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_EVENTS 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 AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list> 117 118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 122 auto-serialization feature. 123 This feature is enabled by default. 124 This option allows to turn off the feature. 125 126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 127 kernels. 128 129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 132 installed automatically and they will appear under 133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 134 This option turns off this feature. 135 Note that specifying this option does not affect 136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 138 139 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 140 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 141 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 142 143 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 144 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 145 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 146 second kernel for kdump. 147 148 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 149 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 150 151 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 152 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 153 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 154 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 155 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 156 157 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 158 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 159 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 160 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 161 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 162 strings 163 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 164 strings 165 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 166 167 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 168 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 169 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 170 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 171 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 172 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 173 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 174 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 175 care about the state of the feature group strings which 176 should be controlled by the OSPM. 177 Examples: 178 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 179 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 180 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 181 182 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 183 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 184 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 185 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 186 multiple times through kernel command line is also 187 meaningless. 188 Examples: 189 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 190 FALSE. 191 192 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 193 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 194 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 195 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 196 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 197 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 198 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 199 there are quirks related to this string. This command 200 is useful when one want to control the state of the 201 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 202 the OSPM features. 203 Examples: 204 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 205 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 206 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 207 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 208 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 209 equivalent to 210 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 211 and 212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 213 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 214 215 acpi_pm_good [X86] 216 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 217 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 218 and always returns good values. 219 220 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 221 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 222 223 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 224 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 225 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 226 227 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 228 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig, 229 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs, 230 sci_force_enable, nobl } 231 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 232 s3_bios and s3_mode. 233 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 234 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 235 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware 236 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully 237 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with 238 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since 239 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it 240 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume 241 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the 242 s4_hwsig option is enabled. 243 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 244 used (or even warned about) during resume. 245 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 246 control method, with respect to putting devices into 247 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 248 of _PTS is used by default). 249 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 250 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 251 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 252 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 253 but some broken systems don't work without it). 254 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 255 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 256 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 257 258 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 259 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 260 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 261 262 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 263 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 264 265 agp= [AGP] 266 { off | try_unsupported } 267 off: disable AGP support 268 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 269 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 270 271 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 272 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 273 274 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 275 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 276 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 277 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 278 279 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 280 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 281 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 282 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 283 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 284 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 285 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 286 287 32: only for 32-bit processes 288 64: only for 64-bit processes 289 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 290 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 291 292 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 293 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 294 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 295 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 296 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 297 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 298 299 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64] 300 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the 301 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict 302 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this 303 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit 304 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0 305 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted. 306 307 See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more 308 information. 309 310 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 311 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 312 Possible values are: 313 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1 314 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 315 the system 316 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 317 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 318 allowed anymore to lift isolation 319 requirements as needed. This option 320 does not override iommu=pt 321 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known 322 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this 323 option with care. 324 325 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 326 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 327 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 328 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 329 IOMMU initialization. 330 331 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 332 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 333 remapping modes: 334 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 335 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 336 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 337 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 338 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 339 340 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 341 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 342 Format: <a>,<b> 343 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 344 345 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 346 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 347 connected to one of 16 gameports 348 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 349 350 apc= [HW,SPARC] 351 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 352 Format: noidle 353 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 354 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 355 APC and your system crashes randomly. 356 357 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 358 Change the output verbosity while booting 359 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 360 Change the amount of debugging information output 361 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 362 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 363 driver name. 364 Format: apic=driver_name 365 Examples: apic=bigsmp 366 367 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 368 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 369 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 370 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 371 backup of CPU 0 372 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 373 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 374 shot down by NMI 375 376 autoconf= [IPV6] 377 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 378 379 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 380 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 381 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 382 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 383 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 384 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 385 apic=verbose is specified. 386 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 387 388 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 389 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 390 391 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 392 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 393 394 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 395 Identification support 396 397 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 398 support 399 400 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 401 support 402 403 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 404 405 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 406 407 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 408 EzKey and similar keyboards 409 410 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 411 412 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 413 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 414 415 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 416 keyboards 417 418 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 419 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 420 421 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 422 Use software keyboard repeat 423 424 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 425 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 426 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 427 enabled until the next reboot 428 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 429 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 430 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 431 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 432 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 433 userspace auditd. 434 Default: unset 435 436 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 437 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 438 Default: 64 439 440 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 441 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 442 Format: { "0" | "1" } 443 0 - Disable the BAU. 444 1 - Enable the BAU. 445 unset - Disable the BAU. 446 447 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 448 Format: <io>,<mode> 449 450 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 451 Format: <io>,<mode> 452 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 453 454 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 455 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 456 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 457 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 458 459 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 460 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 461 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 462 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 463 464 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 465 embedded devices based on command line input. 466 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 467 468 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 469 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 470 no delay (0). 471 Format: integer 472 473 bootconfig [KNL] 474 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 475 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 476 477 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 478 479 bert_disable [ACPI] 480 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 481 482 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] 483 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 484 485 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 486 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 487 kernel args too. 488 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 489 bttv.tuner= 490 491 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 492 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 493 at a time. 494 495 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 496 497 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 498 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 499 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 500 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 501 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 502 This option provides an override for these situations. 503 504 carrier_timeout= 505 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 506 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 507 it waits 120 seconds. 508 509 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 510 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 511 trust validation. 512 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 513 514 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 515 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 516 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 517 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 518 others). 519 520 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 521 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 522 523 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 524 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 525 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 526 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 527 a single hierarchy 528 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 529 subsystem 530 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 531 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 532 created 533 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 534 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 535 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 536 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 537 stall information accounting feature 538 539 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 540 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 541 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 542 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 543 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 544 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 545 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 546 all v1 hierarchies. 547 548 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 549 Format: <string> 550 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 551 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 552 553 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 554 Format: { "0" | "1" } 555 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 556 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 557 any implied execute protection). 558 1 -- check protection requested by application. 559 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 560 Value can be changed at runtime via 561 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 562 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 563 564 cio_ignore= [S390] 565 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 566 clk_ignore_unused 567 [CLK] 568 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 569 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 570 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 571 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 572 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 573 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 574 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 575 platform with proper driver support. For more 576 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 577 578 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 579 [Deprecated] 580 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 581 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 582 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 583 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 584 585 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 586 Format: <string> 587 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 588 with the name specified. 589 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 590 the platform: 591 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 592 [ACPI] acpi_pm 593 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 594 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 595 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 596 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 597 [MIPS] MIPS 598 [PARISC] cr16 599 [S390] tod 600 [SH] SuperH 601 [SPARC64] tick 602 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 603 604 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 605 [ARM,ARM64] 606 Format: <bool> 607 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 608 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 609 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 610 systems. 611 612 clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL] 613 Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to 614 external delays before the clock will be marked 615 unstable. Defaults to two retries, that is, 616 three attempts to read the clock under test. 617 618 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 619 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 620 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 621 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 622 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 623 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 624 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 625 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 626 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 627 628 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 629 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 630 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 631 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 632 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 633 634 clearcpuid=BITNUM[,BITNUM...] [X86] 635 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 636 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 637 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily 638 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific 639 ones should be. 640 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 641 or using the feature without checking anything 642 will still see it. This just prevents it from 643 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 644 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 645 some critical bits. 646 647 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 648 [KNL,CMA] 649 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 650 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 651 placement constraint by the physical address range of 652 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 653 altogether. For more information, see 654 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 655 656 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 657 [ARM64,KNL,CMA] 658 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 659 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 660 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 661 specificed, the default value is 0. 662 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 663 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 664 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 665 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 666 667 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 668 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 669 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 670 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 671 a hypervisor. 672 Default: yes 673 674 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 675 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 676 allocations, by default set to 256K. 677 678 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 679 Format: 680 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 681 682 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 683 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 684 685 com90xx= [HW,NET] 686 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 687 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 688 689 condev= [HW,S390] console device 690 conmode= 691 692 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 693 694 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 695 696 ttyS<n>[,options] 697 ttyUSB0[,options] 698 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 699 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 700 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 701 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 702 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 703 704 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 705 information. See 706 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 707 alternative. 708 709 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 710 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 711 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 712 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 713 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 714 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 715 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 716 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 717 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 718 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 719 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 720 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 721 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 722 the h/w is not re-initialized. 723 724 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 725 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 726 727 { null | "" } 728 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 729 console messages discarded. 730 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 731 kernel command line. 732 733 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 734 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 735 console=brl,ttyS0 736 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 737 738 console_msg_format= 739 [KNL] Change console messages format 740 default 741 By default we print messages on consoles in 742 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 743 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 744 `printk_time' param). 745 syslog 746 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 747 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 748 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 749 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 750 from /proc/kmsg. 751 752 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 753 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 754 Defaults to 0. 755 756 coredump_filter= 757 [KNL] Change the default value for 758 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 759 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 760 761 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 762 [ARM,ARM64] 763 Format: <bool> 764 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 765 0: default value, disable debugging 766 1: enable debugging at boot time 767 768 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 769 disable the cpuidle sub-system 770 771 cpuidle.governor= 772 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 773 774 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 775 disable the cpufreq sub-system 776 777 cpufreq.default_governor= 778 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 779 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 780 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 781 782 cpu_init_udelay=N 783 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 784 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 785 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 786 Default: 10000 787 788 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 789 Format: 790 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 791 792 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 793 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 794 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 795 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 796 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 797 is selected automatically. 798 [KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and 799 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 800 hasn't been specified. 801 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 802 803 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 804 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 805 in the running system. The syntax of range is 806 start-[end] where start and end are both 807 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 808 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 809 810 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 811 [KNL, X86-64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 812 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 813 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 814 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 815 available. 816 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 817 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 818 [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 819 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 820 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 821 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 822 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 823 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 824 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at 825 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 826 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G 827 for second kernel instead. 828 0: to disable low allocation. 829 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 830 or memory reserved is below 4G. 831 832 cryptomgr.notests 833 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 834 835 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 836 Format: <dma> 837 838 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 839 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 840 841 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call 842 handling. When switched on, additional debug data is 843 printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is 844 detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try 845 to resolve the hang situation. 846 0: disable csdlock debugging (default) 847 1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact) 848 ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact, 849 but more data) 850 851 dasd= [HW,NET] 852 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 853 854 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 855 (one device per port) 856 Format: <port#>,<type> 857 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 858 859 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 860 861 debug_boot_weak_hash 862 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 863 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 864 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 865 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 866 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 867 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 868 869 debug_locks_verbose= 870 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 871 Format: <int> 872 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 873 self-tests. 874 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 875 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 876 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 877 useful to lockdep developers. 878 879 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 880 881 no_debug_objects 882 [KNL] Disable object debugging 883 884 debug_guardpage_minorder= 885 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 886 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 887 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 888 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 889 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 890 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 891 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 892 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 893 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 894 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 895 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 896 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 897 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 898 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 899 bypassed) which are not detectable by 900 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 901 tracking down these problems. 902 903 debug_pagealloc= 904 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 905 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 906 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 907 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 908 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 909 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 910 on: enable the feature 911 912 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 913 and debugfs internal clients. 914 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 915 on: All functions are enabled. 916 no-mount: 917 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 918 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 919 its content. There is nothing to mount. 920 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 921 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 922 or directories within debugfs. 