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 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1364 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1365 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1366 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1367 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1368 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1369 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1370 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1371 suppliers). 1372 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1373 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1374 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1375 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1376 up (sync_state() calls). 1377 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1378 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1379 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1380 1381 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1382 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1383 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1384 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1385 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1386 1387 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1388 1389 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1390 Format: off | on 1391 default: on 1392 1393 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1394 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1395 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1396 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1397 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1398 1399 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1400 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1401 android emulator 1402 1403 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1404 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1405 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1406 GPT to be used instead. 1407 1408 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1409 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1410 Format: 0 | 1 1411 Default: 0 1412 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1413 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1414 Format: 0 | 1 1415 Default: 0 1416 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1417 Format: 0 | 1 1418 Default: 0 1419 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1420 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1421 Default: 1024 1422 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1423 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1424 Default: 1024 1425 1426 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1427 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1428 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1429 1430 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1431 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1432 backtraces on all cpus. 1433 Format: <integer> 1434 1435 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1436 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1437 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1438 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1439 1440 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1441 1442 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1443 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1444 1445 hest_disable [ACPI] 1446 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1447 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1448 logic will be disabled. 1449 1450 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1451 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1452 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1453 size on bigger boxes. 1454 1455 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1456 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1457 Default: "on" 1458 1459 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1460 1461 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1462 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1463 verbose } 1464 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1465 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1466 VIA, nVidia) 1467 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1468 1469 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1470 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1471 1472 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1473 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages. 1474 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified 1475 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve 1476 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on 1477 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G 1478 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag). 1479 1480 hung_task_panic= 1481 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1482 Format: <integer> 1483 1484 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a 1485 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1486 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1487 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1488 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1489 1490 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1491 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1492 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1493 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1494 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1495 1496 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1497 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1498 guest on lock contention. 1499 1500 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1501 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1502 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1503 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1504 the real console. 1505 1506 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1507 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1508 registered from board initialization code. 1509 Format: 1510 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1511 1512 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1513 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1514 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1515 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1516 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1517 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1518 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1519 keyboard and cannot control its state 1520 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1521 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1522 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1523 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1524 for the AUX port 1525 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1526 controller 1527 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1528 controllers 1529 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1530 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1531 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1532 transitions, or never reset 1533 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1534 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1535 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1536 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1537 architectures force reset to be always executed 1538 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1539 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1540 1541 i810= [HW,DRM] 1542 1543 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1544 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1545 hardware. 1546 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature 1547 does not match list of supported models. 1548 i8k.power_status 1549 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1550 (disabled by default) 1551 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1552 capability is set. 1553 1554 i915.invert_brightness= 1555 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1556 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1557 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1558 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1559 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1560 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1561 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1562 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1563 value switches the backlight off. 1564 -1 -- never invert brightness 1565 0 -- machine default 1566 1 -- force brightness inversion 1567 1568 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1569 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1570 1571 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1572 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1573 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1574 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1575 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst. 1576 1577 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1578 Format: <int> 1579 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1580 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1581 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1582 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1583 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1584 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1585 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1586 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1587 was 0x3. 1588 1589 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1590 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1591 1592 idle= [X86] 1593 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1594 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1595 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1596 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1597 Not recommended. 1598 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1599 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1600 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1601 1602 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1603 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1604 Default: strict 1605 1606 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1607 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1608 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1609 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1610 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1611 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1612 encoding mode. 1613 1614 Available settings are as follows: 1615 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1616 supported by the FPU 1617 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1618 by the FPU 1619 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1620 by the FPU 1621 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1622 supported by the FPU 1623 1624 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1625 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1626 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1627 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1628 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1629 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1630 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1631 MIPS64 CPUs. 1632 1633 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1634 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1635 except where unsupported by hardware. 1636 1637 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1638 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1639 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1640 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1641 could change it dynamically, usually by 1642 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1643 1644 ignore_rlimit_data 1645 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1646 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1647 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1648 1649 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1650 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1651 1652 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1653 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1654 default: "enforce" 1655 1656 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1657 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1658 owned by uid=0. 1659 1660 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1661 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1662 measurements, instead of host native format. 1663 1664 ima_hash= [IMA] 1665 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1666 | sha512 | ... } 1667 default: "sha1" 1668 1669 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1670 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1671 1672 ima_policy= [IMA] 1673 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1674 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1675 fail_securely" 1676 1677 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1678 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1679 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1680 uid=0. 1681 1682 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1683 all files owned by root. 1684 1685 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1686 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1687 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1688 1689 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1690 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1691 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1692 flag. 1693 1694 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1695 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1696 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1697 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1698 opened for read by uid=0. 1699 1700 ima_template= [IMA] 1701 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1702 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" } 1703 Default: "ima-ng" 1704 1705 ima_template_fmt= 1706 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1707 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1708 1709 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1710 Format: <min_file_size> 1711 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1712 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1713 1714 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1715 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1716 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1717 1718 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1719 Format: <bufsize> 1720 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1721 1722 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1723 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1724 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1725 1726 init= [KNL] 1727 Format: <full_path> 1728 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1729 process. 1730 1731 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1732 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1733 startup. 1734 1735 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1736 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1737 modules and initcalls. 1738 1739 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1740 1741 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 1742 zeroes. 1743 Format: 0 | 1 1744 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 1745 1746 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 1747 Format: 0 | 1 1748 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 1749 1750 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1751 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1752 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1753 override in debugfs after boot. 1754 1755 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1756 Format: <irq> 1757 1758 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1759 1760 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1761 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1762 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1763 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1764 1765 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1766 on 1767 Enable intel iommu driver. 1768 off 1769 Disable intel iommu driver. 1770 igfx_off [Default Off] 1771 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1772 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1773 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1774 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1775 DMA. 1776 forcedac [x86_64] 1777 With this option iommu will not optimize to look 1778 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual 1779 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater 1780 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look 1781 for translation below 32-bit and if not available 1782 then look in the higher range. 1783 strict [Default Off] 1784 With this option on every unmap_single operation will 1785 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed 1786 to batching them for performance. 1787 sp_off [Default Off] 1788 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 1789 has the capability. With this option, super page will 1790 not be supported. 1791 sm_on [Default Off] 1792 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the 1793 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable 1794 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode 1795 will be used on hardware which claims to support it. 1796 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 1797 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 1798 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 1799 could harm performance of some high-throughput 1800 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 1801 mapping is enabled. 1802 Note that using this option lowers the security 1803 provided by tboot because it makes the system 1804 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 1805 nobounce [Default off] 1806 Disable bounce buffer for untrusted devices such as 1807 the Thunderbolt devices. This will treat the untrusted 1808 devices as the trusted ones, hence might expose security 1809 risks of DMA attacks. 1810 1811 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 1812 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1813 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 1814 1815 intel_pstate= [X86] 1816 disable 1817 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 1818 scaling driver for the supported processors 1819 passive 1820 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 1821 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 1822 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 1823 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 1824 feature. 1825 force 1826 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 1827 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 1828 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 1829 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 1830 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 1831 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 1832 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 1833 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 1834 no_hwp 1835 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 1836 if available. 1837 hwp_only 1838 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 1839 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 1840 support_acpi_ppc 1841 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 1842 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 1843 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 1844 then this feature is turned on by default. 1845 per_cpu_perf_limits 1846 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 1847 cpufreq sysfs interface 1848 1849 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 1850 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 1851 off disable Interrupt Remapping 1852 nosid disable Source ID checking 1853 no_x2apic_optout 1854 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 1855 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 1856 1857 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 1858 strict regions from userspace. 1859 relaxed 1860 1861 iommu= [x86] 1862 off 1863 force 1864 noforce 1865 biomerge 1866 panic 1867 nopanic 1868 merge 1869 nomerge 1870 soft 1871 pt [x86] 1872 nopt [x86] 1873 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 1874 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 1875 1876 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 1877 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1878 0 - Lazy mode. 1879 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 1880 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 1881 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 1882 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 1883 the relevant IOMMU driver. 1884 1 - Strict mode (default). 1885 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 1886 synchronously. 