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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 7e1315ee0507..747a55abf494 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ strictly ACPI specification compliant. rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory + nocmcff -- Disable firmware first mode for corrected + errors. This disables parsing the HEST CMC error + source to check if firmware has set the FF flag. This + may result in duplicate corrected error reports. nospcr -- disable console in ACPI SPCR table as default _serial_ console on ARM64 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on", "acpi=force" or @@ -405,15 +409,13 @@ not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have APC and your system crashes randomly. + apic [APIC,X86-64] Use IO-APIC. Default. + apic= [APIC,X86,EARLY] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller Change the output verbosity while booting Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } Change the amount of debugging information output when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. - For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC - driver name. - Format: apic=driver_name - Examples: apic=bigsmp apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86,EARLY] External NMI delivery setting Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } @@ -424,6 +426,10 @@ useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be shot down by NMI + apicpmtimer Do APIC timer calibration using the pmtimer. Implies + apicmaintimer. Useful when your PIT timer is totally + broken. + autoconf= [IPV6] See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. @@ -452,6 +458,9 @@ arm64.nomops [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory Set instructions support + arm64.nompam [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Partitioning And + Monitoring support + arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension support @@ -624,6 +633,14 @@ named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables all v1 hierarchies. + cgroup_v1_proc= [KNL] Show also missing controllers in /proc/cgroups + Format: { "true" | "false" } + /proc/cgroups lists only v1 controllers by default. + This compatibility option enables listing also v2 + controllers (whose v1 code is not compiled!), so that + semi-legacy software can check this file to decide + about usage of v2 (sic) controllers. + cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods. Format: { "true" | "false" } Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS. @@ -921,12 +938,16 @@ the parameter has no effect. 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. + Only jump to kdump kernel after running the panic + notifiers and dumping kmsg. This option increases + the risks of a kdump failure, since some panic + notifiers can make the crashed kernel more unstable. + In configurations where kdump may not be reliable, + running the panic notifiers could allow collecting + more data on dmesg, like stack traces from other CPUS + or extra data dumped by panic_print. Note that some + configurations enable this option unconditionally, + like Hyper-V, PowerPC (fadump) and AMD SEV-SNP. crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] [KNL,EARLY] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' @@ -973,6 +994,28 @@ 0: to disable low allocation. It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used or memory reserved is below 4G. + crashkernel=size[KMG],cma + [KNL, X86] Reserve additional crash kernel memory from + CMA. This reservation is usable by the first system's + userspace memory and kernel movable allocations (memory + balloon, zswap). Pages allocated from this memory range + will not be included in the vmcore so this should not + be used if dumping of userspace memory is intended and + it has to be expected that some movable kernel pages + may be missing from the dump. + + A standard crashkernel reservation, as described above, + is still needed to hold the crash kernel and initrd. + + This option increases the risk of a kdump failure: DMA + transfers configured by the first kernel may end up + corrupting the second kernel's memory. + + This reservation method is intended for systems that + can't afford to sacrifice enough memory for standard + crashkernel reservation and where less reliable and + possibly incomplete kdump is preferable to no kdump at + all. cryptomgr.notests [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests @@ -1397,7 +1440,8 @@ earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] - earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] + earlyprintk=mmio32,membase[,{nocfg|baudrate}] + earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,{nocfg|baudrate}] earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] earlyprintk=bios @@ -1405,6 +1449,9 @@ the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by default because it has some cosmetic problems. + Use "nocfg" to skip UART configuration, assume + BIOS/firmware has configured UART correctly. + Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console takes over. @@ -1549,6 +1596,7 @@ failslab= fail_usercopy= fail_page_alloc= + fail_skb_realloc= fail_make_request=[KNL] General fault injection mechanism. Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> @@ -1721,6 +1769,8 @@ off: Disable GDS mitigation. + gbpages [X86] Use GB pages for kernel direct mappings. + gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. @@ -1768,7 +1818,9 @@ 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). + The default is determined by + CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY_DEFAULT_ON. + on Perform hardened usercopy checks. off Disable hardened usercopy checks. hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= @@ -1776,6 +1828,27 @@ backtraces on all cpus. Format: 0 | 1 + hash_pointers= + [KNL,EARLY] + By default, when pointers are printed to the console + or buffers via the %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. The choices are: + Format: { auto | always | never } + Default: auto + + auto - Hash pointers unless slab_debug is enabled. + always - Always hash pointers (even if slab_debug is + enabled). + never - Never hash pointers. This option should only + be specified when debugging the kernel. Do + not use on production kernels. The boot + param "no_hash_pointers" is an alias for + this mode. + hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. @@ -1809,6 +1882,13 @@ lz4: Select LZ4 compression algorithm to compress/decompress hibernation image. + hibernate.pm_test_delay= + [HIBERNATION] + Sets the number of seconds to remain in a hibernation test + mode before resuming the system (see + /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG + is set. Default value is 5. + highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] 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 @@ -1844,7 +1924,7 @@ hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. - hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. + hugepages= [HW,EARLY] 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 @@ -1856,15 +1936,24 @@ <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 + [HW,EARLY] 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] + hugepage_alloc_threads= + [HW] The number of threads that should be used to + allocate hugepages during boot. This option can be + used to improve system bootup time when allocating + a large amount of huge pages. + The default value is 25% of the available hardware threads. + + Note that this parameter only applies to non-gigantic huge pages. + hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA,EARLY] 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. @@ -1875,6 +1964,13 @@ hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. + hugetlb_cma_only= + [HW,CMA,EARLY] When allocating new HugeTLB pages, only + try to allocate from the CMA areas. + + This option does nothing if hugetlb_cma= is not also + specified. + hugetlb_free_vmemmap= [KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP enabled. @@ -1916,6 +2012,12 @@ which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock contention. + hw_protection= [HW] + Format: reboot | shutdown + + Hardware protection action taken on critical events like + overtemperature or imminent voltage loss. + i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed or register an additional I2C bus that is not registered from board initialization code. @@ -2003,12 +2105,21 @@ idle= [X86,EARLY] Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait - Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly - improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but - will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. - Not recommended. + + idle=poll: Don't do power saving in the idle loop + using HLT, but poll for rescheduling event. This will + make the CPUs eat a lot more power, but may be useful + to get slightly better performance in multiprocessor + benchmarks. It also makes some profiling using + performance counters more accurate. Please note that + on systems with MONITOR/MWAIT support (like Intel + EM64T CPUs) this option has no performance advantage + over the normal idle loop. It may also interact badly + with hyperthreading. + idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. + idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states idxd.sva= [HW] @@ -2152,6 +2263,28 @@ different crypto accelerators. This option can be used to achieve best performance for particular HW. + ima= [IMA] Enable or disable IMA + Format: { "off" | "on" } + Default: "on" + Note that disabling IMA is limited to kdump kernel. + + indirect_target_selection= [X86,Intel] Mitigation control for Indirect + Target Selection(ITS) bug in Intel CPUs. Updated + microcode is also required for a fix in IBPB. + + on: Enable mitigation (default). + off: Disable mitigation. + force: Force the ITS bug and deploy default + mitigation. + vmexit: Only deploy mitigation if CPU is affected by + guest/host isolation part of ITS. + stuff: Deploy RSB-fill mitigation when retpoline is + also deployed. Otherwise, deploy the default + mitigation. + + For details see: + Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/indirect-target-selection.rst + init= [KNL] Format: <full_path> Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init @@ -2290,6 +2423,9 @@ per_cpu_perf_limits Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using cpufreq sysfs interface + no_cas + Do not enable