1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64] 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 4 copy_dsdt } 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64] 7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 14 are available 15 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 17 18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 19 Format: <int> 20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 21 1,0: use 1st APIC table 22 default: 0 23 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 25 acpi_backlight=vendor 26 acpi_backlight=video 27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver 28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 29 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 36 37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 41 This option is useful for developers to identify the 42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 43 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 44 45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 47 Format: <int> 48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT 52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 56 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 57 debug layers and levels. 58 59 Enable processor driver info messages: 60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000 63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <byte> 117 118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 122 auto-serialization feature. 123 This feature is enabled by default. 124 This option allows to turn off the feature. 125 126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 127 kernels. 128 129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 132 installed automatically and they will appear under 133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 134 This option turns off this feature. 135 Note that specifying this option does not affect 136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 138 139 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 140 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 141 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 142 143 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 144 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 145 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 146 second kernel for kdump. 147 148 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 149 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 150 151 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 152 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 153 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 154 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 155 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 156 157 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 158 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 159 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 160 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 161 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 162 strings 163 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 164 strings 165 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 166 167 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 168 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 169 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 170 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 171 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 172 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 173 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 174 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 175 care about the state of the feature group strings which 176 should be controlled by the OSPM. 177 Examples: 178 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 179 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 180 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 181 182 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 183 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 184 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 185 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 186 multiple times through kernel command line is also 187 meaningless. 188 Examples: 189 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 190 FALSE. 191 192 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 193 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 194 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 195 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 196 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 197 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 198 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 199 there are quirks related to this string. This command 200 is useful when one want to control the state of the 201 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 202 the OSPM features. 203 Examples: 204 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 205 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 206 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 207 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 208 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 209 equivalent to 210 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 211 and 212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 213 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 214 215 acpi_pm_good [X86] 216 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 217 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 218 and always returns good values. 219 220 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 221 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 222 223 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 224 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 225 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 226 227 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 228 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, 229 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl } 230 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 231 s3_bios and s3_mode. 232 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 233 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 234 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 235 used during resume from hibernation. 236 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 237 control method, with respect to putting devices into 238 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 239 of _PTS is used by default). 240 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 241 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 242 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 243 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 244 but some broken systems don't work without it). 245 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 246 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 247 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 248 249 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 250 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 251 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 252 253 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 254 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 255 256 agp= [AGP] 257 { off | try_unsupported } 258 off: disable AGP support 259 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 260 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 261 262 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 263 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 264 265 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 266 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 267 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 268 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 269 270 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 271 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 272 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 273 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 274 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 275 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 276 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 277 278 32: only for 32-bit processes 279 64: only for 64-bit processes 280 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 281 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 282 283 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 284 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 285 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 286 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 287 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 288 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 289 290 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 291 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 292 Possible values are: 293 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when 294 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are 295 flushed before they will be reused, which 296 is a lot of faster 297 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 298 the system 299 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 300 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 301 allowed anymore to lift isolation 302 requirements as needed. This option 303 does not override iommu=pt 304 305 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 306 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 307 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 308 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 309 IOMMU initialization. 310 311 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 312 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 313 remapping modes: 314 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 315 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 316 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 317 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 318 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 319 320 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 321 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 322 Format: <a>,<b> 323 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 324 325 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 326 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 327 connected to one of 16 gameports 328 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 329 330 apc= [HW,SPARC] 331 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 332 Format: noidle 333 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 334 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 335 APC and your system crashes randomly. 336 337 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 338 Change the output verbosity while booting 339 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 340 Change the amount of debugging information output 341 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 342 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 343 driver name. 344 Format: apic=driver_name 345 Examples: apic=bigsmp 346 347 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 348 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 349 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 350 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 351 backup of CPU 0 352 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 353 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 354 shot down by NMI 355 356 autoconf= [IPV6] 357 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 358 359 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 360 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 361 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 362 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 363 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 364 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 365 apic=verbose is specified. 366 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 367 368 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 369 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 370 371 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 372 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 373 374 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 375 376 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 377 378 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 379 EzKey and similar keyboards 380 381 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 382 383 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 384 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 385 386 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 387 keyboards 388 389 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 390 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 391 392 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 393 Use software keyboard repeat 394 395 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 396 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 397 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 398 enabled until the next reboot 399 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 400 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 401 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 402 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 403 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 404 userspace auditd. 405 Default: unset 406 407 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 408 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 409 Default: 64 410 411 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 412 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 413 Format: { "0" | "1" } 414 0 - Disable the BAU. 415 1 - Enable the BAU. 416 unset - Disable the BAU. 417 418 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 419 Format: <io>,<mode> 420 421 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 422 Format: <io>,<mode> 423 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 424 425 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 426 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 427 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 428 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 429 430 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 431 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 432 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 433 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 434 435 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 436 embedded devices based on command line input. 437 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 438 439 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 440 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 441 no delay (0). 442 Format: integer 443 444 bootconfig [KNL] 445 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 446 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 447 448 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 449 450 bert_disable [ACPI] 451 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 452 453 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 454 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 455 kernel args too. 456 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst 457 bttv.tuner= 458 459 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 460 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 461 at a time. 462 463 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 464 465 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 466 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 467 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 468 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 469 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 470 This option provides an override for these situations. 471 472 carrier_timeout= 473 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 474 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 475 it waits 120 seconds. 476 477 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 478 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 479 trust validation. 480 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 481 482 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 483 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 484 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 485 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 486 others). 487 488 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 489 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 490 491 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller 492 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable} 493 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 494 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 495 a single hierarchy 496 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 497 subsystem 498 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 499 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 500 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 501 502 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 503 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 504 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 505 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 506 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 507 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 508 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 509 all v1 hierarchies. 510 511 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 512 Format: <string> 513 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 514 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 515 516 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 517 Format: { "0" | "1" } 518 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 519 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 520 any implied execute protection). 521 1 -- check protection requested by application. 522 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 523 Value can be changed at runtime via 524 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 525 526 cio_ignore= [S390] 527 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 528 clk_ignore_unused 529 [CLK] 530 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 531 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 532 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 533 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 534 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 535 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 536 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 537 platform with proper driver support. For more 538 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 539 540 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 541 [Deprecated] 542 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 543 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 544 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 545 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 546 547 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 548 Format: <string> 549 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 550 with the name specified. 551 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 552 the platform: 553 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 554 [ACPI] acpi_pm 555 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 556 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 557 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 558 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 559 [MIPS] MIPS 560 [PARISC] cr16 561 [S390] tod 562 [SH] SuperH 563 [SPARC64] tick 564 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 565 566 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 567 [ARM,ARM64] 568 Format: <bool> 569 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 570 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 571 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 572 systems. 573 574 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86] 575 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 576 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 577 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily 578 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific 579 ones should be. 580 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 581 or using the feature without checking anything 582 will still see it. This just prevents it from 583 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 584 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 585 some critical bits. 586 587 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 588 [ARM,X86,KNL] 589 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 590 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 591 placement constraint by the physical address range of 592 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 593 altogether. For more information, see 594 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h 595 596 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 597 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 598 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 599 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 600 a hypervisor. 601 Default: yes 602 603 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 604 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 605 allocations, by default set to 256K. 606 607 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 608 Format: 609 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 610 611 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 612 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 613 614 com90xx= [HW,NET] 615 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 616 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 617 618 condev= [HW,S390] console device 619 conmode= 620 621 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 622 623 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 624 625 ttyS<n>[,options] 626 ttyUSB0[,options] 627 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 628 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 629 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 630 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 631 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 632 633 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 634 information. See 635 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an 636 alternative. 637 638 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 639 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 640 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 641 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 642 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 643 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 644 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 645 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 646 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 647 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 648 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 649 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 650 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 651 the h/w is not re-initialized. 652 653 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 654 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 655 656 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 657 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 658 console=brl,ttyS0 659 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 660 661 console_msg_format= 662 [KNL] Change console messages format 663 default 664 By default we print messages on consoles in 665 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 666 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 667 `printk_time' param). 668 syslog 669 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 670 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 671 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 672 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 673 from /proc/kmsg. 674 675 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 676 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 677 Defaults to 0. 678 679 coredump_filter= 680 [KNL] Change the default value for 681 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 682 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. 683 684 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 685 [ARM,ARM64] 686 Format: <bool> 687 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 688 0: default value, disable debugging 689 1: enable debugging at boot time 690 691 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 692 disable the cpuidle sub-system 693 694 cpuidle.governor= 695 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 696 697 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 698 disable the cpufreq sub-system 699 700 cpu_init_udelay=N 701 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 702 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 703 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 704 Default: 10000 705 706 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 707 Format: 708 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 709 710 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 711 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 712 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 713 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 714 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 715 is selected automatically. 716 [KNL, x86_64] select a region under 4G first, and 717 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 718 hasn't been specified. 719 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 720 721 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 722 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 723 in the running system. The syntax of range is 724 start-[end] where start and end are both 725 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 726 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 727 728 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 729 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 730 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 731 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 732 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 733 available. 734 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 735 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 736 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 737 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 738 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 739 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 740 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 741 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 742 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at 743 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 744 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G 745 for second kernel instead. 746 0: to disable low allocation. 747 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 748 or memory reserved is below 4G. 749 750 cryptomgr.notests 751 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 752 753 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 754 Format: <dma> 755 756 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 757 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 758 759 dasd= [HW,NET] 760 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 761 762 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 763 (one device per port) 764 Format: <port#>,<type> 765 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 766 767 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot 768 time. See 769 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for 770 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg. 771 772 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 773 774 debug_boot_weak_hash 775 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 776 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 777 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 778 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 779 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 780 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 781 782 debug_locks_verbose= 783 [KNL] verbose self-tests 784 Format=<0|1> 785 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 786 self-tests. 