1887 1888 iommu.passthrough= 1889 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 1890 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1891 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1892 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 1893 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 1894 1895 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems 1896 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 1897 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 1898 1899 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 1900 0x80 1901 Standard port 0x80 based delay 1902 0xed 1903 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 1904 udelay 1905 Simple two microseconds delay 1906 none 1907 No delay 1908 1909 ip= [IP_PNP] 1910 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 1911 1912 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 1913 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 1914 1915 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 1916 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 1917 1918 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 1919 [ARM, ARM64] 1920 Format: <bool> 1921 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 1922 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 1923 exposed by the device tree is too small. 1924 1925 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 1926 [ARM, ARM64] 1927 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 1928 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 1929 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 1930 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 1931 LPIs. 1932 1933 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 1934 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 1935 requires the kernel to be built with 1936 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 1937 1938 irqfixup [HW] 1939 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1940 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1941 firmware running. 1942 1943 irqpoll [HW] 1944 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1945 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 1946 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1947 firmware running. 1948 1949 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 1950 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 1951 1952 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 1953 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 1954 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 1955 1956 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 1957 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 1958 1959 nohz 1960 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 1961 1962 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 1963 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 1964 workqueue's affinity configured via the 1965 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 1966 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 1967 1968 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 1969 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 1970 be configured manually after bootup. 1971 1972 domain 1973 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 1974 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 1975 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 1976 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 1977 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 1978 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 1979 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 1980 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 1981 1982 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 1983 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 1984 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 1985 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 1986 1987 managed_irq 1988 1989 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 1990 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 1991 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 1992 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 1993 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 1994 1995 This isolation is best effort and only effective 1996 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 1997 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 1998 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 1999 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2000 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2001 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2002 2003 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2004 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2005 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2006 only delivered when tasks running on those 2007 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2008 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2009 queues. 2010 2011 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2012 2013 iucv= [HW,NET] 2014 2015 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64] 2016 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2017 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2018 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2019 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2020 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2021 2022 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64] 2023 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2024 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2025 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 2026 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2027 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2028 2029 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64] 2030 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2031 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2032 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2033 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 2034 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2035 2036 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2037 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2038 2039 nokaslr [KNL] 2040 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 2041 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 2042 Layout Randomization). 2043 2044 kasan_multi_shot 2045 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2046 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2047 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2048 invalid access. 2049 2050 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2051 2052 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2053 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2054 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2055 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2056 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2057 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2058 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2059 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2060 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2061 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2062 2063 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2064 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2065 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2066 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2067 zone if it does not. 2068 2069 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2070 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2071 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2072 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2073 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2074 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2075 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2076 2077 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2078 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2079 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2080 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2081 optional and is the number seconds in between 2082 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2083 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2084 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2085 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2086 the kernel debugger. 2087 2088 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2089 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2090 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2091 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2092 keyboard only format: kbd 2093 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2094 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2095 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2096 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2097 2098 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2099 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2100 2101 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address. 2102 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2103 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2104 2105 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2106 Valid arguments: on, off 2107 Default: on 2108 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2109 the default is off. 2110 2111 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2112 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2113 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2114 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2115 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2116 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2117 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2118 2119 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2120 2121 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2122 Boot Parameter" section. 2123 2124 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2125 and kernel address spaces. 2126 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2127 0: force disabled 2128 1: force enabled 2129 2130 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2131 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2132 2133 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2134 Default is false (don't support). 2135 2136 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 2137 KVM MMU at runtime. 2138 Default is 0 (off) 2139 2140 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2141 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2142 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2143 force : Always deploy workaround. 2144 off : Never deploy workaround. 2145 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2146 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2147 2148 Default is 'auto'. 2149 2150 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2151 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2152 2153 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2154 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2155 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2156 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2157 minute. The default is 60. 2158 2159 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2160 Default is 1 (enabled) 2161 2162 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2163 for all guests. 2164 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2165 2166 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2167 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2168 system registers 2169 2170 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2171 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2172 system registers 2173 2174 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2175 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2176 system registers 2177 2178 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2179 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2180 LPIs. 2181 2182 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2183 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2184 Default is 1 (enabled) 2185 2186 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2187 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 2188 Default is 0 (disabled) 2189 2190 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2191 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2192 Default is 1 (enabled) 2193 2194 kvm-intel.nested= 2195 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2196 Default is 0 (disabled) 2197 2198 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2199 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2200 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2201 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2202 2203 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2204 CVE-2018-3620. 2205 2206 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2207 2208 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2209 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2210 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2211 never: Disables the mitigation 2212 2213 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2214 2215 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2216 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2217 Default is 1 (enabled) 2218 2219 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2220 affected CPUs 2221 2222 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2223 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2224 2225 full 2226 Provides all available mitigations for the 2227 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2228 enables all mitigations in the 2229 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional 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 full,force 2239 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2240 flush runtime control. Implies the 2241 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2242 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2243 2244 flush 2245 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2246 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2247 L1D flush. 2248 2249 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2250 sysfs interface is still possible after 2251 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2252 when the first VM is started in a 2253 potentially insecure configuration, 2254 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2255 2256 flush,nosmt 2257 2258 Disables SMT and enables the default 2259 hypervisor mitigation. 2260 2261 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2262 sysfs interface is still possible after 2263 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2264 when the first VM is started in a 2265 potentially insecure configuration, 2266 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2267 2268 flush,nowarn 2269 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2270 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2271 insecure configuration. 2272 2273 off 2274 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2275 emit any warnings. 2276 It also drops the swap size and available 2277 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2278 bare metal. 2279 2280 Default is 'flush'. 2281 2282 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2283 2284 l2cr= [PPC] 2285 2286 l3cr= [PPC] 2287 2288 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2289 disabled it. 2290 2291 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline 2292 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2293 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2294 2295 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2296 in C2 power state. 2297 2298 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2299 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2300 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2301 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2302 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2303 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2304 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2305 2306 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2307 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2308 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2309 2310 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2311 when set. 2312 Format: <int> 2313 2314 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma 2315 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 2316 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 2317 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 2318 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 2319 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 2320 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 2321 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 2322 2323 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2324 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2325 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2326 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2327 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2328 host link and device attached to it. 2329 2330 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2331 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 2332 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2333 The following configurations can be forced. 2334 2335 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2336 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2337 2338 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2339 2340 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2341 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2342 allowed. 2343 2344 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2345 2346 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 2347 2348 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 2349 and both resets. 2350 2351 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 2352 hot-unplug link recovery 2353 2354 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 2355 2356 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 2357 2358 * disable: Disable this device. 2359 2360 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2361 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2362 2363 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 2364 2365 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy 2366 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 2367 2368 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2369 Format: <integer> 2370 2371 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2372 Format: <integer> 2373 2374 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2375 Format: <integer> 2376 2377 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2378 Format: <integer> 2379 2380 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2381 { integrity | confidentiality } 2382 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2383 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2384 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2385 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2386 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2387 are also disabled. 2388 2389 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2390 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2391 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2392 number of online CPUs. 2393 2394 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2395 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2396 2397 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2398 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2399 2400 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2401 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2402 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2403 2404 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2405 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2406 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2407 mode during the locktorture test. 2408 2409 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2410 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2411 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2412 2413 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2414 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2415 2416 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2417 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2418 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2419 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2420 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2421 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2422 2423 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2424 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2425 2426 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2427 Enable additional printk() statements. 2428 2429 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2430 Format: <irq> 2431 2432 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2433 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2434 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2435 loglevels are defined as follows: 2436 2437 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2438 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2439 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2440 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2441 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2442 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2443 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2444 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2445 2446 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2447 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2448 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2449 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2450 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2451 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2452 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2453 2454 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2455 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2456 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2457 kernel boot problems. 