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> 117 118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 122 auto-serialization feature. 123 This feature is enabled by default. 124 This option allows to turn off the feature. 125 126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 127 kernels. 128 129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 132 installed automatically and they will appear under 133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 134 This option turns off this feature. 135 Note that specifying this option does not affect 136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 138 139 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 140 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 141 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 142 143 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 144 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 145 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 146 second kernel for kdump. 147 148 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 149 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 150 151 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 152 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 153 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 154 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 155 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 156 157 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 158 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 159 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 160 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 161 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 162 strings 163 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 164 strings 165 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 166 167 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 168 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 169 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 170 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 171 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 172 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 173 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 174 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 175 care about the state of the feature group strings which 176 should be controlled by the OSPM. 177 Examples: 178 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 179 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 180 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 181 182 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 183 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 184 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 185 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 186 multiple times through kernel command line is also 187 meaningless. 188 Examples: 189 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 190 FALSE. 191 192 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 193 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 194 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 195 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 196 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 197 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 198 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 199 there are quirks related to this string. This command 200 is useful when one want to control the state of the 201 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 202 the OSPM features. 203 Examples: 204 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 205 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 206 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 207 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 208 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 209 equivalent to 210 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 211 and 212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 213 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 214 215 acpi_pm_good [X86] 216 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 217 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 218 and always returns good values. 219 220 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 221 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 222 223 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 224 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 225 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 226 227 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 228 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, 229 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl } 230 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 231 s3_bios and s3_mode. 232 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 233 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 234 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 235 used during resume from hibernation. 236 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 237 control method, with respect to putting devices into 238 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 239 of _PTS is used by default). 240 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 241 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 242 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 243 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 244 but some broken systems don't work without it). 245 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 246 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 247 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 248 249 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 250 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 251 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 252 253 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 254 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 255 256 agp= [AGP] 257 { off | try_unsupported } 258 off: disable AGP support 259 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 260 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 261 262 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 263 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 264 265 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 266 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 267 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 268 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 269 270 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 271 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 272 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 273 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 274 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 275 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 276 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 277 278 32: only for 32-bit processes 279 64: only for 64-bit processes 280 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 281 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 282 283 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 284 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 285 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 286 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 287 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 288 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 289 290 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 291 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 292 Possible values are: 293 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when 294 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are 295 flushed before they will be reused, which 296 is a lot of faster 297 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 298 the system 299 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 300 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 301 allowed anymore to lift isolation 302 requirements as needed. This option 303 does not override iommu=pt 304 305 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 306 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 307 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 308 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 309 IOMMU initialization. 310 311 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 312 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 313 remapping modes: 314 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 315 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 316 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 317 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 318 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 319 320 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 321 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 322 Format: <a>,<b> 323 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 324 325 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 326 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 327 connected to one of 16 gameports 328 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 329 330 apc= [HW,SPARC] 331 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 332 Format: noidle 333 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 334 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 335 APC and your system crashes randomly. 336 337 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 338 Change the output verbosity while booting 339 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 340 Change the amount of debugging information output 341 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 342 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 343 driver name. 344 Format: apic=driver_name 345 Examples: apic=bigsmp 346 347 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 348 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 349 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 350 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 351 backup of CPU 0 352 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 353 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 354 shot down by NMI 355 356 autoconf= [IPV6] 357 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 358 359 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 360 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 361 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 362 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 363 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 364 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 365 apic=verbose is specified. 366 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 367 368 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 369 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 370 371 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 372 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 373 374 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 375 Identification support 376 377 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 378 support 379 380 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 381 382 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 383 384 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 385 EzKey and similar keyboards 386 387 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 388 389 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 390 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 391 392 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 393 keyboards 394 395 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 396 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 397 398 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 399 Use software keyboard repeat 400 401 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 402 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 403 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 404 enabled until the next reboot 405 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 406 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 407 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 408 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 409 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 410 userspace auditd. 411 Default: unset 412 413 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 414 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 415 Default: 64 416 417 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 418 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 419 Format: { "0" | "1" } 420 0 - Disable the BAU. 421 1 - Enable the BAU. 422 unset - Disable the BAU. 423 424 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 425 Format: <io>,<mode> 426 427 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 428 Format: <io>,<mode> 429 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 430 431 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 432 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 433 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 434 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 435 436 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 437 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 438 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 439 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 440 441 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 442 embedded devices based on command line input. 443 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 444 445 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 446 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 447 no delay (0). 448 Format: integer 449 450 bootconfig [KNL] 451 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 452 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 453 454 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 455 456 bert_disable [ACPI] 457 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 458 459 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] 460 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 461 462 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 463 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 464 kernel args too. 465 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 466 bttv.tuner= 467 468 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 469 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 470 at a time. 471 472 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 473 474 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 475 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 476 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 477 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 478 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 479 This option provides an override for these situations. 480 481 carrier_timeout= 482 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 483 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 484 it waits 120 seconds. 485 486 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 487 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 488 trust validation. 489 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 490 491 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 492 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 493 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 494 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 495 others). 496 497 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 498 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 499 500 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller 501 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable} 502 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 503 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 504 a single hierarchy 505 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 506 subsystem 507 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 508 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 509 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 510 511 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 512 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 513 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 514 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 515 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 516 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 517 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 518 all v1 hierarchies. 519 520 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 521 Format: <string> 522 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 523 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 524 525 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 526 Format: { "0" | "1" } 527 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 528 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 529 any implied execute protection). 530 1 -- check protection requested by application. 531 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 532 Value can be changed at runtime via 533 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 534 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 535 536 cio_ignore= [S390] 537 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 538 clk_ignore_unused 539 [CLK] 540 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 541 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 542 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 543 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 544 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 545 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 546 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 547 platform with proper driver support. For more 548 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 549 550 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 551 [Deprecated] 552 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 553 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 554 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 555 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 556 557 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 558 Format: <string> 559 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 560 with the name specified. 561 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 562 the platform: 563 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 564 [ACPI] acpi_pm 565 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 566 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 567 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 568 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 569 [MIPS] MIPS 570 [PARISC] cr16 571 [S390] tod 572 [SH] SuperH 573 [SPARC64] tick 574 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 575 576 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 577 [ARM,ARM64] 578 Format: <bool> 579 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 580 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 581 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 582 systems. 583 584 clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL] 585 Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to 586 external delays before the clock will be marked 587 unstable. Defaults to three retries, that is, 588 four attempts to read the clock under test. 589 590 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 591 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 592 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 593 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 594 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 595 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 596 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 597 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 598 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 599 600 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 601 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 602 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 603 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 604 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 605 606 clearcpuid=BITNUM[,BITNUM...] [X86] 607 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 608 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 609 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily 610 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific 611 ones should be. 612 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 613 or using the feature without checking anything 614 will still see it. This just prevents it from 615 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 616 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 617 some critical bits. 618 619 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 620 [KNL,CMA] 621 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 622 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 623 placement constraint by the physical address range of 624 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 625 altogether. For more information, see 626 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 627 628 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 629 [ARM64,KNL,CMA] 630 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 631 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 632 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 633 specificed, the default value is 0. 634 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 635 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 636 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 637 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 638 639 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 640 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 641 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 642 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 643 a hypervisor. 644 Default: yes 645 646 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 647 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 648 allocations, by default set to 256K. 649 650 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 651 Format: 652 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 653 654 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 655 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 656 657 com90xx= [HW,NET] 658 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 659 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 660 661 condev= [HW,S390] console device 662 conmode= 663 664 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 665 666 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 667 668 ttyS<n>[,options] 669 ttyUSB0[,options] 670 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 671 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 672 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 673 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 674 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 675 676 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 677 information. See 678 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 679 alternative. 680 681 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 682 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 683 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 684 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 685 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 686 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 687 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 688 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 689 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 690 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 691 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 692 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 693 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 694 the h/w is not re-initialized. 695 696 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 697 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 698 699 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 700 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 701 console=brl,ttyS0 702 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 703 704 console_msg_format= 705 [KNL] Change console messages format 706 default 707 By default we print messages on consoles in 708 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 709 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 710 `printk_time' param). 711 syslog 712 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 713 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 714 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 715 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 716 from /proc/kmsg. 717 718 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 719 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 720 Defaults to 0. 721 722 coredump_filter= 723 [KNL] Change the default value for 724 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 725 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 726 727 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 728 [ARM,ARM64] 729 Format: <bool> 730 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 731 0: default value, disable debugging 732 1: enable debugging at boot time 733 734 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 735 disable the cpuidle sub-system 736 737 cpuidle.governor= 738 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 739 740 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 741 disable the cpufreq sub-system 742 743 cpufreq.default_governor= 744 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 745 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 746 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 747 748 cpu_init_udelay=N 749 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 750 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 751 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 752 Default: 10000 753 754 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 755 Format: 756 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 757 758 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 759 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 760 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 761 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 762 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 763 is selected automatically. 764 [KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and 765 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 766 hasn't been specified. 767 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 768 769 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 770 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 771 in the running system. The syntax of range is 772 start-[end] where start and end are both 773 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 774 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 775 776 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 777 [KNL, X86-64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 778 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 779 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 780 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 781 available. 782 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 783 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 784 [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 785 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 786 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 787 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 788 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 789 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 790 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at 791 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 792 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G 793 for second kernel instead. 794 0: to disable low allocation. 795 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 796 or memory reserved is below 4G. 797 798 cryptomgr.notests 799 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 800 801 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 802 Format: <dma> 803 804 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 805 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 806 807 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call 808 handling. When switched on, additional debug data is 809 printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is 810 detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try 811 to resolve the hang situation. 812 0: disable csdlock debugging (default) 813 1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact) 814 ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact, 815 but more data) 816 817 dasd= [HW,NET] 818 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 819 820 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 821 (one device per port) 822 Format: <port#>,<type> 823 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 824 825 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot 826 time. See 827 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for 828 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg. 829 830 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 831 832 debug_boot_weak_hash 833 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 834 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 835 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 836 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 837 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 838 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 839 840 debug_locks_verbose= 841 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 842 Format: <int> 843 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 844 self-tests. 845 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 846 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 847 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 848 useful to lockdep developers. 849 850 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 851 852 no_debug_objects 853 [KNL] Disable object debugging 854 855 debug_guardpage_minorder= 856 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 857 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 858 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 859 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 860 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 861 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 862 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 863 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 864 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 865 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 866 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 867 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 868 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 869 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 870 bypassed) which are not detectable by 871 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 872 tracking down these problems. 873 874 debug_pagealloc= 875 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 876 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 877 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 878 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 879 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 880 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 881 on: enable the feature 882 883 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 884 and debugfs internal clients. 885 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 886 on: All functions are enabled. 887 no-mount: 888 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 889 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 890 its content. There is nothing to mount. 891 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 892 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 893 or directories within debugfs. 