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 { vendor | video | native | none } 26 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver 27 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 28 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 29 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. 31 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. 32 33 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 34 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 35 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 36 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 37 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 38 39 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 40 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 41 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 42 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 43 This option is useful for developers to identify the 44 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 45 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 46 47 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 48 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 49 Format: <int> 50 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 51 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 52 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 53 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT 54 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 55 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 56 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 57 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 58 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 59 debug layers and levels. 60 61 Enable processor driver info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 63 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages: 64 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000 65 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 66 object while interpreting AML: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 68 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 69 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 70 71 Some values produce so much output that the system is 72 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 73 if you need to capture more output. 74 75 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 76 { strict | lax | no } 77 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 78 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 79 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 80 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 81 can interfere with legacy drivers. 82 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 83 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 84 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 85 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 86 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 87 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 88 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 89 no further checks are performed. 90 91 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 92 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 93 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 94 size limitation. 95 96 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 97 ACPI will balance active IRQs 98 default in APIC mode 99 100 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 101 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 102 default in PIC mode 103 104 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 105 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 106 107 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 108 use by PCI 109 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 110 111 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 112 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 113 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 114 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 115 the GPE dispatcher. 116 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 117 GPE floodings. 118 Format: <byte> 119 120 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 121 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 122 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 123 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 124 auto-serialization feature. 125 This feature is enabled by default. 126 This option allows to turn off the feature. 127 128 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 129 kernels. 130 131 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 132 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 133 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 134 installed automatically and they will appear under 135 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 136 This option turns off this feature. 137 Note that specifying this option does not affect 138 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 139 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 140 141 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 142 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 143 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 144 145 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 146 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 147 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 148 second kernel for kdump. 149 150 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 151 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 152 153 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 154 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 155 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 156 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 157 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 158 159 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 160 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 161 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 162 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 163 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 164 strings 165 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 166 strings 167 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 168 169 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 170 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 171 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 172 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 173 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 174 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 175 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 176 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 177 care about the state of the feature group strings which 178 should be controlled by the OSPM. 179 Examples: 180 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 181 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 182 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 183 184 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 185 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 186 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 187 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 188 multiple times through kernel command line is also 189 meaningless. 190 Examples: 191 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 192 FALSE. 193 194 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 195 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 196 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 197 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 198 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 199 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 200 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 201 there are quirks related to this string. This command 202 is useful when one want to control the state of the 203 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 204 the OSPM features. 205 Examples: 206 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 207 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 208 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 209 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 210 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 211 equivalent to 212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 213 and 214 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 215 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 216 217 acpi_pm_good [X86] 218 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 219 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 220 and always returns good values. 221 222 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 223 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 224 225 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 226 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 227 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 228 229 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 230 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, 231 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl } 232 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 233 s3_bios and s3_mode. 234 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 235 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 236 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 237 used during resume from hibernation. 238 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 239 control method, with respect to putting devices into 240 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 241 of _PTS is used by default). 242 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 243 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 244 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 245 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 246 but some broken systems don't work without it). 247 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 248 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 249 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 250 251 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 252 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 253 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 254 255 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 256 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 257 258 agp= [AGP] 259 { off | try_unsupported } 260 off: disable AGP support 261 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 262 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 263 264 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 265 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 266 267 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 268 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 269 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 270 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 271 272 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 273 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 274 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 275 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 276 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 277 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 278 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 279 280 32: only for 32-bit processes 281 64: only for 64-bit processes 282 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 283 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 284 285 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 286 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 287 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 288 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 289 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 290 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 291 292 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 293 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 294 Possible values are: 295 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when 296 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are 297 flushed before they will be reused, which 298 is a lot of faster 299 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 300 the system 301 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 302 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 303 allowed anymore to lift isolation 304 requirements as needed. This option 305 does not override iommu=pt 306 307 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 308 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 309 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 310 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 311 IOMMU initialization. 312 313 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 314 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 315 remapping modes: 316 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 317 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 318 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 319 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 320 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 321 322 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 323 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 324 Format: <a>,<b> 325 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 326 327 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 328 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 329 connected to one of 16 gameports 330 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 331 332 apc= [HW,SPARC] 333 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 334 Format: noidle 335 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 336 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 337 APC and your system crashes randomly. 338 339 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 340 Change the output verbosity while booting 341 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 342 Change the amount of debugging information output 343 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 344 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 345 driver name. 346 Format: apic=driver_name 347 Examples: apic=bigsmp 348 349 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 350 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 351 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 352 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 353 backup of CPU 0 354 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 355 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 356 shot down by NMI 357 358 autoconf= [IPV6] 359 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 360 361 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 362 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 363 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 364 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 365 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 366 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 367 apic=verbose is specified. 368 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 369 370 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 371 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 372 373 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 374 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 375 376 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 377 Identification support 378 379 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 380 support 381 382 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 383 384 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 385 386 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 387 EzKey and similar keyboards 388 389 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 390 391 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 392 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 393 394 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 395 keyboards 396 397 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 398 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 399 400 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 401 Use software keyboard repeat 402 403 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 404 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 405 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 406 enabled until the next reboot 407 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 408 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 409 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 410 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 411 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 412 userspace auditd. 413 Default: unset 414 415 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 416 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 417 Default: 64 418 419 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 420 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 421 Format: { "0" | "1" } 422 0 - Disable the BAU. 423 1 - Enable the BAU. 424 unset - Disable the BAU. 425 426 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 427 Format: <io>,<mode> 428 429 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 430 Format: <io>,<mode> 431 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 432 433 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 434 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 435 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 436 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 437 438 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 439 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 440 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 441 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 442 443 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 444 embedded devices based on command line input. 445 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 446 447 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 448 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 449 no delay (0). 450 Format: integer 451 452 bootconfig [KNL] 453 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 454 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 455 456 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 457 458 bert_disable [ACPI] 459 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 460 461 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] 462 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 463 464 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 465 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 466 kernel args too. 467 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 468 bttv.tuner= 469 470 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 471 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 472 at a time. 473 474 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 475 476 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 477 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 478 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 479 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 480 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 481 This option provides an override for these situations. 482 483 carrier_timeout= 484 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 485 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 486 it waits 120 seconds. 487 488 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 489 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 490 trust validation. 491 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 492 493 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 494 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 495 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 496 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 497 others). 498 499 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 500 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 501 502 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller 503 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable} 504 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 505 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 506 a single hierarchy 507 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 508 subsystem 509 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 510 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 511 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 512 513 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 514 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 515 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 516 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 517 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 518 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 519 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 520 all v1 hierarchies. 521 522 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 523 Format: <string> 524 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 525 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 526 527 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 528 Format: { "0" | "1" } 529 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 530 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 531 any implied execute protection). 532 1 -- check protection requested by application. 533 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 534 Value can be changed at runtime via 535 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 536 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 537 538 cio_ignore= [S390] 539 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 540 clk_ignore_unused 541 [CLK] 542 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 543 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 544 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 545 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 546 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 547 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 548 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 549 platform with proper driver support. For more 550 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 551 552 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 553 [Deprecated] 554 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 555 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 556 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 557 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 558 559 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 560 Format: <string> 561 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 562 with the name specified. 563 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 564 the platform: 565 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 566 [ACPI] acpi_pm 567 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 568 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 569 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 570 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 571 [MIPS] MIPS 572 [PARISC] cr16 573 [S390] tod 574 [SH] SuperH 575 [SPARC64] tick 576 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 577 578 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 579 [ARM,ARM64] 580 Format: <bool> 581 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 582 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 583 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 584 systems. 585 586 clearcpuid=BITNUM[,BITNUM...] [X86] 587 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 588 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 589 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily 590 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific 591 ones should be. 592 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 593 or using the feature without checking anything 594 will still see it. This just prevents it from 595 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 596 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 597 some critical bits. 598 599 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 600 [KNL,CMA] 601 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 602 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 603 placement constraint by the physical address range of 604 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 605 altogether. For more information, see 606 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 607 608 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 609 [ARM64,KNL,CMA] 610 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 611 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 612 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 613 specificed, the default value is 0. 614 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 615 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 616 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 617 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 618 619 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 620 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 621 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 622 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 623 a hypervisor. 624 Default: yes 625 626 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 627 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 628 allocations, by default set to 256K. 629 630 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 631 Format: 632 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 633 634 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 635 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 636 637 com90xx= [HW,NET] 638 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 639 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 640 641 condev= [HW,S390] console device 642 conmode= 643 644 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 645 646 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 647 648 ttyS<n>[,options] 649 ttyUSB0[,options] 650 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 651 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 652 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 653 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 654 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 655 656 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 657 information. See 658 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 659 alternative. 660 661 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 662 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 663 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 664 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 665 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 666 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 667 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 668 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 669 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 670 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 671 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 672 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 673 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 674 the h/w is not re-initialized. 675 676 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 677 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 678 679 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 680 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 681 console=brl,ttyS0 682 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 683 684 console_msg_format= 685 [KNL] Change console messages format 686 default 687 By default we print messages on consoles in 688 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 689 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 690 `printk_time' param). 691 syslog 692 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 693 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 694 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 695 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 696 from /proc/kmsg. 697 698 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 699 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 700 Defaults to 0. 701 702 coredump_filter= 703 [KNL] Change the default value for 704 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 705 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 706 707 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 708 [ARM,ARM64] 709 Format: <bool> 710 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 711 0: default value, disable debugging 712 1: enable debugging at boot time 713 714 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 715 disable the cpuidle sub-system 716 717 cpuidle.governor= 718 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 719 720 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 721 disable the cpufreq sub-system 722 723 cpufreq.default_governor= 724 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 725 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 726 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 727 728 cpu_init_udelay=N 729 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 730 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 731 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 732 Default: 10000 733 734 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 735 Format: 736 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 737 738 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 739 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 740 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 741 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 742 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 743 is selected automatically. 744 [KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and 745 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 746 hasn't been specified. 747 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 748 749 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 750 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 751 in the running system. The syntax of range is 752 start-[end] where start and end are both 753 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 754 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 755 756 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 757 [KNL, X86-64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 758 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 759 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 760 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 761 available. 762 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 763 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 764 [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 765 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 766 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 767 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 768 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 769 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 770 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at 771 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 772 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G 773 for second kernel instead. 774 0: to disable low allocation. 