Lines Matching +full:always +full:- +full:wait +full:- +full:for +full:- +full:ack
8 For some workloads or for debugging purposes
16 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
17 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64,riscv64]
18 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
19 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
20 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
22 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
23 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
24 nospcr -- disable console in ACPI SPCR table as
26 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on", "acpi=force" or
28 For RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
41 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
51 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
58 This option is useful for developers to identify the
73 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
90 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
120 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
131 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
134 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
137 auto-serialization feature.
141 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
155 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
161 second kernel for kdump.
176 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
178 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
233 and always returns good values.
240 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
246 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
248 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
249 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
274 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
287 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
294 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
298 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
299 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
302 32: only for 32-bit processes
303 64: only for 64-bit processes
304 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
305 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
315 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
317 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
318 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
320 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
322 See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
325 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
328 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
329 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
331 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
336 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
339 pgtbl_v1 - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default).
340 pgtbl_v2 - Use v2 page table for DMA-API.
341 irtcachedis - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching.
342 nohugepages - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables
344 v2_pgsizes_only - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables
348 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
350 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
351 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
354 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
357 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
358 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
360 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
366 scaling driver for the supported processors
389 Disable amd-pstate preferred core.
402 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
404 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
405 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
412 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
413 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
423 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
436 0 -- disable.
437 1 -- enable.
440 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
488 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
490 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
492 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
494 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
507 0 - Disable the BAU.
508 1 - Enable the BAU.
509 unset - Disable the BAU.
531 for writing, i.e., allow / disallow writes that bypass
546 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
548 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
560 and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
562 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
567 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
571 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
576 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
579 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
581 This option provides an override for these situations.
585 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
589 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
595 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
596 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
600 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
605 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
607 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
609 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
615 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
633 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
634 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
635 nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting.
640 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
642 1 -- check protection requested by application.
649 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
652 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
653 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
654 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
655 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
675 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
676 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
678 platform with proper driver support. For more
679 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
681 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
698 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
705 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
711 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
716 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
725 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
731 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
733 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
737 altogether. For more information, see
742 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
744 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
746 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
753 Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for
755 area for the specified node.
765 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
770 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
773 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
777 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
781 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
791 operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example
792 x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the
807 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
810 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
812 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
820 as documented for the ttyS addressing above.
825 $ ls -d /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/*:*.*/tty/*
826 /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/00:04:0.0/tty/ttyS0
832 the console may be desired for console output early on.
839 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
842 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
843 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
846 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
847 the h/w is not re-initialized.
849 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
859 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
861 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
874 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
882 [KNL] Change the default value for
898 disable the cpuidle sub-system
904 disable the cpufreq sub-system
912 [X86,EARLY] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
924 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
925 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
934 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
937 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] Select a region
940 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
945 start-[end] where start and end are both
947 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
950 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range could be
958 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range under 4G.
964 for 32-bit devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
967 --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB)
968 --> arm64: 128MiB
969 --> riscv: 128MiB
970 --> loongarch: 128MiB
972 for second kernel instead.
978 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
986 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU
1001 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1014 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests
1017 self-tests.
1018 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
1019 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
1020 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
1031 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
1055 Format: { on, no-mount, off }
1057 no-mount:
1062 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
1066 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
1074 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
1078 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1082 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
1092 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
1119 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1120 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1123 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1125 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1127 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1128 level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1131 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1182 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1183 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1184 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1188 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1190 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1195 [X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data
1211 For details see:
1212 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst
1226 An EDID data set will only be used for a particular
1230 data set with no connector name will be used for
1237 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1238 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1246 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
1247 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1252 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1253 for details.
1257 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1263 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1268 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1279 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1281 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1282 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1285 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1292 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1296 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1305 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1311 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1317 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1323 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1329 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1335 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1338 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1353 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1367 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1372 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1378 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1386 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1392 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1423 You can find the port for a given device in
1467 memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1485 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1499 very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1502 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1510 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1526 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1527 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1538 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1563 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1567 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1571 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1573 forcepae [X86-32]
1580 fred= [X86-64]
1599 Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing
1631 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1633 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1638 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1640 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1644 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1647 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1651 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1653 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of
1673 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info.