923 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 924 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 925 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 926 927 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 928 929 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 930 Format: <area>[,<node>] 931 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst. 932 933 default_hugepagesz= 934 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 935 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 936 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 937 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 938 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 939 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 940 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 941 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 942 Format: size[KMG] 943 944 deferred_probe_timeout= 945 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 946 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 947 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 948 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0 949 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also 950 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 951 retrying. 952 953 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 954 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 955 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 956 hardware. 957 958 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 959 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 960 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 961 blacklisted features. 962 963 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 964 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 965 (disabled by default). 966 967 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 968 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 969 capability is set. 970 971 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 972 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 973 974 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 975 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 976 977 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 978 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 979 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 980 level 1 and decompression (default) 981 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 982 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 983 only (compression on level 1) 984 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 985 only (decompression) 986 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 987 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 988 989 dhash_entries= [KNL] 990 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 991 992 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 993 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 994 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 995 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 996 miss to occur. 997 998 stress_slb [PPC] 999 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 1000 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 1001 on kernel addresses. 1002 1003 disable= [IPV6] 1004 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1005 1006 hardened_usercopy= 1007 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1008 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1009 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1010 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1011 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1012 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1013 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1014 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 1015 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1016 1017 disable_radix [PPC] 1018 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1019 1020 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 1021 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 1022 invalidate. 1023 1024 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1025 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1026 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1027 1028 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 1029 Format: <int> 1030 The number of initial APIC ID for the 1031 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 1032 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 1033 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 1034 causing system reset or hang due to sending 1035 INIT from AP to BSP. 1036 1037 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 1038 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1039 to workaround buggy firmware. 1040 1041 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1042 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1043 1044 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1045 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1046 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1047 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1048 1049 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 1050 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1051 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1052 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1053 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1054 1055 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1056 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1057 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1058 1059 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1060 1061 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1062 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1063 1064 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1065 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1066 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1067 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1068 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1069 architectural default is too low. 1070 1071 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1072 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1073 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1074 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1075 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1076 driver later using sysfs. 1077 1078 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1079 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. 1080 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1081 1082 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1083 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1084 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1085 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1086 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1087 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 1088 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 1089 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 1090 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 1091 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 1092 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID 1093 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 1094 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 1095 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 1096 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1097 data set with no connector name will be used for 1098 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1099 1100 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1101 1102 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1103 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1104 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1105 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1106 exists). 1107 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1108 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1109 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1110 1111 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1112 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1113 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1114 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1115 1116 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1117 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1118 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1119 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1120 for details. 1121 1122 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 1123 in some Intel CPUs. 1124 1125 <module>.async_probe [KNL] 1126 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 1127 1128 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1129 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1130 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1131 which are not unmapped. 1132 1133 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1134 1135 When used with no options, the early console is 1136 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1137 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1138 the platform. 1139 1140 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1141 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1142 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1143 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1144 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1145 configured. 1146 1147 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 1148 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 1149 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 1150 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 1151 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1152 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1153 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1154 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1155 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1156 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1157 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1158 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1159 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 1160 1161 pl011,<addr> 1162 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1163 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1164 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1165 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1166 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1167 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1168 the device registers. 1169 1170 liteuart,<addr> 1171 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1172 specified address. The serial port must already be 1173 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1174 1175 meson,<addr> 1176 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1177 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1178 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1179 supported. 1180 1181 msm_serial,<addr> 1182 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1183 port at the specified address. The serial port 1184 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1185 yet supported. 1186 1187 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1188 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1189 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1190 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1191 yet supported. 1192 1193 owl,<addr> 1194 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1195 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1196 specified address. The serial port must already be 1197 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1198 1199 rda,<addr> 1200 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1201 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1202 specified address. The serial port must already be 1203 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1204 1205 sbi 1206 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1207 console. 1208 1209 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1210 1211 s3c2410,<addr> 1212 s3c2412,<addr> 1213 s3c2440,<addr> 1214 s3c6400,<addr> 1215 s5pv210,<addr> 1216 exynos4210,<addr> 1217 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1218 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1219 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1220 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1221 Options are not yet supported. 1222 1223 lantiq,<addr> 1224 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1225 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1226 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1227 yet supported. 1228 1229 lpuart,<addr> 1230 lpuart32,<addr> 1231 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1232 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1233 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1234 port must already be setup and configured. 1235 1236 ec_imx21,<addr> 1237 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1238 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1239 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1240 must already be setup and configured. 1241 1242 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1243 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1244 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1245 address. The serial port must already be setup 1246 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1247 1248 qcom_geni,<addr> 1249 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1250 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1251 specified address. The serial port must already be 1252 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1253 1254 efifb,[options] 1255 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1256 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1257 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1258 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1259 mapped with the correct attributes. 1260 1261 linflex,<addr> 1262 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1263 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1264 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1265 already be setup and configured. 1266 1267 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1268 earlyprintk=vga 1269 earlyprintk=sclp 1270 earlyprintk=xen 1271 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1272 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1273 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1274 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1275 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1276 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1277 1278 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1279 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1280 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1281 1282 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1283 takes over. 1284 1285 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 1286 be used at a time. 1287 1288 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1289 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1290 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1291 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1292 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1293 You can find the port for a given device in 1294 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1295 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1296 1297 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1298 very good. 1299 1300 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 1301 the real console. 1302 1303 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1304 1305 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1306 1307 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1308 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1309 UART class. 1310 1311 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1312 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1313 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1314 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1315 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1316 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1317 default: on. 1318 1319 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1320 ekgdboc=kbd 1321 1322 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1323 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1324 1325 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1326 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1327 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1328 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1329 1330 edd= [EDD] 1331 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1332 1333 efi= [EFI] 1334 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1335 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1336 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1337 debug: enable misc debug output. 1338 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1339 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1340 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1341 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1342 firmware implementations. 1343 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1344 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1345 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1346 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1347 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1348 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1349 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1350 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1351 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1352 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1353 1354 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1355 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1356 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1357 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1358 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1359 1360 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1361 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1362 updating original EFI memory map. 1363 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1364 from ss to ss+nn. 1365 1366 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1367 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1368 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1369 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1370 1371 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1372 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1373 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1374 1375 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1376 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1377 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1378 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1379 "soft reserved". 1380 1381 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1382 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1383 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1384 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1385 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1386 1387 1388 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1389 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1390 1391 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1392 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1393 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1394 1395 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1396 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1397 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1398 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1399 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1400 1401 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1402 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1403 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1404 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1405 1406 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1407 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1408 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1409 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1410 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1411 1412 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1413 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1414 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1415 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1416 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1417 Default value is 0. 1418 Value can be changed at runtime via 1419 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1420 1421 erst_disable [ACPI] 1422 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1423 support. 1424 1425 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1426 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1427 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1428 1429 evm= [EVM] 1430 Format: { "fix" } 1431 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1432 current integrity status. 1433 1434 failslab= 1435 fail_usercopy= 1436 fail_page_alloc= 1437 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1438 General fault injection mechanism. 1439 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1440 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1441 1442 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1443 Format: { initns | none } 1444 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1445 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1446 1447 floppy= [HW] 1448 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1449 1450 force_pal_cache_flush 1451 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1452 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1453 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1454 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1455 1456 forcepae [X86-32] 1457 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1458 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1459 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1460 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1461 and may cause unknown problems. 1462 1463 ftrace=[tracer] 1464 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1465 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1466 boot debugging. 1467 1468 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1469 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1470 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1471 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1472 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1473 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1474 start up functionality. 1475 1476 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1477 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1478 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1479 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1480 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1481 oops. 1482 1483 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1484 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1485 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1486 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1487 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1488 tracing directory. 1489 1490 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1491 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1492 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1493 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1494 tracing directory. 1495 1496 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1497 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1498 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1499 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1500 that can be changed at run time by the 1501 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1502 1503 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1504 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1505 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1506 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1507 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1508 1509 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1510 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1511 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1512 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1513 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1514 1515 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1516 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1517 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1518 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1519 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1520 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1521 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1522 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1523 suppliers). 1524 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1525 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1526 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1527 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1528 up (sync_state() calls). 1529 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1530 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1531 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1532 1533 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1534 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1535 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1536 Format: <bool> 1537 1538 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1539 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1540 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1541 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1542 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1543 1544 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1545 1546 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1547 Format: off | on 1548 default: on 1549 1550 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1551 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1552 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1553 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1554 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1555 1556 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1557 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1558 android emulator 1559 1560 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1561 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1562 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1563 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1564 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1565 1566 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1567 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1568 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1569 GPT to be used instead. 1570 1571 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1572 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1573 Format: 0 | 1 1574 Default: 0 1575 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1576 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1577 Format: 0 | 1 1578 Default: 0 1579 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1580 Format: 0 | 1 1581 Default: 0 1582 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1583 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1584 Default: 1024 1585 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1586 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1587 Default: 1024 1588 1589 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1590 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1591 backtraces on all cpus. 1592 Format: 0 | 1 1593 1594 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1595 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1596 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1597 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1598 1599 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1600 1601 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1602 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1603 1604 hest_disable [ACPI] 1605 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1606 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1607 logic will be disabled. 1608 1609 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1610 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1611 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1612 size on bigger boxes. 1613 1614 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1615 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1616 Default: "on" 1617 1618 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1619 1620 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1621 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1622 verbose } 1623 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1624 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1625 VIA, nVidia) 1626 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1627 1628 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1629 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1630 1631 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1632 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1633 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1634 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1635 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1636 1637 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1638 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1639 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1640 1641 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1642 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1643 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1644 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1645 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1646 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1647 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1648 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1649 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1650 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1651 1652 hugepagesz= 1653 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1654 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1655 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1656 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1657 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1658 architecture dependent. See also 1659 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1660 Format: size[KMG] 1661 1662 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1663 [KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP 1664 enabled. 1665 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1666 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1667 Format: { on | off (default) } 1668 1669 on: enable the feature 1670 off: disable the feature 1671 1672 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1673 the default is on. 1674 1675 This is not compatible with memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory. 1676 If both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes 1677 precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory. 1678 1679 hung_task_panic= 1680 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1681 Format: 0 | 1 1682 1683 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1684 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1685 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1686 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1687 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1688 1689 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1690 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1691 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1692 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1693 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1694 1695 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1696 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1697 guest on lock contention. 1698 1699 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1700 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1701 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1702 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1703 the real console. 