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: <byte> 117 118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 122 auto-serialization feature. 123 This feature is enabled by default. 124 This option allows to turn off the feature. 125 126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 127 kernels. 128 129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 132 installed automatically and they will appear under 133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 134 This option turns off this feature. 135 Note that specifying this option does not affect 136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 138 139 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 140 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 141 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 142 143 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 144 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 145 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 146 second kernel for kdump. 147 148 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 149 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 150 151 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 152 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 153 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 154 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 155 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 156 157 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 158 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 159 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 160 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 161 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 162 strings 163 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 164 strings 165 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 166 167 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 168 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 169 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 170 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 171 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 172 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 173 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 174 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 175 care about the state of the feature group strings which 176 should be controlled by the OSPM. 177 Examples: 178 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 179 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 180 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 181 182 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 183 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 184 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 185 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 186 multiple times through kernel command line is also 187 meaningless. 188 Examples: 189 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 190 FALSE. 191 192 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 193 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 194 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 195 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 196 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 197 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 198 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 199 there are quirks related to this string. This command 200 is useful when one want to control the state of the 201 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 202 the OSPM features. 203 Examples: 204 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 205 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 206 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 207 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 208 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 209 equivalent to 210 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 211 and 212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 213 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 214 215 acpi_pm_good [X86] 216 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 217 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 218 and always returns good values. 219 220 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 221 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 222 223 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 224 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 225 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 226 227 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 228 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, 229 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl } 230 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 231 s3_bios and s3_mode. 232 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 233 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 234 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 235 used during resume from hibernation. 236 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 237 control method, with respect to putting devices into 238 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 239 of _PTS is used by default). 240 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 241 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 242 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 243 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 244 but some broken systems don't work without it). 245 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 246 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 247 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 248 249 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 250 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 251 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 252 253 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 254 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 255 256 agp= [AGP] 257 { off | try_unsupported } 258 off: disable AGP support 259 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 260 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 261 262 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 263 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 264 265 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 266 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 267 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 268 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 269 270 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 271 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 272 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 273 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 274 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 275 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 276 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 277 278 32: only for 32-bit processes 279 64: only for 64-bit processes 280 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 281 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 282 283 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 284 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 285 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 286 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 287 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 288 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 289 290 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 291 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 292 Possible values are: 293 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when 294 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are 295 flushed before they will be reused, which 296 is a lot of faster 297 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 298 the system 299 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 300 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 301 allowed anymore to lift isolation 302 requirements as needed. This option 303 does not override iommu=pt 304 305 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 306 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 307 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 308 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 309 IOMMU initialization. 310 311 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 312 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 313 remapping modes: 314 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 315 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 316 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 317 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 318 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 319 320 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 321 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 322 Format: <a>,<b> 323 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 324 325 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 326 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 327 connected to one of 16 gameports 328 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 329 330 apc= [HW,SPARC] 331 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 332 Format: noidle 333 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 334 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 335 APC and your system crashes randomly. 336 337 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 338 Change the output verbosity while booting 339 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 340 Change the amount of debugging information output 341 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 342 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 343 driver name. 344 Format: apic=driver_name 345 Examples: apic=bigsmp 346 347 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 348 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 349 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 350 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 351 backup of CPU 0 352 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 353 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 354 shot down by NMI 355 356 autoconf= [IPV6] 357 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 358 359 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 360 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 361 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 362 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 363 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 364 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 365 apic=verbose is specified. 366 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 367 368 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 369 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 370 371 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 372 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 373 374 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 375 376 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 377 378 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 379 EzKey and similar keyboards 380 381 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 382 383 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 384 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 385 386 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 387 keyboards 388 389 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 390 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 391 392 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 393 Use software keyboard repeat 394 395 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 396 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 397 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 398 enabled until the next reboot 399 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 400 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 401 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 402 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 403 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 404 userspace auditd. 405 Default: unset 406 407 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 408 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 409 Default: 64 410 411 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 412 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 413 Format: { "0" | "1" } 414 0 - Disable the BAU. 415 1 - Enable the BAU. 416 unset - Disable the BAU. 417 418 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 419 Format: <io>,<mode> 420 421 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 422 Format: <io>,<mode> 423 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 424 425 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 426 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 427 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 428 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 429 430 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 431 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 432 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 433 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 434 435 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 436 embedded devices based on command line input. 437 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 438 439 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 440 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 441 no delay (0). 442 Format: integer 443 444 bootconfig [KNL] 445 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 446 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 447 448 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 449 450 bert_disable [ACPI] 451 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 452 453 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 454 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 455 kernel args too. 456 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst 457 bttv.tuner= 458 459 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 460 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 461 at a time. 462 463 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 464 465 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 466 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 467 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 468 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 469 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 470 This option provides an override for these situations. 471 472 carrier_timeout= 473 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 474 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 475 it waits 120 seconds. 476 477 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 478 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 479 trust validation. 480 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 481 482 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 483 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 484 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 485 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 486 others). 487 488 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 489 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 490 491 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller 492 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable} 493 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 494 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 495 a single hierarchy 496 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 497 subsystem 498 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 499 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 500 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 501 502 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 503 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 504 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 505 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 506 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 507 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 508 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 509 all v1 hierarchies. 510 511 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 512 Format: <string> 513 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 514 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 515 516 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 517 Format: { "0" | "1" } 518 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 519 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 520 any implied execute protection). 521 1 -- check protection requested by application. 522 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 523 Value can be changed at runtime via 524 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 525 526 cio_ignore= [S390] 527 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 528 clk_ignore_unused 529 [CLK] 530 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 531 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 532 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 533 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 534 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 535 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 536 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 537 platform with proper driver support. For more 538 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 539 540 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 541 [Deprecated] 542 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 543 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 544 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 545 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 546 547 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 548 Format: <string> 549 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 550 with the name specified. 551 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 552 the platform: 553 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 554 [ACPI] acpi_pm 555 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 556 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 557 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 558 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 559 [MIPS] MIPS 560 [PARISC] cr16 561 [S390] tod 562 [SH] SuperH 563 [SPARC64] tick 564 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 565 566 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 567 [ARM,ARM64] 568 Format: <bool> 569 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 570 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 571 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 572 systems. 573 574 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86] 575 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 576 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 577 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily 578 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific 579 ones should be. 580 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 581 or using the feature without checking anything 582 will still see it. This just prevents it from 583 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 584 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 585 some critical bits. 586 587 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 588 [ARM,X86,KNL] 589 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 590 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 591 placement constraint by the physical address range of 592 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 593 altogether. For more information, see 594 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h 595 596 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 597 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 598 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 599 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 600 a hypervisor. 601 Default: yes 602 603 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 604 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 605 allocations, by default set to 256K. 606 607 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 608 Format: 609 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 610 611 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 612 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 613 614 com90xx= [HW,NET] 615 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 616 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 617 618 condev= [HW,S390] console device 619 conmode= 620 621 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 622 623 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 624 625 ttyS<n>[,options] 626 ttyUSB0[,options] 627 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 628 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 629 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 630 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 631 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 632 633 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 634 information. See 635 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an 636 alternative. 637 638 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 639 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 640 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 641 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 642 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 643 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 644 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 645 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 646 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 647 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 648 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 649 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 650 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 651 the h/w is not re-initialized. 652 653 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 654 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 655 656 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 657 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 658 console=brl,ttyS0 659 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 660 661 console_msg_format= 662 [KNL] Change console messages format 663 default 664 By default we print messages on consoles in 665 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 666 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 667 `printk_time' param). 668 syslog 669 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 670 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 671 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 672 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 673 from /proc/kmsg. 674 675 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 676 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 677 Defaults to 0. 678 679 coredump_filter= 680 [KNL] Change the default value for 681 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 682 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. 683 684 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 685 [ARM,ARM64] 686 Format: <bool> 687 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 688 0: default value, disable debugging 689 1: enable debugging at boot time 690 691 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 692 disable the cpuidle sub-system 693 694 cpuidle.governor= 695 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 696 697 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 698 disable the cpufreq sub-system 699 700 cpu_init_udelay=N 701 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 702 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 703 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 704 Default: 10000 705 706 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 707 Format: 708 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 709 710 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 711 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 712 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 713 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 714 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 715 is selected automatically. 716 [KNL, x86_64] select a region under 4G first, and 717 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 718 hasn't been specified. 719 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 720 721 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 722 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 723 in the running system. The syntax of range is 724 start-[end] where start and end are both 725 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 726 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 727 728 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 729 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 730 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 731 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 732 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 733 available. 734 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 735 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 736 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 737 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 738 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 739 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 740 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 741 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 742 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at 743 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 744 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G 745 for second kernel instead. 746 0: to disable low allocation. 747 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 748 or memory reserved is below 4G. 749 750 cryptomgr.notests 751 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 752 753 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 754 Format: <dma> 755 756 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 757 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 758 759 dasd= [HW,NET] 760 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 761 762 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 763 (one device per port) 764 Format: <port#>,<type> 765 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 766 767 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot 768 time. See 769 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for 770 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg. 771 772 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 773 774 debug_boot_weak_hash 775 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 776 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 777 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 778 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 779 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 780 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 781 782 debug_locks_verbose= 783 [KNL] verbose self-tests 784 Format=<0|1> 785 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 786 self-tests. 787 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to 788 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally 789 only useful to kernel developers. 790 791 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 792 793 no_debug_objects 794 [KNL] Disable object debugging 795 796 debug_guardpage_minorder= 797 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 798 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 799 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 800 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 801 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 802 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 803 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 804 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 805 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 806 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 807 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 808 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 809 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 810 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 811 bypassed) which are not detectable by 812 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 813 tracking down these problems. 