787 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to 788 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally 789 only useful to kernel developers. 790 791 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 792 793 no_debug_objects 794 [KNL] Disable object debugging 795 796 debug_guardpage_minorder= 797 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 798 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 799 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 800 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 801 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 802 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 803 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 804 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 805 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 806 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 807 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 808 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 809 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 810 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 811 bypassed) which are not detectable by 812 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 813 tracking down these problems. 814 815 debug_pagealloc= 816 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 817 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 818 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 819 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 820 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 821 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 822 on: enable the feature 823 824 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 825 826 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 827 Format: <area>[,<node>] 828 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt. 829 830 default_hugepagesz= 831 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default 832 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by 833 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and 834 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems. 835 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size 836 if not specified. 837 838 deferred_probe_timeout= 839 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 840 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 841 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 842 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0 843 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also 844 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 845 retrying. 846 847 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 848 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 849 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 850 level 1 and decompression (default) 851 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 852 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 853 only (compression on level 1) 854 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 855 only (decompression) 856 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 857 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 858 859 dhash_entries= [KNL] 860 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 861 862 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 863 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 864 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 865 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 866 miss to occur. 867 868 disable= [IPV6] 869 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 870 871 hardened_usercopy= 872 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 873 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 874 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 875 from reading or writing beyond known memory 876 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 877 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 878 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 879 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 880 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 881 882 disable_radix [PPC] 883 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 884 885 disable_tlbie [PPC] 886 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 887 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 888 889 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 890 Format: <int> 891 The number of initial APIC ID for the 892 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 893 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 894 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 895 causing system reset or hang due to sending 896 INIT from AP to BSP. 897 898 perf_v4_pmi= [X86,INTEL] 899 Format: <bool> 900 Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature. 901 The feature only exists starting from 902 Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer). 903 904 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 905 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if 906 to workaround buggy firmware. 907 908 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 909 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 910 911 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 912 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 913 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 914 entry later. This parameter disables that. 915 916 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 917 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 918 memory out of your available memory pool based on 919 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 920 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 921 922 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 923 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 924 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 925 926 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 927 928 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 929 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 930 931 dma_debug_entries=<number> 932 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 933 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 934 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 935 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 936 architectural default is too low. 937 938 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 939 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 940 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 941 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 942 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 943 driver later using sysfs. 944 945 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 946 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. 947 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 948 949 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 950 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 951 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 952 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 953 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 954 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 955 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 956 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 957 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 958 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 959 available in Documentation/driver-api/edid.rst. An EDID 960 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 961 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 962 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 963 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 964 data set with no connector name will be used for 965 any connectors not explicitly specified. 966 967 dscc4.setup= [NET] 968 969 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 970 Format: {"off" | "known"} 971 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 972 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 973 exists). 974 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 975 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 976 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 977 978 dump_apple_properties [X86] 979 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 980 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 981 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 982 983 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 984 module.dyndbg[="val"] 985 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 986 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 987 for details. 988 989 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions. 990 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.rst for more 991 information about the feature. 992 993 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 994 in some Intel CPUs. 995 996 module.async_probe [KNL] 997 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 998 999 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1000 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1001 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1002 which are not unmapped. 1003 1004 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1005 1006 When used with no options, the early console is 1007 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1008 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1009 the platform. 1010 1011 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1012 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1013 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1014 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1015 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1016 configured. 1017 1018 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 1019 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 1020 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 1021 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 1022 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1023 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1024 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1025 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1026 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1027 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1028 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1029 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1030 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 1031 1032 pl011,<addr> 1033 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1034 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1035 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1036 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1037 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1038 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1039 the device registers. 1040 1041 meson,<addr> 1042 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1043 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1044 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1045 supported. 1046 1047 msm_serial,<addr> 1048 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1049 port at the specified address. The serial port 1050 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1051 yet supported. 1052 1053 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1054 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1055 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1056 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1057 yet supported. 1058 1059 owl,<addr> 1060 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1061 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1062 specified address. The serial port must already be 1063 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1064 1065 rda,<addr> 1066 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1067 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1068 specified address. The serial port must already be 1069 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1070 1071 sbi 1072 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1073 console. 1074 1075 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1076 1077 s3c2410,<addr> 1078 s3c2412,<addr> 1079 s3c2440,<addr> 1080 s3c6400,<addr> 1081 s5pv210,<addr> 1082 exynos4210,<addr> 1083 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1084 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1085 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1086 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1087 Options are not yet supported. 1088 1089 lantiq,<addr> 1090 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1091 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1092 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1093 yet supported. 1094 1095 lpuart,<addr> 1096 lpuart32,<addr> 1097 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1098 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1099 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1100 port must already be setup and configured. 1101 1102 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1103 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1104 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1105 address. The serial port must already be setup 1106 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1107 1108 qcom_geni,<addr> 1109 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1110 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1111 specified address. The serial port must already be 1112 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1113 1114 efifb,[options] 1115 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1116 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1117 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1118 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1119 mapped with the correct attributes. 1120 1121 linflex,<addr> 1122 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1123 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1124 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1125 already be setup and configured. 1126 1127 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1128 earlyprintk=vga 1129 earlyprintk=sclp 1130 earlyprintk=xen 1131 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1132 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1133 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1134 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1135 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1136 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1137 1138 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1139 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1140 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1141 1142 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1143 takes over. 1144 1145 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 1146 be used at a time. 1147 1148 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1149 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1150 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1151 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1152 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1153 You can find the port for a given device in 1154 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1155 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1156 1157 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1158 very good. 1159 1160 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 1161 the real console. 1162 1163 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. 1164 1165 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1166 1167 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1168 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1169 UART class. 1170 1171 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1172 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1173 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1174 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1175 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1176 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1177 default: on. 1178 1179 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1180 ekgdboc=kbd 1181 1182 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1183 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1184 1185 edd= [EDD] 1186 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1187 1188 efi= [EFI] 1189 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug", 1190 "nosoftreserve", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1191 "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1192 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI 1193 runtime services mapping. [Needs CONFIG_X86_UV=y] 1194 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1195 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1196 firmware implementations. 1197 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1198 debug: enable misc debug output 1199 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1200 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1201 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1202 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1203 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1204 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1205 disable_early_pci_dma: Disable the busmaster bit on all 1206 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1207 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1208 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1209 1210 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1211 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1212 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1213 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1214 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1215 1216 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1217 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1218 updating original EFI memory map. 1219 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1220 from ss to ss+nn. 1221 1222 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1223 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1224 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1225 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1226 1227 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1228 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1229 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1230 1231 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1232 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1233 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1234 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1235 "soft reserved". 1236 1237 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1238 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1239 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1240 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1241 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1242 1243 1244 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1245 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1246 1247 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1248 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1249 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1250 1251 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1252 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1253 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1254 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1255 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1256 1257 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1258 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1259 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1260 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1261 1262 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1263 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1264 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1265 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1266 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1267 1268 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1269 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1270 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1271 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1272 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1273 Default value is 0. 1274 Value can be changed at runtime via 1275 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1276 1277 erst_disable [ACPI] 1278 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1279 support. 1280 1281 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1282 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1283 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1284 1285 evm= [EVM] 1286 Format: { "fix" } 1287 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1288 current integrity status. 1289 1290 failslab= 1291 fail_page_alloc= 1292 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1293 General fault injection mechanism. 1294 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1295 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1296 1297 floppy= [HW] 1298 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1299 1300 force_pal_cache_flush 1301 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1302 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1303 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1304 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1305 1306 forcepae [X86-32] 1307 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1308 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1309 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1310 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1311 and may cause unknown problems. 1312 1313 ftrace=[tracer] 1314 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1315 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1316 boot debugging. 1317 1318 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1319 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1320 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1321 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1322 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1323 oops. 1324 1325 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1326 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1327 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 1328 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1329 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1330 tracing directory. 1331 1332 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1333 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1334 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1335 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1336 tracing directory. 1337 1338 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1339 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1340 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1341 function-list is a comma separated list of functions 1342 that can be changed at run time by the 1343 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1344 1345 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1346 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1347 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of 1348 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1349 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1350 1351 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1352 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1353 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1354 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1355 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1356 1357 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1358 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1359 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1360 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1361 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1362 1363 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1364 1365 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1366 Format: off | on 1367 default: on 1368 1369 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1370 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1371 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1372 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1373 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1374 1375 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1376 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1377 android emulator 1378 1379 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1380 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1381 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1382 GPT to be used instead. 1383 1384 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1385 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1386 Format: 0 | 1 1387 Default: 0 1388 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1389 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1390 Format: 0 | 1 1391 Default: 0 1392 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1393 Format: 0 | 1 1394 Default: 0 1395 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1396 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1397 Default: 1024 1398 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1399 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1400 Default: 1024 1401 1402 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1403 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1404 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1405 1406 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1407 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1408 backtraces on all cpus. 1409 Format: <integer> 1410 1411 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1412 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1413 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1414 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1415 1416 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1417 1418 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1419 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1420 1421 hest_disable [ACPI] 1422 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1423 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1424 logic will be disabled. 1425 1426 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1427 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1428 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1429 size on bigger boxes. 1430 1431 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1432 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1433 Default: "on" 1434 1435 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1436 1437 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1438 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1439 verbose } 1440 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1441 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1442 VIA, nVidia) 1443 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1444 1445 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1446 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1447 1448 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1449 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages. 1450 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified 1451 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve 1452 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on 1453 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G 1454 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag). 