775 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 776 or memory reserved is below 4G. 777 778 cryptomgr.notests 779 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 780 781 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 782 Format: <dma> 783 784 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 785 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 786 787 dasd= [HW,NET] 788 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 789 790 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 791 (one device per port) 792 Format: <port#>,<type> 793 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 794 795 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot 796 time. See 797 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for 798 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg. 799 800 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 801 802 debug_boot_weak_hash 803 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 804 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 805 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 806 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 807 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 808 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 809 810 debug_locks_verbose= 811 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 812 Format: <int> 813 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 814 self-tests. 815 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 816 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 817 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 818 useful to lockdep developers. 819 820 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 821 822 no_debug_objects 823 [KNL] Disable object debugging 824 825 debug_guardpage_minorder= 826 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 827 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 828 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 829 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 830 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 831 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 832 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 833 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 834 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 835 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 836 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 837 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 838 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 839 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 840 bypassed) which are not detectable by 841 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 842 tracking down these problems. 843 844 debug_pagealloc= 845 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 846 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 847 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 848 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 849 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 850 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 851 on: enable the feature 852 853 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 854 and debugfs internal clients. 855 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 856 on: All functions are enabled. 857 no-mount: 858 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 859 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 860 its content. There is nothing to mount. 861 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 862 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 863 or directories within debugfs. 864 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 865 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 866 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 867 868 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 869 870 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 871 Format: <area>[,<node>] 872 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst. 873 874 default_hugepagesz= 875 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 876 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 877 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 878 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 879 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 880 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 881 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 882 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 883 Format: size[KMG] 884 885 deferred_probe_timeout= 886 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 887 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 888 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 889 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0 890 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also 891 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 892 retrying. 893 894 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 895 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 896 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 897 level 1 and decompression (default) 898 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 899 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 900 only (compression on level 1) 901 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 902 only (decompression) 903 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 904 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 905 906 dhash_entries= [KNL] 907 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 908 909 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 910 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 911 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 912 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 913 miss to occur. 914 915 stress_slb [PPC] 916 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 917 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 918 on kernel addresses. 919 920 disable= [IPV6] 921 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 922 923 hardened_usercopy= 924 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 925 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 926 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 927 from reading or writing beyond known memory 928 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 929 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 930 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 931 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 932 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 933 934 disable_radix [PPC] 935 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 936 937 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 938 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 939 invalidate. 940 941 disable_tlbie [PPC] 942 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 943 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 944 945 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 946 Format: <int> 947 The number of initial APIC ID for the 948 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 949 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 950 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 951 causing system reset or hang due to sending 952 INIT from AP to BSP. 953 954 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 955 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 956 to workaround buggy firmware. 957 958 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 959 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 960 961 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 962 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 963 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 964 entry later. This parameter disables that. 965 966 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 967 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 968 memory out of your available memory pool based on 969 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 970 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 971 972 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 973 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 974 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 975 976 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 977 978 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 979 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 980 981 dma_debug_entries=<number> 982 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 983 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 984 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 985 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 986 architectural default is too low. 987 988 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 989 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 990 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 991 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 992 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 993 driver later using sysfs. 994 995 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 996 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. 997 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 998 999 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1000 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1001 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1002 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1003 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1004 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 1005 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 1006 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 1007 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 1008 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 1009 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID 1010 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 1011 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 1012 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 1013 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1014 data set with no connector name will be used for 1015 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1016 1017 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1018 1019 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1020 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1021 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1022 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1023 exists). 1024 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1025 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1026 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1027 1028 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1029 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1030 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1031 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1032 1033 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1034 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1035 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1036 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1037 for details. 1038 1039 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 1040 in some Intel CPUs. 1041 1042 <module>.async_probe [KNL] 1043 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 1044 1045 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1046 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1047 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1048 which are not unmapped. 1049 1050 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1051 1052 When used with no options, the early console is 1053 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1054 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1055 the platform. 1056 1057 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1058 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1059 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1060 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1061 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1062 configured. 1063 1064 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 1065 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 1066 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 1067 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 1068 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1069 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1070 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1071 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1072 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1073 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1074 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1075 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1076 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 1077 1078 pl011,<addr> 1079 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1080 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1081 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1082 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1083 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1084 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1085 the device registers. 1086 1087 meson,<addr> 1088 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1089 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1090 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1091 supported. 1092 1093 msm_serial,<addr> 1094 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1095 port at the specified address. The serial port 1096 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1097 yet supported. 1098 1099 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1100 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1101 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1102 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1103 yet supported. 1104 1105 owl,<addr> 1106 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1107 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1108 specified address. The serial port must already be 1109 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1110 1111 rda,<addr> 1112 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1113 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1114 specified address. The serial port must already be 1115 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1116 1117 sbi 1118 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1119 console. 1120 1121 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1122 1123 s3c2410,<addr> 1124 s3c2412,<addr> 1125 s3c2440,<addr> 1126 s3c6400,<addr> 1127 s5pv210,<addr> 1128 exynos4210,<addr> 1129 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1130 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1131 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1132 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1133 Options are not yet supported. 1134 1135 lantiq,<addr> 1136 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1137 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1138 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1139 yet supported. 1140 1141 lpuart,<addr> 1142 lpuart32,<addr> 1143 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1144 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1145 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1146 port must already be setup and configured. 1147 1148 ec_imx21,<addr> 1149 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1150 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1151 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1152 must already be setup and configured. 1153 1154 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1155 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1156 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1157 address. The serial port must already be setup 1158 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1159 1160 qcom_geni,<addr> 1161 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1162 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1163 specified address. The serial port must already be 1164 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1165 1166 efifb,[options] 1167 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1168 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1169 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1170 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1171 mapped with the correct attributes. 1172 1173 linflex,<addr> 1174 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1175 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1176 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1177 already be setup and configured. 1178 1179 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1180 earlyprintk=vga 1181 earlyprintk=sclp 1182 earlyprintk=xen 1183 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1184 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1185 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1186 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1187 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1188 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1189 1190 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1191 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1192 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1193 1194 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1195 takes over. 1196 1197 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 1198 be used at a time. 1199 1200 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1201 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1202 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1203 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1204 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1205 You can find the port for a given device in 1206 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1207 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1208 1209 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1210 very good. 1211 1212 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 1213 the real console. 1214 1215 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. 1216 1217 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1218 1219 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1220 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1221 UART class. 1222 1223 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1224 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1225 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1226 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1227 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1228 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1229 default: on. 1230 1231 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1232 ekgdboc=kbd 1233 1234 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1235 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1236 1237 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1238 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1239 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1240 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1241 1242 edd= [EDD] 1243 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1244 1245 efi= [EFI] 1246 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1247 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1248 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1249 debug: enable misc debug output. 1250 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1251 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1252 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1253 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1254 firmware implementations. 1255 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1256 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1257 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1258 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1259 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1260 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1261 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1262 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1263 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1264 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1265 1266 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1267 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1268 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1269 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1270 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1271 1272 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1273 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1274 updating original EFI memory map. 1275 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1276 from ss to ss+nn. 1277 1278 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1279 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1280 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1281 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1282 1283 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1284 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1285 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1286 1287 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1288 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1289 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1290 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1291 "soft reserved". 1292 1293 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1294 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1295 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1296 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1297 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1298 1299 1300 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1301 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1302 1303 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1304 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1305 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1306 1307 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1308 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1309 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1310 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1311 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1312 1313 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1314 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1315 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1316 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1317 1318 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1319 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1320 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1321 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1322 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1323 1324 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1325 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1326 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1327 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1328 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1329 Default value is 0. 1330 Value can be changed at runtime via 1331 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1332 1333 erst_disable [ACPI] 1334 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1335 support. 1336 1337 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1338 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1339 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1340 1341 evm= [EVM] 1342 Format: { "fix" } 1343 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1344 current integrity status. 1345 1346 failslab= 1347 fail_usercopy= 1348 fail_page_alloc= 1349 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1350 General fault injection mechanism. 1351 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1352 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1353 1354 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1355 Format: { initns | none } 1356 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1357 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1358 1359 floppy= [HW] 1360 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1361 1362 force_pal_cache_flush 1363 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1364 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1365 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1366 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1367 1368 forcepae [X86-32] 1369 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1370 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1371 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1372 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1373 and may cause unknown problems. 1374 1375 ftrace=[tracer] 1376 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1377 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1378 boot debugging. 1379 1380 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1381 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1382 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1383 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1384 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1385 oops. 1386 1387 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1388 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1389 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1390 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1391 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1392 tracing directory. 1393 1394 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1395 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1396 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1397 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1398 tracing directory. 1399 1400 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1401 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1402 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1403 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1404 that can be changed at run time by the 1405 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1406 1407 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1408 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1409 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1410 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1411 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1412 1413 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1414 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1415 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1416 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1417 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1418 1419 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1420 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1421 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1422 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1423 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1424 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1425 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1426 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1427 suppliers). 1428 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1429 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1430 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1431 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1432 up (sync_state() calls). 1433 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1434 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1435 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1436 1437 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1438 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1439 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1440 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1441 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1442 1443 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1444 1445 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1446 Format: off | on 1447 default: on 1448 1449 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1450 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1451 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1452 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1453 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1454 1455 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1456 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1457 android emulator 1458 1459 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1460 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1461 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1462 GPT to be used instead. 1463 1464 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1465 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1466 Format: 0 | 1 1467 Default: 0 1468 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1469 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1470 Format: 0 | 1 1471 Default: 0 1472 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1473 Format: 0 | 1 1474 Default: 0 1475 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1476 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1477 Default: 1024 1478 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1479 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1480 Default: 1024 1481 1482 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1483 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1484 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1485 1486 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1487 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1488 backtraces on all cpus. 1489 Format: 0 | 1 1490 1491 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1492 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1493 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1494 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1495 1496 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1497 1498 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1499 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1500 1501 hest_disable [ACPI] 1502 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1503 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1504 logic will be disabled. 1505 1506 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1507 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1508 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1509 size on bigger boxes. 1510 1511 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1512 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1513 Default: "on" 1514 1515 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1516 1517 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1518 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1519 verbose } 1520 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1521 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1522 VIA, nVidia) 1523 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1524 1525 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1526 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1527 1528 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1529 of gigantic hugepages. 