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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst index 4410384596a9..e8bdf5e86a9b 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst @@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ is applicable:: CMA Contiguous Memory Area support is enabled. DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled. DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime + EARLY Parameter processed too early to be embedded in initrd. EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled EVM Extended Verification Module diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 31b3a25680d0..4839f2919fdf 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ accept_memory=eager can be used to accept all memory at once during boot. - acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64] + acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64,EARLY] Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | copy_dsdt } @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi - acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] + acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI,IOAPIC,EARLY] Format: <int> 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 1,0: use 1st APIC table @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ 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 + acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr [ACPI,EARLY] force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, no further checks are performed. - acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] + acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI,EARLY] Enable table checksum verification during early stage. By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping size limitation. @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump kernels. - acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] + acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI,EARLY] Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be installed automatically and they will appear under @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let a native driver control the watchdog device instead. - acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] + acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC,EARLY] Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the second kernel for kdump. @@ -228,10 +228,10 @@ to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value and always returns good values. - acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode + acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI,EARLY] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode Format: { level | edge | high | low } - acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] + acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY] Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. @@ -266,11 +266,11 @@ behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). - acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] + acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY] Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards that require a timer override, but don't have HPET - add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in + add_efi_memmap [EFI,X86,EARLY] Include EFI memory map in kernel's map of available physical RAM. agp= [AGP] @@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ 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_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64,EARLY] 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 @@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) - amd_pstate= [X86] + amd_pstate= [X86,EARLY] disable Do not enable amd_pstate as the default scaling driver for the supported processors @@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have APC and your system crashes randomly. - apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller + 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 @@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ Format: apic=driver_name Examples: apic=bigsmp - apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting + apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86,EARLY] External NMI delivery setting Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a @@ -508,21 +508,22 @@ bert_disable [ACPI] Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. - bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] + bgrt_disable [ACPI,X86,EARLY] 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 - boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. + boot_delay= [KNL,EARLY] + Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled, and you may also have to specify "lpj=". Boot_delay values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed erroneous and ignored. Format: integer - bootconfig [KNL] + bootconfig [KNL,EARLY] Extended command line options can be added to an initrd and this will cause the kernel to look for it. @@ -557,7 +558,7 @@ trust validation. format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } - cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency + cca= [MIPS,EARLY] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and @@ -672,7 +673,7 @@ [X86-64] hpet,tsc clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= - [ARM,ARM64] + [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] Format: <bool> Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling @@ -702,7 +703,7 @@ 10 seconds when built into the kernel. cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] - [KNL,CMA] + [KNL,CMA,EARLY] Sets the size of kernel global memory area for contiguous memory allocations and optionally the placement constraint by the physical address range of @@ -711,7 +712,7 @@ kernel/dma/contiguous.c cma_pernuma=nn[MG] - [KNL,CMA] + [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 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 @@ -722,7 +723,7 @@ they will fallback to the global default memory area. numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]] - [KNL,CMA] + [KNL,CMA,EARLY] Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA area for the specified node. @@ -739,7 +740,7 @@ a hypervisor. Default: yes - coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] + coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL,EARLY] Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma allocations, by default set to 256K. @@ -757,7 +758,7 @@ condev= [HW,S390] console device conmode= - con3215_drop= [S390] 3215 console drop mode. + con3215_drop= [S390,EARLY] 3215 console drop mode. Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0 When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when the console buffer is full. In this case the @@ -863,7 +864,7 @@ kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. cpu_init_udelay=N - [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert + [X86,EARLY] 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 @@ -883,7 +884,7 @@ kernel more unstable. crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] - [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' + [KNL,EARLY] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset @@ -954,10 +955,10 @@ Format: <port#>,<type> See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst - debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). + debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). debug_boot_weak_hash - [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the + [KNL,EARLY] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a @@ -974,10 +975,10 @@ will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only useful to lockdep developers. - debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging + debug_objects [KNL,EARLY] Enable object debugging debug_guardpage_minorder= - [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this + [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter allows control of the order of pages that will be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability @@ -996,7 +997,7 @@ help tracking down these problems. debug_pagealloc= - [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter + [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. @@ -1004,8 +1005,8 @@ useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. on: enable the feature - debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace - and debugfs internal clients. + debugfs= [KNL,EARLY] This parameter enables what is exposed to + userspace and debugfs internal clients. Format: { on, no-mount, off } on: All functions are enabled. no-mount: @@ -1084,7 +1085,7 @@ dhash_entries= [KNL] Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. - disable_1tb_segments [PPC] + disable_1tb_segments [PPC,EARLY] Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB @@ -1093,7 +1094,7 @@ disable= [IPV6] See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. - disable_radix [PPC] + disable_radix [PPC,EARLY] Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 disable_tlbie [PPC] @@ -1109,25 +1110,25 @@ causing system reset or hang due to sending INIT from AP to BSP. - disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] + disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES,EARLY] Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this to workaround buggy firmware. disable_ipv6= [IPV6] See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. - disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] + disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY] The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB entry later. This parameter disables that. - disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] + disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only,EARLY] By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable memory out of your available memory pool based on MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. - disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] + disable_timer_pin_1 [X86,EARLY] Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. @@ -1177,7 +1178,7 @@ dscc4.setup= [NET] - dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] + dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC,EARLY] Format: {"off" | "known"} Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it @@ -1197,12 +1198,12 @@ Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for details. - early_ioremap_debug [KNL] + early_ioremap_debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings which are not unmapped. - earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. + earlycon= [KNL,EARLY] Output early console device and options. When used with no options, the early console is determined by stdout-path property in device tree's @@ -1338,7 +1339,7 @@ address must be provided, and the serial port must already be setup and configured. - earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] + earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390,UM,EARLY] earlyprintk=vga earlyprintk=sclp earlyprintk=xen @@ -1396,7 +1397,7 @@ edd= [EDD] Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} - efi= [EFI] + efi= [EFI,EARLY] Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } @@ -1417,13 +1418,13 @@ no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub - efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] + efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI,X86,EARLY] Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. - efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] + efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI,X86,EARLY] Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by updating original EFI memory map. Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is @@ -1454,7 +1455,7 @@ eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. - ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging + ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB,EARLY] Allow early kernel console debugging Format: ekgdboc=kbd This is designed to be used in conjunction with @@ -1469,13 +1470,13 @@ See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. - elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390] + elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390,EARLY] Specifies physical address of start of kernel core image elf header and optionally the size. Generally kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. - enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] + enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY] The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB entry later. This parameter enables that. @@ -1508,7 +1509,7 @@ Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of current integrity status. - early_page_ext [KNL] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier + early_page_ext [KNL,EARLY] 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 @@ -1600,7 +1601,7 @@ 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 + fw_devlink= [KNL,EARLY] 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 @@ -1619,12 +1620,12 @@ rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. fw_devlink.strict=<bool> - [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory + [KNL,EARLY] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. Format: <bool> fw_devlink.sync_state = - [KNL] When all devices that could probe have finished + [KNL,EARLY] When all devices that could probe have finished probing, this parameter controls what to do with devices that haven't yet received their sync_state() calls. @@ -1645,12 +1646,12 @@ gamma= [HW,DRM] - gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART + gart_fix_e820= [X86-64,EARLY] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART Format: off | on default: on gather_data_sampling= - [X86,INTEL] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS) + [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS) mitigation. Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which @@ -1748,7 +1749,7 @@ (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 + 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 size on bigger boxes. @@ -1759,7 +1760,7 @@ hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] - hostname= [KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename). + hostname= [KNL,EARLY] 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. @@ -1804,7 +1805,7 @@ Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. Format: size[KMG] - hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation + 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. Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) @@ -1850,9 +1851,10 @@ If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections from listed z/VM user IDs only. - hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations - which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the - guest on lock contention. + hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V,EARLY] + Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations + which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest + on lock contention. i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed or register an additional I2C bus that is not @@ -1917,7 +1919,7 @@ Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] - idle= [X86] + 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 @@ -1973,7 +1975,7 @@ mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, except where unsupported by hardware. - ignore_loglevel [KNL] + ignore_loglevel [KNL,EARLY] Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. We also add it as printk module parameter, so users @@ -2091,21 +2093,21 @@ unpacking being completed before device_ and late_ initcalls. - initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk + initrd= [BOOT,EARLY] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk - initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to + initrdmem= [KNL,EARLY] 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 + init_on_alloc= [MM,EARLY] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with zeroes. Format: 0 | 1 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. - init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. + init_on_free= [MM,EARLY] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. Format: 0 | 1 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. @@ -2161,7 +2163,7 @@ 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. - intel_pstate= [X86] + intel_pstate= [X86,EARLY] disable Do not enable intel_pstate as the default scaling driver for the supported processors @@ -2205,7 +2207,7 @@ Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using cpufreq sysfs interface - intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] + intremap= [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) off disable Interrupt Remapping nosid disable Source ID checking @@ -2217,7 +2219,7 @@ strict regions from userspace. relaxed - iommu= [X86] + iommu= [X86,EARLY] off force noforce @@ -2232,7 +2234,7 @@ nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. - iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. + 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 falling back to the full range if needed. @@ -2240,7 +2242,7 @@ forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting greater than 32-bit addressing. - iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86, S390] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour + iommu.strict= [ARM64,X86,S390,EARLY] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour Format: { "0" | "1" } 0 - Lazy mode. Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred @@ -2256,7 +2258,7 @@ legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. iommu.passthrough= - [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. + [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. Format: { "0" | "1" } 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. @@ -2266,7 +2268,7 @@ See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. - io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method + io_delay= [X86,EARLY] I/O delay method 0x80 Standard port 0x80 based delay 0xed @@ -2279,28 +2281,28 @@ ip= [IP_PNP] See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. - ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V + ipcmni_extend [KNL,EARLY] Extend the maximum number of unique System V IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask The argument is a cpu list, as described above. irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= - [ARM, ARM64] + [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] Format: <bool> Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range exposed by the device tree is too small. irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= - [ARM, ARM64] + [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] Force the kernel to ignore the availability of LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up LPIs. - irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] + irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64,EARLY] Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This requires the kernel to be built with CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. @@ -2445,7 +2447,7 @@ parameter KASAN will print report only for the first invalid access. - keep_bootcon [KNL] + keep_bootcon [KNL,EARLY] Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only useful for debugging when something happens in the window between unregistering the boot console and initializing @@ -2453,7 +2455,7 @@ keepinitrd [HW,ARM] See retain_initrd. - kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] + kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC,EARLY] Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested @@ -2478,7 +2480,7 @@ for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. - kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. + kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW,EARLY] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is @@ -2499,7 +2501,7 @@ kms, kbd format: kms,kbd kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] - kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] + kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW,EARLY] 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 @@ -2514,14 +2516,14 @@ blank and the first boot console that implements read() will be picked. - kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the + kgdbwait [KGDB,EARLY] Stop kernel execution and enter the kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip Ethernet adapter MAC address. - kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable + kmemleak= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable Valid arguments: on, off Default: on Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, @@ -2540,8 +2542,8 @@ See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel Boot Parameter" section. - kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user - and kernel address spaces. + kpti= [ARM64,EARLY] Control page table isolation of + user and kernel address spaces. Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 0: force disabled 1: force enabled @@ -2618,7 +2620,8 @@ for NPT. kvm-arm.mode= - [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. + [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of + operation. none: Forcefully disable KVM. @@ -2638,22 +2641,22 @@ used with extreme caution. kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= - [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 + [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 system registers kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= - [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 + [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 system registers kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= - [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common + [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common system registers kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= - [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of - LPIs. + [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Allow use of GICv4 for direct + injection of LPIs. - kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] + kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC,EARLY] Reserves given percentage from system memory area for contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable allocation. @@ -2706,7 +2709,7 @@ (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support for it. - l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL] + l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU @@ -2723,7 +2726,7 @@ on - enable the interface for the mitigation - l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on + l1tf= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on