1704 1705 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1706 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1707 registered from board initialization code. 1708 Format: 1709 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1710 1711 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1712 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1713 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1714 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1715 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1716 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1717 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1718 keyboard and cannot control its state 1719 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1720 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1721 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1722 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1723 for the AUX port 1724 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1725 controller 1726 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1727 controllers 1728 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1729 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1730 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1731 transitions, or never reset 1732 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1733 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1734 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1735 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1736 architectures force reset to be always executed 1737 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1738 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1739 i8042.probe_defer 1740 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1741 1742 i810= [HW,DRM] 1743 1744 i915.invert_brightness= 1745 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1746 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1747 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1748 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1749 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1750 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1751 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1752 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1753 value switches the backlight off. 1754 -1 -- never invert brightness 1755 0 -- machine default 1756 1 -- force brightness inversion 1757 1758 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1759 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1760 1761 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1762 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1763 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1764 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1765 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst. 1766 1767 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1768 Format: <int> 1769 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1770 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1771 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1772 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1773 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1774 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1775 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1776 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1777 was 0x3. 1778 1779 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1780 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1781 1782 idle= [X86] 1783 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1784 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1785 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1786 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1787 Not recommended. 1788 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1789 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1790 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1791 1792 idxd.sva= [HW] 1793 Format: <bool> 1794 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1795 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1796 true (1). 1797 1798 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 1799 Format: <bool> 1800 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 1801 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 1802 1803 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1804 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1805 Default: strict 1806 1807 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1808 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1809 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1810 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1811 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1812 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1813 encoding mode. 1814 1815 Available settings are as follows: 1816 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1817 supported by the FPU 1818 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1819 by the FPU 1820 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1821 by the FPU 1822 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1823 supported by the FPU 1824 1825 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1826 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1827 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1828 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1829 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1830 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1831 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1832 MIPS64 CPUs. 1833 1834 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1835 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1836 except where unsupported by hardware. 1837 1838 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1839 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1840 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1841 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1842 could change it dynamically, usually by 1843 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1844 1845 ignore_rlimit_data 1846 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1847 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1848 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1849 1850 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1851 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1852 1853 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1854 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1855 default: "enforce" 1856 1857 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1858 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1859 owned by uid=0. 1860 1861 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1862 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1863 measurements, instead of host native format. 1864 1865 ima_hash= [IMA] 1866 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1867 | sha512 | ... } 1868 default: "sha1" 1869 1870 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1871 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1872 1873 ima_policy= [IMA] 1874 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1875 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1876 fail_securely | critical_data" 1877 1878 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1879 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1880 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1881 uid=0. 1882 1883 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1884 all files owned by root. 1885 1886 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1887 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1888 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1889 1890 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1891 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1892 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1893 flag. 1894 1895 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 1896 critical data. 1897 1898 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1899 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1900 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1901 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1902 opened for read by uid=0. 1903 1904 ima_template= [IMA] 1905 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1906 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 1907 "ima-sigv2" } 1908 Default: "ima-ng" 1909 1910 ima_template_fmt= 1911 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1912 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1913 1914 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1915 Format: <min_file_size> 1916 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1917 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1918 1919 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1920 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1921 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1922 1923 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1924 Format: <bufsize> 1925 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1926 1927 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1928 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1929 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1930 1931 init= [KNL] 1932 Format: <full_path> 1933 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1934 process. 1935 1936 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1937 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1938 startup. 1939 1940 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1941 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1942 modules and initcalls. 1943 1944 initramfs_async= [KNL] 1945 Format: <bool> 1946 Default: 1 1947 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 1948 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 1949 with devices being probed and 1950 initialized. This should normally just work, 1951 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 1952 historical behaviour of the initramfs 1953 unpacking being completed before device_ and 1954 late_ initcalls. 1955 1956 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1957 1958 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 1959 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 1960 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 1961 setting. 1962 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 1963 Default is 0, 0 1964 1965 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 1966 zeroes. 1967 Format: 0 | 1 1968 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 1969 1970 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 1971 Format: 0 | 1 1972 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 1973 1974 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1975 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1976 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1977 override in debugfs after boot. 1978 1979 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1980 Format: <irq> 1981 1982 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1983 1984 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1985 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1986 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1987 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1988 1989 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1990 on 1991 Enable intel iommu driver. 1992 off 1993 Disable intel iommu driver. 1994 igfx_off [Default Off] 1995 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1996 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1997 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1998 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1999 DMA. 2000 strict [Default Off] 2001 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2002 sp_off [Default Off] 2003 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2004 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2005 not be supported. 2006 sm_on 2007 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2008 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2009 translation. 2010 sm_off 2011 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2012 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2013 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2014 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2015 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2016 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2017 mapping is enabled. 2018 Note that using this option lowers the security 2019 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2020 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2021 2022 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2023 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2024 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2025 2026 intel_pstate= [X86] 2027 disable 2028 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2029 scaling driver for the supported processors 2030 passive 2031 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2032 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2033 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2034 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2035 feature. 2036 force 2037 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2038 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2039 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2040 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2041 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2042 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2043 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2044 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2045 no_hwp 2046 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2047 if available. 2048 hwp_only 2049 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2050 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2051 support_acpi_ppc 2052 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2053 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2054 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2055 then this feature is turned on by default. 2056 per_cpu_perf_limits 2057 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2058 cpufreq sysfs interface 2059 2060 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 2061 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2062 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2063 nosid disable Source ID checking 2064 no_x2apic_optout 2065 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2066 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2067 2068 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2069 strict regions from userspace. 2070 relaxed 2071 2072 iommu= [X86] 2073 off 2074 force 2075 noforce 2076 biomerge 2077 panic 2078 nopanic 2079 merge 2080 nomerge 2081 soft 2082 pt [X86] 2083 nopt [X86] 2084 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2085 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2086 2087 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2088 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2089 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2090 falling back to the full range if needed. 2091 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2092 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2093 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2094 2095 iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2096 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2097 0 - Lazy mode. 2098 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2099 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2100 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2101 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2102 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2103 1 - Strict mode. 2104 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2105 synchronously. 2106 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2107 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2108 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2109 2110 iommu.passthrough= 2111 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2112 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2113 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2114 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2115 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2116 2117 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2118 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2119 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2120 2121 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 2122 0x80 2123 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2124 0xed 2125 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2126 udelay 2127 Simple two microseconds delay 2128 none 2129 No delay 2130 2131 ip= [IP_PNP] 2132 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2133 2134 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2135 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2136 2137 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2138 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2139 2140 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2141 [ARM, ARM64] 2142 Format: <bool> 2143 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2144 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2145 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2146 2147 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2148 [ARM, ARM64] 2149 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2150 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2151 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2152 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2153 LPIs. 2154 2155 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2156 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2157 requires the kernel to be built with 2158 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2159 2160 irqfixup [HW] 2161 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2162 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2163 firmware running. 2164 2165 irqpoll [HW] 2166 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2167 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2168 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2169 firmware running. 2170 2171 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2172 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2173 2174 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2175 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2176 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2177 2178 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2179 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2180 2181 nohz 2182 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2183 2184 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2185 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2186 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2187 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2188 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2189 2190 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2191 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2192 be configured manually after bootup. 2193 2194 domain 2195 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2196 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2197 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2198 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2199 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2200 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2201 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2202 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2203 2204 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2205 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2206 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2207 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2208 2209 managed_irq 2210 2211 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2212 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2213 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2214 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2215 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2216 2217 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2218 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2219 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2220 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2221 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2222 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2223 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2224 2225 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2226 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2227 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2228 only delivered when tasks running on those 2229 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2230 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2231 queues. 2232 2233 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2234 2235 iucv= [HW,NET] 2236 2237 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2238 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2239 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2240 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2241 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2242 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2243 2244 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2245 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2246 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2247 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 2248 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2249 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2250 2251 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2252 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2253 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2254 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2255 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 2256 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2257 2258 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2259 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2260 2261 nokaslr [KNL] 2262 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 2263 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 2264 Layout Randomization). 2265 2266 kasan_multi_shot 2267 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2268 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2269 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2270 invalid access. 2271 2272 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2273 2274 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2275 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2276 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2277 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2278 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2279 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2280 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2281 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2282 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2283 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2284 2285 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2286 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2287 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2288 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2289 zone if it does not. 2290 2291 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2292 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2293 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2294 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2295 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2296 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2297 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2298 2299 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2300 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2301 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2302 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2303 optional and is the number seconds in between 2304 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2305 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2306 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2307 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2308 the kernel debugger. 2309 2310 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2311 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2312 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2313 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2314 keyboard only format: kbd 2315 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2316 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2317 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2318 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2319 2320 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2321 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2322 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2323 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2324 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2325 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2326 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2327 2328 The name of the early console should be specified 2329 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2330 the early console might be different than the tty 2331 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2332 blank and the first boot console that implements 2333 read() will be picked. 2334 2335 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2336 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2337 2338 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2339 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2340 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2341 2342 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2343 Valid arguments: on, off 2344 Default: on 2345 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2346 the default is off. 2347 2348 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2349 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2350 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2351 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2352 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2353 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2354 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2355 2356 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2357 2358 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2359 Boot Parameter" section. 2360 2361 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2362 and kernel address spaces. 2363 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2364 0: force disabled 2365 1: force enabled 2366 2367 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2368 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2369 2370 kvm.eager_page_split= 2371 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2372 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2373 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2374 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2375 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2376 required to split huge pages lazily. 2377 2378 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2379 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2380 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2381 still be used for reads. 2382 2383 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2384 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2385 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2386 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2387 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2388 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2389 cleared. 2390 2391 Eager page splitting currently only supports splitting 2392 huge pages mapped by the TDP MMU. 2393 2394 Default is Y (on). 2395 2396 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2397 Default is false (don't support). 2398 2399 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2400 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2401 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2402 force : Always deploy workaround. 2403 off : Never deploy workaround. 2404 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2405 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2406 2407 Default is 'auto'. 2408 2409 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2410 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2411 2412 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2413 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2414 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2415 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2416 period (see below). The default is 60. 2417 2418 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2419 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2420 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2421 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2422 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2423 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2424 2425 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2426 Default is 1 (enabled) 2427 2428 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2429 for all guests. 2430 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2431 2432 kvm-arm.mode= 2433 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2434 2435 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2436 2437 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2438 protected guests. 2439 2440 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2441 state is kept private from the host. 2442 Not valid if the kernel is running in EL2. 2443 2444 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2445 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2446 for the host. 2447 2448 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2449 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2450 system registers 2451 2452 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2453 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2454 system registers 2455 2456 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2457 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2458 system registers 2459 2460 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2461 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2462 LPIs. 2463 2464 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2465 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2466 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2467 allocation. 2468 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2469 Format: <integer> 2470 Default: 5 2471 2472 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2473 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2474 Default is 1 (enabled) 2475 2476 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2477 [KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state. 2478 Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as 2479 guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests. 2480 This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM 2481 never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2482 Default is 1 (enabled) 2483 2484 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2485 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2486 Default is 1 (enabled) 2487 2488 kvm-intel.nested= 2489 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2490 Default is 0 (disabled) 2491 2492 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2493 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2494 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2495 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2496 2497 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2498 CVE-2018-3620. 2499 2500 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2501 2502 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2503 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2504 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2505 never: Disables the mitigation 2506 2507 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2508 2509 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2510 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2511 Default is 1 (enabled) 2512 2513 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL] 2514 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2515 2516 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2517 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2518 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2519 2520 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2521 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2522 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2523 not have direct access. 2524 2525 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2526 options are: 2527 2528 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2529 2530 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2531 affected CPUs 2532 2533 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2534 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2535 2536 full 2537 Provides all available mitigations for the 2538 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2539 enables all mitigations in the 2540 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2541 2542 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2543 sysfs interface is still possible after 2544 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2545 when the first VM is started in a 2546 potentially insecure configuration, 2547 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2548 2549 full,force 2550 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2551 flush runtime control. Implies the 2552 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2553 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2554 2555 flush 2556 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2557 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2558 L1D flush. 2559 2560 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2561 sysfs interface is still possible after 2562 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2563 when the first VM is started in a 2564 potentially insecure configuration, 2565 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2566 2567 flush,nosmt 2568 2569 Disables SMT and enables the default 2570 hypervisor mitigation. 2571 2572 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2573 sysfs interface is still possible after 2574 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2575 when the first VM is started in a 2576 potentially insecure configuration, 2577 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2578 2579 flush,nowarn 2580 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2581 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2582 insecure configuration. 