1530 Format: nn[KMGTPE] 1531 1532 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1533 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1534 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1535 1536 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1537 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1538 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1539 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1540 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1541 the default huge page size. See also 1542 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1543 Format: <integer> 1544 1545 hugepagesz= 1546 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1547 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1548 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1549 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1550 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1551 architecture dependent. See also 1552 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1553 Format: size[KMG] 1554 1555 hung_task_panic= 1556 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1557 Format: 0 | 1 1558 1559 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1560 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1561 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1562 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1563 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1564 1565 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1566 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1567 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1568 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1569 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1570 1571 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1572 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1573 guest on lock contention. 1574 1575 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1576 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1577 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1578 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1579 the real console. 1580 1581 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1582 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1583 registered from board initialization code. 1584 Format: 1585 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1586 1587 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1588 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1589 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1590 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1591 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1592 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1593 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1594 keyboard and cannot control its state 1595 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1596 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1597 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1598 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1599 for the AUX port 1600 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1601 controller 1602 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1603 controllers 1604 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1605 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1606 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1607 transitions, or never reset 1608 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1609 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1610 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1611 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1612 architectures force reset to be always executed 1613 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1614 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1615 1616 i810= [HW,DRM] 1617 1618 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1619 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1620 hardware. 1621 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature 1622 does not match list of supported models. 1623 i8k.power_status 1624 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1625 (disabled by default) 1626 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1627 capability is set. 1628 1629 i915.invert_brightness= 1630 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1631 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1632 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1633 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1634 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1635 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1636 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1637 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1638 value switches the backlight off. 1639 -1 -- never invert brightness 1640 0 -- machine default 1641 1 -- force brightness inversion 1642 1643 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1644 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1645 1646 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1647 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1648 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1649 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1650 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst. 1651 1652 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1653 Format: <int> 1654 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1655 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1656 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1657 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1658 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1659 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1660 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1661 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1662 was 0x3. 1663 1664 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1665 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1666 1667 idle= [X86] 1668 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1669 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1670 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1671 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1672 Not recommended. 1673 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1674 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1675 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1676 1677 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1678 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1679 Default: strict 1680 1681 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1682 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1683 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1684 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1685 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1686 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1687 encoding mode. 1688 1689 Available settings are as follows: 1690 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1691 supported by the FPU 1692 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1693 by the FPU 1694 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1695 by the FPU 1696 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1697 supported by the FPU 1698 1699 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1700 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1701 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1702 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1703 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1704 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1705 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1706 MIPS64 CPUs. 1707 1708 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1709 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1710 except where unsupported by hardware. 1711 1712 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1713 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1714 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1715 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1716 could change it dynamically, usually by 1717 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1718 1719 ignore_rlimit_data 1720 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1721 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1722 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1723 1724 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1725 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1726 1727 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1728 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1729 default: "enforce" 1730 1731 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1732 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1733 owned by uid=0. 1734 1735 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1736 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1737 measurements, instead of host native format. 1738 1739 ima_hash= [IMA] 1740 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1741 | sha512 | ... } 1742 default: "sha1" 1743 1744 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1745 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1746 1747 ima_policy= [IMA] 1748 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1749 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1750 fail_securely | critical_data" 1751 1752 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1753 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1754 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1755 uid=0. 1756 1757 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1758 all files owned by root. 1759 1760 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1761 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1762 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1763 1764 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1765 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1766 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1767 flag. 1768 1769 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 1770 critical data. 1771 1772 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1773 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1774 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1775 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1776 opened for read by uid=0. 1777 1778 ima_template= [IMA] 1779 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1780 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" } 1781 Default: "ima-ng" 1782 1783 ima_template_fmt= 1784 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1785 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1786 1787 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1788 Format: <min_file_size> 1789 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1790 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1791 1792 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1793 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1794 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1795 1796 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1797 Format: <bufsize> 1798 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1799 1800 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1801 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1802 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1803 1804 init= [KNL] 1805 Format: <full_path> 1806 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1807 process. 1808 1809 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1810 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1811 startup. 1812 1813 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1814 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1815 modules and initcalls. 1816 1817 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1818 1819 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 1820 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 1821 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 1822 setting. 1823 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 1824 Default is 0, 0 1825 1826 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 1827 zeroes. 1828 Format: 0 | 1 1829 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 1830 1831 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 1832 Format: 0 | 1 1833 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 1834 1835 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1836 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1837 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1838 override in debugfs after boot. 1839 1840 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1841 Format: <irq> 1842 1843 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1844 1845 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1846 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1847 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1848 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1849 1850 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1851 on 1852 Enable intel iommu driver. 1853 off 1854 Disable intel iommu driver. 1855 igfx_off [Default Off] 1856 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1857 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1858 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1859 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1860 DMA. 1861 forcedac [X86-64] 1862 With this option iommu will not optimize to look 1863 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual 1864 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater 1865 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look 1866 for translation below 32-bit and if not available 1867 then look in the higher range. 1868 strict [Default Off] 1869 With this option on every unmap_single operation will 1870 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed 1871 to batching them for performance. 1872 sp_off [Default Off] 1873 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 1874 has the capability. With this option, super page will 1875 not be supported. 1876 sm_on [Default Off] 1877 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the 1878 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable 1879 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode 1880 will be used on hardware which claims to support it. 1881 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 1882 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 1883 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 1884 could harm performance of some high-throughput 1885 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 1886 mapping is enabled. 1887 Note that using this option lowers the security 1888 provided by tboot because it makes the system 1889 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 1890 1891 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 1892 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1893 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 1894 1895 intel_pstate= [X86] 1896 disable 1897 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 1898 scaling driver for the supported processors 1899 passive 1900 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 1901 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 1902 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 1903 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 1904 feature. 1905 force 1906 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 1907 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 1908 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 1909 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 1910 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 1911 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 1912 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 1913 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 1914 no_hwp 1915 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 1916 if available. 1917 hwp_only 1918 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 1919 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 1920 support_acpi_ppc 1921 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 1922 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 1923 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 1924 then this feature is turned on by default. 1925 per_cpu_perf_limits 1926 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 1927 cpufreq sysfs interface 1928 1929 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 1930 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 1931 off disable Interrupt Remapping 1932 nosid disable Source ID checking 1933 no_x2apic_optout 1934 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 1935 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 1936 1937 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 1938 strict regions from userspace. 1939 relaxed 1940 1941 iommu= [X86] 1942 off 1943 force 1944 noforce 1945 biomerge 1946 panic 1947 nopanic 1948 merge 1949 nomerge 1950 soft 1951 pt [X86] 1952 nopt [X86] 1953 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 1954 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 1955 1956 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 1957 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1958 0 - Lazy mode. 1959 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 1960 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 1961 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 1962 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 1963 the relevant IOMMU driver. 1964 1 - Strict mode (default). 1965 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 1966 synchronously. 1967 1968 iommu.passthrough= 1969 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 1970 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1971 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1972 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 1973 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 1974 1975 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 1976 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 1977 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 1978 1979 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 1980 0x80 1981 Standard port 0x80 based delay 1982 0xed 1983 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 1984 udelay 1985 Simple two microseconds delay 1986 none 1987 No delay 1988 1989 ip= [IP_PNP] 1990 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 1991 1992 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 1993 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 1994 1995 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 1996 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 1997 1998 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 1999 [ARM, ARM64] 2000 Format: <bool> 2001 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2002 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2003 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2004 2005 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2006 [ARM, ARM64] 2007 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2008 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2009 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2010 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2011 LPIs. 2012 2013 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2014 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2015 requires the kernel to be built with 2016 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2017 2018 irqfixup [HW] 2019 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2020 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2021 firmware running. 2022 2023 irqpoll [HW] 2024 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2025 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2026 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2027 firmware running. 2028 2029 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2030 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2031 2032 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2033 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2034 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2035 2036 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2037 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2038 2039 nohz 2040 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2041 2042 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2043 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2044 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2045 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2046 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2047 2048 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2049 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2050 be configured manually after bootup. 2051 2052 domain 2053 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2054 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2055 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2056 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2057 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2058 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2059 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2060 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2061 2062 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2063 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2064 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2065 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2066 2067 managed_irq 2068 2069 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2070 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2071 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2072 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2073 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2074 2075 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2076 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2077 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2078 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2079 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2080 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2081 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2082 2083 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2084 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2085 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2086 only delivered when tasks running on those 2087 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2088 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2089 queues. 2090 2091 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2092 2093 iucv= [HW,NET] 2094 2095 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2096 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2097 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2098 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2099 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2100 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2101 2102 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2103 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2104 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2105 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 2106 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2107 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2108 2109 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2110 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2111 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2112 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2113 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 2114 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2115 2116 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2117 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2118 2119 nokaslr [KNL] 2120 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 2121 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 2122 Layout Randomization). 2123 2124 kasan_multi_shot 2125 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2126 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2127 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2128 invalid access. 2129 2130 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2131 2132 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2133 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2134 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2135 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2136 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2137 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2138 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2139 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2140 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2141 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2142 2143 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2144 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2145 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2146 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2147 zone if it does not. 2148 2149 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2150 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2151 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2152 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2153 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2154 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2155 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2156 2157 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2158 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2159 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2160 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2161 optional and is the number seconds in between 2162 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2163 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2164 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2165 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2166 the kernel debugger. 2167 2168 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2169 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2170 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2171 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2172 keyboard only format: kbd 2173 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2174 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2175 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2176 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2177 2178 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2179 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2180 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2181 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2182 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2183 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2184 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2185 2186 The name of the early console should be specified 2187 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2188 the early console might be different than the tty 2189 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2190 blank and the first boot console that implements 2191 read() will be picked. 2192 2193 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2194 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2195 2196 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2197 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2198 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2199 2200 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2201 Valid arguments: on, off 2202 Default: on 2203 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2204 the default is off. 2205 2206 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2207 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2208 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2209 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2210 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2211 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2212 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2213 2214 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2215 2216 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2217 Boot Parameter" section. 2218 2219 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2220 and kernel address spaces. 2221 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2222 0: force disabled 2223 1: force enabled 2224 2225 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2226 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2227 2228 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2229 Default is false (don't support). 2230 2231 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 2232 KVM MMU at runtime. 2233 Default is 0 (off) 2234 2235 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2236 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2237 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2238 force : Always deploy workaround. 2239 off : Never deploy workaround. 2240 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2241 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2242 2243 Default is 'auto'. 2244 2245 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2246 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2247 2248 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2249 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2250 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2251 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2252 minute. The default is 60. 2253 2254 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2255 Default is 1 (enabled) 2256 2257 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2258 for all guests. 2259 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2260 2261 kvm-arm.mode= 2262 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2263 2264 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2265 protected guests. 2266 2267 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2268 state is kept private from the host. 2269 Not valid if the kernel is running in EL2. 2270 2271 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support and 2272 the value of CONFIG_ARM64_VHE. 2273 2274 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2275 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2276 system registers 2277 2278 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2279 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2280 system registers 2281 2282 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2283 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2284 system registers 2285 2286 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2287 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2288 LPIs. 2289 2290 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2291 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2292 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2293 allocation. 2294 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2295 Format: <integer> 2296 Default: 5 2297 2298 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2299 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2300 Default is 1 (enabled) 2301 2302 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2303 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 2304 Default is 0 (disabled) 2305 2306 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2307 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2308 Default is 1 (enabled) 2309 2310 kvm-intel.nested= 2311 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2312 Default is 0 (disabled) 2313 2314 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2315 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2316 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2317 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2318 2319 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2320 CVE-2018-3620. 