1455 1456 hung_task_panic= 1457 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1458 Format: <integer> 1459 1460 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a 1461 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1462 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1463 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1464 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1465 1466 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1467 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1468 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1469 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1470 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1471 1472 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1473 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1474 guest on lock contention. 1475 1476 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1477 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1478 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1479 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1480 the real console. 1481 1482 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1483 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1484 registered from board initialization code. 1485 Format: 1486 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1487 1488 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1489 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1490 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1491 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1492 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1493 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1494 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1495 keyboard and cannot control its state 1496 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1497 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1498 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1499 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1500 for the AUX port 1501 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1502 controller 1503 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1504 controllers 1505 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1506 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1507 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1508 transitions, or never reset 1509 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1510 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1511 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1512 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1513 architectures force reset to be always executed 1514 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1515 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1516 1517 i810= [HW,DRM] 1518 1519 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1520 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1521 hardware. 1522 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature 1523 does not match list of supported models. 1524 i8k.power_status 1525 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1526 (disabled by default) 1527 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1528 capability is set. 1529 1530 i915.invert_brightness= 1531 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1532 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1533 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1534 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1535 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1536 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1537 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1538 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1539 value switches the backlight off. 1540 -1 -- never invert brightness 1541 0 -- machine default 1542 1 -- force brightness inversion 1543 1544 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1545 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1546 1547 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1548 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1549 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1550 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1551 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst. 1552 1553 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1554 Format: <int> 1555 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1556 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1557 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1558 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1559 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1560 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1561 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1562 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1563 was 0x3. 1564 1565 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1566 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1567 1568 idle= [X86] 1569 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1570 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1571 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1572 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1573 Not recommended. 1574 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1575 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1576 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1577 1578 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1579 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1580 Default: strict 1581 1582 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1583 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1584 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1585 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1586 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1587 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1588 encoding mode. 1589 1590 Available settings are as follows: 1591 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1592 supported by the FPU 1593 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1594 by the FPU 1595 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1596 by the FPU 1597 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1598 supported by the FPU 1599 1600 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1601 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1602 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1603 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1604 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1605 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1606 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1607 MIPS64 CPUs. 1608 1609 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1610 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1611 except where unsupported by hardware. 1612 1613 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1614 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1615 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1616 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1617 could change it dynamically, usually by 1618 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1619 1620 ignore_rlimit_data 1621 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1622 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1623 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1624 1625 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1626 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1627 1628 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1629 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1630 default: "enforce" 1631 1632 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1633 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1634 owned by uid=0. 1635 1636 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1637 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1638 measurements, instead of host native format. 1639 1640 ima_hash= [IMA] 1641 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1642 | sha512 | ... } 1643 default: "sha1" 1644 1645 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1646 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1647 1648 ima_policy= [IMA] 1649 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1650 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1651 fail_securely" 1652 1653 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1654 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1655 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1656 uid=0. 1657 1658 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1659 all files owned by root. 1660 1661 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1662 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1663 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1664 1665 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1666 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1667 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1668 flag. 1669 1670 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1671 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1672 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1673 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1674 opened for read by uid=0. 1675 1676 ima_template= [IMA] 1677 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1678 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" } 1679 Default: "ima-ng" 1680 1681 ima_template_fmt= 1682 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1683 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1684 1685 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1686 Format: <min_file_size> 1687 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1688 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1689 1690 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1691 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1692 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1693 1694 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1695 Format: <bufsize> 1696 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1697 1698 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1699 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1700 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1701 1702 init= [KNL] 1703 Format: <full_path> 1704 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1705 process. 1706 1707 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1708 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1709 startup. 1710 1711 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1712 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1713 modules and initcalls. 1714 1715 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1716 1717 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 1718 zeroes. 1719 Format: 0 | 1 1720 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 1721 1722 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 1723 Format: 0 | 1 1724 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 1725 1726 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1727 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1728 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1729 override in debugfs after boot. 1730 1731 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1732 Format: <irq> 1733 1734 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1735 1736 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1737 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1738 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1739 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1740 1741 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1742 on 1743 Enable intel iommu driver. 1744 off 1745 Disable intel iommu driver. 1746 igfx_off [Default Off] 1747 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1748 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1749 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1750 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1751 DMA. 1752 forcedac [x86_64] 1753 With this option iommu will not optimize to look 1754 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual 1755 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater 1756 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look 1757 for translation below 32-bit and if not available 1758 then look in the higher range. 1759 strict [Default Off] 1760 With this option on every unmap_single operation will 1761 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed 1762 to batching them for performance. 1763 sp_off [Default Off] 1764 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 1765 has the capability. With this option, super page will 1766 not be supported. 1767 sm_on [Default Off] 1768 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the 1769 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable 1770 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode 1771 will be used on hardware which claims to support it. 1772 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 1773 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 1774 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 1775 could harm performance of some high-throughput 1776 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 1777 mapping is enabled. 1778 Note that using this option lowers the security 1779 provided by tboot because it makes the system 1780 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 1781 nobounce [Default off] 1782 Disable bounce buffer for unstrusted devices such as 1783 the Thunderbolt devices. This will treat the untrusted 1784 devices as the trusted ones, hence might expose security 1785 risks of DMA attacks. 1786 1787 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 1788 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1789 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 1790 1791 intel_pstate= [X86] 1792 disable 1793 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 1794 scaling driver for the supported processors 1795 passive 1796 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 1797 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 1798 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 1799 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 1800 feature. 1801 force 1802 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 1803 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 1804 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 1805 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 1806 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 1807 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 1808 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 1809 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 1810 no_hwp 1811 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 1812 if available. 1813 hwp_only 1814 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 1815 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 1816 support_acpi_ppc 1817 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 1818 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 1819 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 1820 then this feature is turned on by default. 1821 per_cpu_perf_limits 1822 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 1823 cpufreq sysfs interface 1824 1825 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 1826 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 1827 off disable Interrupt Remapping 1828 nosid disable Source ID checking 1829 no_x2apic_optout 1830 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 1831 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 1832 1833 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 1834 strict regions from userspace. 1835 relaxed 1836 1837 iommu= [x86] 1838 off 1839 force 1840 noforce 1841 biomerge 1842 panic 1843 nopanic 1844 merge 1845 nomerge 1846 soft 1847 pt [x86] 1848 nopt [x86] 1849 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 1850 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 1851 1852 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 1853 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1854 0 - Lazy mode. 1855 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 1856 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 1857 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 1858 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 1859 the relevant IOMMU driver. 1860 1 - Strict mode (default). 1861 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 1862 synchronously. 1863 1864 iommu.passthrough= 1865 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 1866 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1867 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1868 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 1869 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 1870 1871 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems 1872 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 1873 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 1874 1875 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 1876 0x80 1877 Standard port 0x80 based delay 1878 0xed 1879 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 1880 udelay 1881 Simple two microseconds delay 1882 none 1883 No delay 1884 1885 ip= [IP_PNP] 1886 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 1887 1888 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 1889 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 1890 1891 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 1892 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 1893 1894 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 1895 [ARM, ARM64] 1896 Format: <bool> 1897 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 1898 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 1899 exposed by the device tree is too small. 1900 1901 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 1902 [ARM, ARM64] 1903 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 1904 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 1905 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 1906 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 1907 LPIs. 1908 1909 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 1910 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 1911 requires the kernel to be built with 1912 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 1913 1914 irqfixup [HW] 1915 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1916 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1917 firmware running. 1918 1919 irqpoll [HW] 1920 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1921 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 1922 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1923 firmware running. 1924 1925 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 1926 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 1927 1928 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 1929 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 1930 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 1931 1932 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 1933 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 1934 1935 nohz 1936 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 1937 1938 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 1939 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 1940 workqueue's affinity configured via the 1941 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 1942 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 1943 1944 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 1945 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 1946 be configured manually after bootup. 1947 1948 domain 1949 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 1950 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 1951 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 1952 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 1953 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 1954 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 1955 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 1956 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 1957 1958 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 1959 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 1960 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 1961 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 1962 1963 managed_irq 1964 1965 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 1966 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 1967 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 1968 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 1969 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 1970 1971 This isolation is best effort and only effective 1972 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 1973 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 1974 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 1975 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 1976 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 1977 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 1978 1979 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 1980 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 1981 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 1982 only delivered when tasks running on those 1983 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 1984 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 1985 queues. 1986 1987 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 1988 1989 iucv= [HW,NET] 1990 1991 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64] 1992 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1993 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1994 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 1995 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1996 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 1997 1998 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64] 1999 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2000 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2001 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 2002 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2003 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2004 2005 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64] 2006 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2007 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2008 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2009 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 2010 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2011 2012 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2013 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2014 2015 nokaslr [KNL] 2016 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 2017 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 2018 Layout Randomization). 2019 2020 kasan_multi_shot 2021 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2022 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2023 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2024 invalid access. 2025 2026 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2027 2028 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2029 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2030 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2031 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2032 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2033 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2034 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2035 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2036 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2037 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2038 2039 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2040 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2041 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2042 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2043 zone if it does not. 2044 2045 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2046 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2047 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2048 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2049 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2050 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2051 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2052 2053 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2054 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2055 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2056 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2057 optional and is the number seconds in between 2058 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2059 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2060 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2061 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2062 the kernel debugger. 2063 2064 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2065 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2066 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2067 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2068 keyboard only format: kbd 2069 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2070 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2071 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2072 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2073 2074 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2075 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2076 2077 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address. 2078 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2079 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2080 2081 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2082 Valid arguments: on, off 2083 Default: on 2084 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2085 the default is off. 2086 2087 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2088 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2089 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2090 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2091 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2092 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2093 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2094 2095 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2096 2097 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2098 Boot Parameter" section. 2099 2100 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2101 and kernel address spaces. 2102 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2103 0: force disabled 2104 1: force enabled 2105 2106 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2107 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2108 2109 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2110 Default is false (don't support). 2111 2112 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 2113 KVM MMU at runtime. 2114 Default is 0 (off) 2115 2116 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2117 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2118 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2119 force : Always deploy workaround. 2120 off : Never deploy workaround. 2121 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2122 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2123 2124 Default is 'auto'. 2125 2126 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2127 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2128 2129 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2130 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2131 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2132 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2133 minute. The default is 60. 2134 2135 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2136 Default is 1 (enabled) 2137 2138 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2139 for all guests. 