2583 2584 off 2585 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2586 emit any warnings. 2587 It also drops the swap size and available 2588 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2589 bare metal. 2590 2591 Default is 'flush'. 2592 2593 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2594 2595 l2cr= [PPC] 2596 2597 l3cr= [PPC] 2598 2599 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2600 disabled it. 2601 2602 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2603 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2604 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2605 Format: notscdeadline 2606 2607 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2608 in C2 power state. 2609 2610 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2611 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2612 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2613 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2614 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2615 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2616 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2617 2618 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2619 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2620 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2621 2622 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2623 when set. 2624 Format: <int> 2625 2626 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma- 2627 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 2628 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 2629 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 2630 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 2631 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 2632 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 2633 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 2634 2635 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2636 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2637 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2638 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2639 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2640 host link and device attached to it. 2641 2642 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2643 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 2644 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2645 The following configurations can be forced. 2646 2647 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2648 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2649 2650 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2651 2652 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2653 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2654 allowed. 2655 2656 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2657 2658 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 2659 2660 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 2661 and both resets. 2662 2663 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 2664 hot-unplug link recovery 2665 2666 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 2667 2668 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 2669 2670 * disable: Disable this device. 2671 2672 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2673 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2674 2675 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 2676 2677 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2678 2679 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2680 Format: <integer> 2681 2682 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2683 Format: <integer> 2684 2685 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2686 Format: <integer> 2687 2688 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2689 Format: <integer> 2690 2691 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2692 { integrity | confidentiality } 2693 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2694 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2695 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2696 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2697 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2698 are also disabled. 2699 2700 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2701 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2702 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2703 number of online CPUs. 2704 2705 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2706 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2707 2708 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2709 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2710 2711 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2712 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2713 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2714 2715 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2716 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2717 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2718 mode during the locktorture test. 2719 2720 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2721 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2722 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2723 2724 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2725 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2726 2727 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2728 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2729 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2730 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2731 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2732 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2733 2734 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2735 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2736 2737 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2738 Enable additional printk() statements. 2739 2740 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2741 Format: <irq> 2742 2743 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2744 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2745 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2746 loglevels are defined as follows: 2747 2748 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2749 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2750 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2751 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2752 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2753 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2754 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2755 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2756 2757 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2758 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2759 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2760 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2761 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2762 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2763 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2764 2765 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2766 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2767 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2768 kernel boot problems. 2769 2770 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2771 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2772 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2773 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2774 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2775 attached printers to be reset. Using 2776 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2777 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2778 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2779 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2780 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2781 port specification list means that device IDs 2782 from each port should be examined, to see if 2783 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2784 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2785 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2786 2787 lpj=n [KNL] 2788 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2789 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2790 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2791 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2792 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2793 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2794 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2795 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2796 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2797 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2798 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2799 hardware. 2800 2801 ltpc= [NET] 2802 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2803 2804 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2805 2806 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2807 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2808 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2809 2810 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2811 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2812 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2813 2814 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 2815 different yeeloong laptops. 2816 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2817 2818 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2819 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2820 2821 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2822 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2823 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2824 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2825 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2826 only takes effect during system bootup. 2827 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2828 which also disables the IO APIC. 2829 2830 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2831 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2832 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2833 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2834 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2835 /dev/loop-control interface. 2836 2837 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2838 2839 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2840 2841 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2842 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2843 2844 mdacon= [MDA] 2845 Format: <first>,<last> 2846 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2847 2848 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2849 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2850 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2851 2852 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2853 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2854 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2855 2856 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2857 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2858 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2859 not have direct access. 2860 2861 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2862 options are: 2863 2864 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2865 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2866 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2867 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2868 2869 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 2870 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 2871 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 2872 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 2873 too. 2874 2875 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 2876 mds=full. 2877 2878 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 2879 2880 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON] Set the memory size. 2881 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 2882 2883 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2884 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 2885 2886 1 for test; 2887 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 2888 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 2889 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 2890 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 2891 2892 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 2893 high memory is not affected. 2894 2895 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 2896 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 2897 2898 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2899 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2900 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2901 belonging to unused RAM. 2902 2903 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 2904 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 2905 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 2906 2907 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2908 [ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by 2909 firmware. 2910 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 2911 ss[KMG]. 2912 Multiple different regions can be specified with 2913 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 2914 2915 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2916 memory. 2917 2918 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2919 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2920 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2921 2922 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2923 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2924 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2925 set according to the 2926 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2927 option. 2928 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 2929 2930 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2931 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2932 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2933 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2934 option description. 2935 2936 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2937 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2938 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2939 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2940 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2941 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2942 comma delimited. 2943 Example: 2944 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2945 2946 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2947 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2948 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2949 2950 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2951 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2952 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2953 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2954 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2955 or 2956 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2957 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 2958 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 2959 will be eaten. 2960 2961 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2962 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2963 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2964 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2965 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2966 2967 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 2968 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 2969 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 2970 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 2971 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 2972 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 2973 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 2974 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 2975 2976 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2977 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2978 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2979 Setting this option will scan the memory 2980 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2981 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2982 from using the memory being corrupted. 2983 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2984 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2985 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2986 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2987 2988 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2989 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2990 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2991 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2992 corruption in more or less memory. 2993 2994 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2995 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2996 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2997 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2998 2999 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3000 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3001 Format: {on | off (default)} 3002 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3003 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages) 3004 from the hotadded memory which will allow to 3005 hotadd a lot of memory without requiring 3006 additional memory to do so. 3007 This feature is disabled by default because it 3008 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3009 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3010 memory blocks). 3011 The state of the flag can be read in 3012 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3013 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3014 the feature is not effective. 3015 3016 This is not compatible with hugetlb_free_vmemmap. If 3017 both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes 3018 precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory. 3019 3020 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest 3021 Format: <integer> 3022 default : 0 <disable> 3023 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3024 performed. Each pass selects another test 3025 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3026 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3027 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3028 regions that are detected. 3029 3030 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3031 Valid arguments: on, off 3032 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 3033 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 3034 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 3035 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3036 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3037 3038 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3039 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3040 3041 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3042 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3043 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3044 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3045 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3046 3047 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 3048 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst. 3049 3050 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 3051 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 3052 platforms. 3053 3054 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3055 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3056 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3057 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3058 3059 mga= [HW,DRM] 3060 3061 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 3062 physical address is ignored. 3063 3064 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3065 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3066 Default: "0tb" 3067 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3068 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3069 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3070 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3071 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3072 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3073 unconfigured. 3074 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3075 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3076 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3077 VGA shield. 3078 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3079 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3080 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3081 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3082 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3083 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3084 3085 mitigations= 3086 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 3087 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3088 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3089 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3090 3091 off 3092 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3093 improves system performance, but it may also 3094 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3095 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 3096 kpti=0 [ARM64] 3097 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3098 nobp=0 [S390] 3099 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3100 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3101 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3102 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3103 l1tf=off [X86] 3104 mds=off [X86] 3105 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3106 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3107 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3108 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3109 3110 Exceptions: 3111 This does not have any effect on 3112 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3113 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3114 3115 auto (default) 3116 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3117 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3118 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3119 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3120 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3121 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3122 3123 auto,nosmt 3124 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3125 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3126 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3127 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3128 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3129 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3130 3131 mminit_loglevel= 3132 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3133 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3134 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3135 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3136 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3137 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3138 3139 module.sig_enforce 3140 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3141 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3142 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3143 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3144 3145 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3146 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3147 3148 mousedev.tap_time= 3149 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3150 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3151 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3152 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3153 Format: <msecs> 3154 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3155 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3156 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3157 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3158 3159 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 3160 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3161 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3162 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3163 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3164 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3165 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3166 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3167 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3168 is not too small. 3169 3170 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3171 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3172 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3173 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3174 allocations. Use with caution! 3175 3176 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3177 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3178 3179 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3180 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3181 3182 mtdparts= [MTD] 3183 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3184 3185 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3186 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3187 at a time. 3188 3189 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 3190 3191 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 3192 3193 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 3194 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 3195 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 3196 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 3197 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 3198 3199 mtdset= [ARM] 3200 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 3201 3202 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 3203 3204 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3205 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3206 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3207 3208 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3209 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3210 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3211 3212 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3213 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3214 Default is 1. 3215 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3216 using up MTRRs. 3217 3218 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 3219 Format: <integer> 3220 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3221 Default : 1 3222 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3223 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3224 3225 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3226 3227 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3228 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3229 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3230 something different and driver-specific. 3231 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3232 file if at all. 3233 3234 nf_conntrack.acct= 3235 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3236 0 to disable accounting 3237 1 to enable accounting 3238 Default value is 0. 3239 3240 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3241 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3242 3243 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3244 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3245 3246 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3247 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3248 3249 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3250 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3251 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3252 requests. 3253 3254 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3255 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3256 channel should listen. 3257 3258 nfs.cache_getent= 3259 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3260 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3261 3262 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3263 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3264 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3265 3266 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3267 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3268 entries. 3269 3270 nfs.enable_ino64= 3271 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3272 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3273 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3274 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3275 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3276 3277 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3278 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3279 slots the client will assign to the callback 3280 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3281 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3282 a particular server. 3283 3284 nfs.max_session_slots= 3285 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3286 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3287 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3288 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3289 Note that there is little point in setting this 3290 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3291 3292 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3293 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3294 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3295 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3296 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3297 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3298 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3299 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3300 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3301 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3302 back to using the idmapper. 3303 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3304 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3305 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3306 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3307 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3308 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3309 3310 nfs.send_implementation_id = 3311 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3312 information in exchange_id requests. 3313 If zero, no implementation identification information 3314 will be sent. 3315 The default is to send the implementation identification 3316 information. 3317 3318 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 3319 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3320 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3321 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3322 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3323 after the locks are lost. 3324 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3325 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3326 parameter to '1'. 3327 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3328 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3329 3330 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 3331 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3332 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3333 3334 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3335 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3336 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3337 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3338 3339 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable = 3340 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3341 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3342 the destination of the copy. 3343 3344 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout = 3345 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3346 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3347 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3348 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3349 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3350 this parameter. 3351 3352 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3353 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3354 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3355 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3356 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3357 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3358 3359 3360 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3361 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3362 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3363 3364 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3365 when a NMI is triggered. 3366 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3367 3368 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3369 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3370 Valid num: 0 or 1 3371 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3372 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3373 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3374 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3375 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3376 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3377 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3378 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3379 need the box quickly up again. 