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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 CLK Common clock infrastructure is enabled.
10 CMA Contiguous Memory Area support is enabled.
11 CPU_FREQ CPU frequency scaling is enabled.
12 CPU_IDLE CPU idle time management is enabled.
13 DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
14 DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime
15 EARLY Parameter processed too early to be embedded in initrd.
16 EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
17 EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
18 EVM Extended Verification Module
19 FB The frame buffer device is enabled.
20 FTRACE Function tracing enabled.
21 GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled.
22 HIBERNATION HIBERNATION is enabled.
23 HW Appropriate hardware is enabled.
24 HYPER_V HYPERV support is enabled.
25 IMA Integrity measurement architecture is enabled.
26 IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled.
27 IPV6 IPv6 support is enabled.
28 ISAPNP ISA PnP code 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 MIPS MIPS architecture is enabled.
41 MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
42 MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
43 MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
44 NET Appropriate network support is enabled.
45 NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
46 NUMA NUMA support is enabled.
47 OF Devicetree is enabled.
48 PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
49 PCI PCI bus support is enabled.
50 PCIE PCI Express support is enabled.
51 PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
52 PM Power Management support 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 NVME NVMe support is enabled
78 USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
79 V4L Video For Linux support is enabled.
80 VGA The VGA console has been enabled.
81 VMMIO Driver for memory mapped virtio devices is enabled.
82 VT Virtual terminal support is enabled.
83 WDT Watchdog support is enabled.
84 X86-32 X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled.
85 X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled.
86 X86 Either 32-bit or 64-bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64)
87 X86_UV SGI UV support is enabled.
88 XEN Xen support is enabled
89 XTENSA xtensa architecture is enabled.
90
91In addition, the following text indicates that the option
92
93 BOOT Is a boot loader parameter.
94 BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor.
95 KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter.
96
97
98Kernel parameters
99
100 accept_memory= [MM]
101 Format: { eager | lazy }
102 default: lazy
103 By default, unaccepted memory is accepted lazily to
104 avoid prolonged boot times. The lazy option will add
105 some runtime overhead until all memory is eventually
106 accepted. In most cases the overhead is negligible.
107 For some workloads or for debugging purposes
108 accept_memory=eager can be used to accept all memory
109 at once during boot.
110
111 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64,EARLY]
112 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
113 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
114 copy_dsdt | nospcr }
115 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
116 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64,riscv64]
117 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
118 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
119 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
120 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
121 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
122 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
123 nocmcff -- Disable firmware first mode for corrected
124 errors. This disables parsing the HEST CMC error
125 source to check if firmware has set the FF flag. This
126 may result in duplicate corrected error reports.
127 nospcr -- disable console in ACPI SPCR table as
128 default _serial_ console on ARM64
129 spcr -- enable console in ACPI SPCR table as
130 default _serial_ console on x86
131 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on", "acpi=force" or
132 "acpi=nospcr" are available
133 For RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
134 are available
135
136 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
137
138 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI,IOAPIC,EARLY]
139 Format: <int>
140 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
141 1,0: use 1st APIC table
142 default: 0
143
144 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
145 { vendor | video | native | none }
146 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
147 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
148 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
149 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
150 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
151 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
152
153 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr [ACPI,EARLY]
154 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
155 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
156 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
157 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
158
159 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
160 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
161 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
162 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
163 This option is useful for developers to identify the
164 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
165 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
166
167 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
168 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
169 Format: <int>
170 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
171 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
172 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
173 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
174 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
175 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
176 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
177 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
178 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
179 debug layers and levels.
180
181 Enable processor driver info messages:
182 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
183 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
184 object while interpreting AML:
185 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
186 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
187 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
188
189 Some values produce so much output that the system is
190 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
191 if you need to capture more output.
192
193 acpi.poweroff_on_fatal= [ACPI]
194 {0 | 1}
195 Causes the system to poweroff when the ACPI bytecode signals
196 a fatal error. The default value of this setting is 1.
197 Overriding this value should only be done for diagnosing
198 ACPI firmware problems, as the system might behave erratically
199 after having encountered a fatal ACPI error.
200
201 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
202 { strict | lax | no }
203 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
204 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
205 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
206 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
207 can interfere with legacy drivers.
208 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
209 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
210 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
211 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
212 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
213 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
214 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
215 no further checks are performed.
216
217 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
218 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
219 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
220 size limitation.
221
222 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
223 ACPI will balance active IRQs
224 default in APIC mode
225
226 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
227 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
228 default in PIC mode
229
230 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
231 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
232
233 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
234 use by PCI
235 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
236
237 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
238 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
239 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
240 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
241 the GPE dispatcher.
242 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
243 GPE floodings.
244 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
245
246 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
247 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
248 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
249 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
250 auto-serialization feature.
251 This feature is enabled by default.
252 This option allows to turn off the feature.
253
254 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
255 kernels.
256
257 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
258 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
259 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
260 installed automatically and they will appear under
261 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
262 This option turns off this feature.
263 Note that specifying this option does not affect
264 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
265 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
266
267 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT]
268 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
269 a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
270
271 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC,EARLY]
272 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
273 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
274 second kernel for kdump.
275
276 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
277 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
278
279 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
280 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
281 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
282 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
283 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
284
285 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
286 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
287 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
288 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
289 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
290 strings
291 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
292 strings
293 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
294
295 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
296 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
297 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
298 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
299 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
300 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
301 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
302 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
303 care about the state of the feature group strings which
304 should be controlled by the OSPM.
305 Examples:
306 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
307 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
308 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
309
310 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
311 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
312 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
313 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
314 multiple times through kernel command line is also
315 meaningless.
316 Examples:
317 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
318 FALSE.
319
320 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
321 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
322 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
323 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
324 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
325 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
326 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
327 there are quirks related to this string. This command
328 is useful when one want to control the state of the
329 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
330 the OSPM features.
331 Examples:
332 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
333 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
334 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
335 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
336 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
337 equivalent to
338 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
339 and
340 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
341 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
342
343 acpi_pm_good [X86]
344 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
345 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
346 and always returns good values.
347
348 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI,EARLY] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
349 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
350
351 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
352 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
353 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
354
355 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
356 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
357 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
358 sci_force_enable, nobl }
359 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
360 s3_bios and s3_mode.
361 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
362 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
363 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
364 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
365 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
366 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
367 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
368 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
369 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
370 s4_hwsig option is enabled.
371 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
372 used (or even warned about) during resume.
373 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
374 control method, with respect to putting devices into
375 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
376 of _PTS is used by default).
377 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
378 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
379 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
380 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
381 but some broken systems don't work without it).
382 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
383 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
384 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
385
386 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
387 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
388 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
389
390 add_efi_memmap [EFI,X86,EARLY] Include EFI memory map in
391 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
392
393 agp= [AGP]
394 { off | try_unsupported }
395 off: disable AGP support
396 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
397 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
398
399 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
400 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
401
402 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
403 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
404 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
405 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
406
407 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
408 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
409 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
410 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
411 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
412 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
413 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
414
415 32: only for 32-bit processes
416 64: only for 64-bit processes
417 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
418 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
419
420 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
421 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
422 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
423 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
424 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
425 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
426
427 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64,EARLY]
428 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
429 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
430 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
431 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
432 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
433 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
434
435 See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
436 information.
437
438 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
439 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
440 Possible values are:
441 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
442 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
443 the system
444 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
445 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
446 allowed anymore to lift isolation
447 requirements as needed. This option
448 does not override iommu=pt
449 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
450 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
451 option with care.
452 pgtbl_v1 - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default).
453 pgtbl_v2 - Use v2 page table for DMA-API.
454 irtcachedis - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching.
455 nohugepages - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables
456 to 4 KiB.
457 v2_pgsizes_only - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables
458 to 4KiB/2Mib/1GiB.
459
460
461 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
462 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
463 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
464 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
465 IOMMU initialization.
466
467 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
468 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
469 remapping modes:
470 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
471 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
472 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
473 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
474 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
475
476 amd_pstate= [X86,EARLY]
477 disable
478 Do not enable amd_pstate as the default
479 scaling driver for the supported processors
480 passive
481 Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver.
482 In this mode autonomous selection is disabled.
483 Driver requests a desired performance level and platform
484 tries to match the same performance level if it is
485 satisfied by guaranteed performance level.
486 active
487 Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver,
488 driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants
489 to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff)
490 to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will
491 calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores
492 frequency.
493 guided
494 Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and
495 maximum performance level and the platform autonomously
496 selects a performance level in this range and appropriate
497 to the current workload.
498
499 amd_prefcore=
500 [X86]
501 disable
502 Disable amd-pstate preferred core.
503
504 amd_dynamic_epp=
505 [X86]
506 disable
507 Disable amd-pstate dynamic EPP.
508 enable
509 Enable amd-pstate dynamic EPP.
510
511 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
512 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
513 Format: <a>,<b>
514 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
515
516 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
517 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
518 connected to one of 16 gameports
519 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
520
521 apc= [HW,SPARC]
522 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
523 Format: noidle
524 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
525 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
526 APC and your system crashes randomly.
527
528 apic [APIC,X86-64] Use IO-APIC. Default.
529
530 apic= [APIC,X86,EARLY] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
531 Change the output verbosity while booting
532 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
533 Change the amount of debugging information output
534 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
535
536 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86,EARLY] External NMI delivery setting
537 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
538 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
539 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
540 backup of CPU 0
541 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
542 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
543 shot down by NMI
544
545 apicpmtimer Do APIC timer calibration using the pmtimer. Implies
546 apicmaintimer. Useful when your PIT timer is totally
547 broken.
548
549 autoconf= [IPV6]
550 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
551
552 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
553 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
554
555 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
556 Format: { "0" | "1" }
557 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
558 0 -- disable.
559 1 -- enable.
560 Default value is set via kernel config option.
561
562 arm64.no32bit_el0 [ARM64] Unconditionally disable the execution of
563 32 bit applications.
564
565 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
566 Identification support
567
568 arm64.nogcs [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Guarded Control Stack
569 support
570
571 arm64.nohaft [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Hardware managed Access
572 Flag for Table descriptors support
573
574 arm64.nomops [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory
575 Set instructions support
576
577 arm64.nompam [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Partitioning And
578 Monitoring support
579
580 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
581 support
582
583 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
584 support
585
586 arm64.nosme [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix
587 Extension support
588
589 arm64.nosve [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector
590 Extension support
591
592 arm64.nowfxt [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Wait For Event with
593 Timeout and Wait For Interrupt with Timeout support
594
595 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
596
597 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
598
599 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
600 EzKey and similar keyboards
601
602 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
603
604 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
605 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
606
607 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
608 keyboards
609
610 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
611 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
612
613 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
614 Use software keyboard repeat
615
616 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
617 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
618 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
619 enabled until the next reboot
620 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
621 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
622 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
623 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
624 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
625 userspace auditd.
626 Default: unset
627
628 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
629 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
630 Default: 64
631
632 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
633 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
634 Format: { "0" | "1" }
635 0 - Disable the BAU.
636 1 - Enable the BAU.
637 unset - Disable the BAU.
638
639 bdev_allow_write_mounted=
640 Format: <bool>
641 Control the ability to open a mounted block device
642 for writing, i.e., allow / disallow writes that bypass
643 the FS. This was implemented as a means to prevent
644 fuzzers from crashing the kernel by overwriting the
645 metadata underneath a mounted FS without its awareness.
646 This also prevents destructive formatting of mounted
647 filesystems by naive storage tooling that don't use
648 O_EXCL. Default is Y and can be changed through the
649 Kconfig option CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED.
650
651 bert_disable [ACPI]
652 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
653
654 bgrt_disable [ACPI,X86,EARLY]
655 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
656
657 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
658 embedded devices based on command line input.
659 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
660
661 boot_delay= [KNL,EARLY]
662 Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
663 Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled,
664 and you may also have to specify "lpj=". Boot_delay
665 values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed
666 erroneous and ignored.
667 Format: integer
668
669 bootconfig [KNL,EARLY]
670 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
671 and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
672
673 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
674
675 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
676 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
677 kernel args too.
678 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
679 bttv.tuner=
680
681 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
682 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
683 at a time.
684
685 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
686
687 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
688 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
689 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
690 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
691 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
692 This option provides an override for these situations.
693
694 carrier_timeout=
695 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
696 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
697 it waits 120 seconds.
698
699 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
700 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
701 trust validation.
702 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
703
704 cca= [MIPS,EARLY] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
705 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
706 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
707 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
708 others).
709
710 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
711 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
712
713 cfi= [X86-64] Set Control Flow Integrity checking features
714 when CONFIG_FINEIBT is enabled.
715 Format: feature[,feature...]
716 Default: auto
717
718 auto: Use FineIBT if IBT available, otherwise kCFI.
719 Under FineIBT, enable "paranoid" mode when
720 FRED is not available.
721 off: Turn off CFI checking.
722 kcfi: Use kCFI (disable FineIBT).
723 fineibt: Use FineIBT (even if IBT not available).
724 norand: Do not re-randomize CFI hashes.
725 paranoid: Add caller hash checking under FineIBT.
726 bhi: Enable register poisoning to stop speculation
727 across FineIBT. (Disabled by default.)
728 warn: Do not enforce CFI checking: warn only.
729 debug: Report CFI initialization details.
730
731 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
732 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
733 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
734 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
735 a single hierarchy
736 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
737 subsystem
738 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
739 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
740 created
741 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
742 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
743 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
744 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
745 stall information accounting feature
746
747 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
748 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
749 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
750 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
751 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
752 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
753 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
754 all v1 hierarchies.
755
756 cgroup_v1_proc= [KNL] Show also missing controllers in /proc/cgroups
757 Format: { "true" | "false" }
758 /proc/cgroups lists only v1 controllers by default.
759 This compatibility option enables listing also v2
760 controllers (whose v1 code is not compiled!), so that
761 semi-legacy software can check this file to decide
762 about usage of v2 (sic) controllers.
763
764 cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods.
765 Format: { "true" | "false" }
766 Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS.
767
768 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
769 Format: <string>
770 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
771 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
772 nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting.
773
774 check_pages= [MM,EARLY] Enable sanity checking of pages after
775 allocations / before freeing. This adds checks to catch
776 double-frees, use-after-frees, and other sources of
777 page corruption by inspecting page internals (flags,
778 mapcount/refcount, memcg_data, etc.).
779 Format: { "0" | "1" }
780 Default: 0 (1 if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is set)
781
782 checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
783 Format: { "0" | "1" }
784 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
785 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
786 any implied execute protection).
787 1 -- check protection requested by application.
788 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
789 Value can be changed at runtime via
790 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
791 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
792
793 cio_ignore= [S390]
794 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
795
796 clk_ignore_unused
797 [CLK]
798 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
799 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
800 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
801 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
802 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
803 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
804 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
805 platform with proper driver support. For more
806 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
807
808 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
809 [Deprecated]
810 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
811 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
812 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
813 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
814
815 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
816 Format: <string>
817 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
818 with the name specified.
819 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
820 the platform:
821 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
822 [ACPI] acpi_pm
823 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
824 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
825 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
826 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
827 [MIPS] MIPS
828 [PARISC] cr16
829 [S390] tod
830 [SH] SuperH
831 [SPARC64] tick
832 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
833
834 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
835 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
836 Format: <bool>
837 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
838 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
839 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
840 systems.
841
842 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
843 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
844 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
845 are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
846 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
847 zero says not to check any. Values larger than
848 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
849 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
850 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
851
852 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
853 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
854 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
855 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
856 10 seconds when built into the kernel.
857
858 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
859 [KNL,CMA,EARLY]
860 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
861 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
862 placement constraint by the physical address range of
863 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
864 altogether. For more information, see
865 kernel/dma/contiguous.c
866
867 cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
868 [KNL,CMA,EARLY]
869 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
870 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
871 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
872 specified, the default value is 0.
873 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
874 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
875 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
876 they will fallback to the global default memory area.
877
878 numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]]
879 [KNL,CMA,EARLY]
880 Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for
881 contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA
882 area for the specified node.
883
884 If it is setup together with upper 'cmd_pernuma='
885 (unlikely), its size setting takes priority for the
886 specified numa nodes.
887
888 With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
889 first try to allocate buffer from the numa area
890 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
891 they will fallback to the global default memory area.
892
893 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
894 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
895 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
896 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
897 a hypervisor.
898 Default: yes
899
900 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL,EARLY]
901 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
902 allocations, by default set to 256K.
903
904 condev= [HW,S390] console device
905 conmode=
906
907 con3215_drop= [S390,EARLY] 3215 console drop mode.
908 Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0
909 When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when
910 the console buffer is full. In this case the
911 operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example
912 x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the
913 console output to advance and the kernel to continue.
914 This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270
915 terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal
916 emulator is used, this parameter has no effect.
917
918 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
919
920 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
921
922 ttyS<n>[,options]
923 ttyUSB0[,options]
924 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
925 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
926 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
927 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
928 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
929
930 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
931 information. See
932 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
933 alternative.
934
935 <DEVNAME>:<n>.<n>[,options]
936 Use the specified serial port on the serial core bus.
937 The addressing uses DEVNAME of the physical serial port
938 device, followed by the serial core controller instance,
939 and the serial port instance. The options are the same
940 as documented for the ttyS addressing above.
941
942 The mapping of the serial ports to the tty instances
943 can be viewed with:
944
945 $ ls -d /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/*:*.*/tty/*
946 /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/00:04:0.0/tty/ttyS0
947
948 In the above example, the console can be addressed with
949 console=00:04:0.0. Note that a console addressed this
950 way will only get added when the related device driver
951 is ready. The use of an earlycon parameter in addition to
952 the console may be desired for console output early on.
953
954 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
955 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
956 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
957 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
958 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
959 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
960 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
961 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
962 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
963 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
964 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
965 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
966 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
967 the h/w is not re-initialized.
968
969 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
970 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
971
972 { null | "" }
973 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
974 console messages discarded.
975 This must be the only console= parameter used on the
976 kernel command line.
977
978 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
979 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
980 console=brl,ttyS0
981 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
982
983 console_msg_format=
984 [KNL] Change console messages format
985 default
986 By default we print messages on consoles in
987 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
988 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
989 `printk_time' param).
990 syslog
991 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
992 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
993 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
994 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
995 from /proc/kmsg.
996
997 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
998 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
999 Defaults to 0.
1000
1001 coredump_filter=
1002 [KNL] Change the default value for
1003 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
1004 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
1005
1006 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
1007 [ARM,ARM64]
1008 Format: <bool>
1009 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
1010 0: default value, disable debugging
1011 1: enable debugging at boot time
1012
1013 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
1014 Format:
1015 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
1016
1017 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
1018 disable the cpuidle sub-system
1019
1020 cpuidle.governor=
1021 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
1022
1023 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
1024 disable the cpufreq sub-system
1025
1026 cpufreq.default_governor=
1027 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
1028 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
1029 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
1030
1031 cpu_init_udelay=N
1032 [X86,EARLY] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
1033 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
1034 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
1035 Default: 10000
1036
1037 cpuhp.parallel=
1038 [SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs
1039 Format: <bool>
1040 Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise
1041 the parameter has no effect.
1042
1043 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
1044 Only jump to kdump kernel after running the panic
1045 notifiers and dumping kmsg. This option increases
1046 the risks of a kdump failure, since some panic
1047 notifiers can make the crashed kernel more unstable.
1048 In configurations where kdump may not be reliable,
1049 running the panic notifiers could allow collecting
1050 more data on dmesg, like stack traces from other CPUS
1051 or extra data dumped by panic_print. Note that some
1052 configurations enable this option unconditionally,
1053 like Hyper-V, PowerPC (fadump) and AMD SEV-SNP.
1054
1055 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
1056 [KNL,EARLY] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
1057 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
1058 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
1059 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
1060 is selected automatically.
1061 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] Select a region
1062 under 4G first, and fall back to reserve region above
1063 4G when '@offset' hasn't been specified.
1064 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
1065
1066 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
1067 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
1068 in the running system. The syntax of range is
1069 start-[end] where start and end are both
1070 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
1071 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
1072
1073 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
1074 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range could be
1075 above 4G.
1076 Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top,
1077 so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram
1078 installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated
1079 below 4G, if available.
1080 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
1081 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
1082 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range under 4G.
1083 When crashkernel=X,high is passed, kernel could allocate
1084 physical memory region above 4G, that cause second kernel
1085 crash on system that require some amount of low memory,
1086 e.g. swiotlb requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also
1087 enough extra low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers
1088 for 32-bit devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
1089 default size of memory below 4G automatically. The default
1090 size is platform dependent.
1091 --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB)
1092 --> arm64: 128MiB
1093 --> riscv: 128MiB
1094 --> loongarch: 128MiB
1095 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
1096 for second kernel instead.
1097 0: to disable low allocation.
1098 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
1099 or memory reserved is below 4G.
1100 crashkernel=size[KMG],cma
1101 [KNL, X86, ARM64, RISCV, PPC] Reserve additional crash
1102 kernel memory from CMA. This reservation is usable by
1103 the first system's userspace memory and kernel movable
1104 allocations (memory balloon, zswap). Pages allocated
1105 from this memory range will not be included in the vmcore
1106 so this should not be used if dumping of userspace memory
1107 is intended and it has to be expected that some movable
1108 kernel pages may be missing from the dump.
1109
1110 A standard crashkernel reservation, as described above,
1111 is still needed to hold the crash kernel and initrd.
1112
1113 This option increases the risk of a kdump failure: DMA
1114 transfers configured by the first kernel may end up
1115 corrupting the second kernel's memory.
1116
1117 This reservation method is intended for systems that
1118 can't afford to sacrifice enough memory for standard
1119 crashkernel reservation and where less reliable and
1120 possibly incomplete kdump is preferable to no kdump at
1121 all.
1122
1123 cryptomgr.notests
1124 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
1125
1126 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
1127 Format: <dma>
1128
1129 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
1130 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
1131
1132 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU
1133 function call handling. When switched on,
1134 additional debug data is printed to the console
1135 in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that
1136 CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve
1137 the hang situation. The default value of this
1138 option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT
1139 Kconfig option.
1140
1141 dasd= [HW,NET]
1142 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
1143
1144 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
1145 (one device per port)
1146 Format: <port#>,<type>
1147 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1148
1149 debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
1150
1151 debug_boot_weak_hash
1152 [KNL,EARLY] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
1153 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
1154 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are
1155 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
1156 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
1157 insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
1158
1159 debug_locks_verbose=
1160 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests
1161 Format: <int>
1162 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
1163 self-tests.
1164 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
1165 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
1166 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
1167 useful to lockdep developers.
1168
1169 debug_objects [KNL,EARLY] Enable object debugging
1170
1171 debug_guardpage_minorder=
1172 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
1173 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
1174 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
1175 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
1176 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
1177 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
1178 possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2. Setting this
1179 parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most
1180 random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in
1181 kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads
1182 from) a random memory location. Note that there exists
1183 a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy
1184 H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA
1185 (basically when memory is written at bus level and the
1186 CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by
1187 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not
1188 help tracking down these problems.
1189
1190 debug_pagealloc=
1191 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
1192 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
1193 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
1194 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
1195 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
1196 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
1197 on: enable the feature
1198
1199 debugfs= [KNL,EARLY] This parameter enables what is exposed to
1200 userspace and debugfs internal clients.
1201 Format: { on, off }
1202 on: All functions are enabled.
1203 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients
1204 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
1205 or directories within debugfs.