2140 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2141 2142 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2143 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2144 system registers 2145 2146 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2147 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2148 system registers 2149 2150 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2151 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2152 system registers 2153 2154 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2155 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2156 LPIs. 2157 2158 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2159 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2160 Default is 1 (enabled) 2161 2162 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2163 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 2164 Default is 0 (disabled) 2165 2166 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2167 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2168 Default is 1 (enabled) 2169 2170 kvm-intel.nested= 2171 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2172 Default is 0 (disabled) 2173 2174 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2175 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2176 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2177 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2178 2179 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2180 CVE-2018-3620. 2181 2182 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2183 2184 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2185 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2186 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2187 never: Disables the mitigation 2188 2189 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2190 2191 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2192 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2193 Default is 1 (enabled) 2194 2195 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2196 affected CPUs 2197 2198 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2199 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2200 2201 full 2202 Provides all available mitigations for the 2203 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2204 enables all mitigations in the 2205 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2206 2207 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2208 sysfs interface is still possible after 2209 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2210 when the first VM is started in a 2211 potentially insecure configuration, 2212 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2213 2214 full,force 2215 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2216 flush runtime control. Implies the 2217 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2218 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2219 2220 flush 2221 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2222 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2223 L1D flush. 2224 2225 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2226 sysfs interface is still possible after 2227 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2228 when the first VM is started in a 2229 potentially insecure configuration, 2230 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2231 2232 flush,nosmt 2233 2234 Disables SMT and enables the default 2235 hypervisor mitigation. 2236 2237 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2238 sysfs interface is still possible after 2239 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2240 when the first VM is started in a 2241 potentially insecure configuration, 2242 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2243 2244 flush,nowarn 2245 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2246 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2247 insecure configuration. 2248 2249 off 2250 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2251 emit any warnings. 2252 It also drops the swap size and available 2253 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2254 bare metal. 2255 2256 Default is 'flush'. 2257 2258 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2259 2260 l2cr= [PPC] 2261 2262 l3cr= [PPC] 2263 2264 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2265 disabled it. 2266 2267 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline 2268 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2269 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2270 2271 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2272 in C2 power state. 2273 2274 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2275 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2276 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2277 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2278 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2279 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2280 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2281 2282 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2283 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2284 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2285 2286 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2287 when set. 2288 Format: <int> 2289 2290 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma 2291 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 2292 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 2293 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 2294 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 2295 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 2296 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 2297 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 2298 2299 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2300 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2301 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2302 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2303 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2304 host link and device attached to it. 2305 2306 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2307 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 2308 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2309 The following configurations can be forced. 2310 2311 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2312 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2313 2314 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2315 2316 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2317 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2318 allowed. 2319 2320 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2321 2322 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 2323 2324 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 2325 and both resets. 2326 2327 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 2328 hot-unplug link recovery 2329 2330 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 2331 2332 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 2333 2334 * disable: Disable this device. 2335 2336 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2337 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2338 2339 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 2340 2341 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy 2342 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 2343 2344 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2345 Format: <integer> 2346 2347 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2348 Format: <integer> 2349 2350 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2351 Format: <integer> 2352 2353 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2354 Format: <integer> 2355 2356 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2357 { integrity | confidentiality } 2358 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2359 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2360 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2361 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2362 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2363 are also disabled. 2364 2365 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2366 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2367 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2368 number of online CPUs. 2369 2370 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2371 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2372 2373 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2374 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2375 2376 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2377 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2378 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2379 2380 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2381 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2382 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2383 mode during the locktorture test. 2384 2385 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2386 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2387 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2388 2389 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2390 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2391 2392 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2393 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2394 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2395 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2396 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2397 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2398 2399 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2400 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2401 2402 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2403 Enable additional printk() statements. 2404 2405 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2406 Format: <irq> 2407 2408 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2409 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2410 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2411 loglevels are defined as follows: 2412 2413 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2414 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2415 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2416 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2417 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2418 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2419 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2420 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2421 2422 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2423 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2424 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2425 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2426 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2427 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2428 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2429 2430 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2431 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2432 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2433 kernel boot problems. 2434 2435 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2436 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2437 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2438 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2439 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2440 attached printers to be reset. Using 2441 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2442 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2443 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2444 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2445 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2446 port specification list means that device IDs 2447 from each port should be examined, to see if 2448 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2449 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2450 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2451 2452 lpj=n [KNL] 2453 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2454 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2455 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2456 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2457 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2458 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2459 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2460 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2461 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2462 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2463 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2464 hardware. 2465 2466 ltpc= [NET] 2467 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2468 2469 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2470 2471 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2472 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2473 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2474 2475 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2476 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2477 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2478 2479 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different 2480 yeeloong laptop. 2481 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2482 2483 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2484 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2485 2486 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2487 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2488 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2489 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2490 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2491 only takes effect during system bootup. 2492 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2493 which also disables the IO APIC. 2494 2495 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2496 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2497 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2498 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2499 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2500 /dev/loop-control interface. 2501 2502 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2503 2504 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2505 2506 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2507 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2508 2509 mdacon= [MDA] 2510 Format: <first>,<last> 2511 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2512 2513 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2514 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2515 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2516 2517 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2518 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2519 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2520 2521 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2522 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2523 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2524 not have direct access. 2525 2526 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2527 options are: 2528 2529 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2530 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2531 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2532 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2533 2534 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 2535 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 2536 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 2537 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 2538 too. 2539 2540 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 2541 mds=full. 2542 2543 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 2544 2545 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2546 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able 2547 to see the whole system memory or for test. 2548 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2549 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2550 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2551 belonging to unused RAM. 2552 2553 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2554 memory. 2555 2556 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2557 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2558 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2559 2560 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2561 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2562 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2563 set according to the 2564 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2565 option. 2566 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 2567 2568 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2569 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2570 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2571 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2572 option description. 2573 2574 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2575 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2576 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2577 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2578 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2579 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2580 comma delimited. 2581 Example: 2582 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2583 2584 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2585 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2586 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2587 2588 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2589 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2590 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2591 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2592 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2593 or 2594 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2595 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 2596 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 2597 will be eaten. 2598 2599 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2600 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2601 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2602 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2603 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2604 2605 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 2606 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 2607 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 2608 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 2609 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 2610 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 2611 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 2612 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 2613 2614 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2615 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2616 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2617 Setting this option will scan the memory 2618 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2619 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2620 from using the memory being corrupted. 2621 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2622 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2623 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2624 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2625 2626 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2627 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2628 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2629 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2630 corruption in more or less memory. 2631 2632 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2633 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2634 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2635 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2636 2637 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest 2638 Format: <integer> 2639 default : 0 <disable> 2640 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2641 performed. Each pass selects another test 2642 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2643 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2644 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2645 regions that are detected. 2646 2647 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 2648 Valid arguments: on, off 2649 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 2650 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 2651 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 2652 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 2653 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 2654 2655 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst 2656 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 2657 2658 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 2659 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 2660 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 2661 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 2662 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 2663 2664 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2665 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst. 2666 2667 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2668 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2669 platforms. 2670 2671 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2672 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2673 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2674 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2675 2676 mga= [HW,DRM] 2677 2678 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2679 physical address is ignored. 2680 2681 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2682 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2683 Default: "0tb" 2684 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2685 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2686 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2687 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2688 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2689 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2690 unconfigured. 2691 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2692 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2693 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2694 VGA shield. 2695 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2696 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2697 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2698 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2699 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 2700 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 2701 2702 mitigations= 2703 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 2704 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 2705 arch-independent options, each of which is an 2706 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 2707 2708 off 2709 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 2710 improves system performance, but it may also 2711 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 2712 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 2713 kpti=0 [ARM64] 2714 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 2715 nobp=0 [S390] 2716 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 2717 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 2718 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 2719 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 2720 l1tf=off [X86] 2721 mds=off [X86] 2722 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 2723 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 2724 2725 Exceptions: 2726 This does not have any effect on 2727 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 2728 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 2729 2730 auto (default) 2731 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 2732 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 2733 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 2734 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 2735 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 2736 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 2737 2738 auto,nosmt 2739 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 2740 if needed. This is for users who always want to 2741 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 2742 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 2743 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 2744 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 2745 2746 mminit_loglevel= 2747 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 2748 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 2749 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 2750 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 2751 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 2752 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 2753 2754 module.sig_enforce 2755 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 2756 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 2757 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 2758 is always true, so this option does nothing. 2759 2760 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 2761 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 2762 2763 mousedev.tap_time= 2764 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 2765 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 2766 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 2767 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 2768 Format: <msecs> 2769 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 2770 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2771 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 2772 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2773 2774 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2775 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 2776 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 2777 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 2778 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 2779 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 2780 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 2781 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 2782 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 2783 is not too small. 2784 2785 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 2786 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 2787 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 2788 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 2789 allocations. Use with caution! 2790 2791 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 2792 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 2793 2794 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 2795 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 2796 2797 mtdparts= [MTD] 2798 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c. 2799 2800 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 2801 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 2802 at a time. 2803 2804 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 2805 2806 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 2807 2808 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 2809 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 2810 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 2811 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 2812 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 2813 2814 mtdset= [ARM] 2815 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 2816 2817 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c 2818 2819 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 2820 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 2821 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 2822 2823 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2824 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 2825 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 2826 2827 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2828 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 2829 Default is 1. 2830 Large value could prevent small alignment from 2831 using up MTRRs. 2832 2833 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 2834 Format: <integer> 2835 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 2836 Default : 1 2837 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 2838 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 2839 2840 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 2841 2842 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 2843 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 2844 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 2845 something different and driver-specific. 