2321 2322 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2323 2324 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2325 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2326 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2327 never: Disables the mitigation 2328 2329 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2330 2331 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2332 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2333 Default is 1 (enabled) 2334 2335 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2336 affected CPUs 2337 2338 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2339 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2340 2341 full 2342 Provides all available mitigations for the 2343 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2344 enables all mitigations in the 2345 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2346 2347 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2348 sysfs interface is still possible after 2349 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2350 when the first VM is started in a 2351 potentially insecure configuration, 2352 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2353 2354 full,force 2355 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2356 flush runtime control. Implies the 2357 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2358 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2359 2360 flush 2361 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2362 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2363 L1D flush. 2364 2365 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2366 sysfs interface is still possible after 2367 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2368 when the first VM is started in a 2369 potentially insecure configuration, 2370 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2371 2372 flush,nosmt 2373 2374 Disables SMT and enables the default 2375 hypervisor mitigation. 2376 2377 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2378 sysfs interface is still possible after 2379 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2380 when the first VM is started in a 2381 potentially insecure configuration, 2382 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2383 2384 flush,nowarn 2385 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2386 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2387 insecure configuration. 2388 2389 off 2390 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2391 emit any warnings. 2392 It also drops the swap size and available 2393 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2394 bare metal. 2395 2396 Default is 'flush'. 2397 2398 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2399 2400 l2cr= [PPC] 2401 2402 l3cr= [PPC] 2403 2404 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2405 disabled it. 2406 2407 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2408 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2409 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2410 Format: notscdeadline 2411 2412 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2413 in C2 power state. 2414 2415 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2416 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2417 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2418 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2419 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2420 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2421 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2422 2423 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2424 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2425 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2426 2427 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2428 when set. 2429 Format: <int> 2430 2431 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma- 2432 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 2433 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 2434 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 2435 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 2436 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 2437 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 2438 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 2439 2440 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2441 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2442 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2443 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2444 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2445 host link and device attached to it. 2446 2447 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2448 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 2449 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2450 The following configurations can be forced. 2451 2452 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2453 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2454 2455 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2456 2457 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2458 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2459 allowed. 2460 2461 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2462 2463 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 2464 2465 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 2466 and both resets. 2467 2468 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 2469 hot-unplug link recovery 2470 2471 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 2472 2473 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 2474 2475 * disable: Disable this device. 2476 2477 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2478 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2479 2480 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 2481 2482 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2483 2484 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2485 Format: <integer> 2486 2487 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2488 Format: <integer> 2489 2490 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2491 Format: <integer> 2492 2493 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2494 Format: <integer> 2495 2496 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2497 { integrity | confidentiality } 2498 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2499 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2500 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2501 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2502 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2503 are also disabled. 2504 2505 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2506 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2507 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2508 number of online CPUs. 2509 2510 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2511 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2512 2513 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2514 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2515 2516 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2517 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2518 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2519 2520 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2521 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2522 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2523 mode during the locktorture test. 2524 2525 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2526 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2527 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2528 2529 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2530 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2531 2532 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2533 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2534 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2535 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2536 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2537 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2538 2539 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2540 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2541 2542 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2543 Enable additional printk() statements. 2544 2545 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2546 Format: <irq> 2547 2548 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2549 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2550 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2551 loglevels are defined as follows: 2552 2553 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2554 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2555 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2556 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2557 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2558 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2559 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2560 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2561 2562 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2563 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2564 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2565 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2566 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2567 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2568 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2569 2570 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2571 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2572 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2573 kernel boot problems. 2574 2575 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2576 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2577 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2578 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2579 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2580 attached printers to be reset. Using 2581 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2582 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2583 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2584 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2585 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2586 port specification list means that device IDs 2587 from each port should be examined, to see if 2588 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2589 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2590 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2591 2592 lpj=n [KNL] 2593 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2594 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2595 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2596 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2597 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2598 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2599 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2600 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2601 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2602 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2603 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2604 hardware. 2605 2606 ltpc= [NET] 2607 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2608 2609 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2610 2611 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2612 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2613 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2614 2615 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2616 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2617 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2618 2619 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 2620 different yeeloong laptops. 2621 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2622 2623 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2624 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2625 2626 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2627 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2628 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2629 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2630 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2631 only takes effect during system bootup. 2632 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2633 which also disables the IO APIC. 2634 2635 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2636 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2637 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2638 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2639 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2640 /dev/loop-control interface. 2641 2642 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2643 2644 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2645 2646 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2647 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2648 2649 mdacon= [MDA] 2650 Format: <first>,<last> 2651 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2652 2653 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2654 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2655 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2656 2657 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2658 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2659 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2660 2661 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2662 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2663 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2664 not have direct access. 2665 2666 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2667 options are: 2668 2669 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2670 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2671 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2672 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2673 2674 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 2675 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 2676 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 2677 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 2678 too. 2679 2680 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 2681 mds=full. 2682 2683 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 2684 2685 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2686 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 2687 2688 1 for test; 2689 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 2690 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 2691 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 2692 2693 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2694 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2695 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2696 belonging to unused RAM. 2697 2698 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 2699 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 2700 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 2701 2702 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2703 memory. 2704 2705 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2706 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2707 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2708 2709 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2710 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2711 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2712 set according to the 2713 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2714 option. 2715 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 2716 2717 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2718 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2719 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2720 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2721 option description. 2722 2723 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2724 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2725 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2726 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2727 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2728 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2729 comma delimited. 2730 Example: 2731 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2732 2733 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2734 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2735 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2736 2737 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2738 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2739 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2740 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2741 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2742 or 2743 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2744 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 2745 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 2746 will be eaten. 2747 2748 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2749 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2750 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2751 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2752 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2753 2754 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 2755 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 2756 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 2757 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 2758 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 2759 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 2760 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 2761 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 2762 2763 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2764 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2765 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2766 Setting this option will scan the memory 2767 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2768 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2769 from using the memory being corrupted. 2770 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2771 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2772 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2773 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2774 2775 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2776 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2777 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2778 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2779 corruption in more or less memory. 2780 2781 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2782 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2783 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2784 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2785 2786 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest 2787 Format: <integer> 2788 default : 0 <disable> 2789 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2790 performed. Each pass selects another test 2791 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2792 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2793 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2794 regions that are detected. 2795 2796 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 2797 Valid arguments: on, off 2798 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 2799 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 2800 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 2801 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 2802 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 2803 2804 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst 2805 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 2806 2807 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 2808 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 2809 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 2810 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 2811 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 2812 2813 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2814 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst. 2815 2816 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2817 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2818 platforms. 2819 2820 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2821 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2822 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2823 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2824 2825 mga= [HW,DRM] 2826 2827 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2828 physical address is ignored. 2829 2830 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2831 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2832 Default: "0tb" 2833 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2834 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2835 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2836 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2837 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2838 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2839 unconfigured. 2840 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2841 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2842 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2843 VGA shield. 2844 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2845 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2846 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2847 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2848 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 2849 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 2850 2851 mitigations= 2852 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 2853 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 2854 arch-independent options, each of which is an 2855 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 2856 2857 off 2858 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 2859 improves system performance, but it may also 2860 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 2861 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 2862 kpti=0 [ARM64] 2863 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 2864 nobp=0 [S390] 2865 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 2866 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 2867 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 2868 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 2869 l1tf=off [X86] 2870 mds=off [X86] 2871 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 2872 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 2873 no_entry_flush [PPC] 2874 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 2875 2876 Exceptions: 2877 This does not have any effect on 2878 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 2879 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 2880 2881 auto (default) 2882 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 2883 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 2884 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 2885 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 2886 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 2887 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 2888 2889 auto,nosmt 2890 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 2891 if needed. This is for users who always want to 2892 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 2893 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 2894 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 2895 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 2896 2897 mminit_loglevel= 2898 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 2899 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 2900 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 2901 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 2902 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 2903 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 2904 2905 module.sig_enforce 2906 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 2907 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 2908 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 2909 is always true, so this option does nothing. 2910 2911 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 2912 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 2913 2914 mousedev.tap_time= 2915 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 2916 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 2917 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 2918 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 2919 Format: <msecs> 2920 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 2921 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2922 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 2923 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2924 2925 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2926 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 2927 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 2928 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 2929 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 2930 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 2931 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 2932 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 2933 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 2934 is not too small. 2935 2936 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 2937 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 2938 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 2939 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 2940 allocations. Use with caution! 2941 2942 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 2943 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 2944 2945 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 2946 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 2947 2948 mtdparts= [MTD] 2949 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 2950 2951 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 2952 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 2953 at a time. 2954 2955 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 2956 2957 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 2958 2959 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 2960 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 2961 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 2962 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 2963 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 2964 2965 mtdset= [ARM] 2966 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 2967 2968 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 2969 2970 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 2971 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 2972 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 2973 2974 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2975 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 2976 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 2977 2978 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2979 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 2980 Default is 1. 2981 Large value could prevent small alignment from 2982 using up MTRRs. 2983 2984 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 2985 Format: <integer> 2986 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 2987 Default : 1 2988 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 2989 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 2990 2991 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 2992 2993 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 2994 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 2995 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 2996 something different and driver-specific. 2997 This usage is only documented in each driver source 2998 file if at all. 2999 3000 nf_conntrack.acct= 3001 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3002 0 to disable accounting 3003 1 to enable accounting 3004 Default value is 0. 3005 3006 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3007 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3008 3009 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3010 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3011 3012 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3013 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3014 3015 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3016 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3017 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3018 requests. 3019 3020 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3021 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3022 channel should listen. 3023 3024 nfs.cache_getent= 3025 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3026 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3027 3028 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3029 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3030 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3031 3032 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3033 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3034 entries. 3035 3036 nfs.enable_ino64= 3037 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3038 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3039 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3040 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3041 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3042 3043 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3044 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3045 slots the client will assign to the callback 3046 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3047 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3048 a particular server. 3049 3050 nfs.max_session_slots= 3051 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3052 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3053 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3054 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3055 Note that there is little point in setting this 3056 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3057 3058 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3059 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3060 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3061 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3062 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3063 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3064 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3065 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3066 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3067 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3068 back to using the idmapper. 