1206 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
1207 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
1208 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
1209
1210 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
1211
1212 default_hugepagesz=
1213 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
1214 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
1215 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
1216 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
1217 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the
1218 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page
1219 sizes are architecture dependent. See also
1220 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1221 Format: size[KMG]
1222
1223 deferred_probe_timeout=
1224 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
1225 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
1226 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
1227 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
1228 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls; a negative
1229 value is treated as an infinite timeout value. If the
1230 timeout hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
1231 successful driver registration. This option will also
1232 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
1233 retrying.
1234
1235 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
1236
1237 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
1238 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1239 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1240 hardware.
1241
1242 dell_smm_hwmon.force=
1243 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
1244 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
1245 blacklisted features.
1246
1247 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
1248 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1249 (disabled by default).
1250
1251 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
1252 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1253 capability is set.
1254
1255 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
1256 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1257
1258 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
1259 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
1260
1261 dfltcc= [HW,S390]
1262 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1263 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1264 level 1 and decompression (default)
1265 off: No s390 zlib hardware support
1266 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1267 only (compression on level 1)
1268 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1269 only (decompression)
1270 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1271 level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1272
1273 dhash_entries= [KNL]
1274 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1275
1276 disable_1tb_segments [PPC,EARLY]
1277 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1278 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1279 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1280 miss to occur.
1281
1282 disable= [IPV6]
1283 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1284
1285 disable_radix [PPC,EARLY]
1286 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1287
1288 disable_tlbie [PPC]
1289 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1290 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1291
1292 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES,EARLY]
1293 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1294 to workaround buggy firmware.
1295
1296 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
1297 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1298
1299 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY]
1300 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1301 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1302 entry later. This parameter disables that.
1303
1304 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only,EARLY]
1305 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1306 memory out of your available memory pool based on
1307 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
1308 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1309
1310 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86,EARLY]
1311 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1312 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1313
1314 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1315
1316 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1317 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1318
1319 dma_debug_entries=<number>
1320 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1321 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1322 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1323 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1324 architectural default is too low.
1325
1326 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1327 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1328 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1329 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1330 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1331 driver later using sysfs.
1332
1333 reg_file_data_sampling=
1334 [X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data
1335 Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability. RFDS is a CPU
1336 vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer
1337 kernel data values previously stored in floating point
1338 registers, vector registers, or integer registers.
1339 RFDS only affects Intel Atom processors.
1340
1341 on: Turns ON the mitigation.
1342 off: Turns OFF the mitigation.
1343
1344 This parameter overrides the compile time default set
1345 by CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS. Mitigation cannot be
1346 disabled when other VERW based mitigations (like MDS)
1347 are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all
1348 VERW based mitigations need to be disabled.
1349
1350 For details see:
1351 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst
1352
1353 dm_verity.keyring_unsealed=
1354 [KNL] When set to 1, leave the dm-verity keyring
1355 unsealed after initialization so userspace can
1356 provision keys. Once the keyring is restricted
1357 it becomes active and is searched during signature
1358 verification.
1359
1360 driver_async_probe= [KNL]
1361 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1362 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
1363 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
1364 match the *.
1365 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1366
1367 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1368 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1369 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1370 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1371 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1372 An EDID data set will only be used for a particular
1373 connector, if its name and a colon are prepended to
1374 the EDID name. Each connector may use a unique EDID
1375 data set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
1376 data set with no connector name will be used for
1377 any connectors not explicitly specified.
1378
1379 dscc4.setup= [NET]
1380
1381 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC,EARLY]
1382 Format: {"off" | "known"}
1383 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1384 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1385 exists).
1386 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1387 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1388 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1389
1390 dump_apple_properties [X86]
1391 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1392 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
1393 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1394
1395 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1396 <module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1397 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
1398 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1399 for details.
1400
1401 early_ioremap_debug [KNL,EARLY]
1402 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1403 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1404 which are not unmapped.
1405
1406 earlycon= [KNL,EARLY] Output early console device and options.
1407
1408 When used with no options, the early console is
1409 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1410 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1411 the platform.
1412
1413 cdns,<addr>[,options]
1414 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1415 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1416 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1417 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1418 configured.
1419
1420 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1421 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1422 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1423 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1424 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1425 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1426 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1427 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1428 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1429 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1430 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1431 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1432 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is
1433 the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set
1434 to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16.
1435
1436 pl011,<addr>
1437 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1438 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1439 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1440 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1441 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1442 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1443 the device registers.
1444
1445 liteuart,<addr>
1446 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1447 specified address. The serial port must already be
1448 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1449
1450 meson,<addr>
1451 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1452 port at the specified address. The serial port must
1453 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1454 supported.
1455
1456 msm_serial,<addr>
1457 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1458 port at the specified address. The serial port
1459 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1460 yet supported.
1461
1462 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1463 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1464 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1465 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1466 yet supported.
1467
1468 owl,<addr>
1469 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1470 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1471 specified address. The serial port must already be
1472 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1473
1474 rda,<addr>
1475 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1476 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1477 specified address. The serial port must already be
1478 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1479
1480 sbi
1481 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1482 console.
1483
1484 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1485
1486 s3c2410,<addr>
1487 s3c2412,<addr>
1488 s3c2440,<addr>
1489 s3c6400,<addr>
1490 s5pv210,<addr>
1491 exynos4210,<addr>
1492 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1493 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1494 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1495 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1496 Options are not yet supported.
1497
1498 lantiq,<addr>
1499 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1500 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1501 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1502 yet supported.
1503
1504 lpuart,<addr>
1505 lpuart32,<addr>
1506 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1507 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1508 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1509 port must already be setup and configured.
1510
1511 ec_imx21,<addr>
1512 ec_imx6q,<addr>
1513 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1514 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1515 must already be setup and configured.
1516
1517 ar3700_uart,<addr>
1518 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1519 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1520 address. The serial port must already be setup
1521 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1522
1523 qcom_geni,<addr>
1524 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1525 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1526 specified address. The serial port must already be
1527 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1528
1529 efifb,[options]
1530 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1531 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1532 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1533 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1534 mapped with the correct attributes.
1535
1536 linflex,<addr>
1537 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1538 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1539 address must be provided, and the serial port must
1540 already be setup and configured.
1541
1542 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390,UM,EARLY]
1543 earlyprintk=vga
1544 earlyprintk=sclp
1545 earlyprintk=xen
1546 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1547 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1548 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1549 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1550 earlyprintk=mmio32,membase[,{nocfg|baudrate}]
1551 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,{nocfg|baudrate}]
1552 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1553 earlyprintk=bios
1554
1555 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1556 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1557 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1558
1559 Use "nocfg" to skip UART configuration, assume
1560 BIOS/firmware has configured UART correctly.
1561
1562 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1563 takes over.
1564
1565 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can
1566 be used at a time.
1567
1568 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1569 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1570 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1571 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1572 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1573 You can find the port for a given device in
1574 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1575 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1576
1577 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1578 very good.
1579
1580 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by
1581 the real console.
1582
1583 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1584
1585 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1586
1587 The bios output can only be used on SuperH.
1588
1589 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1590 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1591 UART class.
1592
1593 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1594 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1595 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1596 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1597 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1598 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1599 default: on.
1600
1601 edd= [EDD]
1602 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1603
1604 efi= [EFI,EARLY]
1605 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1606 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1607 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1608 debug: enable misc debug output.
1609 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1610 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1611 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1612 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1613 firmware implementations.
1614 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1615 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1616 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1617 memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1618 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1619 reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1620 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1621 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1622 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1623 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1624
1625 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI,X86,EARLY]
1626 The kernel reserves 5KB of EFI variable storage for
1627 safety, because some UEFI implementation may fail to
1628 boot if there's insufficient space in the EFI variable
1629 storage.
1630
1631 Using this parameter, you can use the 5KB reservation
1632 in the EFI variable storage.
1633
1634 However, Use this parameter only if you are really
1635 sure that your UEFI does sane gc and fulfills the spec
1636 otherwise your board may brick.
1637
1638 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1639 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1640 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1641 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1642 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1643
1644
1645 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1646 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1647
1648 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB,EARLY] Allow early kernel console debugging
1649 Format: ekgdboc=kbd
1650
1651 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1652 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1653
1654 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1655 but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1656 very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1657 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1658
1659 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390,EARLY]
1660 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1661 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1662 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1663 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1664
1665 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY]
1666 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1667 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1668 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1669
1670 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1671 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1672 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1673 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1674 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1675
1676 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1677 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1678 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1679 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1680 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1681 Default value is 0.
1682 Value can be changed at runtime via
1683 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1684
1685 erst_disable [ACPI]
1686 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1687 support.
1688
1689 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1690 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1691 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1692
1693 evm= [EVM]
1694 Format: { "fix" }
1695 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1696 current integrity status.
1697
1698 early_page_ext [KNL,EARLY] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier
1699 stages so cover more early boot allocations.
1700 Please note that as side effect some optimizations
1701 might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized
1702 memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process
1703 might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of
1704 memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y.
1705
1706 failslab=
1707 fail_usercopy=
1708 fail_page_alloc=
1709 fail_skb_realloc=
1710 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1711 General fault injection mechanism.
1712 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1713 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1714
1715 fb_tunnels= [NET]
1716 Format: { initns | none }
1717 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1718 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1719
1720 floppy= [HW]
1721 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1722
1723 forcepae [X86-32]
1724 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1725 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1726 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1727 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1728 and may cause unknown problems.
1729
1730 fred= [X86-64]
1731 Enable/disable Flexible Return and Event Delivery.
1732 Format: { on | off }
1733 on: enable FRED when it's present, the default setting.
1734 off: disable FRED.
1735
1736 ftrace=[tracer]
1737 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1738 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1739 boot debugging.
1740
1741 ftrace_boot_snapshot
1742 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1743 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1744 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1745 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1746 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1747 start up functionality.
1748
1749 Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing
1750 instance that was created by the trace_instance= command
1751 line parameter.
1752
1753 trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo
1754
1755 The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger
1756 a snapshot at the end of boot up.
1757
1758 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=2(orig_cpu) | =<instance>][,<instance> |
1759 ,<instance>=2(orig_cpu)]
1760 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1761 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump global
1762 buffers of all CPUs, if you pass 2 or orig_cpu, it
1763 will dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered
1764 the oops, or the specific instance will be dumped if
1765 its name is passed. Multiple instance dump is also
1766 supported, and instances are separated by commas. Each
1767 instance supports only dump on CPU that triggered the
1768 oops by passing 2 or orig_cpu to it.
1769
1770 ftrace_dump_on_oops=foo=orig_cpu
1771
1772 The above will dump only the buffer of "foo" instance
1773 on CPU that triggered the oops.
1774
1775 ftrace_dump_on_oops,foo,bar=orig_cpu
1776
1777 The above will dump global buffer on all CPUs, the
1778 buffer of "foo" instance on all CPUs and the buffer
1779 of "bar" instance on CPU that triggered the oops.
1780
1781 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1782 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1783 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1784 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1785 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1786 tracing directory.
1787
1788 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1789 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1790 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1791 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1792 tracing directory.
1793
1794 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1795 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1796 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1797 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1798 that can be changed at run time by the
1799 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1800
1801 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1802 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1803 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of
1804 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1805 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1806
1807 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1808 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1809 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1810 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1811 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1812
1813 fw_devlink= [KNL,EARLY] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1814 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1815 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1816 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1817 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1818 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1819 clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1820 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1821 suppliers).
1822 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1823 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info.
1824 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1825 but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1826 up (sync_state() calls).
1827 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it
1828 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1829 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1830
1831 fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1832 [KNL,EARLY] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1833 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1834 Format: <bool>
1835
1836 fw_devlink.sync_state =
1837 [KNL,EARLY] When all devices that could probe have finished
1838 probing, this parameter controls what to do with
1839 devices that haven't yet received their sync_state()
1840 calls.
1841 Format: { strict | timeout }
1842 strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to
1843 probe successfully.
1844 timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call
1845 sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet
1846 received their sync_state() calls after
1847 deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by
1848 late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES.
1849
1850 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1851 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1852 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1853 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1854 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1855
1856 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1857
1858 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64,EARLY] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1859 Format: off | on
1860 default: on
1861
1862 gather_data_sampling=
1863 [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS)
1864 mitigation.
1865
1866 Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which
1867 allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was
1868 previously stored in vector registers.
1869
1870 This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode.
1871 The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be
1872 disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation
1873 disabling AVX serves as a mitigation.
1874
1875 force: Disable AVX to mitigate systems without
1876 microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode
1877 mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in
1878 userspace with buggy AVX enumeration.
1879
1880 off: Disable GDS mitigation.
1881
1882 gbpages [X86] Use GB pages for kernel direct mappings.
1883
1884 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1885 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1886 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1887 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1888 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1889
1890 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1891 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1892 android emulator
1893
1894 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1895 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1896 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1897 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1898 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1899
1900 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1901 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1902 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1903 GPT to be used instead.
1904
1905 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1906 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1907 Format: 0 | 1
1908 Default: 0
1909 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1910 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1911 Format: 0 | 1
1912 Default: 0
1913 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1914 Format: 0 | 1
1915 Default: 0
1916 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1917 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1918 Default: 1024
1919 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1920 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1921 Default: 1024
1922
1923 hardened_usercopy=
1924 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1925 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1926 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1927 from reading or writing beyond known memory
1928 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1929 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1930 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1931 The default is determined by
1932 CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY_DEFAULT_ON.
1933 on Perform hardened usercopy checks.
1934 off Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1935
1936 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1937 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1938 backtraces on all cpus.
1939 Format: 0 | 1
1940
1941 hash_pointers=
1942 [KNL,EARLY]
1943 By default, when pointers are printed to the console
1944 or buffers via the %p format string, that pointer is
1945 "hashed", i.e. obscured by hashing the pointer value.
1946 This is a security feature that hides actual kernel
1947 addresses from unprivileged users, but it also makes
1948 debugging the kernel more difficult since unequal
1949 pointers can no longer be compared. The choices are:
1950 Format: { auto | always | never }
1951 Default: auto
1952
1953 auto - Hash pointers unless slab_debug is enabled.
1954 always - Always hash pointers (even if slab_debug is
1955 enabled).
1956 never - Never hash pointers. This option should only
1957 be specified when debugging the kernel. Do
1958 not use on production kernels. The boot
1959 param "no_hash_pointers" is an alias for
1960 this mode.
1961
1962 For controlling hashing dynamically at runtime,
1963 use the "kernel.kptr_restrict" sysctl instead.
1964
1965 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1966 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
1967 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1968 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1969
1970 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1971 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1972
1973 hest_disable [ACPI]
1974 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1975 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1976 logic will be disabled.
1977
1978 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
1979 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
1980 present during boot.
1981 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
1982 no Disable hibernation and resume.
1983 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
1984 (that will set all pages holding image data
1985 during restoration read-only).
1986
1987 hibernate.compressor= [HIBERNATION] Compression algorithm to be
1988 used with hibernation.
1989 Format: { lzo | lz4 }
1990 Default: lzo
1991
1992 lzo: Select LZO compression algorithm to
1993 compress/decompress hibernation image.
1994
1995 lz4: Select LZ4 compression algorithm to
1996 compress/decompress hibernation image.
1997
1998 hibernate.pm_test_delay=
1999 [HIBERNATION]
2000 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a hibernation test
2001 mode before resuming the system (see
2002 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
2003 is set. Default value is 5.
2004
2005 hibernate_compression_threads=
2006 [HIBERNATION]
2007 Set the number of threads used for compressing or decompressing
2008 hibernation images.
2009
2010 Format: <integer>
2011 Default: 3
2012 Minimum: 1
2013 Example: hibernate_compression_threads=4
2014
2015 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
2016 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
2017 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
2018 size on bigger boxes.
2019
2020 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
2021 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
2022 Default: "on"
2023
2024 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
2025
2026 hostname= [KNL,EARLY] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename).
2027 Format: <string>
2028 This allows setting the system's hostname during early
2029 startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname.
2030 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it
2031 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before
2032 any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility
2033 that a process may call gethostname before the hostname
2034 has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling
2035 process getting an incorrect result. The string must
2036 not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually
2037 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise.
2038
2039 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
2040 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
2041 verbose }
2042 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
2043 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
2044 VIA, nVidia)
2045 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
2046
2047 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
2048 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
2049
2050 hugepages= [HW,EARLY] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
2051 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
2052 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
2053 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
2054 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
2055 the default huge page size. If using node format, the
2056 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
2057 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
2058 Format: <integer> or (node format)
2059 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
2060
2061 hugepagesz=
2062 [HW,EARLY] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is
2063 used in conjunction with hugepages (above) to
2064 allocate huge pages of a specific size at boot. The
2065 pair hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once
2066 for each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes
2067 are architecture dependent. See also
2068 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
2069 Format: size[KMG]
2070
2071 hugepage_alloc_threads=
2072 [HW] The number of threads that should be used to
2073 allocate hugepages during boot. This option can be
2074 used to improve system bootup time when allocating
2075 a large amount of huge pages.
2076 The default value is 25% of the available hardware threads.
2077
2078 Note that this parameter only applies to non-gigantic huge pages.
2079
2080 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA,EARLY] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
2081 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
2082 of a CMA area per node can be specified.
2083 The size can be an absolute value (e.g., 2G) or a
2084 percentage of the total memory or node memory (e.g., 20%).
2085 Percentage-derived sizes are rounded down to a multiple of
2086 the architecture's gigantic hugepage size and may become
2087 zero.
2088 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or nn% or (node format)
2089 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] or
2090 <node>:nn%[,<node>:nn%]
2091
2092 The size must be a multiple of the gigantic page size.
2093 When using node format, this applies to each per-node size.
2094 Missaligned values are dropped with a warning.
2095
2096 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
2097 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
2098 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
2099
2100 hugetlb_cma_only=
2101 [HW,CMA,EARLY] When allocating new HugeTLB pages, only
2102 try to allocate from the CMA areas.
2103
2104 This option does nothing if hugetlb_cma= is not also
2105 specified.
2106
2107 hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
2108 [KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
2109 enabled.
2110 Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled.
2111 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
2112 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
2113 Format: { on | off (default) }
2114
2115 on: enable HVO
2116 off: disable HVO
2117
2118 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
2119 the default is on.
2120
2121 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added
2122 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is
2123 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this
2124 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from
2125 the added memory block itself do not be affected.
2126
2127 hung_task_panic=
2128 [KNL] Number of hung tasks to trigger kernel panic.
2129 Format: <int>
2130
2131 When set to a non-zero value, a kernel panic will be triggered if
2132 the number of detected hung tasks reaches this value.
2133
2134 0: don't panic
2135 1: panic immediately on first hung task
2136 N: panic after N hung tasks are detected in a single scan
2137
2138 The default value is controlled by the
2139 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time option. The value
2140 selected by this boot parameter can be changed later by the
2141 kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
2142
2143 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
2144 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
2145 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
2146 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
2147 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
2148
2149 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V,EARLY]
2150 Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
2151 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest
2152 on lock contention.
2153
2154 hw_protection= [HW]
2155 Format: reboot | shutdown
2156
2157 Hardware protection action taken on critical events like
2158 overtemperature or imminent voltage loss.
2159
2160 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
2161 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
2162 registered from board initialization code.
2163 Format:
2164 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
2165
2166 i2c_touchscreen_props= [HW,ACPI,X86]
2167 Set device-properties for ACPI-enumerated I2C-attached
2168 touchscreen, to e.g. fix coordinates of upside-down
2169 mounted touchscreens. If you need this option please
2170 submit a drivers/platform/x86/touchscreen_dmi.c patch
2171 adding a DMI quirk for this.
2172
2173 Format:
2174 <ACPI_HW_ID>:<prop_name>=<val>[:prop_name=val][:...]
2175 Where <val> is one of:
2176 Omit "=<val>" entirely Set a boolean device-property
2177 Unsigned number Set a u32 device-property
2178 Anything else Set a string device-property
2179
2180 Examples (split over multiple lines):
2181 i2c_touchscreen_props=GDIX1001:touchscreen-inverted-x:
2182 touchscreen-inverted-y
2183
2184 i2c_touchscreen_props=MSSL1680:touchscreen-size-x=1920:
2185 touchscreen-size-y=1080:touchscreen-inverted-y:
2186 firmware-name=gsl1680-vendor-model.fw:silead,home-button
2187
2188 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
2189 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
2190 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
2191 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
2192 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
2193 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
2194 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
2195 keyboard and cannot control its state
2196 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
2197 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
2198 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
2199 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
2200 for the AUX port
2201 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
2202 controller
2203 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
2204 controllers
2205 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
2206 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
2207 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
2208 transitions, or never reset
2209 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
2210 1, Y, y: always reset controller
2211 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
2212 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
2213 architectures force reset to be always executed
2214 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
2215 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
2216 i8042.probe_defer
2217 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
2218
2219 i810= [HW,DRM]
2220
2221 i915.invert_brightness=
2222 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
2223 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
2224 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
2225 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
2226 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
2227 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
2228 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
2229 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
2230 value switches the backlight off.
2231 -1 -- never invert brightness
2232 0 -- machine default
2233 1 -- force brightness inversion
2234
2235 ia32_emulation= [X86-64]
2236 Format: <bool>
2237 When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit
2238 syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at
2239 boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation.
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 [ARM64,EARLY]
2262 Format: idle=wfi, idle=yield, idle=nop
2263
2264 idle=wfi: Use the WFI (Wait For Interrupt) hint
2265 instruction in the idle loop. This is the default and
2266 allows the CPU to enter a low-power state until an
2267 interrupt arrives.
2268
2269 idle=yield: Use the YIELD hint instruction instead of
2270 WFI. CPUs supporting simultaneous multi-threading (SMT),
2271 can continue executing another thread when the current
2272 thread reaches the idle loop. This will make the CPUs
2273 eat more power, but may be useful to get slightly better
2274 performance in some applications, since the CPUs will
2275 not enter a low-power state.
2276
2277 idle=nop: Do not execute any idle instruction in the
2278 idle loop. This is useful on platforms where WFI
2279 misbehaves, leading to system instability or loss of CPU
2280 state. This will make the CPUs eat more power, but may
2281 give slightly better performance in some applications,
2282 since the CPUs will not enter a low-power state.
2283
2284 idxd.sva= [HW]
2285 Format: <bool>
2286 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
2287 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
2288 true (1).
2289
2290 idxd.tc_override= [HW]
2291 Format: <bool>
2292 Allow override of default traffic class configuration
2293 for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
2294
2295 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
2296 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed | emulated }
2297 Default: strict
2298
2299 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
2300 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
2301 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
2302 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
2303 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
2304 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
2305 encoding mode.
2306
2307 Available settings are as follows:
2308 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
2309 supported by the FPU
2310 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
2311 by the FPU
2312 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
2313 by the FPU
2314 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
2315 supported by the FPU
2316 emulated accept any binaries but enable FPU emulator
2317 if binary mode is unsupported by the FPU.
2318
2319 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
2320 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
2321 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
2322 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
2323 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
2324 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
2325 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
2326 MIPS64 CPUs.
2327
2328 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
2329 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
2330 except where unsupported by hardware.
2331
2332 ignore_loglevel [KNL,EARLY]
2333 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
2334 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
2335 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
2336 could change it dynamically, usually by
2337 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
2338
2339 ignore_rlimit_data
2340 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
2341 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
2342 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
2343
2344 ihash_entries= [KNL]
2345 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
2346
2347 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2348 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2349 default: "enforce"
2350
2351 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
2352 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
2353 owned by uid=0.