1674 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1675 but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1677 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it
1679 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1683 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1692 strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to
1694 timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call
1704 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1708 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64,EARLY] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1732 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1742 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1743 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1745 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1773 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1777 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1783 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1789 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1790 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1797 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1807 during restoration read-only).
1844 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1859 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1861 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1862 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1870 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1873 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1876 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA,EARLY] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1884 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1891 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1912 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1918 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1922 hvc_dcc.enable= [ARM,ARM64] Enable DCC driver at runtime. For GKI,
1938 Set device-properties for ACPI-enumerated I2C-attached
1939 touchscreen, to e.g. fix coordinates of upside-down
1942 adding a DMI quirk for this.
1947 Omit "=<val>" entirely Set a boolean device-property
1948 Unsigned number Set a u32 device-property
1949 Anything else Set a string device-property
1952 i2c_touchscreen_props=GDIX1001:touchscreen-inverted-x:
1953 touchscreen-inverted-y
1955 i2c_touchscreen_props=MSSL1680:touchscreen-size-x=1920:
1956 touchscreen-size-y=1080:touchscreen-inverted-y:
1957 firmware-name=gsl1680-vendor-model.fw:silead,home-button
1962 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1964 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1968 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1971 for the AUX port
1978 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1981 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1984 architectures force reset to be always executed
2002 -1 -- never invert brightness
2003 0 -- machine default
2004 1 -- force brightness inversion
2006 ia32_emulation= [X86-64]
2008 When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit
2022 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
2024 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
2029 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
2035 for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
2041 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
2052 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
2054 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
2061 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
2065 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
2066 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
2070 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
2071 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
2075 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
2076 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
2082 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
2087 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
2098 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
2115 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
2137 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
2138 opened for read by uid=0.
2142 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
2143 "ima-sigv2" }
2144 Default: "ima-ng"
2150 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
2152 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
2155 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
2157 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
2163 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
2165 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
2167 indirect_target_selection= [X86,Intel] Mitigation control for Indirect
2169 microcode is also required for a fix in IBPB.
2177 stuff: Deploy RSB-fill mitigation when retpoline is
2181 For details see:
2182 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/indirect-target-selection.rst
2190 for working out where the kernel is dying during
2193 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
2194 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
2228 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
2239 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2240 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2251 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2261 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2268 could harm performance of some high-throughput
2277 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2282 scaling driver for the supported processors
2286 algorithms for p-state selection. There are two
2287 P-state selection algorithms provided by
2290 on whether or not the hardware managed P-states
2297 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2301 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2302 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2304 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2307 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2320 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2323 intremap= [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY]
2328 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2350 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2352 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2354 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2356 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2357 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2358 greater than 32-bit addressing.
2362 0 - Lazy mode.
2364 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2368 1 - Strict mode.
2371 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2373 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2378 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2379 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2380 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2382 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2397 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2420 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2427 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2433 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2439 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2444 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2452 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2453 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2484 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2510 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2514 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64]
2515 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2519 For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2525 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2528 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2532 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64]
2533 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2537 For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to
2543 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2546 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2550 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64]
2551 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2555 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2561 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0,
2564 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2574 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2579 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
2588 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested
2590 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for
2596 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2598 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2606 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2607 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2616 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2617 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
2618 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2623 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2650 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2653 kmemleak= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2659 kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2661 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2664 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2691 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2698 still be used for reads.
2705 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
2718 virtualization on-demand when creating and destroying
2723 latency for creation of the 0=>1 VM, as KVM serializes
2726 is that doing so may interfere with using out-of-tree
2733 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2735 force : Always deploy workaround.
2742 If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2743 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2753 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2758 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in
2761 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables,
2762 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1
2764 for NPT.
2766 kvm-arm.hyp_lm_size_mb=
2769 memory than this into pKVM stage-1 at run-time may be fatal.
2771 kvm-arm.mode=
2777 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2780 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2782 Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pkvm.rst for more
2785 nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested
2791 for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be
2794 kvm-arm.protected_modules=
2799 kvm-arm.mode=protected.