894 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 895 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 896 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 897 898 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 899 900 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 901 Format: <area>[,<node>] 902 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst. 903 904 default_hugepagesz= 905 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 906 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 907 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 908 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 909 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 910 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 911 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 912 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 913 Format: size[KMG] 914 915 deferred_probe_timeout= 916 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 917 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 918 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 919 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0 920 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also 921 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 922 retrying. 923 924 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 925 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 926 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 927 level 1 and decompression (default) 928 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 929 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 930 only (compression on level 1) 931 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 932 only (decompression) 933 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 934 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 935 936 dhash_entries= [KNL] 937 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 938 939 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 940 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 941 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 942 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 943 miss to occur. 944 945 stress_slb [PPC] 946 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 947 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 948 on kernel addresses. 949 950 disable= [IPV6] 951 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 952 953 hardened_usercopy= 954 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 955 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 956 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 957 from reading or writing beyond known memory 958 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 959 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 960 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 961 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 962 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 963 964 disable_radix [PPC] 965 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 966 967 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 968 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 969 invalidate. 970 971 disable_tlbie [PPC] 972 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 973 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 974 975 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 976 Format: <int> 977 The number of initial APIC ID for the 978 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 979 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 980 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 981 causing system reset or hang due to sending 982 INIT from AP to BSP. 983 984 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 985 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 986 to workaround buggy firmware. 987 988 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 989 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 990 991 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 992 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 993 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 994 entry later. This parameter disables that. 995 996 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 997 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 998 memory out of your available memory pool based on 999 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1000 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1001 1002 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1003 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1004 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1005 1006 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1007 1008 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1009 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1010 1011 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1012 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1013 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1014 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1015 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1016 architectural default is too low. 1017 1018 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1019 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1020 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1021 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1022 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1023 driver later using sysfs. 1024 1025 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1026 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. 1027 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1028 1029 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1030 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1031 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1032 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1033 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1034 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 1035 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 1036 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 1037 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 1038 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 1039 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID 1040 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 1041 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 1042 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 1043 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1044 data set with no connector name will be used for 1045 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1046 1047 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1048 1049 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1050 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1051 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1052 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1053 exists). 1054 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1055 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1056 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1057 1058 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1059 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1060 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1061 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1062 1063 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1064 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1065 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1066 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1067 for details. 1068 1069 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 1070 in some Intel CPUs. 1071 1072 <module>.async_probe [KNL] 1073 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 1074 1075 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1076 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1077 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1078 which are not unmapped. 1079 1080 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1081 1082 When used with no options, the early console is 1083 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1084 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1085 the platform. 1086 1087 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1088 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1089 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1090 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1091 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1092 configured. 1093 1094 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 1095 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 1096 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 1097 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 1098 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1099 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1100 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1101 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1102 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1103 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1104 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1105 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1106 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 1107 1108 pl011,<addr> 1109 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1110 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1111 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1112 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1113 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1114 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1115 the device registers. 1116 1117 meson,<addr> 1118 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1119 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1120 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1121 supported. 1122 1123 msm_serial,<addr> 1124 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1125 port at the specified address. The serial port 1126 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1127 yet supported. 1128 1129 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1130 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1131 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1132 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1133 yet supported. 1134 1135 owl,<addr> 1136 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1137 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1138 specified address. The serial port must already be 1139 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1140 1141 rda,<addr> 1142 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1143 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1144 specified address. The serial port must already be 1145 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1146 1147 sbi 1148 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1149 console. 1150 1151 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1152 1153 s3c2410,<addr> 1154 s3c2412,<addr> 1155 s3c2440,<addr> 1156 s3c6400,<addr> 1157 s5pv210,<addr> 1158 exynos4210,<addr> 1159 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1160 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1161 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1162 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1163 Options are not yet supported. 1164 1165 lantiq,<addr> 1166 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1167 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1168 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1169 yet supported. 1170 1171 lpuart,<addr> 1172 lpuart32,<addr> 1173 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1174 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1175 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1176 port must already be setup and configured. 1177 1178 ec_imx21,<addr> 1179 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1180 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1181 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1182 must already be setup and configured. 1183 1184 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1185 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1186 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1187 address. The serial port must already be setup 1188 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1189 1190 qcom_geni,<addr> 1191 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1192 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1193 specified address. The serial port must already be 1194 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1195 1196 efifb,[options] 1197 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1198 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1199 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1200 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1201 mapped with the correct attributes. 1202 1203 linflex,<addr> 1204 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1205 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1206 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1207 already be setup and configured. 1208 1209 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1210 earlyprintk=vga 1211 earlyprintk=sclp 1212 earlyprintk=xen 1213 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1214 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1215 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1216 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1217 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1218 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1219 1220 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1221 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1222 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1223 1224 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1225 takes over. 1226 1227 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 1228 be used at a time. 1229 1230 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1231 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1232 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1233 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1234 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1235 You can find the port for a given device in 1236 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1237 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1238 1239 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1240 very good. 1241 1242 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 1243 the real console. 1244 1245 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. 1246 1247 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1248 1249 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1250 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1251 UART class. 1252 1253 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1254 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1255 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1256 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1257 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1258 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1259 default: on. 1260 1261 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1262 ekgdboc=kbd 1263 1264 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1265 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1266 1267 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1268 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1269 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1270 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1271 1272 edd= [EDD] 1273 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1274 1275 efi= [EFI] 1276 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1277 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1278 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1279 debug: enable misc debug output. 1280 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1281 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1282 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1283 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1284 firmware implementations. 1285 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1286 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1287 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1288 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1289 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1290 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1291 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1292 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1293 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1294 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1295 1296 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1297 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1298 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1299 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1300 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1301 1302 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1303 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1304 updating original EFI memory map. 1305 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1306 from ss to ss+nn. 1307 1308 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1309 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1310 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1311 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1312 1313 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1314 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1315 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1316 1317 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1318 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1319 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1320 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1321 "soft reserved". 1322 1323 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1324 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1325 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1326 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1327 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1328 1329 1330 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1331 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1332 1333 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1334 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1335 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1336 1337 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1338 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1339 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1340 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1341 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1342 1343 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1344 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1345 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1346 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1347 1348 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1349 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1350 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1351 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1352 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1353 1354 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1355 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1356 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1357 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1358 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1359 Default value is 0. 1360 Value can be changed at runtime via 1361 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1362 1363 erst_disable [ACPI] 1364 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1365 support. 1366 1367 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1368 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1369 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1370 1371 evm= [EVM] 1372 Format: { "fix" } 1373 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1374 current integrity status. 1375 1376 failslab= 1377 fail_usercopy= 1378 fail_page_alloc= 1379 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1380 General fault injection mechanism. 1381 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1382 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1383 1384 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1385 Format: { initns | none } 1386 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1387 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1388 1389 floppy= [HW] 1390 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1391 1392 force_pal_cache_flush 1393 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1394 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1395 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1396 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1397 1398 forcepae [X86-32] 1399 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1400 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1401 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1402 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1403 and may cause unknown problems. 1404 1405 ftrace=[tracer] 1406 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1407 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1408 boot debugging. 1409 1410 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1411 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1412 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1413 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1414 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1415 oops. 1416 1417 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1418 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1419 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1420 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1421 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1422 tracing directory. 1423 1424 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1425 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1426 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1427 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1428 tracing directory. 1429 1430 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1431 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1432 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1433 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1434 that can be changed at run time by the 1435 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1436 1437 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1438 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1439 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1440 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1441 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1442 1443 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1444 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1445 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1446 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1447 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1448 1449 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1450 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1451 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1452 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1453 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1454 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1455 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1456 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1457 suppliers). 1458 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1459 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1460 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1461 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1462 up (sync_state() calls). 1463 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1464 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1465 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1466 1467 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1468 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1469 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1470 Format: <bool> 1471 1472 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1473 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1474 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1475 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1476 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1477 1478 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1479 1480 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1481 Format: off | on 1482 default: on 1483 1484 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1485 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1486 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1487 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1488 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1489 1490 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1491 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1492 android emulator 1493 1494 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1495 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1496 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1497 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1498 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1499 1500 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1501 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1502 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1503 GPT to be used instead. 1504 1505 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1506 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1507 Format: 0 | 1 1508 Default: 0 1509 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1510 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1511 Format: 0 | 1 1512 Default: 0 1513 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1514 Format: 0 | 1 1515 Default: 0 1516 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1517 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1518 Default: 1024 1519 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1520 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1521 Default: 1024 1522 1523 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1524 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1525 backtraces on all cpus. 1526 Format: 0 | 1 1527 1528 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1529 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1530 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1531 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1532 1533 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1534 1535 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1536 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1537 1538 hest_disable [ACPI] 1539 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1540 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1541 logic will be disabled. 1542 1543 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1544 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1545 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1546 size on bigger boxes. 1547 1548 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1549 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1550 Default: "on" 1551 1552 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1553 1554 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1555 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1556 verbose } 1557 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1558 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1559 VIA, nVidia) 1560 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1561 1562 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1563 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1564 1565 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1566 of gigantic hugepages. 1567 Format: nn[KMGTPE] 1568 1569 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1570 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1571 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1572 1573 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1574 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1575 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1576 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1577 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1578 the default huge page size. See also 1579 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1580 Format: <integer> 1581 1582 hugepagesz= 1583 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1584 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1585 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1586 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1587 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1588 architecture dependent. See also 1589 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1590 Format: size[KMG] 1591 1592 hung_task_panic= 1593 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1594 Format: 0 | 1 1595 1596 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1597 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1598 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1599 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1600 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1601 1602 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1603 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1604 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1605 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1606 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1607 1608 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1609 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1610 guest on lock contention. 1611 1612 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1613 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1614 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1615 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1616 the real console. 1617 1618 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1619 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1620 registered from board initialization code. 1621 Format: 1622 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1623 1624 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1625 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1626 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1627 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1628 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1629 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1630 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1631 keyboard and cannot control its state 1632 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1633 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1634 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1635 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1636 for the AUX port 1637 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1638 controller 1639 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1640 controllers 1641 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1642 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1643 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1644 transitions, or never reset 1645 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1646 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1647 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1648 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1649 architectures force reset to be always executed 1650 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1651 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1652 1653 i810= [HW,DRM] 1654 1655 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1656 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1657 hardware. 1658 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature 1659 does not match list of supported models. 