2354
2355 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
2356 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
2357 measurements, instead of host native format.
2358
2359 ima_flush_htable [IMA]
2360 Flush the IMA hash table when deleting all the
2361 staged measurement records, to achieve maximum
2362 memory saving at the cost of having duplicate
2363 records across the staged measurement lists.
2364
2365 ima_hash= [IMA]
2366 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
2367 | sha512 | ... }
2368 default: "sha1"
2369
2370 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
2371 in crypto/hash_info.h.
2372
2373 ima_policy= [IMA]
2374 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
2375 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
2376 fail_securely | critical_data"
2377
2378 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
2379 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
2380 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
2381 uid=0.
2382
2383 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
2384 all files owned by root.
2385
2386 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
2387 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
2388 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
2389
2390 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
2391 verification failure also on privileged mounted
2392 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
2393 flag.
2394
2395 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
2396 critical data.
2397
2398 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
2399 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
2400 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
2401 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
2402 opened for read by uid=0.
2403
2404 ima_template= [IMA]
2405 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
2406 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
2407 "ima-sigv2" }
2408 Default: "ima-ng"
2409
2410 ima_template_fmt=
2411 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
2412 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
2413
2414 ima= [IMA] Enable or disable IMA
2415 Format: { "off" | "on" }
2416 Default: "on"
2417 Note that disabling IMA is limited to kdump kernel.
2418
2419 indirect_target_selection= [X86,Intel] Mitigation control for Indirect
2420 Target Selection(ITS) bug in Intel CPUs. Updated
2421 microcode is also required for a fix in IBPB.
2422
2423 on: Enable mitigation (default).
2424 off: Disable mitigation.
2425 force: Force the ITS bug and deploy default
2426 mitigation.
2427 vmexit: Only deploy mitigation if CPU is affected by
2428 guest/host isolation part of ITS.
2429 stuff: Deploy RSB-fill mitigation when retpoline is
2430 also deployed. Otherwise, deploy the default
2431 mitigation.
2432
2433 For details see:
2434 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/indirect-target-selection.rst
2435
2436 init= [KNL]
2437 Format: <full_path>
2438 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
2439 process.
2440
2441 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
2442 for working out where the kernel is dying during
2443 startup.
2444
2445 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
2446 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
2447 modules and initcalls.
2448
2449 initramfs_async= [KNL]
2450 Format: <bool>
2451 Default: 1
2452 This parameter controls whether the initramfs
2453 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
2454 with devices being probed and
2455 initialized. This should normally just work,
2456 but as a debugging aid, one can get the
2457 historical behaviour of the initramfs
2458 unpacking being completed before device_ and
2459 late_ initcalls.
2460
2461 initrd= [BOOT,EARLY] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
2462
2463 initrdmem= [KNL,EARLY] Specify a physical address and size from which to
2464 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
2465 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
2466 setting.
2467 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
2468 Default is 0, 0
2469
2470 init_on_alloc= [MM,EARLY] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
2471 zeroes.
2472 Format: 0 | 1
2473 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
2474
2475 init_on_free= [MM,EARLY] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
2476 Format: 0 | 1
2477 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
2478
2479 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
2480 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
2481 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
2482 override in debugfs after boot.
2483
2484 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
2485 Format: <irq>
2486
2487 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
2488
2489 integrity_audit=[IMA]
2490 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2491 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2492 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2493
2494 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2495 on
2496 Enable intel iommu driver.
2497 off
2498 Disable intel iommu driver.
2499 igfx_off [Default Off]
2500 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2501 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2502 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2503 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2504 DMA.
2505 strict [Default Off]
2506 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2507 sp_off [Default Off]
2508 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2509 has the capability. With this option, super page will
2510 not be supported.
2511 sm_on
2512 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2513 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2514 translation.
2515 sm_off
2516 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2517 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2518 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2519 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2520 could harm performance of some high-throughput
2521 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2522 mapping is enabled.
2523 Note that using this option lowers the security
2524 provided by tboot because it makes the system
2525 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2526
2527 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2528 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2529 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2530
2531 intel_pstate= [X86,EARLY]
2532 disable
2533 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2534 scaling driver for the supported processors
2535 active
2536 Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling
2537 governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own
2538 algorithms for p-state selection. There are two
2539 P-state selection algorithms provided by
2540 intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and
2541 performance. The way they both operate depends
2542 on whether or not the hardware managed P-states
2543 (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor
2544 and possibly on the processor model.
2545 passive
2546 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2547 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2548 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
2549 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2550 feature.
2551 force
2552 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2553 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2554 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2555 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2556 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2557 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2558 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2559 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2560 no_hwp
2561 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2562 if available.
2563 hwp_only
2564 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2565 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2566 support_acpi_ppc
2567 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2568 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2569 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2570 then this feature is turned on by default.
2571 per_cpu_perf_limits
2572 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2573 cpufreq sysfs interface
2574 no_cas
2575 Do not enable capacity-aware scheduling (CAS) on
2576 hybrid systems
2577
2578 intremap= [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY]
2579 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2580 off disable Interrupt Remapping
2581 nosid disable Source ID checking
2582 no_x2apic_optout
2583 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2584 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
2585 posted_msi
2586 enable MSIs delivered as posted interrupts
2587
2588 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2589 strict regions from userspace.
2590 relaxed
2591
2592 iommu= [X86,EARLY]
2593
2594 off
2595 Don't initialize and use any kind of IOMMU.
2596
2597 force
2598 Force the use of the hardware IOMMU even when
2599 it is not actually needed (e.g. because < 3 GB
2600 memory).
2601
2602 noforce
2603 Don't force hardware IOMMU usage when it is not
2604 needed. (default).
2605
2606 merge
2607 Do scatter-gather (SG) merging. Implies "force"
2608 (experimental).
2609
2610 nomerge
2611 Don't do scatter-gather (SG) merging.
2612
2613 biomerge
2614 Do scatter-gather (SG) merging. Implies "force"
2615 (experimental). [same as "merge"]
2616
2617 panic
2618 Always panic when IOMMU overflows.
2619
2620 nopanic
2621 Don't panic on IOMMU overflows.
2622
2623 pt
2624 Use passththrough mode by default
2625 (Equivalent to iommu.passthrough=1)
2626
2627 nopt
2628 Use translated mode for DMA by default
2629 (Equivalent to iommu.passthrough=0)
2630
2631 soft
2632 Use software bounce buffering (SWIOTLB) (default for
2633 Intel machines). This can be used to prevent the usage
2634 of an available hardware IOMMU.
2635
2636 usedac
2637 Use the DAC on VIA PCI bridge
2638 (default: disable the VIA PCI bridge DAC)
2639
2640 AMD Gart HW IOMMU-specific options: (CONFIG_GART_IOMMU)
2641
2642 <size>
2643 Set the size of the remapping area in bytes.
2644
2645 allowed
2646 Overwrite iommu off workarounds for specific chipsets
2647
2648 force
2649 Overwrite iommu off workarounds for specific chipsets
2650
2651 fullflush
2652 Flush IOMMU on each allocation (default).
2653
2654 nofullflush
2655 Don't use IOMMU fullflush.
2656
2657 memaper[=<order>]
2658 Allocate an own aperture over RAM with size
2659 32MB<<order. (default: order=1, i.e. 64MB)
2660
2661 noaperture
2662 Ask the IOMMU not to touch the aperture for AGP.
2663
2664 noagp
2665 Don't initialize the AGP driver and use full aperture.
2666
2667 iommu= [PPC/POWERNV]
2668
2669 nobypass
2670 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2671
2672 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2673 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2674 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2675 falling back to the full range if needed.
2676 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2677 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2678 greater than 32-bit addressing.
2679
2680 iommu.strict= [ARM64,X86,S390,EARLY] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2681 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2682 0 - Lazy mode.
2683 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2684 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2685 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2686 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2687 the relevant IOMMU driver.
2688 1 - Strict mode.
2689 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2690 synchronously.
2691 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2692 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2693 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2694
2695 iommu.passthrough=
2696 [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2697 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2698 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2699 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2700 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2701
2702 iommu.debug_pagealloc=
2703 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
2704 parameter enables the feature at boot time. By default, it
2705 is disabled and the system behaves the same way as a kernel
2706 built without CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
2707 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2708 0 - Sanitizer disabled.
2709 1 - Sanitizer enabled, expect runtime overhead.
2710
2711 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2712 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2713 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2714
2715 io_delay= [X86,EARLY] I/O delay method
2716 0x80
2717 Standard port 0x80 based delay
2718 0xed
2719 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2720 udelay
2721 Simple two microseconds delay
2722 none
2723 No delay
2724
2725 ip= [IP_PNP]
2726 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2727
2728 ipcmni_extend [KNL,EARLY] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2729 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2730
2731 ipe.enforce= [IPE]
2732 Format: <bool>
2733 Determine whether IPE starts in permissive (0) or
2734 enforce (1) mode. The default is enforce.
2735
2736 ipe.success_audit=
2737 [IPE]
2738 Format: <bool>
2739 Start IPE with success auditing enabled, emitting
2740 an audit event when a binary is allowed. The default
2741 is 0.
2742
2743 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2744 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2745
2746 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2747 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
2748 Format: <bool>
2749 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2750 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2751 exposed by the device tree is too small.
2752
2753 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2754 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
2755 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2756 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2757 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2758 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2759 LPIs.
2760
2761 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64,EARLY]
2762 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2763 requires the kernel to be built with
2764 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2765
2766 irqchip.riscv_imsic_noipi
2767 [RISC-V,EARLY]
2768 Force the kernel to not use IMSIC software injected MSIs
2769 as IPIs. Intended for system where IMSIC is trap-n-emulated,
2770 and thus want to reduce MMIO traps when triggering IPIs
2771 to multiple harts.
2772
2773 irqfixup [HW]
2774 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2775 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2776 firmware running.
2777
2778 irqhandler.duration_warn_us= [KNL]
2779 Warn if an IRQ handler exceeds the specified duration
2780 threshold in microseconds. Useful for identifying
2781 long-running IRQs in the system.
2782
2783 irqpoll [HW]
2784 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2785 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2786 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2787 firmware running.
2788
2789 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
2790 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2791
2792 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2793 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2794
2795 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2796 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2797
2798 nohz
2799 Disable the tick when a single task runs as well as
2800 disabling other kernel noises like having RCU callbacks
2801 offloaded. This is equivalent to the nohz_full parameter.
2802
2803 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2804 need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2805 workqueue's affinity configured via the
2806 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2807 by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2808
2809 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2810 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2811 be configured manually after bootup.
2812
2813 domain
2814 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2815 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2816 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2817 the domains once isolated through this boot time
2818 configuration. Use cpusets for a dynamic configuration
2819 which can be altered at runtime. For details see
2820 Documentation/admin-guide/cpu-isolation.rst.
2821
2822 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2823 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2824 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2825 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2826
2827 managed_irq
2828
2829 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2830 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2831 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2832 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2833 the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2834
2835 This isolation is best effort and only effective
2836 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2837 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2838 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2839 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2840 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2841 cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2842
2843 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2844 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2845 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2846 only delivered when tasks running on those
2847 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2848 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2849 queues.
2850
2851 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2852
2853 iucv= [HW,NET]
2854
2855 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64]
2856 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2857 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2858 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2859
2860 For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2861 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2862 write the parameter as:
2863 ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0
2864
2865 Deprecated formats:
2866 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2867 write the parameter as:
2868 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2869 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2870 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2871 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2872
2873 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64]
2874 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2875 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2876 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2877
2878 For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to
2879 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2880 write the parameter as:
2881 ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0
2882
2883 Deprecated formats:
2884 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2885 write the parameter as:
2886 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2887 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2888 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2889 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2890
2891 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64]
2892 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2893 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2894 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2895
2896 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2897 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5,
2898 write the parameter as:
2899 ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5
2900
2901 Deprecated formats:
2902 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0,
2903 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2904 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2905 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2906 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2907 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2908
2909 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2910 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2911
2912 kasan_multi_shot
2913 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2914 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2915 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2916 invalid access.
2917
2918 keep_bootcon [KNL,EARLY]
2919 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
2920 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
2921 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
2922 the real console.
2923
2924 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] See retain_initrd.
2925
2926 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY]
2927 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2928 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2929 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested
2930 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2931 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for
2932 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the
2933 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2934 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2935 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2936
2937 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2938 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2939 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2940 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2941 zone if it does not.
2942
2943 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2944 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2945 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror"
2946 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2947 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2948 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2949 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2950
2951 kfence.burst= [MM,KFENCE] The number of additional successive
2952 allocations to be attempted through KFENCE for each
2953 sample interval.
2954 Format: <unsigned integer>
2955 Default: 0
2956
2957 kfence.check_on_panic=
2958 [MM,KFENCE] Whether to check all KFENCE-managed objects'
2959 canaries on panic.
2960 Format: <bool>
2961 Default: false
2962
2963 kfence.deferrable=
2964 [MM,KFENCE] Whether to use a deferrable timer to trigger
2965 allocations. This avoids forcing CPU wake-ups if the
2966 system is idle, at the risk of a less predictable
2967 sample interval.
2968 Format: <bool>
2969 Default: CONFIG_KFENCE_DEFERRABLE
2970
2971 kfence.fault= [MM,KFENCE] Controls the behavior when a KFENCE
2972 error is detected.
2973 report - print the error report and continue (default).
2974 oops - print the error report and oops.
2975 panic - print the error report and panic.
2976
2977 kfence.sample_interval=
2978 [MM,KFENCE] KFENCE's sample interval in milliseconds.
2979 Format: <unsigned integer>
2980 0 - Disable KFENCE.
2981 >0 - Enabled KFENCE with given sample interval.
2982 Default: CONFIG_KFENCE_SAMPLE_INTERVAL
2983
2984 kfence.skip_covered_thresh=
2985 [MM,KFENCE] If pool utilization reaches this threshold
2986 (pool usage%), KFENCE limits currently covered
2987 allocations of the same source from further filling
2988 up the pool.
2989 Format: <unsigned integer>
2990 Default: 75
2991
2992 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW,EARLY] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2993 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2994 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2995 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
2996 optional and is the number seconds in between
2997 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2998 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2999 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
3000 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
3001 the kernel debugger.
3002
3003 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
3004 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
3005 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
3006 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
3007 keyboard only format: kbd
3008 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
3009 Optional Kernel mode setting:
3010 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
3011 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
3012
3013 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW,EARLY]
3014 If the boot console provides the ability to read
3015 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
3016 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
3017 until the normal console is registered. Intended to
3018 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
3019 specifies the normal console to transition to.
3020
3021 The name of the early console should be specified
3022 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
3023 the early console might be different than the tty
3024 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
3025 blank and the first boot console that implements
3026 read() will be picked.
3027
3028 kgdbwait [KGDB,EARLY] Stop kernel execution and enter the
3029 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
3030
3031 kho= [KEXEC,EARLY]
3032 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" | "y" | "n" }
3033 Enables or disables Kexec HandOver.
3034 "0" | "off" | "n" - kexec handover is disabled
3035 "1" | "on" | "y" - kexec handover is enabled
3036
3037 kho_scratch= [KEXEC,EARLY]
3038 Format: ll[KMG],mm[KMG],nn[KMG] | nn%
3039 Defines the size of the KHO scratch region. The KHO
3040 scratch regions are physically contiguous memory
3041 ranges that can only be used for non-kernel
3042 allocations. That way, even when memory is heavily
3043 fragmented with handed over memory, the kexeced
3044 kernel will always have enough contiguous ranges to
3045 bootstrap itself.
3046
3047 It is possible to specify the exact amount of
3048 memory in the form of "ll[KMG],mm[KMG],nn[KMG]"
3049 where the first parameter defines the size of a low
3050 memory scratch area, the second parameter defines
3051 the size of a global scratch area and the third
3052 parameter defines the size of additional per-node
3053 scratch areas. The form "nn%" defines scale factor
3054 (in percents) of memory that was used during boot.
3055
3056 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
3057 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
3058 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
3059
3060 kmemleak= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
3061 Valid arguments: on, off
3062 Default: on
3063 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
3064 the default is off.
3065
3066 kprobe_event=[probe-list]
3067 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
3068 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
3069 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
3070 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
3071 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
3072 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
3073
3074 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
3075
3076 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
3077 Boot Parameter" section.
3078
3079 kpti= [ARM64,EARLY] Control page table isolation of
3080 user and kernel address spaces.
3081 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
3082 0: force disabled
3083 1: force enabled
3084
3085 kunit.enable= [KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires
3086 CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The
3087 default value can be overridden via
3088 KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED.
3089 Default is 1 (enabled)
3090
3091 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
3092 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
3093
3094 kvm.eager_page_split=
3095 [KVM,X86,RISCV] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
3096 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
3097 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
3098 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
3099 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
3100 required to split huge pages lazily.
3101
3102 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
3103 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
3104 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
3105 still be used for reads.
3106
3107 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
3108 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
3109 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
3110 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
3111 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
3112 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
3113 cleared.
3114
3115 On x86, eager page splitting is only supported when
3116 kvm.tdp_mmu=Y.
3117
3118 On RISCV, eager page splitting is supported by default.
3119
3120 Default is Y (on).
3121
3122 kvm.enable_pmu=[KVM,X86]
3123 If enabled, KVM will virtualize PMU functionality based
3124 on the virtual CPU model defined by userspace. This
3125 can be overridden on a per-VM basis via
3126 KVM_CAP_PMU_CAPABILITY.
3127
3128 If disabled, KVM will not virtualize PMU functionality,
3129 e.g. MSRs, PMCs, PMIs, etc., even if userspace defines
3130 a virtual CPU model that contains PMU assets.
3131
3132 Note, KVM's vPMU support implicitly requires running
3133 with an in-kernel local APIC, e.g. to deliver PMIs to
3134 the guest. Running without an in-kernel local APIC is
3135 not supported, though KVM will allow such a combination
3136 (with severely degraded functionality).
3137
3138 See also enable_mediated_pmu.
3139
3140 Default is Y (on).
3141
3142 kvm.enable_virt_at_load=[KVM,ARM64,LOONGARCH,MIPS,RISCV,X86]
3143 If enabled, KVM will enable virtualization in hardware
3144 when KVM is loaded, and disable virtualization when KVM
3145 is unloaded (if KVM is built as a module).
3146
3147 If disabled, KVM will dynamically enable and disable
3148 virtualization on-demand when creating and destroying
3149 VMs, i.e. on the 0=>1 and 1=>0 transitions of the
3150 number of VMs.
3151
3152 Enabling virtualization at module load avoids potential
3153 latency for creation of the 0=>1 VM, as KVM serializes
3154 virtualization enabling across all online CPUs. The
3155 "cost" of enabling virtualization when KVM is loaded,
3156 is that doing so may interfere with using out-of-tree
3157 hypervisors that want to "own" virtualization hardware.
3158
3159 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
3160 Default is false (don't support).
3161
3162 kvm.nx_huge_pages=
3163 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
3164 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
3165 force : Always deploy workaround.
3166 off : Never deploy workaround.
3167 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
3168 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
3169
3170 Default is 'auto'.
3171
3172 If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
3173 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
3174
3175 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
3176 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
3177 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
3178 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
3179 period (see below). The default is 60.
3180
3181 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
3182 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
3183 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
3184 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
3185 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
3186 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
3187
3188 kvm-{amd,intel}.enable_mediated_pmu=[KVM,AMD,INTEL]
3189 If enabled, KVM will provide a mediated virtual PMU,
3190 instead of the default perf-based virtual PMU (if
3191 kvm.enable_pmu is true and PMU is enumerated via the
3192 virtual CPU model).
3193
3194 With a perf-based vPMU, KVM operates as a user of perf,
3195 i.e. emulates guest PMU counters using perf events.
3196 KVM-created perf events are managed by perf as regular
3197 (guest-only) events, e.g. are scheduled in/out, contend
3198 for hardware resources, etc. Using a perf-based vPMU
3199 allows guest and host usage of the PMU to co-exist, but
3200 incurs non-trivial overhead and can result in silently
3201 dropped guest events (due to resource contention).
3202
3203 With a mediated vPMU, hardware PMU state is context
3204 switched around the world switch to/from the guest.
3205 KVM mediates which events the guest can utilize, but
3206 gives the guest direct access to all other PMU assets
3207 when possible (KVM may intercept some accesses if the
3208 virtual CPU model provides a subset of hardware PMU
3209 functionality). Using a mediated vPMU significantly
3210 reduces PMU virtualization overhead and eliminates lost
3211 guest events, but is mutually exclusive with using perf
3212 to profile KVM guests and adds latency to most VM-Exits
3213 (to context switch PMU state).
3214
3215 Default is N (off).
3216
3217 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in
3218 KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled).
3219
3220 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables,
3221 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1
3222 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
3223 for NPT.
3224
3225 kvm-amd.ciphertext_hiding_asids=
3226 [KVM,AMD] Ciphertext hiding prevents disallowed accesses
3227 to SNP private memory from reading ciphertext. Instead,
3228 reads will see constant default values (0xff).
3229
3230 If ciphertext hiding is enabled, the joint SEV-ES and
3231 SEV-SNP ASID space is partitioned into separate SEV-ES
3232 and SEV-SNP ASID ranges, with the SEV-SNP range being
3233 [1..max_snp_asid] and the SEV-ES range being
3234 (max_snp_asid..min_sev_asid), where min_sev_asid is
3235 enumerated by CPUID.0x.8000_001F[EDX].
3236
3237 A non-zero value enables SEV-SNP ciphertext hiding and
3238 adjusts the ASID ranges for SEV-ES and SEV-SNP guests.
3239 KVM caps the number of SEV-SNP ASIDs at the maximum
3240 possible value, e.g. specifying -1u will assign all
3241 joint SEV-ES and SEV-SNP ASIDs to SEV-SNP. Note,
3242 assigning all joint ASIDs to SEV-SNP, i.e. configuring
3243 max_snp_asid == min_sev_asid-1, will effectively make
3244 SEV-ES unusable.
3245
3246 kvm-arm.mode=
3247 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of
3248 operation.
3249
3250 none: Forcefully disable KVM.
3251
3252 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
3253 protected guests.
3254
3255 protected: Mode with support for guests whose state is
3256 kept private from the host, using VHE or
3257 nVHE depending on HW support.
3258
3259 nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested
3260 virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.4
3261 hardware (with FEAT_NV2).
3262
3263 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
3264 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
3265 for the host. To force nVHE on VHE hardware, add
3266 "arm64_sw.hvhe=0 id_aa64mmfr1.vh=0" to the
3267 command-line.
3268 "nested" and "protected" are experimental and should be
3269 used with extreme caution.
3270
3271 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
3272 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
3273 system registers
3274
3275 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
3276 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
3277 system registers
3278
3279 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
3280 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
3281 system registers
3282
3283 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
3284 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Allow use of GICv4 for direct
3285 injection of LPIs.
3286
3287 kvm-arm.wfe_trap_policy=
3288 [KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFE instruction trap for
3289 KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the
3290 CPU architecture.
3291
3292 trap: set WFE instruction trap
3293
3294 notrap: clear WFE instruction trap
3295
3296 kvm-arm.wfi_trap_policy=
3297 [KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFI instruction trap for
3298 KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the
3299 CPU architecture.
3300
3301 trap: set WFI instruction trap
3302
3303 notrap: clear WFI instruction trap
3304
3305 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC,EARLY]
3306 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
3307 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
3308 allocation.