3069 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3070 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3071 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3072 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3073 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3074 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3075 3076 nfs.send_implementation_id = 3077 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3078 information in exchange_id requests. 3079 If zero, no implementation identification information 3080 will be sent. 3081 The default is to send the implementation identification 3082 information. 3083 3084 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 3085 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3086 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3087 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3088 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3089 after the locks are lost. 3090 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3091 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3092 parameter to '1'. 3093 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3094 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3095 3096 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 3097 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3098 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3099 3100 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3101 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3102 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3103 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3104 3105 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3106 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3107 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3108 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3109 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3110 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3111 3112 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3113 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3114 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3115 3116 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3117 when a NMI is triggered. 3118 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3119 3120 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3121 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3122 Valid num: 0 or 1 3123 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3124 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3125 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3126 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3127 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3128 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3129 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3130 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3131 need the box quickly up again. 3132 3133 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3134 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3135 3136 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3137 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3138 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3139 waits 4 seconds. 3140 3141 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3142 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3143 is present. 3144 3145 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3146 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3147 3148 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3149 3150 no_console_suspend 3151 [HW] Never suspend the console 3152 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3153 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3154 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3155 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3156 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3157 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3158 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3159 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3160 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3161 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3162 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3163 turn on/off it dynamically. 3164 3165 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3166 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3167 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3168 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3169 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3170 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3171 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3172 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3173 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3174 is set. 3175 3176 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3177 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3178 but will impact performance. 3179 3180 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3181 3182 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3183 (CPU alternatives feature). 3184 3185 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3186 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3187 3188 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3189 3190 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 3191 on "Classic" PPC cores. 3192 3193 nocache [ARM] 3194 3195 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 3196 3197 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting 3198 3199 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3200 3201 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3202 3203 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3204 3205 noexec [IA-64] 3206 3207 noexec [X86] 3208 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 3209 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3210 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 3211 3212 nosmap [X86,PPC] 3213 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3214 even if it is supported by processor. 3215 3216 nosmep [X86,PPC] 3217 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3218 even if it is supported by processor. 3219 3220 noexec32 [X86-64] 3221 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3222 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3223 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3224 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3225 read implies executable mappings 3226 3227 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3228 3229 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3230 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3231 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3232 3233 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3234 3235 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3236 Equivalent to smt=1. 3237 3238 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3239 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3240 via the sysfs control file. 3241 3242 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3243 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3244 possible in the system. 3245 3246 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3247 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3248 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3249 option. 3250 3251 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3252 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3253 3254 no_uaccess_flush 3255 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 3256 3257 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3258 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3259 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3260 3261 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3262 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3263 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3264 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3265 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3266 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3267 3268 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3269 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3270 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3271 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3272 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3273 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3274 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3275 3276 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait 3277 in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3278 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3279 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3280 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3281 correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute 3282 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3283 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3284 3285 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3286 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3287 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3288 3289 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3290 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3291 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3292 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3293 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3294 real-time systems. 3295 3296 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3297 3298 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3299 Valid arguments: on, off 3300 Default: on 3301 3302 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3303 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3304 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3305 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3306 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3307 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3308 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3309 just as if they had also been called out in the 3310 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3311 3312 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3313 3314 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3315 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3316 3317 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3318 broken timer IRQ sources. 3319 3320 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3321 3322 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3323 initial RAM disk. 3324 3325 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3326 remapping. 3327 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3328 3329 nointroute [IA-64] 3330 3331 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3332 3333 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3334 3335 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3336 3337 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3338 fault handling. 3339 3340 no-vmw-sched-clock 3341 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3342 clock and use the default one. 3343 3344 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time 3345 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't 3346 influence scheduler behaviour 3347 3348 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3349 3350 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3351 3352 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 3353 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 3354 3355 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3356 3357 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3358 3359 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3360 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3361 3362 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3363 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3364 irq. 3365 3366 nomodule Disable module load 3367 3368 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3369 pagetables) support. 3370 3371 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3372 3373 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3374 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3375 3376 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3377 with UP alternatives 3378 3379 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 3380 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 3381 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 3382 available to user space applications. 3383 3384 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3385 space. 3386 3387 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3388 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3389 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3390 3391 nosbagart [IA-64] 3392 3393 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 3394 3395 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 3396 3397 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3398 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3399 3400 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3401 3402 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3403 3404 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3405 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3406 3407 nowb [ARM] 3408 3409 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3410 3411 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 3412 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 3413 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 3414 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 3415 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 3416 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 3417 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 3418 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 3419 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 3420 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 3421 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 3422 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 3423 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 3424 3425 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3426 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3427 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3428 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3429 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3430 parameter's value. 3431 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3432 Default: 255 3433 3434 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3435 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3436 SAL PALO. 3437 3438 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3439 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3440 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3441 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3442 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3443 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3444 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3445 hot plugging. 3446 3447 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3448 3449 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing. 3450 Allowed values are enable and disable 3451 3452 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3453 'node', 'default' can be specified 3454 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3455 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3456 3457 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3458 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 3459 info. 3460 3461 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3462 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3463 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3464 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3465 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3466 interrupts *may* be lost! 3467 3468 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3469 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3470 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3471 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3472 3473 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3474 process, but there is a small probability of 3475 deadlocking the machine. 3476 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3477 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3478 3479 page_alloc.shuffle= 3480 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3481 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3482 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3483 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3484 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3485 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3486 can be read from sysfs at: 3487 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3488 3489 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3490 Storage of the information about who allocated 3491 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3492 we can turn it on. 3493 on: enable the feature 3494 3495 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3496 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3497 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3498 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3499 on: turn on poisoning 3500 3501 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3502 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3503 timeout = 0: wait forever 3504 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3505 Format: <timeout> 3506 3507 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3508 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3509 bit 0: print all tasks info 3510 bit 1: print system memory info 3511 bit 2: print timer info 3512 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3513 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3514 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3515 3516 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 3517 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 3518 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 3519 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 3520 called with any of the flags in this set. 3521 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 3522 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 3523 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 3524 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 3525 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 3526 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 3527 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 3528 3529 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3530 on a WARN(). 3531 3532 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 3533 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 3534 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 3535 succeeds in any situation. 3536 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 3537 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 3538 kernel more unstable. 3539 3540 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3541 connected to, default is 0. 3542 Format: <parport#> 3543 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3544 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3545 Format: <mode> 3546 3547 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3548 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3549 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3550 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3551 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3552 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3553 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3554 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3555 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3556 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3557 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3558 are specified on the command line, starting 3559 with parport0. 3560 3561 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3562 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3563 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3564 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3565 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3566 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3567 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3568 3569 pause_on_oops= 3570 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 3571 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 3572 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 3573 3574 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 3575 3576 pcd. [PARIDE] 3577 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 3578 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3579 3580 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 3581 3582 Some options herein operate on a specific device 3583 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 3584 specified in one of the following formats: 3585 3586 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 3587 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 3588 3589 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 3590 bus/device/function address which may change 3591 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 3592 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 3593 by other kernel parameters. If the 3594 domain is left unspecified, it is 3595 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 3596 to a device through multiple device/function 3597 addresses can be specified after the base 3598 address (this is more robust against 3599 renumbering issues). The second format 3600 selects devices using IDs from the 3601 configuration space which may match multiple 3602 devices in the system. 3603 3604 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 3605 changes anything 3606 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 3607 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 3608 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 3609 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 3610 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 3611 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 3612 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 3613 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 3614 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3615 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 3616 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 3617 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3618 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 3619 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 3620 bus number. The config space is then accessed 3621 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 3622 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 3623 on the configuration access mechanisms. 3624 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 3625 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3626 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 3627 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 3628 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 3629 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 3630 Configuration 3631 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 3632 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 3633 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 3634 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 3635 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3636 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 3637 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 3638 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 3639 should never be necessary. 3640 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 3641 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 3642 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 3643 when the system masks IRQs. 3644 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 3645 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 3646 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 3647 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 3648 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 3649 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 3650 on several machines and they hang the machine 3651 when used, but on other computers it's the only 3652 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 3653 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 3654 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 3655 motherboard. 3656 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 3657 Use with caution as certain devices share 3658 address decoders between ROMs and other 3659 resources. 3660 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 3661 expansion ROMs that do not already have 3662 BIOS assigned address ranges. 3663 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 3664 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 3665 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 3666 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 3667 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 3668 this way. 3669 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 3670 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 3671 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 3672 F0000h-100000h range. 3673 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 3674 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 3675 secondary buses and you want to tell it 3676 explicitly which ones they are. 3677 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 3678 numbers ourselves, overriding 3679 whatever the firmware may have done. 3680 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 3681 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 3682 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 3683 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 3684 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 3685 IRQ routing is enabled. 3686 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 3687 or for PCI scanning. 3688 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 3689 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 3690 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 3691 please report a bug. 3692 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 3693 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 3694 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 3695 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 3696 so this option is a temporary workaround 3697 for broken drivers that don't call it. 3698 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 3699 handle more pci cards 3700 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 3701 This might help on some broken boards which 3702 machine check when some devices' config space 3703 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 3704 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 3705 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3706 This sorting is done to get a device 3707 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 3708 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3709 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 3710 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 3711 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 3712 supported by all devices below the root complex. 3713 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 3714 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 3715 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 3716 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 3717 or bus can support) for best performance. 3718 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 3719 every device is guaranteed to support. This 3720 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 3721 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 3722 reduced performance. This also guarantees 3723 that hot-added devices will work. 3724 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3725 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 3726 The default value is 256 bytes. 3727 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3728 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 3729 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 3730 resource_alignment= 3731 Format: 3732 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 3733 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 3734 aligned memory resources. How to 3735 specify the device is described above. 3736 If <order of align> is not specified, 3737 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 3738 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 3739 windows need to be expanded. 3740 To specify the alignment for several 3741 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 3742 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 3743 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 3744 for 4096-byte alignment. 3745 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 3746 end-to-end CRC checking). 3747 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 3748 the default. 3749 off: Turn ECRC off 3750 on: Turn ECRC on. 3751 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3752 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 3753 Default size is 256 bytes. 3754 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3755 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 3756 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3757 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3758 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 3759 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3760 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3761 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 3762 MMIO_PREF window. 3763 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3764 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 3765 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 3766 Default is 1. 3767 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 3768 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 3769 accommodate resources required by all child 3770 devices. 3771 off: Turn realloc off 3772 on: Turn realloc on 3773 realloc same as realloc=on 3774 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 3775 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 3776 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 3777 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 3778 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 3779 port. 3780 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 3781 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 3782 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 3783 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 3784 conflict with unreported devices), so this 3785 taints the kernel. 3786 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 3787 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 3788 specified above) separated by semicolons. 3789 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 3790 redirect capabilities forced off which will 3791 allow P2P traffic between devices through 3792 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 3793 this removes isolation between devices and 3794 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 3795 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 3796 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 3797 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 3798 one PCI domain per PCI function 3799 3800 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 3801 Management. 