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