3309 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
3310 Format: <integer>
3311 Default: 5
3312
3313 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables,
3314 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1
3315 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
3316 for EPT.
3317
3318 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
3319 [KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest
3320 state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1,
3321 as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted
3322 guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2),
3323 as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
3324 Default is 1 (enabled).
3325
3326 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
3327 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature
3328 (TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if
3329 hardware lacks support for it.
3330
3331 kvm-intel.nested=
3332 [KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in
3333 KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled).
3334
3335 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
3336 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest
3337 feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default
3338 is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or
3339 hardware lacks support for it.
3340
3341 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
3342 CVE-2018-3620.
3343
3344 Valid arguments: never, cond, always
3345
3346 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
3347 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
3348 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
3349 never: Disables the mitigation
3350
3351 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
3352
3353 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor
3354 Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1
3355 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
3356 for it.
3357
3358 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL,EARLY]
3359 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
3360
3361 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3362 internal buffers which can forward information to a
3363 disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
3364
3365 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
3366 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
3367 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3368 not have direct access.
3369
3370 This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3371 options are:
3372
3373 on - enable the interface for the mitigation
3374
3375 l1tf= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
3376 affected CPUs
3377
3378 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
3379 enabled and cannot be disabled.
3380
3381 full
3382 Provides all available mitigations for the
3383 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
3384 enables all mitigations in the
3385 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
3386
3387 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
3388 sysfs interface is still possible after
3389 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
3390 when the first VM is started in a
3391 potentially insecure configuration,
3392 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
3393
3394 full,force
3395 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
3396 flush runtime control. Implies the
3397 'nosmt=force' command line option.
3398 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
3399
3400 flush
3401 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
3402 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
3403 L1D flush.
3404
3405 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
3406 sysfs interface is still possible after
3407 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
3408 when the first VM is started in a
3409 potentially insecure configuration,
3410 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
3411
3412 flush,nosmt
3413
3414 Disables SMT and enables the default
3415 hypervisor mitigation.
3416
3417 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
3418 sysfs interface is still possible after
3419 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
3420 when the first VM is started in a
3421 potentially insecure configuration,
3422 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
3423
3424 flush,nowarn
3425 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
3426 warn when a VM is started in a potentially
3427 insecure configuration.
3428
3429 off
3430 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
3431 emit any warnings.
3432 It also drops the swap size and available
3433 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
3434 bare metal.
3435
3436 Default is 'flush'.
3437
3438 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
3439
3440 l2cr= [PPC]
3441
3442 l3cr= [PPC]
3443
3444 lapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
3445 disabled it.
3446
3447 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
3448 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
3449 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
3450 Format: notscdeadline
3451
3452 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC,EARLY] trust the local apic timer
3453 in C2 power state.
3454
3455 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
3456 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
3457 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
3458 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
3459 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
3460 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
3461 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
3462
3463 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
3464 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
3465 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
3466
3467 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
3468 when set.
3469 Format: <int>
3470
3471 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma-
3472 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
3473 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
3474 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
3475 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is
3476 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If
3477 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
3478 to all ports, links and devices.
3479
3480 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
3481 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
3482 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
3483 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
3484 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
3485 host link and device attached to it.
3486
3487 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
3488 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
3489 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
3490 The following configurations can be forced.
3491
3492 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
3493 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
3494
3495 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
3496
3497 * Transfer mode: pio[0-6], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
3498 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
3499 allowed.
3500
3501 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
3502 resets.
3503
3504 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
3505 link recovery.
3506
3507 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
3508 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
3509 detection.
3510
3511 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
3512
3513 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
3514
3515 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ on ATI chipsets.
3516
3517 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
3518
3519 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
3520
3521 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
3522
3523 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
3524
3525 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
3526
3527 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
3528 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
3529
3530 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
3531 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
3532
3533 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
3534 identify device data log.
3535
3536 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
3537 purpose log directory.
3538
3539 * max_sec=<sectors>: Set the transfer size limit, in
3540 number of 512-byte sectors, to the value specified in
3541 <sectors>. The value specified in <sectors> has to be
3542 a non-zero positive integer.
3543
3544 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
3545
3546 * max_sec_1024: Set transfer size limit to 1024 sectors.
3547
3548 * max_sec_lba48: Set transfer size limit to 65535 sectors.
3549
3550 * external: Mark port as external (hotplug-capable).
3551
3552 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
3553
3554 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
3555 should be skipped.
3556
3557 * [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access)
3558 support for devices supporting this feature.
3559
3560 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
3561
3562 * disable: Disable this device.
3563
3564 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
3565 the same attribute, the last one is used.
3566
3567 liveupdate= [KNL,EARLY]
3568 Format: <bool>
3569 Enable Live Update Orchestrator (LUO).
3570 Default: off.
3571
3572 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
3573 Format: <integer>
3574
3575 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
3576 Format: <integer>
3577
3578 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
3579 Format: <integer>
3580
3581 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
3582 Format: <integer>
3583
3584 lockdown= [SECURITY,EARLY]
3585 { integrity | confidentiality }
3586 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
3587 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
3588 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
3589 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
3590 to extract confidential information from the kernel
3591 are also disabled.
3592
3593 locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL]
3594 Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock
3595 acquisition. Acquisitions exceeding this limit
3596 will result in a splat once they do complete.
3597
3598 locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL]
3599 Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are
3600 to be bound.
3601
3602 locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL]
3603 Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are
3604 to be bound.
3605
3606 locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL]
3607 Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu()
3608 chains to set up. These are used to ensure that
3609 there is a high probability of an RCU grace period
3610 in progress at any given time. Defaults to 0,
3611 which disables these call_rcu() chains.
3612
3613 locktorture.long_hold= [KNL]
3614 Specify the duration in milliseconds for the
3615 occasional long-duration lock hold time. Defaults
3616 to 100 milliseconds. Select 0 to disable.
3617
3618 locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL]
3619 Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that
3620 locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8
3621 (MAX_NESTED_LOCKS). Specify zero to disable.
3622 Note that this parameter is ineffective on types
3623 of locks that do not support nested acquisition.
3624
3625 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
3626 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
3627 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
3628 number of online CPUs.
3629
3630 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
3631 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
3632
3633 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3634 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3635
3636 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3637 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3638 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3639
3640 locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL]
3641 Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority
3642 boosting. Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost
3643 only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally.
3644 Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an
3645 odd choice, but which should be harmless for
3646 non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling
3647 of preemption. Note that non-realtime mutexes
3648 disable boosting.
3649
3650 locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL]
3651 Number that determines how often and for how
3652 long priority boosting is exercised. This is
3653 scaled down by the number of writers, so that the
3654 number of boosts per unit time remains roughly
3655 constant as the number of writers increases.
3656 On the other hand, the duration of each boost
3657 increases with the number of writers.
3658
3659 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3660 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
3661 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
3662 mode during the locktorture test.
3663
3664 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3665 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3666 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3667
3668 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3669 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3670
3671 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
3672 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
3673 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
3674 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
3675 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
3676 transition abruptly to and from idle.
3677
3678 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3679 Specify the locking implementation to test.
3680
3681 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
3682 Enable additional printk() statements.
3683
3684 locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL]
3685 Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at
3686 sched_set_fifo() real-time priority.
3687
3688 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
3689 Format: <irq>
3690
3691 loglevel= [KNL,EARLY]
3692 All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
3693 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
3694 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
3695 loglevels are defined as follows:
3696
3697 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
3698 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
3699 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
3700 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
3701 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
3702 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
3703 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
3704 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
3705
3706 log_buf_len=n[KMG] [KNL,EARLY]
3707 Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes.
3708 n must be a power of two and greater than the
3709 minimal size. The minimal size is defined by
3710 LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There
3711 is also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
3712 parameter that allows to increase the default size
3713 depending on the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig
3714 for more details.
3715
3716 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
3717 This may be used to provide more screen space for
3718 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
3719 kernel boot problems.
3720
3721 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
3722 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
3723 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
3724 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
3725 specified in addition to the ports) causes
3726 attached printers to be reset. Using
3727 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
3728 to associate lp devices with, starting with
3729 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
3730 that lp device, or a parport name such as
3731 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
3732 port specification list means that device IDs
3733 from each port should be examined, to see if
3734 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
3735 so, the driver will manage that printer.
3736 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
3737
3738 lpj=n [KNL]
3739 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
3740 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
3741 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
3742 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
3743 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
3744 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
3745 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
3746 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
3747 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
3748 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
3749 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
3750 hardware.
3751
3752 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
3753
3754 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
3755 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
3756 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
3757
3758 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
3759 different yeeloong laptops.
3760 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
3761
3762 maxcpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3763 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
3764 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
3765 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
3766 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
3767 only takes effect during system bootup.
3768 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
3769 which also disables the IO APIC.
3770
3771 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
3772 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
3773 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
3774 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
3775 devices can be requested on-demand with the
3776 /dev/loop-control interface.
3777
3778 mce= [X86-{32,64}]
3779
3780 Please see Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/machinecheck.rst for sysfs runtime tunables.
3781
3782 off
3783 disable machine check
3784
3785 no_cmci
3786 disable CMCI(Corrected Machine Check Interrupt) that
3787 Intel processor supports. Usually this disablement is
3788 not recommended, but it might be handy if your
3789 hardware is misbehaving.
3790
3791 Note that you'll get more problems without CMCI than
3792 with due to the shared banks, i.e. you might get
3793 duplicated error logs.
3794
3795 dont_log_ce
3796 don't make logs for corrected errors. All events
3797 reported as corrected are silently cleared by OS. This
3798 option will be useful if you have no interest in any
3799 of corrected errors.
3800
3801 ignore_ce
3802 disable features for corrected errors, e.g.
3803 polling timer and CMCI. All events reported as
3804 corrected are not cleared by OS and remained in its
3805 error banks.
3806
3807 Usually this disablement is not recommended, however
3808 if there is an agent checking/clearing corrected
3809 errors (e.g. BIOS or hardware monitoring
3810 applications), conflicting with OS's error handling,
3811 and you cannot deactivate the agent, then this option
3812 will be a help.
3813
3814 no_lmce
3815 do not opt-in to Local MCE delivery. Use legacy method
3816 to broadcast MCEs.
3817
3818 bootlog
3819 enable logging of machine checks left over from
3820 booting. Disabled by default on AMD Fam10h and older
3821 because some BIOS leave bogus ones.
3822
3823 If your BIOS doesn't do that it's a good idea to
3824 enable though to make sure you log even machine check
3825 events that result in a reboot. On Intel systems it is
3826 enabled by default.
3827
3828 nobootlog
3829 disable boot machine check logging.
3830
3831 print_all
3832 print all machine check logs to the console.
3833
3834 monarchtimeout (number)
3835 sets the time in us to wait for other CPUs on machine
3836 checks. 0 to disable.
3837
3838 bios_cmci_threshold
3839 don't overwrite the bios-set CMCI threshold. This boot
3840 option prevents Linux from overwriting the CMCI
3841 threshold set by the bios. Without this option, Linux
3842 always sets the CMCI threshold to 1. Enabling this may
3843 make memory predictive failure analysis less effective
3844 if the bios sets thresholds for memory errors since we
3845 will not see details for all errors.
3846
3847 recovery
3848 force-enable recoverable machine check code paths
3849
3850 Everything else is in sysfs now.
3851
3852
3853 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
3854 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3855
3856 mds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY]
3857 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
3858 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
3859
3860 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3861 internal buffers which can forward information to a
3862 disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
3863
3864 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
3865 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
3866 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3867 not have direct access.
3868
3869 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
3870 options are:
3871
3872 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3873 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
3874 SMT on vulnerable CPUs
3875 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
3876
3877 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
3878 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
3879 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
3880 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
3881 too.
3882
3883 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3884 mds=full.
3885
3886 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
3887
3888 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON,EARLY] Set the memory size.
3889 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
3890
3891 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Force usage of a specific amount
3892 of memory Amount of memory to be used in cases
3893 as follows:
3894
3895 1 for test;
3896 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
3897 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
3898 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
3899 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
3900
3901 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
3902 high memory is not affected.
3903
3904 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
3905 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
3906
3907 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
3908 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
3909 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
3910 belonging to unused RAM.
3911
3912 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
3913 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
3914 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
3915
3916 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3917 [ARM,MIPS,EARLY] - override the memory layout
3918 reported by firmware.
3919 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
3920 ss[KMG].
3921 Multiple different regions can be specified with
3922 multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
3923
3924 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3925 memory.
3926
3927 memblock=debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable memblock debug messages.
3928
3929 memchunk=nn[KMG]
3930 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3931 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3932
3933 memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable
3934 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3935 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
3936 set according to the
3937 CONFIG_MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE kernel config
3938 options.
3939 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3940
3941 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86,EARLY] Enable setting of an exact
3942 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3943 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3944 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3945 option description.
3946
3947 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3948 [KNL, X86,MIPS,XTENSA,EARLY] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3949 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3950 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3951 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3952 Multiple different regions can be specified,
3953 comma delimited.
3954 Example:
3955 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3956
3957 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3958 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3959 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3960
3961 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3962 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3963 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3964 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3965 memmap=64K$0x18690000
3966 or
3967 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3968 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3969 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3970 will be eaten.
3971
3972 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG,EARLY]
3973 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3974 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3975 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3976 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3977
3978 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3979 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Convert memory within the specified region
3980 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3981 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3982 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3983 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3984 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3985 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3986
3987 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86,EARLY]
3988 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3989 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3990 Setting this option will scan the memory
3991 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
3992 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3993 from using the memory being corrupted.
3994 However, it's intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3995 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3996 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3997 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3998
3999 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86,EARLY]
4000 By default it checks for corruption in the low
4001 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
4002 use. Use this parameter to scan for
4003 corruption in more or less memory.
4004
4005 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86,EARLY]
4006 By default it checks for corruption every 60
4007 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
4008 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
4009
4010 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
4011 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
4012 Format: {on | off (default)}
4013 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
4014 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages,
4015 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even
4016 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the
4017 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a
4018 lot of memory without requiring additional
4019 memory to do so.
4020 This feature is disabled by default because it
4021 has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
4022 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
4023 memory blocks).
4024 The state of the flag can be read in
4025 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
4026 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
4027 the feature is not effective.
4028
4029 mempool_debug [MM]
4030 Enable mempool debugging. This enables element
4031 poison checking when freeing elements back to the
4032 pool. Useful for debugging mempool corruption.
4033
4034 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV,EARLY] Enable memtest
4035 Format: <integer>
4036 default : 0 <disable>
4037 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
4038 performed. Each pass selects another test
4039 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
4040 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
4041 memory contents and reserves bad memory
4042 regions that are detected.
4043
4044 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
4045 Valid arguments: on, off
4046 Default: off
4047 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
4048 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
4049
4050 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
4051 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
4052
4053 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
4054 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
4055 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
4056 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
4057 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
4058
4059 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
4060 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
4061 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
4062 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
4063
4064 mga= [HW,DRM]
4065
4066 microcode= [X86] Control the behavior of the microcode loader.
4067 Available options, comma separated:
4068
4069 base_rev=X - with <X> with format: <u32>
4070 Set the base microcode revision of each thread when in
4071 debug mode.
4072
4073 dis_ucode_ldr: disable the microcode loader
4074
4075 force_minrev:
4076 Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision
4077 enforcement for the runtime microcode loader.
4078
4079 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
4080 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
4081 Default: "0tb"
4082 MINI2440 configuration specification:
4083 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
4084 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
4085 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
4086 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
4087 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
4088 unconfigured.
4089 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
4090 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
4091 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
4092 VGA shield.
4093 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
4094 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
4095 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
4096 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
4097 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
4098 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
4099
4100 mitigations=
4101 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64,EARLY] Control optional mitigations for
4102 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated,
4103 arch-independent options, each of which is an
4104 aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
4105
4106 Note, "mitigations" is supported if and only if the
4107 kernel was built with CPU_MITIGATIONS=y.
4108
4109 off
4110 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This
4111 improves system performance, but it may also
4112 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
4113 Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
4114 gather_data_sampling=off [X86]
4115 indirect_target_selection=off [X86]
4116 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
4117 l1tf=off [X86]
4118 mds=off [X86]
4119 mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
4120 no_entry_flush [PPC]
4121 no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
4122 nobp=0 [S390]
4123 nopti [X86,PPC]
4124 nospectre_bhb [ARM64]
4125 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
4126 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
4127 reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86]
4128 retbleed=off [X86]
4129 spec_rstack_overflow=off [X86]
4130 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
4131 spectre_bhi=off [X86]
4132 spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
4133 srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
4134 ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
4135 tsa=off [X86,AMD]
4136 tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
4137 vmscape=off [X86]
4138
4139 Exceptions:
4140 This does not have any effect on
4141 kvm.nx_huge_pages when
4142 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
4143
4144 auto (default)
4145 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
4146 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for
4147 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
4148 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
4149 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
4150 Equivalent to: (default behavior)
4151
4152 auto,nosmt
4153 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
4154 if needed. This is for users who always want to
4155 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
4156 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
4157 mds=full,nosmt [X86]
4158 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
4159 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
4160 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
4161
4162 [X86] After one of the above options, additionally
4163 supports attack-vector based controls as documented in
4164 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/attack_vector_controls.rst
4165
4166 mminit_loglevel=
4167 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
4168 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
4169 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
4170 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
4171 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
4172 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
4173
4174 mmio_stale_data=
4175 [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the Processor
4176 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
4177
4178 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
4179 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
4180 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
4181 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
4182 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
4183 is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
4184
4185 This parameter controls the mitigation. The
4186 options are:
4187
4188 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
4189
4190 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
4191 vulnerable CPUs.
4192
4193 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation
4194
4195 On MDS or TAA affected machines,
4196 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
4197 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
4198 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
4199 disable this mitigation, you need to specify
4200 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
4201
4202 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4203 mmio_stale_data=full.
4204
4205 For details see:
4206 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
4207
4208 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL]
4209 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value
4210 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous
4211 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable
4212 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the
4213 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe
4214
4215 module.async_probe=<bool>
4216 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing
4217 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a
4218 specific module, use the module specific control that
4219 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both
4220 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are
4221 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for
4222 the specific module.
4223
4224 module.enable_dups_trace
4225 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set,
4226 this means that duplicate request_module() calls will
4227 trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that
4228 if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s
4229 will always be issued and this option does nothing.
4230 module.sig_enforce
4231 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
4232 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
4233 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
4234 is always true, so this option does nothing.
4235
4236 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
4237 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
4238
4239 mousedev.tap_time=
4240 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
4241 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
4242 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
4243 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
4244 Format: <msecs>
4245 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
4246 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
4247 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
4248 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
4249
4250 movablecore= [KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY]
4251 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
4252 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
4253 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
4254 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is
4255 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
4256 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its
4257 own is specified, the administrator must be careful
4258 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
4259 is not too small.
4260
4261 movable_node [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
4262 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
4263 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
4264 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
4265 allocations. Use with caution!
4266
4267 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
4268 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
4269
4270 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
4271 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
4272
4273 mtdparts= [MTD]
4274 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
4275
4276 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
4277 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
4278 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
4279
4280 mtrr=debug [X86,EARLY]
4281 Enable printing debug information related to MTRR
4282 registers at boot time.
4283
4284 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
4285 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
4286 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
4287
4288 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
4289 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
4290 Default is 1.
4291 Large value could prevent small alignment from
4292 using up MTRRs.
4293
4294 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86,EARLY]
4295 Format: <integer>
4296 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
4297 Default : 1
4298 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
4299 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
4300
4301 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
4302 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
4303 at a time.
4304
4305 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
4306
4307 netdev= [NET] NE2000 ISA network devices parameters
4308 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
4309
4310 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
4311 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
4312 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
4313 waits 4 seconds.
4314
4315 nf_conntrack.acct=
4316 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
4317 0 to disable accounting
4318 1 to enable accounting
4319 Default value is 0.
4320
4321 nfs.cache_getent=
4322 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
4323 to update the NFS client cache entries.
4324
4325 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
4326 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
4327 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
4328
4329 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
4330 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
4331 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
4332 requests.
4333
4334 nfs.callback_tcpport=
4335 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
4336 channel should listen.
4337
4338 nfs.delay_retrans=
4339 [NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client
4340 retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error,
4341 after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server.
4342 Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled,
4343 and the specified value is >= 0.
4344
4345 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
4346 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
4347 entries.
4348
4349 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
4350 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
4351 slots the client will assign to the callback
4352 channel. This determines the maximum number of
4353 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
4354 a particular server.
4355
4356 nfs.max_session_slots=
4357 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
4358 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
4359 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
4360 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
4361 Note that there is little point in setting this
4362 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
4363
4364 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
4365 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
4366 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
4367 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
4368 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
4369 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
4370 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
4371 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
4372 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
4373 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
4374 back to using the idmapper.
4375 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
4376
4377 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
4378 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
4379 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
4380 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
4381 UUID that is generated at system install time.
4382
4383 nfs.recover_lost_locks=
4384 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
4385 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
4386 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
4387 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
4388 after the locks are lost.
4389 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
4390 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
4391 parameter to '1'.
4392 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
4393 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
4394
4395 nfs.send_implementation_id=
4396 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
4397 information in exchange_id requests.
4398 If zero, no implementation identification information
4399 will be sent.
4400 The default is to send the implementation identification
4401 information.
4402
4403 nfs4.layoutstats_timer=
4404 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
4405 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
4406
4407 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
4408 whatever value is the default set by the layout
4409 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
4410 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
4411
4412 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable=
4413 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
4414 server-to-server copies for which this server is
4415 the destination of the copy.
4416
4417 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
4418 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
4419 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
4420 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
4421 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
4422 migration from NFSv2/v3.
4423
4424 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout=
4425 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
4426 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
4427 the source server. It caches the mount in case
4428 it will be needed again, and discards it if not
4429 used for the number of milliseconds specified by
4430 this parameter.
4431
4432 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
4433 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4434
4435 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
4436 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4437
4438 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
4439 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4440
4441 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
4442 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
4443 NMI stack-backtrace request.
4444
4445 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
4446 when a NMI is triggered.
4447 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
4448
4449 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
4450 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][rNNN,][num]
4451 Valid num: 0 or 1
4452 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
4453 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
4454 rNNN - configure the watchdog with raw perf event 0xNNN
4455
4456 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
4457 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
4458 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
4459 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
4460 please see 'nowatchdog'.
4461 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
4462 need the box quickly up again.
4463
4464 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
4465 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
4466
4467 no4lvl [RISCV,EARLY] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes.
4468 Forces kernel to use 3-level paging instead.
4469
4470 no5lvl [X86-64,RISCV,EARLY] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
4471 kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
4472
4473 noalign [KNL,ARM]
4474
4475 noapic [SMP,APIC,EARLY] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
4476 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
4477
4478 noapictimer [APIC,X86] Don't set up the APIC timer
4479
4480 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
4481
4482 nocache [ARM,EARLY]
4483
4484 no_console_suspend
4485 [HW] Never suspend the console
4486 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
4487 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
4488 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
4489 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
4490 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
4491 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
4492 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
4493 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
4494 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
4495 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
4496 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
4497 turn on/off it dynamically.
4498
4499 no_debug_objects
4500 [KNL,EARLY] Disable object debugging
4501
4502 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
4503
4504 noefi [EFI,EARLY] Disable EFI runtime services support.