814 815 debug_pagealloc= 816 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 817 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 818 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 819 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 820 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 821 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 822 on: enable the feature 823 824 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 825 826 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 827 Format: <area>[,<node>] 828 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt. 829 830 default_hugepagesz= 831 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default 832 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by 833 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and 834 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems. 835 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size 836 if not specified. 837 838 deferred_probe_timeout= 839 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 840 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 841 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 842 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0 843 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also 844 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 845 retrying. 846 847 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 848 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 849 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 850 level 1 and decompression (default) 851 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 852 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 853 only (compression on level 1) 854 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 855 only (decompression) 856 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 857 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 858 859 dhash_entries= [KNL] 860 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 861 862 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 863 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 864 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 865 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 866 miss to occur. 867 868 disable= [IPV6] 869 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 870 871 hardened_usercopy= 872 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 873 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 874 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 875 from reading or writing beyond known memory 876 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 877 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 878 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 879 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 880 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 881 882 disable_radix [PPC] 883 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 884 885 disable_tlbie [PPC] 886 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 887 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 888 889 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 890 Format: <int> 891 The number of initial APIC ID for the 892 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 893 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 894 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 895 causing system reset or hang due to sending 896 INIT from AP to BSP. 897 898 perf_v4_pmi= [X86,INTEL] 899 Format: <bool> 900 Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature. 901 The feature only exists starting from 902 Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer). 903 904 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 905 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if 906 to workaround buggy firmware. 907 908 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 909 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 910 911 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 912 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 913 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 914 entry later. This parameter disables that. 915 916 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 917 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 918 memory out of your available memory pool based on 919 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 920 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 921 922 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 923 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 924 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 925 926 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 927 928 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 929 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 930 931 dma_debug_entries=<number> 932 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 933 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 934 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 935 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 936 architectural default is too low. 937 938 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 939 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 940 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 941 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 942 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 943 driver later using sysfs. 944 945 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 946 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. 947 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 948 949 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 950 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 951 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 952 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 953 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 954 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 955 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 956 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 957 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 958 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 959 available in Documentation/driver-api/edid.rst. An EDID 960 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 961 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 962 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 963 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 964 data set with no connector name will be used for 965 any connectors not explicitly specified. 966 967 dscc4.setup= [NET] 968 969 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 970 Format: {"off" | "known"} 971 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 972 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 973 exists). 974 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 975 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 976 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 977 978 dump_apple_properties [X86] 979 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 980 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 981 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 982 983 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 984 module.dyndbg[="val"] 985 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 986 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 987 for details. 988 989 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions. 990 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.rst for more 991 information about the feature. 992 993 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 994 in some Intel CPUs. 995 996 module.async_probe [KNL] 997 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 998 999 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1000 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1001 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1002 which are not unmapped. 1003 1004 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1005 1006 When used with no options, the early console is 1007 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1008 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1009 the platform. 1010 1011 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1012 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1013 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1014 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1015 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1016 configured. 1017 1018 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 1019 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 1020 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 1021 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 1022 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1023 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1024 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1025 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1026 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1027 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1028 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1029 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1030 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 1031 1032 pl011,<addr> 1033 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1034 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1035 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1036 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1037 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1038 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1039 the device registers. 1040 1041 meson,<addr> 1042 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1043 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1044 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1045 supported. 1046 1047 msm_serial,<addr> 1048 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1049 port at the specified address. The serial port 1050 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1051 yet supported. 1052 1053 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1054 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1055 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1056 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1057 yet supported. 1058 1059 owl,<addr> 1060 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1061 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1062 specified address. The serial port must already be 1063 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1064 1065 rda,<addr> 1066 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1067 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1068 specified address. The serial port must already be 1069 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1070 1071 sbi 1072 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1073 console. 1074 1075 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1076 1077 s3c2410,<addr> 1078 s3c2412,<addr> 1079 s3c2440,<addr> 1080 s3c6400,<addr> 1081 s5pv210,<addr> 1082 exynos4210,<addr> 1083 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1084 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1085 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1086 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1087 Options are not yet supported. 1088 1089 lantiq,<addr> 1090 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1091 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1092 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1093 yet supported. 1094 1095 lpuart,<addr> 1096 lpuart32,<addr> 1097 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1098 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1099 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1100 port must already be setup and configured. 1101 1102 ec_imx21,<addr> 1103 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1104 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1105 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1106 must already be setup and configured. 1107 1108 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1109 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1110 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1111 address. The serial port must already be setup 1112 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1113 1114 qcom_geni,<addr> 1115 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1116 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1117 specified address. The serial port must already be 1118 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1119 1120 efifb,[options] 1121 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1122 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1123 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1124 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1125 mapped with the correct attributes. 1126 1127 linflex,<addr> 1128 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1129 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1130 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1131 already be setup and configured. 1132 1133 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1134 earlyprintk=vga 1135 earlyprintk=sclp 1136 earlyprintk=xen 1137 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1138 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1139 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1140 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1141 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1142 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1143 1144 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1145 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1146 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1147 1148 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1149 takes over. 1150 1151 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 1152 be used at a time. 1153 1154 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1155 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1156 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1157 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1158 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1159 You can find the port for a given device in 1160 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1161 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1162 1163 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1164 very good. 1165 1166 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 1167 the real console. 1168 1169 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. 1170 1171 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1172 1173 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1174 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1175 UART class. 1176 1177 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1178 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1179 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1180 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1181 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1182 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1183 default: on. 1184 1185 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1186 ekgdboc=kbd 1187 1188 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1189 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1190 1191 edd= [EDD] 1192 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1193 1194 efi= [EFI] 1195 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug", 1196 "nosoftreserve", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1197 "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1198 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI 1199 runtime services mapping. [Needs CONFIG_X86_UV=y] 1200 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1201 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1202 firmware implementations. 1203 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1204 debug: enable misc debug output 1205 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1206 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1207 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1208 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1209 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1210 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1211 disable_early_pci_dma: Disable the busmaster bit on all 1212 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1213 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1214 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1215 1216 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1217 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1218 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1219 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1220 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1221 1222 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1223 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1224 updating original EFI memory map. 1225 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1226 from ss to ss+nn. 1227 1228 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1229 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1230 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1231 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1232 1233 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1234 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1235 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1236 1237 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1238 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1239 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1240 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1241 "soft reserved". 1242 1243 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1244 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1245 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1246 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1247 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1248 1249 1250 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1251 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1252 1253 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1254 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1255 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1256 1257 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1258 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1259 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1260 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1261 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1262 1263 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1264 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1265 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1266 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1267 1268 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1269 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1270 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1271 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1272 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1273 1274 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1275 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1276 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1277 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1278 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1279 Default value is 0. 1280 Value can be changed at runtime via 1281 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1282 1283 erst_disable [ACPI] 1284 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1285 support. 1286 1287 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1288 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1289 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1290 1291 evm= [EVM] 1292 Format: { "fix" } 1293 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1294 current integrity status. 1295 1296 failslab= 1297 fail_page_alloc= 1298 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1299 General fault injection mechanism. 1300 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1301 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1302 1303 floppy= [HW] 1304 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1305 1306 force_pal_cache_flush 1307 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1308 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1309 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1310 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1311 1312 forcepae [X86-32] 1313 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1314 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1315 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1316 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1317 and may cause unknown problems. 1318 1319 ftrace=[tracer] 1320 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1321 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1322 boot debugging. 1323 1324 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1325 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1326 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1327 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1328 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1329 oops. 1330 1331 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1332 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1333 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 1334 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1335 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1336 tracing directory. 1337 1338 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1339 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1340 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1341 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1342 tracing directory. 1343 1344 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1345 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1346 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1347 function-list is a comma separated list of functions 1348 that can be changed at run time by the 1349 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1350 1351 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1352 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1353 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of 1354 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1355 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1356 1357 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1358 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1359 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1360 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1361 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1362 1363 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1364 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1365 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1366 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1367 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1368 1369 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1370 1371 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1372 Format: off | on 1373 default: on 1374 1375 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1376 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1377 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1378 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1379 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1380 1381 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1382 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1383 android emulator 1384 1385 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1386 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1387 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1388 GPT to be used instead. 1389 1390 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1391 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1392 Format: 0 | 1 1393 Default: 0 1394 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1395 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1396 Format: 0 | 1 1397 Default: 0 1398 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1399 Format: 0 | 1 1400 Default: 0 1401 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1402 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1403 Default: 1024 1404 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1405 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1406 Default: 1024 1407 1408 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1409 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1410 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1411 1412 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1413 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1414 backtraces on all cpus. 1415 Format: <integer> 1416 1417 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1418 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1419 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1420 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1421 1422 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1423 1424 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1425 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1426 1427 hest_disable [ACPI] 1428 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1429 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1430 logic will be disabled. 1431 1432 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1433 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1434 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1435 size on bigger boxes. 1436 1437 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1438 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1439 Default: "on" 1440 1441 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1442 1443 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1444 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1445 verbose } 1446 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1447 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1448 VIA, nVidia) 1449 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1450 1451 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1452 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1453 1454 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1455 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages. 1456 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified 1457 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve 1458 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on 1459 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G 1460 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag). 1461 1462 hung_task_panic= 1463 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1464 Format: <integer> 1465 1466 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a 1467 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1468 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1469 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1470 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1471 1472 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1473 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1474 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1475 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1476 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1477 1478 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1479 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1480 guest on lock contention. 1481 1482 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1483 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1484 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1485 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1486 the real console. 