2801 kvm-arm.protected_prefault=
2802 [KVM,ARM] Minimum order for each protected VM fault.
2805 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2806 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2809 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2810 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2813 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2817 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2818 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Allow use of GICv4 for direct
2821 kvm-arm.wfe_trap_policy=
2822 [KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFE instruction trap for
2830 kvm-arm.wfi_trap_policy=
2831 [KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFI instruction trap for
2840 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2841 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2847 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables,
2848 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1
2850 for EPT.
2852 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2854 state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1,
2855 as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted
2860 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2863 hardware lacks support for it.
2865 kvm-intel.nested=
2869 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2873 hardware lacks support for it.
2875 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2876 CVE-2018-3620.
2878 Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2880 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2887 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor
2890 for it.
2893 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2907 on - enable the interface for the mitigation
2916 Provides all available mitigations for the
2972 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2978 lapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2982 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2995 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
3005 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma-
3017 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
3023 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
3031 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
3038 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
3061 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
3081 * external: Mark port as external (hotplug-capable).
3089 support for devices supporting this feature.
3122 Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock
3135 Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu()
3142 Specify the duration in milliseconds for the
3143 occasional long-duration lock hold time. Defaults
3154 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
3159 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
3162 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3165 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3166 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3169 Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority
3173 odd choice, but which should be harmless for
3174 non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling
3175 of preemption. Note that non-realtime mutexes
3179 Number that determines how often and for how
3188 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
3189 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
3194 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3200 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
3201 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
3202 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
3213 Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at
3214 sched_set_fifo() real-time priority.
3232 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
3242 for more details.
3244 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
3245 This may be used to provide more screen space for
3262 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
3268 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
3270 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
3288 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
3300 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
3303 devices can be requested on-demand with the
3304 /dev/loop-control interface.
3306 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
3308 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
3311 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3318 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
3333 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3334 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
3336 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
3338 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
3347 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
3356 1 for test;
3360 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
3362 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
3365 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
3378 [ARM,MIPS,EARLY] - override the memory layout
3385 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3391 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3392 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3395 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3400 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3425 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3439 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3441 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3452 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
3456 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3461 By default it checks for corruption in the low
3462 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3463 use. Use this parameter to scan for
3467 By default it checks for corruption every 60
3500 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3506 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3507 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3510 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
3511 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3512 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3513 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3515 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3525 enforcement for the runtime microcode loader.
3531 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3532 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3533 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3537 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3541 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3542 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3546 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3549 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64,EARLY] Control optional mitigations for
3551 arch-independent options, each of which is an
3552 aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3582 ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3593 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for
3596 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3601 if needed. This is for users who always want to
3611 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3618 [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the Processor
3631 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3633 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
3636 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation
3648 For details see:
3649 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
3660 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a
3664 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for
3672 will always be issued and this option does nothing.
3677 is always true, so this option does nothing.
3679 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3680 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
3684 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3685 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3688 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3690 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3696 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3701 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3704 movable_node [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3706 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3711 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3714 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3728 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3732 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3741 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3745 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3753 something different and driver-specific.
3759 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3793 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3794 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3795 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3796 of returning the full 64-bit number.
3797 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3800 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3807 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3832 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3863 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3868 server-to-server copies for which this server is
3880 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
3883 used for the number of milliseconds specified by
3887 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3889 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3890 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3893 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3897 NMI stack-backtrace request.
3903 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3906 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3907 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3908 rNNN - configure the watchdog with raw perf event 0xNNN
3921 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3925 no4lvl [RISCV,EARLY] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes.
3926 Forces kernel to use 3-level paging instead.
3928 no5lvl [X86-64,RISCV,EARLY] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3929 kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3962 no_entry_flush [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3964 noexec32 [X86-64]
3965 This affects only 32-bit executables.
3966 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3968 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3972 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3979 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3981 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3992 compared. However, if this command-line option is
4001 busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
4033 nointremap [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] Do not enable interrupt
4035 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
4041 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
4051 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
4054 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
4056 nolapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
4058 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not use the local APIC timer.