4505
4506 no_entry_flush [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
4507
4508 noexec32 [X86-64]
4509 This affects only 32-bit executables.
4510 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
4511 read doesn't imply executable mappings
4512 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
4513 read implies executable mappings
4514
4515 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
4516 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
4517 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
4518
4519 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
4520
4521 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
4522
4523 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4524 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
4525 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
4526
4527 nogbpages [X86] Do not use GB pages for kernel direct mappings.
4528
4529 no_hash_pointers
4530 [KNL,EARLY]
4531 Alias for "hash_pointers=never".
4532
4533 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
4534
4535 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,RISCV,SH] Forces the kernel to
4536 busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
4537 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
4538 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
4539 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
4540 correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate
4541 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
4542 useful when using JTAG debugger.
4543
4544 nohpet [X86] Don't use the HPET timer.
4545
4546 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
4547
4548 nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
4549
4550 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
4551 Valid arguments: on, off
4552 Default: on
4553
4554 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
4555 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
4556 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
4557 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
4558 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
4559 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
4560 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
4561 just as if they had also been called out in the
4562 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
4563
4564 Note that this argument takes precedence over
4565 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
4566
4567 noinitrd [Deprecated,RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
4568 initial RAM disk. Currently this parameter applies to
4569 initrd only, not to initramfs. But it applies to both
4570 in EFI mode.
4571
4572 nointremap [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] Do not enable interrupt
4573 remapping.
4574 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
4575
4576 noinvpcid [X86,EARLY] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
4577
4578 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
4579
4580 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
4581 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
4582
4583 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
4584
4585 nokaslr [KNL,EARLY]
4586 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
4587 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
4588 Layout Randomization).
4589
4590 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
4591 fault handling.
4592
4593 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
4594
4595 nolapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
4596
4597 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not use the local APIC timer.
4598
4599 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
4600
4601 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
4602 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
4603
4604 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware
4605 sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory
4606 for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will
4607 not load if they could possibly displace the pre-
4608 initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will
4609 be available for use. The respective drivers will not
4610 perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering.
4611
4612 Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging.
4613
4614 nomodule Disable module load
4615
4616 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
4617 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
4618 irq.
4619
4620 nopat [X86,EARLY] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
4621 pagetables) support.
4622
4623 nopcid [X86-64,EARLY] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
4624
4625 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
4626 in some Intel CPUs.
4627
4628 nopti [X86-64,EARLY]
4629 Equivalent to pti=off
4630
4631 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE,EARLY]
4632 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
4633 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
4634 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
4635
4636 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM,EARLY]
4637 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
4638 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
4639 contention.
4640
4641 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
4642 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
4643
4644 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
4645 space.
4646
4647 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
4648 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
4649 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
4650
4651 nosgx [X86-64,SGX,EARLY] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
4652
4653 nosmap [PPC,EARLY]
4654 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
4655 even if it is supported by processor.
4656
4657 nosmep [PPC64s,EARLY]
4658 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
4659 even if it is supported by processor.
4660
4661 nosmp [SMP,EARLY] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
4662 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
4663
4664 nosmt [KNL,MIPS,PPC,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4665 Equivalent to smt=1.
4666
4667 [KNL,LOONGARCH,X86,ARM64,PPC,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4668 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
4669 via the sysfs control file.
4670
4671 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
4672
4673 nospec_store_bypass_disable
4674 [HW,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative
4675 Store Bypass vulnerability
4676
4677 nospectre_bhb [ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch
4678 history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks
4679 with this option.
4680
4681 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC,EARLY] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
4682 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
4683 possible in the system.
4684
4685 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_E500,ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations
4686 for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch
4687 prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data
4688 leaks with this option.
4689
4690 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES,RISCV,LOONGARCH,EARLY]
4691 Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. steal time
4692 is computed, but won't influence scheduler behaviour
4693
4694 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
4695
4696 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for broken
4697 timer IRQ sources, i.e., the IO-APIC timer. This can
4698 work around problems with incorrect timer
4699 initialization on some boards.
4700
4701 no_uaccess_flush
4702 [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
4703
4704 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP]
4705 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
4706 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
4707 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data
4708 without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
4709 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling
4710 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
4711 data will be no longer available. This parameter
4712 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
4713 is set.
4714
4715 no-vmw-sched-clock
4716 [X86,PV_OPS,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized VMware
4717 scheduler clock and use the default one.
4718
4719 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
4720 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
4721
4722 nowb [ARM,EARLY]
4723
4724 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
4725
4726 NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the
4727 LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the
4728 IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR.
4729
4730 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
4731 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
4732 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
4733
4734 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
4735 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
4736 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
4737 performance of saving the states is degraded because
4738 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
4739 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
4740
4741 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
4742 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
4743 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
4744 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
4745 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
4746 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
4747 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
4748
4749 nr_cpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
4750 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
4751 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
4752 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
4753 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
4754 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
4755 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
4756 hot plugging.
4757
4758 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
4759
4760 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86, EARLY]
4761 Disable NUMA, Only set up a single NUMA node
4762 spanning all memory.
4763
4764 numa=fake=<size>[MG]
4765 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4766 If given as a memory unit, fills all system RAM with
4767 nodes of size interleaved over physical nodes.
4768
4769 numa=fake=<N>
4770 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4771 If given as an integer, fills all system RAM with N
4772 fake nodes interleaved over physical nodes.
4773
4774 numa=fake=<N>U
4775 [KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4776 If given as an integer followed by 'U', it will
4777 divide each physical node into N emulated nodes.
4778
4779 numa=noacpi [X86] Don't parse the SRAT table for NUMA setup
4780
4781 numa=nohmat [X86] Don't parse the HMAT table for NUMA setup, or
4782 soft-reserved memory partitioning.
4783
4784 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
4785 NUMA balancing.
4786 Allowed values are enable and disable
4787
4788 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
4789 'node', 'default' can be specified
4790 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
4791 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
4792
4793 nvme.quirks= [NVME] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
4794 nvme quirk list. List entries are separated by a
4795 '-' character.
4796 Each entry has the form VendorID:ProductID:quirk_names.
4797 The IDs are 4-digits hex numbers and quirk_names is a
4798 list of quirk names separated by commas. A quirk name
4799 can be prefixed by '^', meaning that the specified
4800 quirk must be disabled.
4801
4802 Example:
4803 nvme.quirks=7710:2267:bogus_nid,^identify_cns-9900:7711:broken_msi
4804
4805 ohci1394_dma=early [HW,EARLY] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
4806 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
4807 info.
4808
4809 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
4810 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
4811 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
4812 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
4813 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
4814 interrupts *may* be lost!
4815
4816 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
4817 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
4818 For example, to override I2C bus2:
4819 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
4820
4821 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
4822
4823 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
4824
4825 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
4826 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
4827 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
4828 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
4829 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
4830
4831 oops=panic [KNL,EARLY]
4832 Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
4833 process, but there is a small probability of
4834 deadlocking the machine.
4835 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
4836 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
4837
4838 page_alloc.shuffle=
4839 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
4840 should randomize its free lists. This parameter can be
4841 used to enable/disable page randomization. The state of
4842 the flag can be read from sysfs at:
4843 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
4844 This parameter is only available if CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y.
4845
4846 page_owner= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
4847 Storage of the information about who allocated
4848 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
4849 we can turn it on.
4850 on: enable the feature
4851
4852 page_poison= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
4853 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
4854 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
4855 off: turn off poisoning (default)
4856 on: turn on poisoning
4857
4858 page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
4859 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order
4860 Format: <integer>
4861 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
4862 reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER.
4863
4864 page_reporting.page_reporting_delay_ms=
4865 [KNL] Free page reporting delay in milliseconds
4866 Format: <unsigned integer>
4867 Adjust the delay in milliseconds between free page
4868 reporting intervals. Default is 2000 (2 seconds).
4869
4870 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4871 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
4872 timeout = 0: wait forever
4873 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
4874 Format: <timeout>
4875
4876 panic_on_taint= [KNL,EARLY]
4877 Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
4878 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
4879 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
4880 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
4881 called with any of the flags in this set.
4882 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
4883 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
4884 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
4885 bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
4886 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
4887 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
4888 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
4889
4890 panic_on_warn=1 panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
4891 on a WARN().
4892
4893 panic_force_cpu=
4894 [KNL,SMP] Force panic handling to execute on a specific CPU.
4895 Format: <cpu number>
4896 Some platforms require panic handling to occur on a
4897 specific CPU for the crash kernel to function correctly.
4898 This can be due to firmware limitations, interrupt routing
4899 constraints, or platform-specific requirements where only
4900 a particular CPU can safely enter the crash kernel.
4901 When set, panic() will redirect execution to the specified
4902 CPU before proceeding with the normal panic and kexec flow.
4903 If the target CPU is offline or unavailable, panic proceeds
4904 on the current CPU.
4905 This option should only be used for systems with the above
4906 constraints as it might cause the panic operation to be less reliable.
4907
4908 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
4909 User can chose combination of the following bits:
4910
4911 bit 0: print all tasks info
4912 bit 1: print system memory info
4913 bit 2: print timer info
4914 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
4915 bit 4: print ftrace buffer
4916 bit 5: replay all kernel messages on consoles at the end of panic
4917 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
4918 bit 7: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state
4919
4920 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines.
4921
4922 There is an increased risk of losing older messages in
4923 the log. Maybe worth to setup a bigger log buffer with
4924 "log_buf_len" along with this.
4925
4926 Also consider using "printk.console_no_auto_verbose=Y"
4927 if using this along with pstore, to avoid extra delays
4928 due to increased console verbosity during panic.
4929
4930 panic_sys_info= A comma separated list of extra information to be dumped
4931 on panic.
4932 Format: val[,val...]
4933 Where @val can be any of the following:
4934
4935 tasks: print all tasks info
4936 mem: print system memory info
4937 timers: print timers info
4938 locks: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
4939 ftrace: print ftrace buffer
4940 all_bt: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
4941 blocked_tasks: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state
4942
4943 This is a human readable alternative to the 'panic_print'
4944 option above. Please be aware of the caveats using this,
4945 check the 'panic_print' parameter for more details.
4946
4947 panic_console_replay
4948 When panic happens, replay all kernel messages on
4949 consoles at the end of panic.
4950
4951 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
4952 connected to, default is 0.
4953 Format: <parport#>
4954 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
4955 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
4956 Format: <mode>
4957
4958 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
4959 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
4960 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
4961 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
4962 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
4963 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
4964 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
4965 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
4966 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
4967 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
4968 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
4969 are specified on the command line, starting
4970 with parport0.
4971
4972 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
4973 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
4974 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
4975 computer where firmware has no options for setting
4976 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
4977 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
4978 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
4979
4980 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA]
4981 Format: <int>
4982 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
4983 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
4984 has been found at either range. Disabled by default.
4985
4986 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA]
4987 Format: <int>
4988 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
4989 changes. Disabled by default.
4990
4991 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA]
4992 Format: <int>
4993 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY
4994 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first
4995 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
4996 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often
4997 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
4998 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
4999 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
5000 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across
5001 all channels.
5002
5003 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA]
5004 Format: <int>
5005 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual
5006 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
5007 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
5008 All modes allowed by default.
5009
5010 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA]
5011 Format: <int>
5012 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
5013 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default.
5014
5015 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA]
5016 Format: <int>
5017 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on
5018 platform configuration and the use of other driver
5019 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
5020 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
5021 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
5022 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for
5023 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
5024 By default all supported ports are probed.
5025
5026 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA]
5027 Format: <int>
5028 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow
5029 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for
5030 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only
5031 allowed by default.
5032
5033 pause_on_oops=<int>
5034 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
5035 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
5036 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
5037
5038 pci=option[,option...] [PCI,EARLY] various PCI subsystem options.
5039
5040 Some options herein operate on a specific device
5041 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
5042 specified in one of the following formats:
5043
5044 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
5045 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
5046
5047 Note: the first format specifies a PCI
5048 bus/device/function address which may change
5049 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
5050 firmware changes, or due to changes caused
5051 by other kernel parameters. If the
5052 domain is left unspecified, it is
5053 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
5054 to a device through multiple device/function
5055 addresses can be specified after the base
5056 address (this is more robust against
5057 renumbering issues). The second format
5058 selects devices using IDs from the
5059 configuration space which may match multiple
5060 devices in the system.
5061
5062 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel
5063 changes anything
5064 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
5065 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
5066 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
5067 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
5068 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
5069 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
5070 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
5071 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
5072 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
5073 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
5074 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
5075 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
5076 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
5077 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
5078 bus number. The config space is then accessed
5079 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
5080 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
5081 on the configuration access mechanisms.
5082 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
5083 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
5084 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
5085 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
5086 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
5087 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
5088 Configuration
5089 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
5090 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
5091 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
5092 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
5093 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
5094 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
5095 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
5096 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
5097 should never be necessary.
5098 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
5099 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
5100 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
5101 when the system masks IRQs.
5102 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
5103 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
5104 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
5105 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
5106 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
5107 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
5108 on several machines and they hang the machine
5109 when used, but on other computers it's the only
5110 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
5111 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
5112 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
5113 motherboard.
5114 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
5115 Use with caution as certain devices share
5116 address decoders between ROMs and other
5117 resources.
5118 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
5119 expansion ROMs that do not already have
5120 BIOS assigned address ranges.
5121 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
5122 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
5123 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
5124 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
5125 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
5126 this way.
5127 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
5128 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
5129 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
5130 F0000h-100000h range.
5131 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
5132 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
5133 secondary buses and you want to tell it
5134 explicitly which ones they are.
5135 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
5136 numbers ourselves, overriding
5137 whatever the firmware may have done.
5138 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
5139 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
5140 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
5141 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
5142 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
5143 IRQ routing is enabled.
5144 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
5145 or for PCI scanning.
5146 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
5147 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
5148 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
5149 please report a bug.
5150 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
5151 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
5152 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
5153 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
5154 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
5155 If you need to use this, please report a bug to
5156 <[email protected]>.
5157 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
5158 bridge windows. This is the default on modern
5159 hardware. If you need to use this, please report
5160 a bug to <[email protected]>.
5161 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
5162 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
5163 so this option is a temporary workaround
5164 for broken drivers that don't call it.
5165 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
5166 handle more pci cards
5167 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
5168 This might help on some broken boards which
5169 machine check when some devices' config space
5170 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
5171 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
5172 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
5173 This sorting is done to get a device
5174 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
5175 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
5176 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
5177 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
5178 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
5179 supported by all devices below the root complex.
5180 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
5181 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
5182 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
5183 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
5184 or bus can support) for best performance.
5185 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
5186 every device is guaranteed to support. This
5187 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
5188 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
5189 reduced performance. This also guarantees
5190 that hot-added devices will work.
5191 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
5192 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
5193 The default value is 256 bytes.
5194 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
5195 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
5196 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
5197 resource_alignment=
5198 Format:
5199 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
5200 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
5201 aligned memory resources. How to
5202 specify the device is described above.
5203 If <order of align> is not specified,
5204 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
5205 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
5206 windows need to be expanded.
5207 To specify the alignment for several
5208 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
5209 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
5210 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
5211 for 4096-byte alignment.
5212 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
5213 end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if
5214 OS has native AER control (either granted by
5215 ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native")
5216 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
5217 the default.
5218 off: Turn ECRC off
5219 on: Turn ECRC on.
5220 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
5221 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
5222 Default size is 256 bytes.
5223 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
5224 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
5225 Default size is 2 megabytes.
5226 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
5227 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
5228 Default size is 2 megabytes.
5229 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
5230 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
5231 MMIO_PREF window.
5232 Default size is 2 megabytes.
5233 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
5234 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
5235 Default is 1.
5236 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
5237 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
5238 accommodate resources required by all child
5239 devices.
5240 off: Turn realloc off
5241 on: Turn realloc on
5242 realloc same as realloc=on
5243 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
5244 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
5245 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
5246 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
5247 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
5248 port.
5249 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
5250 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
5251 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
5252 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
5253 conflict with unreported devices), so this
5254 taints the kernel.
5255 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
5256 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
5257 specified above) separated by semicolons.
5258 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
5259 redirect capabilities forced off which will
5260 allow P2P traffic between devices through
5261 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
5262 this removes isolation between devices and
5263 may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
5264 config_acs=
5265 Format:
5266 <ACS flags>@<pci_dev>[; ...]
5267 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
5268 specified above) optionally prepended with flags
5269 and separated by semicolons. The respective
5270 capabilities will be enabled, disabled or
5271 unchanged based on what is specified in
5272 flags.
5273
5274 ACS Flags is defined as follows:
5275 bit-0 : ACS Source Validation
5276 bit-1 : ACS Translation Blocking
5277 bit-2 : ACS P2P Request Redirect
5278 bit-3 : ACS P2P Completion Redirect
5279 bit-4 : ACS Upstream Forwarding
5280 bit-5 : ACS P2P Egress Control
5281 bit-6 : ACS Direct Translated P2P
5282 Each bit can be marked as:
5283 '0' – force disabled
5284 '1' – force enabled
5285 'x' – unchanged
5286 For example,
5287 pci=config_acs=10x@pci:0:0
5288 would configure all devices that support
5289 ACS to enable P2P Request Redirect, disable
5290 Translation Blocking, and leave Source
5291 Validation unchanged from whatever power-up
5292 or firmware set it to.
5293
5294 Note: this may remove isolation between devices
5295 and may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
5296 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
5297 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
5298 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
5299 one PCI domain per PCI function
5300 notph [PCIE] If the PCIE_TPH kernel config parameter
5301 is enabled, this kernel boot option can be used
5302 to disable PCIe TLP Processing Hints support
5303 system-wide.
5304
5305 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or ignore PCIe Active State Power
5306 Management.
5307 off Don't touch ASPM configuration at all. Leave any
5308 configuration done by firmware unchanged.
5309 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
5310 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
5311
5312 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
5313 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
5314 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
5315 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform
5316 also tries to use these services.
5317 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May
5318 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
5319 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
5320 hotplug).
5321
5322 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
5323 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
5324 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
5325
5326 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
5327 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
5328 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
5329
5330 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
5331
5332 pd_ignore_unused
5333 [PM]
5334 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
5335 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
5336 for debug and development, but should not be
5337 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
5338
5339 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
5340 boot time.
5341 Format: { 0 | 1 }
5342 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
5343
5344 percpu_alloc= [MM,EARLY]
5345 Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
5346 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
5347 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
5348 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
5349 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
5350 and performance comparison.
5351
5352 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
5353 See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
5354
5355 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
5356 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
5357 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
5358
5359 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
5360 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
5361 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
5362
5363 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU.
5364 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
5365 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
5366 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
5367 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
5368 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
5369 remains 0.
5370
5371 pm_async= [PM]
5372 Format: off
5373 This parameter sets the initial value of the
5374 /sys/power/pm_async sysfs knob at boot time.
5375 If set to "off", disables asynchronous suspend and
5376 resume of devices during system-wide power transitions.
5377 This can be useful on platforms where device
5378 dependencies are not well-defined, or for debugging
5379 power management issues. Asynchronous operations are
5380 enabled by default.
5381
5382
5383 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL]
5384 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
5385
5386 pm.dpm_watchdog_enabled=
5387 [PM] Enable or disable the DPM watchdog. Requires
5388 CONFIG_PM_SLEEP and CONFIG_DPM_WATCHDOG enabled.
5389 Format: <bool>
5390 Default value is set by CONFIG_DPM_WATCHDOG_ENABLED.
5391
5392 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
5393 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
5394 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
5395 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
5396 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
5397 possible settings and some assignment information.
5398
5399 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
5400 { off }
5401
5402 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
5403 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
5404
5405 pnp_reserve_irq=
5406 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
5407
5408 pnp_reserve_dma=
5409 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
5410
5411 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
5412 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
5413
5414 pnp_reserve_mem=
5415 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
5416 autoconfiguration.
5417 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
5418
5419 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
5420 Default is 21.
5421 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
5422 may be specified.
5423 Format: <port>,<port>....
5424
5425 possible_cpus= [SMP,S390,X86]
5426 Format: <unsigned int>
5427 Set the number of possible CPUs, overriding the
5428 regular discovery mechanisms (such as ACPI/FW, etc).
5429
5430 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
5431 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
5432 platform machine description specific power_save
5433 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
5434 execution priority.
5435
5436 ppc_strict_facility_enable
5437 [PPC,ENABLE] This option catches any kernel floating point,
5438 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
5439 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
5440 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
5441
5442 ppc_tm= [PPC,EARLY]
5443 Format: {"off"}
5444 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
5445
5446 preempt= [KNL]
5447 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
5448 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
5449 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
5450 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
5451 can be preempted anytime. Tasks will also yield
5452 contended spinlocks (if the critical section isn't
5453 explicitly preempt disabled beyond the lock itself).
5454 lazy - Scheduler controlled. Similar to full but instead
5455 of preempting the task immediately, the task gets
5456 one HZ tick time to yield itself before the
5457 preemption will be forced. One preemption is when the
5458 task returns to user space.
5459
5460 print-fatal-signals=
5461 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
5462
5463 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
5464 related application anomalies: too many signals,
5465 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
5466 coredump - etc.
5467
5468 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
5469 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
5470
5471 default: off.
5472
5473 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
5474 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
5475 panics
5476 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5477 default: disabled
5478
5479 printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
5480 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
5481 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
5482 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
5483 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
5484 in order to provide more debug information.
5485 Format: <bool>
5486 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
5487
5488 printk.debug_non_panic_cpus=
5489 Allows storing messages from non-panic CPUs into
5490 the printk log buffer during panic(). They are
5491 flushed to consoles by the panic-CPU on
5492 a best-effort basis.
5493 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5494 Default: disabled
5495
5496 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
5497 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
5498 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
5499 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
5500 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
5501 Default: ratelimit
5502
5503 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
5504 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5505
5506 proc_mem.force_override= [KNL]
5507 Format: {always | ptrace | never}
5508 Traditionally /proc/pid/mem allows memory permissions to be
5509 overridden without restrictions. This option may be set to
5510 restrict that. Can be one of:
5511 - 'always': traditional behavior always allows mem overrides.
5512 - 'ptrace': only allow mem overrides for active ptracers.
5513 - 'never': never allow mem overrides.
5514 If not specified, default is the CONFIG_PROC_MEM_* choice.
5515
5516 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
5517 Limit processor to maximum C-state
5518 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
5519
5520 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
5521 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
5522 instead using the legacy FADT method
5523
5524 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
5525 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
5526 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule" or "kvm"
5527 [defaults to kernel profiling]
5528 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
5529 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
5530 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
5531 statistical time based profiling.
5532
5533 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
5534 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
5535 that). If enabled, the default kernel base address
5536 might be overridden even when Kernel Address Space
5537 Layout Randomization is disabled.
5538 Format: <bool>
5539
5540 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
5541 tracking.
5542 Format: <bool>
5543
5544 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
5545 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
5546 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
5547 per second.
5548 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
5549 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
5550 (0 = never).
5551 psmouse.resolution=
5552 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
5553 psmouse.smartscroll=
5554 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
5555 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
5556
5557 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
5558
5559 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
5560 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
5561 removes hardening, but improves performance of
5562 system calls and interrupts.
5563
5564 on - unconditionally enable
5565 off - unconditionally disable
5566 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5567 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
5568
5569 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
5570
5571 pty.legacy_count=
5572 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
5573 default number.
5574
5575 quiet [KNL,EARLY] Disable most log messages
5576
5577 r128= [HW,DRM]
5578
5579 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES]
5580 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
5581 invalidate.