1487 1488 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1489 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1490 registered from board initialization code. 1491 Format: 1492 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1493 1494 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1495 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1496 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1497 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1498 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1499 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1500 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1501 keyboard and cannot control its state 1502 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1503 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1504 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1505 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1506 for the AUX port 1507 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1508 controller 1509 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1510 controllers 1511 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1512 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1513 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1514 transitions, or never reset 1515 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1516 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1517 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1518 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1519 architectures force reset to be always executed 1520 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1521 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1522 1523 i810= [HW,DRM] 1524 1525 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1526 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1527 hardware. 1528 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature 1529 does not match list of supported models. 1530 i8k.power_status 1531 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1532 (disabled by default) 1533 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1534 capability is set. 1535 1536 i915.invert_brightness= 1537 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1538 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1539 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1540 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1541 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1542 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1543 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1544 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1545 value switches the backlight off. 1546 -1 -- never invert brightness 1547 0 -- machine default 1548 1 -- force brightness inversion 1549 1550 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1551 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1552 1553 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1554 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1555 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1556 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1557 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst. 1558 1559 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1560 Format: <int> 1561 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1562 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1563 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1564 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1565 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1566 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1567 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1568 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1569 was 0x3. 1570 1571 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1572 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1573 1574 idle= [X86] 1575 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1576 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1577 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1578 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1579 Not recommended. 1580 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1581 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1582 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1583 1584 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1585 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1586 Default: strict 1587 1588 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1589 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1590 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1591 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1592 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1593 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1594 encoding mode. 1595 1596 Available settings are as follows: 1597 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1598 supported by the FPU 1599 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1600 by the FPU 1601 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1602 by the FPU 1603 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1604 supported by the FPU 1605 1606 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1607 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1608 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1609 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1610 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1611 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1612 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1613 MIPS64 CPUs. 1614 1615 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1616 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1617 except where unsupported by hardware. 1618 1619 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1620 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1621 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1622 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1623 could change it dynamically, usually by 1624 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1625 1626 ignore_rlimit_data 1627 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1628 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1629 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1630 1631 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1632 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1633 1634 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1635 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1636 default: "enforce" 1637 1638 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1639 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1640 owned by uid=0. 1641 1642 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1643 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1644 measurements, instead of host native format. 1645 1646 ima_hash= [IMA] 1647 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1648 | sha512 | ... } 1649 default: "sha1" 1650 1651 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1652 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1653 1654 ima_policy= [IMA] 1655 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1656 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1657 fail_securely" 1658 1659 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1660 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1661 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1662 uid=0. 1663 1664 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1665 all files owned by root. 1666 1667 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1668 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1669 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1670 1671 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1672 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1673 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1674 flag. 1675 1676 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1677 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1678 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1679 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1680 opened for read by uid=0. 1681 1682 ima_template= [IMA] 1683 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1684 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" } 1685 Default: "ima-ng" 1686 1687 ima_template_fmt= 1688 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1689 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1690 1691 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1692 Format: <min_file_size> 1693 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1694 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1695 1696 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1697 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1698 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1699 1700 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1701 Format: <bufsize> 1702 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1703 1704 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1705 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1706 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1707 1708 init= [KNL] 1709 Format: <full_path> 1710 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1711 process. 1712 1713 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1714 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1715 startup. 1716 1717 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1718 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1719 modules and initcalls. 1720 1721 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1722 1723 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 1724 zeroes. 1725 Format: 0 | 1 1726 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 1727 1728 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 1729 Format: 0 | 1 1730 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 1731 1732 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1733 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1734 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1735 override in debugfs after boot. 1736 1737 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1738 Format: <irq> 1739 1740 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1741 1742 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1743 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1744 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1745 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1746 1747 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1748 on 1749 Enable intel iommu driver. 1750 off 1751 Disable intel iommu driver. 1752 igfx_off [Default Off] 1753 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1754 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1755 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1756 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1757 DMA. 1758 forcedac [x86_64] 1759 With this option iommu will not optimize to look 1760 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual 1761 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater 1762 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look 1763 for translation below 32-bit and if not available 1764 then look in the higher range. 1765 strict [Default Off] 1766 With this option on every unmap_single operation will 1767 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed 1768 to batching them for performance. 1769 sp_off [Default Off] 1770 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 1771 has the capability. With this option, super page will 1772 not be supported. 1773 sm_on [Default Off] 1774 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the 1775 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable 1776 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode 1777 will be used on hardware which claims to support it. 1778 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 1779 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 1780 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 1781 could harm performance of some high-throughput 1782 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 1783 mapping is enabled. 1784 Note that using this option lowers the security 1785 provided by tboot because it makes the system 1786 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 1787 nobounce [Default off] 1788 Disable bounce buffer for untrusted devices such as 1789 the Thunderbolt devices. This will treat the untrusted 1790 devices as the trusted ones, hence might expose security 1791 risks of DMA attacks. 1792 1793 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 1794 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1795 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 1796 1797 intel_pstate= [X86] 1798 disable 1799 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 1800 scaling driver for the supported processors 1801 passive 1802 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 1803 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 1804 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 1805 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 1806 feature. 1807 force 1808 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 1809 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 1810 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 1811 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 1812 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 1813 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 1814 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 1815 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 1816 no_hwp 1817 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 1818 if available. 1819 hwp_only 1820 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 1821 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 1822 support_acpi_ppc 1823 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 1824 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 1825 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 1826 then this feature is turned on by default. 1827 per_cpu_perf_limits 1828 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 1829 cpufreq sysfs interface 1830 1831 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 1832 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 1833 off disable Interrupt Remapping 1834 nosid disable Source ID checking 1835 no_x2apic_optout 1836 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 1837 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 1838 1839 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 1840 strict regions from userspace. 1841 relaxed 1842 1843 iommu= [x86] 1844 off 1845 force 1846 noforce 1847 biomerge 1848 panic 1849 nopanic 1850 merge 1851 nomerge 1852 soft 1853 pt [x86] 1854 nopt [x86] 1855 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 1856 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 1857 1858 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 1859 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1860 0 - Lazy mode. 1861 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 1862 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 1863 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 1864 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 1865 the relevant IOMMU driver. 1866 1 - Strict mode (default). 1867 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 1868 synchronously. 1869 1870 iommu.passthrough= 1871 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 1872 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1873 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1874 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 1875 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 1876 1877 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems 1878 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 1879 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 1880 1881 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 1882 0x80 1883 Standard port 0x80 based delay 1884 0xed 1885 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 1886 udelay 1887 Simple two microseconds delay 1888 none 1889 No delay 1890 1891 ip= [IP_PNP] 1892 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 1893 1894 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 1895 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 1896 1897 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 1898 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 1899 1900 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 1901 [ARM, ARM64] 1902 Format: <bool> 1903 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 1904 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 1905 exposed by the device tree is too small. 1906 1907 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 1908 [ARM, ARM64] 1909 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 1910 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 1911 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 1912 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 1913 LPIs. 1914 1915 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 1916 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 1917 requires the kernel to be built with 1918 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 1919 1920 irqfixup [HW] 1921 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1922 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1923 firmware running. 1924 1925 irqpoll [HW] 1926 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1927 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 1928 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1929 firmware running. 1930 1931 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 1932 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 1933 1934 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 1935 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 1936 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 1937 1938 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 1939 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 1940 1941 nohz 1942 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 1943 1944 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 1945 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 1946 workqueue's affinity configured via the 1947 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 1948 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 1949 1950 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 1951 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 1952 be configured manually after bootup. 1953 1954 domain 1955 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 1956 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 1957 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 1958 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 1959 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 1960 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 1961 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 1962 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 1963 1964 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 1965 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 1966 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 1967 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 1968 1969 managed_irq 1970 1971 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 1972 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 1973 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 1974 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 1975 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 1976 1977 This isolation is best effort and only effective 1978 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 1979 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 1980 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 1981 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 1982 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 1983 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 1984 1985 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 1986 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 1987 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 1988 only delivered when tasks running on those 1989 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 1990 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 1991 queues. 1992 1993 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 1994 1995 iucv= [HW,NET] 1996 1997 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64] 1998 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1999 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2000 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2001 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2002 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2003 2004 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64] 2005 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2006 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2007 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 2008 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2009 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2010 2011 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64] 2012 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2013 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2014 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2015 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 2016 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2017 2018 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2019 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2020 2021 nokaslr [KNL] 2022 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 2023 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 2024 Layout Randomization). 2025 2026 kasan_multi_shot 2027 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2028 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2029 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2030 invalid access. 2031 2032 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2033 2034 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2035 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2036 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2037 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2038 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2039 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2040 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2041 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2042 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2043 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2044 2045 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2046 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2047 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2048 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2049 zone if it does not. 2050 2051 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2052 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2053 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2054 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2055 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2056 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2057 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2058 2059 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2060 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2061 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2062 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2063 optional and is the number seconds in between 2064 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2065 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2066 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2067 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2068 the kernel debugger. 2069 2070 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2071 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2072 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2073 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2074 keyboard only format: kbd 2075 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2076 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2077 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2078 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2079 2080 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2081 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2082 2083 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address. 2084 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2085 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2086 2087 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2088 Valid arguments: on, off 2089 Default: on 2090 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2091 the default is off. 2092 2093 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2094 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2095 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2096 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2097 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2098 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2099 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2100 2101 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2102 2103 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2104 Boot Parameter" section. 2105 2106 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2107 and kernel address spaces. 2108 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2109 0: force disabled 2110 1: force enabled 2111 2112 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2113 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2114 2115 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2116 Default is false (don't support). 2117 2118 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 2119 KVM MMU at runtime. 2120 Default is 0 (off) 2121 2122 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2123 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2124 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2125 force : Always deploy workaround. 2126 off : Never deploy workaround. 2127 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2128 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2129 2130 Default is 'auto'. 2131 2132 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2133 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2134 2135 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2136 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2137 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2138 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2139 minute. The default is 60. 2140 2141 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2142 Default is 1 (enabled) 2143 2144 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2145 for all guests. 2146 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2147 2148 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2149 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2150 system registers 2151 2152 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2153 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2154 system registers 2155 2156 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2157 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2158 system registers 2159 2160 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2161 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2162 LPIs. 2163 2164 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2165 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2166 Default is 1 (enabled) 2167 2168 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2169 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 2170 Default is 0 (disabled) 2171 2172 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2173 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2174 Default is 1 (enabled) 2175 2176 kvm-intel.nested= 2177 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2178 Default is 0 (disabled) 2179 2180 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2181 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2182 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2183 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2184 2185 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2186 CVE-2018-3620. 