3802 off Disable ASPM. 3803 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 3804 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 3805 3806 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 3807 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 3808 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 3809 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 3810 also tries to use these services. 3811 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 3812 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 3813 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 3814 hotplug). 3815 3816 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 3817 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 3818 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 3819 3820 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 3821 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 3822 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 3823 3824 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 3825 3826 pd_ignore_unused 3827 [PM] 3828 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 3829 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 3830 for debug and development, but should not be 3831 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 3832 3833 pd. [PARIDE] 3834 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3835 3836 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 3837 boot time. 3838 Format: { 0 | 1 } 3839 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 3840 3841 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 3842 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 3843 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 3844 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 3845 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 3846 and performance comparison. 3847 3848 pf. [PARIDE] 3849 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3850 3851 pg. [PARIDE] 3852 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3853 3854 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 3855 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 3856 3857 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 3858 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 3859 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 3860 3861 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 3862 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 3863 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 3864 3865 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 3866 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 3867 3868 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 3869 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 3870 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 3871 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 3872 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 3873 possible settings and some assignment information. 3874 3875 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 3876 { off } 3877 3878 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 3879 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 3880 3881 pnp_reserve_irq= 3882 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 3883 3884 pnp_reserve_dma= 3885 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 3886 3887 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 3888 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 3889 3890 pnp_reserve_mem= 3891 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 3892 autoconfiguration. 3893 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 3894 3895 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 3896 Default is 21. 3897 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 3898 may be specified. 3899 Format: <port>,<port>.... 3900 3901 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 3902 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 3903 platform machine description specific power_save 3904 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 3905 execution priority. 3906 3907 ppc_strict_facility_enable 3908 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 3909 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 3910 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 3911 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 3912 3913 ppc_tm= [PPC] 3914 Format: {"off"} 3915 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 3916 3917 preempt= [KNL] 3918 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 3919 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 3920 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 3921 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 3922 can be preempted anytime. 3923 3924 print-fatal-signals= 3925 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 3926 3927 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 3928 related application anomalies: too many signals, 3929 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 3930 coredump - etc. 3931 3932 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 3933 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 3934 3935 default: off. 3936 3937 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 3938 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 3939 panics 3940 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3941 default: disabled 3942 3943 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 3944 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 3945 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 3946 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 3947 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 3948 Default: ratelimit 3949 3950 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 3951 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3952 3953 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 3954 Limit processor to maximum C-state 3955 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 3956 3957 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 3958 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 3959 instead using the legacy FADT method 3960 3961 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 3962 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 3963 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 3964 [defaults to kernel profiling] 3965 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 3966 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 3967 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 3968 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 3969 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 3970 statistical time based profiling. 3971 3972 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 3973 3974 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 3975 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 3976 that). 3977 Format: <bool> 3978 3979 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 3980 tracking. 3981 Format: <bool> 3982 3983 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 3984 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 3985 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 3986 per second. 3987 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 3988 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 3989 (0 = never). 3990 psmouse.resolution= 3991 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 3992 psmouse.smartscroll= 3993 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 3994 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 3995 3996 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 3997 3998 pt. [PARIDE] 3999 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4000 4001 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4002 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4003 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4004 system calls and interrupts. 4005 4006 on - unconditionally enable 4007 off - unconditionally disable 4008 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4009 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4010 4011 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4012 4013 nopti [X86-64] 4014 Equivalent to pti=off 4015 4016 pty.legacy_count= 4017 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4018 default number. 4019 4020 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4021 4022 r128= [HW,DRM] 4023 4024 raid= [HW,RAID] 4025 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4026 4027 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4028 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4029 4030 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4031 4032 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 4033 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 4034 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 4035 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4036 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 4037 4038 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4039 4040 cec_disable [X86] 4041 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4042 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4043 4044 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 4045 The argument is a cpu list, as described above, 4046 except that the string "all" can be used to 4047 specify every CPU on the system. 4048 4049 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 4050 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 4051 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be 4052 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that 4053 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and 4054 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number. 4055 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs, 4056 which can be useful for HPC and real-time 4057 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency 4058 for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4059 4060 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4061 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4062 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4063 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4064 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4065 This improves the real-time response for the 4066 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4067 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4068 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4069 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4070 4071 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4072 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4073 process in one batch. 4074 4075 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4076 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4077 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4078 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4079 4080 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4081 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4082 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4083 4084 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4085 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4086 RCU grace-period initialization. 4087 4088 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4089 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4090 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4091 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4092 the rcu_node combining tree. 4093 4094 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 4095 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 4096 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 4097 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 4098 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 4099 4100 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 4101 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 4102 to zero. 4103 4104 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4105 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4106 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4107 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4108 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4109 4110 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4111 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4112 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4113 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4114 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4115 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4116 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4117 4118 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4119 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4120 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4121 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4122 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4123 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4124 condition. 4125 4126 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4127 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4128 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4129 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4130 and maximum value is HZ. 4131 4132 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4133 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4134 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4135 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4136 4137 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4138 Set required age in jiffies for a 4139 given grace period before RCU starts 4140 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4141 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4142 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4143 a value based on the most recent settings 4144 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4145 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4146 This calculated value may be viewed in 4147 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4148 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4149 overwritten. 4150 4151 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4152 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4153 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4154 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4155 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4156 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4157 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4158 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4159 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4160 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4161 4162 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4163 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4164 each group, which defaults to the square root 4165 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4166 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4167 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4168 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4169 4170 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4171 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4172 batch limiting is disabled. 4173 4174 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4175 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4176 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4177 4178 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4179 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4180 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4181 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4182 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4183 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4184 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4185 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4186 4187 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 4188 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 4189 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 4190 4191 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4192 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4193 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4194 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4195 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4196 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4197 4198 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 4199 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 4200 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 4201 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 4202 Larger delays increase the probability of 4203 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 4204 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 4205 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 4206 4207 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4208 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4209 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4210 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4211 4212 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 4213 Measure performance of asynchronous 4214 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4215 4216 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4217 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4218 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4219 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4220 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4221 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4222 4223 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 4224 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4225 grace-period primitives. 4226 4227 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4228 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4229 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4230 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4231 interference. 4232 4233 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4234 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4235 4236 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4237 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4238 4239 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4240 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4241 4242 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4243 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 4244 of allocations and frees. 4245 4246 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4247 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4248 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4249 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4250 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4251 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4252 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4253 a single reader. 4254 4255 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 4256 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4257 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 4258 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4259 4260 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL] 4261 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4262 4263 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4264 Shut the system down after performance tests 4265 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4266 testing. 4267 4268 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 4269 Enable additional printk() statements. 4270 4271 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4272 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4273 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4274 no holdoff. 4275 4276 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4277 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4278 in microseconds. 4279 4280 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4281 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4282 in microseconds. 4283 4284 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4285 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4286 in seconds. 4287 4288 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4289 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4290 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4291 4292 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4293 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4294 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4295 4296 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4297 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4298 forward-progress tests. 4299 4300 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4301 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4302 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4303 testing. 4304 4305 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4306 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4307 primitives, if available. 4308 4309 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4310 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4311 4312 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4313 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4314 update-side primitives, if available. 4315 4316 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4317 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4318 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4319 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4320 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4321 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4322 they are all non-zero. 4323 4324 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 4325 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 4326 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 4327 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 4328 4329 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 4330 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 4331 This can of course result in splats, and is 4332 intended to test the ability of things like 4333 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 4334 such leaks. 4335 4336 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 4337 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 4338 4339 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 4340 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 4341 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 4342 test, hence the "fake". 4343 4344 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 4345 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 4346 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 4347 4348 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 4349 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 4350 callback-offload toggling attempts. 4351 4352 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 4353 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4354 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4355 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 4356 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4357 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4358 4359 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 4360 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 4361 4362 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4363 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 4364 4365 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4366 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 4367 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 4368 4369 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 4370 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 4371 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 4372 task-exit processing. 4373 4374 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 4375 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 4376 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 4377 is spawned. 4378 4379 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 4380 The delay, in seconds, between successive 4381 read-then-exit testing episodes. 4382 4383 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 4384 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 4385 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 4386 during the rcutorture test. 4387 4388 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4389 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 4390 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 4391 4392 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 4393 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 4394 warnings, zero to disable. 4395 4396 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 4397 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 4398 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition 4399 to any other stall-related activity. 4400 4401 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 4402 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 4403 4404 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 4405 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 4406 4407 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 4408 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 4409 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 4410 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 4411 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 4412 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 4413 4414 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 4415 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 4416 4417 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 4418 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 4419 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 4420 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 4421 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 4422 4423 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 4424 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 4425 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 4426 under test support RCU priority boosting. 4427 4428 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 4429 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 4430 4431 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 4432 Interval (s) between each boost test. 4433 4434 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 4435 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 4436 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 4437 4438 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 4439 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4440 4441 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 4442 Enable additional printk() statements. 4443 4444 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 4445 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 4446 stall warning. 4447 4448 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 4449 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4450 4451 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 4452 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 4453 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 4454 during early boot, that is, during the time 4455 before the init task is spawned. 4456 4457 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4458 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4459 4460 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 4461 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 4462 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 4463 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 4464 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 4465 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 4466 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4467 4468 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 4469 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 4470 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 4471 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 4472 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 4473 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 4474 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 4475 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 4476 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4477 4478 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 4479 Once boot has completed (that is, after 4480 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 4481 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 4482 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4483 4484 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 4485 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 4486 it to the value one, that is, converting any 4487 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 4488 period to instead use normal non-expedited 4489 grace-period processing. 4490 4491 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 4492 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 4493 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 4494 of a given grace period. Setting a large 4495 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 4496 but lengthens grace periods. 4497 4498 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4499 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 4500 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 4501 to zero. 4502 4503 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 4504 Run the RCU early boot self tests 4505 4506 rdinit= [KNL] 4507 Format: <full_path> 4508 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 4509 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 4510 4511 rdrand= [X86] 4512 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 4513 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 4514 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 4515 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 4516 path). 4517 4518 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 4519 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 4520 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 4521 mba. 4522 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 4523 rdt=cmt,!mba 4524 4525 reboot= [KNL] 4526 Format (x86 or x86_64): 4527 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ 4528 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 4529 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 4530 [[,]f[orce] 4531 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 4532 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 4533 reboot only), 4534 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 4535 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 4536 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 4537 to be used for rebooting. 4538 4539 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4540 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4541 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4542 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4543 interference. 4544 4545 refscale.loops= [KNL] 4546 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 4547 primitive under test. Increasing this number 4548 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 4549 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 4550 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 4551 x86 laptops. 