1660 i8k.power_status 1661 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1662 (disabled by default) 1663 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1664 capability is set. 1665 1666 i915.invert_brightness= 1667 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1668 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1669 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1670 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1671 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1672 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1673 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1674 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1675 value switches the backlight off. 1676 -1 -- never invert brightness 1677 0 -- machine default 1678 1 -- force brightness inversion 1679 1680 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1681 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1682 1683 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1684 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1685 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1686 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1687 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst. 1688 1689 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1690 Format: <int> 1691 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1692 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1693 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1694 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1695 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1696 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1697 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1698 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1699 was 0x3. 1700 1701 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1702 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1703 1704 idle= [X86] 1705 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1706 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1707 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1708 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1709 Not recommended. 1710 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1711 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1712 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1713 1714 idxd.sva= [HW] 1715 Format: <bool> 1716 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1717 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1718 true (1). 1719 1720 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1721 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1722 Default: strict 1723 1724 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1725 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1726 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1727 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1728 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1729 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1730 encoding mode. 1731 1732 Available settings are as follows: 1733 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1734 supported by the FPU 1735 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1736 by the FPU 1737 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1738 by the FPU 1739 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1740 supported by the FPU 1741 1742 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1743 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1744 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1745 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1746 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1747 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1748 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1749 MIPS64 CPUs. 1750 1751 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1752 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1753 except where unsupported by hardware. 1754 1755 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1756 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1757 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1758 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1759 could change it dynamically, usually by 1760 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1761 1762 ignore_rlimit_data 1763 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1764 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1765 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1766 1767 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1768 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1769 1770 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1771 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1772 default: "enforce" 1773 1774 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1775 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1776 owned by uid=0. 1777 1778 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1779 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1780 measurements, instead of host native format. 1781 1782 ima_hash= [IMA] 1783 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1784 | sha512 | ... } 1785 default: "sha1" 1786 1787 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1788 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1789 1790 ima_policy= [IMA] 1791 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1792 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1793 fail_securely | critical_data" 1794 1795 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1796 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1797 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1798 uid=0. 1799 1800 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1801 all files owned by root. 1802 1803 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1804 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1805 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1806 1807 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1808 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1809 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1810 flag. 1811 1812 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 1813 critical data. 1814 1815 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1816 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1817 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1818 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1819 opened for read by uid=0. 1820 1821 ima_template= [IMA] 1822 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1823 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" } 1824 Default: "ima-ng" 1825 1826 ima_template_fmt= 1827 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1828 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1829 1830 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1831 Format: <min_file_size> 1832 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1833 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1834 1835 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1836 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1837 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1838 1839 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1840 Format: <bufsize> 1841 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1842 1843 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1844 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1845 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1846 1847 init= [KNL] 1848 Format: <full_path> 1849 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1850 process. 1851 1852 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1853 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1854 startup. 1855 1856 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1857 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1858 modules and initcalls. 1859 1860 initramfs_async= [KNL] 1861 Format: <bool> 1862 Default: 1 1863 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 1864 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 1865 with devices being probed and 1866 initialized. This should normally just work, 1867 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 1868 historical behaviour of the initramfs 1869 unpacking being completed before device_ and 1870 late_ initcalls. 1871 1872 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1873 1874 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 1875 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 1876 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 1877 setting. 1878 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 1879 Default is 0, 0 1880 1881 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 1882 zeroes. 1883 Format: 0 | 1 1884 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 1885 1886 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 1887 Format: 0 | 1 1888 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 1889 1890 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1891 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1892 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1893 override in debugfs after boot. 1894 1895 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1896 Format: <irq> 1897 1898 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1899 1900 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1901 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1902 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1903 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1904 1905 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1906 on 1907 Enable intel iommu driver. 1908 off 1909 Disable intel iommu driver. 1910 igfx_off [Default Off] 1911 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1912 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1913 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1914 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1915 DMA. 1916 strict [Default Off] 1917 With this option on every unmap_single operation will 1918 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed 1919 to batching them for performance. 1920 sp_off [Default Off] 1921 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 1922 has the capability. With this option, super page will 1923 not be supported. 1924 sm_on [Default Off] 1925 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the 1926 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable 1927 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode 1928 will be used on hardware which claims to support it. 1929 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 1930 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 1931 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 1932 could harm performance of some high-throughput 1933 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 1934 mapping is enabled. 1935 Note that using this option lowers the security 1936 provided by tboot because it makes the system 1937 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 1938 1939 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 1940 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1941 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 1942 1943 intel_pstate= [X86] 1944 disable 1945 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 1946 scaling driver for the supported processors 1947 passive 1948 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 1949 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 1950 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 1951 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 1952 feature. 1953 force 1954 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 1955 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 1956 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 1957 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 1958 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 1959 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 1960 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 1961 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 1962 no_hwp 1963 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 1964 if available. 1965 hwp_only 1966 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 1967 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 1968 support_acpi_ppc 1969 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 1970 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 1971 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 1972 then this feature is turned on by default. 1973 per_cpu_perf_limits 1974 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 1975 cpufreq sysfs interface 1976 1977 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 1978 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 1979 off disable Interrupt Remapping 1980 nosid disable Source ID checking 1981 no_x2apic_optout 1982 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 1983 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 1984 1985 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 1986 strict regions from userspace. 1987 relaxed 1988 1989 iommu= [X86] 1990 off 1991 force 1992 noforce 1993 biomerge 1994 panic 1995 nopanic 1996 merge 1997 nomerge 1998 soft 1999 pt [X86] 2000 nopt [X86] 2001 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2002 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2003 2004 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2005 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2006 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2007 falling back to the full range if needed. 2008 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2009 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2010 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2011 2012 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2013 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2014 0 - Lazy mode. 2015 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2016 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2017 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2018 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2019 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2020 1 - Strict mode (default). 2021 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2022 synchronously. 2023 2024 iommu.passthrough= 2025 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2026 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2027 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2028 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2029 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2030 2031 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2032 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2033 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2034 2035 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 2036 0x80 2037 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2038 0xed 2039 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2040 udelay 2041 Simple two microseconds delay 2042 none 2043 No delay 2044 2045 ip= [IP_PNP] 2046 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2047 2048 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2049 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2050 2051 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2052 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2053 2054 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2055 [ARM, ARM64] 2056 Format: <bool> 2057 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2058 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2059 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2060 2061 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2062 [ARM, ARM64] 2063 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2064 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2065 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2066 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2067 LPIs. 2068 2069 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2070 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2071 requires the kernel to be built with 2072 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2073 2074 irqfixup [HW] 2075 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2076 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2077 firmware running. 2078 2079 irqpoll [HW] 2080 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2081 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2082 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2083 firmware running. 2084 2085 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2086 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2087 2088 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2089 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2090 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2091 2092 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2093 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2094 2095 nohz 2096 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2097 2098 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2099 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2100 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2101 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2102 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2103 2104 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2105 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2106 be configured manually after bootup. 2107 2108 domain 2109 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2110 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2111 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2112 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2113 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2114 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2115 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2116 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2117 2118 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2119 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2120 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2121 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2122 2123 managed_irq 2124 2125 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2126 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2127 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2128 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2129 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2130 2131 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2132 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2133 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2134 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2135 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2136 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2137 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2138 2139 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2140 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2141 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2142 only delivered when tasks running on those 2143 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2144 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2145 queues. 2146 2147 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2148 2149 iucv= [HW,NET] 2150 2151 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2152 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2153 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2154 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2155 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2156 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2157 2158 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2159 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2160 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2161 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 2162 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2163 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2164 2165 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2166 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2167 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2168 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2169 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 2170 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2171 2172 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2173 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2174 2175 nokaslr [KNL] 2176 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 2177 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 2178 Layout Randomization). 2179 2180 kasan_multi_shot 2181 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2182 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2183 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2184 invalid access. 2185 2186 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2187 2188 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2189 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2190 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2191 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2192 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2193 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2194 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2195 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2196 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2197 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2198 2199 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2200 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2201 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2202 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2203 zone if it does not. 2204 2205 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2206 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2207 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2208 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2209 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2210 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2211 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2212 2213 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2214 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2215 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2216 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2217 optional and is the number seconds in between 2218 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2219 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2220 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2221 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2222 the kernel debugger. 2223 2224 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2225 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2226 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2227 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2228 keyboard only format: kbd 2229 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2230 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2231 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2232 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2233 2234 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2235 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2236 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2237 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2238 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2239 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2240 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2241 2242 The name of the early console should be specified 2243 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2244 the early console might be different than the tty 2245 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2246 blank and the first boot console that implements 2247 read() will be picked. 2248 2249 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2250 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2251 2252 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2253 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2254 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2255 2256 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2257 Valid arguments: on, off 2258 Default: on 2259 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2260 the default is off. 2261 2262 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2263 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2264 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2265 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2266 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2267 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2268 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2269 2270 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2271 2272 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2273 Boot Parameter" section. 2274 2275 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2276 and kernel address spaces. 2277 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2278 0: force disabled 2279 1: force enabled 2280 2281 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2282 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2283 2284 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2285 Default is false (don't support). 2286 2287 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 2288 KVM MMU at runtime. 2289 Default is 0 (off) 2290 2291 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2292 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2293 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2294 force : Always deploy workaround. 2295 off : Never deploy workaround. 2296 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2297 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2298 2299 Default is 'auto'. 2300 2301 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2302 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2303 2304 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2305 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2306 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2307 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2308 minute. The default is 60. 2309 2310 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2311 Default is 1 (enabled) 2312 2313 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2314 for all guests. 2315 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2316 2317 kvm-arm.mode= 2318 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2319 2320 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2321 protected guests. 2322 2323 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2324 state is kept private from the host. 2325 Not valid if the kernel is running in EL2. 2326 2327 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. 2328 2329 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2330 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2331 system registers 2332 2333 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2334 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2335 system registers 2336 2337 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2338 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2339 system registers 2340 2341 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2342 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2343 LPIs. 2344 2345 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2346 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2347 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2348 allocation. 2349 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2350 Format: <integer> 2351 Default: 5 2352 2353 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2354 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2355 Default is 1 (enabled) 2356 2357 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2358 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 2359 Default is 0 (disabled) 2360 2361 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2362 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2363 Default is 1 (enabled) 2364 2365 kvm-intel.nested= 2366 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2367 Default is 0 (disabled) 2368 2369 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2370 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2371 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2372 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2373 2374 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2375 CVE-2018-3620. 2376 2377 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2378 2379 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2380 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2381 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2382 never: Disables the mitigation 2383 2384 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2385 2386 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2387 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2388 Default is 1 (enabled) 2389 2390 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2391 affected CPUs 2392 2393 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2394 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2395 2396 full 2397 Provides all available mitigations for the 2398 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2399 enables all mitigations in the 2400 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2401 2402 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2403 sysfs interface is still possible after 2404 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2405 when the first VM is started in a 2406 potentially insecure configuration, 2407 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2408 2409 full,force 2410 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2411 flush runtime control. Implies the 2412 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2413 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2414 2415 flush 2416 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2417 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2418 L1D flush. 2419 2420 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2421 sysfs interface is still possible after 2422 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2423 when the first VM is started in a 2424 potentially insecure configuration, 2425 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2426 2427 flush,nosmt 2428 2429 Disables SMT and enables the default 2430 hypervisor mitigation. 2431 2432 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2433 sysfs interface is still possible after 2434 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2435 when the first VM is started in a 2436 potentially insecure configuration, 2437 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2438 2439 flush,nowarn 2440 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2441 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2442 insecure configuration. 2443 2444 off 2445 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2446 emit any warnings. 2447 It also drops the swap size and available 2448 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2449 bare metal. 2450 2451 Default is 'flush'. 2452 2453 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2454 2455 l2cr= [PPC] 2456 2457 l3cr= [PPC] 2458 2459 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2460 disabled it. 2461 2462 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2463 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2464 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2465 Format: notscdeadline 2466 2467 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2468 in C2 power state. 