5582
5583 raid= [HW,RAID]
5584 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
5585
5586 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
5587 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
5588
5589 ramdisk_start= [Deprecated,RAM] RAM disk image start address
5590
5591 random.trust_cpu=off
5592 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's
5593 random number generator (if available) to
5594 initialize the kernel's RNG.
5595
5596 random.trust_bootloader=off
5597 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the a seed
5598 passed by the bootloader (if available) to
5599 initialize the kernel's RNG.
5600
5601 randomize_kstack_offset=
5602 [KNL,EARLY] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
5603 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
5604 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
5605 that depend on stack address determinism or
5606 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
5607 available on architectures that have defined
5608 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
5609 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5610 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
5611
5612 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
5613
5614 cec_disable [X86]
5615 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
5616 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
5617
5618 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
5619 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
5620 as described above.
5621
5622 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
5623 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
5624 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
5625 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
5626 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
5627 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
5628 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
5629 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
5630 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
5631 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
5632 and real-time workloads. It can also improve
5633 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
5634
5635 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
5636 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
5637
5638 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
5639 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
5640 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
5641 toggled at runtime via cpusets.
5642
5643 Note that this argument takes precedence over
5644 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
5645
5646 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
5647 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
5648 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
5649 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
5650 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
5651 This improves the real-time response for the
5652 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
5653 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
5654 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
5655 periodically wake up to do the polling.
5656
5657 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
5658 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
5659 process in one batch.
5660
5661 rcutree.csd_lock_suppress_rcu_stall= [KNL]
5662 Do only a one-line RCU CPU stall warning when
5663 there is an ongoing too-long CSD-lock wait.
5664
5665 rcutree.do_rcu_barrier= [KNL]
5666 Request a call to rcu_barrier(). This is
5667 throttled so that userspace tests can safely
5668 hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose.
5669 If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery
5670 is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN.
5671
5672 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
5673 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
5674 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
5675 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
5676
5677 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
5678 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5679 RCU grace-period cleanup.
5680
5681 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
5682 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5683 RCU grace-period initialization.
5684
5685 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
5686 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5687 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
5688 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
5689 the rcu_node combining tree.
5690
5691 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
5692 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
5693 first attempt to force quiescent states.
5694 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
5695 and maximum value is HZ.
5696
5697 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
5698 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
5699 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
5700 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
5701
5702 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
5703 Set required age in jiffies for a
5704 given grace period before RCU starts
5705 soliciting quiescent-state help from
5706 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
5707 If not specified, the kernel will calculate
5708 a value based on the most recent settings
5709 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
5710 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
5711 This calculated value may be viewed in
5712 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set
5713 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
5714 overwritten.
5715
5716 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
5717 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
5718 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
5719 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
5720 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
5721 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
5722 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
5723 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
5724 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
5725 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
5726 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
5727 priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
5728
5729 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL]
5730 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
5731 RCU reduces the lock contention that would
5732 otherwise be caused by callback floods through
5733 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the
5734 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
5735 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
5736 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
5737 But if there are too many callbacks queued during
5738 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
5739 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too
5740 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter.
5741
5742 rcutree.nohz_full_patience_delay= [KNL]
5743 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, avoid
5744 disturbing RCU unless the grace period has
5745 reached the specified age in milliseconds.
5746 Defaults to zero. Large values will be capped
5747 at five seconds. All values will be rounded down
5748 to the nearest value representable by jiffies.
5749
5750 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
5751 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
5752 batch limiting is disabled.
5753
5754 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
5755 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
5756 batch limiting is re-enabled.
5757
5758 rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
5759 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
5760 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
5761 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
5762 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
5763 Set to less than zero to make this be set based
5764 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
5765 disable more aggressive help enlistment.
5766
5767 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
5768 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
5769 in response to low-memory conditions. The range
5770 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
5771
5772 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL]
5773 Set the shift-right count to use to compute
5774 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
5775 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU.
5776 The result will be bounded below by the value of
5777 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl
5778 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in
5779 order to allow the CPU to do other work.
5780
5781 Please note that this callback-invocation batch
5782 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
5783 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead
5784 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which
5785 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task.
5786
5787 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
5788 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
5789 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
5790 possibly be useful for architectures having high
5791 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
5792
5793 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
5794 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
5795 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
5796 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
5797 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
5798 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
5799 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
5800
5801 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
5802 Minimum number of objects which are cached and
5803 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
5804 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
5805 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
5806 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
5807 condition.
5808
5809 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
5810 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
5811 each group, which defaults to the square root
5812 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce
5813 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
5814 kthread, but increases that same overhead on
5815 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
5816
5817 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
5818 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
5819 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
5820 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
5821 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
5822 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
5823
5824 rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL]
5825 Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU
5826 callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds.
5827 By default, this limit is checked only once
5828 every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain
5829 inflicted by local_clock() overhead.
5830
5831 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
5832 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
5833 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
5834 in microseconds. This defaults to zero.
5835 Larger delays increase the probability of
5836 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
5837 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
5838 rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
5839
5840 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
5841 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
5842 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
5843 why a new grace period has not yet started.
5844
5845 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL]
5846 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
5847 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero
5848 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
5849 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
5850
5851 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
5852 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
5853 to zero.
5854
5855 rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy= [KNL]
5856 To save power, batch RCU callbacks and flush after
5857 delay, memory pressure or callback list growing too
5858 big.
5859
5860 rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp= [KNL]
5861 Reduces a latency of synchronize_rcu() call. This approach
5862 maintains its own track of synchronize_rcu() callers, so it
5863 does not interact with regular callbacks because it does not
5864 use a call_rcu[_hurry]() path. Please note, this is for a
5865 normal grace period.
5866
5867 How to disable it:
5868
5869 echo 0 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp
5870 or pass a boot parameter "rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=0"
5871
5872 Default is 1 if it is not explicitly disabled by the boot parameter
5873 passing 0.
5874
5875 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
5876 Measure performance of asynchronous
5877 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
5878
5879 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
5880 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
5881 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
5882 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
5883 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
5884 previously posted callbacks to drain.
5885
5886 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
5887 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
5888 grace-period primitives.
5889
5890 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5891 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
5892 this parameter is to delay the start of the
5893 test until boot completes in order to avoid
5894 interference.
5895
5896 rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL]
5897 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test
5898 call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu().
5899
5900 rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL]
5901 Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj,
5902 allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj).
5903 Defaults to 1.
5904
5905 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
5906 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
5907
5908 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
5909 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5910 If this parameter has the same value as
5911 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
5912 and double-argument variants are tested.
5913
5914 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
5915 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5916 If this parameter has the same value as
5917 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
5918 and double-argument variants are tested.
5919
5920 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
5921 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
5922
5923 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
5924 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
5925
5926 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
5927 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
5928 of allocations and frees.
5929
5930 rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL]
5931 Set the minimum test run time in seconds. This
5932 does not affect the data-collection interval,
5933 but instead allows better measurement of things
5934 like CPU consumption.
5935
5936 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5937 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
5938 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
5939 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
5940 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
5941 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5942 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
5943 a single reader.
5944
5945 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
5946 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
5947 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
5948 N, where N is the number of CPUs
5949
5950 rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5951 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5952
5953 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5954 Shut the system down after performance tests
5955 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
5956 testing.
5957
5958 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
5959 Enable additional printk() statements.
5960
5961 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
5962 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
5963 in microseconds. The default of zero says
5964 no holdoff.
5965
5966 rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL]
5967 Additional write-side holdoff between grace
5968 periods, but in jiffies. The default of zero
5969 says no holdoff.
5970
5971 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
5972 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
5973 in microseconds.
5974
5975 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
5976 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
5977 in microseconds.
5978
5979 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
5980 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
5981 in seconds.
5982
5983 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
5984 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
5985 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
5986 for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
5987 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
5988 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
5989 of CPUs to be used.
5990
5991 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
5992 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
5993 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
5994
5995 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
5996 Number of seconds to wait between successive
5997 forward-progress tests.
5998
5999 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
6000 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
6001 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
6002 testing.
6003
6004 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
6005 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
6006 normal-grace-period primitives, if available.
6007
6008 rcutorture.gp_cond_exp= [KNL]
6009 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
6010 expedited-grace-period primitives, if available.
6011
6012 rcutorture.gp_cond_full= [KNL]
6013 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
6014 normal-grace-period primitives that also take
6015 concurrent expedited grace periods into account,
6016 if available.
6017
6018 rcutorture.gp_cond_exp_full= [KNL]
6019 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
6020 expedited-grace-period primitives that also take
6021 concurrent normal grace periods into account,
6022 if available.
6023
6024 rcutorture.gp_cond_wi= [KNL]
6025 Nominal wait interval for normal conditional
6026 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
6027 gp_cond and gp_cond_full module parameters),
6028 in microseconds. The actual wait interval will
6029 be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up
6030 to this wait interval. Defaults to 16 jiffies,
6031 for example, 16,000 microseconds on a system
6032 with HZ=1000.
6033
6034 rcutorture.gp_cond_wi_exp= [KNL]
6035 Nominal wait interval for expedited conditional
6036 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
6037 gp_cond_exp and gp_cond_exp_full module
6038 parameters), in microseconds. The actual wait
6039 interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond
6040 granularity up to this wait interval. Defaults to
6041 128 microseconds.
6042
6043 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
6044 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
6045
6046 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
6047 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
6048 update-side primitives, if available.
6049
6050 rcutorture.gp_poll= [KNL]
6051 Use polled update-side normal-grace-period
6052 primitives, if available.
6053
6054 rcutorture.gp_poll_exp= [KNL]
6055 Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period
6056 primitives, if available.
6057
6058 rcutorture.gp_poll_full= [KNL]
6059 Use polled update-side normal-grace-period
6060 primitives that also take concurrent expedited
6061 grace periods into account, if available.
6062
6063 rcutorture.gp_poll_exp_full= [KNL]
6064 Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period
6065 primitives that also take concurrent normal
6066 grace periods into account, if available.
6067
6068 rcutorture.gp_poll_wi= [KNL]
6069 Nominal wait interval for normal conditional
6070 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
6071 gp_poll and gp_poll_full module parameters),
6072 in microseconds. The actual wait interval will
6073 be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up
6074 to this wait interval. Defaults to 16 jiffies,
6075 for example, 16,000 microseconds on a system
6076 with HZ=1000.
6077
6078 rcutorture.gp_poll_wi_exp= [KNL]
6079 Nominal wait interval for expedited conditional
6080 grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
6081 gp_poll_exp and gp_poll_exp_full module
6082 parameters), in microseconds. The actual wait
6083 interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond
6084 granularity up to this wait interval. Defaults to
6085 128 microseconds.
6086
6087 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
6088 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
6089 update-side primitives, if available. If all
6090 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
6091 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
6092 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
6093 they are all non-zero.
6094
6095 rcutorture.gpwrap_lag= [KNL]
6096 Enable grace-period wrap lag testing. Setting
6097 to false prevents the gpwrap lag test from
6098 running. Default is true.
6099
6100 rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_gps= [KNL]
6101 Set the value for grace-period wrap lag during
6102 active lag testing periods. This controls how many
6103 grace periods differences we tolerate between
6104 rdp and rnp's gp_seq before setting overflow flag.
6105 The default is always set to 8.
6106
6107 rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_cycle_mins= [KNL]
6108 Set the total cycle duration for gpwrap lag
6109 testing in minutes. This is the total time for
6110 one complete cycle of active and inactive
6111 testing periods. Default is 30 minutes.
6112
6113 rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_active_mins= [KNL]
6114 Set the duration for which gpwrap lag is active
6115 within each cycle, in minutes. During this time,
6116 the grace-period wrap lag will be set to the
6117 value specified by gpwrap_lag_gps. Default is
6118 5 minutes.
6119
6120 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
6121 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
6122 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU
6123 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
6124
6125 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
6126 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
6127 This can of course result in splats, and is
6128 intended to test the ability of things like
6129 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
6130 such leaks.
6131
6132 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
6133 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
6134
6135 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
6136 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
6137 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
6138 test, hence the "fake".
6139
6140 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
6141 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
6142 Zero (the default) disables toggling.
6143
6144 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
6145 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
6146 callback-offload toggling attempts.
6147
6148 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
6149 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
6150 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
6151 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
6152 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
6153 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
6154
6155 rcutorture.nwriters= [KNL]
6156 Set number of RCU writers, which must be either
6157 zero or one. For additional writers, use instead
6158 the rcutorture.nfakewriters parameter.
6159
6160 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
6161 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
6162
6163 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
6164 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
6165
6166 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
6167 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
6168 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
6169
6170 rcutorture.preempt_duration= [KNL]
6171 Set duration (in milliseconds) of preemptions
6172 by a high-priority FIFO real-time task. Set to
6173 zero (the default) to disable. The CPUs to
6174 preempt are selected randomly from the set that
6175 are online at a given point in time. Races with
6176 CPUs going offline are ignored, with that attempt
6177 at preemption skipped.
6178
6179 rcutorture.preempt_interval= [KNL]
6180 Set interval (in milliseconds, defaulting to one
6181 second) between preemptions by a high-priority
6182 FIFO real-time task. This delay is mediated
6183 by an hrtimer and is further fuzzed to avoid
6184 inadvertent synchronizations.
6185
6186 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
6187 The number of times in a given read-then-exit
6188 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
6189 is spawned.
6190
6191 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
6192 The delay, in seconds, between successive
6193 read-then-exit testing episodes.
6194
6195 rcutorture.reader_flavor= [KNL]
6196 A bit mask indicating which readers to use.
6197 If there is more than one bit set, the readers
6198 are entered from low-order bit up, and are
6199 exited in the opposite order. For SRCU, the
6200 0x1 bit is normal readers, 0x2 NMI-safe readers,
6201 and 0x4 light-weight readers.
6202
6203 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
6204 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
6205 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
6206 during the rcutorture test.
6207
6208 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
6209 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
6210 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
6211
6212 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
6213 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
6214 warnings, zero to disable.
6215
6216 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
6217 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result
6218 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to
6219 any other stall-related activity. Note that
6220 in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and
6221 CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will
6222 cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state.
6223 Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress
6224 RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result
6225 in scheduling-while-atomic splats.
6226
6227 Use of this module parameter results in splats.
6228
6229
6230 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
6231 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
6232
6233 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
6234 Disable interrupts while stalling if set, but only
6235 on the first stall in the set.
6236
6237 rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat= [KNL]
6238 Number of times to repeat the stall sequence,
6239 so that rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat=3 will result
6240 in four stall sequences.
6241
6242 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
6243 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
6244 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
6245 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu
6246 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
6247 kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
6248
6249 rcutorture.stall_only= [KNL]
6250 Shut off all rcutorture kthreads other than the
6251 RCU CPU stall-warning test kthreads. The purpose
6252 of this is to test production applictions'
6253 reactions to CPU stalls, and with minimal
6254 additional overhead. Or you can omit the
6255 stall-warning tests as well and get a heavy
6256 no-op, your choice!
6257
6258 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
6259 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
6260
6261 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
6262 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
6263 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
6264 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
6265 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
6266
6267 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
6268 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
6269 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
6270 under test support RCU priority boosting.
6271
6272 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
6273 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
6274
6275 rcutorture.test_boost_holdoff= [KNL]
6276 Holdoff time (s) from start of test to the start
6277 of RCU priority-boost testing. Defaults to zero,
6278 that is, no holdoff.
6279
6280 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
6281 Interval (s) between each boost test.
6282
6283 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
6284 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
6285 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
6286
6287 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
6288 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
6289
6290 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
6291 Enable additional printk() statements.
6292
6293 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
6294 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
6295 stall warning.
6296
6297 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL]
6298 Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the
6299 warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig
6300 option's help text. TL;DR: You almost certainly
6301 do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers.
6302
6303 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
6304 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
6305
6306 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
6307 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
6308 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
6309 during early boot, that is, during the time
6310 before the init task is spawned.
6311
6312 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
6313 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
6314 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
6315 value is 300 seconds.
6316
6317 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
6318 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
6319 messages. The value is in milliseconds
6320 and the maximum allowed value is 21000
6321 milliseconds. Please note that this value is
6322 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
6323 Setting this to zero causes the value from
6324 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
6325 conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
6326
6327 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL]
6328 Provide statistics on the cputime and count of
6329 interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For
6330 multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods
6331 begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout.
6332
6333 rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL]
6334 Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the
6335 current expedited RCU grace period during an
6336 expedited RCU CPU stall warning.
6337
6338 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
6339 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
6340 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
6341 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
6342 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
6343 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
6344 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
6345
6346 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
6347 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
6348 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
6349 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
6350 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
6351 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
6352 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
6353 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
6354 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
6355
6356 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
6357 Once boot has completed (that is, after
6358 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
6359 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
6360 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
6361
6362 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
6363 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
6364 it to the value one, that is, converting any
6365 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
6366 period to instead use normal non-expedited
6367 grace-period processing.
6368
6369 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
6370 Set the maximum number of callbacks present
6371 at the beginning of a grace period that allows
6372 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
6373 a single callback queue. This switching only
6374 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
6375 set to the default value of -1.
6376
6377 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
6378 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
6379 lock-contention events per jiffy required to
6380 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
6381 callback queuing. This switching only occurs
6382 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
6383 the default value of -1.
6384
6385 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
6386 Set the number of callback queues to use for the
6387 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default
6388 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
6389 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended
6390 for use in testing.
6391
6392 rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL]
6393 Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will
6394 cancel laziness on that CPU. Use -1 to disable
6395 cancellation of laziness, but be advised that
6396 doing so increases the danger of OOM due to
6397 callback flooding.
6398
6399 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
6400 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
6401 informational messages, which give some indication
6402 of the problem for those not patient enough to
6403 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are
6404 only printed prior to the stall-warning message
6405 for a given grace period. Disable with a value
6406 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten
6407 seconds. A change in value does not take effect
6408 until the beginning of the next grace period.
6409
6410 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
6411 Multiplier for time interval between successive
6412 RCU task stall informational messages for a given
6413 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped
6414 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to
6415 the value three, so that the first informational
6416 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
6417 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
6418 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
6419 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
6420
6421 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
6422 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
6423 warning messages. Disable with a value less
6424 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes.
6425 A change in value does not take effect until
6426 the beginning of the next grace period.
6427
6428 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL]
6429 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous
6430 callback batching for call_rcu_tasks().
6431 A negative value will take the default. A value
6432 of zero will disable batching. Batching is
6433 always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks().
6434
6435 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
6436 Run the RCU early boot self tests
6437
6438 rdinit= [KNL]
6439 Format: <full_path>
6440 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
6441 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
6442
6443 rdrand= [X86,EARLY]
6444 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
6445 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
6446 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
6447 support, specifically around the suspend/resume
6448 path).
6449
6450 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
6451 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
6452 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
6453 mba, smba, bmec, abmc, sdciae, energy[:guid],
6454 perf[:guid].
6455 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
6456 rdt=cmt,!mba
6457 To turn off all energy telemetry monitoring and ensure that
6458 perf telemetry monitoring associated with guid 0x12345
6459 is enabled use:
6460 rdt=!energy,perf:0x12345
6461
6462 reboot= [KNL]
6463 Format (x86 or x86_64):
6464 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
6465 [[,]s[mp]####] \
6466 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
6467 [[,]f[orce]]
6468 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
6469 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
6470 reboot only),
6471 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
6472 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
6473 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
6474 to be used for rebooting.
6475
6476 acpi
6477 Use the ACPI RESET_REG in the FADT. If ACPI is not
6478 configured or the ACPI reset does not work, the reboot
6479 path attempts the reset using the keyboard controller.
6480
6481 bios
6482 Use the CPU reboot vector for warm reset
6483
6484 cold
6485 Set the cold reboot flag
6486
6487 default
6488 There are some built-in platform specific "quirks"
6489 - you may see: "reboot: <name> series board detected.
6490 Selecting <type> for reboots." In the case where you
6491 think the quirk is in error (e.g. you have newer BIOS,
6492 or newer board) using this option will ignore the
6493 built-in quirk table, and use the generic default
6494 reboot actions.
6495
6496 efi
6497 Use efi reset_system runtime service. If EFI is not
6498 configured or the EFI reset does not work, the reboot
6499 path attempts the reset using the keyboard controller.
6500
6501 force
6502 Don't stop other CPUs on reboot. This can make reboot
6503 more reliable in some cases.
6504
6505 kbd
6506 Use the keyboard controller. cold reset (default)
6507
6508 pci
6509 Use a write to the PCI config space register 0xcf9 to
6510 trigger reboot.
6511
6512 triple
6513 Force a triple fault (init)
6514
6515 warm
6516 Don't set the cold reboot flag
6517
6518 Using warm reset will be much faster especially on big
6519 memory systems because the BIOS will not go through
6520 the memory check. Disadvantage is that not all
6521 hardware will be completely reinitialized on reboot so
6522 there may be boot problems on some systems.
6523
6524
6525 refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
6526 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
6527 this parameter is to delay the start of the
6528 test until boot completes in order to avoid
6529 interference.
6530
6531 refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL]
6532 Number of data elements to use for the forms of
6533 SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing. A negative number
6534 is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while
6535 zero specifies nr_cpu_ids.
6536
6537 refscale.loops= [KNL]
6538 Set the number of loops over the synchronization
6539 primitive under test. Increasing this number
6540 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
6541 but the default has already reduced the per-pass
6542 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
6543 x86 laptops.
6544
6545 refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
6546 Set number of readers. The default value of -1
6547 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
6548 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice.
6549
6550 refscale.nruns= [KNL]
6551 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
6552 the console log.
6553
6554 refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
6555 Set the read-side critical-section duration,
6556 measured in microseconds.
6557
6558 refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
6559 Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
6560
6561 refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
6562 Shut down the system at the end of the performance
6563 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
6564 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
6565 it running) when refscale is built as a module.
6566
6567 refscale.verbose= [KNL]
6568 Enable additional printk() statements.
6569
6570 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
6571 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero
6572 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise,
6573 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
6574 specified.
6575
6576 regulator_ignore_unused
6577 [REGULATOR]
6578 Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators
6579 that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may
6580 be useful for debug and development, but should not be
6581 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
6582
6583 relax_domain_level=
6584 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
6585 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
6586
6587 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
6588 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
6589 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
6590 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
6591 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
6592
6593 reserve_mem= [RAM]
6594 Format: nn[KMG]:<align>:<label>
6595 Reserve physical memory and label it with a name that
6596 other subsystems can use to access it. This is typically
6597 used for systems that do not wipe the RAM, and this command
6598 line will try to reserve the same physical memory on
6599 soft reboots. Note, it is not guaranteed to be the same
6600 location. For example, if anything about the system changes
6601 or if booting a different kernel. It can also fail if KASLR
6602 places the kernel at the location of where the RAM reservation
6603 was from a previous boot, the new reservation will be at a
6604 different location.
6605 Any subsystem using this feature must add a way to verify
6606 that the contents of the physical memory is from a previous
6607 boot, as there may be cases where the memory will not be
6608 located at the same location.
6609
6610 The format is size:align:label for example, to request
6611 12 megabytes of 4096 alignment for ramoops:
6612
6613 reserve_mem=12M:4096:oops ramoops.mem_name=oops
6614
6615 reservetop= [X86-32,EARLY]
6616 Format: nn[KMG]
6617 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
6618 address space.
6619
6620 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
6621 during initialization.
6622
6623 resume= [SWSUSP]
6624 Specify the partition device for software suspend
6625 Format:
6626 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
6627
6628 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
6629 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
6630 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
6631 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
6632 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
6633
6634 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
6635 read the resume files
6636
6637 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
6638 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
6639 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
6640
6641 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction. After boot, it will
6642 be accessible via /sys/firmware/initrd.
