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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index c07815d230bc..a465d5242774 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -22,11 +22,13 @@ default: 0 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] - acpi_backlight=vendor - acpi_backlight=video - If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver + { vendor | video | native | none } + If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead of the ACPI video.ko driver. + If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. + If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. + If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the @@ -48,7 +50,7 @@ CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., - #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT + #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... @@ -58,8 +60,6 @@ Enable processor driver info messages: acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 - Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages: - acpi.debug_layer=0x400000 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug object while interpreting AML: acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ the GPE dispatcher. This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled GPE floodings. - Format: <byte> + Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list> acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] Disable auto-serialization of AML methods @@ -225,14 +225,23 @@ For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options - Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, - old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl } + Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig, + s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs, + sci_force_enable, nobl } See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on s3_bios and s3_mode. s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. + s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware + signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully + refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with + the ACPI specification but not with reality, since + Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it + on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume + and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the + s4_hwsig option is enabled. s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being - used during resume from hibernation. + used (or even warned about) during resume. old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS control method, with respect to putting devices into low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering @@ -287,13 +296,21 @@ do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. + allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64] + Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the + PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict + subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this + parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit + EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0 + and hot-unplug operations may be restricted. + + See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more + information. + amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. Possible values are: - fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when - they are unmapped. Otherwise they are - flushed before they will be reused, which - is a lot of faster + fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in the system force_isolation - Force device isolation for all @@ -301,6 +318,11 @@ allowed anymore to lift isolation requirements as needed. This option does not override iommu=pt + force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known + to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this + option with care. + pgtbl_v1 - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default). + pgtbl_v2 - Use v2 page table for DMA-API. amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table @@ -354,7 +376,7 @@ shot down by NMI autoconf= [IPV6] - See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. + See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal @@ -371,6 +393,21 @@ arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> + arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target + Identification support + + arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication + support + + arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension + support + + arm64.nosve [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector + Extension support + + arm64.nosme [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix + Extension support + ataflop= [HW,M68k] atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse @@ -432,6 +469,12 @@ Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. + bert_disable [ACPI] + Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. + + bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] + Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. + blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for embedded devices based on command line input. See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst @@ -447,13 +490,10 @@ See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst - bert_disable [ACPI] - Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. - bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as kernel args too. - bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst + bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst bttv.tuner= bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries @@ -488,16 +528,21 @@ ccw_timeout_log [S390] See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. - cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller - Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable} + cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature + Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in a single hierarchy - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable subsystem + - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is + disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not + created {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} + Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure + stall information accounting feature cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } @@ -513,7 +558,7 @@ nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. - checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. + checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. Format: { "0" | "1" } See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes @@ -522,9 +567,29 @@ Default value is set via a kernel config option. Value can be changed at runtime via /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. + Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. cio_ignore= [S390] See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. + + clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] + Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See + arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit + numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily + stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific + ones should be. + X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line + in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above + instability issue. However, not all features have names + in /proc/cpuinfo. + Note that using this option will taint your kernel. + Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly + or using the feature without checking anything + will still see it. This just prevents it from + being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. + Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable + some critical bits. + clk_ignore_unused [CLK] Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating @@ -571,27 +636,47 @@ loops can be debugged more effectively on production systems. - clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86] - Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See - arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit - numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily - stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific - ones should be. - Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly - or using the feature without checking anything - will still see it. This just prevents it from - being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. - Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable - some critical bits. + clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL] + Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to + external delays before the clock will be marked + unstable. Defaults to two retries, that is, + three attempts to read the clock under test. + + clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] + Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources + marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that + are marked unstable due to excessive skew. + A negative value says to check all CPUs, while + zero says not to check any. Values larger than + nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. + The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with + no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. + + clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] + Set the time in seconds that the clocksource + watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. + Defaults to zero when built as a module and to + 10 seconds when built into the kernel. cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] - [ARM,X86,KNL] + [KNL,CMA] Sets the size of kernel global memory area for contiguous memory allocations and optionally the placement constraint by the physical address range of memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA altogether. For more information, see - include/linux/dma-contiguous.h + kernel/dma/contiguous.c + + cma_pernuma=nn[MG] + [ARM64,KNL,CMA] + Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for + contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables + per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not + specificed, the default value is 0. + With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will + first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area + which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, + they will fallback to the global default memory area. cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive @@ -632,7 +717,7 @@ See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more information. See - Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an + Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an alternative. uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] @@ -653,6 +738,12 @@ hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. + { null | "" } + Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel + console messages discarded. + This must be the only console= parameter used on the + kernel command line. + If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance console=brl,ttyS0 @@ -679,7 +770,7 @@ coredump_filter= [KNL] Change the default value for /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. - See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. + See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. coresight_cpu_debug.enable [ARM,ARM64] @@ -688,6 +779,24 @@ 0: default value, disable debugging 1: enable debugging at boot time + cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver + Format: + <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] + + cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when + CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. + Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: + 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. + Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you + need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. + 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be + removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. + It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some + machines although I haven't seen such issues so far + after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. + If the dependencies are under your control, you can + turn on cpu0_hotplug. + cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] disable the cpuidle sub-system @@ -697,15 +806,24 @@ cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] disable the cpufreq sub-system + cpufreq.default_governor= + [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or + policy to use. This governor must be registered in the + kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. + cpu_init_udelay=N [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. Default: 10000 - cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver - Format: - <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] + crash_kexec_post_notifiers + Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping + kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always + succeeds in any situation. + Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, + because some panic notifiers can make the crashed + kernel more unstable. crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' @@ -713,7 +831,7 @@ memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset is selected automatically. - [KNL, x86_64] select a region under 4G first, and + [KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' hasn't been specified. See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. @@ -726,27 +844,33 @@ Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. crashkernel=size[KMG],high - [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel + [KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top, so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if available. It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. crashkernel=size[KMG],low - [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high + [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit - devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at + devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at least 256M below 4G automatically. - This one let user to specify own low range under 4G + This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G for second kernel instead. 0: to disable low allocation. It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used or memory reserved is below 4G. + [KNL, ARM64] range in low memory. + This one lets the user specify a low range in the + DMA zone for the crash dump kernel. + It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used + or memory reserved is located in the DMA zones. + cryptomgr.notests [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests @@ -756,6 +880,16 @@ cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } + csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call + handling. When switched on, additional debug data is + printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is + detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try + to resolve the hang situation. + 0: disable csdlock debugging (default) + 1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact) + ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact, + but more data) + dasd= [HW,NET] See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. @@ -764,11 +898,6 @@ Format: <port#>,<type> See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst - ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot - time. See - Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for - details. Deprecated, see dyndbg. - debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). debug_boot_weak_hash @@ -780,13 +909,14 @@ insecure, please do not use on production kernels. debug_locks_verbose= - [KNL] verbose self-tests - Format=<0|1> + [KNL] verbose locking self-tests + Format: <int> Print debugging info while doing the locking API self-tests. - We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to - 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally - only useful to kernel developers. + Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 + (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) + will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only + useful to lockdep developers. debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging @@ -821,29 +951,71 @@ useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. on: enable the feature - debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging + debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace + and debugfs internal clients. + Format: { on, no-mount, off } + on: All functions are enabled. + no-mount: + Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can + access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read + its content. There is nothing to mount. + off: Filesystem is not registered and clients + get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files + or directories within debugfs. + This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if + debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. + Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. - decnet.addr= [HW,NET] - Format: <area>[,<node>] - See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt. + debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging default_hugepagesz= - [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default - HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by - the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and - default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems. - Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size - if not specified. + [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is + the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages + APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size + used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs + filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the + architecture's default huge page size. Huge page + sizes are architecture dependent. See also + Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. + Format: size[KMG] deferred_probe_timeout= [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or - drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0 - will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also + drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout + of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time + out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each + successful driver registration. This option will also dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after retrying. + delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting + + dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= + [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data + indicates that the driver is running on unsupported + hardware. + + dell_smm_hwmon.force= + [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does + not match list of supported models and enable otherwise + blacklisted features. + + dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= + [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k + (disabled by default). + + dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= + [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN + capability is set. + + dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= + [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. + + dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= + [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. + dfltcc= [HW,S390] Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on @@ -865,23 +1037,21 @@ can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB miss to occur. - disable= [IPV6] - See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. + stress_slb [PPC] + Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes + them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults + on kernel addresses. - hardened_usercopy= - [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether - hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened - usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel - from reading or writing beyond known memory - allocation boundaries as a proactive defense - against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's - copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. - on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). - off Disable hardened usercopy checks. + disable= [IPV6] + See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. disable_radix [PPC] Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 + radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] + Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB + invalidate. + disable_tlbie [PPC] Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. @@ -895,18 +1065,12 @@ causing system reset or hang due to sending INIT from AP to BSP. - perf_v4_pmi= [X86,INTEL] - Format: <bool> - Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature. - The feature only exists starting from - Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer). - disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] - Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if + Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this to workaround buggy firmware. disable_ipv6= [IPV6] - See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. + See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous @@ -943,7 +1107,10 @@ driver later using sysfs. driver_async_probe= [KNL] - List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. + List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * + matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the + rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT + match the *. Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] @@ -956,7 +1123,7 @@ edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given and no file with the same name exists. Details and instructions how to build your own EDID data are - available in Documentation/driver-api/edid.rst. An EDID + available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID data set will only be used for a particular connector, if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data @@ -981,20 +1148,20 @@ what data is available or for reverse-engineering. dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] - module.dyndbg[="val"] + <module>.dyndbg[="val"] Enable debug messages at boot time. See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for details. - nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions. - See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.rst for more - information about the feature. - nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found in some Intel CPUs. - module.async_probe [KNL] - Enable asynchronous probe on this module. + <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL] + If no <bool> value is specified or if the value + specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous + probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable + asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the + <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe early_ioremap_debug [KNL] Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This @@ -1038,6 +1205,11 @@ the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write the device registers. + liteuart,<addr> + Start an early console on a litex serial port at the + specified address. The serial port must already be + setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. + meson,<addr> Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial port at the specified address. The serial port must @@ -1099,6 +1271,12 @@ A valid base address must be provided, and the serial port must already be setup and configured. + ec_imx21,<addr> + ec_imx6q,<addr> + Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the + Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART + must already be setup and configured. + ar3700_uart,<addr> Start an early, polled-mode console on the Armada 3700 serial port at the specified @@ -1142,7 +1320,7 @@ Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console takes over. - Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can + Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can be used at a time. Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by @@ -1157,10 +1335,10 @@ Interaction with the standard serial driver is not very good. - The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by + The VGA output is eventually overwritten by the real console. - The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. + The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. The sclp output can only be used on s390. @@ -1176,34 +1354,27 @@ force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. default: on. - ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging - ekgdboc=kbd - - This is designed to be used in conjunction with - the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga - edd= [EDD] Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} efi= [EFI] - Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug", - "nosoftreserve", "disable_early_pci_dma", - "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } - old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI - runtime services mapping. [Needs CONFIG_X86_UV=y] + Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", + "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", + "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } + debug: enable misc debug output. + disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all + PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some firmware implementations. noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support - debug: enable misc debug output nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the memory range for a memory mapping driver to claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this reservation and treat the memory by its base type (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). - disable_early_pci_dma: Disable the busmaster bit on all - PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub + novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub @@ -1244,6 +1415,17 @@ eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. + ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging + Format: ekgdboc=kbd + + This is designed to be used in conjunction with + the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga + + This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter + but can only be used if the backing tty is available + very early in the boot process. For early debugging + via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. + elanfreq= [X86-32] See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. @@ -1265,7 +1447,7 @@ (in particular on some ATI chipsets). The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. - enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. + enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. Format: {"0" | "1"} See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). @@ -1287,13 +1469,27 @@ Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of current integrity status. + early_page_ext [KNL] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier + stages so cover more early boot allocations. + Please note that as side effect some optimizations + might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized + memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process + might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of + memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y. + failslab= + fail_usercopy= fail_page_alloc= fail_make_request=[KNL] General fault injection mechanism. Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> See also Documentation/fault-injection/. + fb_tunnels= [NET] + Format: { initns | none } + See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for + fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns + floppy= [HW] See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. @@ -1315,6 +1511,14 @@ as early as possible in order to facilitate early boot debugging. + ftrace_boot_snapshot + [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the + ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: + /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. + This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel + boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space + start up functionality. + ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump @@ -1324,7 +1528,7 @@ ftrace_filter=[function-list] [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function - tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated + tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated list of functions. This list can be changed at run time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs tracing directory. @@ -1338,13 +1542,13 @@ ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced by the function graph tracer at boot up. - function-list is a comma separated list of functions + function-list is a comma-separated list of functions that can be changed at run time by the set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in - function-list. This list is a comma separated list of + function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of functions that can be changed at run time by the set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. @@ -1354,6 +1558,29 @@ can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) + fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier + devices by scanning the firmware to infer the + consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is + especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as + it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing + (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state + clean up (only after all consumers have probed), + suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then + suppliers). + Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } + off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. + permissive -- Create device links from firmware info + but use it only for ordering boot state clean + up (sync_state() calls). + on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it + to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. + rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. + + fw_devlink.strict=<bool> + [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory + dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. + Format: <bool> + gamecon.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) @@ -1362,7 +1589,7 @@ gamma= [HW,DRM] - gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART + gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART Format: off | on default: on @@ -1376,6 +1603,12 @@ Don't use this when you are not running on the android emulator + gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges + [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. + Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... + gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines + [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. + gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate @@ -1399,14 +1632,21 @@ Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. Default: 1024 - gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges - [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. - Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... + hardened_usercopy= + [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether + hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened + usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel + from reading or writing beyond known memory + allocation boundaries as a proactive defense + against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's + copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. + on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). + off Disable hardened usercopy checks. hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate backtraces on all cpus. - Format: <integer> + Format: 0 | 1 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on @@ -1423,6 +1663,15 @@ corresponding firmware-first mode error processing logic will be disabled. + hibernate= [HIBERNATION] + noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image + present during boot. + nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. + no Disable hibernation and resume. + protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration + (that will set all pages holding image data + during restoration read-only). + highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem @@ -1434,6 +1683,19 @@ hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] + hostname= [KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename). + Format: <string> + This allows setting the system's hostname during early + startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname. + Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it + possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before + any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility + that a process may call gethostname before the hostname + has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling + process getting an incorrect result. The string must + not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually + 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise. + hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | verbose } @@ -1445,19 +1707,62 @@ hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. - hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. - hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages. - On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified - multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve - huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on - x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G - (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag). + hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. + If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies + the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. + If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command + line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for + the default huge page size. If using node format, the + number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. + See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. + Format: <integer> or (node format) + <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] + + hugepagesz= + [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in + conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge + pages of a specific size at boot. The pair + hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for + each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are + architecture dependent. See also + Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. + Format: size[KMG] + + hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation + of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size + of a CMA area per node can be specified. + Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) + <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] + + Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic + hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the + boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. + + hugetlb_free_vmemmap= + [KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP + enabled. + Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled. + Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more + memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). + Format: { on | off (default) } + + on: enable HVO + off: disable HVO + + Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, + the default is on. + + Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added + memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is + enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this + feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from + the added memory block itself do not be affected. hung_task_panic= [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. - Format: <integer> + Format: 0 | 1 - A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a + A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a hung task is detected. The default value is controlled by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time option. The value selected by this boot parameter can @@ -1513,20 +1818,11 @@ architectures force reset to be always executed i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port + i8042.probe_defer + [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors i810= [HW,DRM] - i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data - indicates that the driver is running on unsupported - hardware. - i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature - does not match list of supported models. - i8k.power_status - [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k - (disabled by default) - i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN - capability is set. - i915.invert_brightness= [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a @@ -1544,26 +1840,6 @@ icn= [HW,ISDN] Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] - ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem - Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc - .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr - .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options - See Documentation/ide/ide.rst. - - ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem - Format: <int> - Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on - platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by - setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The - default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. - On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the - PCI bus for the first and the second port, which - are then probed. On systems without PCI the value - of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it - was 0x3. - - ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem - Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. idle= [X86] Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait @@ -1575,6 +1851,17 @@ In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states + idxd.sva= [HW] + Format: <bool> + Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) + support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to + true (1). + + idxd.tc_override= [HW] + Format: <bool> + Allow override of default traffic class configuration + for the device. By default it is set to false (0). + ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } Default: strict @@ -1648,7 +1935,7 @@ ima_policy= [IMA] The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | - fail_securely" + fail_securely | critical_data" The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read @@ -1667,6 +1954,9 @@ filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE flag. + The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity + critical data. + ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all @@ -1675,7 +1965,8 @@ ima_template= [IMA] Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. - Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" } + Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | + "ima-sigv2" } Default: "ima-ng" ima_template_fmt= @@ -1712,8 +2003,27 @@ initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in modules and initcalls. + initramfs_async= [KNL] + Format: <bool> + Default: 1 + This parameter controls whether the initramfs + image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently + with devices being probed and + initialized. This should normally just work, + but as a debugging aid, one can get the + historical behaviour of the initramfs + unpacking being completed before device_ and + late_ initcalls. + initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk + initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to + load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or + specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this + setting. + Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] + Default is 0, 0 + init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with zeroes. Format: 0 | 1 @@ -1723,7 +2033,7 @@ Format: 0 | 1 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. - init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights + init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can override in debugfs after boot. @@ -1731,7 +2041,7 @@ inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver Format: <irq> - int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt + int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt integrity_audit=[IMA] Format: { "0" | "1" } @@ -1749,26 +2059,18 @@ bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In this case, gfx device will use physical address for DMA. - forcedac [x86_64] - With this option iommu will not optimize to look - for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual - address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater - than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look - for translation below 32-bit and if not available - then look in the higher range. strict [Default Off] - With this option on every unmap_single operation will - result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed - to batching them for performance. + Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. sp_off [Default Off] By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU has the capability. With this option, super page will not be supported. - sm_on [Default Off] - By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the - hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable - mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode - will be used on hardware which claims to support it. + sm_on + Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware + advertises that it has support for the scalable mode + translation. + sm_off + Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. tboot_noforce [Default Off] Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which @@ -1778,11 +2080,6 @@ Note that using this option lowers the security provided by tboot because it makes the system vulnerable to DMA attacks. - nobounce [Default off] - Disable bounce buffer for unstrusted devices such as - the Thunderbolt devices. This will treat the untrusted - devices as the trusted ones, hence might expose security - risks of DMA attacks. intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. @@ -1834,7 +2131,7 @@ strict regions from userspace. relaxed - iommu= [x86] + iommu= [X86] off force noforce @@ -1844,12 +2141,20 @@ merge nomerge soft - pt [x86] - nopt [x86] + pt [X86] + nopt [X86] nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. - iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour + iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. + Format: { "0" | "1" } + 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before + falling back to the full range if needed. + 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, + forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting + greater than 32-bit addressing. + + iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour Format: { "0" | "1" } 0 - Lazy mode. Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred @@ -1857,9 +2162,12 @@ throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by the relevant IOMMU driver. - 1 - Strict mode (default). + 1 - Strict mode. DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs synchronously. + unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. + Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the + legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. iommu.passthrough= [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. @@ -1868,7 +2176,7 @@ 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. - io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems + io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. @@ -1883,7 +2191,7 @@ No delay ip= [IP_PNP] - See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. + See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. @@ -1988,25 +2296,41 @@ iucv= [HW,NET] - ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64] + ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID - mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For - example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to - PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: + mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. + By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. + For example: + * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 + write the parameter as: ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 + * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and + PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: + ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 - ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64] + ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID - mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For - example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to - PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: + mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. + By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. + For example: + * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 + write the parameter as: ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 + * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and + PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: + ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 - ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64] + ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID - mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For - example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to - PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: + mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. + + For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to + PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, + write the parameter as: + ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 + + By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. + For example, PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick @@ -2071,10 +2395,25 @@ kms, kbd format: kms,kbd kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] + kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] + If the boot console provides the ability to read + characters and can work in polling mode, you can use + this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend + until the normal console is registered. Intended to + be used together with the kgdboc parameter which + specifies the normal console to transition to. + + The name of the early console should be specified + as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of + the early console might be different than the tty + name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value + blank and the first boot console that implements + read() will be picked. + kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. - kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address. + kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip Ethernet adapter MAC address. @@ -2103,16 +2442,43 @@ 0: force disabled 1: force enabled + kunit.enable= [KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires + CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The + default value can be overridden via + KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED. + Default is 1 (enabled) + kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) + kvm.eager_page_split= + [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to + proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. + Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU + execution by eliminating the write-protection faults + and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be + required to split huge pages lazily. + + VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write + only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from + disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to + still be used for reads. + + The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether + KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If + disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly + split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If + enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during + the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being + cleared. + + Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y. + + Default is Y (on). + kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. Default is false (don't support). - kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit - KVM MMU at runtime. - Default is 0 (off) - kvm.nx_huge_pages= [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. @@ -2130,7 +2496,14 @@ [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every - minute. The default is 60. + period (see below). The default is 60. + + kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= + [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages + back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will + zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. + If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based + on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled) @@ -2139,6 +2512,21 @@ for all guests. Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. + kvm-arm.mode= + [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. + + none: Forcefully disable KVM. + + nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for + protected guests. + + protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose + state is kept private from the host. + + Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting + mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation + for the host. + kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 system registers @@ -2155,13 +2543,25 @@ [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of LPIs. + kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] + Reserves given percentage from system memory area for + contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable + allocation. + By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. + Format: <integer> + Default: 5 + kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= - [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states - Default is 0 (disabled) + [KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state. + Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as + guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests. + This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM + never emulates invalid L2 guest state. + Default is 1 (enabled) kvm-intel.flexpriority= [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). @@ -2192,6 +2592,23 @@ feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) + l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL] + Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. + + Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU + internal buffers which can forward information to a + disclosure gadget under certain conditions. + + In vulnerable processors, the speculatively + forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel + attack, to access data to which the attacker does + not have direct access. + + This parameter controls the mitigation. The + options are: + + on - enable the interface for the mitigation + l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on affected CPUs @@ -2264,9 +2681,10 @@ lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS disabled it. - lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline + lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. + Format: notscdeadline lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer in C2 power state. @@ -2287,14 +2705,14 @@ when set. Format: <int> - libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma - separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is - PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers - matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches - the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If - the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE - values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the - configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. + libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- + separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. + PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link + or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string + printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is + omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If + ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies + to all ports, links and devices. If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE @@ -2304,7 +2722,7 @@ host link and device attached to it. The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long - as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. + as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. The following configurations can be forced. @@ -2317,29 +2735,65 @@ udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also allowed. + * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both + resets. + + * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug + link recovery. + + * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay + before debouncing a link PHY and device presence + detection. + * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. - * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. + * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. - * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft - and both resets. + * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. - * rstonce: only attempt one reset during - hot-unplug link recovery + * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. - * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. + * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. - * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support + * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. + + * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. + + * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. + + * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for + commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. + + * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the + READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. + + * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the + identify device data log. + + * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general + purpose log directory. + + * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. + + * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to + 1024 sectors. + + * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to + 65535 sectors. + + * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. + + * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting + should be skipped. + + * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. * disable: Disable this device. If there are multiple matching configurations changing the same attribute, the last one is used. - memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. - - load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy - See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. + load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. Format: <integer> @@ -2476,11 +2930,11 @@ (machvec) in a generic kernel. Example: machvec=hpzx1 - machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different - yeeloong laptop. + machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between + different yeeloong laptops. Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch - max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater + max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater than or equal to this physical address is ignored. maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel @@ -2542,17 +2996,46 @@ For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst + mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON] Set the memory size. + Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. + mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory - Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able - to see the whole system memory or for test. + Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: + + 1 for test; + 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; + 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from + the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. + 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. + + [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, + high memory is not affected. + + [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear + mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. + [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses belonging to unused RAM. + Note that this only takes effects during boot time since + in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot + if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. + + mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] + [ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by + firmware. + Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at + ss[KMG]. + Multiple different regions can be specified with + multiple mem= parameters on the command line. + mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel memory. + memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. + memchunk=nn[KMG] [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. @@ -2572,7 +3055,7 @@ option description. memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] - [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory. + [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], which limits max address to nn[KMG]. @@ -2634,7 +3117,26 @@ seconds. Use this parameter to check at some other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. - memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest + memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory + [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. + Format: {on | off (default)} + When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will + allocate its internal metadata (struct pages, + those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even + if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the + hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a + lot of memory without requiring additional + memory to do so. + This feature is disabled by default because it + has some implication on large (e.g. GB) + allocations in some configurations (e.g. small + memory blocks). + The state of the flag can be read in + /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. + Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where + the feature is not effective. + + memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest Format: <integer> default : 0 <disable> Specifies the number of memtest passes to be @@ -2652,7 +3154,7 @@ mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME - Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst + Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst for details on when memory encryption can be activated. mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: @@ -2662,7 +3164,7 @@ See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters - See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst. + See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst. mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode @@ -2675,7 +3177,7 @@ mga= [HW,DRM] - min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this + min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this physical address is ignored. mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] @@ -2697,7 +3199,7 @@ touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at - http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git + https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git mitigations= [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for @@ -2710,17 +3212,23 @@ improves system performance, but it may also expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] - kpti=0 [ARM64] + if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] nobp=0 [S390] nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] spectre_v2_user=off [X86] spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] ssbd=force-off [ARM64] + nospectre_bhb [ARM64] l1tf=off [X86] mds=off [X86] tsx_async_abort=off [X86] kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] + srbds=off [X86,INTEL] + no_entry_flush [PPC] + no_uaccess_flush [PPC] + mmio_stale_data=off [X86] + retbleed=off [X86] Exceptions: This does not have any effect on @@ -2742,6 +3250,8 @@ Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] mds=full,nosmt [X86] tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] + mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] + retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] mminit_loglevel= [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this @@ -2751,6 +3261,49 @@ log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. + mmio_stale_data= + [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor + MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. + + Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of + vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO + operation. Exposed data could originate or end in + the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. + Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation + is to clear the affected CPU buffers. + + This parameter controls the mitigation. The + options are: + + full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs + + full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on + vulnerable CPUs. + + off - Unconditionally disable mitigation + + On MDS or TAA affected machines, + mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active + MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are + mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to + disable this mitigation, you need to specify + mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. + + Not specifying this option is equivalent to + mmio_stale_data=full. + + For details see: + Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst + + module.async_probe=<bool> + [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing + by default. To enable/disable async probing for a + specific module, use the module specific control that + is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both + module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are + specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for + the specific module. + module.sig_enforce [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. @@ -2795,26 +3348,12 @@ <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] mtdparts= [MTD] - See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c. - - multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries - firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries - at a time. - - onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration - - Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] - - boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. - The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. - lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. - Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. - 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. + See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c mtdset= [ARM] ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control - See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c + See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates @@ -2837,6 +3376,10 @@ Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. + multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries + firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries + at a time. + n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters @@ -2846,6 +3389,11 @@ This usage is only documented in each driver source file if at all. + netpoll.carrier_timeout= + [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that + netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll + waits 4 seconds. + nf_conntrack.acct= [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 0 to disable accounting @@ -2853,13 +3401,13 @@ Default value is 0. nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. - See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. + See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. - See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. + See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. - See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. + See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. nfs.callback_nr_threads= [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the @@ -2951,6 +3499,19 @@ driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. + nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable = + [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support + server-to-server copies for which this server is + the destination of the copy. + + nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout = + [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a + server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts + the source server. It caches the mount in case + it will be needed again, and discards it if not + used for the number of milliseconds specified by + this parameter. + nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 server will return only numeric uids and gids to @@ -2958,6 +3519,11 @@ and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease migration from NFSv2/v3. + + nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] + Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an + NMI stack-backtrace request. + nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take when a NMI is triggered. Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] @@ -2978,11 +3544,6 @@ These settings can be accessed at runtime via the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. - netpoll.carrier_timeout= - [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that - netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll - waits 4 seconds. - no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor is present. @@ -2990,6 +3551,8 @@ no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces kernel to use 4-level paging instead. + nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. + no_console_suspend [HW] Never suspend the console Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and @@ -3030,31 +3593,21 @@ noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. - nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem - on "Classic" PPC cores. - nocache [ARM] - noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction - - nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting - nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. - noexec [IA-64] + no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. - noexec [X86] - On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. - noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) - noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings + noexec [IA-64] - nosmap [X86,PPC] + nosmap [PPC] Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) even if it is supported by processor. - nosmep [X86,PPC] + nosmep [PPC64s] Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) even if it is supported by processor. @@ -3071,12 +3624,14 @@ register save and restore. The kernel will only save legacy floating-point registers on task switch. - nohugeiomap [KNL,x86,PPC] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. + nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. + + nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). Equivalent to smt=1. - [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). + [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone via the sysfs control file. @@ -3084,14 +3639,21 @@ (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are possible in the system. - nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for + nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_E500,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this option. + nospectre_bhb [ARM64] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch + history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks + with this option. + nospec_store_bypass_disable [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability + no_uaccess_flush + [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. + noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. @@ -3111,9 +3673,14 @@ parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more memory on xsaves enabled systems. - nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or - wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to - use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger. + nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait + in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() + implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP + to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the + sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work + correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute + the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also + useful when using JTAG debugger. no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The only way then for a file to be executed with privilege @@ -3126,6 +3693,20 @@ in certain environments such as networked servers or real-time systems. + no_hash_pointers + Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be + unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p + format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured + by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature + that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged + users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more + difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be + compared. However, if this command-line option is + specified, then all normal pointers will have their true + value printed. This option should only be specified when + debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production + kernels. + nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks @@ -3142,6 +3723,9 @@ just as if they had also been called out in the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. + Note that this argument takes precedence over + the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. + noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and @@ -3174,17 +3758,14 @@ [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler clock and use the default one. - no-steal-acc [X86,KVM,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time - accounting. steal time is computed, but won't - influence scheduler behaviour + no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES] Disable paravirtualized + steal time accounting. steal time is computed, but + won't influence scheduler behaviour nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. - noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel - lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx - nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception @@ -3196,6 +3777,13 @@ shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR irq. + nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. DRM drivers will not perform + display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. Only the + system framebuffer will be available for use if this was + set-up by the firmware or boot loader. + + Useful as fallback, or for testing and debugging. + nomodule Disable module load nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of @@ -3209,11 +3797,6 @@ noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions with UP alternatives - nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and - RDSEED instructions even if they are supported - by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still - available to user space applications. - noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap space. @@ -3223,7 +3806,7 @@ nosbagart [IA-64] - nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. + nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". @@ -3239,19 +3822,9 @@ nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. - cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when - CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. - Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: - 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. - Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you - need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. - 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be - removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. - It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some - machines although I haven't seen such issues so far - after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. - If the dependencies are under your control, you can - turn on cpu0_hotplug. + NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the + LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the + IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR. nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] This parameter sets the maximum duration, in @@ -3277,7 +3850,11 @@ nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. - numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing. + numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only + set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. + + numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic + NUMA balancing. Allowed values are enable and disable numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. @@ -3285,14 +3862,8 @@ This can be set from sysctl after boot. See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. - of_devlink [OF, KNL] Create device links between consumer and - supplier devices by scanning the devictree to infer the - consumer/supplier relationships. A consumer device - will not be probed until all the supplier devices have - probed successfully. - ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. - See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more + See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more info. olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands @@ -3307,19 +3878,15 @@ For example, to override I2C bus2: omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 - oprofile.timer= [HW] - Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters + onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration - oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type - This might be useful if you have an older oprofile - userland or if you want common events. - Format: { arch_perfmon } - arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural - perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the - CPU specific event set. - timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI - timer mode (see also oprofile.timer - for generic hr timer mode) + Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] + + boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. + The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. + lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. + Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. + 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the process, but there is a small probability of @@ -3349,6 +3916,12 @@ off: turn off poisoning (default) on: turn on poisoning + page_reporting.page_reporting_order= + [KNL] Minimal page reporting order + Format: <integer> + Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page + reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1). + panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting timeout = 0: wait forever @@ -3363,18 +3936,28 @@ bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on bit 4: print ftrace buffer bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer + bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) + *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, + so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. + Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a + bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. + + panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() + Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] + Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags + that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is + called with any of the flags in this set. + The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to + prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl + /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the + bitmask set on panic_on_taint. + See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for + extra details on the taint flags that users can pick + to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump on a WARN(). - crash_kexec_post_notifiers - Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping - kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always - succeeds in any situation. - Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, - because some panic notifiers can make the crashed - kernel more unstable. - parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is connected to, default is 0. Format: <parport#> @@ -3404,6 +3987,96 @@ Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] + pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] + Format: <int> + Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA + port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device + has been found at either range. Disabled by default. + + pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] + Format: <int> + Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed + changes. Disabled by default. + + pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] + Format: <int> + Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, + the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. + Disabled by default. + + pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] + Format: <int> + Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, + the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. + Disabled by default. + + pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] + Format: <int> + IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY + for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first + legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for + the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often + correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary + legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI + bus and the use of other driver options may interfere + with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across + all channels. + + pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] + Format: <int> + Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary + channel, the secondary channel, or both channels + respectively. Disabled by default. + + pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] + Format: <int> + Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary + channel, the secondary channel, or both channels + respectively. Disabled by default. + + pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] + Format: <int> + PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual + bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. + Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. + All modes allowed by default. + + pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] + Format: <int> + Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA + port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. + + pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] + Format: <int> + Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on + platform configuration and the use of other driver + options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, + 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing + of individual ports can be disabled by setting the + corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for + the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. + By default all supported ports are probed. + + pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] + Format: <int> + Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default + set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. + + pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] + Format: <int> + Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use + the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the + value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). + By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, + 0 otherwise. + + pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] + Format: <int> + Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow + the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for + mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only + allowed by default. + pause_on_oops= Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if @@ -3529,6 +4202,15 @@ please report a bug. nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. If you need to use this, please report a bug. + use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of + PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround + for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. + If you need to use this, please report a bug to + <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. + no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host + bridge windows. This is the default on modern + hardware. If you need to use this, please report + a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), so this option is a temporary workaround @@ -3632,6 +4314,8 @@ may put more devices in an IOMMU group. force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. + norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of + one PCI domain per PCI function pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power Management. @@ -3698,6 +4382,17 @@ Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. e.g. pmtmr=0x508 + pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. + This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no + longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the + PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is + cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to + that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 + remains 0. + + pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] + Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. + pnp.debug=1 [PNP] Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time @@ -3747,6 +4442,13 @@ Format: {"off"} Disable Hardware Transactional Memory + preempt= [KNL] + Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC + none - Limited to cond_resched() calls + voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls + full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled + can be preempted anytime. + print-fatal-signals= [KNL] debug: print fatal signals @@ -3766,6 +4468,15 @@ Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) default: disabled + printk.console_no_auto_verbose= + Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic + or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). + With an exception to setups with low baudrate on + serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice + in order to provide more debug information. + Format: <bool> + default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) + printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} Control writing to /dev/kmsg. on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace @@ -3795,9 +4506,12 @@ Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for statistical time based profiling. - prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk - before loading. - See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. + prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] + + prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines + isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports + that). + Format: <bool> psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information tracking. @@ -3821,7 +4535,7 @@ pt. [PARIDE] See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. - pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and + pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature removes hardening, but improves performance of system calls and interrupts. @@ -3833,7 +4547,7 @@ Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. - nopti [X86_64] + nopti [X86-64] Equivalent to pti=off pty.legacy_count= @@ -3850,33 +4564,64 @@ ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. + ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address + random.trust_cpu={on,off} [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the CPU's random number generator (if available) to fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. + random.trust_bootloader={on,off} + [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of a + seed passed by the bootloader (if available) to + fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled + by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER. + + randomize_kstack_offset= + [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset + randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of + entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks + that depend on stack address determinism or + cross-syscall address exposures. This is only + available on architectures that have defined + CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. + Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) + Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. + ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options cec_disable [X86] Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. - rcu_nocbs= [KNL] - The argument is a cpu list, as described above, - except that the string "all" can be used to - specify every CPU on the system. - - In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set - the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. - Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be - offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that - purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and - "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number. - This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs, - which can be useful for HPC and real-time - workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency - for asymmetric multiprocessors. + rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] + [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, + as described above. + + In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, + enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents + such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in + softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU + callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" + kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is + "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" + for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and + "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on + the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC + and real-time workloads. It can also improve + energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. + + If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified + list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. + + Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist + arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to + no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be + toggled at runtime via cpusets. + + Note that this argument takes precedence over + the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs @@ -3918,6 +4663,10 @@ value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. + But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable + this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it + to zero. + rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might @@ -3932,6 +4681,19 @@ latencies, which will choose a value aligned with the appropriate hardware boundaries. + rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] + Minimum number of objects which are cached and + maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal + to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the + pressure to page allocator, also it makes the + whole algorithm to behave better in low memory + condition. + + rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] + Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) + in response to low-memory conditions. The range + of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. + rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] Set delay from grace-period initialization to first attempt to force quiescent states. @@ -3967,6 +4729,36 @@ (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and the default is zero (non-realtime operation). + When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the + priority of NOCB callback kthreads. + + rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] + Set the shift-right count to use to compute + the callback-invocation batch limit bl from + the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. + The result will be bounded below by the value of + the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl + callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in + order to allow the CPU to do other work. + + Please note that this callback-invocation batch + limit applies only to non-offloaded callback + invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead + invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which + scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. + + rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] + On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, + RCU reduces the lock contention that would + otherwise be caused by callback floods through + use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the + common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to + the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra + overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. + But if there are too many callbacks queued during + a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into + the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too + many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in @@ -3984,15 +4776,14 @@ Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which batch limiting is re-enabled. - rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] - Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have - RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). - - rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL] - Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have - only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). - Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can - prove do nothing more than free memory. + rcutree.qovld= [KNL] + Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which + RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively + enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to + help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. + Set to less than zero to make this be set based + on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to + disable more aggressive help enlistment. rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra @@ -4001,46 +4792,67 @@ This wake_up() will be accompanied by a WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). + rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] + In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, + this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay + in microseconds. This defaults to zero. + Larger delays increase the probability of + catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use + of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant + rcu_read_unlock() has completed. + rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining why a new grace period has not yet started. - rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL] + rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] Measure performance of asynchronous grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). - rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL] + rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] Specify the maximum number of outstanding callbacks per writer thread. When a writer thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow previously posted callbacks to drain. - rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL] + rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] Measure performance of expedited synchronous grace-period primitives. - rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL] + rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of this parameter is to delay the start of the test until boot completes in order to avoid interference. - rcuperf.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] + rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. - rcuperf.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] + rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] + Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). + If this parameter has the same value as + rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- + and double-argument variants are tested. + + rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] + Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). + If this parameter has the same value as + rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- + and double-argument variants are tested. + + rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). - rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] + rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. - rcuperf.kfree_loops= [KNL] - Number of loops doing rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num number + rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] + Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number of allocations and frees. - rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL] + rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again @@ -4049,23 +4861,23 @@ A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects a single reader. - rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL] + rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] Set number of RCU writers. The values operate - the same as for rcuperf.nreaders. + the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. N, where N is the number of CPUs - rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL] + rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL] Specify the RCU implementation to test. - rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL] + rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] Shut the system down after performance tests complete. This is useful for hands-off automated testing. - rcuperf.verbose= [KNL] + rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] Enable additional printk() statements. - rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL] + rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] Write-side holdoff between grace periods, in microseconds. The default of zero says no holdoff. @@ -4083,8 +4895,12 @@ in seconds. rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] - Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing + Specifies the number of kthreads to be used + for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing for the types of RCU supporting this notion. + Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or + greater than the number of CPUs cause the number + of CPUs to be used. rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning @@ -4118,6 +4934,18 @@ are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted they are all non-zero. + rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] + Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more + accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU + flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. + + rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] + Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. + This can of course result in splats, and is + intended to test the ability of things like + CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect + such leaks. + rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. @@ -4126,6 +4954,14 @@ stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual test, hence the "fake". + rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] + Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. + Zero (the default) disables toggling. + + rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] + Set the delay in milliseconds between successive + callback-offload toggling attempts. + rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value @@ -4143,6 +4979,20 @@ Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. + rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] + Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used + to test the interaction of RCU updaters and + task-exit processing. + + rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] + The number of times in a given read-then-exit + episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads + is spawned. + + rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] + The delay, in seconds, between successive + read-then-exit testing episodes. + rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode @@ -4156,12 +5006,24 @@ Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall warnings, zero to disable. + rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] + Sleep while stalling if set. This will result + in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition + to any other stall-related activity. + rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] Disable interrupts while stalling if set. + rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] + Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU + grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall + warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu + and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the + kthread is starved first, then the CPU. + rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] Time (s) between statistics printk()s. @@ -4199,8 +5061,26 @@ rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. + rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] + Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and + rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur + during early boot, that is, during the time + before the init task is spawned. + rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. + The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed + value is 300 seconds. + + rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] + Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning + messages. The value is in milliseconds + and the maximum allowed value is 21000 + milliseconds. Please note that this value is + adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. + Setting this to zero causes the value from + rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after + conversion from seconds to milliseconds). rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] Use expedited grace-period primitives, for @@ -4226,10 +5106,71 @@ only normal grace-period primitives. No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. + But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables + this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting + it to the value one, that is, converting any + post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace + period to instead use normal non-expedited + grace-period processing. + + rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] + Set the maximum number of callbacks present + at the beginning of a grace period that allows + the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using + a single callback queue. This switching only + occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is + set to the default value of -1. + + rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] + Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time + lock-contention events per jiffy required to + cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU + callback queuing. This switching only occurs + when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to + the default value of -1. + + rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] + Set the number of callback queues to use for the + RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default + of -1 allows this to be automatically (and + dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended + for use in testing. + + rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] + Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will + avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning + of a given grace period. Setting a large + number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, + but lengthens grace periods. + + rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] + Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall + informational messages, which give some indication + of the problem for those not patient enough to + wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are + only printed prior to the stall-warning message + for a given grace period. Disable with a value + less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten + seconds. A change in value does not take effect + until the beginning of the next grace period. + + rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] + Multiplier for time interval between successive + RCU task stall informational messages for a given + RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped + to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to + the value three, so that the first informational + message is printed 10 seconds into the grace + period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at + 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 + seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. + rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] - Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning - messages. Disable with a value less than or equal - to zero. + Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall + warning messages. Disable with a value less + than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. + A change in value does not take effect until + the beginning of the next grace period. rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] Run the RCU early boot self tests @@ -4255,7 +5196,7 @@ reboot= [KNL] Format (x86 or x86_64): - [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ + [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ [[,]s[mp]#### \ [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ [[,]f[orce] @@ -4267,6 +5208,51 @@ reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor to be used for rebooting. + refscale.holdoff= [KNL] + Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of + this parameter is to delay the start of the + test until boot completes in order to avoid + interference. + + refscale.loops= [KNL] + Set the number of loops over the synchronization + primitive under test. Increasing this number + reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, + but the default has already reduced the per-pass + noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 + x86 laptops. + + refscale.nreaders= [KNL] + Set number of readers. The default value of -1 + selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number + of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. + + refscale.nruns= [KNL] + Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto + the console log. + + refscale.readdelay= [KNL] + Set the read-side critical-section duration, + measured in microseconds. + + refscale.scale_type= [KNL] + Specify the read-protection implementation to test. + + refscale.shutdown= [KNL] + Shut down the system at the end of the performance + test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when + refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave + it running) when refscale is built as a module. + + refscale.verbose= [KNL] + Enable additional printk() statements. + + refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] + Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero + (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, + print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value + specified. + relax_domain_level= [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. @@ -4282,11 +5268,6 @@ Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual address space. - reservelow= [X86] - Format: nn[K] - Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at - the bottom of the address space. - reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device during initialization. @@ -4308,17 +5289,45 @@ Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously (e.g. USB and MMC devices). - hibernate= [HIBERNATION] - noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image - present during boot. - nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. - no Disable hibernation and resume. - protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration - (that will set all pages holding image data - during restoration read-only). - retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction + retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary + Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) + vulnerability. + + AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop + sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other + sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- + cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors + that don't. + + off - no mitigation + auto - automatically select a migitation + auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, + disabling SMT if necessary for + the full mitigation (only on Zen1 + and older without STIBP). + ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation + windows on basic block boundaries too. + Safe, highest perf impact. It also + enables STIBP if present. Not suitable + on Intel. + ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT + when STIBP is not available. This is + the alternative for systems which do not + have STIBP. + unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, + only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based + systems. + unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP + is not available. This is the alternative for + systems which do not have STIBP. + + Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run + time according to the CPU. + + Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. + rfkill.default_state= 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, etc. communication is blocked by default. @@ -4343,6 +5352,8 @@ rodata= [KNL] on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. + full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only + [arm64] rockchip.usb_uart Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port @@ -4380,18 +5391,136 @@ an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, which is faster. + s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] + Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space + accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal + factor of the size of main memory. + The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use + as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, + if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory + once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice + and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no + restrictions other than those given by hardware at the + cost of significant additional memory use for tables. + sa1100ir [NET] See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. - sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter - - sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. + sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. + sched_thermal_decay_shift= + [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal + pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the + default decay period of other scheduler pelt + signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting + sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay + period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift + value. + i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms + sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr + 1 64 ms + 2 128 ms + and so on. + Format: integer between 0 and 10 + Default is 0. + + scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] + Number of seconds to hold off before starting + test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and + to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() + tests. + + scftorture.longwait= [KNL] + Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected + up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the + default) disables this feature. Please note + that requesting even small non-zero numbers of + seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, + softlockup complaints, and so on. + + scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] + Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the + smp_call_function() family of functions. + The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads + equal to the number of CPUs. + + scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] + Number seconds to wait after the start of the + test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. + + scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] + Number seconds to wait between successive + CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which + is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. + + scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] + The number of seconds following the start of the + test after which to shut down the system. The + default of zero avoids shutting down the system. + Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. + + scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] + The number of seconds between outputting the + current test statistics to the console. A value + of zero disables statistics output. + + scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] + The number of jiffies to wait between each change + to the set of CPUs under test. + + scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] + Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default + preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug + while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() + functions. + + scftorture.verbose= [KNL] + Enable additional printk() statements. + + scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] + The probability weighting to use for the + smp_call_function_single() function with a zero + "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the + default if all other weights are -1. However, + if at least one weight has some other value, a + value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. + + scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] + The probability weighting to use for the + smp_call_function_single() function with a + non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. + + scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] + The probability weighting to use for the + smp_call_function_many() function with a zero + "wait" parameter. See weight_single. + Note well that setting a high probability for + this weighting can place serious IPI load + on the system. + + scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] + The probability weighting to use for the + smp_call_function_many() function with a + non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single + and weight_many. + + scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] + The probability weighting to use for the + smp_call_function_all() function with a zero + "wait" parameter. See weight_single and + weight_many. + + scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] + The probability weighting to use for the + smp_call_function_all() function with a + non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single + and weight_many. + skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. @@ -4421,6 +5550,8 @@ serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] + sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst + shapers= [NET] Maximal number of shapers. @@ -4429,6 +5560,10 @@ slram= [HW,MTD] + slab_merge [MM] + Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the + kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. + slab_nomerge [MM] Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be necessary if there is some reason to distinguish @@ -4440,7 +5575,7 @@ cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their own. - For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. + For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. @@ -4448,27 +5583,19 @@ fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. - slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB] + slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the last alloc / free. For more information see - Documentation/vm/slub.rst. - - slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB] - Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for - memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable. - The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON. - Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug - directories and files being created under - /sys/kernel/slub. + Documentation/mm/slub.rst. slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory fragmentation. For more information see - Documentation/vm/slub.rst. + Documentation/mm/slub.rst. slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will @@ -4477,12 +5604,15 @@ the number of objects indicated. The higher the number of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. - For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. + For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be lower than slub_max_order. - For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. + For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. + + slub_merge [MM, SLUB] + Same with slab_merge. slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. @@ -4491,6 +5621,17 @@ smart2= [HW] Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] + smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] + Specify the period of time in milliseconds + that smp_call_function() and friends will wait + for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is + useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs + disabling interrupts for extended periods + of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and + setting a value of zero disables this feature. + This feature may be more efficiently disabled + using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. + smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port @@ -4502,7 +5643,7 @@ 1: Fast pin select (default) 2: ATC IRMode - smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical + smt= [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the actual hardware limit. @@ -4511,18 +5652,18 @@ softlockup_panic= [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. - Format: <integer> + Format: 0 | 1 - A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector - to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This - is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC - which is the respective build-time switch to that - functionality. + A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector + to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is + also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl + and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the + respective build-time switch to that functionality. softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate backtraces on all cpus. - Format: <integer> + Format: 0 | 1 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst @@ -4554,8 +5695,13 @@ Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: retpoline - replace indirect branches - retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline - retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk + retpoline,generic - Retpolines + retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch + retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence + eibrs - enhanced IBRS + eibrs,retpoline - enhanced IBRS + Retpolines + eibrs,lfence - enhanced IBRS + LFENCE + ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel Not specifying this option is equivalent to spectre_v2=auto. @@ -4596,8 +5742,7 @@ auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on the available CPU features and vulnerability. - Default mitigation: - If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" + Default mitigation: "prctl" Not specifying this option is equivalent to spectre_v2_user=auto. @@ -4641,7 +5786,7 @@ will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. Default mitigations: - X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" + X86: "prctl" On powerpc the options are: @@ -4659,6 +5804,90 @@ spia_pedr= spia_peddr= + split_lock_detect= + [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection + + When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic + instructions that access data across cache line + boundaries will result in an alignment check exception + for split lock detection or a debug exception for + bus lock detection. + + off - not enabled + + warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings + about applications triggering the #AC + exception