4060 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
4062 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
4063 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
4067 for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will
4068 not load if they could possibly displace the pre-
4070 be available for use. The respective drivers will not
4071 perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering.
4073 Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging.
4084 nopcid [X86-64,EARLY] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
4089 nopti [X86-64,EARLY]
4105 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
4111 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
4112 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
4115 nosgx [X86-64,SGX,EARLY] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
4126 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
4135 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
4138 [HW,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative
4141 nospectre_bhb [ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch
4145 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC,EARLY] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
4150 for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch
4154 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES,RISCV,LOONGARCH,EARLY]
4158 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
4160 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
4164 [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
4177 no-vmw-sched-clock
4182 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
4186 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
4194 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
4216 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
4217 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
4245 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
4248 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
4251 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
4258 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
4263 For example, to override I2C bus2:
4266 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
4270 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
4272 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
4277 Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
4291 page_owner= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
4297 page_poison= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
4311 timeout = 0: wait forever
4316 Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
4325 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
4332 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
4351 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
4361 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
4371 computer where firmware has no options for setting
4378 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
4384 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
4389 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
4395 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
4402 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first
4403 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
4413 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
4419 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
4425 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual
4427 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
4432 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
4437 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on
4442 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for
4448 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default
4453 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use
4462 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for
4463 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only
4467 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
4499 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4500 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4502 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4503 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4509 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4511 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4512 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4514 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4515 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4520 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4521 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4522 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
4524 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4529 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4534 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4541 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4565 F0000h-100000h range.
4570 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4579 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
4580 or for PCI scanning.
4589 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
4591 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4592 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
4595 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4596 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4599 for broken drivers that don't call it.
4607 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4610 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4612 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4619 or bus can support) for best performance.
4622 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4625 that hot-added devices will work.
4627 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4630 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4640 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4642 To specify the alignment for several
4646 for 4096-byte alignment.
4648 end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if
4656 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4659 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4662 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4665 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4669 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4679 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4682 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4710 bit-0 : ACS Source Validation
4711 bit-1 : ACS Translation Blocking
4712 bit-2 : ACS P2P Request Redirect
4713 bit-3 : ACS P2P Completion Redirect
4714 bit-4 : ACS Upstream Forwarding
4715 bit-5 : ACS P2P Egress Control
4716 bit-6 : ACS Direct Translated P2P
4721 For example,
4726 Validation unchanged from whatever power-up
4748 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May
4758 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4759 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4770 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4772 for debug and development, but should not be
4784 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4785 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
4788 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
4789 See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
4793 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
4812 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
4813 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
4821 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4824 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4827 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4829 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4833 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4866 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4867 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4868 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4873 print-fatal-signals=
4879 coredump - etc.
4882 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4887 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4894 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
4902 Allows storing messages from non-panic CPUs into
4904 flushed to consoles by the panic-CPU on
4905 a best-effort basis.
4911 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4912 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4913 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4920 Format: {always | ptrace | never}
4924 - 'always': traditional behavior always allows mem overrides.
4925 - 'ptrace': only allow mem overrides for active ptracers.
4926 - 'never': never allow mem overrides.
4930 Limit processor to maximum C-state
4934 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4941 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4942 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4943 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4960 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4974 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4979 on - unconditionally enable
4980 off - unconditionally disable
4981 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4987 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4995 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
4999 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
5002 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
5021 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
5027 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
5033 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
5038 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
5042 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
5043 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
5044 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
5046 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
5047 and real-time workloads. It can also improve
5048 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
5051 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
5055 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
5065 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
5066 This improves the real-time response for the
5077 Do only a one-line RCU CPU stall warning when
5078 there is an ongoing too-long CSD-lock wait.
5084 If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery
5089 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
5094 RCU grace-period cleanup.
5098 RCU grace-period initialization.
5102 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
5103 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
5107 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
5118 Set required age in jiffies for a
5120 soliciting quiescent-state help from
5132 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
5133 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
5135 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
5137 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
5138 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
5139 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
5140 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
5145 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
5148 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the
5149 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
5150 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
5151 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
5153 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
5154 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too
5158 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, avoid
5171 batch limiting is re-enabled.