2458 2459 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2460 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2461 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2462 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2463 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2464 attached printers to be reset. Using 2465 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2466 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2467 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2468 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2469 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2470 port specification list means that device IDs 2471 from each port should be examined, to see if 2472 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2473 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2474 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2475 2476 lpj=n [KNL] 2477 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2478 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2479 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2480 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2481 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2482 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2483 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2484 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2485 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2486 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2487 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2488 hardware. 2489 2490 ltpc= [NET] 2491 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2492 2493 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2494 2495 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2496 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2497 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2498 2499 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2500 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2501 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2502 2503 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different 2504 yeeloong laptop. 2505 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2506 2507 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2508 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2509 2510 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2511 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2512 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2513 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2514 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2515 only takes effect during system bootup. 2516 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2517 which also disables the IO APIC. 2518 2519 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2520 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2521 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2522 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2523 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2524 /dev/loop-control interface. 2525 2526 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2527 2528 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2529 2530 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2531 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2532 2533 mdacon= [MDA] 2534 Format: <first>,<last> 2535 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2536 2537 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2538 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2539 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2540 2541 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2542 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2543 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2544 2545 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2546 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2547 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2548 not have direct access. 2549 2550 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2551 options are: 2552 2553 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2554 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2555 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2556 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2557 2558 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 2559 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 2560 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 2561 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 2562 too. 2563 2564 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 2565 mds=full. 2566 2567 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 2568 2569 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2570 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able 2571 to see the whole system memory or for test. 2572 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2573 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2574 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2575 belonging to unused RAM. 2576 2577 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2578 memory. 2579 2580 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2581 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2582 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2583 2584 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2585 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2586 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2587 set according to the 2588 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2589 option. 2590 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 2591 2592 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2593 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2594 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2595 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2596 option description. 2597 2598 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2599 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2600 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2601 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2602 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2603 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2604 comma delimited. 2605 Example: 2606 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2607 2608 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2609 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2610 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2611 2612 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2613 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2614 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2615 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2616 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2617 or 2618 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2619 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 2620 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 2621 will be eaten. 2622 2623 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2624 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2625 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2626 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2627 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2628 2629 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 2630 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 2631 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 2632 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 2633 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 2634 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 2635 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 2636 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 2637 2638 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2639 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2640 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2641 Setting this option will scan the memory 2642 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2643 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2644 from using the memory being corrupted. 2645 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2646 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2647 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2648 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2649 2650 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2651 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2652 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2653 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2654 corruption in more or less memory. 2655 2656 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2657 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2658 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2659 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2660 2661 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest 2662 Format: <integer> 2663 default : 0 <disable> 2664 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2665 performed. Each pass selects another test 2666 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2667 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2668 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2669 regions that are detected. 2670 2671 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 2672 Valid arguments: on, off 2673 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 2674 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 2675 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 2676 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 2677 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 2678 2679 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst 2680 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 2681 2682 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 2683 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 2684 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 2685 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 2686 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 2687 2688 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2689 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst. 2690 2691 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2692 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2693 platforms. 2694 2695 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2696 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2697 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2698 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2699 2700 mga= [HW,DRM] 2701 2702 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2703 physical address is ignored. 2704 2705 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2706 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2707 Default: "0tb" 2708 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2709 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2710 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2711 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2712 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2713 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2714 unconfigured. 2715 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2716 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2717 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2718 VGA shield. 2719 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2720 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2721 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2722 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2723 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 2724 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 2725 2726 mitigations= 2727 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 2728 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 2729 arch-independent options, each of which is an 2730 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 2731 2732 off 2733 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 2734 improves system performance, but it may also 2735 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 2736 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 2737 kpti=0 [ARM64] 2738 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 2739 nobp=0 [S390] 2740 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 2741 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 2742 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 2743 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 2744 l1tf=off [X86] 2745 mds=off [X86] 2746 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 2747 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 2748 2749 Exceptions: 2750 This does not have any effect on 2751 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 2752 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 2753 2754 auto (default) 2755 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 2756 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 2757 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 2758 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 2759 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 2760 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 2761 2762 auto,nosmt 2763 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 2764 if needed. This is for users who always want to 2765 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 2766 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 2767 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 2768 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 2769 2770 mminit_loglevel= 2771 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 2772 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 2773 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 2774 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 2775 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 2776 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 2777 2778 module.sig_enforce 2779 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 2780 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 2781 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 2782 is always true, so this option does nothing. 2783 2784 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 2785 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 2786 2787 mousedev.tap_time= 2788 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 2789 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 2790 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 2791 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 2792 Format: <msecs> 2793 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 2794 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2795 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 2796 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2797 2798 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2799 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 2800 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 2801 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 2802 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 2803 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 2804 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 2805 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 2806 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 2807 is not too small. 2808 2809 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 2810 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 2811 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 2812 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 2813 allocations. Use with caution! 2814 2815 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 2816 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 2817 2818 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 2819 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 2820 2821 mtdparts= [MTD] 2822 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 2823 2824 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 2825 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 2826 at a time. 2827 2828 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 2829 2830 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 2831 2832 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 2833 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 2834 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 2835 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 2836 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 2837 2838 mtdset= [ARM] 2839 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 2840 2841 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c 2842 2843 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 2844 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 2845 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 2846 2847 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2848 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 2849 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 2850 2851 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2852 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 2853 Default is 1. 2854 Large value could prevent small alignment from 2855 using up MTRRs. 2856 2857 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 2858 Format: <integer> 2859 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 2860 Default : 1 2861 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 2862 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 2863 2864 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 2865 2866 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 2867 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 2868 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 2869 something different and driver-specific. 2870 This usage is only documented in each driver source 2871 file if at all. 2872 2873 nf_conntrack.acct= 2874 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 2875 0 to disable accounting 2876 1 to enable accounting 2877 Default value is 0. 2878 2879 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 2880 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2881 2882 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 2883 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2884 2885 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 2886 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2887 2888 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 2889 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 2890 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 2891 requests. 2892 2893 nfs.callback_tcpport= 2894 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 2895 channel should listen. 2896 2897 nfs.cache_getent= 2898 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 2899 to update the NFS client cache entries. 2900 2901 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 2902 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 2903 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 2904 2905 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 2906 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 2907 entries. 2908 2909 nfs.enable_ino64= 2910 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 2911 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 2912 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 2913 of returning the full 64-bit number. 2914 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 2915 2916 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 2917 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 2918 slots the client will assign to the callback 2919 channel. This determines the maximum number of 2920 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 2921 a particular server. 2922 2923 nfs.max_session_slots= 2924 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 2925 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 2926 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 2927 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 2928 Note that there is little point in setting this 2929 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 2930 2931 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2932 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 2933 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 2934 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 2935 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 2936 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 2937 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 2938 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 2939 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 2940 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 2941 back to using the idmapper. 2942 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 2943 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 2944 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 2945 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 2946 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 2947 UUID that is generated at system install time. 2948 2949 nfs.send_implementation_id = 2950 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 2951 information in exchange_id requests. 2952 If zero, no implementation identification information 2953 will be sent. 2954 The default is to send the implementation identification 2955 information. 