3380 3381 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3382 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3383 3384 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3385 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3386 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3387 waits 4 seconds. 3388 3389 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3390 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3391 is present. 3392 3393 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3394 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3395 3396 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3397 3398 no_console_suspend 3399 [HW] Never suspend the console 3400 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3401 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3402 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3403 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3404 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3405 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3406 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3407 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3408 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3409 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3410 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3411 turn on/off it dynamically. 3412 3413 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3414 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3415 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3416 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3417 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3418 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3419 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3420 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3421 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3422 is set. 3423 3424 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3425 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3426 but will impact performance. 3427 3428 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3429 3430 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3431 (CPU alternatives feature). 3432 3433 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3434 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3435 3436 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3437 3438 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 3439 on "Classic" PPC cores. 3440 3441 nocache [ARM] 3442 3443 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 3444 3445 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 3446 3447 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3448 3449 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3450 3451 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3452 3453 noexec [IA-64] 3454 3455 noexec [X86] 3456 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 3457 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3458 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 3459 3460 nosmap [X86,PPC] 3461 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3462 even if it is supported by processor. 3463 3464 nosmep [X86,PPC64s] 3465 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3466 even if it is supported by processor. 3467 3468 noexec32 [X86-64] 3469 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3470 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3471 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3472 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3473 read implies executable mappings 3474 3475 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3476 3477 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3478 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3479 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3480 3481 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3482 3483 nohugevmalloc [PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3484 3485 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3486 Equivalent to smt=1. 3487 3488 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3489 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3490 via the sysfs control file. 3491 3492 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3493 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3494 possible in the system. 3495 3496 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3497 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3498 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3499 option. 3500 3501 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3502 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3503 3504 no_uaccess_flush 3505 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 3506 3507 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3508 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3509 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3510 3511 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3512 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3513 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3514 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3515 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3516 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3517 3518 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3519 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3520 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3521 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3522 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3523 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3524 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3525 3526 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait 3527 in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3528 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3529 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3530 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3531 correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute 3532 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3533 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3534 3535 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3536 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3537 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3538 3539 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3540 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3541 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3542 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3543 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3544 real-time systems. 3545 3546 no_hash_pointers 3547 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3548 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3549 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3550 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3551 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3552 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3553 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3554 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3555 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3556 value printed. This option should only be specified when 3557 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3558 kernels. 3559 3560 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3561 3562 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3563 Valid arguments: on, off 3564 Default: on 3565 3566 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3567 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3568 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3569 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3570 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3571 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3572 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3573 just as if they had also been called out in the 3574 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3575 3576 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3577 3578 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3579 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3580 3581 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3582 broken timer IRQ sources. 3583 3584 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3585 3586 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3587 initial RAM disk. 3588 3589 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3590 remapping. 3591 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3592 3593 nointroute [IA-64] 3594 3595 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3596 3597 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3598 3599 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3600 3601 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3602 fault handling. 3603 3604 no-vmw-sched-clock 3605 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3606 clock and use the default one. 3607 3608 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time 3609 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't 3610 influence scheduler behaviour 3611 3612 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3613 3614 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3615 3616 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 3617 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 3618 3619 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3620 3621 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3622 3623 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3624 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3625 3626 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3627 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3628 irq. 3629 3630 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. DRM drivers will not perform 3631 display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. Only the 3632 system framebuffer will be available for use if this was 3633 set-up by the firmware or boot loader. 3634 3635 Useful as fallback, or for testing and debugging. 3636 3637 nomodule Disable module load 3638 3639 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3640 pagetables) support. 3641 3642 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3643 3644 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3645 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3646 3647 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3648 with UP alternatives 3649 3650 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 3651 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 3652 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 3653 available to user space applications. 3654 3655 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3656 space. 3657 3658 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3659 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3660 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3661 3662 nosbagart [IA-64] 3663 3664 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 3665 3666 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 3667 3668 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3669 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3670 3671 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3672 3673 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3674 3675 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3676 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3677 3678 nowb [ARM] 3679 3680 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3681 3682 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 3683 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 3684 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 3685 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 3686 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 3687 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 3688 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 3689 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 3690 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 3691 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 3692 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 3693 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 3694 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 3695 3696 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3697 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3698 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3699 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3700 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3701 parameter's value. 3702 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3703 Default: 255 3704 3705 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3706 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3707 SAL PALO. 3708 3709 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3710 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3711 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3712 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3713 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3714 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3715 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3716 hot plugging. 3717 3718 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3719 3720 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only 3721 set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. 3722 3723 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 3724 NUMA balancing. 3725 Allowed values are enable and disable 3726 3727 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3728 'node', 'default' can be specified 3729 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3730 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3731 3732 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3733 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 3734 info. 3735 3736 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3737 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3738 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3739 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3740 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3741 interrupts *may* be lost! 3742 3743 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3744 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3745 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3746 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3747 3748 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3749 process, but there is a small probability of 3750 deadlocking the machine. 3751 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3752 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3753 3754 page_alloc.shuffle= 3755 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3756 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3757 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3758 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3759 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3760 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3761 can be read from sysfs at: 3762 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3763 3764 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3765 Storage of the information about who allocated 3766 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3767 we can turn it on. 3768 on: enable the feature 3769 3770 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3771 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3772 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3773 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3774 on: turn on poisoning 3775 3776 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 3777 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 3778 Format: <integer> 3779 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 3780 reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1). 3781 3782 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3783 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3784 timeout = 0: wait forever 3785 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3786 Format: <timeout> 3787 3788 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3789 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3790 bit 0: print all tasks info 3791 bit 1: print system memory info 3792 bit 2: print timer info 3793 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3794 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3795 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3796 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 3797 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 3798 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 3799 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 3800 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 3801 3802 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 3803 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 3804 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 3805 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 3806 called with any of the flags in this set. 3807 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 3808 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 3809 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 3810 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 3811 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 3812 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 3813 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 3814 3815 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3816 on a WARN(). 3817 3818 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 3819 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 3820 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 3821 succeeds in any situation. 3822 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 3823 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 3824 kernel more unstable. 3825 3826 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3827 connected to, default is 0. 3828 Format: <parport#> 3829 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3830 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3831 Format: <mode> 3832 3833 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3834 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3835 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3836 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3837 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3838 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3839 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3840 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3841 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3842 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3843 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3844 are specified on the command line, starting 3845 with parport0. 3846 3847 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3848 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3849 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3850 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3851 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3852 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3853 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3854 3855 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 3856 Format: <int> 3857 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 3858 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 3859 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 3860 3861 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 3862 Format: <int> 3863 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 3864 changes. Disabled by default. 3865 3866 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 3867 Format: <int> 3868 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 3869 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3870 Disabled by default. 3871 3872 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 3873 Format: <int> 3874 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 3875 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3876 Disabled by default. 3877 3878 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3879 Format: <int> 3880 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 3881 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 3882 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 3883 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 3884 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 3885 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 3886 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 3887 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 3888 all channels. 3889 3890 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 3891 Format: <int> 3892 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 3893 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 3894 respectively. Disabled by default. 3895 3896 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 3897 Format: <int> 3898 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 3899 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 3900 respectively. Disabled by default. 3901 3902 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3903 Format: <int> 3904 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 3905 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 3906 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 3907 All modes allowed by default. 3908 3909 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 3910 Format: <int> 3911 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 3912 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 3913 3914 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3915 Format: <int> 3916 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 3917 platform configuration and the use of other driver 3918 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 3919 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 3920 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 3921 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 3922 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 3923 By default all supported ports are probed. 3924 3925 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 3926 Format: <int> 3927 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 3928 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 3929 3930 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 3931 Format: <int> 3932 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 3933 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 3934 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 3935 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 3936 0 otherwise. 3937 3938 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3939 Format: <int> 3940 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 3941 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 3942 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 3943 allowed by default. 3944 3945 pause_on_oops= 3946 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 3947 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 3948 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 3949 3950 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 3951 3952 pcd. [PARIDE] 3953 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 3954 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3955 3956 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 3957 3958 Some options herein operate on a specific device 3959 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 3960 specified in one of the following formats: 3961 3962 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 3963 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 3964 3965 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 3966 bus/device/function address which may change 3967 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 3968 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 3969 by other kernel parameters. If the 3970 domain is left unspecified, it is 3971 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 3972 to a device through multiple device/function 3973 addresses can be specified after the base 3974 address (this is more robust against 3975 renumbering issues). The second format 3976 selects devices using IDs from the 3977 configuration space which may match multiple 3978 devices in the system. 3979 3980 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 3981 changes anything 3982 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 3983 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 3984 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 3985 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 3986 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 3987 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 3988 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 3989 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 3990 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3991 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 3992 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 3993 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3994 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 3995 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 3996 bus number. The config space is then accessed 3997 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 3998 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 3999 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4000 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4001 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4002 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4003 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4004 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4005 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4006 Configuration 4007 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4008 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4009 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4010 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4011 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4012 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4013 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4014 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4015 should never be necessary. 4016 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4017 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4018 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4019 when the system masks IRQs. 4020 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4021 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4022 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4023 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4024 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4025 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4026 on several machines and they hang the machine 4027 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4028 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4029 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4030 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4031 motherboard. 4032 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4033 Use with caution as certain devices share 4034 address decoders between ROMs and other 4035 resources. 4036 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4037 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4038 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4039 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4040 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4041 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4042 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4043 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4044 this way. 4045 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4046 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4047 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4048 F0000h-100000h range. 4049 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4050 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4051 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4052 explicitly which ones they are. 4053 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4054 numbers ourselves, overriding 4055 whatever the firmware may have done. 4056 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4057 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4058 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4059 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4060 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4061 IRQ routing is enabled. 4062 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4063 or for PCI scanning. 4064 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4065 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4066 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4067 please report a bug. 4068 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4069 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4070 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4071 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4072 so this option is a temporary workaround 4073 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4074 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4075 handle more pci cards 4076 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4077 This might help on some broken boards which 4078 machine check when some devices' config space 4079 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4080 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4081 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4082 This sorting is done to get a device 4083 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4084 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4085 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4086 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4087 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4088 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4089 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4090 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4091 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4092 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4093 or bus can support) for best performance. 4094 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4095 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4096 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4097 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4098 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4099 that hot-added devices will work. 4100 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4101 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4102 The default value is 256 bytes. 4103 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4104 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4105 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4106 resource_alignment= 4107 Format: 4108 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4109 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4110 aligned memory resources. How to 4111 specify the device is described above. 4112 If <order of align> is not specified, 4113 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4114 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4115 windows need to be expanded. 4116 To specify the alignment for several 4117 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4118 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4119 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4120 for 4096-byte alignment. 4121 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4122 end-to-end CRC checking). 4123 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4124 the default. 4125 off: Turn ECRC off 4126 on: Turn ECRC on. 4127 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4128 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4129 Default size is 256 bytes. 4130 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4131 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4132 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4133 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4134 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4135 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4136 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4137 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4138 MMIO_PREF window. 4139 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4140 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4141 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4142 Default is 1. 4143 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4144 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4145 accommodate resources required by all child 4146 devices. 4147 off: Turn realloc off 4148 on: Turn realloc on 4149 realloc same as realloc=on 4150 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4151 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4152 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4153 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4154 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4155 port. 4156 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4157 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4158 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4159 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4160 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4161 taints the kernel. 