2187 2188 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2189 2190 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2191 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2192 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2193 never: Disables the mitigation 2194 2195 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2196 2197 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2198 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2199 Default is 1 (enabled) 2200 2201 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2202 affected CPUs 2203 2204 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2205 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2206 2207 full 2208 Provides all available mitigations for the 2209 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2210 enables all mitigations in the 2211 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2212 2213 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2214 sysfs interface is still possible after 2215 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2216 when the first VM is started in a 2217 potentially insecure configuration, 2218 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2219 2220 full,force 2221 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2222 flush runtime control. Implies the 2223 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2224 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2225 2226 flush 2227 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2228 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2229 L1D flush. 2230 2231 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2232 sysfs interface is still possible after 2233 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2234 when the first VM is started in a 2235 potentially insecure configuration, 2236 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2237 2238 flush,nosmt 2239 2240 Disables SMT and enables the default 2241 hypervisor mitigation. 2242 2243 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2244 sysfs interface is still possible after 2245 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2246 when the first VM is started in a 2247 potentially insecure configuration, 2248 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2249 2250 flush,nowarn 2251 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2252 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2253 insecure configuration. 2254 2255 off 2256 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2257 emit any warnings. 2258 It also drops the swap size and available 2259 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2260 bare metal. 2261 2262 Default is 'flush'. 2263 2264 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2265 2266 l2cr= [PPC] 2267 2268 l3cr= [PPC] 2269 2270 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2271 disabled it. 2272 2273 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline 2274 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2275 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2276 2277 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2278 in C2 power state. 2279 2280 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2281 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2282 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2283 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2284 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2285 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2286 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2287 2288 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2289 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2290 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2291 2292 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2293 when set. 2294 Format: <int> 2295 2296 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma 2297 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 2298 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 2299 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 2300 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 2301 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 2302 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 2303 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 2304 2305 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2306 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2307 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2308 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2309 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2310 host link and device attached to it. 2311 2312 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2313 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 2314 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2315 The following configurations can be forced. 2316 2317 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2318 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2319 2320 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2321 2322 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2323 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2324 allowed. 2325 2326 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2327 2328 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 2329 2330 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 2331 and both resets. 2332 2333 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 2334 hot-unplug link recovery 2335 2336 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 2337 2338 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 2339 2340 * disable: Disable this device. 2341 2342 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2343 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2344 2345 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 2346 2347 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy 2348 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 2349 2350 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2351 Format: <integer> 2352 2353 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2354 Format: <integer> 2355 2356 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2357 Format: <integer> 2358 2359 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2360 Format: <integer> 2361 2362 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2363 { integrity | confidentiality } 2364 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2365 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2366 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2367 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2368 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2369 are also disabled. 2370 2371 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2372 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2373 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2374 number of online CPUs. 2375 2376 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2377 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2378 2379 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2380 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2381 2382 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2383 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2384 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2385 2386 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2387 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2388 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2389 mode during the locktorture test. 2390 2391 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2392 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2393 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2394 2395 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2396 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2397 2398 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2399 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2400 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2401 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2402 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2403 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2404 2405 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2406 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2407 2408 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2409 Enable additional printk() statements. 2410 2411 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2412 Format: <irq> 2413 2414 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2415 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2416 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2417 loglevels are defined as follows: 2418 2419 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2420 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2421 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2422 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2423 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2424 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2425 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2426 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2427 2428 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2429 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2430 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2431 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2432 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2433 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2434 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2435 2436 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2437 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2438 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2439 kernel boot problems. 2440 2441 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2442 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2443 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2444 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2445 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2446 attached printers to be reset. Using 2447 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2448 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2449 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2450 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2451 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2452 port specification list means that device IDs 2453 from each port should be examined, to see if 2454 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2455 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2456 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2457 2458 lpj=n [KNL] 2459 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2460 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2461 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2462 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2463 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2464 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2465 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2466 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2467 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2468 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2469 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2470 hardware. 2471 2472 ltpc= [NET] 2473 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2474 2475 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2476 2477 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2478 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2479 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2480 2481 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2482 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2483 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2484 2485 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different 2486 yeeloong laptop. 2487 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2488 2489 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2490 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2491 2492 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2493 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2494 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2495 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2496 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2497 only takes effect during system bootup. 2498 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2499 which also disables the IO APIC. 2500 2501 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2502 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2503 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2504 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2505 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2506 /dev/loop-control interface. 2507 2508 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2509 2510 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2511 2512 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2513 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2514 2515 mdacon= [MDA] 2516 Format: <first>,<last> 2517 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2518 2519 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2520 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2521 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2522 2523 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2524 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2525 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2526 2527 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2528 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2529 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2530 not have direct access. 2531 2532 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2533 options are: 2534 2535 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2536 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2537 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2538 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2539 2540 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 2541 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 2542 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 2543 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 2544 too. 2545 2546 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 2547 mds=full. 2548 2549 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 2550 2551 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2552 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able 2553 to see the whole system memory or for test. 2554 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2555 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2556 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2557 belonging to unused RAM. 2558 2559 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2560 memory. 2561 2562 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2563 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2564 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2565 2566 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2567 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2568 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2569 set according to the 2570 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2571 option. 2572 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 2573 2574 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2575 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2576 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2577 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2578 option description. 2579 2580 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2581 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2582 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2583 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2584 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2585 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2586 comma delimited. 2587 Example: 2588 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2589 2590 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2591 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2592 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2593 2594 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2595 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2596 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2597 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2598 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2599 or 2600 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2601 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 2602 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 2603 will be eaten. 2604 2605 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2606 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2607 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2608 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2609 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2610 2611 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 2612 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 2613 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 2614 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 2615 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 2616 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 2617 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 2618 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 2619 2620 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2621 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2622 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2623 Setting this option will scan the memory 2624 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2625 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2626 from using the memory being corrupted. 2627 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2628 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2629 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2630 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2631 2632 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2633 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2634 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2635 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2636 corruption in more or less memory. 2637 2638 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2639 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2640 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2641 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2642 2643 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest 2644 Format: <integer> 2645 default : 0 <disable> 2646 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2647 performed. Each pass selects another test 2648 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2649 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2650 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2651 regions that are detected. 2652 2653 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 2654 Valid arguments: on, off 2655 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 2656 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 2657 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 2658 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 2659 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 2660 2661 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst 2662 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 2663 2664 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 2665 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 2666 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 2667 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 2668 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 2669 2670 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2671 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst. 2672 2673 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2674 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2675 platforms. 2676 2677 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2678 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2679 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2680 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2681 2682 mga= [HW,DRM] 2683 2684 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2685 physical address is ignored. 2686 2687 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2688 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2689 Default: "0tb" 2690 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2691 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2692 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2693 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2694 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2695 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2696 unconfigured. 2697 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2698 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2699 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2700 VGA shield. 2701 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2702 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2703 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2704 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2705 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 2706 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 2707 2708 mitigations= 2709 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 2710 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 2711 arch-independent options, each of which is an 2712 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 2713 2714 off 2715 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 2716 improves system performance, but it may also 2717 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 2718 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 2719 kpti=0 [ARM64] 2720 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 2721 nobp=0 [S390] 2722 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 2723 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 2724 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 2725 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 2726 l1tf=off [X86] 2727 mds=off [X86] 2728 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 2729 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 2730 2731 Exceptions: 2732 This does not have any effect on 2733 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 2734 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 2735 2736 auto (default) 2737 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 2738 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 2739 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 2740 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 2741 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 2742 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 2743 2744 auto,nosmt 2745 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 2746 if needed. This is for users who always want to 2747 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 2748 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 2749 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 2750 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 2751 2752 mminit_loglevel= 2753 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 2754 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 2755 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 2756 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 2757 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 2758 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 2759 2760 module.sig_enforce 2761 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 2762 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 2763 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 2764 is always true, so this option does nothing. 2765 2766 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 2767 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 2768 2769 mousedev.tap_time= 2770 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 2771 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 2772 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 2773 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 2774 Format: <msecs> 2775 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 2776 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2777 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 2778 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2779 2780 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2781 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 2782 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 2783 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 2784 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 2785 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 2786 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 2787 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 2788 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 2789 is not too small. 2790 2791 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 2792 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 2793 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 2794 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 2795 allocations. Use with caution! 2796 2797 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 2798 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 2799 2800 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 2801 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 2802 2803 mtdparts= [MTD] 2804 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 2805 2806 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 2807 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 2808 at a time. 2809 2810 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 2811 2812 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 2813 2814 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 2815 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 2816 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 2817 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 2818 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 2819 2820 mtdset= [ARM] 2821 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 2822 2823 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c 2824 2825 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 2826 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 2827 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 2828 2829 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2830 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 2831 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 2832 2833 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2834 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 2835 Default is 1. 2836 Large value could prevent small alignment from 2837 using up MTRRs. 2838 2839 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 2840 Format: <integer> 2841 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 2842 Default : 1 2843 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 2844 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 2845 2846 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 2847 2848 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 2849 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 2850 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 2851 something different and driver-specific. 2852 This usage is only documented in each driver source 2853 file if at all. 2854 2855 nf_conntrack.acct= 2856 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 2857 0 to disable accounting 2858 1 to enable accounting 2859 Default value is 0. 