2469 2470 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2471 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2472 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2473 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2474 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2475 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2476 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2477 2478 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2479 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2480 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2481 2482 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2483 when set. 2484 Format: <int> 2485 2486 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma- 2487 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 2488 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 2489 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 2490 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 2491 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 2492 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 2493 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 2494 2495 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2496 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2497 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2498 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2499 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2500 host link and device attached to it. 2501 2502 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2503 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 2504 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2505 The following configurations can be forced. 2506 2507 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2508 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2509 2510 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2511 2512 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2513 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2514 allowed. 2515 2516 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2517 2518 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 2519 2520 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 2521 and both resets. 2522 2523 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 2524 hot-unplug link recovery 2525 2526 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 2527 2528 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 2529 2530 * disable: Disable this device. 2531 2532 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2533 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2534 2535 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 2536 2537 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2538 2539 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2540 Format: <integer> 2541 2542 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2543 Format: <integer> 2544 2545 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2546 Format: <integer> 2547 2548 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2549 Format: <integer> 2550 2551 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2552 { integrity | confidentiality } 2553 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2554 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2555 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2556 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2557 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2558 are also disabled. 2559 2560 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2561 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2562 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2563 number of online CPUs. 2564 2565 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2566 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2567 2568 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2569 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2570 2571 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2572 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2573 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2574 2575 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2576 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2577 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2578 mode during the locktorture test. 2579 2580 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2581 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2582 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2583 2584 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2585 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2586 2587 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2588 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2589 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2590 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2591 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2592 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2593 2594 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2595 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2596 2597 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2598 Enable additional printk() statements. 2599 2600 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2601 Format: <irq> 2602 2603 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2604 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2605 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2606 loglevels are defined as follows: 2607 2608 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2609 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2610 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2611 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2612 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2613 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2614 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2615 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2616 2617 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2618 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2619 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2620 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2621 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2622 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2623 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2624 2625 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2626 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2627 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2628 kernel boot problems. 2629 2630 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2631 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2632 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2633 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2634 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2635 attached printers to be reset. Using 2636 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2637 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2638 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2639 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2640 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2641 port specification list means that device IDs 2642 from each port should be examined, to see if 2643 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2644 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2645 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2646 2647 lpj=n [KNL] 2648 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2649 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2650 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2651 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2652 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2653 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2654 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2655 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2656 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2657 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2658 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2659 hardware. 2660 2661 ltpc= [NET] 2662 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2663 2664 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2665 2666 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2667 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2668 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2669 2670 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2671 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2672 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2673 2674 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 2675 different yeeloong laptops. 2676 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2677 2678 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2679 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2680 2681 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2682 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2683 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2684 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2685 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2686 only takes effect during system bootup. 2687 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2688 which also disables the IO APIC. 2689 2690 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2691 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2692 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2693 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2694 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2695 /dev/loop-control interface. 2696 2697 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2698 2699 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2700 2701 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2702 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2703 2704 mdacon= [MDA] 2705 Format: <first>,<last> 2706 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2707 2708 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2709 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2710 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2711 2712 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2713 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2714 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2715 2716 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2717 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2718 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2719 not have direct access. 2720 2721 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2722 options are: 2723 2724 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2725 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2726 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2727 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2728 2729 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 2730 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 2731 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 2732 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 2733 too. 2734 2735 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 2736 mds=full. 2737 2738 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 2739 2740 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2741 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 2742 2743 1 for test; 2744 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 2745 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 2746 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 2747 2748 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2749 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2750 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2751 belonging to unused RAM. 2752 2753 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 2754 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 2755 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 2756 2757 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2758 memory. 2759 2760 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2761 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2762 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2763 2764 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2765 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2766 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2767 set according to the 2768 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2769 option. 2770 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 2771 2772 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2773 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2774 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2775 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2776 option description. 2777 2778 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2779 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2780 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2781 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2782 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2783 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2784 comma delimited. 2785 Example: 2786 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2787 2788 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2789 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2790 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2791 2792 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2793 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2794 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2795 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2796 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2797 or 2798 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2799 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 2800 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 2801 will be eaten. 2802 2803 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2804 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2805 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2806 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2807 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2808 2809 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 2810 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 2811 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 2812 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 2813 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 2814 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 2815 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 2816 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 2817 2818 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2819 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2820 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2821 Setting this option will scan the memory 2822 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2823 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2824 from using the memory being corrupted. 2825 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2826 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2827 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2828 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2829 2830 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2831 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2832 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2833 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2834 corruption in more or less memory. 2835 2836 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2837 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2838 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2839 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2840 2841 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 2842 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 2843 Format: {on | off (default)} 2844 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 2845 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages) 2846 from the hotadded memory which will allow to 2847 hotadd a lot of memory without requiring 2848 additional memory to do so. 2849 This feature is disabled by default because it 2850 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 2851 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 2852 memory blocks). 2853 The state of the flag can be read in 2854 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 2855 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 2856 the feature is not effective. 2857 2858 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest 2859 Format: <integer> 2860 default : 0 <disable> 2861 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2862 performed. Each pass selects another test 2863 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2864 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2865 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2866 regions that are detected. 2867 2868 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 2869 Valid arguments: on, off 2870 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 2871 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 2872 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 2873 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 2874 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 2875 2876 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst 2877 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 2878 2879 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 2880 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 2881 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 2882 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 2883 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 2884 2885 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2886 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst. 2887 2888 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2889 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2890 platforms. 2891 2892 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2893 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2894 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2895 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2896 2897 mga= [HW,DRM] 2898 2899 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2900 physical address is ignored. 2901 2902 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2903 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2904 Default: "0tb" 2905 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2906 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2907 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2908 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2909 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2910 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2911 unconfigured. 2912 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2913 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2914 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2915 VGA shield. 2916 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2917 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2918 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2919 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2920 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 2921 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 2922 2923 mitigations= 2924 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 2925 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 2926 arch-independent options, each of which is an 2927 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 2928 2929 off 2930 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 2931 improves system performance, but it may also 2932 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 2933 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 2934 kpti=0 [ARM64] 2935 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 2936 nobp=0 [S390] 2937 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 2938 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 2939 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 2940 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 2941 l1tf=off [X86] 2942 mds=off [X86] 2943 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 2944 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 2945 no_entry_flush [PPC] 2946 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 2947 2948 Exceptions: 2949 This does not have any effect on 2950 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 2951 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 2952 2953 auto (default) 2954 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 2955 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 2956 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 2957 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 2958 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 2959 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 2960 2961 auto,nosmt 2962 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 2963 if needed. This is for users who always want to 2964 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 2965 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 2966 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 2967 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 2968 2969 mminit_loglevel= 2970 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 2971 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 2972 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 2973 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 2974 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 2975 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 2976 2977 module.sig_enforce 2978 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 2979 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 2980 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 2981 is always true, so this option does nothing. 2982 2983 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 2984 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 2985 2986 mousedev.tap_time= 2987 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 2988 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 2989 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 2990 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 2991 Format: <msecs> 2992 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 2993 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2994 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 2995 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2996 2997 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2998 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 2999 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3000 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3001 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3002 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3003 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3004 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3005 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3006 is not too small. 3007 3008 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3009 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3010 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3011 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3012 allocations. Use with caution! 3013 3014 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3015 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3016 3017 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3018 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3019 3020 mtdparts= [MTD] 3021 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3022 3023 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3024 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3025 at a time. 3026 3027 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 3028 3029 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 3030 3031 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 3032 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 3033 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 3034 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 3035 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 3036 3037 mtdset= [ARM] 3038 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 3039 3040 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 3041 3042 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3043 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3044 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3045 3046 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3047 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3048 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3049 3050 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3051 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3052 Default is 1. 3053 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3054 using up MTRRs. 3055 3056 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 3057 Format: <integer> 3058 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3059 Default : 1 3060 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3061 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3062 3063 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3064 3065 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3066 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3067 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3068 something different and driver-specific. 3069 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3070 file if at all. 3071 3072 nf_conntrack.acct= 3073 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3074 0 to disable accounting 3075 1 to enable accounting 3076 Default value is 0. 3077 3078 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3079 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3080 3081 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3082 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3083 3084 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3085 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3086 3087 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3088 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3089 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3090 requests. 3091 3092 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3093 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3094 channel should listen. 3095 3096 nfs.cache_getent= 3097 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3098 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3099 3100 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3101 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3102 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3103 3104 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3105 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3106 entries. 3107 3108 nfs.enable_ino64= 3109 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3110 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3111 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3112 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3113 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3114 3115 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3116 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3117 slots the client will assign to the callback 3118 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3119 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3120 a particular server. 3121 3122 nfs.max_session_slots= 3123 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3124 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3125 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3126 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3127 Note that there is little point in setting this 3128 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3129 3130 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3131 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3132 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3133 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3134 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3135 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3136 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3137 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3138 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3139 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3140 back to using the idmapper. 3141 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3142 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3143 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3144 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3145 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3146 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3147 3148 nfs.send_implementation_id = 3149 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3150 information in exchange_id requests. 3151 If zero, no implementation identification information 3152 will be sent. 3153 The default is to send the implementation identification 3154 information. 3155 3156 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 3157 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3158 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3159 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3160 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3161 after the locks are lost. 3162 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3163 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3164 parameter to '1'. 3165 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3166 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3167 3168 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 3169 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3170 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3171 3172 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3173 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3174 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3175 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3176 3177 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3178 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3179 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3180 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3181 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3182 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3183 3184 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3185 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3186 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3187 3188 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3189 when a NMI is triggered. 3190 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3191 3192 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3193 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3194 Valid num: 0 or 1 3195 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3196 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3197 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3198 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3199 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3200 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3201 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3202 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3203 need the box quickly up again. 3204 3205 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3206 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3207 3208 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3209 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3210 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3211 waits 4 seconds. 3212 3213 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3214 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3215 is present. 3216 3217 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3218 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3219 3220 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3221 3222 no_console_suspend 3223 [HW] Never suspend the console 3224 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3225 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3226 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3227 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3228 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3229 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3230 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3231 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3232 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3233 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3234 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3235 turn on/off it dynamically. 