2846 This usage is only documented in each driver source 2847 file if at all. 2848 2849 nf_conntrack.acct= 2850 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 2851 0 to disable accounting 2852 1 to enable accounting 2853 Default value is 0. 2854 2855 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 2856 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2857 2858 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 2859 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2860 2861 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 2862 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2863 2864 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 2865 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 2866 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 2867 requests. 2868 2869 nfs.callback_tcpport= 2870 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 2871 channel should listen. 2872 2873 nfs.cache_getent= 2874 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 2875 to update the NFS client cache entries. 2876 2877 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 2878 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 2879 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 2880 2881 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 2882 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 2883 entries. 2884 2885 nfs.enable_ino64= 2886 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 2887 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 2888 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 2889 of returning the full 64-bit number. 2890 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 2891 2892 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 2893 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 2894 slots the client will assign to the callback 2895 channel. This determines the maximum number of 2896 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 2897 a particular server. 2898 2899 nfs.max_session_slots= 2900 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 2901 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 2902 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 2903 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 2904 Note that there is little point in setting this 2905 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 2906 2907 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2908 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 2909 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 2910 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 2911 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 2912 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 2913 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 2914 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 2915 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 2916 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 2917 back to using the idmapper. 2918 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 2919 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 2920 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 2921 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 2922 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 2923 UUID that is generated at system install time. 2924 2925 nfs.send_implementation_id = 2926 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 2927 information in exchange_id requests. 2928 If zero, no implementation identification information 2929 will be sent. 2930 The default is to send the implementation identification 2931 information. 2932 2933 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 2934 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 2935 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 2936 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 2937 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 2938 after the locks are lost. 2939 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 2940 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 2941 parameter to '1'. 2942 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 2943 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 2944 2945 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 2946 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 2947 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 2948 2949 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 2950 whatever value is the default set by the layout 2951 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 2952 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 2953 2954 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2955 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 2956 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 2957 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 2958 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 2959 migration from NFSv2/v3. 2960 2961 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 2962 when a NMI is triggered. 2963 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 2964 2965 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 2966 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 2967 Valid num: 0 or 1 2968 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 2969 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 2970 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 2971 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 2972 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 2973 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 2974 please see 'nowatchdog'. 2975 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 2976 need the box quickly up again. 2977 2978 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 2979 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 2980 2981 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 2982 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 2983 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 2984 waits 4 seconds. 2985 2986 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 2987 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 2988 is present. 2989 2990 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 2991 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 2992 2993 no_console_suspend 2994 [HW] Never suspend the console 2995 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 2996 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 2997 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 2998 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 2999 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3000 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3001 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3002 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3003 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3004 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3005 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3006 turn on/off it dynamically. 3007 3008 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3009 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3010 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3011 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3012 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3013 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3014 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3015 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3016 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3017 is set. 3018 3019 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3020 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3021 but will impact performance. 3022 3023 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3024 3025 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3026 (CPU alternatives feature). 3027 3028 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3029 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3030 3031 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3032 3033 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 3034 on "Classic" PPC cores. 3035 3036 nocache [ARM] 3037 3038 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 3039 3040 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting 3041 3042 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3043 3044 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3045 3046 noexec [IA-64] 3047 3048 noexec [X86] 3049 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 3050 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3051 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 3052 3053 nosmap [X86,PPC] 3054 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3055 even if it is supported by processor. 3056 3057 nosmep [X86,PPC] 3058 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3059 even if it is supported by processor. 3060 3061 noexec32 [X86-64] 3062 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3063 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3064 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3065 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3066 read implies executable mappings 3067 3068 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3069 3070 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3071 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3072 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3073 3074 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86,PPC] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3075 3076 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3077 Equivalent to smt=1. 3078 3079 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3080 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3081 via the sysfs control file. 3082 3083 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3084 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3085 possible in the system. 3086 3087 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3088 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3089 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3090 option. 3091 3092 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3093 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3094 3095 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3096 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3097 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3098 3099 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3100 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3101 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3102 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3103 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3104 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3105 3106 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3107 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3108 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3109 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3110 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3111 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3112 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3113 3114 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or 3115 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to 3116 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger. 3117 3118 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3119 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3120 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3121 3122 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3123 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3124 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3125 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3126 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3127 real-time systems. 3128 3129 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3130 3131 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3132 Valid arguments: on, off 3133 Default: on 3134 3135 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3136 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3137 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3138 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3139 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3140 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3141 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3142 just as if they had also been called out in the 3143 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3144 3145 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3146 3147 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3148 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3149 3150 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3151 broken timer IRQ sources. 3152 3153 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3154 3155 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3156 initial RAM disk. 3157 3158 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3159 remapping. 3160 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3161 3162 nointroute [IA-64] 3163 3164 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3165 3166 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3167 3168 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3169 3170 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3171 fault handling. 3172 3173 no-vmw-sched-clock 3174 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3175 clock and use the default one. 3176 3177 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time 3178 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't 3179 influence scheduler behaviour 3180 3181 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3182 3183 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3184 3185 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 3186 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 3187 3188 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3189 3190 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3191 3192 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3193 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3194 3195 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3196 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3197 irq. 3198 3199 nomodule Disable module load 3200 3201 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3202 pagetables) support. 3203 3204 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3205 3206 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3207 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3208 3209 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3210 with UP alternatives 3211 3212 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 3213 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 3214 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 3215 available to user space applications. 3216 3217 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3218 space. 3219 3220 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3221 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3222 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3223 3224 nosbagart [IA-64] 3225 3226 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 3227 3228 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3229 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3230 3231 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3232 3233 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3234 3235 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3236 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3237 3238 nowb [ARM] 3239 3240 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3241 3242 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 3243 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 3244 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 3245 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 3246 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 3247 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 3248 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 3249 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 3250 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 3251 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 3252 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 3253 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 3254 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 3255 3256 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3257 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3258 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3259 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3260 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3261 parameter's value. 3262 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3263 Default: 255 3264 3265 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3266 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3267 SAL PALO. 3268 3269 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3270 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3271 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3272 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3273 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3274 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3275 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3276 hot plugging. 3277 3278 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3279 3280 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing. 3281 Allowed values are enable and disable 3282 3283 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3284 'node', 'default' can be specified 3285 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3286 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3287 3288 of_devlink [OF, KNL] Create device links between consumer and 3289 supplier devices by scanning the devictree to infer the 3290 consumer/supplier relationships. A consumer device 3291 will not be probed until all the supplier devices have 3292 probed successfully. 3293 3294 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3295 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more 3296 info. 3297 3298 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3299 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3300 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3301 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3302 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3303 interrupts *may* be lost! 3304 3305 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3306 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3307 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3308 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3309 3310 oprofile.timer= [HW] 3311 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters 3312 3313 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type 3314 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile 3315 userland or if you want common events. 3316 Format: { arch_perfmon } 3317 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural 3318 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the 3319 CPU specific event set. 3320 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI 3321 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer 3322 for generic hr timer mode) 3323 3324 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3325 process, but there is a small probability of 3326 deadlocking the machine. 3327 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3328 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3329 3330 page_alloc.shuffle= 3331 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3332 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3333 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3334 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3335 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3336 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3337 can be read from sysfs at: 3338 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3339 3340 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3341 Storage of the information about who allocated 3342 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3343 we can turn it on. 3344 on: enable the feature 3345 3346 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3347 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3348 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3349 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3350 on: turn on poisoning 3351 3352 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3353 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3354 timeout = 0: wait forever 3355 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3356 Format: <timeout> 3357 3358 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3359 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3360 bit 0: print all tasks info 3361 bit 1: print system memory info 3362 bit 2: print timer info 3363 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3364 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3365 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3366 3367 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3368 on a WARN(). 3369 3370 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 3371 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 3372 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 3373 succeeds in any situation. 3374 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 3375 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 3376 kernel more unstable. 3377 3378 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3379 connected to, default is 0. 3380 Format: <parport#> 3381 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3382 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3383 Format: <mode> 3384 3385 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3386 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3387 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3388 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3389 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3390 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3391 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3392 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3393 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3394 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3395 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3396 are specified on the command line, starting 3397 with parport0. 3398 3399 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3400 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3401 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3402 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3403 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3404 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3405 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3406 3407 pause_on_oops= 3408 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 3409 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 3410 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 3411 3412 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 3413 3414 pcd. [PARIDE] 3415 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 3416 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3417 3418 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 3419 3420 Some options herein operate on a specific device 3421 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 3422 specified in one of the following formats: 3423 3424 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 3425 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 3426 3427 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 3428 bus/device/function address which may change 3429 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 3430 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 3431 by other kernel parameters. If the 3432 domain is left unspecified, it is 3433 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 3434 to a device through multiple device/function 3435 addresses can be specified after the base 3436 address (this is more robust against 3437 renumbering issues). The second format 3438 selects devices using IDs from the 3439 configuration space which may match multiple 3440 devices in the system. 3441 3442 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 3443 changes anything 3444 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 3445 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 3446 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 3447 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 3448 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 3449 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 3450 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 3451 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 3452 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3453 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 3454 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 3455 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3456 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 3457 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 3458 bus number. The config space is then accessed 3459 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 3460 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 3461 on the configuration access mechanisms. 3462 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 3463 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3464 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 3465 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 3466 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 3467 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 3468 Configuration 3469 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 3470 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 3471 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 3472 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 3473 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3474 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 3475 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 3476 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 3477 should never be necessary. 3478 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 3479 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 3480 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 3481 when the system masks IRQs. 3482 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 3483 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 3484 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 3485 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 3486 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 3487 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 3488 on several machines and they hang the machine 3489 when used, but on other computers it's the only 3490 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 3491 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 3492 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 3493 motherboard. 3494 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 3495 Use with caution as certain devices share 3496 address decoders between ROMs and other 3497 resources. 3498 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 3499 expansion ROMs that do not already have 3500 BIOS assigned address ranges. 3501 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 3502 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 3503 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 3504 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 3505 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 3506 this way. 3507 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 3508 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 3509 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 3510 F0000h-100000h range. 