4162 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4163 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4164 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4165 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4166 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4167 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4168 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4169 this removes isolation between devices and 4170 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4171 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4172 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4173 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4174 one PCI domain per PCI function 4175 4176 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 4177 Management. 4178 off Disable ASPM. 4179 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4180 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4181 4182 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4183 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4184 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4185 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4186 also tries to use these services. 4187 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4188 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4189 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4190 hotplug). 4191 4192 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4193 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4194 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4195 4196 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4197 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4198 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4199 4200 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4201 4202 pd_ignore_unused 4203 [PM] 4204 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4205 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4206 for debug and development, but should not be 4207 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4208 4209 pd. [PARIDE] 4210 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4211 4212 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4213 boot time. 4214 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4215 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4216 4217 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4218 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4219 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4220 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4221 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4222 and performance comparison. 4223 4224 pf. [PARIDE] 4225 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4226 4227 pg. [PARIDE] 4228 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4229 4230 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4231 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4232 4233 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4234 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4235 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4236 4237 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4238 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4239 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4240 4241 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4242 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4243 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4244 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4245 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4246 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4247 remains 0. 4248 4249 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4250 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4251 4252 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4253 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4254 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4255 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4256 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4257 possible settings and some assignment information. 4258 4259 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4260 { off } 4261 4262 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4263 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4264 4265 pnp_reserve_irq= 4266 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4267 4268 pnp_reserve_dma= 4269 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4270 4271 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4272 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4273 4274 pnp_reserve_mem= 4275 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4276 autoconfiguration. 4277 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4278 4279 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4280 Default is 21. 4281 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4282 may be specified. 4283 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4284 4285 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4286 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4287 platform machine description specific power_save 4288 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4289 execution priority. 4290 4291 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4292 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4293 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4294 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4295 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4296 4297 ppc_tm= [PPC] 4298 Format: {"off"} 4299 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4300 4301 preempt= [KNL] 4302 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4303 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4304 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4305 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4306 can be preempted anytime. 4307 4308 print-fatal-signals= 4309 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4310 4311 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4312 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4313 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4314 coredump - etc. 4315 4316 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4317 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4318 4319 default: off. 4320 4321 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4322 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4323 panics 4324 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4325 default: disabled 4326 4327 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4328 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4329 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4330 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4331 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4332 in order to provide more debug information. 4333 Format: <bool> 4334 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4335 4336 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4337 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4338 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4339 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4340 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4341 Default: ratelimit 4342 4343 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4344 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4345 4346 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4347 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4348 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4349 4350 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4351 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4352 instead using the legacy FADT method 4353 4354 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4355 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4356 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4357 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4358 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4359 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4360 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4361 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4362 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4363 statistical time based profiling. 4364 4365 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4366 4367 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4368 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4369 that). 4370 Format: <bool> 4371 4372 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4373 tracking. 4374 Format: <bool> 4375 4376 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4377 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4378 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4379 per second. 4380 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4381 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4382 (0 = never). 4383 psmouse.resolution= 4384 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4385 psmouse.smartscroll= 4386 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4387 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4388 4389 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4390 4391 pt. [PARIDE] 4392 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4393 4394 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4395 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4396 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4397 system calls and interrupts. 4398 4399 on - unconditionally enable 4400 off - unconditionally disable 4401 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4402 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4403 4404 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4405 4406 nopti [X86-64] 4407 Equivalent to pti=off 4408 4409 pty.legacy_count= 4410 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4411 default number. 4412 4413 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4414 4415 r128= [HW,DRM] 4416 4417 raid= [HW,RAID] 4418 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4419 4420 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4421 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4422 4423 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4424 4425 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 4426 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 4427 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 4428 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4429 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 4430 4431 random.trust_bootloader={on,off} 4432 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of a 4433 seed passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4434 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4435 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER. 4436 4437 randomize_kstack_offset= 4438 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4439 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4440 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4441 that depend on stack address determinism or 4442 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4443 available on architectures that have defined 4444 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4445 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4446 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4447 4448 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4449 4450 cec_disable [X86] 4451 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4452 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4453 4454 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 4455 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 4456 as described above. 4457 4458 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 4459 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 4460 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 4461 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 4462 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 4463 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 4464 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 4465 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 4466 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 4467 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 4468 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 4469 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4470 4471 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 4472 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 4473 4474 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 4475 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 4476 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 4477 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 4478 4479 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4480 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4481 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4482 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4483 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4484 This improves the real-time response for the 4485 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4486 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4487 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4488 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4489 4490 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4491 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4492 process in one batch. 4493 4494 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4495 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4496 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4497 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4498 4499 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4500 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4501 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4502 4503 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4504 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4505 RCU grace-period initialization. 4506 4507 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4508 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4509 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4510 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4511 the rcu_node combining tree. 4512 4513 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 4514 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 4515 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 4516 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 4517 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 4518 4519 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 4520 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 4521 to zero. 4522 4523 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4524 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4525 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4526 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4527 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4528 4529 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4530 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4531 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4532 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4533 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4534 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4535 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4536 4537 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4538 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4539 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4540 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4541 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4542 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4543 condition. 4544 4545 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 4546 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 4547 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 4548 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 4549 4550 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4551 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4552 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4553 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4554 and maximum value is HZ. 4555 4556 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4557 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4558 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4559 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4560 4561 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4562 Set required age in jiffies for a 4563 given grace period before RCU starts 4564 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4565 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4566 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4567 a value based on the most recent settings 4568 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4569 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4570 This calculated value may be viewed in 4571 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4572 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4573 overwritten. 4574 4575 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4576 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4577 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4578 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4579 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4580 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4581 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4582 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4583 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4584 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4585 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 4586 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 4587 4588 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4589 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4590 each group, which defaults to the square root 4591 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4592 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4593 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4594 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4595 4596 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4597 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4598 batch limiting is disabled. 4599 4600 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4601 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4602 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4603 4604 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4605 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4606 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4607 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4608 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4609 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4610 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4611 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4612 4613 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4614 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4615 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4616 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4617 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4618 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4619 4620 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 4621 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 4622 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 4623 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 4624 Larger delays increase the probability of 4625 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 4626 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 4627 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 4628 4629 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4630 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4631 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4632 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4633 4634 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 4635 Measure performance of asynchronous 4636 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4637 4638 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4639 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4640 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4641 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4642 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4643 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4644 4645 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 4646 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4647 grace-period primitives. 4648 4649 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4650 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4651 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4652 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4653 interference. 4654 4655 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4656 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4657 4658 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 4659 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4660 If this parameter has the same value as 4661 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 4662 and double-argument variants are tested. 4663 4664 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 4665 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4666 If this parameter has the same value as 4667 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 4668 and double-argument variants are tested. 4669 4670 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4671 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4672 4673 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4674 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4675 4676 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4677 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 4678 of allocations and frees. 4679 4680 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4681 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4682 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4683 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4684 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4685 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4686 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4687 a single reader. 4688 4689 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 4690 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4691 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 4692 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4693 4694 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL] 4695 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4696 4697 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4698 Shut the system down after performance tests 4699 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4700 testing. 4701 4702 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 4703 Enable additional printk() statements. 4704 4705 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4706 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4707 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4708 no holdoff. 4709 4710 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4711 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4712 in microseconds. 4713 4714 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4715 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4716 in microseconds. 4717 4718 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4719 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4720 in seconds. 4721 4722 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4723 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 4724 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4725 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4726 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 4727 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 4728 of CPUs to be used. 4729 4730 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4731 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4732 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4733 4734 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4735 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4736 forward-progress tests. 4737 4738 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4739 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4740 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4741 testing. 4742 4743 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4744 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4745 primitives, if available. 4746 4747 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4748 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4749 4750 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4751 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4752 update-side primitives, if available. 4753 4754 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4755 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4756 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4757 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4758 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4759 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4760 they are all non-zero. 4761 4762 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 4763 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 4764 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 4765 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 4766 4767 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 4768 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 4769 This can of course result in splats, and is 4770 intended to test the ability of things like 4771 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 4772 such leaks. 4773 4774 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 4775 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 4776 4777 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 4778 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 4779 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 4780 test, hence the "fake". 4781 4782 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 4783 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 4784 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 4785 4786 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 4787 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 4788 callback-offload toggling attempts. 4789 4790 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 4791 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4792 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4793 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 4794 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4795 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4796 4797 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 4798 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 4799 4800 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4801 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 4802 4803 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4804 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 4805 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 4806 4807 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 4808 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 4809 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 4810 task-exit processing. 4811 4812 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 4813 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 4814 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 4815 is spawned. 4816 4817 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 4818 The delay, in seconds, between successive 4819 read-then-exit testing episodes. 4820 4821 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 4822 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 4823 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 4824 during the rcutorture test. 4825 4826 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4827 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 4828 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 4829 4830 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 4831 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 4832 warnings, zero to disable. 4833 4834 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 4835 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 4836 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition 4837 to any other stall-related activity. 4838 4839 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 4840 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 4841 4842 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 4843 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 4844 4845 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 4846 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 4847 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 4848 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 4849 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 4850 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 4851 4852 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 4853 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 4854 4855 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 4856 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 4857 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 4858 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 4859 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 4860 4861 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 4862 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 4863 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 4864 under test support RCU priority boosting. 4865 4866 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 4867 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 4868 4869 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 4870 Interval (s) between each boost test. 4871 4872 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 4873 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 4874 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 4875 4876 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 4877 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4878 4879 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 4880 Enable additional printk() statements. 4881 4882 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 4883 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 4884 stall warning. 4885 4886 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 4887 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4888 4889 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 4890 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 4891 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 4892 during early boot, that is, during the time 4893 before the init task is spawned. 4894 4895 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4896 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4897 4898 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 4899 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 4900 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 4901 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 4902 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 4903 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 4904 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4905 4906 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 4907 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 4908 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 4909 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 4910 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 4911 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 4912 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 4913 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 4914 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4915 4916 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 4917 Once boot has completed (that is, after 4918 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 4919 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 4920 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4921 4922 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 4923 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 4924 it to the value one, that is, converting any 4925 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 4926 period to instead use normal non-expedited 4927 grace-period processing. 4928 4929 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 4930 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 4931 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 4932 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 4933 a single callback queue. This switching only 4934 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 4935 set to the default value of -1. 4936 4937 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 4938 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 4939 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 4940 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 4941 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 4942 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 4943 the default value of -1. 4944 4945 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 4946 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 4947 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 4948 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 4949 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 4950 for use in testing. 4951 4952 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 4953 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 4954 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 4955 of a given grace period. Setting a large 4956 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 4957 but lengthens grace periods. 