3236 3237 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3238 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3239 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3240 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3241 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3242 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3243 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3244 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3245 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3246 is set. 3247 3248 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3249 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3250 but will impact performance. 3251 3252 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3253 3254 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3255 (CPU alternatives feature). 3256 3257 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3258 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3259 3260 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3261 3262 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 3263 on "Classic" PPC cores. 3264 3265 nocache [ARM] 3266 3267 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 3268 3269 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 3270 3271 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3272 3273 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3274 3275 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3276 3277 noexec [IA-64] 3278 3279 noexec [X86] 3280 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 3281 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3282 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 3283 3284 nosmap [X86,PPC] 3285 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3286 even if it is supported by processor. 3287 3288 nosmep [X86,PPC] 3289 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3290 even if it is supported by processor. 3291 3292 noexec32 [X86-64] 3293 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3294 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3295 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3296 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3297 read implies executable mappings 3298 3299 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3300 3301 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3302 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3303 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3304 3305 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3306 3307 nohugevmalloc [PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3308 3309 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3310 Equivalent to smt=1. 3311 3312 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3313 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3314 via the sysfs control file. 3315 3316 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3317 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3318 possible in the system. 3319 3320 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3321 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3322 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3323 option. 3324 3325 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3326 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3327 3328 no_uaccess_flush 3329 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 3330 3331 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3332 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3333 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3334 3335 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3336 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3337 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3338 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3339 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3340 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3341 3342 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3343 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3344 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3345 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3346 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3347 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3348 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3349 3350 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait 3351 in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3352 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3353 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3354 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3355 correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute 3356 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3357 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3358 3359 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3360 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3361 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3362 3363 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3364 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3365 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3366 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3367 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3368 real-time systems. 3369 3370 no_hash_pointers 3371 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3372 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3373 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3374 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3375 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3376 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3377 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3378 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3379 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3380 value printed. Pointers printed via %pK may still be 3381 hashed. This option should only be specified when 3382 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3383 kernels. 3384 3385 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3386 3387 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3388 Valid arguments: on, off 3389 Default: on 3390 3391 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3392 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3393 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3394 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3395 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3396 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3397 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3398 just as if they had also been called out in the 3399 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3400 3401 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3402 3403 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3404 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3405 3406 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3407 broken timer IRQ sources. 3408 3409 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3410 3411 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3412 initial RAM disk. 3413 3414 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3415 remapping. 3416 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3417 3418 nointroute [IA-64] 3419 3420 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3421 3422 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3423 3424 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3425 3426 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3427 fault handling. 3428 3429 no-vmw-sched-clock 3430 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3431 clock and use the default one. 3432 3433 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time 3434 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't 3435 influence scheduler behaviour 3436 3437 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3438 3439 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3440 3441 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 3442 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 3443 3444 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3445 3446 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3447 3448 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3449 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3450 3451 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3452 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3453 irq. 3454 3455 nomodule Disable module load 3456 3457 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3458 pagetables) support. 3459 3460 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3461 3462 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3463 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3464 3465 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3466 with UP alternatives 3467 3468 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 3469 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 3470 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 3471 available to user space applications. 3472 3473 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3474 space. 3475 3476 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3477 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3478 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3479 3480 nosbagart [IA-64] 3481 3482 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 3483 3484 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 3485 3486 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3487 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3488 3489 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3490 3491 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3492 3493 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3494 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3495 3496 nowb [ARM] 3497 3498 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3499 3500 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 3501 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 3502 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 3503 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 3504 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 3505 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 3506 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 3507 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 3508 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 3509 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 3510 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 3511 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 3512 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 3513 3514 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3515 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3516 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3517 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3518 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3519 parameter's value. 3520 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3521 Default: 255 3522 3523 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3524 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3525 SAL PALO. 3526 3527 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3528 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3529 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3530 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3531 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3532 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3533 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3534 hot plugging. 3535 3536 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3537 3538 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only 3539 set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. 3540 3541 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 3542 NUMA balancing. 3543 Allowed values are enable and disable 3544 3545 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3546 'node', 'default' can be specified 3547 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3548 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3549 3550 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3551 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 3552 info. 3553 3554 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3555 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3556 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3557 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3558 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3559 interrupts *may* be lost! 3560 3561 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3562 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3563 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3564 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3565 3566 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3567 process, but there is a small probability of 3568 deadlocking the machine. 3569 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3570 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3571 3572 page_alloc.shuffle= 3573 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3574 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3575 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3576 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3577 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3578 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3579 can be read from sysfs at: 3580 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3581 3582 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3583 Storage of the information about who allocated 3584 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3585 we can turn it on. 3586 on: enable the feature 3587 3588 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3589 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3590 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3591 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3592 on: turn on poisoning 3593 3594 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3595 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3596 timeout = 0: wait forever 3597 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3598 Format: <timeout> 3599 3600 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3601 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3602 bit 0: print all tasks info 3603 bit 1: print system memory info 3604 bit 2: print timer info 3605 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3606 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3607 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3608 3609 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 3610 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 3611 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 3612 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 3613 called with any of the flags in this set. 3614 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 3615 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 3616 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 3617 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 3618 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 3619 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 3620 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 3621 3622 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3623 on a WARN(). 3624 3625 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 3626 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 3627 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 3628 succeeds in any situation. 3629 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 3630 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 3631 kernel more unstable. 3632 3633 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3634 connected to, default is 0. 3635 Format: <parport#> 3636 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3637 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3638 Format: <mode> 3639 3640 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3641 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3642 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3643 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3644 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3645 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3646 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3647 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3648 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3649 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3650 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3651 are specified on the command line, starting 3652 with parport0. 3653 3654 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3655 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3656 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3657 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3658 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3659 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3660 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3661 3662 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 3663 Format: <int> 3664 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 3665 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 3666 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 3667 3668 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 3669 Format: <int> 3670 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 3671 changes. Disabled by default. 3672 3673 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 3674 Format: <int> 3675 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 3676 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3677 Disabled by default. 3678 3679 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 3680 Format: <int> 3681 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 3682 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3683 Disabled by default. 3684 3685 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3686 Format: <int> 3687 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 3688 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 3689 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 3690 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 3691 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 3692 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 3693 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 3694 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 3695 all channels. 3696 3697 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 3698 Format: <int> 3699 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 3700 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 3701 respectively. Disabled by default. 3702 3703 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 3704 Format: <int> 3705 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 3706 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 3707 respectively. Disabled by default. 3708 3709 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3710 Format: <int> 3711 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 3712 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 3713 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 3714 All modes allowed by default. 3715 3716 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 3717 Format: <int> 3718 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 3719 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 3720 3721 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3722 Format: <int> 3723 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 3724 platform configuration and the use of other driver 3725 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 3726 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 3727 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 3728 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 3729 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 3730 By default all supported ports are probed. 3731 3732 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 3733 Format: <int> 3734 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 3735 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 3736 3737 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 3738 Format: <int> 3739 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 3740 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 3741 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 3742 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 3743 0 otherwise. 3744 3745 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3746 Format: <int> 3747 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 3748 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 3749 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 3750 allowed by default. 3751 3752 pause_on_oops= 3753 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 3754 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 3755 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 3756 3757 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 3758 3759 pcd. [PARIDE] 3760 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 3761 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3762 3763 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 3764 3765 Some options herein operate on a specific device 3766 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 3767 specified in one of the following formats: 3768 3769 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 3770 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 3771 3772 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 3773 bus/device/function address which may change 3774 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 3775 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 3776 by other kernel parameters. If the 3777 domain is left unspecified, it is 3778 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 3779 to a device through multiple device/function 3780 addresses can be specified after the base 3781 address (this is more robust against 3782 renumbering issues). The second format 3783 selects devices using IDs from the 3784 configuration space which may match multiple 3785 devices in the system. 3786 3787 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 3788 changes anything 3789 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 3790 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 3791 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 3792 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 3793 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 3794 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 3795 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 3796 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 3797 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3798 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 3799 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 3800 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3801 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 3802 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 3803 bus number. The config space is then accessed 3804 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 3805 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 3806 on the configuration access mechanisms. 3807 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 3808 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3809 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 3810 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 3811 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 3812 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 3813 Configuration 3814 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 3815 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 3816 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 3817 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 3818 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3819 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 3820 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 3821 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 3822 should never be necessary. 3823 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 3824 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 3825 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 3826 when the system masks IRQs. 3827 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 3828 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 3829 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 3830 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 3831 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 3832 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 3833 on several machines and they hang the machine 3834 when used, but on other computers it's the only 3835 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 3836 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 3837 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 3838 motherboard. 3839 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 3840 Use with caution as certain devices share 3841 address decoders between ROMs and other 3842 resources. 3843 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 3844 expansion ROMs that do not already have 3845 BIOS assigned address ranges. 3846 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 3847 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 3848 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 3849 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 3850 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 3851 this way. 3852 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 3853 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 3854 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 3855 F0000h-100000h range. 3856 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 3857 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 3858 secondary buses and you want to tell it 3859 explicitly which ones they are. 3860 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 3861 numbers ourselves, overriding 3862 whatever the firmware may have done. 3863 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 3864 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 3865 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 3866 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 3867 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 3868 IRQ routing is enabled. 3869 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 3870 or for PCI scanning. 3871 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 3872 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 3873 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 3874 please report a bug. 3875 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 3876 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 3877 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 3878 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 3879 so this option is a temporary workaround 3880 for broken drivers that don't call it. 3881 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 3882 handle more pci cards 3883 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 3884 This might help on some broken boards which 3885 machine check when some devices' config space 3886 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 3887 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 3888 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3889 This sorting is done to get a device 3890 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 3891 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3892 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 3893 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 3894 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 3895 supported by all devices below the root complex. 3896 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 3897 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 3898 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 3899 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 3900 or bus can support) for best performance. 3901 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 3902 every device is guaranteed to support. This 3903 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 3904 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 3905 reduced performance. This also guarantees 3906 that hot-added devices will work. 3907 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3908 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 3909 The default value is 256 bytes. 3910 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3911 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 3912 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 3913 resource_alignment= 3914 Format: 3915 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 3916 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 3917 aligned memory resources. How to 3918 specify the device is described above. 3919 If <order of align> is not specified, 3920 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 3921 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 3922 windows need to be expanded. 3923 To specify the alignment for several 3924 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 3925 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 3926 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 3927 for 4096-byte alignment. 3928 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 3929 end-to-end CRC checking). 3930 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 3931 the default. 3932 off: Turn ECRC off 3933 on: Turn ECRC on. 3934 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3935 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 3936 Default size is 256 bytes. 3937 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3938 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 3939 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3940 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3941 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 3942 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3943 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3944 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 3945 MMIO_PREF window. 3946 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3947 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 3948 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 3949 Default is 1. 3950 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 3951 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 3952 accommodate resources required by all child 3953 devices. 3954 off: Turn realloc off 3955 on: Turn realloc on 3956 realloc same as realloc=on 3957 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 3958 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 3959 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 3960 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 3961 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 3962 port. 3963 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 3964 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 3965 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 3966 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 3967 conflict with unreported devices), so this 3968 taints the kernel. 3969 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 3970 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 3971 specified above) separated by semicolons. 