3511 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 3512 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 3513 secondary buses and you want to tell it 3514 explicitly which ones they are. 3515 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 3516 numbers ourselves, overriding 3517 whatever the firmware may have done. 3518 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 3519 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 3520 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 3521 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 3522 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 3523 IRQ routing is enabled. 3524 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 3525 or for PCI scanning. 3526 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 3527 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 3528 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 3529 please report a bug. 3530 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 3531 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 3532 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 3533 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 3534 so this option is a temporary workaround 3535 for broken drivers that don't call it. 3536 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 3537 handle more pci cards 3538 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 3539 This might help on some broken boards which 3540 machine check when some devices' config space 3541 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 3542 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 3543 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3544 This sorting is done to get a device 3545 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 3546 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3547 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 3548 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 3549 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 3550 supported by all devices below the root complex. 3551 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 3552 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 3553 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 3554 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 3555 or bus can support) for best performance. 3556 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 3557 every device is guaranteed to support. This 3558 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 3559 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 3560 reduced performance. This also guarantees 3561 that hot-added devices will work. 3562 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3563 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 3564 The default value is 256 bytes. 3565 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3566 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 3567 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 3568 resource_alignment= 3569 Format: 3570 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 3571 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 3572 aligned memory resources. How to 3573 specify the device is described above. 3574 If <order of align> is not specified, 3575 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 3576 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 3577 windows need to be expanded. 3578 To specify the alignment for several 3579 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 3580 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 3581 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 3582 for 4096-byte alignment. 3583 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 3584 end-to-end CRC checking). 3585 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 3586 the default. 3587 off: Turn ECRC off 3588 on: Turn ECRC on. 3589 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3590 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 3591 Default size is 256 bytes. 3592 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3593 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 3594 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3595 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3596 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 3597 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3598 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3599 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 3600 MMIO_PREF window. 3601 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3602 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 3603 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 3604 Default is 1. 3605 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 3606 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 3607 accommodate resources required by all child 3608 devices. 3609 off: Turn realloc off 3610 on: Turn realloc on 3611 realloc same as realloc=on 3612 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 3613 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 3614 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 3615 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 3616 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 3617 port. 3618 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 3619 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 3620 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 3621 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 3622 conflict with unreported devices), so this 3623 taints the kernel. 3624 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 3625 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 3626 specified above) separated by semicolons. 3627 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 3628 redirect capabilities forced off which will 3629 allow P2P traffic between devices through 3630 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 3631 this removes isolation between devices and 3632 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 3633 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 3634 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 3635 3636 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 3637 Management. 3638 off Disable ASPM. 3639 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 3640 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 3641 3642 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 3643 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 3644 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 3645 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 3646 also tries to use these services. 3647 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 3648 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 3649 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 3650 hotplug). 3651 3652 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 3653 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 3654 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 3655 3656 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 3657 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 3658 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 3659 3660 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 3661 3662 pd_ignore_unused 3663 [PM] 3664 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 3665 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 3666 for debug and development, but should not be 3667 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 3668 3669 pd. [PARIDE] 3670 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3671 3672 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 3673 boot time. 3674 Format: { 0 | 1 } 3675 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 3676 3677 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 3678 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 3679 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 3680 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 3681 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 3682 and performance comparison. 3683 3684 pf. [PARIDE] 3685 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3686 3687 pg. [PARIDE] 3688 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3689 3690 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 3691 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 3692 3693 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 3694 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 3695 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 3696 3697 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 3698 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 3699 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 3700 3701 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 3702 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 3703 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 3704 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 3705 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 3706 possible settings and some assignment information. 3707 3708 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 3709 { off } 3710 3711 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 3712 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 3713 3714 pnp_reserve_irq= 3715 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 3716 3717 pnp_reserve_dma= 3718 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 3719 3720 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 3721 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 3722 3723 pnp_reserve_mem= 3724 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 3725 autoconfiguration. 3726 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 3727 3728 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 3729 Default is 21. 3730 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 3731 may be specified. 3732 Format: <port>,<port>.... 3733 3734 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 3735 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 3736 platform machine description specific power_save 3737 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 3738 execution priority. 3739 3740 ppc_strict_facility_enable 3741 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 3742 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 3743 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 3744 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 3745 3746 ppc_tm= [PPC] 3747 Format: {"off"} 3748 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 3749 3750 print-fatal-signals= 3751 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 3752 3753 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 3754 related application anomalies: too many signals, 3755 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 3756 coredump - etc. 3757 3758 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 3759 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 3760 3761 default: off. 3762 3763 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 3764 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 3765 panics 3766 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3767 default: disabled 3768 3769 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 3770 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 3771 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 3772 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 3773 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 3774 Default: ratelimit 3775 3776 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 3777 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3778 3779 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 3780 Limit processor to maximum C-state 3781 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 3782 3783 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 3784 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 3785 instead using the legacy FADT method 3786 3787 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 3788 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 3789 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 3790 [defaults to kernel profiling] 3791 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 3792 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 3793 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 3794 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 3795 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 3796 statistical time based profiling. 3797 3798 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk 3799 before loading. 3800 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 3801 3802 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 3803 tracking. 3804 Format: <bool> 3805 3806 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 3807 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 3808 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 3809 per second. 3810 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 3811 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 3812 (0 = never). 3813 psmouse.resolution= 3814 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 3815 psmouse.smartscroll= 3816 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 3817 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 3818 3819 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 3820 3821 pt. [PARIDE] 3822 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3823 3824 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 3825 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 3826 removes hardening, but improves performance of 3827 system calls and interrupts. 3828 3829 on - unconditionally enable 3830 off - unconditionally disable 3831 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 3832 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 3833 3834 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 3835 3836 nopti [X86_64] 3837 Equivalent to pti=off 3838 3839 pty.legacy_count= 3840 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 3841 default number. 3842 3843 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 3844 3845 r128= [HW,DRM] 3846 3847 raid= [HW,RAID] 3848 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3849 3850 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 3851 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 3852 3853 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 3854 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 3855 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 3856 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 3857 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 3858 3859 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 3860 3861 cec_disable [X86] 3862 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 3863 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 3864 3865 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 3866 The argument is a cpu list, as described above, 3867 except that the string "all" can be used to 3868 specify every CPU on the system. 3869 3870 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 3871 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 3872 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be 3873 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that 3874 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and 3875 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number. 3876 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs, 3877 which can be useful for HPC and real-time 3878 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency 3879 for asymmetric multiprocessors. 3880 3881 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 3882 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 3883 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 3884 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 3885 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 3886 This improves the real-time response for the 3887 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 3888 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 3889 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 3890 periodically wake up to do the polling. 3891 3892 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 3893 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 3894 process in one batch. 3895 3896 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 3897 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 3898 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 3899 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 3900 3901 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 3902 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3903 RCU grace-period cleanup. 3904 3905 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 3906 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3907 RCU grace-period initialization. 3908 3909 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 3910 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3911 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 3912 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 3913 the rcu_node combining tree. 3914 3915 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 3916 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 3917 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 3918 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 3919 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 3920 3921 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 3922 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 3923 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 3924 possibly be useful for architectures having high 3925 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 3926 3927 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 3928 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 3929 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 3930 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 3931 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 3932 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 3933 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 3934 3935 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 3936 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 3937 first attempt to force quiescent states. 3938 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 3939 and maximum value is HZ. 3940 3941 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 3942 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 3943 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 3944 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 3945 3946 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 3947 Set required age in jiffies for a 3948 given grace period before RCU starts 3949 soliciting quiescent-state help from 3950 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 3951 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 3952 a value based on the most recent settings 3953 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 3954 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 3955 This calculated value may be viewed in 3956 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 3957 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 3958 overwritten. 3959 3960 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 3961 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 3962 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 3963 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 3964 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 3965 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 3966 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 3967 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 3968 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 3969 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 3970 3971 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 3972 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 3973 each group, which defaults to the square root 3974 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 3975 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 3976 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 3977 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 3978 3979 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 3980 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 3981 batch limiting is disabled. 3982 3983 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 3984 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 3985 batch limiting is re-enabled. 3986 3987 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 3988 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3989 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3990 3991 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL] 3992 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3993 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3994 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can 3995 prove do nothing more than free memory. 3996 3997 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 3998 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 3999 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4000 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4001 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4002 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4003 4004 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4005 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4006 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4007 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4008 4009 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL] 4010 Measure performance of asynchronous 4011 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4012 4013 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4014 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4015 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4016 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4017 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4018 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4019 4020 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL] 4021 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4022 grace-period primitives. 4023 4024 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL] 4025 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4026 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4027 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4028 interference. 4029 4030 rcuperf.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4031 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4032 4033 rcuperf.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4034 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4035 4036 rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4037 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4038 4039 rcuperf.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4040 Number of loops doing rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num number 4041 of allocations and frees. 4042 4043 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL] 4044 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4045 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4046 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4047 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4048 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4049 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4050 a single reader. 4051 4052 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL] 4053 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4054 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders. 4055 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4056 4057 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL] 4058 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4059 4060 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL] 4061 Shut the system down after performance tests 4062 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4063 testing. 4064 4065 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL] 4066 Enable additional printk() statements. 4067 4068 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4069 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4070 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4071 no holdoff. 4072 4073 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4074 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4075 in microseconds. 4076 4077 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4078 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4079 in microseconds. 4080 4081 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4082 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4083 in seconds. 4084 4085 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4086 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4087 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4088 4089 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4090 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4091 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4092 4093 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4094 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4095 forward-progress tests. 4096 4097 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4098 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4099 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4100 testing. 4101 4102 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4103 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4104 primitives, if available. 4105 4106 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4107 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4108 4109 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4110 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4111 update-side primitives, if available. 4112 4113 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4114 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4115 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4116 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4117 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4118 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4119 they are all non-zero. 4120 4121 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 4122 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 4123 4124 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 4125 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 4126 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 4127 test, hence the "fake". 4128 4129 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 4130 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4131 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4132 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 4133 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4134 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4135 4136 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 4137 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 4138 4139 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4140 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 4141 4142 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4143 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 4144 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 4145 4146 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 4147 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 4148 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 4149 during the rcutorture test. 4150 4151 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4152 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 4153 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 4154 4155 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 4156 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 4157 warnings, zero to disable. 4158 4159 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 4160 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 4161 4162 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 4163 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 4164 4165 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 4166 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 4167 4168 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 4169 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 4170 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 4171 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 4172 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 4173 4174 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 4175 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 4176 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 4177 under test support RCU priority boosting. 