2956 2957 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 2958 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 2959 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 2960 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 2961 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 2962 after the locks are lost. 2963 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 2964 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 2965 parameter to '1'. 2966 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 2967 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 2968 2969 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 2970 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 2971 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 2972 2973 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 2974 whatever value is the default set by the layout 2975 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 2976 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 2977 2978 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2979 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 2980 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 2981 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 2982 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 2983 migration from NFSv2/v3. 2984 2985 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 2986 when a NMI is triggered. 2987 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 2988 2989 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 2990 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 2991 Valid num: 0 or 1 2992 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 2993 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 2994 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 2995 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 2996 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 2997 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 2998 please see 'nowatchdog'. 2999 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3000 need the box quickly up again. 3001 3002 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3003 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3004 3005 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3006 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3007 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3008 waits 4 seconds. 3009 3010 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3011 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3012 is present. 3013 3014 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3015 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3016 3017 no_console_suspend 3018 [HW] Never suspend the console 3019 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3020 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3021 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3022 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3023 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3024 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3025 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3026 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3027 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3028 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3029 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3030 turn on/off it dynamically. 3031 3032 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3033 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3034 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3035 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3036 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3037 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3038 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3039 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3040 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3041 is set. 3042 3043 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3044 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3045 but will impact performance. 3046 3047 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3048 3049 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3050 (CPU alternatives feature). 3051 3052 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3053 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3054 3055 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3056 3057 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 3058 on "Classic" PPC cores. 3059 3060 nocache [ARM] 3061 3062 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 3063 3064 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting 3065 3066 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3067 3068 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3069 3070 noexec [IA-64] 3071 3072 noexec [X86] 3073 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 3074 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3075 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 3076 3077 nosmap [X86,PPC] 3078 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3079 even if it is supported by processor. 3080 3081 nosmep [X86,PPC] 3082 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3083 even if it is supported by processor. 3084 3085 noexec32 [X86-64] 3086 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3087 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3088 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3089 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3090 read implies executable mappings 3091 3092 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3093 3094 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3095 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3096 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3097 3098 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86,PPC] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3099 3100 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3101 Equivalent to smt=1. 3102 3103 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3104 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3105 via the sysfs control file. 3106 3107 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3108 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3109 possible in the system. 3110 3111 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3112 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3113 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3114 option. 3115 3116 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3117 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3118 3119 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3120 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3121 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3122 3123 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3124 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3125 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3126 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3127 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3128 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3129 3130 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3131 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3132 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3133 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3134 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3135 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3136 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3137 3138 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or 3139 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to 3140 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger. 3141 3142 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3143 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3144 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3145 3146 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3147 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3148 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3149 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3150 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3151 real-time systems. 3152 3153 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3154 3155 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3156 Valid arguments: on, off 3157 Default: on 3158 3159 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3160 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3161 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3162 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3163 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3164 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3165 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3166 just as if they had also been called out in the 3167 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3168 3169 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3170 3171 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3172 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3173 3174 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3175 broken timer IRQ sources. 3176 3177 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3178 3179 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3180 initial RAM disk. 3181 3182 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3183 remapping. 3184 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3185 3186 nointroute [IA-64] 3187 3188 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3189 3190 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3191 3192 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3193 3194 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3195 fault handling. 3196 3197 no-vmw-sched-clock 3198 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3199 clock and use the default one. 3200 3201 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time 3202 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't 3203 influence scheduler behaviour 3204 3205 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3206 3207 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3208 3209 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 3210 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 3211 3212 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3213 3214 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3215 3216 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3217 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3218 3219 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3220 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3221 irq. 3222 3223 nomodule Disable module load 3224 3225 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3226 pagetables) support. 3227 3228 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3229 3230 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3231 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3232 3233 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3234 with UP alternatives 3235 3236 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 3237 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 3238 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 3239 available to user space applications. 3240 3241 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3242 space. 3243 3244 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3245 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3246 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3247 3248 nosbagart [IA-64] 3249 3250 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 3251 3252 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3253 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3254 3255 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3256 3257 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3258 3259 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3260 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3261 3262 nowb [ARM] 3263 3264 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3265 3266 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 3267 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 3268 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 3269 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 3270 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 3271 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 3272 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 3273 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 3274 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 3275 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 3276 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 3277 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 3278 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 3279 3280 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3281 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3282 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3283 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3284 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3285 parameter's value. 3286 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3287 Default: 255 3288 3289 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3290 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3291 SAL PALO. 3292 3293 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3294 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3295 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3296 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3297 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3298 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3299 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3300 hot plugging. 3301 3302 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3303 3304 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing. 3305 Allowed values are enable and disable 3306 3307 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3308 'node', 'default' can be specified 3309 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3310 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3311 3312 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3313 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more 3314 info. 3315 3316 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3317 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3318 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3319 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3320 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3321 interrupts *may* be lost! 3322 3323 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3324 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3325 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3326 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3327 3328 oprofile.timer= [HW] 3329 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters 3330 3331 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type 3332 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile 3333 userland or if you want common events. 3334 Format: { arch_perfmon } 3335 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural 3336 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the 3337 CPU specific event set. 3338 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI 3339 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer 3340 for generic hr timer mode) 3341 3342 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3343 process, but there is a small probability of 3344 deadlocking the machine. 3345 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3346 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3347 3348 page_alloc.shuffle= 3349 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3350 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3351 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3352 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3353 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3354 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3355 can be read from sysfs at: 3356 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3357 3358 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3359 Storage of the information about who allocated 3360 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3361 we can turn it on. 3362 on: enable the feature 3363 3364 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3365 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3366 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3367 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3368 on: turn on poisoning 3369 3370 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3371 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3372 timeout = 0: wait forever 3373 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3374 Format: <timeout> 3375 3376 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3377 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3378 bit 0: print all tasks info 3379 bit 1: print system memory info 3380 bit 2: print timer info 3381 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3382 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3383 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3384 3385 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3386 on a WARN(). 3387 3388 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 3389 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 3390 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 3391 succeeds in any situation. 3392 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 3393 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 3394 kernel more unstable. 3395 3396 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3397 connected to, default is 0. 3398 Format: <parport#> 3399 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3400 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3401 Format: <mode> 3402 3403 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3404 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3405 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3406 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3407 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3408 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3409 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3410 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3411 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3412 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3413 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3414 are specified on the command line, starting 3415 with parport0. 3416 3417 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3418 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3419 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3420 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3421 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3422 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3423 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3424 3425 pause_on_oops= 3426 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 3427 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 3428 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 3429 3430 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 3431 3432 pcd. [PARIDE] 3433 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 3434 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3435 3436 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 3437 3438 Some options herein operate on a specific device 3439 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 3440 specified in one of the following formats: 3441 3442 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 3443 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 3444 3445 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 3446 bus/device/function address which may change 3447 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 3448 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 3449 by other kernel parameters. If the 3450 domain is left unspecified, it is 3451 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 3452 to a device through multiple device/function 3453 addresses can be specified after the base 3454 address (this is more robust against 3455 renumbering issues). The second format 3456 selects devices using IDs from the 3457 configuration space which may match multiple 3458 devices in the system. 3459 3460 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 3461 changes anything 3462 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 3463 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 3464 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 3465 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 3466 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 3467 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 3468 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 3469 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 3470 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3471 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 3472 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 3473 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3474 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 3475 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 3476 bus number. The config space is then accessed 3477 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 3478 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 3479 on the configuration access mechanisms. 3480 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 3481 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3482 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 3483 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 3484 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 3485 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 3486 Configuration 3487 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 3488 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 3489 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 3490 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 3491 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3492 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 3493 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 3494 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 3495 should never be necessary. 