3972 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 3973 redirect capabilities forced off which will 3974 allow P2P traffic between devices through 3975 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 3976 this removes isolation between devices and 3977 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 3978 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 3979 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 3980 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 3981 one PCI domain per PCI function 3982 3983 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 3984 Management. 3985 off Disable ASPM. 3986 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 3987 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 3988 3989 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 3990 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 3991 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 3992 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 3993 also tries to use these services. 3994 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 3995 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 3996 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 3997 hotplug). 3998 3999 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4000 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4001 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4002 4003 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4004 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4005 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4006 4007 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4008 4009 pd_ignore_unused 4010 [PM] 4011 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4012 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4013 for debug and development, but should not be 4014 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4015 4016 pd. [PARIDE] 4017 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4018 4019 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4020 boot time. 4021 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4022 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4023 4024 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4025 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4026 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4027 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4028 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4029 and performance comparison. 4030 4031 pf. [PARIDE] 4032 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4033 4034 pg. [PARIDE] 4035 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4036 4037 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4038 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4039 4040 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4041 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4042 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4043 4044 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4045 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4046 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4047 4048 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4049 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4050 4051 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4052 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4053 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4054 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4055 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4056 possible settings and some assignment information. 4057 4058 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4059 { off } 4060 4061 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4062 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4063 4064 pnp_reserve_irq= 4065 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4066 4067 pnp_reserve_dma= 4068 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4069 4070 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4071 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4072 4073 pnp_reserve_mem= 4074 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4075 autoconfiguration. 4076 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4077 4078 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4079 Default is 21. 4080 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4081 may be specified. 4082 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4083 4084 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4085 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4086 platform machine description specific power_save 4087 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4088 execution priority. 4089 4090 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4091 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4092 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4093 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4094 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4095 4096 ppc_tm= [PPC] 4097 Format: {"off"} 4098 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4099 4100 preempt= [KNL] 4101 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4102 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4103 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4104 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4105 can be preempted anytime. 4106 4107 print-fatal-signals= 4108 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4109 4110 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4111 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4112 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4113 coredump - etc. 4114 4115 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4116 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4117 4118 default: off. 4119 4120 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4121 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4122 panics 4123 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4124 default: disabled 4125 4126 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4127 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4128 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4129 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4130 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4131 Default: ratelimit 4132 4133 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4134 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4135 4136 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4137 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4138 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4139 4140 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4141 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4142 instead using the legacy FADT method 4143 4144 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4145 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4146 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4147 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4148 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4149 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4150 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4151 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4152 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4153 statistical time based profiling. 4154 4155 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4156 4157 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4158 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4159 that). 4160 Format: <bool> 4161 4162 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4163 tracking. 4164 Format: <bool> 4165 4166 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4167 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4168 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4169 per second. 4170 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4171 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4172 (0 = never). 4173 psmouse.resolution= 4174 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4175 psmouse.smartscroll= 4176 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4177 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4178 4179 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4180 4181 pt. [PARIDE] 4182 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4183 4184 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4185 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4186 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4187 system calls and interrupts. 4188 4189 on - unconditionally enable 4190 off - unconditionally disable 4191 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4192 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4193 4194 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4195 4196 nopti [X86-64] 4197 Equivalent to pti=off 4198 4199 pty.legacy_count= 4200 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4201 default number. 4202 4203 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4204 4205 r128= [HW,DRM] 4206 4207 raid= [HW,RAID] 4208 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4209 4210 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4211 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4212 4213 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4214 4215 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 4216 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 4217 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 4218 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4219 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 4220 4221 randomize_kstack_offset= 4222 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4223 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4224 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4225 that depend on stack address determinism or 4226 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4227 available on architectures that have defined 4228 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4229 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4230 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4231 4232 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4233 4234 cec_disable [X86] 4235 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4236 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4237 4238 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 4239 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 4240 4241 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 4242 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 4243 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be 4244 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that 4245 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and 4246 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number. 4247 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs, 4248 which can be useful for HPC and real-time 4249 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency 4250 for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4251 4252 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4253 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4254 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4255 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4256 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4257 This improves the real-time response for the 4258 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4259 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4260 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4261 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4262 4263 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4264 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4265 process in one batch. 4266 4267 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4268 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4269 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4270 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4271 4272 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4273 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4274 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4275 4276 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4277 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4278 RCU grace-period initialization. 4279 4280 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4281 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4282 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4283 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4284 the rcu_node combining tree. 4285 4286 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 4287 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 4288 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 4289 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 4290 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 4291 4292 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 4293 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 4294 to zero. 4295 4296 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4297 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4298 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4299 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4300 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4301 4302 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4303 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4304 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4305 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4306 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4307 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4308 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4309 4310 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4311 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4312 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4313 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4314 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4315 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4316 condition. 4317 4318 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4319 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4320 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4321 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4322 and maximum value is HZ. 4323 4324 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4325 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4326 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4327 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4328 4329 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4330 Set required age in jiffies for a 4331 given grace period before RCU starts 4332 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4333 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4334 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4335 a value based on the most recent settings 4336 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4337 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4338 This calculated value may be viewed in 4339 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4340 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4341 overwritten. 4342 4343 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4344 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4345 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4346 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4347 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4348 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4349 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4350 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4351 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4352 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4353 4354 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4355 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4356 each group, which defaults to the square root 4357 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4358 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4359 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4360 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4361 4362 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4363 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4364 batch limiting is disabled. 4365 4366 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4367 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4368 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4369 4370 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4371 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4372 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4373 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4374 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4375 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4376 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4377 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4378 4379 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 4380 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 4381 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 4382 4383 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4384 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4385 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4386 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4387 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4388 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4389 4390 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 4391 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 4392 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 4393 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 4394 Larger delays increase the probability of 4395 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 4396 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 4397 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 4398 4399 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4400 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4401 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4402 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4403 4404 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 4405 Measure performance of asynchronous 4406 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4407 4408 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4409 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4410 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4411 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4412 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4413 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4414 4415 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 4416 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4417 grace-period primitives. 4418 4419 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4420 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4421 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4422 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4423 interference. 4424 4425 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4426 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4427 4428 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 4429 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4430 If this parameter has the same value as 4431 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 4432 and double-argument variants are tested. 4433 4434 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 4435 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4436 If this parameter has the same value as 4437 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 4438 and double-argument variants are tested. 4439 4440 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4441 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4442 4443 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4444 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4445 4446 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4447 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 4448 of allocations and frees. 4449 4450 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4451 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4452 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4453 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4454 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4455 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4456 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4457 a single reader. 4458 4459 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 4460 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4461 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 4462 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4463 4464 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL] 4465 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4466 4467 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4468 Shut the system down after performance tests 4469 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4470 testing. 4471 4472 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 4473 Enable additional printk() statements. 4474 4475 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4476 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4477 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4478 no holdoff. 4479 4480 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4481 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4482 in microseconds. 4483 4484 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4485 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4486 in microseconds. 4487 4488 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4489 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4490 in seconds. 4491 4492 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4493 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4494 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4495 4496 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4497 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4498 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4499 4500 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4501 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4502 forward-progress tests. 4503 4504 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4505 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4506 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4507 testing. 4508 4509 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4510 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4511 primitives, if available. 4512 4513 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4514 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4515 4516 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4517 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4518 update-side primitives, if available. 4519 4520 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4521 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4522 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4523 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4524 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4525 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4526 they are all non-zero. 4527 4528 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 4529 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 4530 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 4531 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 4532 4533 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 4534 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 4535 This can of course result in splats, and is 4536 intended to test the ability of things like 4537 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 4538 such leaks. 4539 4540 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 4541 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 4542 4543 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 4544 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 4545 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 4546 test, hence the "fake". 4547 4548 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 4549 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 4550 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 4551 4552 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 4553 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 4554 callback-offload toggling attempts. 4555 4556 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 4557 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4558 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4559 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 4560 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4561 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4562 4563 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 4564 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 4565 4566 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4567 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 4568 4569 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4570 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 4571 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 4572 4573 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 4574 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 4575 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 4576 task-exit processing. 4577 4578 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 4579 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 4580 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 4581 is spawned. 4582 4583 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 4584 The delay, in seconds, between successive 4585 read-then-exit testing episodes. 4586 4587 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 4588 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 4589 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 4590 during the rcutorture test. 4591 4592 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4593 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 4594 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 4595 4596 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 4597 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 4598 warnings, zero to disable. 4599 4600 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 4601 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 4602 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition 4603 to any other stall-related activity. 4604 4605 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 4606 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 4607 4608 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 4609 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 4610 4611 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 4612 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 4613 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 4614 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 4615 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 4616 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 4617 4618 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 4619 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 4620 4621 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 4622 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 4623 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 4624 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 4625 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 4626 4627 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 4628 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 4629 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 4630 under test support RCU priority boosting. 4631 4632 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 4633 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 4634 4635 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 4636 Interval (s) between each boost test. 4637 4638 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 4639 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 4640 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 4641 4642 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 4643 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4644 4645 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 4646 Enable additional printk() statements. 4647 4648 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 4649 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 4650 stall warning. 4651 4652 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 4653 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4654 4655 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 4656 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 4657 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 4658 during early boot, that is, during the time 4659 before the init task is spawned. 4660 4661 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4662 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4663 4664 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 4665 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 4666 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 4667 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 4668 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 4669 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 4670 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4671 4672 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 4673 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 4674 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 4675 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 4676 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 4677 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 4678 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 4679 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 4680 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4681 4682 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 4683 Once boot has completed (that is, after 4684 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 4685 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 4686 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4687 4688 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 4689 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 4690 it to the value one, that is, converting any 4691 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 4692 period to instead use normal non-expedited 4693 grace-period processing. 4694 4695 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 4696 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 4697 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 4698 of a given grace period. Setting a large 4699 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 4700 but lengthens grace periods. 4701 4702 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4703 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 4704 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 4705 to zero. 4706 4707 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 4708 Run the RCU early boot self tests 4709 4710 rdinit= [KNL] 4711 Format: <full_path> 4712 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 4713 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 4714 4715 rdrand= [X86] 4716 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 4717 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 4718 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 4719 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 4720 path). 4721 4722 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 4723 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 4724 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 4725 mba. 4726 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 4727 rdt=cmt,!mba 4728 4729 reboot= [KNL] 4730 Format (x86 or x86_64): 4731 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ 4732 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 4733 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 4734 [[,]f[orce] 4735 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 4736 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 4737 reboot only), 4738 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 4739 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 4740 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 4741 to be used for rebooting. 