capacity-aware scheduling (CAS) on + hybrid systems intremap= [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) @@ -2306,20 +2442,73 @@ relaxed iommu= [X86,EARLY] + off + Don't initialize and use any kind of IOMMU. + force + Force the use of the hardware IOMMU even when + it is not actually needed (e.g. because < 3 GB + memory). + noforce + Don't force hardware IOMMU usage when it is not + needed. (default). + biomerge panic nopanic merge nomerge + soft - pt [X86] - nopt [X86] - nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] + Use software bounce buffering (SWIOTLB) (default for + Intel machines). This can be used to prevent the usage + of an available hardware IOMMU. + + [X86] + pt + [X86] + nopt + [PPC/POWERNV] + nobypass Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. + [X86] + AMD Gart HW IOMMU-specific options: + + <size> + Set the size of the remapping area in bytes. + + allowed + Overwrite iommu off workarounds for specific chipsets + + fullflush + Flush IOMMU on each allocation (default). + + nofullflush + Don't use IOMMU fullflush. + + memaper[=<order>] + Allocate an own aperture over RAM with size + 32MB<<order. (default: order=1, i.e. 64MB) + + merge + Do scatter-gather (SG) merging. Implies "force" + (experimental). + + nomerge + Don't do scatter-gather (SG) merging. + + noaperture + Ask the IOMMU not to touch the aperture for AGP. + + noagp + Don't initialize the AGP driver and use full aperture. + + panic + Always panic when IOMMU overflows. + iommu.forcedac= [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. Format: { "0" | "1" } 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before @@ -2405,6 +2594,13 @@ requires the kernel to be built with CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. + irqchip.riscv_imsic_noipi + [RISC-V,EARLY] + Force the kernel to not use IMSIC software injected MSIs + as IPIs. Intended for system where IMSIC is trap-n-emulated, + and thus want to reduce MMIO traps when triggering IPIs + to multiple harts. + irqfixup [HW] When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken @@ -2427,7 +2623,9 @@ specified in the flag list (default: domain): nohz - Disable the tick when a single task runs. + Disable the tick when a single task runs as well as + disabling other kernel noises like having RCU callbacks + offloaded. This is equivalent to the nohz_full parameter. A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you need to affine to housekeeping through the global @@ -2617,6 +2815,31 @@ kgdbwait [KGDB,EARLY] Stop kernel execution and enter the kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. + kho= [KEXEC,EARLY] + Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" | "y" | "n" } + Enables or disables Kexec HandOver. + "0" | "off" | "n" - kexec handover is disabled + "1" | "on" | "y" - kexec handover is enabled + + kho_scratch= [KEXEC,EARLY] + Format: ll[KMG],mm[KMG],nn[KMG] | nn% + Defines the size of the KHO scratch region. The KHO + scratch regions are physically contiguous memory + ranges that can only be used for non-kernel + allocations. That way, even when memory is heavily + fragmented with handed over memory, the kexeced + kernel will always have enough contiguous ranges to + bootstrap itself. + + It is possible to specify the exact amount of + memory in the form of "ll[KMG],mm[KMG],nn[KMG]" + where the first parameter defines the size of a low + memory scratch area, the second parameter defines + the size of a global scratch area and the third + parameter defines the size of additional per-node + scratch areas. The form "nn%" defines scale factor + (in percents) of memory that was used during boot. + kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip Ethernet adapter MAC address. @@ -2690,7 +2913,7 @@ VMs, i.e. on the 0=>1 and 1=>0 transitions of the number of VMs. - Enabling virtualization at module lode avoids potential + Enabling virtualization at module load avoids potential latency for creation of the 0=>1 VM, as KVM serializes virtualization enabling across all online CPUs. The "cost" of enabling virtualization when KVM is loaded, @@ -2743,17 +2966,21 @@ 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. + protected: Mode with support for guests whose state is + kept private from the host, using VHE or + nVHE depending on HW support. nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested - virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3 - hardware. + virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.4 + hardware (with FEAT_NV2). Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation - for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be - used with extreme caution. + for the host. To force nVHE on VHE hardware, add + "arm64_sw.hvhe=0 id_aa64mmfr1.vh=0" to the + command-line. + "nested" is experimental and should be used with + extreme caution. kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 @@ -3031,6 +3258,8 @@ * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 65535 sectors. + * external: Mark port as external (hotplug-capable). + * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting @@ -3254,9 +3483,77 @@ devices can be requested on-demand with the /dev/loop-control interface. - mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception + mce= [X86-{32,64}] + + Please see Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/machinecheck.rst for sysfs runtime tunables. + + off + disable machine check + + no_cmci + disable CMCI(Corrected Machine Check Interrupt) that + Intel processor supports. Usually this disablement is + not recommended, but it might be handy if your + hardware is misbehaving. + + Note that you'll get more problems without CMCI than + with due to the shared banks, i.e. you might get + duplicated error logs. + + dont_log_ce + don't make logs for corrected errors. All events + reported as corrected are silently cleared by OS. This + option will be useful if you have no interest in any + of corrected errors. + + ignore_ce + disable features for corrected errors, e.g. + polling timer and CMCI. All events reported as + corrected are not cleared by OS and remained in its + error banks. + + Usually this disablement is not recommended, however + if there is an agent checking/clearing corrected + errors (e.g. BIOS or hardware monitoring + applications), conflicting with OS's error handling, + and you cannot deactivate the agent, then this option + will be a help. + + no_lmce + do not opt-in to Local MCE delivery. Use legacy method + to broadcast MCEs. + + bootlog + enable logging of machine checks left over from + booting. Disabled by default on AMD Fam10h and older + because some BIOS leave bogus ones. + + If your BIOS doesn't do that it's a good idea to + enable though to make sure you log even machine check + events that result in a reboot. On Intel systems it is + enabled by default. + + nobootlog + disable boot machine check logging. + + monarchtimeout (number) + sets the time in us to wait for other CPUs on machine + checks. 0 to disable. + + bios_cmci_threshold + don't overwrite the bios-set CMCI threshold. This boot + option prevents Linux from overwriting the CMCI + threshold set by the bios. Without this option, Linux + always sets the CMCI threshold to 1. Enabling this may + make memory predictive failure analysis less effective + if the bios sets thresholds for memory errors since we + will not see details for all errors. + + recovery + force-enable recoverable machine check code paths + + Everything else is in sysfs now. - mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. @@ -3346,8 +3643,8 @@ [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is set according to the - CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config - option. + CONFIG_MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE kernel config + options. See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86,EARLY] Enable setting of an exact @@ -3511,6 +3808,7 @@ expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] gather_data_sampling=off [X86] + indirect_target_selection=off [X86] kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] l1tf=off [X86] mds=off [X86] @@ -3555,6 +3853,10 @@ mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] + [X86] After one of the above options, additionally + supports attack-vector based controls as documented in + Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/attack_vector_controls.rst + mminit_loglevel= [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for @@ -3882,6 +4184,8 @@ noapic [SMP,APIC,EARLY] Tells the kernel to not make use of any IOAPICs that may be present in the system. + noapictimer [APIC,X86] Don't set up the APIC timer + noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. nocache [ARM,EARLY] @@ -3929,20 +4233,11 @@ register save and restore. The kernel will only save legacy floating-point registers on task switch. + nogbpages [X86] Do not use GB pages for kernel direct mappings. + no_hash_pointers [KNL,EARLY] - 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. + Alias for "hash_pointers=never". nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. @@ -3955,6 +4250,8 @@ the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger. + nohpet [X86] Don't use the HPET timer. + nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. @@ -4074,10 +4371,10 @@ nosmp [SMP,EARLY] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". - nosmt [KNL,MIPS,PPC,S390,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). + nosmt [KNL,MIPS,PPC,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). Equivalent to smt=1. - [KNL,X86,PPC] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). + [KNL,X86,PPC,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone via the sysfs control file. @@ -4106,8 +4403,10 @@ nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. - no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for - broken timer IRQ sources. + no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for broken + timer IRQ sources, i.e., the IO-APIC timer. This can + work around problems with incorrect timer + initialization on some boards. no_uaccess_flush [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. @@ -4187,6 +4486,11 @@ If given as an integer followed by 'U', it will divide each physical node into N emulated nodes. + numa=noacpi [X86] Don't parse the SRAT table for NUMA setup + + numa=nohmat [X86] Don't parse the HMAT table for NUMA setup, or + soft-reserved memory partitioning. + numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing. Allowed