4552 4553 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4554 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 4555 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 4556 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 4557 4558 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 4559 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 4560 the console log. 4561 4562 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 4563 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 4564 measured in microseconds. 4565 4566 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 4567 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 4568 4569 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4570 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 4571 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 4572 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 4573 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 4574 4575 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 4576 Enable additional printk() statements. 4577 4578 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 4579 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 4580 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 4581 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 4582 specified. 4583 4584 relax_domain_level= 4585 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 4586 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 4587 4588 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 4589 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 4590 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 4591 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 4592 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 4593 4594 reservetop= [X86-32] 4595 Format: nn[KMG] 4596 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 4597 address space. 4598 4599 reservelow= [X86] 4600 Format: nn[K] 4601 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at 4602 the bottom of the address space. 4603 4604 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 4605 during initialization. 4606 4607 resume= [SWSUSP] 4608 Specify the partition device for software suspend 4609 Format: 4610 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 4611 4612 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 4613 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 4614 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 4615 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 4616 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 4617 4618 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4619 read the resume files 4620 4621 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 4622 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4623 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4624 4625 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 4626 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 4627 present during boot. 4628 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 4629 no Disable hibernation and resume. 4630 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 4631 (that will set all pages holding image data 4632 during restoration read-only). 4633 4634 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 4635 4636 rfkill.default_state= 4637 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 4638 etc. communication is blocked by default. 4639 1 Unblocked. 4640 4641 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 4642 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 4643 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4644 blocked and the previous configuration. 4645 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4646 blocked and everything unblocked. 4647 4648 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4649 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 4650 4651 ring3mwait=disable 4652 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 4653 CPUs. 4654 4655 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 4656 4657 rodata= [KNL] 4658 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 4659 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 4660 4661 rockchip.usb_uart 4662 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 4663 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 4664 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 4665 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 4666 4667 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 4668 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 4669 4670 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4671 mount the root filesystem 4672 4673 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 4674 4675 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 4676 4677 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 4678 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4679 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4680 4681 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 4682 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 4683 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 4684 managed by CMA. 4685 4686 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 4687 4688 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 4689 4690 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 4691 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 4692 strict 4693 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 4694 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 4695 which is faster. 4696 4697 sa1100ir [NET] 4698 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 4699 4700 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter 4701 4702 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 4703 4704 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 4705 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 4706 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 4707 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 4708 4709 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 4710 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 4711 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 4712 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 4713 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 4714 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 4715 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 4716 value. 4717 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 4718 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 4719 1 64 ms 4720 2 128 ms 4721 and so on. 4722 Format: integer between 0 and 10 4723 Default is 0. 4724 4725 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 4726 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 4727 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 4728 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 4729 tests. 4730 4731 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 4732 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 4733 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 4734 default) disables this feature. Please note 4735 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 4736 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 4737 softlockup complaints, and so on. 4738 4739 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 4740 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 4741 smp_call_function() family of functions. 4742 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 4743 equal to the number of CPUs. 4744 4745 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4746 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 4747 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 4748 4749 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4750 Number seconds to wait between successive 4751 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 4752 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 4753 4754 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4755 The number of seconds following the start of the 4756 test after which to shut down the system. The 4757 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 4758 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 4759 4760 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 4761 The number of seconds between outputting the 4762 current test statistics to the console. A value 4763 of zero disables statistics output. 4764 4765 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 4766 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 4767 to the set of CPUs under test. 4768 4769 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 4770 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 4771 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 4772 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 4773 functions. 4774 4775 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 4776 Enable additional printk() statements. 4777 4778 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 4779 The probability weighting to use for the 4780 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 4781 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 4782 default if all other weights are -1. However, 4783 if at least one weight has some other value, a 4784 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 4785 4786 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 4787 The probability weighting to use for the 4788 smp_call_function_single() function with a 4789 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 4790 4791 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 4792 The probability weighting to use for the 4793 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 4794 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 4795 Note well that setting a high probability for 4796 this weighting can place serious IPI load 4797 on the system. 4798 4799 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 4800 The probability weighting to use for the 4801 smp_call_function_many() function with a 4802 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 4803 and weight_many. 4804 4805 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 4806 The probability weighting to use for the 4807 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 4808 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 4809 weight_many. 4810 4811 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 4812 The probability weighting to use for the 4813 smp_call_function_all() function with a 4814 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 4815 and weight_many. 4816 4817 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 4818 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 4819 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 4820 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4821 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 4822 1 -- enable. 4823 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 4824 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 4825 4826 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 4827 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 4828 "lsm=" parameter. 4829 4830 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 4831 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4832 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 4833 0 -- disable. 4834 1 -- enable. 4835 Default value is 1. 4836 4837 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 4838 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4839 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 4840 0 -- disable. 4841 1 -- enable. 4842 Default value is set via kernel config option. 4843 4844 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 4845 4846 shapers= [NET] 4847 Maximal number of shapers. 4848 4849 simeth= [IA-64] 4850 simscsi= 4851 4852 slram= [HW,MTD] 4853 4854 slab_nomerge [MM] 4855 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 4856 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 4857 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 4858 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 4859 layout control by attackers can usually be 4860 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 4861 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 4862 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 4863 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 4864 own. 4865 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4866 4867 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 4868 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4869 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4870 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 4871 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 4872 4873 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 4874 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 4875 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 4876 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 4877 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 4878 last alloc / free. For more information see 4879 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4880 4881 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB] 4882 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for 4883 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable. 4884 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON. 4885 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug 4886 directories and files being created under 4887 /sys/kernel/slub. 4888 4889 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 4890 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4891 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4892 fragmentation. For more information see 4893 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4894 4895 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 4896 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 4897 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 4898 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 4899 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 4900 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 4901 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 4902 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4903 4904 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 4905 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 4906 lower than slub_max_order. 4907 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4908 4909 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 4910 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 4911 See slab_nomerge for more information. 4912 4913 smart2= [HW] 4914 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 4915 4916 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 4917 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 4918 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 4919 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 4920 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 4921 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 4922 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 4923 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 4924 1: Fast pin select (default) 4925 2: ATC IRMode 4926 4927 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 4928 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 4929 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 4930 actual hardware limit. 4931 Format: <integer> 4932 Default: -1 (no limit) 4933 4934 softlockup_panic= 4935 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 4936 Format: 0 | 1 4937 4938 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 4939 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 4940 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 4941 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 4942 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 4943 4944 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 4945 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 4946 backtraces on all cpus. 4947 Format: 0 | 1 4948 4949 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 4950 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 4951 4952 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 4953 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 4954 The default operation protects the kernel from 4955 user space attacks. 4956 4957 on - unconditionally enable, implies 4958 spectre_v2_user=on 4959 off - unconditionally disable, implies 4960 spectre_v2_user=off 4961 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4962 vulnerable 4963 4964 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 4965 mitigation method at run time according to the 4966 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 4967 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 4968 compiler with which the kernel was built. 4969 4970 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 4971 against user space to user space task attacks. 4972 4973 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 4974 the user space protections. 4975 4976 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 4977 4978 retpoline - replace indirect branches 4979 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline 4980 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk 4981 4982 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4983 spectre_v2=auto. 4984 4985 spectre_v2_user= 4986 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 4987 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 4988 user space tasks 4989 4990 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 4991 enforced by spectre_v2=on 4992 4993 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 4994 enforced by spectre_v2=off 4995 4996 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 4997 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 4998 per thread. The mitigation control state 4999 is inherited on fork. 5000 5001 prctl,ibpb 5002 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 5003 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5004 always when switching between different user 5005 space processes. 5006 5007 seccomp 5008 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 5009 threads will enable the mitigation unless 5010 they explicitly opt out. 5011 5012 seccomp,ibpb 5013 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 5014 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5015 always when switching between different 5016 user space processes. 5017 5018 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 5019 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 5020 5021 Default mitigation: 5022 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 5023 5024 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5025 spectre_v2_user=auto. 5026 5027 spec_store_bypass_disable= 5028 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 5029 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 5030 5031 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 5032 a common industry wide performance optimization known 5033 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 5034 to the same memory location may not be observed by 5035 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 5036 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 5037 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 5038 end of a particular speculation execution window. 5039 5040 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5041 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 5042 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 5043 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 5044 5045 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 5046 Bypass optimization is used. 5047 5048 On x86 the options are: 5049 5050 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 5051 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 5052 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 5053 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 5054 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 5055 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 5056 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 5057 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 5058 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 5059 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 5060 for a process by default. The state of the control 5061 is inherited on fork. 5062 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 5063 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 5064 5065 Default mitigations: 5066 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 5067 5068 On powerpc the options are: 5069 5070 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 5071 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 5072 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 5073 exit. 5074 off - No action. 5075 5076 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5077 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 5078 5079 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 5080 spia_fio_base= 5081 spia_pedr= 5082 spia_peddr= 5083 5084 split_lock_detect= 5085 [X86] Enable split lock detection 5086 5087 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 5088 instructions that access data across cache line 5089 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception. 5090 5091 off - not enabled 5092 5093 warn - the kernel will emit rate limited warnings 5094 about applications triggering the #AC 5095 exception. This mode is the default on CPUs 5096 that supports split lock detection. 5097 5098 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 5099 that trigger the #AC exception. 5100 5101 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 5102 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 5103 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 5104 mode. 5105 5106 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 5107 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 5108 (SRBDS) mitigation. 5109 5110 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 5111 exploit which can leak bits from the random 5112 number generator. 5113 5114 By default, this issue is mitigated by 5115 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 5116 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 5117 much slower. Among other effects, this will 5118 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 5119 5120 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 5121 the following option: 5122 5123 off: Disable mitigation and remove 5124 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 5125 5126 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 5127 Specifies how frequently to check for 5128 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 5129 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 5130 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 5131 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 5132 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 5133 are ignored. 5134 5135 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 5136 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 5137 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 5138 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 5139 grace period will be considered for automatic 5140 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 5141 expediting. 5142 5143 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 5144 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 5145 5146 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 5147 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 5148 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 5149 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 5150 5151 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 5152 for both kernel and userspace 5153 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 5154 for both kernel and userspace 5155 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 5156 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 5157 to allow userspace to register its 5158 interest in being mitigated too. 5159 5160 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 5161 override the default stack gap protection. The value 5162 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 5163 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 5164 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 5165 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 5166 5167 stacktrace [FTRACE] 5168 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 5169 5170 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 5171 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 5172 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 5173 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 5174 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 5175 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 5176 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 5177 5178 sti= [PARISC,HW] 5179 Format: <num> 5180 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 5181 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 5182 as the initial boot-console. 5183 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5184 5185 sti_font= [HW] 5186 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5187 5188 stifb= [HW] 5189 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 5190 5191 sunrpc.min_resvport= 5192 sunrpc.max_resvport= 5193 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5194 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 5195 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 5196 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 5197 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 5198 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 5199 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 5200 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 5201 maximum port values. 5202 5203 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 5204 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5205 Limit the number of requests that the server will 5206 process in parallel from a single connection. 5207 The default value is 0 (no limit). 5208 5209 sunrpc.pool_mode= 5210 [NFS] 5211 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 5212 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 5213 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 5214 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 5215 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 5216 NFS server is running. 5217 5218 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 5219 automatically using heuristics 5220 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 5221 percpu one pool for each CPU 5222 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 5223 to global on non-NUMA machines) 5224 5225 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 5226 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 5227 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5228 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 5229 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 5230 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 5231 improve throughput, but will also increase the 5232 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 5233 5234 suspend.pm_test_delay= 5235 [SUSPEND] 5236 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 5237 mode before resuming the system (see 5238 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 5239 is set. Default value is 5. 5240 5241 svm= [PPC] 5242 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 5243 This parameter controls use of the Protected 5244 Execution Facility on pSeries. 5245 5246 swapaccount=[0|1] 5247 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 5248 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 5249 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) 5250 5251 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 5252 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 5253 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 5254 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 5255 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 5256 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 5257 5258 switches= [HW,M68k] 5259 5260 sysctl.*= [KNL] 5261 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 5262 process, as if the value was written to the respective 5263 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 5264 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 5265 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 5266 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 5267 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 5268 5269 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 5270 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 5271 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 5272 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 5273 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 5274 in older udev will not work anymore. 5275 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 5276 the kernel configuration. 5277 5278 sysrq_always_enabled 5279 [KNL] 5280 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 5281 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 5282 Useful for debugging. 5283 5284 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5285 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 5286 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 5287 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 5288 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 5289 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 5290 5291 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 5292 5293 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 5294 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 5295 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 5296 as the system sleep state during system startup with 5297 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 5298 The system is woken from this state using a 5299 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 5300 5301 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5302 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 5303 5304 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 5305 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 5306 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 5307 5308 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 5309 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 5310 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 5311 5312 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 5313 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 5314 critical and hot trip points. 