2860 2861 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 2862 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2863 2864 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 2865 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2866 2867 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 2868 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2869 2870 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 2871 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 2872 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 2873 requests. 2874 2875 nfs.callback_tcpport= 2876 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 2877 channel should listen. 2878 2879 nfs.cache_getent= 2880 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 2881 to update the NFS client cache entries. 2882 2883 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 2884 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 2885 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 2886 2887 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 2888 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 2889 entries. 2890 2891 nfs.enable_ino64= 2892 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 2893 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 2894 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 2895 of returning the full 64-bit number. 2896 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 2897 2898 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 2899 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 2900 slots the client will assign to the callback 2901 channel. This determines the maximum number of 2902 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 2903 a particular server. 2904 2905 nfs.max_session_slots= 2906 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 2907 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 2908 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 2909 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 2910 Note that there is little point in setting this 2911 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 2912 2913 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2914 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 2915 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 2916 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 2917 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 2918 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 2919 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 2920 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 2921 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 2922 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 2923 back to using the idmapper. 2924 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 2925 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 2926 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 2927 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 2928 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 2929 UUID that is generated at system install time. 2930 2931 nfs.send_implementation_id = 2932 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 2933 information in exchange_id requests. 2934 If zero, no implementation identification information 2935 will be sent. 2936 The default is to send the implementation identification 2937 information. 2938 2939 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 2940 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 2941 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 2942 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 2943 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 2944 after the locks are lost. 2945 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 2946 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 2947 parameter to '1'. 2948 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 2949 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 2950 2951 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 2952 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 2953 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 2954 2955 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 2956 whatever value is the default set by the layout 2957 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 2958 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 2959 2960 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2961 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 2962 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 2963 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 2964 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 2965 migration from NFSv2/v3. 2966 2967 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 2968 when a NMI is triggered. 2969 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 2970 2971 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 2972 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 2973 Valid num: 0 or 1 2974 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 2975 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 2976 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 2977 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 2978 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 2979 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 2980 please see 'nowatchdog'. 2981 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 2982 need the box quickly up again. 2983 2984 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 2985 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 2986 2987 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 2988 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 2989 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 2990 waits 4 seconds. 2991 2992 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 2993 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 2994 is present. 2995 2996 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 2997 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 2998 2999 no_console_suspend 3000 [HW] Never suspend the console 3001 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3002 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3003 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3004 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3005 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3006 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3007 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3008 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3009 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3010 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3011 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3012 turn on/off it dynamically. 3013 3014 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3015 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3016 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3017 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3018 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3019 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3020 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3021 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3022 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3023 is set. 3024 3025 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3026 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3027 but will impact performance. 3028 3029 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3030 3031 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3032 (CPU alternatives feature). 3033 3034 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3035 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3036 3037 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3038 3039 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 3040 on "Classic" PPC cores. 3041 3042 nocache [ARM] 3043 3044 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 3045 3046 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting 3047 3048 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3049 3050 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3051 3052 noexec [IA-64] 3053 3054 noexec [X86] 3055 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 3056 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3057 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 3058 3059 nosmap [X86,PPC] 3060 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3061 even if it is supported by processor. 3062 3063 nosmep [X86,PPC] 3064 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3065 even if it is supported by processor. 3066 3067 noexec32 [X86-64] 3068 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3069 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3070 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3071 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3072 read implies executable mappings 3073 3074 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3075 3076 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3077 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3078 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3079 3080 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86,PPC] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3081 3082 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3083 Equivalent to smt=1. 3084 3085 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3086 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3087 via the sysfs control file. 3088 3089 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3090 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3091 possible in the system. 3092 3093 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3094 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3095 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3096 option. 3097 3098 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3099 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3100 3101 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3102 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3103 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3104 3105 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3106 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3107 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3108 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3109 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3110 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3111 3112 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3113 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3114 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3115 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3116 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3117 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3118 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3119 3120 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or 3121 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to 3122 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger. 3123 3124 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3125 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3126 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3127 3128 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3129 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3130 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3131 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3132 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3133 real-time systems. 3134 3135 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3136 3137 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3138 Valid arguments: on, off 3139 Default: on 3140 3141 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3142 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3143 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3144 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3145 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3146 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3147 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3148 just as if they had also been called out in the 3149 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3150 3151 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3152 3153 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3154 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3155 3156 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3157 broken timer IRQ sources. 3158 3159 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3160 3161 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3162 initial RAM disk. 3163 3164 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3165 remapping. 3166 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3167 3168 nointroute [IA-64] 3169 3170 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3171 3172 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3173 3174 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3175 3176 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3177 fault handling. 3178 3179 no-vmw-sched-clock 3180 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3181 clock and use the default one. 3182 3183 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time 3184 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't 3185 influence scheduler behaviour 3186 3187 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3188 3189 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3190 3191 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 3192 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 3193 3194 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3195 3196 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3197 3198 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3199 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3200 3201 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3202 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3203 irq. 3204 3205 nomodule Disable module load 3206 3207 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3208 pagetables) support. 3209 3210 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3211 3212 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3213 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3214 3215 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3216 with UP alternatives 3217 3218 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 3219 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 3220 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 3221 available to user space applications. 3222 3223 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3224 space. 3225 3226 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3227 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3228 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3229 3230 nosbagart [IA-64] 3231 3232 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 3233 3234 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3235 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3236 3237 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3238 3239 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3240 3241 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3242 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3243 3244 nowb [ARM] 3245 3246 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3247 3248 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 3249 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 3250 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 3251 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 3252 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 3253 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 3254 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 3255 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 3256 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 3257 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 3258 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 3259 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 3260 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 3261 3262 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3263 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3264 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3265 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3266 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3267 parameter's value. 3268 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3269 Default: 255 3270 3271 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3272 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3273 SAL PALO. 3274 3275 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3276 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3277 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3278 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3279 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3280 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3281 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3282 hot plugging. 3283 3284 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3285 3286 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing. 3287 Allowed values are enable and disable 3288 3289 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3290 'node', 'default' can be specified 3291 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3292 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3293 3294 of_devlink [OF, KNL] Create device links between consumer and 3295 supplier devices by scanning the devictree to infer the 3296 consumer/supplier relationships. A consumer device 3297 will not be probed until all the supplier devices have 3298 probed successfully. 3299 3300 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3301 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more 3302 info. 3303 3304 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3305 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3306 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3307 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3308 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3309 interrupts *may* be lost! 3310 3311 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3312 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3313 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3314 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3315 3316 oprofile.timer= [HW] 3317 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters 3318 3319 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type 3320 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile 3321 userland or if you want common events. 3322 Format: { arch_perfmon } 3323 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural 3324 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the 3325 CPU specific event set. 3326 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI 3327 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer 3328 for generic hr timer mode) 3329 3330 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3331 process, but there is a small probability of 3332 deadlocking the machine. 3333 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3334 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3335 3336 page_alloc.shuffle= 3337 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3338 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3339 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3340 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3341 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3342 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3343 can be read from sysfs at: 3344 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3345 3346 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3347 Storage of the information about who allocated 3348 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3349 we can turn it on. 3350 on: enable the feature 3351 3352 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3353 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3354 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3355 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3356 on: turn on poisoning 3357 3358 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3359 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3360 timeout = 0: wait forever 3361 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3362 Format: <timeout> 3363 3364 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3365 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3366 bit 0: print all tasks info 3367 bit 1: print system memory info 3368 bit 2: print timer info 3369 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3370 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3371 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3372 3373 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3374 on a WARN(). 3375 3376 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 3377 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 3378 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 3379 succeeds in any situation. 3380 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 3381 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 3382 kernel more unstable. 3383 3384 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3385 connected to, default is 0. 3386 Format: <parport#> 3387 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3388 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3389 Format: <mode> 3390 3391 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3392 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3393 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3394 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3395 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3396 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3397 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3398 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3399 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3400 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3401 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3402 are specified on the command line, starting 3403 with parport0. 3404 3405 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3406 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3407 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3408 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3409 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3410 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3411 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3412 3413 pause_on_oops= 3414 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 3415 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 3416 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 3417 3418 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 3419 3420 pcd. [PARIDE] 3421 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 3422 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3423 3424 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 3425 3426 Some options herein operate on a specific device 3427 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 3428 specified in one of the following formats: 3429 3430 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 3431 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 3432 3433 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 3434 bus/device/function address which may change 3435 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 3436 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 3437 by other kernel parameters. If the 3438 domain is left unspecified, it is 3439 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 3440 to a device through multiple device/function 3441 addresses can be specified after the base 3442 address (this is more robust against 3443 renumbering issues). The second format 3444 selects devices using IDs from the 3445 configuration space which may match multiple 3446 devices in the system. 3447 3448 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 3449 changes anything 3450 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 3451 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 3452 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 3453 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 3454 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 3455 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 3456 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 3457 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 3458 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3459 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 3460 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 3461 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3462 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 3463 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 3464 bus number. The config space is then accessed 3465 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 3466 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 3467 on the configuration access mechanisms. 3468 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 3469 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3470 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 3471 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 3472 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 3473 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 3474 Configuration 3475 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 3476 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 3477 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 3478 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 3479 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3480 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 3481 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 3482 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 3483 should never be necessary. 3484 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 3485 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 3486 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 3487 when the system masks IRQs. 3488 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 3489 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 3490 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 3491 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 3492 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 3493 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 3494 on several machines and they hang the machine 3495 when used, but on other computers it's the only 3496 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 3497 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 3498 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 3499 motherboard. 3500 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 3501 Use with caution as certain devices share 3502 address decoders between ROMs and other 3503 resources. 3504 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 3505 expansion ROMs that do not already have 3506 BIOS assigned address ranges. 3507 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 3508 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 3509 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 3510 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 3511 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 3512 this way. 3513 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 3514 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 3515 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 3516 F0000h-100000h range. 3517 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 3518 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 3519 secondary buses and you want to tell it 3520 explicitly which ones they are. 3521 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 3522 numbers ourselves, overriding 3523 whatever the firmware may have done. 3524 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 3525 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 3526 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 3527 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 3528 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 3529 IRQ routing is enabled. 3530 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 3531 or for PCI scanning. 