5175 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
5183 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
5184 in response to low-memory conditions. The range
5188 Set the shift-right count to use to compute
5189 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
5196 Please note that this callback-invocation batch
5197 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
5205 possibly be useful for architectures having high
5206 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
5210 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
5212 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
5228 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
5230 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
5233 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
5235 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
5248 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
5252 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
5262 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero
5279 use a call_rcu[_hurry]() path. Please note, this is for a
5291 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
5302 grace-period primitives.
5305 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
5323 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5325 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
5326 and double-argument variants are tested.
5329 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5331 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
5332 and double-argument variants are tested.
5346 does not affect the data-collection interval,
5351 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
5353 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
5354 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
5355 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5356 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
5361 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
5369 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
5376 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
5381 Additional write-side holdoff between grace
5394 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
5399 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
5400 for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
5406 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
5407 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
5410 Number of seconds to wait between successive
5411 forward-progress tests.
5414 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
5415 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
5419 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5423 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
5426 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
5427 update-side primitives, if available.
5430 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
5431 update-side primitives, if available. If all
5435 they are all non-zero.
5443 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
5450 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
5458 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
5463 callback-offload toggling attempts.
5466 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
5467 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
5468 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
5469 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
5470 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5473 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
5476 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
5479 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
5480 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
5483 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
5485 task-exit processing.
5488 The number of times in a given read-then-exit
5489 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
5494 read-then-exit testing episodes.
5497 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
5498 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
5503 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
5512 any other stall-related activity. Note that
5518 in scheduling-while-atomic splats.
5524 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
5537 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
5546 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
5547 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
5548 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
5563 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
5607 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5612 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
5623 interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For
5633 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
5637 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
5641 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
5642 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
5644 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
5646 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
5653 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
5659 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
5660 period to instead use normal non-expedited
5661 grace-period processing.
5669 set to the default value of -1.
5672 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
5673 lock-contention events per jiffy required to
5674 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
5677 the default value of -1.
5680 Set the number of callback queues to use for the
5682 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
5684 for use in testing.
5690 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
5695 cancel laziness on that CPU. Use -1 to disable
5701 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5703 of the problem for those not patient enough to
5704 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are
5705 only printed prior to the stall-warning message
5706 for a given grace period. Disable with a value
5712 Multiplier for time interval between successive
5713 RCU task stall informational messages for a given
5723 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5731 callback batching for call_rcu_tasks().
5734 always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks().
5738 Trace asynchronous callback batching for
5741 disable batching. Batching is always disabled
5742 for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace().
5750 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
5753 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
5773 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
5778 to be used for rebooting.
5781 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
5787 Number of data elements to use for the forms of
5796 but the default has already reduced the per-pass
5801 Set number of readers. The default value of -1
5810 Set the read-side critical-section duration,
5814 Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
5835 be useful for debug and development, but should not be
5840 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
5852 used for systems that do not wipe the RAM, and this command
5855 location. For example, if anything about the system changes
5865 The format is size:align:label for example, to request
5866 12 megabytes of 4096 alignment for ramoops:
5870 reservetop= [X86-32,EARLY]
5879 Specify the partition device for software suspend
5886 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
5887 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
5892 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
5893 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5903 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
5905 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
5909 off - no mitigation
5910 auto - automatically select a migitation
5911 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation,
5912 disabling SMT if necessary for
5915 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
5920 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
5922 the alternative for systems which do not
5924 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks,
5925 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
5927 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
5928 is not available. This is the alternative for
5957 entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK.
5959 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
5962 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
5963 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
5964 full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only
5971 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
5977 block/early-lookup.c for details.
5978 Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial
5979 ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file
5980 system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash.
5989 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
5990 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5993 rootwait= [KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device
6002 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
6024 cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
6031 solution to mutex-based priority inversion.