affected CPUs The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally @@ -2792,7 +2795,7 @@ l3cr= [PPC] - lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS + lapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS disabled it. lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline @@ -2800,7 +2803,7 @@ back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. Format: notscdeadline - lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer + lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC,EARLY] trust the local apic timer in C2 power state. libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control @@ -2924,7 +2927,7 @@ lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. Format: <integer> - lockdown= [SECURITY] + lockdown= [SECURITY,EARLY] { integrity | confidentiality } Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to integrity, kernel features that allow userland to @@ -3031,7 +3034,8 @@ logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver Format: <irq> - loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the + loglevel= [KNL,EARLY] + All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can also be changed with klogd or other programs. The loglevels are defined as follows: @@ -3045,13 +3049,15 @@ 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages - log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, - in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater - than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined - by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is - also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter - that allows to increase the default size depending on - the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. + log_buf_len=n[KMG] [KNL,EARLY] + Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes. + n must be a power of two and greater than the + minimal size. The minimal size is defined by + LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There + is also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config + parameter that allows to increase the default size + depending on the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig + for more details. logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. This may be used to provide more screen space for @@ -3109,7 +3115,7 @@ 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 + maxcpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing @@ -3136,7 +3142,7 @@ Format: <first>,<last> Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. - mds= [X86,INTEL] + mds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. @@ -3168,11 +3174,12 @@ For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst - mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON] Set the memory size. + mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON,EARLY] 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 in cases as follows: + mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Force usage of a specific amount + of memory 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; @@ -3196,8 +3203,8 @@ if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] - [ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by - firmware. + [ARM,MIPS,EARLY] - 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 @@ -3206,7 +3213,7 @@ mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel memory. - memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. + memblock=debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable memblock debug messages. memchunk=nn[KMG] [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for @@ -3220,14 +3227,14 @@ option. See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. - memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact + memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86,EARLY] Enable setting of an exact E820 memory map, as specified by the user. Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss option description. memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] - [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. + [KNL, X86,MIPS,XTENSA,EARLY] 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]. @@ -3237,11 +3244,11 @@ memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] - [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. + [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] - [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. + [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as reserved. Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff memmap=64K$0x18690000 @@ -3251,14 +3258,14 @@ like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number will be eaten. - memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] + memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG,EARLY] [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> - [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region + [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Convert memory within the specified region from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left @@ -3266,7 +3273,7 @@ specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. - memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] + memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86,EARLY] Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of memory when doing things like suspend/resume. Setting this option will scan the memory @@ -3278,13 +3285,13 @@ affects the same memory, you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that memory. - memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] + memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86,EARLY] By default it checks for corruption in the low 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal use. Use this parameter to scan for corruption in more or less memory. - memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] + memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86,EARLY] By default it checks for corruption every 60 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. @@ -3308,7 +3315,7 @@ 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 + memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV,EARLY] Enable memtest Format: <integer> default : 0 <disable> Specifies the number of memtest passes to be @@ -3376,7 +3383,7 @@ https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git mitigations= - [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for + [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64,EARLY] Control optional mitigations for CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, arch-independent options, each of which is an aggregation of existing arch-specific options. @@ -3429,7 +3436,7 @@ retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] mminit_loglevel= - [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this + [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for the additional memory initialisation checks. A value of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will @@ -3437,7 +3444,7 @@ so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. mmio_stale_data= - [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor + [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the Processor MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of @@ -3512,7 +3519,7 @@ mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets - movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] + movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC,EARLY] Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% This parameter is the complement to kerne |