3496 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 3497 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 3498 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 3499 when the system masks IRQs. 3500 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 3501 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 3502 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 3503 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 3504 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 3505 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 3506 on several machines and they hang the machine 3507 when used, but on other computers it's the only 3508 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 3509 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 3510 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 3511 motherboard. 3512 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 3513 Use with caution as certain devices share 3514 address decoders between ROMs and other 3515 resources. 3516 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 3517 expansion ROMs that do not already have 3518 BIOS assigned address ranges. 3519 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 3520 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 3521 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 3522 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 3523 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 3524 this way. 3525 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 3526 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 3527 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 3528 F0000h-100000h range. 3529 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 3530 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 3531 secondary buses and you want to tell it 3532 explicitly which ones they are. 3533 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 3534 numbers ourselves, overriding 3535 whatever the firmware may have done. 3536 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 3537 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 3538 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 3539 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 3540 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 3541 IRQ routing is enabled. 3542 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 3543 or for PCI scanning. 3544 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 3545 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 3546 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 3547 please report a bug. 3548 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 3549 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 3550 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 3551 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 3552 so this option is a temporary workaround 3553 for broken drivers that don't call it. 3554 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 3555 handle more pci cards 3556 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 3557 This might help on some broken boards which 3558 machine check when some devices' config space 3559 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 3560 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 3561 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3562 This sorting is done to get a device 3563 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 3564 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3565 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 3566 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 3567 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 3568 supported by all devices below the root complex. 3569 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 3570 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 3571 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 3572 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 3573 or bus can support) for best performance. 3574 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 3575 every device is guaranteed to support. This 3576 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 3577 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 3578 reduced performance. This also guarantees 3579 that hot-added devices will work. 3580 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3581 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 3582 The default value is 256 bytes. 3583 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3584 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 3585 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 3586 resource_alignment= 3587 Format: 3588 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 3589 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 3590 aligned memory resources. How to 3591 specify the device is described above. 3592 If <order of align> is not specified, 3593 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 3594 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 3595 windows need to be expanded. 3596 To specify the alignment for several 3597 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 3598 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 3599 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 3600 for 4096-byte alignment. 3601 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 3602 end-to-end CRC checking). 3603 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 3604 the default. 3605 off: Turn ECRC off 3606 on: Turn ECRC on. 3607 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3608 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 3609 Default size is 256 bytes. 3610 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3611 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 3612 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3613 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3614 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 3615 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3616 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3617 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 3618 MMIO_PREF window. 3619 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3620 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 3621 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 3622 Default is 1. 3623 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 3624 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 3625 accommodate resources required by all child 3626 devices. 3627 off: Turn realloc off 3628 on: Turn realloc on 3629 realloc same as realloc=on 3630 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 3631 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 3632 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 3633 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 3634 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 3635 port. 3636 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 3637 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 3638 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 3639 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 3640 conflict with unreported devices), so this 3641 taints the kernel. 3642 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 3643 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 3644 specified above) separated by semicolons. 3645 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 3646 redirect capabilities forced off which will 3647 allow P2P traffic between devices through 3648 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 3649 this removes isolation between devices and 3650 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 3651 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 3652 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 3653 3654 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 3655 Management. 3656 off Disable ASPM. 3657 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 3658 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 3659 3660 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 3661 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 3662 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 3663 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 3664 also tries to use these services. 3665 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 3666 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 3667 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 3668 hotplug). 3669 3670 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 3671 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 3672 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 3673 3674 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 3675 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 3676 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 3677 3678 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 3679 3680 pd_ignore_unused 3681 [PM] 3682 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 3683 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 3684 for debug and development, but should not be 3685 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 3686 3687 pd. [PARIDE] 3688 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3689 3690 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 3691 boot time. 3692 Format: { 0 | 1 } 3693 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 3694 3695 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 3696 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 3697 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 3698 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 3699 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 3700 and performance comparison. 3701 3702 pf. [PARIDE] 3703 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3704 3705 pg. [PARIDE] 3706 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3707 3708 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 3709 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 3710 3711 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 3712 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 3713 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 3714 3715 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 3716 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 3717 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 3718 3719 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 3720 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 3721 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 3722 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 3723 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 3724 possible settings and some assignment information. 3725 3726 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 3727 { off } 3728 3729 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 3730 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 3731 3732 pnp_reserve_irq= 3733 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 3734 3735 pnp_reserve_dma= 3736 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 3737 3738 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 3739 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 3740 3741 pnp_reserve_mem= 3742 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 3743 autoconfiguration. 3744 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 3745 3746 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 3747 Default is 21. 3748 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 3749 may be specified. 3750 Format: <port>,<port>.... 3751 3752 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 3753 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 3754 platform machine description specific power_save 3755 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 3756 execution priority. 3757 3758 ppc_strict_facility_enable 3759 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 3760 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 3761 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 3762 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 3763 3764 ppc_tm= [PPC] 3765 Format: {"off"} 3766 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 3767 3768 print-fatal-signals= 3769 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 3770 3771 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 3772 related application anomalies: too many signals, 3773 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 3774 coredump - etc. 3775 3776 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 3777 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 3778 3779 default: off. 3780 3781 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 3782 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 3783 panics 3784 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3785 default: disabled 3786 3787 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 3788 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 3789 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 3790 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 3791 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 3792 Default: ratelimit 3793 3794 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 3795 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3796 3797 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 3798 Limit processor to maximum C-state 3799 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 3800 3801 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 3802 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 3803 instead using the legacy FADT method 3804 3805 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 3806 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 3807 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 3808 [defaults to kernel profiling] 3809 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 3810 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 3811 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 3812 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 3813 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 3814 statistical time based profiling. 3815 3816 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk 3817 before loading. 3818 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 3819 3820 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 3821 tracking. 3822 Format: <bool> 3823 3824 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 3825 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 3826 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 3827 per second. 3828 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 3829 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 3830 (0 = never). 3831 psmouse.resolution= 3832 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 3833 psmouse.smartscroll= 3834 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 3835 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 3836 3837 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 3838 3839 pt. [PARIDE] 3840 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3841 3842 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 3843 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 3844 removes hardening, but improves performance of 3845 system calls and interrupts. 3846 3847 on - unconditionally enable 3848 off - unconditionally disable 3849 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 3850 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 3851 3852 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 3853 3854 nopti [X86_64] 3855 Equivalent to pti=off 3856 3857 pty.legacy_count= 3858 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 3859 default number. 3860 3861 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 3862 3863 r128= [HW,DRM] 3864 3865 raid= [HW,RAID] 3866 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3867 3868 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 3869 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 3870 3871 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 3872 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 3873 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 3874 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 3875 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 3876 3877 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 3878 3879 cec_disable [X86] 3880 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 3881 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 3882 3883 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 3884 The argument is a cpu list, as described above, 3885 except that the string "all" can be used to 3886 specify every CPU on the system. 3887 3888 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 3889 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 3890 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be 3891 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that 3892 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and 3893 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number. 3894 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs, 3895 which can be useful for HPC and real-time 3896 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency 3897 for asymmetric multiprocessors. 3898 3899 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 3900 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 3901 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 3902 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 3903 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 3904 This improves the real-time response for the 3905 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 3906 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 3907 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 3908 periodically wake up to do the polling. 3909 3910 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 3911 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 3912 process in one batch. 3913 3914 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 3915 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 3916 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 3917 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 3918 3919 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 3920 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3921 RCU grace-period cleanup. 3922 3923 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 3924 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3925 RCU grace-period initialization. 3926 3927 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 3928 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3929 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 3930 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 3931 the rcu_node combining tree. 3932 3933 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 3934 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 3935 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 3936 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 3937 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 3938 3939 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 3940 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 3941 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 3942 possibly be useful for architectures having high 3943 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 3944 3945 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 3946 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 3947 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 3948 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 3949 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 3950 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 3951 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 3952 3953 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 3954 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 3955 first attempt to force quiescent states. 3956 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 3957 and maximum value is HZ. 3958 3959 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 3960 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 3961 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 3962 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 3963 3964 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 3965 Set required age in jiffies for a 3966 given grace period before RCU starts 3967 soliciting quiescent-state help from 3968 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 3969 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 3970 a value based on the most recent settings 3971 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 3972 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 3973 This calculated value may be viewed in 3974 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 3975 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 3976 overwritten. 3977 3978 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 3979 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 3980 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 3981 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 3982 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 3983 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 3984 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 3985 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 3986 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 3987 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 3988 3989 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 3990 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 3991 each group, which defaults to the square root 3992 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 3993 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 3994 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 3995 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 3996 3997 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 3998 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 3999 batch limiting is disabled. 