6643
6644 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
6645 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
6646 vulnerability.
6647
6648 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
6649 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other
6650 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
6651 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors
6652 that don't.
6653
6654 off - no mitigation
6655 auto - automatically select a mitigation
6656 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation,
6657 disabling SMT if necessary for
6658 the full mitigation (only on Zen1
6659 and older without STIBP).
6660 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
6661 windows on basic block boundaries too.
6662 Safe, highest perf impact. It also
6663 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable
6664 on Intel.
6665 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
6666 when STIBP is not available. This is
6667 the alternative for systems which do not
6668 have STIBP.
6669 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks,
6670 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
6671 systems.
6672 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
6673 is not available. This is the alternative for
6674 systems which do not have STIBP.
6675
6676 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
6677 time according to the CPU.
6678
6679 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
6680
6681 rfkill.default_state=
6682 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
6683 etc. communication is blocked by default.
6684 1 Unblocked.
6685
6686 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
6687 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
6688 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
6689 blocked and the previous configuration.
6690 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
6691 blocked and everything unblocked.
6692
6693 ring3mwait=disable
6694 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
6695 CPUs.
6696
6697 riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV,EARLY]
6698 When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit
6699 falling back to detecting extension support by parsing
6700 "riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the
6701 replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig
6702 entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK.
6703
6704 riscv_nousercfi=
6705 all Disable user CFI ABI to userspace even if cpu extension
6706 are available.
6707 bcfi Disable user backward CFI ABI to userspace even if
6708 the shadow stack extension is available.
6709 fcfi Disable user forward CFI ABI to userspace even if the
6710 landing pad extension is available.
6711
6712 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
6713
6714 rodata= [KNL,EARLY]
6715 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
6716 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
6717 noalias Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only but retain
6718 writable aliases in the direct map for regions outside
6719 of the kernel image. [arm64]
6720
6721 rockchip.usb_uart
6722 [EARLY]
6723 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
6724 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
6725 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
6726 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
6727
6728 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
6729 Usually this is a block device specifier of some kind,
6730 see the early_lookup_bdev comment in
6731 block/early-lookup.c for details.
6732 Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial
6733 ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file
6734 system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash.
6735
6736 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
6737 mount the root filesystem
6738
6739 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
6740
6741 rseq_slice_ext= [KNL] RSEQ based time slice extension
6742 Format: boolean
6743 Control enablement of RSEQ based time slice extension.
6744 Default is 'on'.
6745
6746 initramfs_options= [KNL]
6747 Specify mount options for the initramfs mount.
6748
6749 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
6750
6751 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
6752 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
6753 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
6754
6755 rootwait= [KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device
6756 to show up before attempting to mount the root
6757 filesystem.
6758
6759 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
6760 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
6761 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
6762 managed by CMA.
6763
6764 rseq_debug= [KNL] Enable or disable restartable sequence
6765 debug mode. Defaults to CONFIG_RSEQ_DEBUG_DEFAULT_ENABLE.
6766 Format: <bool>
6767
6768 rt_group_sched= [KNL] Enable or disable SCHED_RR/FIFO group scheduling
6769 when CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=y. Defaults to
6770 !CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED_DEFAULT_DISABLED.
6771 Format: <bool>
6772
6773 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
6774
6775 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
6776
6777 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
6778 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
6779 strict
6780 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result
6781 in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before
6782 reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to
6783 iommu.strict=1.
6784
6785 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390]
6786 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
6787 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
6788 factor of the size of main memory.
6789 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
6790 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
6791 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
6792 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
6793 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
6794 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
6795 cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
6796
6797
6798 sched_proxy_exec= [KNL]
6799 Enables or disables "proxy execution" style
6800 solution to mutex-based priority inversion.
6801 Format: <bool>
6802
6803 sched_verbose [KNL,EARLY] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
6804
6805 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
6806 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
6807 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
6808 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
6809
6810 sched_thermal_decay_shift=
6811 [Deprecated]
6812 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
6813 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
6814 default decay period of other scheduler pelt
6815 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
6816 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
6817 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
6818 value.
6819 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
6820 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr
6821 1 64 ms
6822 2 128 ms
6823 and so on.
6824 Format: integer between 0 and 10
6825 Default is 0.
6826
6827 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
6828 Number of seconds to hold off before starting
6829 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and
6830 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
6831 tests.
6832
6833 scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
6834 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
6835 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the
6836 default) disables this feature. Please note
6837 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
6838 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
6839 softlockup complaints, and so on.
6840
6841 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
6842 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
6843 smp_call_function() family of functions.
6844 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
6845 equal to the number of CPUs.
6846
6847 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
6848 Number seconds to wait after the start of the
6849 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
6850
6851 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
6852 Number seconds to wait between successive
6853 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which
6854 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
6855
6856 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
6857 The number of seconds following the start of the
6858 test after which to shut down the system. The
6859 default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
6860 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
6861
6862 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
6863 The number of seconds between outputting the
6864 current test statistics to the console. A value
6865 of zero disables statistics output.
6866
6867 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
6868 The number of jiffies to wait between each change
6869 to the set of CPUs under test.
6870
6871 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
6872 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
6873 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
6874 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
6875 functions.
6876
6877 scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
6878 Enable additional printk() statements.
6879
6880 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
6881 The probability weighting to use for the
6882 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
6883 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the
6884 default if all other weights are -1. However,
6885 if at least one weight has some other value, a
6886 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
6887
6888 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
6889 The probability weighting to use for the
6890 smp_call_function_single() function with a
6891 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single.
6892
6893 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
6894 The probability weighting to use for the
6895 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
6896 "wait" parameter. See weight_single.
6897 Note well that setting a high probability for
6898 this weighting can place serious IPI load
6899 on the system.
6900
6901 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
6902 The probability weighting to use for the
6903 smp_call_function_many() function with a
6904 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single
6905 and weight_many.
6906
6907 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
6908 The probability weighting to use for the
6909 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
6910 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and
6911 weight_many.
6912
6913 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
6914 The probability weighting to use for the
6915 smp_call_function_all() function with a
6916 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single
6917 and weight_many.
6918
6919 sdw_mclk_divider=[SDW]
6920 Specify the MCLK divider for Intel SoundWire buses in
6921 case the BIOS does not provide the clock rate properly.
6922
6923 skew_tick= [KNL,EARLY] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
6924 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
6925 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
6926 Format: { "0" | "1" }
6927 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1")
6928 1 -- enable.
6929 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
6930 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
6931
6932 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
6933 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
6934 "lsm=" parameter.
6935
6936 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
6937 Format: { "0" | "1" }
6938 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
6939 0 -- disable.
6940 1 -- enable.
6941 Default value is 1.
6942
6943 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
6944
6945 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64]
6946
6947 debug
6948 Enable debug messages.
6949
6950 nosnp
6951 Do not enable SEV-SNP (applies to host/hypervisor
6952 only). Setting 'nosnp' avoids the RMP check overhead
6953 in memory accesses when users do not want to run
6954 SEV-SNP guests.
6955
6956 shapers= [NET]
6957 Maximal number of shapers.
6958
6959 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
6960 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
6961 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
6962 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
6963 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
6964 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
6965 apic=verbose is specified.
6966 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
6967
6968 slab_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]] [MM]
6969 Enabling slab_debug allows one to determine the
6970 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
6971 slab_debug can create guard zones around objects and
6972 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
6973 last alloc / free. For more information see
6974 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6975 (slub_debug legacy name also accepted for now)
6976
6977 Using this option implies the "no_hash_pointers"
6978 option which can be undone by adding the
6979 "hash_pointers=always" option.
6980
6981 slab_max_order= [MM]
6982 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
6983 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
6984 fragmentation. For more information see
6985 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6986 (slub_max_order legacy name also accepted for now)
6987
6988 slab_merge [MM]
6989 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
6990 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
6991 (slub_merge legacy name also accepted for now)
6992
6993 slab_min_objects= [MM]
6994 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
6995 increase the slab order up to slab_max_order to
6996 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
6997 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
6998 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
6999 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
7000 For more information see
7001 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
7002 (slub_min_objects legacy name also accepted for now)
7003
7004 slab_min_order= [MM]
7005 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
7006 lower or equal to slab_max_order. For more information see
7007 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
7008 (slub_min_order legacy name also accepted for now)
7009
7010 slab_nomerge [MM]
7011 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
7012 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
7013 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
7014 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
7015 layout control by attackers can usually be
7016 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
7017 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
7018 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
7019 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
7020 own.
7021 For more information see
7022 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
7023 (slub_nomerge legacy name also accepted for now)
7024
7025 slab_strict_numa [MM]
7026 Support memory policies on a per object level
7027 in the slab allocator. The default is for memory
7028 policies to be applied at the folio level when
7029 a new folio is needed or a partial folio is
7030 retrieved from the lists. Increases overhead
7031 in the slab fastpaths but gains more accurate
7032 NUMA kernel object placement which helps with slow
7033 interconnects in NUMA systems.
7034
7035 slram= [HW,MTD]
7036
7037 smart2= [HW]
7038 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
7039
7040 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
7041 Specify the period of time in milliseconds
7042 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
7043 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is
7044 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
7045 disabling interrupts for extended periods
7046 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
7047 setting a value of zero disables this feature.
7048 This feature may be more efficiently disabled
7049 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
7050
7051 smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL]
7052 If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than
7053 the specified number of milliseconds, panic the
7054 system. By default, let CSD-lock acquisition
7055 take as long as they take. Specifying 300,000
7056 for this value provides a 5-minute timeout.
7057
7058 smt= [KNL,MIPS,S390,EARLY] Set the maximum number of threads
7059 (logical CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems
7060 capable of symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will
7061 be capped to the actual hardware limit.
7062 Format: <integer>
7063 Default: -1 (no limit)
7064
7065 softlockup_panic=
7066 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
7067 Format: <int>
7068
7069 A value of non-zero instructs the soft-lockup detector
7070 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup duration exceeds
7071 N thresholds. It is also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic
7072 sysctl and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
7073 respective build-time switch to that functionality.
7074
7075 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
7076 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
7077 backtraces on all cpus.
7078 Format: 0 | 1
7079
7080 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
7081 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
7082
7083 spectre_bhi= [X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection
7084 (BHI) vulnerability. This setting affects the
7085 deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB
7086 clearing sequence.
7087
7088 on - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation as
7089 needed. This protects the kernel from
7090 both syscalls and VMs.
7091 vmexit - On systems which don't have the HW mitigation
7092 available, enable the SW mitigation on vmexit
7093 ONLY. On such systems, the host kernel is
7094 protected from VM-originated BHI attacks, but
7095 may still be vulnerable to syscall attacks.
7096 off - Disable the mitigation.
7097
7098 spectre_v2= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
7099 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
7100 The default operation protects the kernel from
7101 user space attacks.
7102
7103 on - unconditionally enable, implies
7104 spectre_v2_user=on
7105 off - unconditionally disable, implies
7106 spectre_v2_user=off
7107 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
7108 vulnerable
7109
7110 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
7111 mitigation method at run time according to the
7112 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
7113 CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE configuration option,
7114 and the compiler with which the kernel was built.
7115
7116 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
7117 against user space to user space task attacks.
7118 Selecting specific mitigation does not force enable
7119 user mitigations.
7120
7121 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
7122 the user space protections.
7123
7124 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
7125
7126 retpoline - replace indirect branches
7127 retpoline,generic - Retpolines
7128 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch
7129 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence
7130 eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS
7131 eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines
7132 eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE
7133 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel
7134
7135 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
7136 spectre_v2=auto.
7137
7138 spectre_v2_user=
7139 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
7140 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
7141 user space tasks
7142
7143 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
7144 enforced by spectre_v2=on
7145
7146 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
7147 enforced by spectre_v2=off
7148
7149 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
7150 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
7151 per thread. The mitigation control state
7152 is inherited on fork.
7153
7154 prctl,ibpb
7155 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
7156 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
7157 always when switching between different user
7158 space processes.
7159
7160 seccomp
7161 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
7162 threads will enable the mitigation unless
7163 they explicitly opt out.
7164
7165 seccomp,ibpb
7166 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
7167 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
7168 always when switching between different
7169 user space processes.
7170
7171 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
7172 the available CPU features and vulnerability.
7173
7174 Default mitigation: "prctl"
7175
7176 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
7177 spectre_v2_user=auto.
7178
7179 spec_rstack_overflow=
7180 [X86,EARLY] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs
7181
7182 off - Disable mitigation
7183 microcode - Enable microcode mitigation only
7184 safe-ret - Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default)
7185 ibpb - Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on
7186 kernel entry
7187 ibpb-vmexit - Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT
7188 (cloud-specific mitigation)
7189
7190 spec_store_bypass_disable=
7191 [HW,EARLY] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
7192 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
7193
7194 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
7195 a common industry wide performance optimization known
7196 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
7197 to the same memory location may not be observed by
7198 later loads during speculative execution. The idea
7199 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
7200 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
7201 end of a particular speculation execution window.
7202
7203 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
7204 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
7205 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
7206 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
7207
7208 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
7209 Bypass optimization is used.
7210
7211 On x86 the options are:
7212
7213 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
7214 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
7215 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
7216 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
7217 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
7218 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
7219 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
7220 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
7221 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
7222 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
7223 for a process by default. The state of the control
7224 is inherited on fork.
7225 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
7226 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
7227
7228 Default mitigations:
7229 X86: "prctl"
7230
7231 On powerpc the options are:
7232
7233 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
7234 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
7235 perform a software flush on kernel entry and
7236 exit.
7237 off - No action.
7238
7239 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
7240 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
7241
7242 split_llc=
7243 [X86,EARLY] Split the LLC N-ways
7244
7245 When set, the LLC is split this many ways by matching
7246 'core_id % n'. This is setup before SMP bringup and
7247 used during SMP bringup before it knows the full
7248 topology. If your core count doesn't nicely divide by
7249 the number given, you get to keep the pieces.
7250
7251 This is mostly a debug feature to emulate multiple LLCs
7252 on hardware that only have a single LLC.
7253
7254 split_lock_detect=
7255 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
7256
7257 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
7258 instructions that access data across cache line
7259 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
7260 for split lock detection or a debug exception for
7261 bus lock detection.
7262
7263 off - not enabled
7264
7265 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
7266 about applications triggering the #AC
7267 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
7268 the default on CPUs that support split lock
7269 detection or bus lock detection. Default
7270 behavior is by #AC if both features are
7271 enabled in hardware.
7272
7273 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
7274 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
7275 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
7276 both features are enabled in hardware.
7277
7278 ratelimit:N -
7279 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
7280 per second for bus lock detection.
7281 0 < N <= 1000.
7282
7283 N/A for split lock detection.
7284
7285
7286 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
7287 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
7288 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
7289 mode.
7290
7291 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
7292 CPL > 0.
7293
7294 srbds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY]
7295 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
7296 (SRBDS) mitigation.
7297
7298 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
7299 exploit which can leak bits from the random
7300 number generator.
7301
7302 By default, this issue is mitigated by
7303 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause
7304 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
7305 much slower. Among other effects, this will
7306 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
7307
7308 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
7309 the following option:
7310
7311 off: Disable mitigation and remove
7312 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
7313
7314 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
7315 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
7316 large system, such that srcu_struct structures
7317 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
7318 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
7319 but takes effect only when the low-order four
7320 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
7321 (decide at boot).
7322
7323 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
7324 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
7325 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
7326 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
7327
7328 0: Never.
7329 1: At init_srcu_struct() time.
7330 2: When rcutorture decides to.
7331 3: Decide at boot time (default).
7332 0x1X: Above plus if high contention.
7333
7334 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
7335 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
7336 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
7337
7338 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
7339 Specifies how frequently to check for
7340 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
7341 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
7342 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
7343 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
7344 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
7345 are ignored.
7346
7347 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
7348 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
7349 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
7350 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
7351 grace period will be considered for automatic
7352 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
7353 expediting.
7354
7355 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL]
7356 Specifies the number of no-delay instances
7357 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period
7358 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero
7359 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will
7360 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy.
7361
7362 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL]
7363 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
7364 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
7365 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled
7366 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each
7367 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase.
7368
7369 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL]
7370 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
7371 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
7372
7373 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
7374 Specifies the number of update-side contention
7375 events per jiffy will be tolerated before
7376 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
7377 structure to big form. Note that the value of
7378 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
7379 set for contention-based conversions to occur.
7380
7381 ssbd= [ARM64,HW,EARLY]
7382 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
7383
7384 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
7385 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
7386 firmware based mitigation, this parameter
7387 indicates how the mitigation should be used:
7388
7389 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
7390 for both kernel and userspace
7391 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
7392 for both kernel and userspace
7393 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
7394 kernel, and offer a prctl interface
7395 to allow userspace to register its
7396 interest in being mitigated too.
7397
7398 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
7399 override the default stack gap protection. The value
7400 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
7401 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
7402 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
7403 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
7404
7405 stack_depot_disable= [KNL,EARLY]
7406 Setting this to true through kernel command line will
7407 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
7408 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
7409 to false.
7410
7411 stack_depot_max_pools= [KNL,EARLY]
7412 Specify the maximum number of pools to use for storing
7413 stack traces. Pools are allocated on-demand up to this
7414 limit. Default value is 8191 pools.
7415
7416 stacktrace [FTRACE]
7417 Enable the stack tracer on boot up.
7418
7419 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
7420 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
7421 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
7422 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
7423 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
7424 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
7425 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
7426
7427 sti= [PARISC,HW]
7428 Format: <num>
7429 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
7430 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
7431 as the initial boot-console.
7432 See also comment in drivers/video/sticore.c.
7433
7434 sti_font= [HW]
7435 See comment in drivers/video/sticore.c.
7436
7437 stifb= [HW]
7438 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
7439
7440 strict_sas_size=
7441 [X86]
7442 Format: <bool>
7443 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
7444 against the required signal frame size which
7445 depends on the supported FPU features. This can
7446 be used to filter out binaries which have
7447 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
7448
7449 stress_hpt [PPC,EARLY]
7450 Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash
7451 page table to increase the rate of hash page table
7452 faults on kernel addresses.
7453
7454 stress_slb [PPC,EARLY]
7455 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
7456 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
7457 on kernel addresses.
7458
7459 no_slb_preload [PPC,EARLY]
7460 Disables slb preloading for userspace.
7461
7462 sunrpc.min_resvport=
7463 sunrpc.max_resvport=
7464 [NFS,SUNRPC]
7465 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
7466 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
7467 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
7468 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
7469 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
7470 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
7471 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
7472 maximum port values.
7473
7474 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
7475 [NFS,SUNRPC]
7476 Limit the number of requests that the server will
7477 process in parallel from a single connection.
7478 The default value is 0 (no limit).
7479
7480 sunrpc.pool_mode=
7481 [NFS]
7482 Deprecated. The NFS server now always uses one
7483 service thread pool per NUMA node (equivalent to a
7484 single global pool on non-NUMA machines). All of
7485 the previously accepted values (auto, global,
7486 percpu, pernode) are still accepted for backward
7487 compatibility but are ignored: the mode is always
7488 pernode, and reads always return "pernode".
7489
7490 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
7491 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
7492 [NFS,SUNRPC]
7493 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
7494 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
7495 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
7496 improve throughput, but will also increase the
7497 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
7498
7499 suspend.pm_test_delay=
7500 [SUSPEND]
7501 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
7502 mode before resuming the system (see
7503 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
7504 is set. Default value is 5.
7505
7506 svm= [PPC]
7507 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
7508 This parameter controls use of the Protected
7509 Execution Facility on pSeries.
7510
7511 swiotlb= [ARM,PPC,MIPS,X86,S390,EARLY]
7512 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce | track_hiwater}
7513 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
7514 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
7515 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up
7516 to a power of 2.
7517 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
7518 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
7519 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
7520 track_hiwater -- Track high watermark of swiotlb buffers.
7521 Only available when CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is set.
7522
7523 switches= [HW,M68k,EARLY]
7524
7525 sysctl.*= [KNL]
7526 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
7527 process, as if the value was written to the respective
7528 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
7529 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
7530 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
7531 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
7532 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
7533
7534 sysrq_always_enabled
7535 [KNL]
7536 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
7537 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
7538 Useful for debugging.
7539
7540 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
7541 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
7542 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
7543 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
7544 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
7545 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
7546
7547 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
7548
7549 test_suspend= [SUSPEND]
7550 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
7551 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
7552 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
7553 as the system sleep state during system startup with
7554 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
7555 The system is woken from this state using a
7556 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
7557
7558 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
7559 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
7560
7561 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
7562 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
7563 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
7564
7565 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
7566 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
7567 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
7568
7569 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
7570 1: disable ACPI thermal control
7571
7572 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
7573 -1: disable all passive trip points
7574 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
7575 value
7576
7577 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
7578 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
7579 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
7580 0: no polling (default)
7581
7582 thp_anon= [KNL]
7583 Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<state>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<state>
7584 state is one of "always", "madvise", "never" or "inherit".
7585 Control the default behavior of the system with respect
7586 to anonymous transparent hugepages.
7587 Can be used multiple times for multiple anon THP sizes.
7588 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more
7589 details.
7590
7591 threadirqs [KNL,EARLY]
7592 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
7593 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
7594
7595 thp_shmem= [KNL]
7596 Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<policy>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<policy>
7597 Control the default policy of each hugepage size for the
7598 internal shmem mount. <policy> is one of policies available
7599 for the shmem mount ("always", "inherit", "never", "within_size",
7600 and "advise").
7601 It can be used multiple times for multiple shmem THP sizes.
7602 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more
7603 details.
7604
7605 tlbi= [X86-64]
7606 Format: {ipi}
7607 ipi: switch to IPI-based TLB flushing
7608
7609 topology= [S390,EARLY]
7610 Format: {off | on}
7611 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
7612 topology information if the hardware supports this.
7613 The scheduler will make use of this information and
7614 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
7615 Default is on.
7616
7617 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
7618 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
7619 until after init has spawned.
7620
7621 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
7622 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
7623 even if there were no errors. This can be a
7624 very costly operation when many torture tests
7625 are running concurrently, especially on systems
7626 with rotating-rust storage.
7627
7628 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
7629 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
7630 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero
7631 disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
7632
7633 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
7634 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
7635
7636 tpm.disable_pcr_integrity= [HW,TPM]
7637 Do not protect PCR registers from unintended physical
7638 access, or interposers in the bus by the means of
7639 having an integrity protected session wrapped around
7640 TPM2_PCR_Extend command. Consider this in a situation
7641 where TPM is heavily utilized by IMA, thus protection
7642 causing a major performance hit, and the space where
7643 machines are deployed is by other means guarded.
7644
7645 tpm_crb_ffa.busy_timeout_ms= [ARM64,TPM]
7646 Maximum time in milliseconds to retry sending a message
7647 to the TPM service before giving up. This parameter controls
7648 how long the system will continue retrying when the TPM
7649 service is busy.
7650 Format: <unsigned int>
7651 Default: 2000 (2 seconds)
7652
7653 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
7654 Format: integer pcr id
7655 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
7656 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
7657 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
7658 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
7659 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
7660 are saved.
7661
7662 tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM]
7663 Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer
7664 for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false
7665 (0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces
7666 defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see
7667 https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/
7668
7669 tp_printk [FTRACE]
7670 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
7671 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
7672 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
7673 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
7674 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
7675
7676 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
7677 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
7678 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
7679 tp_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
7680
7681 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
7682 to stop the printing of events to console at
7683 late_initcall_sync.