values are enable and disable @@ -4285,7 +4589,7 @@ bit 2: print timer info bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on bit 4: print ftrace buffer - bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer + bit 5: replay all messages on consoles at the end of panic bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) bit 7: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, @@ -4293,6 +4597,25 @@ Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. + panic_sys_info= A comma separated list of extra information to be dumped + on panic. + Format: val[,val...] + Where @val can be any of the following: + + tasks: print all tasks info + mem: print system memory info + timers: print timers info + locks: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on + ftrace: print ftrace buffer + all_bt: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) + blocked_tasks: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state + + This is a human readable alternative to the 'panic_print' option. + + panic_console_replay + When panic happens, replay all kernel messages on + consoles at the end of panic. + parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is connected to, default is 0. Format: <parport#> @@ -4668,7 +4991,7 @@ '1' – force enabled 'x' – unchanged For example, - pci=config_acs=10x + pci=config_acs=10x@pci:0:0 would configure all devices that support ACS to enable P2P Request Redirect, disable Translation Blocking, and leave Source @@ -4681,6 +5004,10 @@ nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of one PCI domain per PCI function + notph [PCIE] If the PCIE_TPH kernel config parameter + is enabled, this kernel boot option can be used + to disable PCIe TLP Processing Hints support + system-wide. pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or ignore PCIe Active State Power Management. @@ -4748,6 +5075,18 @@ that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 remains 0. + pm_async= [PM] + Format: off + This parameter sets the initial value of the + /sys/power/pm_async sysfs knob at boot time. + If set to "off", disables asynchronous suspend and + resume of devices during system-wide power transitions. + This can be useful on platforms where device + dependencies are not well-defined, or for debugging + power management issues. Asynchronous operations are + enabled by default. + + pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. @@ -4813,6 +5152,11 @@ can be preempted anytime. Tasks will also yield contended spinlocks (if the critical section isn't explicitly preempt disabled beyond the lock itself). + lazy - Scheduler controlled. Similar to full but instead + of preempting the task immediately, the task gets + one HZ tick time to yield itself before the + preemption will be forced. One preemption is when the + task returns to user space. print-fatal-signals= [KNL] debug: print fatal signals @@ -4842,6 +5186,14 @@ Format: <bool> default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) + printk.debug_non_panic_cpus= + Allows storing messages from non-panic CPUs into + the printk log buffer during panic(). They are + flushed to consoles by the panic-CPU on + a best-effort basis. + Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) + Default: disabled + printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} Control writing to /dev/kmsg. on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace @@ -5220,7 +5572,8 @@ echo 1 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp or pass a boot parameter "rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=1" - Default is 0. + Default is 1 if num_possible_cpus() <= 16 and it is not explicitly + disabled by the boot parameter passing 0. rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] Measure performance of asynchronous @@ -5353,7 +5706,42 @@ rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] Use conditional/asynchronous update-side - primitives, if available. + normal-grace-period primitives, if available. + + rcutorture.gp_cond_exp= [KNL] + Use conditional/asynchronous update-side + expedited-grace-period primitives, if available. + + rcutorture.gp_cond_full= [KNL] + Use conditional/asynchronous update-side + normal-grace-period primitives that also take + concurrent expedited grace periods into account, + if available. + + rcutorture.gp_cond_exp_full= [KNL] + Use conditional/asynchronous update-side + expedited-grace-period primitives that also take + concurrent normal grace periods into account, + if available. + + rcutorture.gp_cond_wi= [KNL] + Nominal wait interval for normal conditional + grace periods (specified by rcutorture's + gp_cond and gp_cond_full module parameters), + in microseconds. The actual wait interval will + be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up + to this wait interval. Defaults to 16 jiffies, + for example, 16,000 microseconds on a system + with HZ=1000. + + rcutorture.gp_cond_wi_exp= [KNL] + Nominal wait interval for expedited conditional + grace periods (specified by rcutorture's + gp_cond_exp and gp_cond_exp_full module + parameters), in microseconds. The actual wait + interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond + granularity up to this wait interval. Defaults to + 128 