4958 4959 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4960 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 4961 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 4962 to zero. 4963 4964 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 4965 Run the RCU early boot self tests 4966 4967 rdinit= [KNL] 4968 Format: <full_path> 4969 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 4970 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 4971 4972 rdrand= [X86] 4973 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 4974 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 4975 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 4976 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 4977 path). 4978 4979 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 4980 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 4981 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 4982 mba. 4983 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 4984 rdt=cmt,!mba 4985 4986 reboot= [KNL] 4987 Format (x86 or x86_64): 4988 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 4989 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 4990 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 4991 [[,]f[orce] 4992 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 4993 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 4994 reboot only), 4995 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 4996 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 4997 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 4998 to be used for rebooting. 4999 5000 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5001 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5002 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5003 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5004 interference. 5005 5006 refscale.loops= [KNL] 5007 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 5008 primitive under test. Increasing this number 5009 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 5010 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 5011 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 5012 x86 laptops. 5013 5014 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5015 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 5016 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 5017 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 5018 5019 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 5020 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 5021 the console log. 5022 5023 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 5024 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 5025 measured in microseconds. 5026 5027 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5028 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 5029 5030 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5031 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 5032 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 5033 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 5034 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 5035 5036 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 5037 Enable additional printk() statements. 5038 5039 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 5040 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 5041 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 5042 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 5043 specified. 5044 5045 relax_domain_level= 5046 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 5047 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 5048 5049 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 5050 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 5051 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 5052 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 5053 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 5054 5055 reservetop= [X86-32] 5056 Format: nn[KMG] 5057 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 5058 address space. 5059 5060 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 5061 during initialization. 5062 5063 resume= [SWSUSP] 5064 Specify the partition device for software suspend 5065 Format: 5066 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 5067 5068 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 5069 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 5070 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 5071 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 5072 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 5073 5074 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5075 read the resume files 5076 5077 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 5078 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5079 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5080 5081 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 5082 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 5083 present during boot. 5084 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 5085 no Disable hibernation and resume. 5086 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 5087 (that will set all pages holding image data 5088 during restoration read-only). 5089 5090 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 5091 5092 rfkill.default_state= 5093 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 5094 etc. communication is blocked by default. 5095 1 Unblocked. 5096 5097 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 5098 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 5099 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5100 blocked and the previous configuration. 5101 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5102 blocked and everything unblocked. 5103 5104 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5105 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 5106 5107 ring3mwait=disable 5108 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 5109 CPUs. 5110 5111 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 5112 5113 rodata= [KNL] 5114 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 5115 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 5116 5117 rockchip.usb_uart 5118 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 5119 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 5120 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 5121 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 5122 5123 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 5124 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 5125 5126 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5127 mount the root filesystem 5128 5129 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 5130 5131 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 5132 5133 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 5134 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5135 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5136 5137 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 5138 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 5139 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 5140 managed by CMA. 5141 5142 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 5143 5144 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5145 5146 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5147 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5148 strict 5149 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 5150 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 5151 which is faster. 5152 5153 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5154 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5155 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5156 factor of the size of main memory. 5157 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5158 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5159 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5160 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5161 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5162 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5163 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5164 5165 sa1100ir [NET] 5166 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5167 5168 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5169 5170 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5171 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5172 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5173 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5174 5175 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5176 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5177 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5178 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5179 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5180 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5181 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5182 value. 5183 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5184 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5185 1 64 ms 5186 2 128 ms 5187 and so on. 5188 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5189 Default is 0. 5190 5191 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5192 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5193 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5194 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5195 tests. 5196 5197 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5198 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5199 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5200 default) disables this feature. Please note 5201 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5202 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5203 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5204 5205 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5206 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5207 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5208 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5209 equal to the number of CPUs. 5210 5211 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5212 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5213 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 5214 5215 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5216 Number seconds to wait between successive 5217 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 5218 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 5219 5220 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5221 The number of seconds following the start of the 5222 test after which to shut down the system. The 5223 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 5224 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 5225 5226 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5227 The number of seconds between outputting the 5228 current test statistics to the console. A value 5229 of zero disables statistics output. 5230 5231 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 5232 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 5233 to the set of CPUs under test. 5234 5235 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 5236 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 5237 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 5238 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 5239 functions. 5240 5241 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 5242 Enable additional printk() statements. 5243 5244 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 5245 The probability weighting to use for the 5246 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 5247 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 5248 default if all other weights are -1. However, 5249 if at least one weight has some other value, a 5250 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 5251 5252 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 5253 The probability weighting to use for the 5254 smp_call_function_single() function with a 5255 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5256 5257 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 5258 The probability weighting to use for the 5259 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 5260 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5261 Note well that setting a high probability for 5262 this weighting can place serious IPI load 5263 on the system. 5264 5265 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 5266 The probability weighting to use for the 5267 smp_call_function_many() function with a 5268 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5269 and weight_many. 5270 5271 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 5272 The probability weighting to use for the 5273 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 5274 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 5275 weight_many. 5276 5277 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 5278 The probability weighting to use for the 5279 smp_call_function_all() function with a 5280 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5281 and weight_many. 5282 5283 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 5284 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 5285 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 5286 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5287 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 5288 1 -- enable. 5289 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 5290 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 5291 5292 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 5293 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 5294 "lsm=" parameter. 5295 5296 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 5297 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5298 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 5299 0 -- disable. 5300 1 -- enable. 5301 Default value is 1. 5302 5303 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 5304 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5305 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 5306 0 -- disable. 5307 1 -- enable. 5308 Default value is set via kernel config option. 5309 5310 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 5311 5312 shapers= [NET] 5313 Maximal number of shapers. 5314 5315 simeth= [IA-64] 5316 simscsi= 5317 5318 slram= [HW,MTD] 5319 5320 slab_merge [MM] 5321 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 5322 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 5323 5324 slab_nomerge [MM] 5325 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 5326 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 5327 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 5328 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 5329 layout control by attackers can usually be 5330 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 5331 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 5332 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 5333 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 5334 own. 5335 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5336 5337 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 5338 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5339 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5340 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 5341 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 5342 5343 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 5344 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 5345 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5346 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5347 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5348 last alloc / free. For more information see 5349 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5350 5351 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 5352 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5353 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5354 fragmentation. For more information see 5355 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5356 5357 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 5358 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 5359 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 5360 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 5361 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 5362 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 5363 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 5364 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5365 5366 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 5367 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 5368 lower than slub_max_order. 5369 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5370 5371 slub_merge [MM, SLUB] 5372 Same with slab_merge. 5373 5374 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 5375 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 5376 See slab_nomerge for more information. 5377 5378 smart2= [HW] 5379 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 5380 5381 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 5382 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 5383 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 5384 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 5385 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 5386 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 5387 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 5388 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 5389 1: Fast pin select (default) 5390 2: ATC IRMode 5391 5392 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 5393 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 5394 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 5395 actual hardware limit. 5396 Format: <integer> 5397 Default: -1 (no limit) 5398 5399 softlockup_panic= 5400 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 5401 Format: 0 | 1 5402 5403 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 5404 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 5405 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 5406 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 5407 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 5408 5409 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 5410 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 5411 backtraces on all cpus. 5412 Format: 0 | 1 5413 5414 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 5415 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 5416 5417 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5418 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 5419 The default operation protects the kernel from 5420 user space attacks. 5421 5422 on - unconditionally enable, implies 5423 spectre_v2_user=on 5424 off - unconditionally disable, implies 5425 spectre_v2_user=off 5426 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5427 vulnerable 5428 5429 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 5430 mitigation method at run time according to the 5431 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 5432 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 5433 compiler with which the kernel was built. 5434 5435 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 5436 against user space to user space task attacks. 5437 5438 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 5439 the user space protections. 5440 5441 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 5442 5443 retpoline - replace indirect branches 5444 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 5445 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 5446 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 5447 eibrs - enhanced IBRS 5448 eibrs,retpoline - enhanced IBRS + Retpolines 5449 eibrs,lfence - enhanced IBRS + LFENCE 5450 5451 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5452 spectre_v2=auto. 5453 5454 spectre_v2_user= 5455 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5456 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 5457 user space tasks 5458 5459 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 5460 enforced by spectre_v2=on 5461 5462 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 5463 enforced by spectre_v2=off 5464 5465 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 5466 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 5467 per thread. The mitigation control state 5468 is inherited on fork. 5469 5470 prctl,ibpb 5471 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 5472 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5473 always when switching between different user 5474 space processes. 5475 5476 seccomp 5477 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 5478 threads will enable the mitigation unless 5479 they explicitly opt out. 5480 5481 seccomp,ibpb 5482 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 5483 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5484 always when switching between different 5485 user space processes. 5486 5487 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 5488 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 5489 5490 Default mitigation: "prctl" 5491 5492 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5493 spectre_v2_user=auto. 5494 5495 spec_store_bypass_disable= 5496 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 5497 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 5498 5499 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 5500 a common industry wide performance optimization known 5501 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 5502 to the same memory location may not be observed by 5503 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 5504 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 5505 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 5506 end of a particular speculation execution window. 5507 5508 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5509 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 5510 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 5511 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 5512 5513 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 5514 Bypass optimization is used. 5515 5516 On x86 the options are: 5517 5518 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 5519 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 5520 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 5521 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 5522 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 5523 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 5524 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 5525 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 5526 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 5527 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 5528 for a process by default. The state of the control 5529 is inherited on fork. 5530 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 5531 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 5532 5533 Default mitigations: 5534 X86: "prctl" 5535 5536 On powerpc the options are: 5537 5538 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 5539 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 5540 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 5541 exit. 5542 off - No action. 5543 5544 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5545 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 5546 5547 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 5548 spia_fio_base= 5549 spia_pedr= 5550 spia_peddr= 5551 5552 split_lock_detect= 5553 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 5554 5555 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 5556 instructions that access data across cache line 5557 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 5558 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 5559 bus lock detection. 5560 5561 off - not enabled 5562 5563 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 5564 about applications triggering the #AC 5565 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 5566 the default on CPUs that support split lock 5567 detection or bus lock detection. Default 5568 behavior is by #AC if both features are 5569 enabled in hardware. 5570 5571 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 5572 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 5573 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 5574 both features are enabled in hardware. 5575 5576 ratelimit:N - 5577 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 5578 per second for bus lock detection. 5579 0 < N <= 1000. 5580 5581 N/A for split lock detection. 5582 5583 5584 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 5585 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 5586 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 5587 mode. 5588 5589 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 5590 CPL > 0. 5591 5592 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 5593 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 5594 (SRBDS) mitigation. 5595 5596 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 5597 exploit which can leak bits from the random 5598 number generator. 5599 5600 By default, this issue is mitigated by 5601 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 5602 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 5603 much slower. Among other effects, this will 5604 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 5605 5606 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 5607 the following option: 5608 5609 off: Disable mitigation and remove 5610 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 5611 5612 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 5613 Specifies how frequently to check for 5614 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 5615 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 5616 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 5617 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 5618 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 5619 are ignored. 5620 5621 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 5622 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 5623 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 5624 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 5625 grace period will be considered for automatic 5626 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 5627 expediting. 5628 5629 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 5630 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 5631 5632 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 5633 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 5634 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 5635 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 5636 5637 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 5638 for both kernel and userspace 5639 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 5640 for both kernel and userspace 5641 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 5642 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 5643 to allow userspace to register its 5644 interest in being mitigated too. 5645 5646 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 5647 override the default stack gap protection. The value 5648 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 5649 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 5650 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 5651 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 5652 5653 stack_depot_disable= [KNL] 5654 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 5655 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 5656 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 5657 to false. 5658 5659 stacktrace [FTRACE] 5660 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 5661 5662 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 5663 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 5664 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 5665 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 5666 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 5667 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 5668 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 5669 5670 sti= [PARISC,HW] 5671 Format: <num> 5672 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 5673 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 5674 as the initial boot-console. 5675 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5676 5677 sti_font= [HW] 5678 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5679 5680 stifb= [HW] 5681 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 5682 5683 strict_sas_size= 5684 [X86] 5685 Format: <bool> 5686 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 5687 against the required signal frame size which 5688 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 5689 be used to filter out binaries which have 5690 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 5691 5692 sunrpc.min_resvport= 5693 sunrpc.max_resvport= 5694 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5695 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 5696 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 5697 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 5698 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 5699 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 5700 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 5701 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 5702 maximum port values. 5703 5704 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 5705 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5706 Limit the number of requests that the server will 5707 process in parallel from a single connection. 5708 The default value is 0 (no limit). 5709 5710 sunrpc.pool_mode= 5711 [NFS] 5712 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 5713 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 5714 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 5715 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 5716 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 5717 NFS server is running. 5718 5719 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 5720 automatically using heuristics 5721 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 5722 percpu one pool for each CPU 5723 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 5724 to global on non-NUMA machines) 5725 5726 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 5727 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 5728 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5729 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 5730 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 5731 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 5732 improve throughput, but will also increase the 5733 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 5734 5735 suspend.pm_test_delay= 5736 [SUSPEND] 5737 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 5738 mode before resuming the system (see 5739 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 5740 is set. Default value is 5. 5741 5742 svm= [PPC] 5743 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 5744 This parameter controls use of the Protected 5745 Execution Facility on pSeries. 5746 5747 swapaccount=[0|1] 5748 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 5749 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 5750 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) 5751 5752 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 5753 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 5754 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 5755 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 5756 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 5757 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 5758 5759 switches= [HW,M68k] 5760 5761 sysctl.*= [KNL] 5762 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 5763 process, as if the value was written to the respective 5764 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 5765 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 5766 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 5767 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 5768 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 5769 5770 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 5771 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 5772 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 5773 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 5774 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 5775 in older udev will not work anymore. 5776 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 5777 the kernel configuration. 5778 5779 sysrq_always_enabled 5780 [KNL] 5781 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 5782 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 5783 Useful for debugging. 5784 5785 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5786 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 5787 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 5788 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 5789 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 5790 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 5791 5792 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 5793 5794 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 5795 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 5796 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 5797 as the system sleep state during system startup with 5798 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 5799 The system is woken from this state using a 5800 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 5801 5802 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5803 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 5804 5805 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 5806 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 5807 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 5808 5809 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 5810 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 5811 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 5812 5813 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 5814 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 5815 critical and hot trip points. 