7684
7685 ** CAUTION **
7686
7687 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
7688 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
7689 the system to live lock.
7690
7691 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
7692 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
7693 on the console. It may be useful to only include the
7694 printing of events during boot up, as user space may
7695 make the system inoperable.
7696
7697 This command line option will stop the printing of events
7698 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
7699
7700 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
7701 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
7702
7703 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
7704 at boot up.
7705 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
7706 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
7707 depending on the architecture, may not be
7708 in sync between CPUs.
7709 global - Event time stamps are synchronized across
7710 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
7711 but better for some race conditions.
7712 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
7713 note, some counts may be skipped due to the
7714 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
7715 once per event.
7716 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
7717 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
7718 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
7719 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
7720 stamps.
7721 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
7722 Architectures may add more clocks. See
7723 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
7724
7725 trace_event=[event-list]
7726 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
7727 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
7728 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
7729 also Documentation/trace/events.rst
7730
7731 To enable modules, use :mod: keyword:
7732
7733 trace_event=:mod:<module>
7734
7735 The value before :mod: will only enable specific events
7736 that are part of the module. See the above mentioned
7737 document for more information.
7738
7739 trace_instance=[instance-info]
7740 [FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up.
7741 This will be listed in:
7742
7743 /sys/kernel/tracing/instances
7744
7745 Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created
7746 via:
7747
7748 trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2>
7749
7750 Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is
7751 unique.
7752
7753 trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall
7754
7755 will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and
7756 the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry
7757 event, and all events under the "initcall" system.
7758
7759 Flags can be added to the instance to modify its behavior when it is
7760 created. The flags are separated by '^'.
7761
7762 The available flags are:
7763
7764 traceoff - Have the tracing instance tracing disabled after it is created.
7765 traceprintk - Have trace_printk() write into this trace instance
7766 (note, "printk" and "trace_printk" can also be used)
7767
7768 trace_instance=foo^traceoff^traceprintk,sched,irq
7769
7770 The flags must come before the defined events.
7771
7772 If memory has been reserved (see memmap for x86), the instance
7773 can use that memory:
7774
7775 memmap=12M$0x284500000 trace_instance=boot_map@0x284500000:12M
7776
7777 The above will create a "boot_map" instance that uses the physical
7778 memory at 0x284500000 that is 12Megs. The per CPU buffers of that
7779 instance will be split up accordingly.
7780
7781 Alternatively, the memory can be reserved by the reserve_mem option:
7782
7783 reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map@trace
7784
7785 This will reserve 12 megabytes at boot up with a 4096 byte alignment
7786 and place the ring buffer in this memory. Note that due to KASLR, the
7787 memory may not be the same location each time, which will not preserve
7788 the buffer content.
7789
7790 Also note that the layout of the ring buffer data may change between
7791 kernel versions where the validator will fail and reset the ring buffer
7792 if the layout is not the same as the previous kernel.
7793
7794 If the ring buffer is used for persistent bootups and has events enabled,
7795 it is recommend to disable tracing so that events from a previous boot do not
7796 mix with events of the current boot (unless you are debugging a random crash
7797 at boot up).
7798
7799 reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map^traceoff^traceprintk@trace,sched,irq
7800
7801 Note, saving the trace buffer across reboots does require that the system
7802 is set up to not wipe memory. For instance, CONFIG_RESET_ATTACK_MITIGATION
7803 can force a memory reset on boot which will clear any trace that was stored.
7804 This is just one of many ways that can clear memory. Make sure your system
7805 keeps the content of memory across reboots before relying on this option.
7806
7807 NB: Both the mapped address and size must be page aligned for the architecture.
7808
7809 See also Documentation/trace/debugging.rst
7810
7811
7812 trace_options=[option-list]
7813 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
7814 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
7815 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
7816 to echo the option name into
7817
7818 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options
7819
7820 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
7821 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
7822
7823 trace_options=stacktrace
7824
7825 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
7826 section.
7827
7828 trace_trigger=[trigger-list]
7829 [FTRACE] Add an event trigger on specific events.
7830 Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional
7831 filter.
7832
7833 The format is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..."
7834 Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma delimited.
7835
7836 For example:
7837
7838 trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2"
7839
7840 The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch"
7841 event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch"
7842 event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE).
7843
7844 See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst
7845
7846
7847 traceoff_after_boot
7848 [FTRACE] Sometimes tracing is used to debug issues
7849 during the boot process. Since the trace buffer has a
7850 limited amount of storage, it may be prudent to
7851 disable tracing after the boot is finished, otherwise
7852 the critical information may be overwritten. With this
7853 option, the main tracing buffer will be turned off at
7854 the end of the boot process.
7855
7856 traceoff_on_warning
7857 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
7858 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
7859 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
7860 file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/
7861
7862 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
7863 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
7864 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
7865
7866 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
7867 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
7868
7869 transparent_hugepage=
7870 [KNL]
7871 Format: [always|madvise|never]
7872 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
7873 with respect to transparent hugepages.
7874 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7875 for more details.
7876
7877 transparent_hugepage_shmem= [KNL]
7878 Format: [always|within_size|advise|never|deny|force]
7879 Can be used to control the hugepage allocation policy for
7880 the internal shmem mount.
7881 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7882 for more details.
7883
7884 transparent_hugepage_tmpfs= [KNL]
7885 Format: [always|within_size|advise|never]
7886 Can be used to control the default hugepage allocation policy
7887 for the tmpfs mount.
7888 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7889 for more details.
7890
7891 trusted.source= [KEYS]
7892 Format: <string>
7893 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
7894 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
7895 sources:
7896 - "tpm"
7897 - "tee"
7898 - "caam"
7899 - "dcp"
7900 - "pkwm"
7901 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
7902 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
7903 first trust source as a backend which is initialized
7904 successfully during iteration.
7905
7906 trusted.debug= [KEYS]
7907 Format: <bool>
7908 Enable trusted keys debug traces at runtime when
7909 CONFIG_TRUSTED_KEYS_DEBUG=y.
7910
7911 To make the traces visible after enabling the option,
7912 use trusted.dyndbg='+p' as needed. By convention,
7913 the subsystem uses pr_debug() for these traces.
7914
7915 SAFETY: The traces can leak sensitive data, so be
7916 cautious before enabling this. They remain inactive
7917 unless this parameter is set this option to a true
7918 value.
7919
7920 Default: false
7921
7922 trusted.rng= [KEYS]
7923 Format: <string>
7924 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
7925 Can be one of:
7926 - "kernel"
7927 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
7928 - "default"
7929 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
7930 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
7931
7932 trusted.dcp_use_otp_key
7933 This is intended to be used in combination with
7934 trusted.source=dcp and will select the DCP OTP key
7935 instead of the DCP UNIQUE key blob encryption.
7936
7937 trusted.dcp_skip_zk_test
7938 This is intended to be used in combination with
7939 trusted.source=dcp and will disable the check if the
7940 blob key is all zeros. This is helpful for situations where
7941 having this key zero'ed is acceptable. E.g. in testing
7942 scenarios.
7943
7944 tsa= [X86] Control mitigation for Transient Scheduler
7945 Attacks on AMD CPUs. Search the following in your
7946 favourite search engine for more details:
7947
7948 "Technical guidance for mitigating transient scheduler
7949 attacks".
7950
7951 off - disable the mitigation
7952 on - enable the mitigation (default)
7953 user - mitigate only user/kernel transitions
7954 vm - mitigate only guest/host transitions
7955
7956
7957 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
7958 Format: <string>
7959 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
7960 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
7961 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
7962 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
7963 virtualized environment.
7964 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
7965 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
7966 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
7967 can add overhead.
7968 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
7969 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
7970 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
7971 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
7972 in situations with strict latency requirements (where
7973 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
7974 acceptable).
7975 [x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer
7976 (HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was
7977 obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15).
7978 Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm.
7979 [x86] watchdog: Enforce the clocksource watchdog on TSC
7980
7981 tsc_early_khz= [X86,EARLY] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
7982 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
7983 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
7984 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
7985 Format: <unsigned int>
7986
7987 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
7988 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
7989 support TSX control.
7990
7991 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
7992
7993 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
7994 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
7995 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
7996 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
7997 so there may be unknown security risks associated
7998 with leaving it enabled.
7999
8000 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
8001 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
8002 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
8003 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
8004 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
8005 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
8006 deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
8007
8008 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
8009 otherwise enable TSX on the system.
8010
8011 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
8012
8013 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
8014 for more details.
8015
8016 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
8017 Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
8018
8019 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
8020 certain CPUs that support Transactional
8021 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
8022 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
8023 information to a disclosure gadget under certain
8024 conditions.
8025
8026 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
8027 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
8028 access data to which the attacker does not have direct
8029 access.
8030
8031 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The
8032 options are:
8033
8034 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
8035 if TSX is enabled.
8036
8037 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
8038 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
8039 is not disabled because CPU is not
8040 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
8041 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
8042
8043 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
8044 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
8045 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
8046 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
8047
8048 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
8049 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected
8050 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
8051 required and doesn't provide any additional
8052 mitigation.
8053
8054 For details see:
8055 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
8056
8057 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
8058 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
8059 Format:
8060 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
8061 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
8062
8063 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
8064 happen after console_init() and before a proper
8065 console driver takes over, this boot options might
8066 help "seeing" what's going on.
8067
8068 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
8069 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
8070
8071 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
8072 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
8073 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
8074 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
8075 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
8076 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
8077 reported either.
8078
8079 unaligned_scalar_speed=
8080 [RISCV]
8081 Format: {slow | fast | unsupported}
8082 Allow skipping scalar unaligned access speed tests. This
8083 is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip
8084 the tests in environments where they run too slowly. All
8085 CPUs must have the same scalar unaligned access speed.
8086
8087 unaligned_vector_speed=
8088 [RISCV]
8089 Format: {slow | fast | unsupported}
8090 Allow skipping vector unaligned access speed tests. This
8091 is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip
8092 the tests in environments where they run too slowly. All
8093 CPUs must have the same vector unaligned access speed.
8094
8095 unknown_nmi_panic
8096 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
8097
8098 unwind_debug [X86-64,EARLY]
8099 Enable unwinder debug output. This can be
8100 useful for debugging certain unwinder error
8101 conditions, including corrupt stacks and
8102 bad/missing unwinder metadata.
8103
8104 usbcore.authorized_default=
8105 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
8106 (default -1 = authorized (same as 1),
8107 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
8108 if device connected to internal port)
8109
8110 usbcore.autosuspend=
8111 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
8112 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
8113 is the time required before an idle device will be
8114 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
8115 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
8116
8117 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
8118 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
8119
8120 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
8121 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
8122 (default = 65536).
8123
8124 usbcore.blinkenlights=
8125 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
8126
8127 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
8128 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
8129 scheme (default 0 = off).
8130
8131 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
8132 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
8133 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
8134
8135 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
8136 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
8137 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
8138
8139 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
8140 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
8141 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
8142 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
8143
8144 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
8145
8146 usbcore.quirks=
8147 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
8148 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
8149 commas. Each entry has the form
8150 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
8151 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
8152 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
8153 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
8154 the following meanings:
8155 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
8156 descriptors must not be fetched using
8157 a 255-byte read);
8158 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
8159 correctly so reset it instead);
8160 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
8161 Set-Interface requests);
8162 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
8163 handle its Configuration or Interface
8164 strings);
8165 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
8166 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
8167 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
8168 more interface descriptions than the
8169 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
8170 talking to these interfaces);
8171 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
8172 during initialization, after we read
8173 the device descriptor);
8174 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
8175 high speed and super speed interrupt
8176 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
8177 require the interval in microframes (1
8178 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
8179 calculated as interval = 2 ^
8180 (bInterval-1).
8181 Devices with this quirk report their
8182 bInterval as the result of this
8183 calculation instead of the exponent
8184 variable used in the calculation);
8185 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
8186 handle device_qualifier descriptor
8187 requests);
8188 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
8189 generates spurious wakeup, ignore
8190 remote wakeup capability);
8191 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
8192 Power Management);
8193 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
8194 (Device reports its bInterval as linear
8195 frames instead of the USB 2.0
8196 calculation);
8197 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
8198 to be disconnected before suspend to
8199 prevent spurious wakeup);
8200 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
8201 pause after every control message);
8202 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
8203 delay after resetting its port);
8204 p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT
8205 (Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS
8206 request from 5000 ms to 500 ms);
8207 q = USB_QUIRK_FORCE_ONE_CONFIG (Device
8208 claims zero configurations,
8209 forcing to 1);
8210 r = USB_QUIRK_WINDOWS_CONFIG_REQ_SIZE (Device
8211 fails during initialization when asked for
8212 9-bytes configuration descriptor request.
8213 Ask for 255-bytes request instead to mirror
8214 Windows' behavior);
8215 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
8216
8217 usbhid.mousepoll=
8218 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
8219
8220 usbhid.jspoll=
8221 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
8222
8223 usbhid.kbpoll=
8224 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
8225
8226 usb-storage.delay_use=
8227 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
8228 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
8229 Optionally the delay in milliseconds if the value has
8230 suffix with "ms".
8231 Example: delay_use=2567ms
8232
8233 usb-storage.quirks=
8234 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
8235 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
8236 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
8237 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
8238 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
8239 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
8240 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
8241 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
8242 of sense data, not on uas);
8243 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
8244 bytes of sense data, not on uas);
8245 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
8246 device capacity by one sector);
8247 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
8248 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
8249 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
8250 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
8251 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
8252 command, uas only);
8253 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
8254 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
8255 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
8256 reported device capacity by one
8257 sector if the number is odd);
8258 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
8259 device);
8260 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
8261 command, uas only);
8262 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
8263 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
8264 unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
8265 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
8266 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
8267 not on uas);
8268 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
8269 initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
8270 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
8271 reported by the device, not on uas);
8272 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
8273 by default, not on uas);
8274 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
8275 bogus residue values, not on uas);
8276 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
8277 Logical Unit);
8278 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
8279 commands, uas only);
8280 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
8281 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
8282 medium is write-protected).
8283 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
8284 even if the device claims no cache,
8285 not on uas)
8286 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
8287
8288 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
8289 Format: <int>
8290 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
8291 1 - undefined instruction events
8292 2 - system calls
8293 4 - invalid data aborts
8294 8 - SIGSEGV faults
8295 16 - SIGBUS faults
8296 Example: user_debug=31
8297
8298 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC]
8299 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
8300
8301 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
8302 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
8303
8304 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
8305 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
8306 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
8307
8308 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
8309 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
8310 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
8311
8312 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
8313 alias for vdso32=0.
8314
8315 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
8316 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
8317
8318 video= [FB,EARLY] Frame buffer configuration
8319 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
8320
8321 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
8322 Format: [0|1]
8323 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
8324 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
8325 level and then send out the event to user space through
8326 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
8327 will only send out the event without touching backlight
8328 brightness level.
8329 default: 1
8330
8331 virtio_mmio.device=
8332 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
8333
8334 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
8335 where:
8336 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
8337 like K, M and G)
8338 <baseaddr> := physical base address
8339 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
8340 request_irq())
8341 <id> := (optional) platform device id
8342 example:
8343 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
8344
8345 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
8346
8347 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
8348 See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and
8349 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
8350 Use vga=ask for menu.
8351 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
8352 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
8353
8354 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
8355 May slow down system boot speed, especially when
8356 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
8357 All options are enabled by default, and this
8358 interface is meant to allow for selectively
8359 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
8360 debugging features.
8361
8362 Available options are:
8363 P Enable page structure init time poisoning
8364 - Disable all of the above options
8365
8366 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Forces the vmalloc area to have an
8367 exact size of <nn>. This can be used to increase
8368 the minimum size (128MB on x86, arm32 platforms).
8369 It can also be used to decrease the size and leave more room
8370 for directly mapped kernel RAM. Note that this parameter does
8371 not exist on many other platforms (including arm64, alpha,
8372 loongarch, arc, csky, hexagon, microblaze, mips, nios2, openrisc,
8373 parisc, m64k, powerpc, riscv, sh, um, xtensa, s390, sparc).
8374
8375 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390,EARLY]
8376 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
8377 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
8378
8379 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
8380 Format: <command>
8381
8382 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
8383 Format: <command>
8384
8385 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
8386 Format: <command>
8387
8388 vmscape= [X86] Controls mitigation for VMscape attacks.
8389 VMscape attacks can leak information from a userspace
8390 hypervisor to a guest via speculative side-channels.
8391
8392 off - disable the mitigation
8393 ibpb - use Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier
8394 (IBPB) mitigation (default)
8395 force - force vulnerability detection even on
8396 unaffected processors
8397
8398 vsyscall= [X86-64,EARLY]
8399 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
8400 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
8401 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
8402 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
8403 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
8404 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
8405
8406 emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
8407 reasonably safely. The vsyscall page is
8408 readable. This disables the Linear
8409 Address Space Separation (LASS) security
8410 feature and makes the system less secure.
8411
8412 xonly [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
8413 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
8414 page is not readable.
8415
8416 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
8417 them quite hard to use for exploits but
8418 might break your system.
8419
8420 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
8421 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
8422 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
8423
8424 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
8425 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
8426 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
8427 see vga-softcursor.rst. Default: 2 = underline.
8428
8429 vt.default_blu= [VT]
8430 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
8431 Change the default blue palette of the console.
8432 This is a 16-member array composed of values
8433 ranging from 0-255.
8434
8435 vt.default_grn= [VT]
8436 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
8437 Change the default green palette of the console.
8438 This is a 16-member array composed of values
8439 ranging from 0-255.
8440
8441 vt.default_red= [VT]
8442 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
8443 Change the default red palette of the console.
8444 This is a 16-member array composed of values
8445 ranging from 0-255.
8446
8447 vt.default_utf8=
8448 [VT]
8449 Format=<0|1>
8450 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
8451 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
8452 newly opened terminals.
8453
8454 vt.global_cursor_default=
8455 [VT]
8456 Format=<-1|0|1>
8457 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
8458 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
8459 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
8460 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
8461 cursors, 1 will display them.
8462
8463 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
8464 Default: 2 = green.
8465
8466 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
8467 Default: 3 = cyan.
8468
8469 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
8470 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
8471 or other driver-specific files in the
8472 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
8473
8474 watchdog_thresh=
8475 [KNL]
8476 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
8477 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
8478 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
8479 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
8480 seconds.
8481
8482 workqueue.unbound_cpus=
8483 [KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs
8484 to use in unbound workqueues.
8485 Format: <cpu-list>
8486 By default, all online CPUs are available for
8487 unbound workqueues.
8488
8489 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
8490 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
8491 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
8492 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
8493 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
8494 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
8495 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
8496 corresponding sysfs file.
8497
8498 workqueue.panic_on_stall=<uint>
8499 Panic when workqueue stall is detected by
8500 CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG. It sets the number times of the
8501 stall to trigger panic.
8502
8503 The default is set by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_WQ_STALL_PANIC,
8504 which is 0 (disabled) if not configured.
8505
8506 workqueue.panic_on_stall_time=<uint>
8507 Panic when a workqueue stall has been continuous for
8508 the specified number of seconds. Unlike panic_on_stall
8509 which counts accumulated stall events, this triggers
8510 based on the duration of a single continuous stall.
8511
8512 The default is 0, which disables the time-based panic.
8513
8514 workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us=
8515 Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this
8516 threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive
8517 and excluded from concurrency management to prevent
8518 them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work
8519 items. Default is 10000 (10ms).
8520
8521 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
8522 will report the work functions which violate this
8523 threshold repeatedly. They are likely good
8524 candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead.
8525
8526 workqueue.cpu_intensive_warning_thresh=<uint>
8527 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
8528 will report the work functions which violate the
8529 intensive_threshold_us repeatedly. In order to prevent
8530 spurious warnings, start printing only after a work
8531 function has violated this threshold number of times.
8532
8533 The default is 4 times. 0 disables the warning.
8534
8535 workqueue.power_efficient
8536 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
8537 they show better performance thanks to cache
8538 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
8539 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
8540
8541 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
8542 were observed to contribute significantly to power
8543 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
8544 power usage at the cost of small performance
8545 overhead.
8546
8547 The default value of this parameter is determined by
8548 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
8549
8550 workqueue.default_affinity_scope=
8551 Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound
8552 workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache",
8553 "cache_shard", "numa" and "system". Default is
8554 "cache_shard". For more
8555 information, see the Affinity Scopes section in
8556 Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst.
8557
8558 This can be changed after boot by writing to the
8559 matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All
8560 workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be
8561 updated accordingly.
8562
8563 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
8564 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
8565 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
8566 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
8567 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
8568 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
8569 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
8570 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
8571 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
8572 impacted.
8573
8574 writecombine= [LOONGARCH,EARLY] Control the MAT (Memory Access
8575 Type) of ioremap_wc().
8576
8577 on - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc()
8578 off - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc()
8579
8580 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
8581 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
8582 supporting x2apic.
8583
8584 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
8585 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
8586 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
8587 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
8588 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
8589 domains.
8590
8591 xen_console_io [XEN,EARLY]
8592 Boolean option to enable/disable the usage of the Xen
8593 console_io hypercalls to read and write to the console.
8594 Mostly useful for debugging and development.
8595
8596 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN,EARLY]
8597 Unplug Xen emulated devices
8598 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
8599 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
8600 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
8601 nics -- unplug network devices
8602 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
8603 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
8604 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
8605 the unplug protocol
8606 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
8607
8608 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN,EARLY]
8609 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
8610 panic() code such as dumping handler.
8611
8612 xen_mc_debug [X86,XEN,EARLY]
8613 Enable multicall debugging when running as a Xen PV guest.
8614 Enabling this feature will reduce performance a little
8615 bit, so it should only be enabled for obtaining extended
8616 debug data in case of multicall errors.
8617
8618 xen_msr_safe= [X86,XEN,EARLY]
8619 Format: <bool>
8620 Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR
8621 access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The
8622 default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE.
8623
8624 xen_nopv [X86]
8625 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
8626 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
8627 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
8628 has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
8629
8630 xen_no_vector_callback
8631 [KNL,X86,XEN,EARLY] Disable the vector callback for Xen
8632 event channel interrupts.
8633
8634 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN]
8635 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
8636 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
8637 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
8638 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
8639
8640 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN,EARLY]
8641 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
8642 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
8643 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
8644 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
8645 more timer interrupts.
8646
8647 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
8648 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
8649 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
8650 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
8651 started with less memory configured than allowed at
8652 max. Default is 180.
8653
8654 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN]
8655 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
8656 storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
8657
8658 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN]
8659 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
8660 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
8661
8662 xen.fifo_events= [XEN]
8663 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
8664 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
8665 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
8666 fairer and the number of possible event channels is
8667 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
8668
8669 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
8670 Format:
8671 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
8672
8673 xive= [PPC]
8674 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
8675 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
8676 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
8677
8678 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
8679 controller on both pseries and powernv
8680 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
8681
8682 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC]
8683 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
8684 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
8685 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
8686 loads instead, as on POWER9.
8687
8688 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL]
8689 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
8690 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
8691 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
8692
8693 xmon [PPC,EARLY]
8694 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
8695 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
8696 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
8697 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
8698 debugger is called from setup_arch().
8699 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
8700 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
8701 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
8702 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
8703 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
8704 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
8705 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
8706 can be written using xmon commands.
8707 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
8708 memory, and other data can't be written using
8709 xmon commands.
8710 off xmon is disabled.