4000 4001 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4002 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4003 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4004 4005 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 4006 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 4007 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 4008 4009 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL] 4010 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 4011 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 4012 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can 4013 prove do nothing more than free memory. 4014 4015 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4016 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4017 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4018 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4019 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4020 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4021 4022 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4023 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4024 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4025 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4026 4027 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL] 4028 Measure performance of asynchronous 4029 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4030 4031 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4032 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4033 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4034 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4035 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4036 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4037 4038 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL] 4039 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4040 grace-period primitives. 4041 4042 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL] 4043 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4044 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4045 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4046 interference. 4047 4048 rcuperf.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4049 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4050 4051 rcuperf.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4052 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4053 4054 rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4055 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4056 4057 rcuperf.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4058 Number of loops doing rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num number 4059 of allocations and frees. 4060 4061 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL] 4062 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4063 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4064 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4065 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4066 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4067 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4068 a single reader. 4069 4070 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL] 4071 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4072 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders. 4073 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4074 4075 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL] 4076 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4077 4078 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL] 4079 Shut the system down after performance tests 4080 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4081 testing. 4082 4083 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL] 4084 Enable additional printk() statements. 4085 4086 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4087 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4088 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4089 no holdoff. 4090 4091 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4092 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4093 in microseconds. 4094 4095 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4096 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4097 in microseconds. 4098 4099 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4100 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4101 in seconds. 4102 4103 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4104 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4105 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4106 4107 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4108 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4109 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4110 4111 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4112 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4113 forward-progress tests. 4114 4115 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4116 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4117 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4118 testing. 4119 4120 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4121 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4122 primitives, if available. 4123 4124 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4125 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4126 4127 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4128 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4129 update-side primitives, if available. 4130 4131 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4132 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4133 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4134 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4135 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4136 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4137 they are all non-zero. 4138 4139 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 4140 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 4141 4142 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 4143 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 4144 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 4145 test, hence the "fake". 4146 4147 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 4148 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4149 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4150 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 4151 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4152 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4153 4154 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 4155 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 4156 4157 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4158 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 4159 4160 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4161 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 4162 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 4163 4164 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 4165 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 4166 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 4167 during the rcutorture test. 4168 4169 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4170 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 4171 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 4172 4173 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 4174 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 4175 warnings, zero to disable. 4176 4177 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 4178 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 4179 4180 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 4181 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 4182 4183 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 4184 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 4185 4186 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 4187 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 4188 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 4189 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 4190 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 4191 4192 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 4193 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 4194 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 4195 under test support RCU priority boosting. 4196 4197 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 4198 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 4199 4200 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 4201 Interval (s) between each boost test. 4202 4203 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 4204 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 4205 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 4206 4207 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 4208 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4209 4210 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 4211 Enable additional printk() statements. 4212 4213 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 4214 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 4215 stall warning. 4216 4217 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 4218 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4219 4220 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4221 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4222 4223 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 4224 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 4225 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 4226 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 4227 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 4228 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 4229 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4230 4231 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 4232 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 4233 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 4234 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 4235 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 4236 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 4237 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 4238 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 4239 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4240 4241 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 4242 Once boot has completed (that is, after 4243 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 4244 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 4245 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4246 4247 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4248 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 4249 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 4250 to zero. 4251 4252 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 4253 Run the RCU early boot self tests 4254 4255 rdinit= [KNL] 4256 Format: <full_path> 4257 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 4258 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 4259 4260 rdrand= [X86] 4261 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 4262 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 4263 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 4264 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 4265 path). 4266 4267 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 4268 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 4269 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 4270 mba. 4271 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 4272 rdt=cmt,!mba 4273 4274 reboot= [KNL] 4275 Format (x86 or x86_64): 4276 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ 4277 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 4278 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 4279 [[,]f[orce] 4280 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 4281 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 4282 reboot only), 4283 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 4284 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 4285 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 4286 to be used for rebooting. 4287 4288 relax_domain_level= 4289 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 4290 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 4291 4292 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 4293 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 4294 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 4295 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 4296 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 4297 4298 reservetop= [X86-32] 4299 Format: nn[KMG] 4300 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 4301 address space. 4302 4303 reservelow= [X86] 4304 Format: nn[K] 4305 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at 4306 the bottom of the address space. 4307 4308 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 4309 during initialization. 4310 4311 resume= [SWSUSP] 4312 Specify the partition device for software suspend 4313 Format: 4314 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 4315 4316 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 4317 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 4318 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 4319 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 4320 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 4321 4322 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4323 read the resume files 4324 4325 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 4326 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4327 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4328 4329 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 4330 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 4331 present during boot. 4332 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 4333 no Disable hibernation and resume. 4334 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 4335 (that will set all pages holding image data 4336 during restoration read-only). 4337 4338 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 4339 4340 rfkill.default_state= 4341 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 4342 etc. communication is blocked by default. 4343 1 Unblocked. 4344 4345 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 4346 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 4347 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4348 blocked and the previous configuration. 4349 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4350 blocked and everything unblocked. 4351 4352 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4353 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 4354 4355 ring3mwait=disable 4356 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 4357 CPUs. 4358 4359 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 4360 4361 rodata= [KNL] 4362 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 4363 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 4364 4365 rockchip.usb_uart 4366 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 4367 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 4368 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 4369 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 4370 4371 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 4372 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 4373 4374 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4375 mount the root filesystem 4376 4377 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 4378 4379 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 4380 4381 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 4382 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4383 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4384 4385 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 4386 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 4387 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 4388 managed by CMA. 4389 4390 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 4391 4392 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 4393 4394 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 4395 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 4396 strict 4397 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 4398 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 4399 which is faster. 4400 4401 sa1100ir [NET] 4402 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 4403 4404 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter 4405 4406 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 4407 4408 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 4409 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 4410 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 4411 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 4412 4413 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 4414 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 4415 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 4416 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4417 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 4418 1 -- enable. 4419 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 4420 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 4421 4422 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 4423 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 4424 "lsm=" parameter. 4425 4426 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 4427 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4428 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 4429 0 -- disable. 4430 1 -- enable. 4431 Default value is 1. 4432 4433 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 4434 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4435 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 4436 0 -- disable. 4437 1 -- enable. 4438 Default value is set via kernel config option. 4439 4440 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 4441 4442 shapers= [NET] 4443 Maximal number of shapers. 4444 4445 simeth= [IA-64] 4446 simscsi= 4447 4448 slram= [HW,MTD] 4449 4450 slab_nomerge [MM] 4451 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 4452 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 4453 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 4454 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 4455 layout control by attackers can usually be 4456 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 4457 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 4458 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 4459 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 4460 own. 4461 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4462 4463 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 4464 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4465 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4466 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 4467 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 4468 4469 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB] 4470 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 4471 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 4472 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 4473 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 4474 last alloc / free. For more information see 4475 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4476 4477 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB] 4478 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for 4479 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable. 4480 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON. 4481 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug 4482 directories and files being created under 4483 /sys/kernel/slub. 4484 4485 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 4486 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4487 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4488 fragmentation. For more information see 4489 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4490 4491 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 4492 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 4493 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 4494 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 4495 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 4496 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 4497 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 4498 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4499 4500 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 4501 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 4502 lower than slub_max_order. 4503 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4504 4505 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 4506 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 4507 See slab_nomerge for more information. 