microseconds. rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. @@ -5362,6 +5750,43 @@ Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous update-side primitives, if available. + rcutorture.gp_poll= [KNL] + Use polled update-side normal-grace-period + primitives, if available. + + rcutorture.gp_poll_exp= [KNL] + Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period + primitives, if available. + + rcutorture.gp_poll_full= [KNL] + Use polled update-side normal-grace-period + primitives that also take concurrent expedited + grace periods into account, if available. + + rcutorture.gp_poll_exp_full= [KNL] + Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period + primitives that also take concurrent normal + grace periods into account, if available. + + rcutorture.gp_poll_wi= [KNL] + Nominal wait interval for normal conditional + grace periods (specified by rcutorture's + gp_poll and gp_poll_full module parameters), + in microseconds. The actual wait interval will + be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up + to this wait interval. Defaults to 16 jiffies, + for example, 16,000 microseconds on a system + with HZ=1000. + + rcutorture.gp_poll_wi_exp= [KNL] + Nominal wait interval for expedited conditional + grace periods (specified by rcutorture's + gp_poll_exp and gp_poll_exp_full module + parameters), in microseconds. The actual wait + interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond + granularity up to this wait interval. Defaults to + 128 microseconds. + rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous update-side primitives, if available. If all @@ -5370,6 +5795,31 @@ are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted they are all non-zero. + rcutorture.gpwrap_lag= [KNL] + Enable grace-period wrap lag testing. Setting + to false prevents the gpwrap lag test from + running. Default is true. + + rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_gps= [KNL] + Set the value for grace-period wrap lag during + active lag testing periods. This controls how many + grace periods differences we tolerate between + rdp and rnp's gp_seq before setting overflow flag. + The default is always set to 8. + + rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_cycle_mins= [KNL] + Set the total cycle duration for gpwrap lag + testing in minutes. This is the total time for + one complete cycle of active and inactive + testing periods. Default is 30 minutes. + + rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_active_mins= [KNL] + Set the duration for which gpwrap lag is active + within each cycle, in minutes. During this time, + the grace-period wrap lag will be set to the + value specified by gpwrap_lag_gps. Default is + 5 minutes. + rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU @@ -5415,6 +5865,22 @@ Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. + rcutorture.preempt_duration= [KNL] + Set duration (in milliseconds) of preemptions + by a high-priority FIFO real-time task. Set to + zero (the default) to disable. The CPUs to + preempt are selected randomly from the set that + are online at a given point in time. Races with + CPUs going offline are ignored, with that attempt + at preemption skipped. + + rcutorture.preempt_interval= [KNL] + Set interval (in milliseconds, defaulting to one + second) between preemptions by a high-priority + FIFO real-time task. This delay is mediated + by an hrtimer and is further fuzzed to avoid + inadvertent synchronizations. + rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] The number of times in a given read-then-exit episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads @@ -5495,6 +5961,11 @@ rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] Duration (s) of each individual boost test. + rcutorture.test_boost_holdoff= [KNL] + Holdoff time (s) from start of test to the start + of RCU priority-boost testing. Defaults to zero, + that is, no holdoff. + rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] Interval (s) between each boost test. @@ -5701,6 +6172,55 @@ reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor to be used for rebooting. + acpi + Use the ACPI RESET_REG in the FADT. If ACPI is not + configured or the ACPI reset does not work, the reboot + path attempts the reset using the keyboard controller. + + bios + Use the CPU reboot vector for warm reset + + cold + Set the cold reboot flag + + default + There are some built-in platform specific "quirks" + - you may see: "reboot: <name> series board detected. + Selecting <type> for reboots." In the case where you + think the quirk is in error (e.g. you have newer BIOS, + or newer board) using this option will ignore the + built-in quirk table, and use the generic default + reboot actions. + + efi + Use efi reset_system runtime service. If EFI is not + configured or the EFI reset does not work, the reboot + path attempts the reset using the keyboard controller. + + force + Don't stop other CPUs on reboot. This can make reboot + more reliable in some cases. + + kbd + Use the keyboard controller. cold reset (default) + + pci + Use a write to the PCI config space register 0xcf9 to + trigger reboot. + + triple + Force a triple fault (init) + + warm + Don't set the cold reboot flag + + Using warm reset will be much faster especially on