4178 4179 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 4180 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 4181 4182 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 4183 Interval (s) between each boost test. 4184 4185 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 4186 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 4187 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 4188 4189 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 4190 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4191 4192 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 4193 Enable additional printk() statements. 4194 4195 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 4196 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 4197 stall warning. 4198 4199 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 4200 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4201 4202 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4203 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4204 4205 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 4206 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 4207 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 4208 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 4209 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 4210 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 4211 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4212 4213 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 4214 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 4215 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 4216 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 4217 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 4218 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 4219 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 4220 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 4221 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4222 4223 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 4224 Once boot has completed (that is, after 4225 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 4226 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 4227 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4228 4229 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4230 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 4231 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 4232 to zero. 4233 4234 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 4235 Run the RCU early boot self tests 4236 4237 rdinit= [KNL] 4238 Format: <full_path> 4239 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 4240 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 4241 4242 rdrand= [X86] 4243 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 4244 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 4245 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 4246 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 4247 path). 4248 4249 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 4250 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 4251 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 4252 mba. 4253 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 4254 rdt=cmt,!mba 4255 4256 reboot= [KNL] 4257 Format (x86 or x86_64): 4258 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ 4259 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 4260 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 4261 [[,]f[orce] 4262 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 4263 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 4264 reboot only), 4265 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 4266 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 4267 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 4268 to be used for rebooting. 4269 4270 relax_domain_level= 4271 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 4272 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 4273 4274 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 4275 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 4276 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 4277 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 4278 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 4279 4280 reservetop= [X86-32] 4281 Format: nn[KMG] 4282 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 4283 address space. 4284 4285 reservelow= [X86] 4286 Format: nn[K] 4287 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at 4288 the bottom of the address space. 4289 4290 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 4291 during initialization. 4292 4293 resume= [SWSUSP] 4294 Specify the partition device for software suspend 4295 Format: 4296 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 4297 4298 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 4299 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 4300 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 4301 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 4302 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 4303 4304 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4305 read the resume files 4306 4307 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 4308 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4309 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4310 4311 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 4312 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 4313 present during boot. 4314 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 4315 no Disable hibernation and resume. 4316 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 4317 (that will set all pages holding image data 4318 during restoration read-only). 4319 4320 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 4321 4322 rfkill.default_state= 4323 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 4324 etc. communication is blocked by default. 4325 1 Unblocked. 4326 4327 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 4328 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 4329 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4330 blocked and the previous configuration. 4331 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4332 blocked and everything unblocked. 4333 4334 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4335 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 4336 4337 ring3mwait=disable 4338 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 4339 CPUs. 4340 4341 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 4342 4343 rodata= [KNL] 4344 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 4345 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 4346 4347 rockchip.usb_uart 4348 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 4349 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 4350 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 4351 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 4352 4353 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 4354 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 4355 4356 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4357 mount the root filesystem 4358 4359 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 4360 4361 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 4362 4363 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 4364 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4365 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4366 4367 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 4368 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 4369 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 4370 managed by CMA. 4371 4372 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 4373 4374 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 4375 4376 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 4377 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 4378 strict 4379 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 4380 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 4381 which is faster. 4382 4383 sa1100ir [NET] 4384 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 4385 4386 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter 4387 4388 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 4389 4390 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 4391 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 4392 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 4393 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 4394 4395 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 4396 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 4397 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 4398 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4399 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 4400 1 -- enable. 4401 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 4402 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 4403 4404 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 4405 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 4406 "lsm=" parameter. 4407 4408 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 4409 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4410 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 4411 0 -- disable. 4412 1 -- enable. 4413 Default value is 1. 4414 4415 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 4416 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4417 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 4418 0 -- disable. 4419 1 -- enable. 4420 Default value is set via kernel config option. 4421 4422 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 4423 4424 shapers= [NET] 4425 Maximal number of shapers. 4426 4427 simeth= [IA-64] 4428 simscsi= 4429 4430 slram= [HW,MTD] 4431 4432 slab_nomerge [MM] 4433 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 4434 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 4435 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 4436 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 4437 layout control by attackers can usually be 4438 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 4439 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 4440 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 4441 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 4442 own. 4443 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4444 4445 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 4446 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4447 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4448 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 4449 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 4450 4451 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB] 4452 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 4453 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 4454 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 4455 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 4456 last alloc / free. For more information see 4457 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4458 4459 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB] 4460 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for 4461 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable. 4462 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON. 4463 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug 4464 directories and files being created under 4465 /sys/kernel/slub. 4466 4467 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 4468 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4469 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4470 fragmentation. For more information see 4471 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4472 4473 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 4474 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 4475 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 4476 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 4477 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 4478 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 4479 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 4480 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4481 4482 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 4483 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 4484 lower than slub_max_order. 4485 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4486 4487 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 4488 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 4489 See slab_nomerge for more information. 4490 4491 smart2= [HW] 4492 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 4493 4494 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 4495 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 4496 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 4497 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 4498 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 4499 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 4500 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 4501 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 4502 1: Fast pin select (default) 4503 2: ATC IRMode 4504 4505 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 4506 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 4507 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 4508 actual hardware limit. 4509 Format: <integer> 4510 Default: -1 (no limit) 4511 4512 softlockup_panic= 4513 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 4514 Format: <integer> 4515 4516 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector 4517 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This 4518 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 4519 which is the respective build-time switch to that 4520 functionality. 4521 4522 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 4523 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 4524 backtraces on all cpus. 4525 Format: <integer> 4526 4527 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 4528 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 4529 4530 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 4531 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 4532 The default operation protects the kernel from 4533 user space attacks. 4534 4535 on - unconditionally enable, implies 4536 spectre_v2_user=on 4537 off - unconditionally disable, implies 4538 spectre_v2_user=off 4539 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4540 vulnerable 4541 4542 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 4543 mitigation method at run time according to the 4544 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 4545 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 4546 compiler with which the kernel was built. 4547 4548 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 4549 against user space to user space task attacks. 4550 4551 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 4552 the user space protections. 4553 4554 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 4555 4556 retpoline - replace indirect branches 4557 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline 4558 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk 4559 4560 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4561 spectre_v2=auto. 4562 4563 spectre_v2_user= 4564 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 4565 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 4566 user space tasks 4567 4568 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 4569 enforced by spectre_v2=on 4570 4571 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 4572 enforced by spectre_v2=off 4573 4574 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 4575 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 4576 per thread. The mitigation control state 4577 is inherited on fork. 4578 4579 prctl,ibpb 4580 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 4581 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 4582 always when switching between different user 4583 space processes. 4584 4585 seccomp 4586 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 4587 threads will enable the mitigation unless 4588 they explicitly opt out. 4589 4590 seccomp,ibpb 4591 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 4592 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 4593 always when switching between different 4594 user space processes. 4595 4596 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 4597 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 4598 4599 Default mitigation: 4600 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 4601 4602 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4603 spectre_v2_user=auto. 4604 4605 spec_store_bypass_disable= 4606 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 4607 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 4608 4609 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 4610 a common industry wide performance optimization known 4611 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 4612 to the same memory location may not be observed by 4613 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 4614 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 4615 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 4616 end of a particular speculation execution window. 4617 4618 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 4619 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 4620 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 4621 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 4622 4623 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 4624 Bypass optimization is used. 4625 4626 On x86 the options are: 4627 4628 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 4629 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 4630 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 4631 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 4632 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 4633 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 4634 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 4635 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 4636 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 4637 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 4638 for a process by default. The state of the control 4639 is inherited on fork. 4640 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 4641 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 4642 4643 Default mitigations: 4644 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 4645 4646 On powerpc the options are: 4647 4648 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 4649 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 4650 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 4651 exit. 4652 off - No action. 4653 4654 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4655 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 4656 4657 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 4658 spia_fio_base= 4659 spia_pedr= 4660 spia_peddr= 4661 4662 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 4663 Specifies how frequently to check for 4664 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 4665 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 4666 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 4667 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 4668 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 4669 are ignored. 4670 4671 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 4672 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 4673 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 4674 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 4675 grace period will be considered for automatic 4676 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 4677 expediting. 4678 4679 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 4680 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 4681 4682 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 4683 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 4684 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 4685 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 4686 4687 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 4688 for both kernel and userspace 4689 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 4690 for both kernel and userspace 4691 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 4692 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 4693 to allow userspace to register its 4694 interest in being mitigated too. 4695 4696 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 4697 override the default stack gap protection. The value 4698 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 4699 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 4700 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 4701 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 4702 4703 stacktrace [FTRACE] 4704 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 4705 4706 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 4707 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 4708 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 4709 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 4710 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 4711 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 4712 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 4713 4714 sti= [PARISC,HW] 4715 Format: <num> 4716 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 4717 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 4718 as the initial boot-console. 4719 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4720 4721 sti_font= [HW] 4722 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4723 4724 stifb= [HW] 4725 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 4726 4727 sunrpc.min_resvport= 4728 sunrpc.max_resvport= 4729 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4730 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 4731 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 4732 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 4733 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 4734 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 4735 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 4736 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 4737 maximum port values. 4738 4739 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 4740 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4741 Limit the number of requests that the server will 4742 process in parallel from a single connection. 4743 The default value is 0 (no limit). 4744 4745 sunrpc.pool_mode= 4746 [NFS] 4747 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 4748 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 4749 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 4750 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 4751 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 4752 NFS server is running. 4753 4754 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 4755 automatically using heuristics 4756 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 4757 percpu one pool for each CPU 4758 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 4759 to global on non-NUMA machines) 4760 4761 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 4762 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 4763 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4764 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 4765 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 4766 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 4767 improve throughput, but will also increase the 4768 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 4769 4770 suspend.pm_test_delay= 4771 [SUSPEND] 4772 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 4773 mode before resuming the system (see 4774 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 4775 is set. Default value is 5. 4776 4777 svm= [PPC] 4778 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 4779 This parameter controls use of the Protected 4780 Execution Facility on pSeries. 4781 4782 swapaccount=[0|1] 4783 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 4784 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 4785 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) 4786 4787 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 4788 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 4789 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 4790 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 4791 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 4792 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 4793 4794 switches= [HW,M68k] 4795 4796 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 4797 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 4798 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 4799 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 4800 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 4801 in older udev will not work anymore. 4802 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 4803 the kernel configuration. 4804 4805 sysrq_always_enabled 4806 [KNL] 4807 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 4808 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 4809 Useful for debugging. 4810 4811 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4812 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 4813 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 4814 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 4815 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt 4816 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 4817 4818 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 4819 4820 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 4821 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 4822 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 4823 as the system sleep state during system startup with 4824 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 4825 The system is woken from this state using a 4826 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 4827 4828 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4829 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 4830 4831 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 4832 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 4833 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 4834 4835 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 4836 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 4837 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 4838 4839 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 4840 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 4841 critical and hot trip points. 4842 4843 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 4844 1: disable ACPI thermal control 4845 4846 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 4847 -1: disable all passive trip points 4848 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 4849 value 4850 4851 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 4852 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 4853 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 4854 0: no polling (default) 4855 4856 threadirqs [KNL] 4857 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 4858 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 4859 4860 topology= [S390] 4861 Format: {off | on} 4862 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 4863 topology information if the hardware supports this. 4864 The scheduler will make use of this information and 4865 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 4866 Default is on. 4867 4868 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 4869 Format: {off} 4870 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 4871 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 4872 LPAR. 4873 4874 tp720= [HW,PS2] 4875 4876 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 4877 Format: integer pcr id 4878 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 4879 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 4880 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 4881 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 4882 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 4883 are saved. 