5315 5316 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 5317 1: disable ACPI thermal control 5318 5319 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 5320 -1: disable all passive trip points 5321 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 5322 value 5323 5324 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 5325 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 5326 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 5327 0: no polling (default) 5328 5329 threadirqs [KNL] 5330 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 5331 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 5332 5333 topology= [S390] 5334 Format: {off | on} 5335 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 5336 topology information if the hardware supports this. 5337 The scheduler will make use of this information and 5338 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 5339 Default is on. 5340 5341 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 5342 Format: {off} 5343 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 5344 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 5345 LPAR. 5346 5347 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 5348 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 5349 until after init has spawned. 5350 5351 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 5352 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 5353 even if there were no errors. This can be a 5354 very costly operation when many torture tests 5355 are running concurrently, especially on systems 5356 with rotating-rust storage. 5357 5358 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 5359 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 5360 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 5361 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 5362 5363 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 5364 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 5365 5366 tp720= [HW,PS2] 5367 5368 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 5369 Format: integer pcr id 5370 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 5371 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 5372 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 5373 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 5374 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 5375 are saved. 5376 5377 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 5378 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 5379 5380 trace_event=[event-list] 5381 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 5382 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 5383 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 5384 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 5385 5386 trace_options=[option-list] 5387 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 5388 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 5389 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 5390 to echo the option name into 5391 5392 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 5393 5394 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 5395 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 5396 5397 trace_options=stacktrace 5398 5399 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 5400 section. 5401 5402 tp_printk[FTRACE] 5403 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 5404 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 5405 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 5406 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 5407 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 5408 5409 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 5410 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 5411 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 5412 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 5413 5414 ** CAUTION ** 5415 5416 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 5417 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 5418 the system to live lock. 5419 5420 traceoff_on_warning 5421 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 5422 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 5423 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 5424 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 5425 5426 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 5427 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 5428 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 5429 5430 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 5431 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 5432 5433 transparent_hugepage= 5434 [KNL] 5435 Format: [always|madvise|never] 5436 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 5437 with respect to transparent hugepages. 5438 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 5439 for more details. 5440 5441 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 5442 Format: <string> 5443 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 5444 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 5445 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 5446 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 5447 virtualized environment. 5448 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 5449 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 5450 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 5451 can add overhead. 5452 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 5453 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 5454 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 5455 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 5456 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 5457 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 5458 acceptable). 5459 5460 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 5461 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 5462 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 5463 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 5464 Format: <unsigned int> 5465 5466 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 5467 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 5468 support TSX control. 5469 5470 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 5471 5472 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 5473 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 5474 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 5475 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 5476 so there may be unknown security risks associated 5477 with leaving it enabled. 5478 5479 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 5480 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 5481 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 5482 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 5483 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 5484 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 5485 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 5486 5487 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 5488 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 5489 5490 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 5491 5492 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 5493 for more details. 5494 5495 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 5496 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 5497 5498 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 5499 certain CPUs that support Transactional 5500 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 5501 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 5502 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 5503 conditions. 5504 5505 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5506 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 5507 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 5508 access. 5509 5510 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 5511 options are: 5512 5513 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 5514 if TSX is enabled. 5515 5516 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 5517 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 5518 is not disabled because CPU is not 5519 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 5520 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 5521 5522 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 5523 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 5524 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 5525 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 5526 5527 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5528 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 5529 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 5530 required and doesn't provide any additional 5531 mitigation. 5532 5533 For details see: 5534 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 5535 5536 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 5537 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 5538 Format: 5539 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 5540 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 5541 5542 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 5543 happen after console_init() and before a proper 5544 console driver takes over, this boot options might 5545 help "seeing" what's going on. 5546 5547 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5548 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 5549 5550 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 5551 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 5552 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 5553 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 5554 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 5555 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 5556 reported either. 5557 5558 unknown_nmi_panic 5559 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 5560 5561 usbcore.authorized_default= 5562 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 5563 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 5564 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 5565 if device connected to internal port) 5566 5567 usbcore.autosuspend= 5568 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 5569 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 5570 is the time required before an idle device will be 5571 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 5572 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 5573 5574 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 5575 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 5576 5577 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 5578 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 5579 (default = 65536). 5580 5581 usbcore.blinkenlights= 5582 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 5583 5584 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 5585 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 5586 scheme (default 0 = off). 5587 5588 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 5589 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 5590 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 5591 5592 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 5593 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 5594 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 5595 5596 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 5597 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 5598 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 5599 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 5600 5601 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 5602 5603 usbcore.quirks= 5604 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 5605 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 5606 commas. Each entry has the form 5607 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 5608 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 5609 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 5610 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 5611 the following meanings: 5612 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 5613 descriptors must not be fetched using 5614 a 255-byte read); 5615 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 5616 correctly so reset it instead); 5617 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 5618 Set-Interface requests); 5619 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 5620 handle its Configuration or Interface 5621 strings); 5622 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 5623 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 5624 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 5625 more interface descriptions than the 5626 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 5627 talking to these interfaces); 5628 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 5629 during initialization, after we read 5630 the device descriptor); 5631 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 5632 high speed and super speed interrupt 5633 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 5634 require the interval in microframes (1 5635 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 5636 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 5637 (bInterval-1). 5638 Devices with this quirk report their 5639 bInterval as the result of this 5640 calculation instead of the exponent 5641 variable used in the calculation); 5642 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 5643 handle device_qualifier descriptor 5644 requests); 5645 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 5646 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 5647 remote wakeup capability); 5648 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 5649 Power Management); 5650 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 5651 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 5652 frames instead of the USB 2.0 5653 calculation); 5654 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 5655 to be disconnected before suspend to 5656 prevent spurious wakeup); 5657 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 5658 pause after every control message); 5659 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 5660 delay after resetting its port); 5661 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 5662 5663 usbhid.mousepoll= 5664 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 5665 5666 usbhid.jspoll= 5667 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 5668 5669 usbhid.kbpoll= 5670 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 5671 5672 usb-storage.delay_use= 5673 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 5674 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 5675 5676 usb-storage.quirks= 5677 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 5678 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 5679 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 5680 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 5681 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 5682 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 5683 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 5684 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 5685 of sense data, not on uas); 5686 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 5687 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 5688 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 5689 device capacity by one sector); 5690 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 5691 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 5692 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 5693 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 5694 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 5695 command, uas only); 5696 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 5697 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 5698 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 5699 reported device capacity by one 5700 sector if the number is odd); 5701 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 5702 device); 5703 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 5704 command, uas only); 5705 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 5706 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 5707 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 5708 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 5709 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 5710 not on uas); 5711 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 5712 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 5713 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 5714 reported by the device, not on uas); 5715 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 5716 by default, not on uas); 5717 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 5718 bogus residue values, not on uas); 5719 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 5720 Logical Unit); 5721 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 5722 commands, uas only); 5723 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 5724 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 5725 medium is write-protected). 5726 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 5727 even if the device claims no cache, 5728 not on uas) 5729 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 5730 5731 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 5732 Format: <int> 5733 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 5734 1 - undefined instruction events 5735 2 - system calls 5736 4 - invalid data aborts 5737 8 - SIGSEGV faults 5738 16 - SIGBUS faults 5739 Example: user_debug=31 5740 5741 userpte= 5742 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 5743 5744 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 5745 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 5746 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 5747 5748 vdso= [X86,SH] 5749 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 5750 5751 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 5752 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 5753 5754 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 5755 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 5756 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 5757 5758 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 5759 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 5760 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 5761 5762 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 5763 alias for vdso32=0. 5764 5765 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 5766 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 5767 5768 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 5769 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 5770 5771 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 5772 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 5773 5774 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 5775 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 5776 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 5777 level and then send out the event to user space through 5778 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 5779 will only send out the event without touching backlight 5780 brightness level. 5781 default: 1 5782 5783 virtio_mmio.device= 5784 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 5785 5786 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 5787 where: 5788 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 5789 like K, M and G) 5790 <baseaddr> := physical base address 5791 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 5792 request_irq()) 5793 <id> := (optional) platform device id 5794 example: 5795 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 5796 5797 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 5798 5799 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 5800 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 5801 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 5802 Use vga=ask for menu. 5803 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 5804 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 5805 5806 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 5807 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 5808 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 5809 All options are enabled by default, and this 5810 interface is meant to allow for selectively 5811 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 5812 debugging features. 5813 5814 Available options are: 5815 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 5816 - Disable all of the above options 5817 5818 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 5819 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 5820 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 5821 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 5822 mapped kernel RAM. 5823 5824 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 5825 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 5826 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 5827 5828 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 5829 Format: <command> 5830 5831 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 5832 Format: <command> 5833 5834 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 5835 Format: <command> 5836 5837 vsyscall= [X86-64] 5838 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 5839 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 5840 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 5841 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 5842 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 5843 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 5844 5845 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 5846 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 5847 page is readable. 5848 5849 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 5850 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 5851 page is not readable. 5852 5853 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 5854 them quite hard to use for exploits but 5855 might break your system. 5856 5857 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 5858 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 5859 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 5860 5861 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 5862 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 5863 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 5864 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 5865 5866 vt.default_blu= [VT] 5867 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 5868 Change the default blue palette of the console. 5869 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5870 ranging from 0-255. 5871 5872 vt.default_grn= [VT] 5873 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 5874 Change the default green palette of the console. 5875 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5876 ranging from 0-255. 5877 5878 vt.default_red= [VT] 5879 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 5880 Change the default red palette of the console. 5881 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5882 ranging from 0-255. 5883 5884 vt.default_utf8= 5885 [VT] 5886 Format=<0|1> 5887 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 5888 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 5889 newly opened terminals. 5890 5891 vt.global_cursor_default= 5892 [VT] 5893 Format=<-1|0|1> 5894 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 5895 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 5896 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 5897 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 5898 cursors, 1 will display them. 5899 5900 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 5901 Default: 2 = green. 5902 5903 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 5904 Default: 3 = cyan. 5905 5906 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 5907 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 5908 or other driver-specific files in the 5909 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 5910 5911 watchdog_thresh= 5912 [KNL] 5913 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 5914 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 5915 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 5916 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 5917 seconds. 5918 5919 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 5920 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 5921 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 5922 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 5923 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 5924 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 5925 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 5926 corresponding sysfs file. 5927 5928 workqueue.disable_numa 5929 By default, all work items queued to unbound 5930 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 5931 issued on, which results in better behavior in 5932 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 5933 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 5934 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 5935 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 5936 5937 workqueue.power_efficient 5938 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 5939 they show better performance thanks to cache 5940 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 5941 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 5942 5943 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 5944 were observed to contribute significantly to power 5945 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 5946 power usage at the cost of small performance 5947 overhead. 5948 5949 The default value of this parameter is determined by 5950 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 5951 5952 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 5953 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 5954 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 5955 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 5956 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 5957 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 5958 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 5959 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 5960 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 5961 impacted. 5962 5963 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 5964 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 5965 supporting x2apic. 5966 5967 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT] 5968 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform. 5969 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer 5970 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer. 5971 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt 5972 5973 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 5974 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 5975 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 5976 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 5977 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 5978 domains. 5979 5980 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 5981 Unplug Xen emulated devices 5982 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 5983 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 5984 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 5985 nics -- unplug network devices 5986 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 5987 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 5988 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 5989 the unplug protocol 5990 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 5991 5992 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 5993 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 5994 panic() code such as dumping handler. 5995 5996 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 5997 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 5998 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 5999 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6000 6001 xen_nopv [X86] 6002 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 6003 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 6004 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 6005 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6006 6007 xen_no_vector_callback 6008 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 6009 event channel interrupts. 6010 6011 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 6012 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 6013 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 6014 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 6015 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 6016 6017 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 6018 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 6019 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 6020 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 6021 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 6022 more timer interrupts. 6023 6024 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 6025 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 6026 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 6027 6028 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 6029 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 6030 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 6031 6032 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 6033 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 6034 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 6035 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 6036 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 6037 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 6038 6039 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 6040 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 6041 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 6042 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 6043 6044 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 6045 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 6046 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 6047 contention. 6048 6049 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 6050 Format: 6051 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 6052 6053 xive= [PPC] 6054 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 6055 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 6056 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 6057 6058 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 6059 controller on both pseries and powernv 6060 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 6061 6062 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 6063 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 6064 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 6065 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 6066 6067 xmon [PPC] 6068 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 6069 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 6070 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 6071 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 6072 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 6073 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6074 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 6075 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 6076 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 6077 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6078 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 6079 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 6080 can be written using xmon commands. 6081 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 6082 memory, and other data can't be written using 6083 xmon commands. 6084 off xmon is disabled. 6085