5816 5817 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 5818 1: disable ACPI thermal control 5819 5820 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 5821 -1: disable all passive trip points 5822 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 5823 value 5824 5825 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 5826 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 5827 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 5828 0: no polling (default) 5829 5830 threadirqs [KNL] 5831 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 5832 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 5833 5834 topology= [S390] 5835 Format: {off | on} 5836 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 5837 topology information if the hardware supports this. 5838 The scheduler will make use of this information and 5839 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 5840 Default is on. 5841 5842 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 5843 Format: {off} 5844 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 5845 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 5846 LPAR. 5847 5848 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 5849 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 5850 until after init has spawned. 5851 5852 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 5853 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 5854 even if there were no errors. This can be a 5855 very costly operation when many torture tests 5856 are running concurrently, especially on systems 5857 with rotating-rust storage. 5858 5859 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 5860 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 5861 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 5862 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 5863 5864 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 5865 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 5866 5867 tp720= [HW,PS2] 5868 5869 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 5870 Format: integer pcr id 5871 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 5872 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 5873 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 5874 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 5875 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 5876 are saved. 5877 5878 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 5879 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 5880 5881 trace_event=[event-list] 5882 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 5883 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 5884 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 5885 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 5886 5887 trace_options=[option-list] 5888 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 5889 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 5890 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 5891 to echo the option name into 5892 5893 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 5894 5895 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 5896 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 5897 5898 trace_options=stacktrace 5899 5900 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 5901 section. 5902 5903 tp_printk[FTRACE] 5904 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 5905 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 5906 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 5907 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 5908 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 5909 5910 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 5911 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 5912 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 5913 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 5914 5915 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 5916 to stop the printing of events to console at 5917 late_initcall_sync. 5918 5919 ** CAUTION ** 5920 5921 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 5922 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 5923 the system to live lock. 5924 5925 tp_printk_stop_on_boot[FTRACE] 5926 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 5927 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 5928 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 5929 make the system inoperable. 5930 5931 This command line option will stop the printing of events 5932 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 5933 5934 traceoff_on_warning 5935 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 5936 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 5937 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 5938 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 5939 5940 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 5941 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 5942 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 5943 5944 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 5945 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 5946 5947 transparent_hugepage= 5948 [KNL] 5949 Format: [always|madvise|never] 5950 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 5951 with respect to transparent hugepages. 5952 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 5953 for more details. 5954 5955 trusted.source= [KEYS] 5956 Format: <string> 5957 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 5958 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 5959 sources: 5960 - "tpm" 5961 - "tee" 5962 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 5963 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 5964 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 5965 successfully during iteration. 5966 5967 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 5968 Format: <string> 5969 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 5970 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 5971 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 5972 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 5973 virtualized environment. 5974 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 5975 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 5976 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 5977 can add overhead. 5978 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 5979 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 5980 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 5981 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 5982 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 5983 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 5984 acceptable). 5985 5986 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 5987 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 5988 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 5989 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 5990 Format: <unsigned int> 5991 5992 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 5993 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 5994 support TSX control. 5995 5996 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 5997 5998 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 5999 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 6000 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 6001 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 6002 so there may be unknown security risks associated 6003 with leaving it enabled. 6004 6005 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 6006 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 6007 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 6008 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 6009 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 6010 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 6011 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 6012 6013 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 6014 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 6015 6016 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 6017 6018 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6019 for more details. 6020 6021 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 6022 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 6023 6024 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 6025 certain CPUs that support Transactional 6026 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 6027 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 6028 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 6029 conditions. 6030 6031 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6032 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 6033 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 6034 access. 6035 6036 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 6037 options are: 6038 6039 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 6040 if TSX is enabled. 6041 6042 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 6043 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 6044 is not disabled because CPU is not 6045 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 6046 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 6047 6048 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 6049 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 6050 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 6051 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 6052 6053 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6054 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 6055 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 6056 required and doesn't provide any additional 6057 mitigation. 6058 6059 For details see: 6060 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6061 6062 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 6063 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 6064 Format: 6065 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 6066 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 6067 6068 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 6069 happen after console_init() and before a proper 6070 console driver takes over, this boot options might 6071 help "seeing" what's going on. 6072 6073 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6074 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 6075 6076 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 6077 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 6078 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 6079 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 6080 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 6081 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 6082 reported either. 6083 6084 unknown_nmi_panic 6085 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 6086 6087 usbcore.authorized_default= 6088 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 6089 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 6090 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 6091 if device connected to internal port) 6092 6093 usbcore.autosuspend= 6094 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 6095 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 6096 is the time required before an idle device will be 6097 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 6098 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 6099 6100 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 6101 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 6102 6103 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 6104 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 6105 (default = 65536). 6106 6107 usbcore.blinkenlights= 6108 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 6109 6110 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 6111 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 6112 scheme (default 0 = off). 6113 6114 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 6115 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 6116 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 6117 6118 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 6119 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 6120 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 6121 6122 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 6123 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 6124 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 6125 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 6126 6127 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 6128 6129 usbcore.quirks= 6130 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 6131 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 6132 commas. Each entry has the form 6133 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 6134 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 6135 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 6136 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 6137 the following meanings: 6138 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 6139 descriptors must not be fetched using 6140 a 255-byte read); 6141 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 6142 correctly so reset it instead); 6143 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 6144 Set-Interface requests); 6145 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 6146 handle its Configuration or Interface 6147 strings); 6148 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 6149 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 6150 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 6151 more interface descriptions than the 6152 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 6153 talking to these interfaces); 6154 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 6155 during initialization, after we read 6156 the device descriptor); 6157 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 6158 high speed and super speed interrupt 6159 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 6160 require the interval in microframes (1 6161 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 6162 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 6163 (bInterval-1). 6164 Devices with this quirk report their 6165 bInterval as the result of this 6166 calculation instead of the exponent 6167 variable used in the calculation); 6168 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 6169 handle device_qualifier descriptor 6170 requests); 6171 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 6172 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 6173 remote wakeup capability); 6174 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 6175 Power Management); 6176 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 6177 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 6178 frames instead of the USB 2.0 6179 calculation); 6180 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 6181 to be disconnected before suspend to 6182 prevent spurious wakeup); 6183 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 6184 pause after every control message); 6185 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 6186 delay after resetting its port); 6187 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 6188 6189 usbhid.mousepoll= 6190 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 6191 6192 usbhid.jspoll= 6193 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 6194 6195 usbhid.kbpoll= 6196 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 6197 6198 usb-storage.delay_use= 6199 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 6200 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 6201 6202 usb-storage.quirks= 6203 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 6204 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 6205 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 6206 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 6207 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 6208 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 6209 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 6210 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 6211 of sense data, not on uas); 6212 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 6213 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 6214 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 6215 device capacity by one sector); 6216 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 6217 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 6218 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 6219 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 6220 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 6221 command, uas only); 6222 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 6223 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 6224 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 6225 reported device capacity by one 6226 sector if the number is odd); 6227 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 6228 device); 6229 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 6230 command, uas only); 6231 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 6232 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 6233 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 6234 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 6235 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 6236 not on uas); 6237 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 6238 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 6239 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 6240 reported by the device, not on uas); 6241 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 6242 by default, not on uas); 6243 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 6244 bogus residue values, not on uas); 6245 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 6246 Logical Unit); 6247 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 6248 commands, uas only); 6249 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 6250 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 6251 medium is write-protected). 6252 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 6253 even if the device claims no cache, 6254 not on uas) 6255 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 6256 6257 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 6258 Format: <int> 6259 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 6260 1 - undefined instruction events 6261 2 - system calls 6262 4 - invalid data aborts 6263 8 - SIGSEGV faults 6264 16 - SIGBUS faults 6265 Example: user_debug=31 6266 6267 userpte= 6268 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 6269 6270 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 6271 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 6272 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 6273 6274 vdso= [X86,SH] 6275 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 6276 6277 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 6278 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 6279 6280 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 6281 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 6282 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 6283 6284 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 6285 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 6286 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 6287 6288 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 6289 alias for vdso32=0. 6290 6291 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 6292 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 6293 6294 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 6295 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 6296 6297 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 6298 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 6299 6300 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 6301 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 6302 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 6303 level and then send out the event to user space through 6304 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 6305 will only send out the event without touching backlight 6306 brightness level. 6307 default: 1 6308 6309 virtio_mmio.device= 6310 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 6311 6312 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 6313 where: 6314 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 6315 like K, M and G) 6316 <baseaddr> := physical base address 6317 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 6318 request_irq()) 6319 <id> := (optional) platform device id 6320 example: 6321 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 6322 6323 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 6324 6325 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 6326 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 6327 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 6328 Use vga=ask for menu. 6329 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 6330 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 6331 6332 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 6333 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 6334 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 6335 All options are enabled by default, and this 6336 interface is meant to allow for selectively 6337 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 6338 debugging features. 6339 6340 Available options are: 6341 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 6342 - Disable all of the above options 6343 6344 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 6345 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 6346 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 6347 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 6348 mapped kernel RAM. 6349 6350 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 6351 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 6352 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 6353 6354 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 6355 Format: <command> 6356 6357 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 6358 Format: <command> 6359 6360 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 6361 Format: <command> 6362 6363 vsyscall= [X86-64] 6364 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 6365 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 6366 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 6367 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 6368 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 6369 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 6370 6371 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6372 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6373 page is readable. 6374 6375 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6376 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6377 page is not readable. 6378 6379 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 6380 them quite hard to use for exploits but 6381 might break your system. 6382 6383 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 6384 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 6385 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 6386 6387 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 6388 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 6389 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 6390 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 6391 6392 vt.default_blu= [VT] 6393 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 6394 Change the default blue palette of the console. 6395 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6396 ranging from 0-255. 6397 6398 vt.default_grn= [VT] 6399 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 6400 Change the default green palette of the console. 6401 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6402 ranging from 0-255. 6403 6404 vt.default_red= [VT] 6405 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 6406 Change the default red palette of the console. 6407 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6408 ranging from 0-255. 6409 6410 vt.default_utf8= 6411 [VT] 6412 Format=<0|1> 6413 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 6414 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 6415 newly opened terminals. 6416 6417 vt.global_cursor_default= 6418 [VT] 6419 Format=<-1|0|1> 6420 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 6421 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 6422 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 6423 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 6424 cursors, 1 will display them. 6425 6426 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 6427 Default: 2 = green. 6428 6429 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 6430 Default: 3 = cyan. 6431 6432 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 6433 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 6434 or other driver-specific files in the 6435 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 6436 6437 watchdog_thresh= 6438 [KNL] 6439 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 6440 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 6441 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 6442 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 6443 seconds. 6444 6445 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 6446 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 6447 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 6448 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 6449 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 6450 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 6451 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 6452 corresponding sysfs file. 6453 6454 workqueue.disable_numa 6455 By default, all work items queued to unbound 6456 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 6457 issued on, which results in better behavior in 6458 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 6459 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 6460 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 6461 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 6462 6463 workqueue.power_efficient 6464 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 6465 they show better performance thanks to cache 6466 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 6467 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 6468 6469 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 6470 were observed to contribute significantly to power 6471 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 6472 power usage at the cost of small performance 6473 overhead. 6474 6475 The default value of this parameter is determined by 6476 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 6477 6478 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 6479 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 6480 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 6481 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 6482 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 6483 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 6484 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 6485 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 6486 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 6487 impacted. 6488 6489 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 6490 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 6491 supporting x2apic. 6492 6493 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 6494 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 6495 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 6496 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 6497 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 6498 domains. 6499 6500 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 6501 Unplug Xen emulated devices 6502 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 6503 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 6504 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 6505 nics -- unplug network devices 6506 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 6507 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 6508 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 6509 the unplug protocol 6510 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 6511 6512 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 6513 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 6514 panic() code such as dumping handler. 6515 6516 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 6517 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 6518 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 6519 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6520 6521 xen_nopv [X86] 6522 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 6523 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 6524 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 6525 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6526 6527 xen_no_vector_callback 6528 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 6529 event channel interrupts. 6530 6531 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 6532 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 6533 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 6534 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 6535 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 6536 6537 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 6538 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 6539 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 6540 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 6541 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 6542 more timer interrupts. 6543 6544 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 6545 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 6546 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 6547 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 6548 started with less memory configured than allowed at 6549 max. Default is 180. 6550 6551 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 6552 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 6553 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 6554 6555 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 6556 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 6557 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 6558 6559 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 6560 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 6561 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 6562 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 6563 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 6564 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 6565 6566 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 6567 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 6568 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 6569 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 6570 6571 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 6572 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 6573 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 6574 contention. 6575 6576 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 6577 Format: 6578 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 6579 6580 xive= [PPC] 6581 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 6582 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 6583 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 6584 6585 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 6586 controller on both pseries and powernv 6587 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 6588 6589 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 6590 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 6591 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 6592 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 6593 loads instead, as on POWER9. 6594 6595 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 6596 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 6597 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 6598 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 6599 6600 xmon [PPC] 6601 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 6602 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 6603 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 6604 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 6605 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 6606 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6607 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 6608 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 6609 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 6610 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6611 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 6612 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 6613 can be written using xmon commands. 6614 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 6615 memory, and other data can't be written using 6616 xmon commands. 6617 off xmon is disabled. 6618