4884 4885 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 4886 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 4887 4888 trace_event=[event-list] 4889 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 4890 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 4891 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See 4892 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 4893 4894 trace_options=[option-list] 4895 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 4896 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 4897 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 4898 to echo the option name into 4899 4900 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 4901 4902 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 4903 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 4904 4905 trace_options=stacktrace 4906 4907 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 4908 section. 4909 4910 tp_printk[FTRACE] 4911 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 4912 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 4913 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 4914 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 4915 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 4916 4917 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 4918 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 4919 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 4920 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 4921 4922 ** CAUTION ** 4923 4924 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 4925 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 4926 the system to live lock. 4927 4928 traceoff_on_warning 4929 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 4930 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 4931 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 4932 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 4933 4934 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 4935 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 4936 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 4937 4938 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 4939 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 4940 4941 transparent_hugepage= 4942 [KNL] 4943 Format: [always|madvise|never] 4944 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 4945 with respect to transparent hugepages. 4946 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 4947 for more details. 4948 4949 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 4950 Format: <string> 4951 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 4952 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 4953 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 4954 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 4955 virtualized environment. 4956 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 4957 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 4958 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 4959 can add overhead. 4960 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 4961 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 4962 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 4963 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 4964 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 4965 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 4966 acceptable). 4967 4968 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 4969 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 4970 support TSX control. 4971 4972 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 4973 4974 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 4975 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 4976 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 4977 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 4978 so there may be unknown security risks associated 4979 with leaving it enabled. 4980 4981 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 4982 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 4983 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 4984 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 4985 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 4986 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 4987 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 4988 4989 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 4990 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 4991 4992 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 4993 4994 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 4995 for more details. 4996 4997 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 4998 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 4999 5000 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 5001 certain CPUs that support Transactional 5002 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 5003 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 5004 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 5005 conditions. 5006 5007 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5008 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 5009 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 5010 access. 5011 5012 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 5013 options are: 5014 5015 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 5016 if TSX is enabled. 5017 5018 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 5019 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 5020 is not disabled because CPU is not 5021 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 5022 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 5023 5024 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 5025 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 5026 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 5027 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 5028 5029 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5030 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 5031 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 5032 required and doesn't provide any additional 5033 mitigation. 5034 5035 For details see: 5036 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 5037 5038 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 5039 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 5040 Format: 5041 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 5042 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 5043 5044 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 5045 happen after console_init() and before a proper 5046 console driver takes over, this boot options might 5047 help "seeing" what's going on. 5048 5049 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5050 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 5051 5052 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 5053 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 5054 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 5055 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 5056 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 5057 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 5058 reported either. 5059 5060 unknown_nmi_panic 5061 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 5062 5063 usbcore.authorized_default= 5064 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 5065 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 5066 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 5067 if device connected to internal port) 5068 5069 usbcore.autosuspend= 5070 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 5071 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 5072 is the time required before an idle device will be 5073 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 5074 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 5075 5076 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 5077 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 5078 5079 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 5080 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 5081 (default = 65536). 5082 5083 usbcore.blinkenlights= 5084 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 5085 5086 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 5087 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 5088 scheme, applies only to low and full-speed devices 5089 (default 0 = off). 5090 5091 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 5092 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 5093 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 5094 5095 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 5096 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 5097 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 5098 5099 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 5100 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 5101 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 5102 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 5103 5104 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 5105 5106 usbcore.quirks= 5107 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 5108 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 5109 commas. Each entry has the form 5110 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 5111 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 5112 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 5113 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 5114 the following meanings: 5115 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 5116 descriptors must not be fetched using 5117 a 255-byte read); 5118 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 5119 correctly so reset it instead); 5120 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 5121 Set-Interface requests); 5122 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 5123 handle its Configuration or Interface 5124 strings); 5125 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 5126 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 5127 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 5128 more interface descriptions than the 5129 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 5130 talking to these interfaces); 5131 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 5132 during initialization, after we read 5133 the device descriptor); 5134 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 5135 high speed and super speed interrupt 5136 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 5137 require the interval in microframes (1 5138 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 5139 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 5140 (bInterval-1). 5141 Devices with this quirk report their 5142 bInterval as the result of this 5143 calculation instead of the exponent 5144 variable used in the calculation); 5145 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 5146 handle device_qualifier descriptor 5147 requests); 5148 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 5149 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 5150 remote wakeup capability); 5151 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 5152 Power Management); 5153 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 5154 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 5155 frames instead of the USB 2.0 5156 calculation); 5157 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 5158 to be disconnected before suspend to 5159 prevent spurious wakeup); 5160 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 5161 pause after every control message); 5162 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 5163 delay after resetting its port); 5164 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 5165 5166 usbhid.mousepoll= 5167 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 5168 5169 usbhid.jspoll= 5170 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 5171 5172 usbhid.kbpoll= 5173 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 5174 5175 usb-storage.delay_use= 5176 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 5177 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 5178 5179 usb-storage.quirks= 5180 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 5181 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 5182 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 5183 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 5184 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 5185 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 5186 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 5187 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 5188 of sense data, not on uas); 5189 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 5190 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 5191 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 5192 device capacity by one sector); 5193 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 5194 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 5195 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 5196 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 5197 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 5198 command, uas only); 5199 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 5200 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 5201 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 5202 reported device capacity by one 5203 sector if the number is odd); 5204 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 5205 device); 5206 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 5207 command, uas only); 5208 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 5209 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 5210 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 5211 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 5212 not on uas); 5213 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 5214 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 5215 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 5216 reported by the device, not on uas); 5217 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 5218 by default, not on uas); 5219 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 5220 bogus residue values, not on uas); 5221 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 5222 Logical Unit); 5223 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 5224 commands, uas only); 5225 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 5226 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 5227 medium is write-protected). 5228 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 5229 even if the device claims no cache, 5230 not on uas) 5231 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 5232 5233 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 5234 Format: <int> 5235 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 5236 1 - undefined instruction events 5237 2 - system calls 5238 4 - invalid data aborts 5239 8 - SIGSEGV faults 5240 16 - SIGBUS faults 5241 Example: user_debug=31 5242 5243 userpte= 5244 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 5245 5246 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 5247 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 5248 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 5249 5250 vdso= [X86,SH] 5251 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 5252 5253 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 5254 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 5255 5256 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 5257 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 5258 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 5259 5260 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 5261 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 5262 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 5263 5264 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 5265 alias for vdso32=0. 5266 5267 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 5268 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 5269 5270 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 5271 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 5272 5273 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 5274 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 5275 5276 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 5277 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 5278 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 5279 level and then send out the event to user space through 5280 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 5281 will only send out the event without touching backlight 5282 brightness level. 5283 default: 1 5284 5285 virtio_mmio.device= 5286 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 5287 5288 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 5289 where: 5290 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 5291 like K, M and G) 5292 <baseaddr> := physical base address 5293 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 5294 request_irq()) 5295 <id> := (optional) platform device id 5296 example: 5297 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 5298 5299 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 5300 5301 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 5302 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 5303 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 5304 Use vga=ask for menu. 5305 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 5306 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 5307 5308 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 5309 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 5310 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 5311 All options are enabled by default, and this 5312 interface is meant to allow for selectively 5313 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 5314 debugging features. 5315 5316 Available options are: 5317 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 5318 - Disable all of the above options 5319 5320 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 5321 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 5322 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 5323 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 5324 mapped kernel RAM. 5325 5326 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 5327 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 5328 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 5329 5330 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 5331 Format: <command> 5332 5333 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 5334 Format: <command> 5335 5336 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 5337 Format: <command> 5338 5339 vsyscall= [X86-64] 5340 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 5341 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 5342 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 5343 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 5344 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 5345 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 5346 5347 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 5348 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 5349 page is readable. 5350 5351 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 5352 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 5353 page is not readable. 5354 5355 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 5356 them quite hard to use for exploits but 5357 might break your system. 5358 5359 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 5360 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 5361 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 5362 5363 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 5364 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 5365 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 5366 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 5367 5368 vt.default_blu= [VT] 5369 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 5370 Change the default blue palette of the console. 5371 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5372 ranging from 0-255. 5373 5374 vt.default_grn= [VT] 5375 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 5376 Change the default green palette of the console. 5377 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5378 ranging from 0-255. 5379 5380 vt.default_red= [VT] 5381 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 5382 Change the default red palette of the console. 5383 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5384 ranging from 0-255. 5385 5386 vt.default_utf8= 5387 [VT] 5388 Format=<0|1> 5389 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 5390 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 5391 newly opened terminals. 5392 5393 vt.global_cursor_default= 5394 [VT] 5395 Format=<-1|0|1> 5396 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 5397 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 5398 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 5399 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 5400 cursors, 1 will display them. 5401 5402 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 5403 Default: 2 = green. 5404 5405 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 5406 Default: 3 = cyan. 5407 5408 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 5409 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 5410 or other driver-specific files in the 5411 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 5412 5413 watchdog_thresh= 5414 [KNL] 5415 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 5416 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 5417 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 5418 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 5419 seconds. 5420 5421 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 5422 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 5423 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 5424 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 5425 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 5426 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 5427 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 5428 corresponding sysfs file. 5429 5430 workqueue.disable_numa 5431 By default, all work items queued to unbound 5432 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 5433 issued on, which results in better behavior in 5434 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 5435 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 5436 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 5437 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 5438 5439 workqueue.power_efficient 5440 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 5441 they show better performance thanks to cache 5442 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 5443 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 5444 5445 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 5446 were observed to contribute significantly to power 5447 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 5448 power usage at the cost of small performance 5449 overhead. 5450 5451 The default value of this parameter is determined by 5452 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 5453 5454 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 5455 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 5456 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 5457 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 5458 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 5459 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 5460 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 5461 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 5462 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 5463 impacted. 5464 5465 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 5466 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 5467 supporting x2apic. 5468 5469 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT] 5470 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform. 5471 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer 5472 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer. 5473 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt 5474 5475 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 5476 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 5477 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 5478 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 5479 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 5480 domains. 5481 5482 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 5483 Unplug Xen emulated devices 5484 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 5485 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 5486 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 5487 nics -- unplug network devices 5488 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 5489 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 5490 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 5491 the unplug protocol 5492 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 5493 5494 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 5495 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 5496 panic() code such as dumping handler. 5497 5498 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 5499 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV 5500 optimizations. 5501 5502 xen_nopv [X86] 5503 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 5504 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 5505 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 5506 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 5507 5508 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 5509 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 5510 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 5511 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 5512 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 5513 5514 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 5515 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 5516 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 5517 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 5518 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 5519 more timer interrupts. 5520 5521 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 5522 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 5523 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 5524 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 5525 5526 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 5527 Format: 5528 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 5529 5530 xive= [PPC] 5531 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 5532 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 5533 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 5534 5535 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 5536 controller on both pseries and powernv 5537 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 5538 5539 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 5540 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 5541 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 5542 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 5543 5544 xmon [PPC] 5545 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 5546 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 5547 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 5548 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 5549 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 5550 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 5551 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 5552 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 5553 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 5554 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 5555 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 5556 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 5557 can be written using xmon commands. 5558 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 5559 memory, and other data can't be written using 5560 xmon commands. 5561 off xmon is disabled. 5562