6039 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
6043 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
6048 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
6060 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and
6061 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
6068 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
6075 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
6079 Number seconds to wait after the start of the
6080 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
6083 Number seconds to wait between successive
6084 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which
6085 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
6091 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
6099 The number of jiffies to wait between each change
6112 The probability weighting to use for the
6114 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the
6115 default if all other weights are -1. However,
6117 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
6120 The probability weighting to use for the
6122 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single.
6125 The probability weighting to use for the
6127 "wait" parameter. See weight_single.
6128 Note well that setting a high probability for
6133 The probability weighting to use for the
6135 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single
6139 The probability weighting to use for the
6141 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and
6145 The probability weighting to use for the
6147 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single
6154 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
6155 1 -- enable.
6166 0 -- disable.
6167 1 -- enable.
6170 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
6172 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
6180 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
6191 last alloc / free. For more information see
6193 (slub_debug legacy name also accepted for now)
6196 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
6198 fragmentation. For more information see
6200 (slub_max_order legacy name also accepted for now)
6205 (slub_merge legacy name also accepted for now)
6214 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6215 (slub_min_objects legacy name also accepted for now)
6218 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
6219 lower or equal to slab_max_order. For more information see
6221 (slub_min_order legacy name also accepted for now)
6234 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6235 (slub_nomerge legacy name also accepted for now)
6244 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
6245 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is
6247 disabling interrupts for extended periods
6251 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
6254 If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than
6256 system. By default, let CSD-lock acquisition
6258 for this value provides a 5-minute timeout.
6260 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
6261 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
6262 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
6263 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
6264 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
6265 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
6266 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
6276 Default: -1 (no limit)
6279 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
6282 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
6283 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
6286 respective build-time switch to that functionality.
6289 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
6294 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
6301 on - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation as
6304 vmexit - On systems which don't have the HW mitigation
6307 protected from VM-originated BHI attacks, but
6309 off - Disable the mitigation.
6316 on - unconditionally enable, implies
6318 off - unconditionally disable, implies
6320 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
6339 retpoline - replace indirect branches
6340 retpoline,generic - Retpolines
6341 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch
6342 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence
6343 eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS
6344 eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines
6345 eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE
6346 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel
6356 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
6359 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
6362 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
6368 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
6370 always when switching between different user
6374 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
6379 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
6381 always when switching between different
6384 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
6395 off - Disable mitigation
6396 microcode - Enable microcode mitigation only
6397 safe-ret - Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default)
6398 ibpb - Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on
6400 ibpb-vmexit - Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT
6401 (cloud-specific mitigation)
6417 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
6426 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
6427 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
6428 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
6434 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
6436 for a process by default. The state of the control
6438 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
6446 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
6450 off - No action.
6461 for split lock detection or a debug exception for
6464 off - not enabled
6466 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
6474 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
6479 ratelimit:N -
6481 per second for bus lock detection.
6484 N/A for split lock detection.
6492 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
6499 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
6519 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
6520 but takes effect only when the low-order four
6537 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
6540 Specifies how frequently to check for
6541 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
6542 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
6545 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
6550 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
6552 grace period will be considered for automatic
6557 Specifies the number of no-delay instances
6558 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period
6564 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
6565 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
6568 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase.
6571 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
6572 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
6575 Specifies the number of update-side contention
6580 set for contention-based conversions to occur.
6590 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
6591 for both kernel and userspace
6592 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
6593 for both kernel and userspace
6594 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
6602 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
6603 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
6615 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
6617 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
6625 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
6627 as the initial boot-console.
6662 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
6685 percpu one pool for each CPU
6686 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
6687 to global on non-NUMA machines)
6696 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
6712 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
6713 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
6716 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
6718 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
6733 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
6735 Useful for debugging.
6741 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
6742 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
6748 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
6749 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
6753 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
6756 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
6759 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
6763 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
6770 -1: disable all passive trip points
6776 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
6780 Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<state>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<state>
6781 state is one of "always", "madvise", "never" or "inherit".
6784 Can be used multiple times for multiple anon THP sizes.
6785 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more
6801 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
6805 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
6809 with rotating-rust storage.
6814 disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
6817 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
6832 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
6838 Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer
6839 for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false
6840 (0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces
6842 https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/
6846 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
6848 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
6878 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
6880 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
6884 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across
6886 but better for some race conditions.