4508 4509 smart2= [HW] 4510 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 4511 4512 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 4513 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 4514 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 4515 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 4516 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 4517 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 4518 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 4519 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 4520 1: Fast pin select (default) 4521 2: ATC IRMode 4522 4523 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 4524 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 4525 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 4526 actual hardware limit. 4527 Format: <integer> 4528 Default: -1 (no limit) 4529 4530 softlockup_panic= 4531 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 4532 Format: <integer> 4533 4534 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector 4535 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 4536 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 4537 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 4538 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 4539 4540 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 4541 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 4542 backtraces on all cpus. 4543 Format: <integer> 4544 4545 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 4546 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 4547 4548 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 4549 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 4550 The default operation protects the kernel from 4551 user space attacks. 4552 4553 on - unconditionally enable, implies 4554 spectre_v2_user=on 4555 off - unconditionally disable, implies 4556 spectre_v2_user=off 4557 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4558 vulnerable 4559 4560 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 4561 mitigation method at run time according to the 4562 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 4563 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 4564 compiler with which the kernel was built. 4565 4566 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 4567 against user space to user space task attacks. 4568 4569 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 4570 the user space protections. 4571 4572 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 4573 4574 retpoline - replace indirect branches 4575 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline 4576 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk 4577 4578 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4579 spectre_v2=auto. 4580 4581 spectre_v2_user= 4582 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 4583 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 4584 user space tasks 4585 4586 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 4587 enforced by spectre_v2=on 4588 4589 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 4590 enforced by spectre_v2=off 4591 4592 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 4593 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 4594 per thread. The mitigation control state 4595 is inherited on fork. 4596 4597 prctl,ibpb 4598 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 4599 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 4600 always when switching between different user 4601 space processes. 4602 4603 seccomp 4604 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 4605 threads will enable the mitigation unless 4606 they explicitly opt out. 4607 4608 seccomp,ibpb 4609 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 4610 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 4611 always when switching between different 4612 user space processes. 4613 4614 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 4615 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 4616 4617 Default mitigation: 4618 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 4619 4620 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4621 spectre_v2_user=auto. 4622 4623 spec_store_bypass_disable= 4624 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 4625 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 4626 4627 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 4628 a common industry wide performance optimization known 4629 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 4630 to the same memory location may not be observed by 4631 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 4632 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 4633 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 4634 end of a particular speculation execution window. 4635 4636 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 4637 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 4638 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 4639 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 4640 4641 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 4642 Bypass optimization is used. 4643 4644 On x86 the options are: 4645 4646 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 4647 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 4648 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 4649 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 4650 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 4651 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 4652 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 4653 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 4654 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 4655 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 4656 for a process by default. The state of the control 4657 is inherited on fork. 4658 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 4659 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 4660 4661 Default mitigations: 4662 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 4663 4664 On powerpc the options are: 4665 4666 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 4667 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 4668 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 4669 exit. 4670 off - No action. 4671 4672 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4673 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 4674 4675 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 4676 spia_fio_base= 4677 spia_pedr= 4678 spia_peddr= 4679 4680 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 4681 Specifies how frequently to check for 4682 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 4683 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 4684 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 4685 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 4686 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 4687 are ignored. 4688 4689 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 4690 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 4691 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 4692 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 4693 grace period will be considered for automatic 4694 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 4695 expediting. 4696 4697 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 4698 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 4699 4700 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 4701 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 4702 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 4703 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 4704 4705 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 4706 for both kernel and userspace 4707 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 4708 for both kernel and userspace 4709 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 4710 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 4711 to allow userspace to register its 4712 interest in being mitigated too. 4713 4714 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 4715 override the default stack gap protection. The value 4716 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 4717 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 4718 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 4719 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 4720 4721 stacktrace [FTRACE] 4722 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 4723 4724 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 4725 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 4726 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 4727 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 4728 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 4729 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 4730 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 4731 4732 sti= [PARISC,HW] 4733 Format: <num> 4734 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 4735 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 4736 as the initial boot-console. 4737 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4738 4739 sti_font= [HW] 4740 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4741 4742 stifb= [HW] 4743 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 4744 4745 sunrpc.min_resvport= 4746 sunrpc.max_resvport= 4747 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4748 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 4749 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 4750 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 4751 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 4752 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 4753 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 4754 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 4755 maximum port values. 4756 4757 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 4758 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4759 Limit the number of requests that the server will 4760 process in parallel from a single connection. 4761 The default value is 0 (no limit). 4762 4763 sunrpc.pool_mode= 4764 [NFS] 4765 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 4766 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 4767 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 4768 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 4769 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 4770 NFS server is running. 4771 4772 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 4773 automatically using heuristics 4774 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 4775 percpu one pool for each CPU 4776 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 4777 to global on non-NUMA machines) 4778 4779 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 4780 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 4781 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4782 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 4783 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 4784 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 4785 improve throughput, but will also increase the 4786 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 4787 4788 suspend.pm_test_delay= 4789 [SUSPEND] 4790 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 4791 mode before resuming the system (see 4792 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 4793 is set. Default value is 5. 4794 4795 svm= [PPC] 4796 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 4797 This parameter controls use of the Protected 4798 Execution Facility on pSeries. 4799 4800 swapaccount=[0|1] 4801 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 4802 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 4803 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) 4804 4805 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 4806 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 4807 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 4808 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 4809 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 4810 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 4811 4812 switches= [HW,M68k] 4813 4814 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 4815 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 4816 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 4817 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 4818 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 4819 in older udev will not work anymore. 4820 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 4821 the kernel configuration. 4822 4823 sysrq_always_enabled 4824 [KNL] 4825 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 4826 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 4827 Useful for debugging. 4828 4829 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4830 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 4831 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 4832 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 4833 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt 4834 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 4835 4836 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 4837 4838 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 4839 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 4840 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 4841 as the system sleep state during system startup with 4842 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 4843 The system is woken from this state using a 4844 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 4845 4846 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4847 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 4848 4849 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 4850 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 4851 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 4852 4853 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 4854 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 4855 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 4856 4857 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 4858 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 4859 critical and hot trip points. 4860 4861 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 4862 1: disable ACPI thermal control 4863 4864 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 4865 -1: disable all passive trip points 4866 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 4867 value 4868 4869 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 4870 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 4871 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 4872 0: no polling (default) 4873 4874 threadirqs [KNL] 4875 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 4876 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 4877 4878 topology= [S390] 4879 Format: {off | on} 4880 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 4881 topology information if the hardware supports this. 4882 The scheduler will make use of this information and 4883 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 4884 Default is on. 4885 4886 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 4887 Format: {off} 4888 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 4889 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 4890 LPAR. 4891 4892 tp720= [HW,PS2] 4893 4894 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 4895 Format: integer pcr id 4896 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 4897 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 4898 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 4899 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 4900 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 4901 are saved. 4902 4903 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 4904 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 4905 4906 trace_event=[event-list] 4907 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 4908 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 4909 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See 4910 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 4911 4912 trace_options=[option-list] 4913 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 4914 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 4915 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 4916 to echo the option name into 4917 4918 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 4919 4920 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 4921 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 4922 4923 trace_options=stacktrace 4924 4925 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 4926 section. 4927 4928 tp_printk[FTRACE] 4929 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 4930 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 4931 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 4932 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 4933 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 4934 4935 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 4936 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 4937 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 4938 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 4939 4940 ** CAUTION ** 4941 4942 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 4943 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 4944 the system to live lock. 4945 4946 traceoff_on_warning 4947 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 4948 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 4949 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 4950 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 4951 4952 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 4953 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 4954 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 4955 4956 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 4957 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 4958 4959 transparent_hugepage= 4960 [KNL] 4961 Format: [always|madvise|never] 4962 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 4963 with respect to transparent hugepages. 4964 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 4965 for more details. 4966 4967 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 4968 Format: <string> 4969 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 4970 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 4971 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 4972 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 4973 virtualized environment. 4974 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 4975 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 4976 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 4977 can add overhead. 4978 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 4979 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 4980 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 4981 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 4982 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 4983 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 4984 acceptable). 4985 4986 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 4987 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 4988 support TSX control. 4989 4990 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 4991 4992 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 4993 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 4994 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 4995 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 4996 so there may be unknown security risks associated 4997 with leaving it enabled. 4998 4999 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 5000 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 5001 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 5002 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 5003 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 5004 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 5005 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 5006 5007 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 5008 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 5009 5010 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 5011 5012 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 5013 for more details. 5014 5015 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 5016 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 5017 5018 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 5019 certain CPUs that support Transactional 5020 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 5021 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 5022 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 5023 conditions. 5024 5025 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5026 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 5027 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 5028 access. 5029 5030 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 5031 options are: 5032 5033 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 5034 if TSX is enabled. 5035 5036 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 5037 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 5038 is not disabled because CPU is not 5039 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 5040 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 5041 5042 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 5043 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 5044 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 5045 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 5046 5047 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5048 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 5049 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 5050 required and doesn't provide any additional 5051 mitigation. 