3532 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 3533 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 3534 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 3535 please report a bug. 3536 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 3537 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 3538 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 3539 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 3540 so this option is a temporary workaround 3541 for broken drivers that don't call it. 3542 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 3543 handle more pci cards 3544 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 3545 This might help on some broken boards which 3546 machine check when some devices' config space 3547 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 3548 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 3549 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3550 This sorting is done to get a device 3551 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 3552 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3553 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 3554 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 3555 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 3556 supported by all devices below the root complex. 3557 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 3558 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 3559 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 3560 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 3561 or bus can support) for best performance. 3562 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 3563 every device is guaranteed to support. This 3564 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 3565 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 3566 reduced performance. This also guarantees 3567 that hot-added devices will work. 3568 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3569 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 3570 The default value is 256 bytes. 3571 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3572 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 3573 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 3574 resource_alignment= 3575 Format: 3576 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 3577 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 3578 aligned memory resources. How to 3579 specify the device is described above. 3580 If <order of align> is not specified, 3581 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 3582 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 3583 windows need to be expanded. 3584 To specify the alignment for several 3585 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 3586 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 3587 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 3588 for 4096-byte alignment. 3589 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 3590 end-to-end CRC checking). 3591 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 3592 the default. 3593 off: Turn ECRC off 3594 on: Turn ECRC on. 3595 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3596 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 3597 Default size is 256 bytes. 3598 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3599 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 3600 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3601 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3602 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 3603 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3604 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3605 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 3606 MMIO_PREF window. 3607 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3608 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 3609 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 3610 Default is 1. 3611 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 3612 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 3613 accommodate resources required by all child 3614 devices. 3615 off: Turn realloc off 3616 on: Turn realloc on 3617 realloc same as realloc=on 3618 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 3619 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 3620 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 3621 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 3622 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 3623 port. 3624 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 3625 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 3626 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 3627 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 3628 conflict with unreported devices), so this 3629 taints the kernel. 3630 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 3631 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 3632 specified above) separated by semicolons. 3633 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 3634 redirect capabilities forced off which will 3635 allow P2P traffic between devices through 3636 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 3637 this removes isolation between devices and 3638 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 3639 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 3640 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 3641 3642 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 3643 Management. 3644 off Disable ASPM. 3645 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 3646 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 3647 3648 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 3649 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 3650 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 3651 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 3652 also tries to use these services. 3653 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 3654 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 3655 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 3656 hotplug). 3657 3658 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 3659 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 3660 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 3661 3662 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 3663 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 3664 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 3665 3666 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 3667 3668 pd_ignore_unused 3669 [PM] 3670 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 3671 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 3672 for debug and development, but should not be 3673 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 3674 3675 pd. [PARIDE] 3676 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3677 3678 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 3679 boot time. 3680 Format: { 0 | 1 } 3681 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 3682 3683 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 3684 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 3685 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 3686 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 3687 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 3688 and performance comparison. 3689 3690 pf. [PARIDE] 3691 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3692 3693 pg. [PARIDE] 3694 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3695 3696 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 3697 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 3698 3699 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 3700 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 3701 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 3702 3703 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 3704 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 3705 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 3706 3707 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 3708 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 3709 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 3710 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 3711 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 3712 possible settings and some assignment information. 3713 3714 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 3715 { off } 3716 3717 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 3718 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 3719 3720 pnp_reserve_irq= 3721 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 3722 3723 pnp_reserve_dma= 3724 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 3725 3726 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 3727 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 3728 3729 pnp_reserve_mem= 3730 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 3731 autoconfiguration. 3732 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 3733 3734 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 3735 Default is 21. 3736 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 3737 may be specified. 3738 Format: <port>,<port>.... 3739 3740 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 3741 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 3742 platform machine description specific power_save 3743 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 3744 execution priority. 3745 3746 ppc_strict_facility_enable 3747 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 3748 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 3749 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 3750 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 3751 3752 ppc_tm= [PPC] 3753 Format: {"off"} 3754 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 3755 3756 print-fatal-signals= 3757 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 3758 3759 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 3760 related application anomalies: too many signals, 3761 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 3762 coredump - etc. 3763 3764 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 3765 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 3766 3767 default: off. 3768 3769 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 3770 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 3771 panics 3772 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3773 default: disabled 3774 3775 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 3776 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 3777 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 3778 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 3779 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 3780 Default: ratelimit 3781 3782 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 3783 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3784 3785 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 3786 Limit processor to maximum C-state 3787 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 3788 3789 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 3790 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 3791 instead using the legacy FADT method 3792 3793 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 3794 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 3795 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 3796 [defaults to kernel profiling] 3797 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 3798 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 3799 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 3800 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 3801 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 3802 statistical time based profiling. 3803 3804 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk 3805 before loading. 3806 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 3807 3808 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 3809 tracking. 3810 Format: <bool> 3811 3812 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 3813 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 3814 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 3815 per second. 3816 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 3817 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 3818 (0 = never). 3819 psmouse.resolution= 3820 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 3821 psmouse.smartscroll= 3822 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 3823 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 3824 3825 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 3826 3827 pt. [PARIDE] 3828 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3829 3830 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 3831 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 3832 removes hardening, but improves performance of 3833 system calls and interrupts. 3834 3835 on - unconditionally enable 3836 off - unconditionally disable 3837 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 3838 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 3839 3840 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 3841 3842 nopti [X86_64] 3843 Equivalent to pti=off 3844 3845 pty.legacy_count= 3846 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 3847 default number. 3848 3849 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 3850 3851 r128= [HW,DRM] 3852 3853 raid= [HW,RAID] 3854 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3855 3856 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 3857 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 3858 3859 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 3860 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 3861 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 3862 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 3863 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 3864 3865 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 3866 3867 cec_disable [X86] 3868 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 3869 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 3870 3871 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 3872 The argument is a cpu list, as described above, 3873 except that the string "all" can be used to 3874 specify every CPU on the system. 3875 3876 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 3877 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 3878 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be 3879 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that 3880 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and 3881 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number. 3882 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs, 3883 which can be useful for HPC and real-time 3884 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency 3885 for asymmetric multiprocessors. 3886 3887 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 3888 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 3889 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 3890 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 3891 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 3892 This improves the real-time response for the 3893 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 3894 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 3895 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 3896 periodically wake up to do the polling. 3897 3898 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 3899 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 3900 process in one batch. 3901 3902 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 3903 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 3904 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 3905 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 3906 3907 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 3908 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3909 RCU grace-period cleanup. 3910 3911 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 3912 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3913 RCU grace-period initialization. 3914 3915 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 3916 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3917 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 3918 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 3919 the rcu_node combining tree. 3920 3921 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 3922 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 3923 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 3924 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 3925 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 3926 3927 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 3928 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 3929 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 3930 possibly be useful for architectures having high 3931 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 3932 3933 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 3934 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 3935 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 3936 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 3937 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 3938 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 3939 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 3940 3941 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 3942 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 3943 first attempt to force quiescent states. 3944 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 3945 and maximum value is HZ. 3946 3947 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 3948 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 3949 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 3950 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 3951 3952 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 3953 Set required age in jiffies for a 3954 given grace period before RCU starts 3955 soliciting quiescent-state help from 3956 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 3957 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 3958 a value based on the most recent settings 3959 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 3960 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 3961 This calculated value may be viewed in 3962 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 3963 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 3964 overwritten. 3965 3966 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 3967 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 3968 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 3969 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 3970 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 3971 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 3972 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 3973 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 3974 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 3975 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 3976 3977 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 3978 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 3979 each group, which defaults to the square root 3980 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 3981 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 3982 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 3983 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 3984 3985 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 3986 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 3987 batch limiting is disabled. 3988 3989 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 3990 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 3991 batch limiting is re-enabled. 3992 3993 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 3994 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3995 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3996 3997 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL] 3998 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3999 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 4000 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can 4001 prove do nothing more than free memory. 4002 4003 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4004 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4005 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4006 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4007 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4008 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4009 4010 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4011 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4012 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4013 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4014 4015 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL] 4016 Measure performance of asynchronous 4017 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4018 4019 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4020 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4021 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4022 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4023 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4024 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4025 4026 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL] 4027 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4028 grace-period primitives. 4029 4030 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL] 4031 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4032 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4033 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4034 interference. 4035 4036 rcuperf.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4037 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4038 4039 rcuperf.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4040 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4041 4042 rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4043 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4044 4045 rcuperf.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4046 Number of loops doing rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num number 4047 of allocations and frees. 4048 4049 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL] 4050 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4051 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4052 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4053 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4054 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4055 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4056 a single reader. 4057 4058 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL] 4059 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4060 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders. 4061 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4062 4063 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL] 4064 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4065 4066 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL] 4067 Shut the system down after performance tests 4068 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4069 testing. 4070 4071 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL] 4072 Enable additional printk() statements. 4073 4074 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4075 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4076 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4077 no holdoff. 4078 4079 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4080 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4081 in microseconds. 4082 4083 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4084 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4085 in microseconds. 4086 4087 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4088 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4089 in seconds. 4090 4091 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4092 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4093 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4094 4095 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4096 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4097 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4098 4099 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4100 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4101 forward-progress tests. 4102 4103 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4104 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4105 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4106 testing. 4107 4108 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4109 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4110 primitives, if available. 4111 4112 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4113 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4114 4115 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4116 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4117 update-side primitives, if available. 4118 4119 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4120 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4121 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4122 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4123 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4124 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4125 they are all non-zero. 4126 4127 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 4128 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 4129 4130 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 4131 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 4132 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 4133 test, hence the "fake". 4134 4135 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 4136 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4137 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4138 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 4139 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4140 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4141 4142 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 4143 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 4144 4145 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4146 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 4147 4148 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4149 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 4150 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 4151 4152 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 4153 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 4154 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 4155 during the rcutorture test. 4156 4157 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4158 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 4159 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 4160 4161 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 4162 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 4163 warnings, zero to disable. 4164 4165 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 4166 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 4167 4168 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 4169 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 4170 4171 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 4172 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 4173 4174 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 4175 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 4176 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 4177 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 4178 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 4179 4180 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 4181 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 4182 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 4183 under test support RCU priority boosting. 