4742 4743 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4744 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4745 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4746 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4747 interference. 4748 4749 refscale.loops= [KNL] 4750 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 4751 primitive under test. Increasing this number 4752 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 4753 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 4754 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 4755 x86 laptops. 4756 4757 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4758 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 4759 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 4760 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 4761 4762 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 4763 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 4764 the console log. 4765 4766 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 4767 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 4768 measured in microseconds. 4769 4770 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 4771 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 4772 4773 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4774 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 4775 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 4776 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 4777 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 4778 4779 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 4780 Enable additional printk() statements. 4781 4782 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 4783 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 4784 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 4785 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 4786 specified. 4787 4788 relax_domain_level= 4789 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 4790 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 4791 4792 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 4793 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 4794 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 4795 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 4796 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 4797 4798 reservetop= [X86-32] 4799 Format: nn[KMG] 4800 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 4801 address space. 4802 4803 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 4804 during initialization. 4805 4806 resume= [SWSUSP] 4807 Specify the partition device for software suspend 4808 Format: 4809 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 4810 4811 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 4812 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 4813 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 4814 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 4815 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 4816 4817 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4818 read the resume files 4819 4820 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 4821 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4822 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4823 4824 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 4825 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 4826 present during boot. 4827 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 4828 no Disable hibernation and resume. 4829 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 4830 (that will set all pages holding image data 4831 during restoration read-only). 4832 4833 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 4834 4835 rfkill.default_state= 4836 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 4837 etc. communication is blocked by default. 4838 1 Unblocked. 4839 4840 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 4841 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 4842 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4843 blocked and the previous configuration. 4844 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4845 blocked and everything unblocked. 4846 4847 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4848 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 4849 4850 ring3mwait=disable 4851 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 4852 CPUs. 4853 4854 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 4855 4856 rodata= [KNL] 4857 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 4858 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 4859 4860 rockchip.usb_uart 4861 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 4862 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 4863 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 4864 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 4865 4866 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 4867 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 4868 4869 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4870 mount the root filesystem 4871 4872 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 4873 4874 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 4875 4876 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 4877 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4878 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4879 4880 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 4881 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 4882 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 4883 managed by CMA. 4884 4885 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 4886 4887 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 4888 4889 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 4890 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 4891 strict 4892 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 4893 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 4894 which is faster. 4895 4896 sa1100ir [NET] 4897 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 4898 4899 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter 4900 4901 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 4902 4903 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 4904 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 4905 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 4906 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 4907 4908 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 4909 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 4910 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 4911 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 4912 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 4913 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 4914 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 4915 value. 4916 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 4917 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 4918 1 64 ms 4919 2 128 ms 4920 and so on. 4921 Format: integer between 0 and 10 4922 Default is 0. 4923 4924 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 4925 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 4926 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 4927 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 4928 tests. 4929 4930 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 4931 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 4932 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 4933 default) disables this feature. Please note 4934 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 4935 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 4936 softlockup complaints, and so on. 4937 4938 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 4939 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 4940 smp_call_function() family of functions. 4941 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 4942 equal to the number of CPUs. 4943 4944 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4945 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 4946 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 4947 4948 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4949 Number seconds to wait between successive 4950 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 4951 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 4952 4953 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4954 The number of seconds following the start of the 4955 test after which to shut down the system. The 4956 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 4957 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 4958 4959 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 4960 The number of seconds between outputting the 4961 current test statistics to the console. A value 4962 of zero disables statistics output. 4963 4964 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 4965 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 4966 to the set of CPUs under test. 4967 4968 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 4969 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 4970 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 4971 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 4972 functions. 4973 4974 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 4975 Enable additional printk() statements. 4976 4977 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 4978 The probability weighting to use for the 4979 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 4980 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 4981 default if all other weights are -1. However, 4982 if at least one weight has some other value, a 4983 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 4984 4985 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 4986 The probability weighting to use for the 4987 smp_call_function_single() function with a 4988 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 4989 4990 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 4991 The probability weighting to use for the 4992 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 4993 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 4994 Note well that setting a high probability for 4995 this weighting can place serious IPI load 4996 on the system. 4997 4998 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 4999 The probability weighting to use for the 5000 smp_call_function_many() function with a 5001 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5002 and weight_many. 5003 5004 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 5005 The probability weighting to use for the 5006 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 5007 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 5008 weight_many. 5009 5010 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 5011 The probability weighting to use for the 5012 smp_call_function_all() function with a 5013 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5014 and weight_many. 5015 5016 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 5017 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 5018 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 5019 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5020 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 5021 1 -- enable. 5022 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 5023 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 5024 5025 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 5026 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 5027 "lsm=" parameter. 5028 5029 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 5030 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5031 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 5032 0 -- disable. 5033 1 -- enable. 5034 Default value is 1. 5035 5036 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 5037 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5038 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 5039 0 -- disable. 5040 1 -- enable. 5041 Default value is set via kernel config option. 5042 5043 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 5044 5045 shapers= [NET] 5046 Maximal number of shapers. 5047 5048 simeth= [IA-64] 5049 simscsi= 5050 5051 slram= [HW,MTD] 5052 5053 slab_merge [MM] 5054 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 5055 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 5056 5057 slab_nomerge [MM] 5058 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 5059 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 5060 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 5061 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 5062 layout control by attackers can usually be 5063 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 5064 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 5065 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 5066 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 5067 own. 5068 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5069 5070 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 5071 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5072 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5073 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 5074 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 5075 5076 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 5077 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 5078 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5079 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5080 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5081 last alloc / free. For more information see 5082 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5083 5084 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 5085 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5086 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5087 fragmentation. For more information see 5088 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5089 5090 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 5091 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 5092 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 5093 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 5094 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 5095 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 5096 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 5097 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5098 5099 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 5100 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 5101 lower than slub_max_order. 5102 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5103 5104 slub_merge [MM, SLUB] 5105 Same with slab_merge. 5106 5107 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 5108 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 5109 See slab_nomerge for more information. 5110 5111 smart2= [HW] 5112 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 5113 5114 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 5115 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 5116 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 5117 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 5118 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 5119 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 5120 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 5121 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 5122 1: Fast pin select (default) 5123 2: ATC IRMode 5124 5125 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 5126 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 5127 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 5128 actual hardware limit. 5129 Format: <integer> 5130 Default: -1 (no limit) 5131 5132 softlockup_panic= 5133 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 5134 Format: 0 | 1 5135 5136 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 5137 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 5138 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 5139 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 5140 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 5141 5142 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 5143 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 5144 backtraces on all cpus. 5145 Format: 0 | 1 5146 5147 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 5148 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 5149 5150 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5151 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 5152 The default operation protects the kernel from 5153 user space attacks. 5154 5155 on - unconditionally enable, implies 5156 spectre_v2_user=on 5157 off - unconditionally disable, implies 5158 spectre_v2_user=off 5159 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5160 vulnerable 5161 5162 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 5163 mitigation method at run time according to the 5164 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 5165 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 5166 compiler with which the kernel was built. 5167 5168 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 5169 against user space to user space task attacks. 5170 5171 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 5172 the user space protections. 5173 5174 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 5175 5176 retpoline - replace indirect branches 5177 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline 5178 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk 5179 5180 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5181 spectre_v2=auto. 5182 5183 spectre_v2_user= 5184 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5185 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 5186 user space tasks 5187 5188 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 5189 enforced by spectre_v2=on 5190 5191 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 5192 enforced by spectre_v2=off 5193 5194 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 5195 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 5196 per thread. The mitigation control state 5197 is inherited on fork. 5198 5199 prctl,ibpb 5200 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 5201 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5202 always when switching between different user 5203 space processes. 5204 5205 seccomp 5206 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 5207 threads will enable the mitigation unless 5208 they explicitly opt out. 5209 5210 seccomp,ibpb 5211 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 5212 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5213 always when switching between different 5214 user space processes. 5215 5216 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 5217 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 5218 5219 Default mitigation: 5220 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 5221 5222 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5223 spectre_v2_user=auto. 5224 5225 spec_store_bypass_disable= 5226 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 5227 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 5228 5229 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 5230 a common industry wide performance optimization known 5231 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 5232 to the same memory location may not be observed by 5233 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 5234 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 5235 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 5236 end of a particular speculation execution window. 5237 5238 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5239 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 5240 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 5241 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 5242 5243 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 5244 Bypass optimization is used. 5245 5246 On x86 the options are: 5247 5248 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 5249 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 5250 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 5251 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 5252 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 5253 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 5254 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 5255 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 5256 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 5257 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 5258 for a process by default. The state of the control 5259 is inherited on fork. 5260 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 5261 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 5262 5263 Default mitigations: 5264 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 5265 5266 On powerpc the options are: 5267 5268 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 5269 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 5270 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 5271 exit. 5272 off - No action. 5273 5274 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5275 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 5276 5277 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 5278 spia_fio_base= 5279 spia_pedr= 5280 spia_peddr= 5281 5282 split_lock_detect= 5283 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 5284 5285 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 5286 instructions that access data across cache line 5287 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 5288 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 5289 bus lock detection. 5290 5291 off - not enabled 5292 5293 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 5294 about applications triggering the #AC 5295 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 5296 the default on CPUs that support split lock 5297 detection or bus lock detection. Default 5298 behavior is by #AC if both features are 5299 enabled in hardware. 5300 5301 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 5302 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 5303 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 5304 both features are enabled in hardware. 5305 5306 ratelimit:N - 5307 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 5308 per second for bus lock detection. 5309 0 < N <= 1000. 5310 5311 N/A for split lock detection. 5312 5313 5314 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 5315 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 5316 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 5317 mode. 5318 5319 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 5320 CPL > 0. 5321 5322 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 5323 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 5324 (SRBDS) mitigation. 5325 5326 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 5327 exploit which can leak bits from the random 5328 number generator. 5329 5330 By default, this issue is mitigated by 5331 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 5332 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 5333 much slower. Among other effects, this will 5334 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 5335 5336 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 5337 the following option: 5338 5339 off: Disable mitigation and remove 5340 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 5341 5342 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 5343 Specifies how frequently to check for 5344 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 5345 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 5346 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 5347 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 5348 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 5349 are ignored. 5350 5351 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 5352 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 5353 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 5354 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 5355 grace period will be considered for automatic 5356 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 5357 expediting. 5358 5359 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 5360 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 5361 5362 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 5363 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 5364 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 5365 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 5366 5367 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 5368 for both kernel and userspace 5369 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 5370 for both kernel and userspace 5371 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 5372 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 5373 to allow userspace to register its 5374 interest in being mitigated too. 5375 5376 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 5377 override the default stack gap protection. The value 5378 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 5379 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 5380 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 5381 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 5382 5383 stack_depot_disable= [KNL] 5384 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 5385 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 5386 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 5387 to false. 5388 5389 stacktrace [FTRACE] 5390 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 5391 5392 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 5393 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 5394 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 5395 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 5396 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 5397 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 5398 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 5399 5400 sti= [PARISC,HW] 5401 Format: <num> 5402 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 5403 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 5404 as the initial boot-console. 5405 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5406 5407 sti_font= [HW] 5408 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5409 5410 stifb= [HW] 5411 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 5412 5413 sunrpc.min_resvport= 5414 sunrpc.max_resvport= 5415 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5416 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 5417 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 5418 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 5419 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 5420 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 5421 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 5422 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 5423 maximum port values. 5424 5425 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 5426 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5427 Limit the number of requests that the server will 5428 process in parallel from a single connection. 5429 The default value is 0 (no limit). 5430 5431 sunrpc.pool_mode= 5432 [NFS] 5433 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 5434 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 5435 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 5436 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 5437 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 5438 NFS server is running. 5439 5440 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 5441 automatically using heuristics 5442 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 5443 percpu one pool for each CPU 5444 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 5445 to global on non-NUMA machines) 5446 5447 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 5448 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 5449 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5450 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 5451 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 5452 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 5453 improve throughput, but will also increase the 5454 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 5455 5456 suspend.pm_test_delay= 5457 [SUSPEND] 5458 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 5459 mode before resuming the system (see 5460 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 5461 is set. Default value is 5. 5462 5463 svm= [PPC] 5464 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 5465 This parameter controls use of the Protected 5466 Execution Facility on pSeries. 5467 5468 swapaccount=[0|1] 5469 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 5470 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 5471 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) 5472 5473 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 5474 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 5475 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 5476 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 5477 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 5478 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 5479 5480 switches= [HW,M68k] 5481 5482 sysctl.*= [KNL] 5483 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 5484 process, as if the value was written to the respective 5485 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 5486 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 5487 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 5488 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 5489 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 5490 5491 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 5492 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 5493 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 5494 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 5495 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 5496 in older udev will not work anymore. 5497 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 5498 the kernel configuration. 5499 5500 sysrq_always_enabled 5501 [KNL] 5502 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 5503 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 5504 Useful for debugging. 5505 5506 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5507 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 5508 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 5509 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 5510 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 5511 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 5512 5513 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 5514 5515 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 5516 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 5517 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 5518 as the system sleep state during system startup with 5519 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 5520 The system is woken from this state using a 5521 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 5522 5523 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5524 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 5525 5526 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 5527 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 5528 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 5529 5530 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 5531 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 5532 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 5533 5534 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 5535 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 5536 critical and hot trip points. 