5052 5053 For details see: 5054 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 5055 5056 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 5057 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 5058 Format: 5059 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 5060 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 5061 5062 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 5063 happen after console_init() and before a proper 5064 console driver takes over, this boot options might 5065 help "seeing" what's going on. 5066 5067 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5068 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 5069 5070 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 5071 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 5072 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 5073 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 5074 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 5075 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 5076 reported either. 5077 5078 unknown_nmi_panic 5079 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 5080 5081 usbcore.authorized_default= 5082 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 5083 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 5084 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 5085 if device connected to internal port) 5086 5087 usbcore.autosuspend= 5088 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 5089 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 5090 is the time required before an idle device will be 5091 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 5092 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 5093 5094 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 5095 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 5096 5097 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 5098 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 5099 (default = 65536). 5100 5101 usbcore.blinkenlights= 5102 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 5103 5104 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 5105 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 5106 scheme, applies only to low and full-speed devices 5107 (default 0 = off). 5108 5109 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 5110 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 5111 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 5112 5113 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 5114 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 5115 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 5116 5117 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 5118 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 5119 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 5120 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 5121 5122 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 5123 5124 usbcore.quirks= 5125 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 5126 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 5127 commas. Each entry has the form 5128 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 5129 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 5130 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 5131 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 5132 the following meanings: 5133 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 5134 descriptors must not be fetched using 5135 a 255-byte read); 5136 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 5137 correctly so reset it instead); 5138 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 5139 Set-Interface requests); 5140 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 5141 handle its Configuration or Interface 5142 strings); 5143 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 5144 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 5145 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 5146 more interface descriptions than the 5147 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 5148 talking to these interfaces); 5149 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 5150 during initialization, after we read 5151 the device descriptor); 5152 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 5153 high speed and super speed interrupt 5154 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 5155 require the interval in microframes (1 5156 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 5157 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 5158 (bInterval-1). 5159 Devices with this quirk report their 5160 bInterval as the result of this 5161 calculation instead of the exponent 5162 variable used in the calculation); 5163 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 5164 handle device_qualifier descriptor 5165 requests); 5166 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 5167 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 5168 remote wakeup capability); 5169 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 5170 Power Management); 5171 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 5172 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 5173 frames instead of the USB 2.0 5174 calculation); 5175 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 5176 to be disconnected before suspend to 5177 prevent spurious wakeup); 5178 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 5179 pause after every control message); 5180 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 5181 delay after resetting its port); 5182 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 5183 5184 usbhid.mousepoll= 5185 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 5186 5187 usbhid.jspoll= 5188 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 5189 5190 usbhid.kbpoll= 5191 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 5192 5193 usb-storage.delay_use= 5194 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 5195 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 5196 5197 usb-storage.quirks= 5198 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 5199 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 5200 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 5201 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 5202 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 5203 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 5204 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 5205 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 5206 of sense data, not on uas); 5207 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 5208 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 5209 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 5210 device capacity by one sector); 5211 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 5212 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 5213 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 5214 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 5215 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 5216 command, uas only); 5217 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 5218 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 5219 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 5220 reported device capacity by one 5221 sector if the number is odd); 5222 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 5223 device); 5224 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 5225 command, uas only); 5226 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 5227 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 5228 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 5229 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 5230 not on uas); 5231 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 5232 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 5233 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 5234 reported by the device, not on uas); 5235 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 5236 by default, not on uas); 5237 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 5238 bogus residue values, not on uas); 5239 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 5240 Logical Unit); 5241 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 5242 commands, uas only); 5243 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 5244 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 5245 medium is write-protected). 5246 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 5247 even if the device claims no cache, 5248 not on uas) 5249 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 5250 5251 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 5252 Format: <int> 5253 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 5254 1 - undefined instruction events 5255 2 - system calls 5256 4 - invalid data aborts 5257 8 - SIGSEGV faults 5258 16 - SIGBUS faults 5259 Example: user_debug=31 5260 5261 userpte= 5262 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 5263 5264 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 5265 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 5266 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 5267 5268 vdso= [X86,SH] 5269 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 5270 5271 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 5272 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 5273 5274 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 5275 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 5276 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 5277 5278 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 5279 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 5280 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 5281 5282 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 5283 alias for vdso32=0. 5284 5285 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 5286 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 5287 5288 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 5289 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 5290 5291 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 5292 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 5293 5294 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 5295 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 5296 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 5297 level and then send out the event to user space through 5298 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 5299 will only send out the event without touching backlight 5300 brightness level. 5301 default: 1 5302 5303 virtio_mmio.device= 5304 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 5305 5306 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 5307 where: 5308 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 5309 like K, M and G) 5310 <baseaddr> := physical base address 5311 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 5312 request_irq()) 5313 <id> := (optional) platform device id 5314 example: 5315 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 5316 5317 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 5318 5319 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 5320 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 5321 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 5322 Use vga=ask for menu. 5323 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 5324 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 5325 5326 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 5327 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 5328 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 5329 All options are enabled by default, and this 5330 interface is meant to allow for selectively 5331 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 5332 debugging features. 5333 5334 Available options are: 5335 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 5336 - Disable all of the above options 5337 5338 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 5339 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 5340 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 5341 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 5342 mapped kernel RAM. 5343 5344 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 5345 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 5346 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 5347 5348 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 5349 Format: <command> 5350 5351 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 5352 Format: <command> 5353 5354 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 5355 Format: <command> 5356 5357 vsyscall= [X86-64] 5358 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 5359 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 5360 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 5361 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 5362 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 5363 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 5364 5365 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 5366 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 5367 page is readable. 5368 5369 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 5370 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 5371 page is not readable. 5372 5373 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 5374 them quite hard to use for exploits but 5375 might break your system. 5376 5377 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 5378 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 5379 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 5380 5381 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 5382 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 5383 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 5384 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 5385 5386 vt.default_blu= [VT] 5387 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 5388 Change the default blue palette of the console. 5389 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5390 ranging from 0-255. 5391 5392 vt.default_grn= [VT] 5393 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 5394 Change the default green palette of the console. 5395 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5396 ranging from 0-255. 5397 5398 vt.default_red= [VT] 5399 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 5400 Change the default red palette of the console. 5401 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5402 ranging from 0-255. 5403 5404 vt.default_utf8= 5405 [VT] 5406 Format=<0|1> 5407 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 5408 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 5409 newly opened terminals. 5410 5411 vt.global_cursor_default= 5412 [VT] 5413 Format=<-1|0|1> 5414 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 5415 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 5416 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 5417 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 5418 cursors, 1 will display them. 5419 5420 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 5421 Default: 2 = green. 5422 5423 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 5424 Default: 3 = cyan. 5425 5426 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 5427 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 5428 or other driver-specific files in the 5429 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 5430 5431 watchdog_thresh= 5432 [KNL] 5433 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 5434 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 5435 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 5436 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 5437 seconds. 5438 5439 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 5440 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 5441 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 5442 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 5443 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 5444 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 5445 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 5446 corresponding sysfs file. 5447 5448 workqueue.disable_numa 5449 By default, all work items queued to unbound 5450 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 5451 issued on, which results in better behavior in 5452 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 5453 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 5454 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 5455 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 5456 5457 workqueue.power_efficient 5458 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 5459 they show better performance thanks to cache 5460 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 5461 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 5462 5463 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 5464 were observed to contribute significantly to power 5465 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 5466 power usage at the cost of small performance 5467 overhead. 5468 5469 The default value of this parameter is determined by 5470 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 5471 5472 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 5473 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 5474 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 5475 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 5476 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 5477 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 5478 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 5479 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 5480 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 5481 impacted. 5482 5483 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 5484 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 5485 supporting x2apic. 5486 5487 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT] 5488 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform. 5489 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer 5490 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer. 5491 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt 5492 5493 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 5494 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 5495 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 5496 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 5497 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 5498 domains. 5499 5500 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 5501 Unplug Xen emulated devices 5502 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 5503 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 5504 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 5505 nics -- unplug network devices 5506 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 5507 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 5508 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 5509 the unplug protocol 5510 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 5511 5512 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 5513 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 5514 panic() code such as dumping handler. 5515 5516 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 5517 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV 5518 optimizations. 5519 5520 xen_nopv [X86] 5521 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 5522 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 5523 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 5524 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 5525 5526 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 5527 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 5528 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 5529 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 5530 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 5531 5532 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 5533 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 5534 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 5535 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 5536 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 5537 more timer interrupts. 5538 5539 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 5540 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 5541 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 5542 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 5543 5544 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 5545 Format: 5546 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 5547 5548 xive= [PPC] 5549 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 5550 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 5551 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 5552 5553 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 5554 controller on both pseries and powernv 5555 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 5556 5557 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 5558 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 5559 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 5560 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 5561 5562 xmon [PPC] 5563 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 5564 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 5565 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 5566 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 5567 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 5568 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 5569 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 5570 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 5571 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 5572 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 5573 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 5574 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 5575 can be written using xmon commands. 5576 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 5577 memory, and other data can't be written using 5578 xmon commands. 5579 off xmon is disabled. 5580