4184 4185 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 4186 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 4187 4188 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 4189 Interval (s) between each boost test. 4190 4191 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 4192 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 4193 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 4194 4195 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 4196 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4197 4198 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 4199 Enable additional printk() statements. 4200 4201 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 4202 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 4203 stall warning. 4204 4205 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 4206 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4207 4208 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4209 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4210 4211 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 4212 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 4213 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 4214 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 4215 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 4216 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 4217 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4218 4219 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 4220 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 4221 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 4222 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 4223 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 4224 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 4225 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 4226 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 4227 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4228 4229 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 4230 Once boot has completed (that is, after 4231 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 4232 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 4233 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4234 4235 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4236 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 4237 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 4238 to zero. 4239 4240 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 4241 Run the RCU early boot self tests 4242 4243 rdinit= [KNL] 4244 Format: <full_path> 4245 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 4246 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 4247 4248 rdrand= [X86] 4249 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 4250 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 4251 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 4252 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 4253 path). 4254 4255 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 4256 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 4257 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 4258 mba. 4259 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 4260 rdt=cmt,!mba 4261 4262 reboot= [KNL] 4263 Format (x86 or x86_64): 4264 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ 4265 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 4266 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 4267 [[,]f[orce] 4268 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 4269 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 4270 reboot only), 4271 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 4272 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 4273 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 4274 to be used for rebooting. 4275 4276 relax_domain_level= 4277 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 4278 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 4279 4280 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 4281 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 4282 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 4283 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 4284 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 4285 4286 reservetop= [X86-32] 4287 Format: nn[KMG] 4288 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 4289 address space. 4290 4291 reservelow= [X86] 4292 Format: nn[K] 4293 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at 4294 the bottom of the address space. 4295 4296 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 4297 during initialization. 4298 4299 resume= [SWSUSP] 4300 Specify the partition device for software suspend 4301 Format: 4302 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 4303 4304 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 4305 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 4306 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 4307 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 4308 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 4309 4310 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4311 read the resume files 4312 4313 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 4314 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4315 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4316 4317 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 4318 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 4319 present during boot. 4320 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 4321 no Disable hibernation and resume. 4322 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 4323 (that will set all pages holding image data 4324 during restoration read-only). 4325 4326 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 4327 4328 rfkill.default_state= 4329 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 4330 etc. communication is blocked by default. 4331 1 Unblocked. 4332 4333 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 4334 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 4335 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4336 blocked and the previous configuration. 4337 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4338 blocked and everything unblocked. 4339 4340 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4341 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 4342 4343 ring3mwait=disable 4344 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 4345 CPUs. 4346 4347 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 4348 4349 rodata= [KNL] 4350 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 4351 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 4352 4353 rockchip.usb_uart 4354 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 4355 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 4356 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 4357 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 4358 4359 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 4360 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 4361 4362 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4363 mount the root filesystem 4364 4365 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 4366 4367 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 4368 4369 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 4370 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4371 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4372 4373 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 4374 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 4375 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 4376 managed by CMA. 4377 4378 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 4379 4380 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 4381 4382 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 4383 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 4384 strict 4385 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 4386 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 4387 which is faster. 4388 4389 sa1100ir [NET] 4390 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 4391 4392 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter 4393 4394 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 4395 4396 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 4397 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 4398 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 4399 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 4400 4401 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 4402 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 4403 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 4404 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4405 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 4406 1 -- enable. 4407 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 4408 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 4409 4410 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 4411 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 4412 "lsm=" parameter. 4413 4414 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 4415 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4416 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 4417 0 -- disable. 4418 1 -- enable. 4419 Default value is 1. 4420 4421 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 4422 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4423 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 4424 0 -- disable. 4425 1 -- enable. 4426 Default value is set via kernel config option. 4427 4428 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 4429 4430 shapers= [NET] 4431 Maximal number of shapers. 4432 4433 simeth= [IA-64] 4434 simscsi= 4435 4436 slram= [HW,MTD] 4437 4438 slab_nomerge [MM] 4439 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 4440 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 4441 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 4442 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 4443 layout control by attackers can usually be 4444 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 4445 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 4446 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 4447 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 4448 own. 4449 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4450 4451 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 4452 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4453 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4454 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 4455 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 4456 4457 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB] 4458 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 4459 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 4460 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 4461 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 4462 last alloc / free. For more information see 4463 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4464 4465 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB] 4466 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for 4467 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable. 4468 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON. 4469 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug 4470 directories and files being created under 4471 /sys/kernel/slub. 4472 4473 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 4474 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4475 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4476 fragmentation. For more information see 4477 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4478 4479 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 4480 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 4481 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 4482 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 4483 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 4484 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 4485 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 4486 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4487 4488 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 4489 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 4490 lower than slub_max_order. 4491 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4492 4493 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 4494 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 4495 See slab_nomerge for more information. 4496 4497 smart2= [HW] 4498 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 4499 4500 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 4501 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 4502 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 4503 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 4504 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 4505 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 4506 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 4507 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 4508 1: Fast pin select (default) 4509 2: ATC IRMode 4510 4511 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 4512 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 4513 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 4514 actual hardware limit. 4515 Format: <integer> 4516 Default: -1 (no limit) 4517 4518 softlockup_panic= 4519 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 4520 Format: <integer> 4521 4522 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector 4523 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 4524 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 4525 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 4526 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 4527 4528 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 4529 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 4530 backtraces on all cpus. 4531 Format: <integer> 4532 4533 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 4534 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 4535 4536 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 4537 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 4538 The default operation protects the kernel from 4539 user space attacks. 4540 4541 on - unconditionally enable, implies 4542 spectre_v2_user=on 4543 off - unconditionally disable, implies 4544 spectre_v2_user=off 4545 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4546 vulnerable 4547 4548 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 4549 mitigation method at run time according to the 4550 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 4551 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 4552 compiler with which the kernel was built. 4553 4554 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 4555 against user space to user space task attacks. 4556 4557 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 4558 the user space protections. 4559 4560 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 4561 4562 retpoline - replace indirect branches 4563 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline 4564 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk 4565 4566 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4567 spectre_v2=auto. 4568 4569 spectre_v2_user= 4570 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 4571 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 4572 user space tasks 4573 4574 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 4575 enforced by spectre_v2=on 4576 4577 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 4578 enforced by spectre_v2=off 4579 4580 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 4581 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 4582 per thread. The mitigation control state 4583 is inherited on fork. 4584 4585 prctl,ibpb 4586 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 4587 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 4588 always when switching between different user 4589 space processes. 4590 4591 seccomp 4592 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 4593 threads will enable the mitigation unless 4594 they explicitly opt out. 4595 4596 seccomp,ibpb 4597 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 4598 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 4599 always when switching between different 4600 user space processes. 4601 4602 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 4603 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 4604 4605 Default mitigation: 4606 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 4607 4608 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4609 spectre_v2_user=auto. 4610 4611 spec_store_bypass_disable= 4612 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 4613 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 4614 4615 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 4616 a common industry wide performance optimization known 4617 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 4618 to the same memory location may not be observed by 4619 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 4620 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 4621 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 4622 end of a particular speculation execution window. 4623 4624 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 4625 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 4626 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 4627 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 4628 4629 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 4630 Bypass optimization is used. 4631 4632 On x86 the options are: 4633 4634 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 4635 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 4636 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 4637 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 4638 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 4639 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 4640 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 4641 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 4642 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 4643 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 4644 for a process by default. The state of the control 4645 is inherited on fork. 4646 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 4647 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 4648 4649 Default mitigations: 4650 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 4651 4652 On powerpc the options are: 4653 4654 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 4655 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 4656 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 4657 exit. 4658 off - No action. 4659 4660 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4661 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 4662 4663 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 4664 spia_fio_base= 4665 spia_pedr= 4666 spia_peddr= 4667 4668 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 4669 Specifies how frequently to check for 4670 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 4671 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 4672 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 4673 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 4674 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 4675 are ignored. 4676 4677 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 4678 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 4679 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 4680 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 4681 grace period will be considered for automatic 4682 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 4683 expediting. 4684 4685 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 4686 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 4687 4688 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 4689 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 4690 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 4691 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 4692 4693 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 4694 for both kernel and userspace 4695 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 4696 for both kernel and userspace 4697 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 4698 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 4699 to allow userspace to register its 4700 interest in being mitigated too. 4701 4702 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 4703 override the default stack gap protection. The value 4704 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 4705 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 4706 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 4707 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 4708 4709 stacktrace [FTRACE] 4710 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 4711 4712 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 4713 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 4714 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 4715 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 4716 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 4717 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 4718 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 4719 4720 sti= [PARISC,HW] 4721 Format: <num> 4722 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 4723 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 4724 as the initial boot-console. 4725 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4726 4727 sti_font= [HW] 4728 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4729 4730 stifb= [HW] 4731 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 4732 4733 sunrpc.min_resvport= 4734 sunrpc.max_resvport= 4735 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4736 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 4737 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 4738 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 4739 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 4740 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 4741 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 4742 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 4743 maximum port values. 4744 4745 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 4746 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4747 Limit the number of requests that the server will 4748 process in parallel from a single connection. 4749 The default value is 0 (no limit). 4750 4751 sunrpc.pool_mode= 4752 [NFS] 4753 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 4754 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 4755 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 4756 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 4757 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 4758 NFS server is running. 4759 4760 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 4761 automatically using heuristics 4762 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 4763 percpu one pool for each CPU 4764 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 4765 to global on non-NUMA machines) 4766 4767 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 4768 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 4769 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4770 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 4771 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 4772 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 4773 improve throughput, but will also increase the 4774 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 4775 4776 suspend.pm_test_delay= 4777 [SUSPEND] 4778 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 4779 mode before resuming the system (see 4780 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 4781 is set. Default value is 5. 4782 4783 svm= [PPC] 4784 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 4785 This parameter controls use of the Protected 4786 Execution Facility on pSeries. 4787 4788 swapaccount=[0|1] 4789 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 4790 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 4791 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) 4792 4793 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 4794 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 4795 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 4796 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 4797 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 4798 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 4799 4800 switches= [HW,M68k] 4801 4802 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 4803 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 4804 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 4805 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 4806 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 4807 in older udev will not work anymore. 4808 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 4809 the kernel configuration. 4810 4811 sysrq_always_enabled 4812 [KNL] 4813 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 4814 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 4815 Useful for debugging. 4816 4817 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4818 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 4819 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 4820 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 4821 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt 4822 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 4823 4824 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 4825 4826 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 4827 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 4828 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 4829 as the system sleep state during system startup with 4830 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 4831 The system is woken from this state using a 4832 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 4833 4834 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4835 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 4836 4837 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 4838 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 4839 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 4840 4841 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 4842 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 4843 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 4844 4845 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 4846 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 4847 critical and hot trip points. 4848 4849 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 4850 1: disable ACPI thermal control 4851 4852 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 4853 -1: disable all passive trip points 4854 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 4855 value 4856 4857 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 4858 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 4859 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 4860 0: no polling (default) 4861 4862 threadirqs [KNL] 4863 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 4864 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 4865 4866 topology= [S390] 4867 Format: {off | on} 4868 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 4869 topology information if the hardware supports this. 4870 The scheduler will make use of this information and 4871 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 4872 Default is on. 4873 4874 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 4875 Format: {off} 4876 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 4877 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 4878 LPAR. 4879 4880 tp720= [HW,PS2] 4881 4882 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 4883 Format: integer pcr id 4884 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 4885 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 4886 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 4887 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 4888 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 4889 are saved. 