blue palette of the console.
8308 This is a 16-member array composed of values
8309 ranging from 0-255.
8310
8311 vt.default_grn= [VT]
8312 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
8313 Change the default green palette of the console.
8314 This is a 16-member array composed of values
8315 ranging from 0-255.
8316
8317 vt.default_red= [VT]
8318 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
8319 Change the default red palette of the console.
8320 This is a 16-member array composed of values
8321 ranging from 0-255.
8322
8323 vt.default_utf8=
8324 [VT]
8325 Format=<0|1>
8326 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
8327 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
8328 newly opened terminals.
8329
8330 vt.global_cursor_default=
8331 [VT]
8332 Format=<-1|0|1>
8333 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
8334 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
8335 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
8336 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
8337 cursors, 1 will display them.
8338
8339 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
8340 Default: 2 = green.
8341
8342 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
8343 Default: 3 = cyan.
8344
8345 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
8346 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
8347 or other driver-specific files in the
8348 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
8349
8350 watchdog_thresh=
8351 [KNL]
8352 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
8353 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
8354 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
8355 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
8356 seconds.
8357
8358 workqueue.unbound_cpus=
8359 [KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs
8360 to use in unbound workqueues.
8361 Format: <cpu-list>
8362 By default, all online CPUs are available for
8363 unbound workqueues.
8364
8365 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
8366 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
8367 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
8368 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
8369 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
8370 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
8371 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
8372 corresponding sysfs file.
8373
8374 workqueue.panic_on_stall=<uint>
8375 Panic when workqueue stall is detected by
8376 CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG. It sets the number times of the
8377 stall to trigger panic.
8378
8379 The default is 0, which disables the panic on stall.
8380
8381 workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us=
8382 Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this
8383 threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive
8384 and excluded from concurrency management to prevent
8385 them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work
8386 items. Default is 10000 (10ms).
8387
8388 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
8389 will report the work functions which violate this
8390 threshold repeatedly. They are likely good
8391 candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead.
8392
8393 workqueue.cpu_intensive_warning_thresh=<uint>
8394 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
8395 will report the work functions which violate the
8396 intensive_threshold_us repeatedly. In order to prevent
8397 spurious warnings, start printing only after a work
8398 function has violated this threshold number of times.
8399
8400 The default is 4 times. 0 disables the warning.
8401
8402 workqueue.power_efficient
8403 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
8404 they show better performance thanks to cache
8405 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
8406 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
8407
8408 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
8409 were observed to contribute significantly to power
8410 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
8411 power usage at the cost of small performance
8412 overhead.
8413
8414 The default value of this parameter is determined by
8415 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
8416
8417 workqueue.default_affinity_scope=
8418 Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound
8419 workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache",
8420 "numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more
8421 information, see the Affinity Scopes section in
8422 Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst.
8423
8424 This can be changed after boot by writing to the
8425 matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All
8426 workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be
8427 updated accordingly.
8428
8429 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
8430 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
8431 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
8432 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
8433 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
8434 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
8435 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
8436 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
8437 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
8438 impacted.
8439
8440 writecombine= [LOONGARCH,EARLY] Control the MAT (Memory Access
8441 Type) of ioremap_wc().
8442
8443 on - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc()
8444 off - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc()
8445
8446 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
8447 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
8448 supporting x2apic.
8449
8450 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
8451 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
8452 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
8453 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
8454 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
8455 domains.
8456
8457 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN,EARLY]
8458 Unplug Xen emulated devices
8459 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
8460 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
8461 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
8462 nics -- unplug network devices
8463 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
8464 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
8465 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
8466 the unplug protocol
8467 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
8468
8469 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN,EARLY]
8470 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
8471 panic() code such as dumping handler.
8472
8473 xen_mc_debug [X86,XEN,EARLY]
8474 Enable multicall debugging when running as a Xen PV guest.
8475 Enabling this feature will reduce performance a little
8476 bit, so it should only be enabled for obtaining extended
8477 debug data in case of multicall errors.
8478
8479 xen_msr_safe= [X86,XEN,EARLY]
8480 Format: <bool>
8481 Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR
8482 access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The
8483 default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE.
8484
8485 xen_nopv [X86]
8486 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
8487 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
8488 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
8489 has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
8490
8491 xen_no_vector_callback
8492 [KNL,X86,XEN,EARLY] Disable the vector callback for Xen
8493 event channel interrupts.
8494
8495 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN]
8496 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
8497 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
8498 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
8499 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
8500
8501 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN,EARLY]
8502 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
8503 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
8504 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
8505 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
8506 more timer interrupts.
8507
8508 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
8509 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
8510 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
8511 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
8512 started with less memory configured than allowed at
8513 max. Default is 180.
8514
8515 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN]
8516 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
8517 storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
8518
8519 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN]
8520 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
8521 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
8522
8523 xen.fifo_events= [XEN]
8524 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
8525 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
8526 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
8527 fairer and the number of possible event channels is
8528 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
8529
8530 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
8531 Format:
8532 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
8533
8534 xive= [PPC]
8535 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
8536 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
8537 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
8538
8539 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
8540 controller on both pseries and powernv
8541 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
8542
8543 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC]
8544 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
8545 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
8546 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
8547 loads instead, as on POWER9.
8548
8549 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL]
8550 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
8551 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
8552 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
8553
8554 xmon [PPC,EARLY]
8555 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
8556 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
8557 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
8558 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
8559 debugger is called from setup_arch().
8560 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
8561 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
8562 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
8563 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
8564 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
8565 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
8566 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
8567 can be written using xmon commands.
8568 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
8569 memory, and other data can't be written using
8570 xmon commands.
8571 off xmon is disabled.