big + memory systems because the BIOS will not go through + the memory check. Disadvantage is that not all + hardware will be completely reinitialized on reboot so + there may be boot problems on some systems. + + refscale.holdoff= [KNL] Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of this parameter is to delay the start of the @@ -5770,7 +6290,7 @@ is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. reserve_mem= [RAM] - Format: nn[KNG]:<align>:<label> + Format: nn[KMG]:<align>:<label> Reserve physical memory and label it with a name that other subsystems can use to access it. This is typically used for systems that do not wipe the RAM, and this command @@ -5896,7 +6416,7 @@ port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. root= [KNL] Root filesystem - Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind, + Usually this is a block device specifier of some kind, see the early_lookup_bdev comment in block/early-lookup.c for details. Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial @@ -5923,6 +6443,11 @@ Memory area to be used by remote processor image, managed by CMA. + rt_group_sched= [KNL] Enable or disable SCHED_RR/FIFO group scheduling + when CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=y. Defaults to + !CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED_DEFAULT_DISABLED. + Format: <bool> + rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot S [KNL] Run init in single mode @@ -5950,6 +6475,11 @@ sa1100ir [NET] See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. + sched_proxy_exec= [KNL] + Enables or disables "proxy execution" style + solution to mutex-based priority inversion. + Format: <bool> + sched_verbose [KNL,EARLY] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. @@ -6066,6 +6596,10 @@ non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single and weight_many. + sdw_mclk_divider=[SDW] + Specify the MCLK divider for Intel SoundWire buses in + case the BIOS does not provide the clock rate properly. + skew_tick= [KNL,EARLY] 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. @@ -6088,7 +6622,16 @@ serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] - sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst + sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] + + debug + Enable debug messages. + + nosnp + Do not enable SEV-SNP (applies to host/hypervisor + only). Setting 'nosnp' avoids the RMP check overhead + in memory accesses when users do not want to run + SEV-SNP guests. shapers= [NET] Maximal number of shapers. @@ -6108,14 +6651,18 @@ slab_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/mm/slub.rst. + Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst. (slub_debug legacy name also accepted for now) + Using this option implies the "no_hash_pointers" + option which can be undone by adding the + "hash_pointers=always" option. + slab_max_order= [MM] Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory fragmentation. For more information see - Documentation/mm/slub.rst. + Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst. (slub_max_order legacy name also accepted for now) slab_merge [MM] @@ -6130,13 +6677,14 @@ 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/mm/slub.rst. + For more information see + Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst. (slub_min_objects legacy name also accepted for now) slab_min_order= [MM] Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be lower or equal to slab_max_order. For more information see - Documentation/mm/slub.rst. + Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst. (slub_min_order legacy name also accepted for now) slab_nomerge [MM] @@ -6150,9 +6698,20 @@ cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their own. - For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. + For more information see + Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst. (slub_nomerge legacy name also accepted for now) + slab_strict_numa [MM] + Support memory policies on a per object level + in the slab allocator. The default is for memory + policies to be applied at the folio level when + a new folio is needed or a partial folio is + retrieved from the lists. Increases overhead + in the slab fastpaths but gains more accurate + NUMA kernel object placement which helps with slow + interconnects in NUMA systems. + slram= [HW,MTD] smart2= [HW] @@ -6247,6 +6806,8 @@ Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation against user space to user space task attacks. + Selecting specific mitigation does not force enable + user mitigations. Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and the user space protections. @@ -6526,6 +7087,11 @@ consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set to false. + stack_depot_max_pools= [KNL,EARLY] + Specify the maximum number of pools to use for storing + stack traces. Pools are allocated on-demand up to this + limit. Default value is 8191 pools. + stacktrace [FTRACE] Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. @@ -6706,6 +7272,16 @@ Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. + thp_shmem= [KNL] + Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<policy>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<policy> + Control the default policy of each hugepage size for the + internal shmem mount. <policy> is one of policies available + for the shmem mount ("always", "inherit", "never", "within_size", + and "advise"). + It can be used multiple times for multiple shmem THP sizes. + See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more + details. + topology= [S390,EARLY] Format: {off | on} Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu @@ -6742,6 +7318,14 @@ causing a major performance hit, and the space where machines are deployed is by other means guarded. + tpm_crb_ffa.busy_timeout_ms= [ARM64,TPM] + Maximum time in milliseconds to retry sending a message + to the TPM service before giving up. This parameter controls + how long the system will continue retrying when the TPM + service is busy. + Format: <unsigned int> + Default: 2000 (2 seconds) + tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] Format: integer pcr id Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver @@ -6820,6 +7404,14 @@ comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See also Documentation/trace/events.rst + To enable modules, use :mod: keyword: + + trace_event=:mod:<module> + + The value before :mod: will only enable specific events + that are part of the module. See the above mentioned + document for more information. + trace_instance=[instance-info] [FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up. This will be listed in: @@ -6882,6 +7474,14 @@ reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map^traceoff^traceprintk@trace,sched,irq + Note, saving the trace buffer across reboots does require that the system + is set up to not wipe memory. For instance, CONFIG_RESET_ATTACK_MITIGATION + can force a memory reset on boot which will clear any trace that was stored. + This is just one of many ways that can clear memory. Make sure your system + keeps the content of memory across reboots before relying on this option. + + NB: Both the mapped address and size must be page aligned for the architecture. + See also Documentation/trace/debugging.rst @@ -6920,6 +7520,15 @@ See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst + traceoff_after_boot + [FTRACE] Sometimes tracing is used to debug issues + during the boot process. Since the trace buffer has a + limited amount of storage, it may be prudent to + disable tracing after the boot is finished, otherwise + the critical information may be overwritten. With this + option, the main tracing buffer will be turned off at + the end of the boot process. + traceoff_on_warning [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can @@ -6941,6 +7550,20 @@ See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more details. + transparent_hugepage_shmem= [KNL] + Format: [always|within_size|advise|never|deny|force] + Can be used to control the hugepage allocation policy for + the internal shmem mount. + See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst + for more details. + + transparent_hugepage_tmpfs= [KNL] + Format: [always|within_size|advise|never] + Can be used to control the default hugepage allocation policy + for the tmpfs mount. + See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst + for more details. + trusted.source= [KEYS] Format: <string> This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend @@ -6977,6 +7600,19 @@ having this key zero'ed is acceptable. E.g. in testing scenarios. + tsa= [X86] Control mitigation for Transient Scheduler + Attacks on AMD CPUs. Search the following in your + favourite search engine for more details: + + "Technical guidance for mitigating transient scheduler + attacks". + + off - disable the mitigation + on - enable the mitigation (default) + user - mitigate only user/kernel transitions + vm - mitigate only guest/host transitions + + tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. Format: <string> [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this @@ -7104,6 +7740,22 @@ Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be reported either. + unaligned_scalar_speed= + [RISCV] + Format: {slow | fast | unsupported} + Allow skipping scalar unaligned access speed tests. This + is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip + the tests in environments where they run too slowly. All + CPUs must have the same scalar unaligned access speed. + + unaligned_vector_speed= + [RISCV] + Format: {slow | fast | unsupported} + Allow skipping vector unaligned access speed tests. This + is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip + the tests in environments where they run too slowly. All + CPUs must have the same vector unaligned access speed. + unknown_nmi_panic [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. @@ -7299,13 +7951,6 @@ 16 - SIGBUS faults Example: user_debug=31 - userpte= - [X86,EARLY] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. - - nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in - HIGHMEM regardless of setting - of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. - vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: @@ -7423,7 +8068,7 @@ vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; - see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. + see vga-softcursor.rst. Default: 2 = underline. vt.default_blu= [VT] Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> |