or the #DB exception. This mode is + the default on CPUs that support split lock + detection or bus lock detection. Default + behavior is by #AC if both features are + enabled in hardware. + + fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications + that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB + exception. Default behavior is by #AC if + both features are enabled in hardware. + + ratelimit:N - + Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks + per second for bus lock detection. + 0 < N <= 1000. + + N/A for split lock detection. + + + If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in + firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) + the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" + mode. + + #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when + CPL > 0. + + srbds= [X86,INTEL] + Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling + (SRBDS) mitigation. + + Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like + exploit which can leak bits from the random + number generator. + + By default, this issue is mitigated by + microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause + the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become + much slower. Among other effects, this will + result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. + + The microcode mitigation can be disabled with + the following option: + + off: Disable mitigation and remove + performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED + + srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] + Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a + large system, such that srcu_struct structures + should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. + This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, + but takes effect only when the low-order four + bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 + (decide at boot). + + srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] + Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree + srcu_struct structure will be converted to big + form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: + + 0: Never. + 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. + 2: When rcutorture decides to. + 3: Decide at boot time (default). + 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. + + Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based + on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) + instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. + srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] Specifies how frequently to check for grace-period sequence counter wrap for the @@ -4676,6 +5905,32 @@ expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic expediting. + srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] + Specifies the number of no-delay instances + per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period + worker thread will be rescheduled with zero + delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will + be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. + + srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] + Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of + non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, + grace period worker thread will be rescheduled + with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each + rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. + + srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] + Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping + delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. + + srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] + Specifies the number of update-side contention + events per jiffy will be tolerated before + initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct + structure to big form. Note that the value of + srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit + set for contention-based conversions to occur. + ssbd= [ARM64,HW] Speculative Store Bypass Disable control @@ -4700,12 +5955,18 @@ growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other mapping. Default value is 256 pages. + stack_depot_disable= [KNL] + Setting this to true through kernel command line will + disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory + consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set + to false. + stacktrace [FTRACE] Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. stacktrace_filter=[function-list] [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer - will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated + will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated list of functions. This list can be changed at run time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing @@ -4724,6 +5985,15 @@ stifb= [HW] Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] + strict_sas_size= + [X86] + Format: <bool> + Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks + against the required signal frame size which + depends on the supported FPU features. This can + be used to filter out binaries which have + not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. + sunrpc.min_resvport= sunrpc.max_resvport= [NFS,SUNRPC] @@ -4779,20 +6049,27 @@ This parameter controls use of the Protected Execution Facility on pSeries. - swapaccount=[0|1] - [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource - controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable - it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) - swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] - Format: { <int> | force | noforce } + Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs + <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb + areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up + to a power of 2. force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) switches= [HW,M68k] + sysctl.*= [KNL] + Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init + process, as if the value was written to the respective + /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as + separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values + are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered + later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. + Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 + sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev on older distributions. When this option is enabled @@ -4812,12 +6089,13 @@ Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics - cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt + cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. tdfx= [HW,DRM] - test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] + test_suspend= [SUSPEND] + Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) as the system sleep state during system startup with @@ -4871,6 +6149,25 @@ topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this LPAR. + torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] + Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing + until after init has spawned. + + torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] + Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, + even if there were no errors. This can be a + very costly operation when many torture tests + are running concurrently, especially on systems + with rotating-rust storage. + + torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] + Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be + emitted between each sleep. The default of zero + disables verbose-printk() sleeping. + + torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] + Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. + tp720= [HW,PS2] tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] @@ -4882,13 +6179,66 @@ This will guarantee that all the other pcrs are saved. + tp_printk [FTRACE] + Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the + tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up + where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the + option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a + ftrace_dump_on_oops. + + To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, + echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk + Note, echoing 1 into this file without the + tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. + + The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used + to stop the printing of events to console at + late_initcall_sync. + + ** CAUTION ** + + Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high + frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause + the system to live lock. + + tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] + When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise + on the console. It may be useful to only include the + printing of events during boot up, as user space may + make the system inoperable. + + This command line option will stop the printing of events + to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. + trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. + trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events + at boot up. + local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter + (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but + depending on the architecture, may not be + in sync between CPUs. + global - Event time stamps are synchronize across + CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, + but better for some race conditions. + counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) + note, some counts may be skipped due to the + infrastructure grabbing the clock more than + once per event. + uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. + perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. + mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. + mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time + stamps. + boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. + Architectures may add more clocks. See + Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. + trace_event=[event-list] [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a - comma separated list of trace events to enable. See + comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See also Documentation/trace/events.rst trace_options=[option-list] @@ -4907,24 +6257,6 @@ See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" section. - tp_printk[FTRACE] - Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the - tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up - where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the - option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a - ftrace_dump_on_oops. - - To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, - echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk - Note, echoing 1 into this file without the - tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. - - ** CAUTION ** - - Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high - frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause - the system to live lock. - traceoff_on_warning [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can @@ -4946,6 +6278,29 @@ See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more details. + trusted.source= [KEYS] + Format: <string> + This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend + for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust + sources: + - "tpm" + - "tee" + - "caam" + If not specified then it defaults to iterating through + the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the + first trust source as a backend which is initialized + successfully during iteration. + + trusted.rng= [KEYS] + Format: <string> + The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. + Can be one of: + - "kernel" + - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" + - "default" + If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, + the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. + tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. Format: <string> [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this @@ -4965,6 +6320,12 @@ interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not acceptable). + tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given + value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery + procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems + with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. + Format: <unsigned int> + tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that support TSX control. @@ -5085,8 +6446,7 @@ usbcore.old_scheme_first= [USB] Start with the old device initialization - scheme, applies only to low and full-speed devices - (default 0 = off). + scheme (default 0 = off). usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by @@ -5205,6 +6565,7 @@ device); j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns command, uas only); + k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and unlock ejectable media, not on uas); m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more @@ -5247,7 +6608,7 @@ HIGHMEM regardless of setting of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. - vdso= [X86,SH] + vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) @@ -5273,11 +6634,12 @@ video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. - video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] + video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] + Format: [0|1] If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness level and then send out the event to user space through - the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver + the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver will only send out the event without touching backlight brightness level. default: 1 @@ -5466,12 +6828,6 @@ default x2apic cluster mode on platforms supporting x2apic. - x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT] - Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform. - Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer - plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer. - x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt - xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is @@ -5495,9 +6851,16 @@ Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late panic() code such as dumping handler. + xen_msr_safe= [X86,XEN] + Format: <bool> + Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR + access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The + default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE. + xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] - Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV - optimizations. + Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. + This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which + has equivalent effect for XEN platform. xen_nopv [X86] Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to @@ -5505,6 +6868,10 @@ This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which has equivalent effect for XEN platform. + xen_no_vector_callback + [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen + event channel interrupts. + xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime @@ -5518,11 +6885,38 @@ improve timer resolution at the expense of processing more timer interrupts. + xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] + The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot + in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. + Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and + started with less memory configured than allowed at + max. Default is 180. + + xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] + How long to delay EOI handling in case of event + storms (jiffies). Default is 10. + + xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] + After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop + should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. + + xen.fifo_events= [XEN] + Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling + even if available. Normally fifo event handling is + preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is + fairer and the number of possible event channels is + much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). + nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. + nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] + Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations + which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock + contention. + xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] Format: <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] @@ -5536,6 +6930,12 @@ controller on both pseries and powernv platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. + xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] + By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use + stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode + is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use + loads instead, as on POWER9. + xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be |