4890 4891 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 4892 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 4893 4894 trace_event=[event-list] 4895 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 4896 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 4897 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See 4898 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 4899 4900 trace_options=[option-list] 4901 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 4902 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 4903 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 4904 to echo the option name into 4905 4906 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 4907 4908 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 4909 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 4910 4911 trace_options=stacktrace 4912 4913 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 4914 section. 4915 4916 tp_printk[FTRACE] 4917 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 4918 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 4919 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 4920 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 4921 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 4922 4923 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 4924 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 4925 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 4926 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 4927 4928 ** CAUTION ** 4929 4930 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 4931 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 4932 the system to live lock. 4933 4934 traceoff_on_warning 4935 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 4936 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 4937 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 4938 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 4939 4940 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 4941 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 4942 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 4943 4944 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 4945 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 4946 4947 transparent_hugepage= 4948 [KNL] 4949 Format: [always|madvise|never] 4950 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 4951 with respect to transparent hugepages. 4952 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 4953 for more details. 4954 4955 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 4956 Format: <string> 4957 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 4958 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 4959 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 4960 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 4961 virtualized environment. 4962 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 4963 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 4964 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 4965 can add overhead. 4966 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 4967 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 4968 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 4969 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 4970 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 4971 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 4972 acceptable). 4973 4974 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 4975 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 4976 support TSX control. 4977 4978 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 4979 4980 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 4981 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 4982 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 4983 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 4984 so there may be unknown security risks associated 4985 with leaving it enabled. 4986 4987 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 4988 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 4989 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 4990 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 4991 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 4992 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 4993 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 4994 4995 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 4996 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 4997 4998 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 4999 5000 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 5001 for more details. 5002 5003 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 5004 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 5005 5006 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 5007 certain CPUs that support Transactional 5008 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 5009 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 5010 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 5011 conditions. 5012 5013 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5014 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 5015 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 5016 access. 5017 5018 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 5019 options are: 5020 5021 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 5022 if TSX is enabled. 5023 5024 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 5025 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 5026 is not disabled because CPU is not 5027 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 5028 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 5029 5030 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 5031 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 5032 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 5033 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 5034 5035 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5036 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 5037 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 5038 required and doesn't provide any additional 5039 mitigation. 5040 5041 For details see: 5042 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 5043 5044 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 5045 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 5046 Format: 5047 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 5048 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 5049 5050 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 5051 happen after console_init() and before a proper 5052 console driver takes over, this boot options might 5053 help "seeing" what's going on. 5054 5055 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5056 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 5057 5058 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 5059 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 5060 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 5061 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 5062 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 5063 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 5064 reported either. 5065 5066 unknown_nmi_panic 5067 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 5068 5069 usbcore.authorized_default= 5070 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 5071 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 5072 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 5073 if device connected to internal port) 5074 5075 usbcore.autosuspend= 5076 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 5077 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 5078 is the time required before an idle device will be 5079 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 5080 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 5081 5082 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 5083 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 5084 5085 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 5086 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 5087 (default = 65536). 5088 5089 usbcore.blinkenlights= 5090 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 5091 5092 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 5093 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 5094 scheme, applies only to low and full-speed devices 5095 (default 0 = off). 5096 5097 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 5098 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 5099 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 5100 5101 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 5102 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 5103 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 5104 5105 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 5106 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 5107 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 5108 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 5109 5110 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 5111 5112 usbcore.quirks= 5113 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 5114 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 5115 commas. Each entry has the form 5116 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 5117 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 5118 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 5119 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 5120 the following meanings: 5121 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 5122 descriptors must not be fetched using 5123 a 255-byte read); 5124 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 5125 correctly so reset it instead); 5126 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 5127 Set-Interface requests); 5128 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 5129 handle its Configuration or Interface 5130 strings); 5131 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 5132 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 5133 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 5134 more interface descriptions than the 5135 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 5136 talking to these interfaces); 5137 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 5138 during initialization, after we read 5139 the device descriptor); 5140 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 5141 high speed and super speed interrupt 5142 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 5143 require the interval in microframes (1 5144 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 5145 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 5146 (bInterval-1). 5147 Devices with this quirk report their 5148 bInterval as the result of this 5149 calculation instead of the exponent 5150 variable used in the calculation); 5151 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 5152 handle device_qualifier descriptor 5153 requests); 5154 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 5155 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 5156 remote wakeup capability); 5157 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 5158 Power Management); 5159 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 5160 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 5161 frames instead of the USB 2.0 5162 calculation); 5163 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 5164 to be disconnected before suspend to 5165 prevent spurious wakeup); 5166 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 5167 pause after every control message); 5168 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 5169 delay after resetting its port); 5170 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 5171 5172 usbhid.mousepoll= 5173 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 5174 5175 usbhid.jspoll= 5176 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 5177 5178 usbhid.kbpoll= 5179 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 5180 5181 usb-storage.delay_use= 5182 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 5183 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 5184 5185 usb-storage.quirks= 5186 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 5187 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 5188 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 5189 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 5190 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 5191 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 5192 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 5193 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 5194 of sense data, not on uas); 5195 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 5196 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 5197 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 5198 device capacity by one sector); 5199 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 5200 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 5201 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 5202 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 5203 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 5204 command, uas only); 5205 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 5206 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 5207 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 5208 reported device capacity by one 5209 sector if the number is odd); 5210 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 5211 device); 5212 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 5213 command, uas only); 5214 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 5215 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 5216 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 5217 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 5218 not on uas); 5219 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 5220 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 5221 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 5222 reported by the device, not on uas); 5223 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 5224 by default, not on uas); 5225 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 5226 bogus residue values, not on uas); 5227 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 5228 Logical Unit); 5229 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 5230 commands, uas only); 5231 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 5232 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 5233 medium is write-protected). 5234 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 5235 even if the device claims no cache, 5236 not on uas) 5237 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 5238 5239 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 5240 Format: <int> 5241 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 5242 1 - undefined instruction events 5243 2 - system calls 5244 4 - invalid data aborts 5245 8 - SIGSEGV faults 5246 16 - SIGBUS faults 5247 Example: user_debug=31 5248 5249 userpte= 5250 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 5251 5252 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 5253 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 5254 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 5255 5256 vdso= [X86,SH] 5257 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 5258 5259 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 5260 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 5261 5262 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 5263 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 5264 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 5265 5266 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 5267 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 5268 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 5269 5270 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 5271 alias for vdso32=0. 5272 5273 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 5274 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 5275 5276 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 5277 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 5278 5279 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 5280 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 5281 5282 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 5283 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 5284 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 5285 level and then send out the event to user space through 5286 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 5287 will only send out the event without touching backlight 5288 brightness level. 5289 default: 1 5290 5291 virtio_mmio.device= 5292 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 5293 5294 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 5295 where: 5296 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 5297 like K, M and G) 5298 <baseaddr> := physical base address 5299 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 5300 request_irq()) 5301 <id> := (optional) platform device id 5302 example: 5303 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 5304 5305 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 5306 5307 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 5308 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 5309 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 5310 Use vga=ask for menu. 5311 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 5312 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 5313 5314 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 5315 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 5316 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 5317 All options are enabled by default, and this 5318 interface is meant to allow for selectively 5319 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 5320 debugging features. 5321 5322 Available options are: 5323 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 5324 - Disable all of the above options 5325 5326 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 5327 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 5328 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 5329 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 5330 mapped kernel RAM. 5331 5332 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 5333 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 5334 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 5335 5336 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 5337 Format: <command> 5338 5339 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 5340 Format: <command> 5341 5342 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 5343 Format: <command> 5344 5345 vsyscall= [X86-64] 5346 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 5347 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 5348 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 5349 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 5350 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 5351 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 5352 5353 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 5354 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 5355 page is readable. 5356 5357 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 5358 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 5359 page is not readable. 5360 5361 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 5362 them quite hard to use for exploits but 5363 might break your system. 5364 5365 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 5366 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 5367 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 5368 5369 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 5370 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 5371 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 5372 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 5373 5374 vt.default_blu= [VT] 5375 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 5376 Change the default blue palette of the console. 5377 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5378 ranging from 0-255. 5379 5380 vt.default_grn= [VT] 5381 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 5382 Change the default green palette of the console. 5383 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5384 ranging from 0-255. 5385 5386 vt.default_red= [VT] 5387 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 5388 Change the default red palette of the console. 5389 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5390 ranging from 0-255. 5391 5392 vt.default_utf8= 5393 [VT] 5394 Format=<0|1> 5395 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 5396 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 5397 newly opened terminals. 5398 5399 vt.global_cursor_default= 5400 [VT] 5401 Format=<-1|0|1> 5402 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 5403 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 5404 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 5405 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 5406 cursors, 1 will display them. 5407 5408 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 5409 Default: 2 = green. 5410 5411 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 5412 Default: 3 = cyan. 5413 5414 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 5415 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 5416 or other driver-specific files in the 5417 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 5418 5419 watchdog_thresh= 5420 [KNL] 5421 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 5422 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 5423 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 5424 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 5425 seconds. 5426 5427 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 5428 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 5429 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 5430 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 5431 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 5432 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 5433 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 5434 corresponding sysfs file. 5435 5436 workqueue.disable_numa 5437 By default, all work items queued to unbound 5438 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 5439 issued on, which results in better behavior in 5440 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 5441 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 5442 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 5443 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 5444 5445 workqueue.power_efficient 5446 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 5447 they show better performance thanks to cache 5448 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 5449 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 5450 5451 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 5452 were observed to contribute significantly to power 5453 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 5454 power usage at the cost of small performance 5455 overhead. 5456 5457 The default value of this parameter is determined by 5458 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 5459 5460 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 5461 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 5462 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 5463 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 5464 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 5465 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 5466 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 5467 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 5468 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 5469 impacted. 5470 5471 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 5472 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 5473 supporting x2apic. 5474 5475 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT] 5476 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform. 5477 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer 5478 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer. 5479 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt 5480 5481 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 5482 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 5483 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 5484 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 5485 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 5486 domains. 5487 5488 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 5489 Unplug Xen emulated devices 5490 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 5491 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 5492 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 5493 nics -- unplug network devices 5494 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 5495 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 5496 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 5497 the unplug protocol 5498 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 5499 5500 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 5501 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 5502 panic() code such as dumping handler. 5503 5504 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 5505 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV 5506 optimizations. 5507 5508 xen_nopv [X86] 5509 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 5510 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 5511 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 5512 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 5513 5514 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 5515 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 5516 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 5517 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 5518 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 5519 5520 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 5521 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 5522 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 5523 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 5524 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 5525 more timer interrupts. 5526 5527 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 5528 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 5529 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 5530 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 5531 5532 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 5533 Format: 5534 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 5535 5536 xive= [PPC] 5537 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 5538 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 5539 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 5540 5541 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 5542 controller on both pseries and powernv 5543 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 5544 5545 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 5546 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 5547 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 5548 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 5549 5550 xmon [PPC] 5551 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 5552 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 5553 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 5554 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 5555 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 5556 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 5557 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 5558 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 5559 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 5560 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 5561 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 5562 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 5563 can be written using xmon commands. 5564 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 5565 memory, and other data can't be written using 5566 xmon commands. 5567 off xmon is disabled. 5568