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