5537 5538 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 5539 1: disable ACPI thermal control 5540 5541 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 5542 -1: disable all passive trip points 5543 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 5544 value 5545 5546 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 5547 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 5548 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 5549 0: no polling (default) 5550 5551 threadirqs [KNL] 5552 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 5553 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 5554 5555 topology= [S390] 5556 Format: {off | on} 5557 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 5558 topology information if the hardware supports this. 5559 The scheduler will make use of this information and 5560 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 5561 Default is on. 5562 5563 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 5564 Format: {off} 5565 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 5566 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 5567 LPAR. 5568 5569 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 5570 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 5571 until after init has spawned. 5572 5573 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 5574 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 5575 even if there were no errors. This can be a 5576 very costly operation when many torture tests 5577 are running concurrently, especially on systems 5578 with rotating-rust storage. 5579 5580 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 5581 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 5582 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 5583 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 5584 5585 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 5586 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 5587 5588 tp720= [HW,PS2] 5589 5590 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 5591 Format: integer pcr id 5592 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 5593 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 5594 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 5595 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 5596 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 5597 are saved. 5598 5599 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 5600 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 5601 5602 trace_event=[event-list] 5603 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 5604 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 5605 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 5606 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 5607 5608 trace_options=[option-list] 5609 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 5610 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 5611 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 5612 to echo the option name into 5613 5614 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 5615 5616 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 5617 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 5618 5619 trace_options=stacktrace 5620 5621 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 5622 section. 5623 5624 tp_printk[FTRACE] 5625 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 5626 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 5627 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 5628 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 5629 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 5630 5631 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 5632 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 5633 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 5634 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 5635 5636 ** CAUTION ** 5637 5638 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 5639 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 5640 the system to live lock. 5641 5642 traceoff_on_warning 5643 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 5644 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 5645 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 5646 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 5647 5648 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 5649 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 5650 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 5651 5652 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 5653 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 5654 5655 transparent_hugepage= 5656 [KNL] 5657 Format: [always|madvise|never] 5658 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 5659 with respect to transparent hugepages. 5660 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 5661 for more details. 5662 5663 trusted.source= [KEYS] 5664 Format: <string> 5665 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 5666 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 5667 sources: 5668 - "tpm" 5669 - "tee" 5670 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 5671 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 5672 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 5673 successfully during iteration. 5674 5675 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 5676 Format: <string> 5677 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 5678 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 5679 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 5680 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 5681 virtualized environment. 5682 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 5683 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 5684 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 5685 can add overhead. 5686 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 5687 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 5688 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 5689 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 5690 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 5691 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 5692 acceptable). 5693 5694 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 5695 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 5696 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 5697 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 5698 Format: <unsigned int> 5699 5700 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 5701 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 5702 support TSX control. 5703 5704 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 5705 5706 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 5707 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 5708 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 5709 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 5710 so there may be unknown security risks associated 5711 with leaving it enabled. 5712 5713 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 5714 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 5715 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 5716 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 5717 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 5718 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 5719 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 5720 5721 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 5722 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 5723 5724 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 5725 5726 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 5727 for more details. 5728 5729 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 5730 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 5731 5732 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 5733 certain CPUs that support Transactional 5734 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 5735 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 5736 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 5737 conditions. 5738 5739 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5740 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 5741 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 5742 access. 5743 5744 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 5745 options are: 5746 5747 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 5748 if TSX is enabled. 5749 5750 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 5751 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 5752 is not disabled because CPU is not 5753 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 5754 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 5755 5756 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 5757 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 5758 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 5759 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 5760 5761 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5762 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 5763 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 5764 required and doesn't provide any additional 5765 mitigation. 5766 5767 For details see: 5768 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 5769 5770 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 5771 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 5772 Format: 5773 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 5774 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 5775 5776 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 5777 happen after console_init() and before a proper 5778 console driver takes over, this boot options might 5779 help "seeing" what's going on. 5780 5781 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5782 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 5783 5784 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 5785 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 5786 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 5787 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 5788 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 5789 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 5790 reported either. 5791 5792 unknown_nmi_panic 5793 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 5794 5795 usbcore.authorized_default= 5796 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 5797 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 5798 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 5799 if device connected to internal port) 5800 5801 usbcore.autosuspend= 5802 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 5803 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 5804 is the time required before an idle device will be 5805 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 5806 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 5807 5808 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 5809 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 5810 5811 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 5812 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 5813 (default = 65536). 5814 5815 usbcore.blinkenlights= 5816 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 5817 5818 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 5819 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 5820 scheme (default 0 = off). 5821 5822 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 5823 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 5824 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 5825 5826 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 5827 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 5828 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 5829 5830 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 5831 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 5832 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 5833 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 5834 5835 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 5836 5837 usbcore.quirks= 5838 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 5839 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 5840 commas. Each entry has the form 5841 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 5842 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 5843 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 5844 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 5845 the following meanings: 5846 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 5847 descriptors must not be fetched using 5848 a 255-byte read); 5849 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 5850 correctly so reset it instead); 5851 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 5852 Set-Interface requests); 5853 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 5854 handle its Configuration or Interface 5855 strings); 5856 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 5857 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 5858 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 5859 more interface descriptions than the 5860 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 5861 talking to these interfaces); 5862 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 5863 during initialization, after we read 5864 the device descriptor); 5865 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 5866 high speed and super speed interrupt 5867 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 5868 require the interval in microframes (1 5869 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 5870 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 5871 (bInterval-1). 5872 Devices with this quirk report their 5873 bInterval as the result of this 5874 calculation instead of the exponent 5875 variable used in the calculation); 5876 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 5877 handle device_qualifier descriptor 5878 requests); 5879 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 5880 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 5881 remote wakeup capability); 5882 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 5883 Power Management); 5884 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 5885 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 5886 frames instead of the USB 2.0 5887 calculation); 5888 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 5889 to be disconnected before suspend to 5890 prevent spurious wakeup); 5891 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 5892 pause after every control message); 5893 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 5894 delay after resetting its port); 5895 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 5896 5897 usbhid.mousepoll= 5898 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 5899 5900 usbhid.jspoll= 5901 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 5902 5903 usbhid.kbpoll= 5904 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 5905 5906 usb-storage.delay_use= 5907 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 5908 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 5909 5910 usb-storage.quirks= 5911 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 5912 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 5913 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 5914 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 5915 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 5916 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 5917 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 5918 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 5919 of sense data, not on uas); 5920 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 5921 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 5922 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 5923 device capacity by one sector); 5924 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 5925 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 5926 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 5927 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 5928 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 5929 command, uas only); 5930 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 5931 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 5932 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 5933 reported device capacity by one 5934 sector if the number is odd); 5935 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 5936 device); 5937 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 5938 command, uas only); 5939 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 5940 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 5941 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 5942 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 5943 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 5944 not on uas); 5945 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 5946 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 5947 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 5948 reported by the device, not on uas); 5949 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 5950 by default, not on uas); 5951 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 5952 bogus residue values, not on uas); 5953 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 5954 Logical Unit); 5955 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 5956 commands, uas only); 5957 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 5958 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 5959 medium is write-protected). 5960 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 5961 even if the device claims no cache, 5962 not on uas) 5963 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 5964 5965 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 5966 Format: <int> 5967 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 5968 1 - undefined instruction events 5969 2 - system calls 5970 4 - invalid data aborts 5971 8 - SIGSEGV faults 5972 16 - SIGBUS faults 5973 Example: user_debug=31 5974 5975 userpte= 5976 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 5977 5978 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 5979 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 5980 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 5981 5982 vdso= [X86,SH] 5983 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 5984 5985 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 5986 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 5987 5988 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 5989 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 5990 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 5991 5992 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 5993 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 5994 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 5995 5996 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 5997 alias for vdso32=0. 5998 5999 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 6000 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 6001 6002 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 6003 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 6004 6005 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 6006 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 6007 6008 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 6009 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 6010 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 6011 level and then send out the event to user space through 6012 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 6013 will only send out the event without touching backlight 6014 brightness level. 6015 default: 1 6016 6017 virtio_mmio.device= 6018 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 6019 6020 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 6021 where: 6022 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 6023 like K, M and G) 6024 <baseaddr> := physical base address 6025 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 6026 request_irq()) 6027 <id> := (optional) platform device id 6028 example: 6029 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 6030 6031 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 6032 6033 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 6034 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 6035 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 6036 Use vga=ask for menu. 6037 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 6038 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 6039 6040 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 6041 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 6042 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 6043 All options are enabled by default, and this 6044 interface is meant to allow for selectively 6045 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 6046 debugging features. 6047 6048 Available options are: 6049 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 6050 - Disable all of the above options 6051 6052 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 6053 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 6054 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 6055 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 6056 mapped kernel RAM. 6057 6058 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 6059 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 6060 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 6061 6062 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 6063 Format: <command> 6064 6065 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 6066 Format: <command> 6067 6068 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 6069 Format: <command> 6070 6071 vsyscall= [X86-64] 6072 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 6073 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 6074 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 6075 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 6076 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 6077 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 6078 6079 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6080 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6081 page is readable. 6082 6083 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6084 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6085 page is not readable. 6086 6087 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 6088 them quite hard to use for exploits but 6089 might break your system. 6090 6091 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 6092 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 6093 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 6094 6095 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 6096 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 6097 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 6098 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 6099 6100 vt.default_blu= [VT] 6101 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 6102 Change the default blue palette of the console. 6103 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6104 ranging from 0-255. 6105 6106 vt.default_grn= [VT] 6107 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 6108 Change the default green palette of the console. 6109 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6110 ranging from 0-255. 6111 6112 vt.default_red= [VT] 6113 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 6114 Change the default red palette of the console. 6115 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6116 ranging from 0-255. 6117 6118 vt.default_utf8= 6119 [VT] 6120 Format=<0|1> 6121 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 6122 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 6123 newly opened terminals. 6124 6125 vt.global_cursor_default= 6126 [VT] 6127 Format=<-1|0|1> 6128 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 6129 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 6130 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 6131 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 6132 cursors, 1 will display them. 6133 6134 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 6135 Default: 2 = green. 6136 6137 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 6138 Default: 3 = cyan. 6139 6140 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 6141 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 6142 or other driver-specific files in the 6143 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 6144 6145 watchdog_thresh= 6146 [KNL] 6147 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 6148 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 6149 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 6150 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 6151 seconds. 6152 6153 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 6154 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 6155 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 6156 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 6157 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 6158 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 6159 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 6160 corresponding sysfs file. 6161 6162 workqueue.disable_numa 6163 By default, all work items queued to unbound 6164 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 6165 issued on, which results in better behavior in 6166 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 6167 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 6168 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 6169 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 6170 6171 workqueue.power_efficient 6172 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 6173 they show better performance thanks to cache 6174 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 6175 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 6176 6177 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 6178 were observed to contribute significantly to power 6179 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 6180 power usage at the cost of small performance 6181 overhead. 6182 6183 The default value of this parameter is determined by 6184 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 6185 6186 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 6187 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 6188 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 6189 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 6190 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 6191 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 6192 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 6193 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 6194 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 6195 impacted. 6196 6197 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 6198 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 6199 supporting x2apic. 6200 6201 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 6202 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 6203 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 6204 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 6205 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 6206 domains. 6207 6208 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 6209 Unplug Xen emulated devices 6210 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 6211 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 6212 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 6213 nics -- unplug network devices 6214 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 6215 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 6216 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 6217 the unplug protocol 6218 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 6219 6220 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 6221 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 6222 panic() code such as dumping handler. 6223 6224 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 6225 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 6226 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 6227 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6228 6229 xen_nopv [X86] 6230 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 6231 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 6232 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 6233 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6234 6235 xen_no_vector_callback 6236 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 6237 event channel interrupts. 6238 6239 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 6240 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 6241 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 6242 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 6243 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 6244 6245 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 6246 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 6247 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 6248 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 6249 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 6250 more timer interrupts. 6251 6252 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 6253 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 6254 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 6255 6256 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 6257 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 6258 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 6259 6260 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 6261 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 6262 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 6263 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 6264 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 6265 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 6266 6267 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 6268 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 6269 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 6270 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 6271 6272 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 6273 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 6274 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 6275 contention. 6276 6277 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 6278 Format: 6279 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 6280 6281 xive= [PPC] 6282 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 6283 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 6284 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 6285 6286 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 6287 controller on both pseries and powernv 6288 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 6289 6290 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 6291 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 6292 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 6293 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 6294 6295 xmon [PPC] 6296 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 6297 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 6298 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 6299 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 6300 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 6301 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6302 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 6303 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 6304 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 6305 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6306 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 6307 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 6308 can be written using xmon commands. 6309 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 6310 memory, and other data can't be written using 6311 xmon commands. 6312 off xmon is disabled. 6313