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@@ -458,6 +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
@@ -630,6 +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.
@@ -983,6 +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
@@ -1407,18 +1440,15 @@
earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
+ earlyprintk=mmio32,membase[,{nocfg|baudrate}]
earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,{nocfg|baudrate}]
earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
earlyprintk=bios
- earlyprintk=mmio,membase[,{nocfg|baudrate}]
earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
default because it has some cosmetic problems.
- Only 32-bit memory addresses are supported for "mmio"
- and "pciserial" devices.
-
Use "nocfg" to skip UART configuration, assume
BIOS/firmware has configured UART correctly.
@@ -1852,6 +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
@@ -2226,6 +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
@@ -2535,6 +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
@@ -2749,6 +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.
@@ -3717,6 +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]
@@ -3761,6 +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
@@ -4275,10 +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.
@@ -4493,7 +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,
@@ -4501,6 +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#>
@@ -4960,6 +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.
@@ -5445,7 +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
@@ -5667,6 +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
@@ -6263,7 +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
@@ -6290,6 +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
@@ -6317,6 +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.
@@ -6488,7 +6651,7 @@
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"
@@ -6499,7 +6662,7 @@
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]
@@ -6514,13 +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]
@@ -6534,7 +6698,8 @@
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]
@@ -6922,6 +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.
@@ -7148,6 +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
@@ -7302,6 +7480,8 @@
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
@@ -7420,6 +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
@@ -7547,6 +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.