6887 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
6891 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
6892 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
6893 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6894 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
6896 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6898 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
6900 trace_event=[event-list]
6902 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
6903 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
6906 trace_instance=[instance-info]
6931 traceoff - Have the tracing instance tracing disabled after it is created.
6932 traceprintk - Have trace_printk() write into this trace instance
6939 If memory has been reserved (see memmap for x86), the instance
6961 If the ring buffer is used for persistent bootups and has events enabled,
6971 trace_options=[option-list]
6973 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
6979 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
6987 trace_trigger=[trigger-list]
6995 For example:
7021 Format: [always|madvise|never]
7024 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7025 for more details.
7030 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
7032 - "tpm"
7033 - "tee"
7034 - "caam"
7035 - "dcp"
7043 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
7045 - "kernel"
7046 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
7047 - "default"
7059 blob key is all zeros. This is helpful for situations where
7063 tsa= [X86] Control mitigation for Transient Scheduler
7065 favourite search engine for more details:
7067 "Technical guidance for mitigating transient scheduler
7070 off - disable the mitigation
7071 on - enable the mitigation (default)
7072 user - mitigate only user/kernel transitions
7073 vm - mitigate only guest/host transitions
7076 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
7081 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
7117 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
7118 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
7119 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
7120 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
7124 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
7129 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
7132 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
7137 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
7138 for more details.
7140 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
7143 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
7158 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
7161 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
7164 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
7165 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
7167 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
7178 For details see:
7179 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
7185 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
7187 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
7193 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
7195 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
7197 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
7198 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
7206 unwind_debug [X86-64,EARLY]
7208 useful for debugging certain unwinder error
7214 (default -1 = authorized (same as 1),
7220 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
7222 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
7240 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
7248 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
7255 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
7258 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
7260 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
7265 a 255-byte read);
7269 Set-Interface requests);
7282 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
7288 (bInterval-1).
7326 usb-storage.delay_use=
7328 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
7333 usb-storage.quirks=
7335 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
7338 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
7340 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
7382 medium is write-protected).
7391 1 - undefined instruction events
7392 2 - system calls
7393 4 - invalid data aborts
7394 8 - SIGSEGV faults
7395 16 - SIGBUS faults
7406 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
7411 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
7412 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
7413 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
7415 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
7419 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
7420 alias for vdso32=0.
7423 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
7452 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
7454 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
7456 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
7457 Use vga=ask for menu.
7465 interface is meant to allow for selectively
7471 - Disable all of the above options
7477 for directly mapped kernel RAM. Note that this parameter does
7483 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
7484 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
7495 vmscape= [X86] Controls mitigation for VMscape attacks.
7497 hypervisor to a guest via speculative side-channels.
7499 off - disable the mitigation
7500 ibpb - use Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier
7502 force - force vulnerability detection even on
7505 vsyscall= [X86-64,EARLY]
7508 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
7511 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
7522 them quite hard to use for exploits but
7532 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
7537 This is a 16-member array composed of values
7538 ranging from 0-255.
7543 This is a 16-member array composed of values
7544 ranging from 0-255.
7549 This is a 16-member array composed of values
7550 ranging from 0-255.
7555 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
7556 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
7561 Format=<-1|0|1>
7562 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
7563 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
7568 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
7571 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
7574 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
7575 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
7576 or other driver-specific files in the
7590 Format: <cpu-list>
7591 By default, all online CPUs are available for
7611 Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this
7614 them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work
7620 candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead.
7632 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
7634 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
7637 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
7647 Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound
7649 "numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more
7651 Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst.
7664 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
7672 on - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc()
7673 off - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc()
7675 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
7679 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
7682 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
7689 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
7690 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
7691 nics -- unplug network devices
7692 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
7693 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
7696 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
7705 bit, so it should only be enabled for obtaining extended
7710 Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR
7718 has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
7721 [KNL,X86,XEN,EARLY] Disable the vector callback for Xen
7726 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
7730 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN,EARLY]
7731 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
7738 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
7755 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
7772 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC]
7774 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
7778 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL]