1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64] 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 4 copy_dsdt } 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64] 7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 14 are available 15 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 17 18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 19 Format: <int> 20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 21 1,0: use 1st APIC table 22 default: 0 23 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 25 { vendor | video | native | none } 26 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver 27 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 28 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 29 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. 31 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. 32 33 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 34 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 35 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 36 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 37 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 38 39 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 40 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 41 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 42 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 43 This option is useful for developers to identify the 44 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 45 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 46 47 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 48 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 49 Format: <int> 50 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 51 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 52 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 53 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS 54 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 55 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 56 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 57 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 58 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 59 debug layers and levels. 60 61 Enable processor driver info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list> 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_hwsig, 229 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs, 230 sci_force_enable, nobl } 231 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 232 s3_bios and s3_mode. 233 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 234 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 235 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware 236 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully 237 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with 238 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since 239 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it 240 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume 241 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the 242 s4_hwsig option is enabled. 243 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 244 used (or even warned about) during resume. 245 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 246 control method, with respect to putting devices into 247 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 248 of _PTS is used by default). 249 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 250 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 251 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 252 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 253 but some broken systems don't work without it). 254 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 255 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 256 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 257 258 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 259 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 260 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 261 262 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 263 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 264 265 agp= [AGP] 266 { off | try_unsupported } 267 off: disable AGP support 268 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 269 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 270 271 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 272 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 273 274 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 275 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 276 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 277 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 278 279 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 280 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 281 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 282 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 283 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 284 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 285 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 286 287 32: only for 32-bit processes 288 64: only for 64-bit processes 289 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 290 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 291 292 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 293 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 294 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 295 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 296 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 297 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 298 299 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64] 300 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the 301 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict 302 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this 303 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit 304 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0 305 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted. 306 307 See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more 308 information. 309 310 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 311 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 312 Possible values are: 313 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1 314 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 315 the system 316 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 317 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 318 allowed anymore to lift isolation 319 requirements as needed. This option 320 does not override iommu=pt 321 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known 322 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this 323 option with care. 324 pgtbl_v1 - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default). 325 pgtbl_v2 - Use v2 page table for DMA-API. 326 327 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 328 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 329 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 330 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 331 IOMMU initialization. 332 333 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 334 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 335 remapping modes: 336 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 337 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 338 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 339 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 340 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 341 342 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 343 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 344 Format: <a>,<b> 345 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 346 347 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 348 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 349 connected to one of 16 gameports 350 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 351 352 apc= [HW,SPARC] 353 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 354 Format: noidle 355 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 356 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 357 APC and your system crashes randomly. 358 359 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 360 Change the output verbosity while booting 361 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 362 Change the amount of debugging information output 363 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 364 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 365 driver name. 366 Format: apic=driver_name 367 Examples: apic=bigsmp 368 369 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 370 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 371 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 372 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 373 backup of CPU 0 374 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 375 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 376 shot down by NMI 377 378 autoconf= [IPV6] 379 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 380 381 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 382 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 383 384 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 385 Format: { "0" | "1" } 386 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 387 0 -- disable. 388 1 -- enable. 389 Default value is set via kernel config option. 390 391 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 392 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 393 394 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 395 Identification support 396 397 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 398 support 399 400 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 401 support 402 403 arm64.nosve [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector 404 Extension support 405 406 arm64.nosme [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix 407 Extension support 408 409 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 410 411 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 412 413 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 414 EzKey and similar keyboards 415 416 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 417 418 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 419 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 420 421 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 422 keyboards 423 424 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 425 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 426 427 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 428 Use software keyboard repeat 429 430 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 431 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 432 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 433 enabled until the next reboot 434 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 435 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 436 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 437 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 438 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 439 userspace auditd. 440 Default: unset 441 442 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 443 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 444 Default: 64 445 446 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 447 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 448 Format: { "0" | "1" } 449 0 - Disable the BAU. 450 1 - Enable the BAU. 451 unset - Disable the BAU. 452 453 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 454 Format: <io>,<mode> 455 456 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 457 Format: <io>,<mode> 458 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 459 460 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 461 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 462 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 463 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 464 465 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 466 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 467 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 468 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 469 470 bert_disable [ACPI] 471 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 472 473 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] 474 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 475 476 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 477 embedded devices based on command line input. 478 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 479 480 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 481 Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled, 482 and you may also have to specify "lpj=". Boot_delay 483 values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed 484 erroneous and ignored. 485 Format: integer 486 487 bootconfig [KNL] 488 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 489 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 490 491 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 492 493 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 494 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 495 kernel args too. 496 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 497 bttv.tuner= 498 499 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 500 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 501 at a time. 502 503 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 504 505 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 506 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 507 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 508 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 509 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 510 This option provides an override for these situations. 511 512 carrier_timeout= 513 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 514 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 515 it waits 120 seconds. 516 517 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 518 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 519 trust validation. 520 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 521 522 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 523 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 524 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 525 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 526 others). 527 528 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 529 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 530 531 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 532 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 533 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 534 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 535 a single hierarchy 536 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 537 subsystem 538 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 539 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 540 created 541 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 542 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 543 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 544 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 545 stall information accounting feature 546 547 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 548 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 549 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 550 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 551 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 552 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 553 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 554 all v1 hierarchies. 555 556 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 557 Format: <string> 558 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 559 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 560 nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting. 561 562 checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 563 Format: { "0" | "1" } 564 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 565 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 566 any implied execute protection). 567 1 -- check protection requested by application. 568 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 569 Value can be changed at runtime via 570 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 571 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 572 573 cio_ignore= [S390] 574 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 575 576 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] 577 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 578 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 579 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily 580 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific 581 ones should be. 582 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line 583 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above 584 instability issue. However, not all features have names 585 in /proc/cpuinfo. 586 Note that using this option will taint your kernel. 587 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 588 or using the feature without checking anything 589 will still see it. This just prevents it from 590 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 591 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 592 some critical bits. 593 594 clk_ignore_unused 595 [CLK] 596 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 597 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 598 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 599 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 600 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 601 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 602 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 603 platform with proper driver support. For more 604 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 605 606 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 607 [Deprecated] 608 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 609 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 610 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 611 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 612 613 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 614 Format: <string> 615 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 616 with the name specified. 617 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 618 the platform: 619 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 620 [ACPI] acpi_pm 621 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 622 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 623 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 624 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 625 [MIPS] MIPS 626 [PARISC] cr16 627 [S390] tod 628 [SH] SuperH 629 [SPARC64] tick 630 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 631 632 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 633 [ARM,ARM64] 634 Format: <bool> 635 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 636 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 637 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 638 systems. 639 640 clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL] 641 Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to 642 external delays before the clock will be marked 643 unstable. Defaults to two retries, that is, 644 three attempts to read the clock under test. 645 646 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 647 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 648 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 649 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 650 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 651 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 652 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 653 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 654 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 655 656 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 657 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 658 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 659 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 660 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 661 662 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 663 [KNL,CMA] 664 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 665 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 666 placement constraint by the physical address range of 667 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 668 altogether. For more information, see 669 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 670 671 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 672 [ARM64,KNL,CMA] 673 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 674 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 675 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 676 specified, the default value is 0. 677 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 678 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 679 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 680 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 681 682 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 683 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 684 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 685 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 686 a hypervisor. 687 Default: yes 688 689 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 690 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 691 allocations, by default set to 256K. 692 693 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 694 Format: 695 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 696 697 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 698 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 699 700 com90xx= [HW,NET] 701 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 702 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 703 704 condev= [HW,S390] console device 705 conmode= 706 707 con3215_drop= [S390] 3215 console drop mode. 708 Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0 709 When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when 710 the console buffer is full. In this case the 711 operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example 712 x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the 713 console output to advance and the kernel to continue. 714 This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270 715 terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal 716 emulator is used, this parameter has no effect. 717 718 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 719 720 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 721 722 ttyS<n>[,options] 723 ttyUSB0[,options] 724 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 725 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 726 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 727 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 728 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 729 730 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 731 information. See 732 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 733 alternative. 734 735 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 736 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 737 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 738 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 739 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 740 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 741 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 742 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 743 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 744 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 745 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 746 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 747 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 748 the h/w is not re-initialized. 749 750 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 751 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 752 753 { null | "" } 754 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 755 console messages discarded. 756 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 757 kernel command line. 758 759 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 760 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 761 console=brl,ttyS0 762 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 763 764 console_msg_format= 765 [KNL] Change console messages format 766 default 767 By default we print messages on consoles in 768 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 769 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 770 `printk_time' param). 771 syslog 772 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 773 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 774 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 775 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 776 from /proc/kmsg. 777 778 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 779 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 780 Defaults to 0. 781 782 coredump_filter= 783 [KNL] Change the default value for 784 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 785 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 786 787 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 788 [ARM,ARM64] 789 Format: <bool> 790 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 791 0: default value, disable debugging 792 1: enable debugging at boot time 793 794 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 795 Format: 796 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 797 798 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 799 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 800 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 801 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 802 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 803 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 804 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 805 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 806 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 807 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 808 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 809 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 810 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 811 812 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 813 disable the cpuidle sub-system 814 815 cpuidle.governor= 816 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 817 818 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 819 disable the cpufreq sub-system 820 821 cpufreq.default_governor= 822 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 823 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 824 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 825 826 cpu_init_udelay=N 827 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 828 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 829 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 830 Default: 10000 831 832 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 833 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 834 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 835 succeeds in any situation. 836 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 837 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 838 kernel more unstable. 839 840 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 841 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 842 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 843 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 844 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 845 is selected automatically. 846 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64] Select a region under 4G first, and 847 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 848 hasn't been specified. 849 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 850 851 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 852 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 853 in the running system. The syntax of range is 854 start-[end] where start and end are both 855 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 856 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 857 858 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 859 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 860 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 861 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 862 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 863 available. 864 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 865 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 866 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 867 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 868 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 869 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 870 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 871 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 872 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate 873 default size of memory below 4G automatically. The default 874 size is platform dependent. 875 --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB) 876 --> arm64: 128MiB 877 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G 878 for second kernel instead. 879 0: to disable low allocation. 880 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 881 or memory reserved is below 4G. 882 883 cryptomgr.notests 884 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 885 886 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 887 Format: <dma> 888 889 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 890 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 891 892 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call 893 handling. When switched on, additional debug data is 894 printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is 895 detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try 896 to resolve the hang situation. 897 0: disable csdlock debugging (default) 898 1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact) 899 ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact, 900 but more data) 901 902 dasd= [HW,NET] 903 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 904 905 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 906 (one device per port) 907 Format: <port#>,<type> 908 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 909 910 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 911 912 debug_boot_weak_hash 913 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 914 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 915 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 916 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 917 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 918 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 919 920 debug_locks_verbose= 921 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 922 Format: <int> 923 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 924 self-tests. 925 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 926 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 927 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 928 useful to lockdep developers. 929 930 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 931 932 no_debug_objects 933 [KNL] Disable object debugging 934 935 debug_guardpage_minorder= 936 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 937 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 938 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 939 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 940 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 941 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 942 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 943 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 944 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 945 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 946 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 947 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 948 F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA (basically when 949 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 950 bypassed) which are not detectable by 951 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 952 tracking down these problems. 953 954 debug_pagealloc= 955 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 956 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 957 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 958 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 959 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 960 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 961 on: enable the feature 962 963 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 964 and debugfs internal clients. 965 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 966 on: All functions are enabled. 967 no-mount: 968 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 969 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 970 its content. There is nothing to mount. 971 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 972 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 973 or directories within debugfs. 974 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 975 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 976 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 977 978 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 979 980 default_hugepagesz= 981 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 982 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 983 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 984 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 985 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 986 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 987 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 988 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 989 Format: size[KMG] 990 991 deferred_probe_timeout= 992 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 993 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 994 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 995 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout 996 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time 997 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each 998 successful driver registration. This option will also 999 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 1000 retrying. 1001 1002 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 1003 1004 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 1005 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1006 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1007 hardware. 1008 1009 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 1010 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 1011 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 1012 blacklisted features. 1013 1014 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 1015 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1016 (disabled by default). 1017 1018 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 1019 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1020 capability is set. 1021 1022 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 1023 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 1024 1025 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 1026 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 1027 1028 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 1029 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 1030 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 1031 level 1 and decompression (default) 1032 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 1033 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 1034 only (compression on level 1) 1035 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 1036 only (decompression) 1037 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 1038 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 1039 1040 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1041 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1042 1043 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 1044 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1045 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1046 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1047 miss to occur. 1048 1049 disable= [IPV6] 1050 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1051 1052 disable_radix [PPC] 1053 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1054 1055 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1056 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1057 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1058 1059 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 1060 Format: <int> 1061 The number of initial APIC ID for the 1062 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 1063 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 1064 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 1065 causing system reset or hang due to sending 1066 INIT from AP to BSP. 1067 1068 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 1069 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1070 to workaround buggy firmware. 1071 1072 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1073 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1074 1075 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1076 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1077 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1078 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1079 1080 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 1081 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1082 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1083 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1084 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1085 1086 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1087 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1088 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1089 1090 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1091 1092 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1093 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1094 1095 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1096 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1097 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1098 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1099 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1100 architectural default is too low. 1101 1102 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1103 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1104 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1105 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1106 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1107 driver later using sysfs. 1108 1109 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1110 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * 1111 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the 1112 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT 1113 match the *. 1114 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1115 1116 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1117 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1118 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1119 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1120 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1121 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 1122 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 1123 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 1124 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 1125 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 1126 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID 1127 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 1128 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 1129 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 1130 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1131 data set with no connector name will be used for 1132 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1133 1134 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1135 1136 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1137 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1138 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1139 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1140 exists). 1141 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1142 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1143 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1144 1145 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1146 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1147 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1148 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1149 1150 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1151 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1152 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1153 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1154 for details. 1155 1156 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1157 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1158 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1159 which are not unmapped. 1160 1161 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1162 1163 When used with no options, the early console is 1164 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1165 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1166 the platform. 1167 1168 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1169 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1170 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1171 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1172 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1173 configured. 1174 1175 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1176 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1177 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1178 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1179 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1180 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1181 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1182 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1183 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1184 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1185 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1186 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1187 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is 1188 the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set 1189 to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16. 1190 1191 pl011,<addr> 1192 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1193 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1194 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1195 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1196 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1197 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1198 the device registers. 1199 1200 liteuart,<addr> 1201 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1202 specified address. The serial port must already be 1203 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1204 1205 meson,<addr> 1206 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1207 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1208 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1209 supported. 1210 1211 msm_serial,<addr> 1212 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1213 port at the specified address. The serial port 1214 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1215 yet supported. 1216 1217 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1218 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1219 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1220 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1221 yet supported. 1222 1223 owl,<addr> 1224 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1225 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1226 specified address. The serial port must already be 1227 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1228 1229 rda,<addr> 1230 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1231 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1232 specified address. The serial port must already be 1233 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1234 1235 sbi 1236 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1237 console. 1238 1239 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1240 1241 s3c2410,<addr> 1242 s3c2412,<addr> 1243 s3c2440,<addr> 1244 s3c6400,<addr> 1245 s5pv210,<addr> 1246 exynos4210,<addr> 1247 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1248 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1249 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1250 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1251 Options are not yet supported. 1252 1253 lantiq,<addr> 1254 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1255 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1256 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1257 yet supported. 1258 1259 lpuart,<addr> 1260 lpuart32,<addr> 1261 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1262 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1263 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1264 port must already be setup and configured. 1265 1266 ec_imx21,<addr> 1267 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1268 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1269 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1270 must already be setup and configured. 1271 1272 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1273 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1274 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1275 address. The serial port must already be setup 1276 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1277 1278 qcom_geni,<addr> 1279 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1280 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1281 specified address. The serial port must already be 1282 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1283 1284 efifb,[options] 1285 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1286 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1287 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1288 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1289 mapped with the correct attributes. 1290 1291 linflex,<addr> 1292 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1293 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1294 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1295 already be setup and configured. 1296 1297 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1298 earlyprintk=vga 1299 earlyprintk=sclp 1300 earlyprintk=xen 1301 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1302 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1303 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1304 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1305 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1306 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1307 1308 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1309 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1310 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1311 1312 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1313 takes over. 1314 1315 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can 1316 be used at a time. 1317 1318 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1319 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1320 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1321 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1322 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1323 You can find the port for a given device in 1324 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1325 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1326 1327 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1328 very good. 1329 1330 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by 1331 the real console. 1332 1333 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1334 1335 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1336 1337 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1338 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1339 UART class. 1340 1341 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1342 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1343 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1344 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1345 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1346 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1347 default: on. 1348 1349 edd= [EDD] 1350 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1351 1352 efi= [EFI] 1353 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1354 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1355 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1356 debug: enable misc debug output. 1357 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1358 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1359 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1360 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1361 firmware implementations. 1362 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1363 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1364 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1365 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1366 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1367 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1368 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1369 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1370 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1371 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1372 1373 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1374 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1375 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1376 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1377 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1378 1379 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1380 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1381 updating original EFI memory map. 1382 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1383 from ss to ss+nn. 1384 1385 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1386 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1387 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1388 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1389 1390 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1391 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1392 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1393 1394 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1395 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1396 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1397 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1398 "soft reserved". 1399 1400 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1401 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1402 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1403 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1404 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1405 1406 1407 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1408 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1409 1410 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1411 Format: ekgdboc=kbd 1412 1413 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1414 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1415 1416 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1417 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1418 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1419 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1420 1421 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1422 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1423 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1424 1425 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1426 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1427 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1428 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1429 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1430 1431 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1432 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1433 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1434 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1435 1436 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1437 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1438 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1439 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1440 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1441 1442 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1443 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1444 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1445 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1446 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1447 Default value is 0. 1448 Value can be changed at runtime via 1449 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1450 1451 erst_disable [ACPI] 1452 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1453 support. 1454 1455 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1456 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1457 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1458 1459 evm= [EVM] 1460 Format: { "fix" } 1461 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1462 current integrity status. 1463 1464 early_page_ext [KNL] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier 1465 stages so cover more early boot allocations. 1466 Please note that as side effect some optimizations 1467 might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized 1468 memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process 1469 might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of 1470 memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y. 1471 1472 failslab= 1473 fail_usercopy= 1474 fail_page_alloc= 1475 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1476 General fault injection mechanism. 1477 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1478 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1479 1480 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1481 Format: { initns | none } 1482 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1483 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1484 1485 floppy= [HW] 1486 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1487 1488 force_pal_cache_flush 1489 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1490 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1491 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1492 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1493 1494 forcepae [X86-32] 1495 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1496 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1497 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1498 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1499 and may cause unknown problems. 1500 1501 ftrace=[tracer] 1502 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1503 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1504 boot debugging. 1505 1506 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1507 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1508 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1509 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1510 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1511 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1512 start up functionality. 1513 1514 Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing 1515 instance that was created by the trace_instance= command 1516 line parameter. 1517 1518 trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo 1519 1520 The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger 1521 a snapshot at the end of boot up. 1522 1523 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1524 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1525 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1526 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1527 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1528 oops. 1529 1530 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1531 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1532 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1533 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1534 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1535 tracing directory. 1536 1537 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1538 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1539 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1540 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1541 tracing directory. 1542 1543 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1544 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1545 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1546 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1547 that can be changed at run time by the 1548 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1549 1550 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1551 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1552 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1553 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1554 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1555 1556 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1557 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1558 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1559 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1560 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1561 1562 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1563 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1564 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1565 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1566 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1567 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1568 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1569 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1570 suppliers). 1571 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1572 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1573 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1574 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1575 up (sync_state() calls). 1576 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1577 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1578 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1579 1580 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1581 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1582 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1583 Format: <bool> 1584 1585 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1586 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1587 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1588 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1589 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1590 1591 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1592 1593 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1594 Format: off | on 1595 default: on 1596 1597 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1598 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1599 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1600 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1601 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1602 1603 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1604 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1605 android emulator 1606 1607 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1608 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1609 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1610 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1611 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1612 1613 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1614 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1615 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1616 GPT to be used instead. 1617 1618 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1619 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1620 Format: 0 | 1 1621 Default: 0 1622 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1623 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1624 Format: 0 | 1 1625 Default: 0 1626 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1627 Format: 0 | 1 1628 Default: 0 1629 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1630 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1631 Default: 1024 1632 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1633 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1634 Default: 1024 1635 1636 hardened_usercopy= 1637 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1638 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1639 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1640 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1641 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1642 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1643 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1644 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 1645 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1646 1647 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1648 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1649 backtraces on all cpus. 1650 Format: 0 | 1 1651 1652 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1653 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1654 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1655 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1656 1657 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1658 1659 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1660 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1661 1662 hest_disable [ACPI] 1663 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1664 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1665 logic will be disabled. 1666 1667 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 1668 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 1669 present during boot. 1670 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 1671 no Disable hibernation and resume. 1672 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 1673 (that will set all pages holding image data 1674 during restoration read-only). 1675 1676 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1677 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1678 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1679 size on bigger boxes. 1680 1681 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1682 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1683 Default: "on" 1684 1685 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1686 1687 hostname= [KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename). 1688 Format: <string> 1689 This allows setting the system's hostname during early 1690 startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname. 1691 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it 1692 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before 1693 any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility 1694 that a process may call gethostname before the hostname 1695 has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling 1696 process getting an incorrect result. The string must 1697 not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually 1698 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise. 1699 1700 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1701 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1702 verbose } 1703 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1704 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1705 VIA, nVidia) 1706 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1707 1708 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1709 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1710 1711 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1712 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1713 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1714 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1715 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1716 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1717 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1718 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1719 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1720 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1721 1722 hugepagesz= 1723 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1724 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1725 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1726 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1727 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1728 architecture dependent. See also 1729 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1730 Format: size[KMG] 1731 1732 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1733 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1734 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1735 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1736 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1737 1738 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1739 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1740 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1741 1742 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1743 [KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 1744 enabled. 1745 Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled. 1746 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1747 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1748 Format: { on | off (default) } 1749 1750 on: enable HVO 1751 off: disable HVO 1752 1753 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1754 the default is on. 1755 1756 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added 1757 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is 1758 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this 1759 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from 1760 the added memory block itself do not be affected. 1761 1762 hung_task_panic= 1763 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1764 Format: 0 | 1 1765 1766 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1767 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1768 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1769 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1770 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1771 1772 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1773 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1774 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1775 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1776 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1777 1778 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1779 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1780 guest on lock contention. 1781 1782 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1783 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1784 registered from board initialization code. 1785 Format: 1786 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1787 1788 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1789 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1790 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1791 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1792 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1793 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1794 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1795 keyboard and cannot control its state 1796 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1797 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1798 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1799 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1800 for the AUX port 1801 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1802 controller 1803 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1804 controllers 1805 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1806 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1807 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1808 transitions, or never reset 1809 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1810 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1811 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1812 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1813 architectures force reset to be always executed 1814 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1815 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1816 i8042.probe_defer 1817 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1818 1819 i810= [HW,DRM] 1820 1821 i915.invert_brightness= 1822 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1823 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1824 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1825 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1826 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1827 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1828 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1829 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1830 value switches the backlight off. 1831 -1 -- never invert brightness 1832 0 -- machine default 1833 1 -- force brightness inversion 1834 1835 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1836 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1837 1838 1839 idle= [X86] 1840 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1841 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1842 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1843 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1844 Not recommended. 1845 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1846 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1847 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1848 1849 idxd.sva= [HW] 1850 Format: <bool> 1851 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1852 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1853 true (1). 1854 1855 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 1856 Format: <bool> 1857 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 1858 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 1859 1860 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1861 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1862 Default: strict 1863 1864 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1865 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1866 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1867 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1868 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1869 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1870 encoding mode. 1871 1872 Available settings are as follows: 1873 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1874 supported by the FPU 1875 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1876 by the FPU 1877 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1878 by the FPU 1879 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1880 supported by the FPU 1881 1882 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1883 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1884 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1885 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1886 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1887 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1888 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1889 MIPS64 CPUs. 1890 1891 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1892 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1893 except where unsupported by hardware. 1894 1895 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1896 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1897 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1898 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1899 could change it dynamically, usually by 1900 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1901 1902 ignore_rlimit_data 1903 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1904 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1905 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1906 1907 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1908 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1909 1910 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1911 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1912 default: "enforce" 1913 1914 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1915 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1916 owned by uid=0. 1917 1918 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1919 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1920 measurements, instead of host native format. 1921 1922 ima_hash= [IMA] 1923 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1924 | sha512 | ... } 1925 default: "sha1" 1926 1927 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1928 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1929 1930 ima_policy= [IMA] 1931 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1932 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1933 fail_securely | critical_data" 1934 1935 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1936 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1937 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1938 uid=0. 1939 1940 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1941 all files owned by root. 1942 1943 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1944 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1945 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1946 1947 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1948 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1949 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1950 flag. 1951 1952 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 1953 critical data. 1954 1955 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1956 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1957 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1958 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1959 opened for read by uid=0. 1960 1961 ima_template= [IMA] 1962 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1963 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 1964 "ima-sigv2" } 1965 Default: "ima-ng" 1966 1967 ima_template_fmt= 1968 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1969 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1970 1971 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1972 Format: <min_file_size> 1973 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1974 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1975 1976 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1977 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1978 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1979 1980 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1981 Format: <bufsize> 1982 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1983 1984 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1985 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1986 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1987 1988 init= [KNL] 1989 Format: <full_path> 1990 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1991 process. 1992 1993 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1994 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1995 startup. 1996 1997 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1998 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1999 modules and initcalls. 2000 2001 initramfs_async= [KNL] 2002 Format: <bool> 2003 Default: 1 2004 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 2005 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 2006 with devices being probed and 2007 initialized. This should normally just work, 2008 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 2009 historical behaviour of the initramfs 2010 unpacking being completed before device_ and 2011 late_ initcalls. 2012 2013 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 2014 2015 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 2016 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 2017 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 2018 setting. 2019 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 2020 Default is 0, 0 2021 2022 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 2023 zeroes. 2024 Format: 0 | 1 2025 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 2026 2027 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2028 Format: 0 | 1 2029 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2030 2031 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2032 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2033 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2034 override in debugfs after boot. 2035 2036 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2037 Format: <irq> 2038 2039 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2040 2041 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2042 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2043 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2044 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2045 2046 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2047 on 2048 Enable intel iommu driver. 2049 off 2050 Disable intel iommu driver. 2051 igfx_off [Default Off] 2052 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2053 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2054 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2055 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2056 DMA. 2057 strict [Default Off] 2058 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2059 sp_off [Default Off] 2060 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2061 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2062 not be supported. 2063 sm_on 2064 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2065 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2066 translation. 2067 sm_off 2068 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2069 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2070 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2071 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2072 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2073 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2074 mapping is enabled. 2075 Note that using this option lowers the security 2076 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2077 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2078 2079 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2080 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2081 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2082 2083 intel_pstate= [X86] 2084 disable 2085 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2086 scaling driver for the supported processors 2087 passive 2088 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2089 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2090 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2091 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2092 feature. 2093 force 2094 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2095 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2096 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2097 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2098 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2099 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2100 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2101 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2102 no_hwp 2103 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2104 if available. 2105 hwp_only 2106 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2107 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2108 support_acpi_ppc 2109 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2110 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2111 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2112 then this feature is turned on by default. 2113 per_cpu_perf_limits 2114 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2115 cpufreq sysfs interface 2116 2117 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 2118 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2119 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2120 nosid disable Source ID checking 2121 no_x2apic_optout 2122 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2123 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2124 2125 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2126 strict regions from userspace. 2127 relaxed 2128 2129 iommu= [X86] 2130 off 2131 force 2132 noforce 2133 biomerge 2134 panic 2135 nopanic 2136 merge 2137 nomerge 2138 soft 2139 pt [X86] 2140 nopt [X86] 2141 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2142 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2143 2144 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2145 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2146 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2147 falling back to the full range if needed. 2148 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2149 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2150 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2151 2152 iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2153 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2154 0 - Lazy mode. 2155 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2156 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2157 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2158 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2159 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2160 1 - Strict mode. 2161 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2162 synchronously. 2163 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2164 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2165 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2166 2167 iommu.passthrough= 2168 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2169 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2170 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2171 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2172 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2173 2174 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2175 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2176 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2177 2178 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 2179 0x80 2180 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2181 0xed 2182 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2183 udelay 2184 Simple two microseconds delay 2185 none 2186 No delay 2187 2188 ip= [IP_PNP] 2189 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2190 2191 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2192 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2193 2194 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2195 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2196 2197 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2198 [ARM, ARM64] 2199 Format: <bool> 2200 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2201 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2202 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2203 2204 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2205 [ARM, ARM64] 2206 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2207 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2208 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2209 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2210 LPIs. 2211 2212 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2213 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2214 requires the kernel to be built with 2215 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2216 2217 irqfixup [HW] 2218 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2219 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2220 firmware running. 2221 2222 irqpoll [HW] 2223 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2224 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2225 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2226 firmware running. 2227 2228 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2229 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2230 2231 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2232 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2233 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2234 2235 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2236 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2237 2238 nohz 2239 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2240 2241 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2242 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2243 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2244 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2245 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2246 2247 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2248 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2249 be configured manually after bootup. 2250 2251 domain 2252 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2253 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2254 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2255 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2256 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2257 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2258 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2259 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2260 2261 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2262 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2263 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2264 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2265 2266 managed_irq 2267 2268 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2269 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2270 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2271 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2272 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2273 2274 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2275 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2276 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2277 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2278 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2279 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2280 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2281 2282 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2283 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2284 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2285 only delivered when tasks running on those 2286 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2287 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2288 queues. 2289 2290 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2291 2292 iucv= [HW,NET] 2293 2294 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2295 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2296 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2297 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2298 2299 For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2300 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2301 write the parameter as: 2302 ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0 2303 2304 Deprecated formats: 2305 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2306 write the parameter as: 2307 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2308 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2309 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2310 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2311 2312 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2313 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2314 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2315 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2316 2317 For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to 2318 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2319 write the parameter as: 2320 ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0 2321 2322 Deprecated formats: 2323 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2324 write the parameter as: 2325 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2326 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2327 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2328 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2329 2330 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2331 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2332 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2333 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2334 2335 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2336 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2337 write the parameter as: 2338 ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5 2339 2340 Deprecated formats: 2341 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0, 2342 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2343 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2344 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2345 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2346 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2347 2348 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2349 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2350 2351 kasan_multi_shot 2352 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2353 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2354 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2355 invalid access. 2356 2357 keep_bootcon [KNL] 2358 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 2359 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 2360 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 2361 the real console. 2362 2363 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2364 2365 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2366 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2367 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2368 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2369 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2370 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2371 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2372 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2373 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2374 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2375 2376 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2377 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2378 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2379 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2380 zone if it does not. 2381 2382 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2383 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2384 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2385 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2386 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2387 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2388 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2389 2390 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2391 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2392 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2393 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2394 optional and is the number seconds in between 2395 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2396 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2397 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2398 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2399 the kernel debugger. 2400 2401 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2402 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2403 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2404 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2405 keyboard only format: kbd 2406 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2407 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2408 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2409 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2410 2411 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2412 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2413 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2414 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2415 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2416 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2417 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2418 2419 The name of the early console should be specified 2420 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2421 the early console might be different than the tty 2422 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2423 blank and the first boot console that implements 2424 read() will be picked. 2425 2426 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2427 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2428 2429 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2430 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2431 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2432 2433 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2434 Valid arguments: on, off 2435 Default: on 2436 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2437 the default is off. 2438 2439 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2440 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2441 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2442 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2443 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2444 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2445 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2446 2447 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2448 2449 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2450 Boot Parameter" section. 2451 2452 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2453 and kernel address spaces. 2454 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2455 0: force disabled 2456 1: force enabled 2457 2458 kunit.enable= [KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires 2459 CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The 2460 default value can be overridden via 2461 KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED. 2462 Default is 1 (enabled) 2463 2464 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2465 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2466 2467 kvm.eager_page_split= 2468 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2469 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2470 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2471 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2472 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2473 required to split huge pages lazily. 2474 2475 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2476 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2477 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2478 still be used for reads. 2479 2480 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2481 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2482 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2483 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2484 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2485 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2486 cleared. 2487 2488 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y. 2489 2490 Default is Y (on). 2491 2492 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2493 Default is false (don't support). 2494 2495 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2496 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2497 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2498 force : Always deploy workaround. 2499 off : Never deploy workaround. 2500 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2501 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2502 2503 Default is 'auto'. 2504 2505 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2506 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2507 2508 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2509 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2510 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2511 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2512 period (see below). The default is 60. 2513 2514 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2515 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2516 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2517 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2518 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2519 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2520 2521 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2522 Default is 1 (enabled) 2523 2524 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2525 for all guests. 2526 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2527 2528 kvm-arm.mode= 2529 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2530 2531 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2532 2533 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2534 protected guests. 2535 2536 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2537 state is kept private from the host. 2538 2539 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2540 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2541 for the host. 2542 2543 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2544 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2545 system registers 2546 2547 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2548 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2549 system registers 2550 2551 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2552 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2553 system registers 2554 2555 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2556 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2557 LPIs. 2558 2559 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2560 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2561 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2562 allocation. 2563 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2564 Format: <integer> 2565 Default: 5 2566 2567 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2568 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2569 Default is 1 (enabled) 2570 2571 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2572 [KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state. 2573 Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as 2574 guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests. 2575 This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM 2576 never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2577 Default is 1 (enabled) 2578 2579 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2580 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2581 Default is 1 (enabled) 2582 2583 kvm-intel.nested= 2584 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2585 Default is 0 (disabled) 2586 2587 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2588 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2589 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2590 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2591 2592 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2593 CVE-2018-3620. 2594 2595 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2596 2597 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2598 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2599 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2600 never: Disables the mitigation 2601 2602 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2603 2604 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2605 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2606 Default is 1 (enabled) 2607 2608 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL] 2609 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2610 2611 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2612 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2613 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2614 2615 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2616 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2617 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2618 not have direct access. 2619 2620 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2621 options are: 2622 2623 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2624 2625 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2626 affected CPUs 2627 2628 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2629 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2630 2631 full 2632 Provides all available mitigations for the 2633 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2634 enables all mitigations in the 2635 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2636 2637 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2638 sysfs interface is still possible after 2639 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2640 when the first VM is started in a 2641 potentially insecure configuration, 2642 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2643 2644 full,force 2645 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2646 flush runtime control. Implies the 2647 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2648 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2649 2650 flush 2651 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2652 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2653 L1D flush. 2654 2655 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2656 sysfs interface is still possible after 2657 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2658 when the first VM is started in a 2659 potentially insecure configuration, 2660 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2661 2662 flush,nosmt 2663 2664 Disables SMT and enables the default 2665 hypervisor mitigation. 2666 2667 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2668 sysfs interface is still possible after 2669 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2670 when the first VM is started in a 2671 potentially insecure configuration, 2672 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2673 2674 flush,nowarn 2675 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2676 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2677 insecure configuration. 2678 2679 off 2680 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2681 emit any warnings. 2682 It also drops the swap size and available 2683 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2684 bare metal. 2685 2686 Default is 'flush'. 2687 2688 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2689 2690 l2cr= [PPC] 2691 2692 l3cr= [PPC] 2693 2694 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2695 disabled it. 2696 2697 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2698 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2699 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2700 Format: notscdeadline 2701 2702 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2703 in C2 power state. 2704 2705 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2706 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2707 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2708 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2709 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2710 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2711 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2712 2713 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2714 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2715 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2716 2717 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2718 when set. 2719 Format: <int> 2720 2721 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 2722 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 2723 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 2724 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 2725 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 2726 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 2727 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 2728 to all ports, links and devices. 2729 2730 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2731 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2732 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2733 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2734 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2735 host link and device attached to it. 2736 2737 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2738 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 2739 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2740 The following configurations can be forced. 2741 2742 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2743 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2744 2745 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2746 2747 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2748 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2749 allowed. 2750 2751 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 2752 resets. 2753 2754 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 2755 link recovery. 2756 2757 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 2758 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 2759 detection. 2760 2761 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2762 2763 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 2764 2765 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 2766 2767 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 2768 2769 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 2770 2771 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 2772 2773 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 2774 2775 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 2776 2777 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 2778 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 2779 2780 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 2781 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 2782 2783 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 2784 identify device data log. 2785 2786 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 2787 purpose log directory. 2788 2789 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 2790 2791 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2792 1024 sectors. 2793 2794 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 2795 65535 sectors. 2796 2797 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 2798 2799 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 2800 should be skipped. 2801 2802 * [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access) 2803 support for devices supporting this feature. 2804 2805 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 2806 2807 * disable: Disable this device. 2808 2809 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2810 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2811 2812 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2813 2814 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2815 Format: <integer> 2816 2817 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2818 Format: <integer> 2819 2820 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2821 Format: <integer> 2822 2823 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2824 Format: <integer> 2825 2826 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2827 { integrity | confidentiality } 2828 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2829 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2830 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2831 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2832 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2833 are also disabled. 2834 2835 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2836 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2837 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2838 number of online CPUs. 2839 2840 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2841 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2842 2843 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2844 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2845 2846 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2847 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2848 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2849 2850 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2851 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2852 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2853 mode during the locktorture test. 2854 2855 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2856 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2857 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2858 2859 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2860 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2861 2862 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2863 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2864 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2865 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2866 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2867 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2868 2869 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2870 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2871 2872 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2873 Enable additional printk() statements. 2874 2875 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2876 Format: <irq> 2877 2878 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2879 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2880 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2881 loglevels are defined as follows: 2882 2883 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2884 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2885 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2886 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2887 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2888 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2889 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2890 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2891 2892 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2893 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2894 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2895 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2896 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2897 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2898 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2899 2900 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2901 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2902 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2903 kernel boot problems. 2904 2905 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2906 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2907 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2908 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2909 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2910 attached printers to be reset. Using 2911 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2912 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2913 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2914 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2915 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2916 port specification list means that device IDs 2917 from each port should be examined, to see if 2918 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2919 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2920 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2921 2922 lpj=n [KNL] 2923 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2924 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2925 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2926 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2927 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2928 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2929 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2930 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2931 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2932 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2933 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2934 hardware. 2935 2936 ltpc= [NET] 2937 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2938 2939 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2940 2941 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2942 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2943 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2944 2945 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2946 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2947 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2948 2949 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 2950 different yeeloong laptops. 2951 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2952 2953 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater 2954 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2955 2956 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2957 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2958 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2959 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2960 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2961 only takes effect during system bootup. 2962 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2963 which also disables the IO APIC. 2964 2965 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2966 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2967 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2968 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2969 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2970 /dev/loop-control interface. 2971 2972 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2973 2974 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2975 2976 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2977 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2978 2979 mdacon= [MDA] 2980 Format: <first>,<last> 2981 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2982 2983 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2984 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2985 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2986 2987 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2988 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2989 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2990 2991 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2992 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2993 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2994 not have direct access. 2995 2996 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2997 options are: 2998 2999 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3000 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 3001 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 3002 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 3003 3004 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 3005 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 3006 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 3007 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 3008 too. 3009 3010 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3011 mds=full. 3012 3013 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 3014 3015 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON] Set the memory size. 3016 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 3017 3018 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 3019 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 3020 3021 1 for test; 3022 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 3023 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 3024 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 3025 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 3026 3027 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 3028 high memory is not affected. 3029 3030 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 3031 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 3032 3033 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 3034 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 3035 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 3036 belonging to unused RAM. 3037 3038 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 3039 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 3040 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 3041 3042 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3043 [ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by 3044 firmware. 3045 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 3046 ss[KMG]. 3047 Multiple different regions can be specified with 3048 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 3049 3050 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 3051 memory. 3052 3053 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 3054 3055 memchunk=nn[KMG] 3056 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 3057 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 3058 3059 memhp_default_state=online/offline 3060 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 3061 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 3062 set according to the 3063 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 3064 option. 3065 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 3066 3067 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 3068 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3069 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3070 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3071 option description. 3072 3073 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3074 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3075 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3076 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3077 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3078 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3079 comma delimited. 3080 Example: 3081 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3082 3083 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3084 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3085 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3086 3087 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3088 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3089 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3090 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3091 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3092 or 3093 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3094 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3095 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3096 will be eaten. 3097 3098 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 3099 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3100 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3101 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3102 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3103 3104 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3105 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 3106 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3107 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3108 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3109 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3110 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3111 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3112 3113 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 3114 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3115 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3116 Setting this option will scan the memory 3117 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3118 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3119 from using the memory being corrupted. 3120 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3121 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3122 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3123 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3124 3125 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 3126 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3127 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3128 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3129 corruption in more or less memory. 3130 3131 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 3132 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3133 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3134 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3135 3136 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3137 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3138 Format: {on | off (default)} 3139 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3140 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages, 3141 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even 3142 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the 3143 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a 3144 lot of memory without requiring additional 3145 memory to do so. 3146 This feature is disabled by default because it 3147 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3148 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3149 memory blocks). 3150 The state of the flag can be read in 3151 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3152 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3153 the feature is not effective. 3154 3155 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest 3156 Format: <integer> 3157 default : 0 <disable> 3158 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3159 performed. Each pass selects another test 3160 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3161 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3162 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3163 regions that are detected. 3164 3165 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3166 Valid arguments: on, off 3167 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 3168 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 3169 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 3170 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3171 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3172 3173 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3174 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3175 3176 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3177 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3178 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3179 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3180 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3181 3182 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 3183 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst. 3184 3185 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 3186 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 3187 platforms. 3188 3189 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3190 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3191 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3192 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3193 3194 mga= [HW,DRM] 3195 3196 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this 3197 physical address is ignored. 3198 3199 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3200 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3201 Default: "0tb" 3202 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3203 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3204 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3205 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3206 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3207 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3208 unconfigured. 3209 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3210 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3211 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3212 VGA shield. 3213 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3214 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3215 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3216 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3217 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3218 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3219 3220 mitigations= 3221 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 3222 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3223 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3224 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3225 3226 off 3227 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3228 improves system performance, but it may also 3229 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3230 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 3231 if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] 3232 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3233 nobp=0 [S390] 3234 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3235 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3236 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3237 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3238 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] 3239 l1tf=off [X86] 3240 mds=off [X86] 3241 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3242 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3243 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3244 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3245 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3246 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 3247 retbleed=off [X86] 3248 3249 Exceptions: 3250 This does not have any effect on 3251 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3252 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3253 3254 auto (default) 3255 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3256 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3257 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3258 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3259 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3260 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3261 3262 auto,nosmt 3263 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3264 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3265 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3266 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3267 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3268 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3269 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 3270 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] 3271 3272 mminit_loglevel= 3273 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3274 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3275 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3276 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3277 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3278 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3279 3280 mmio_stale_data= 3281 [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor 3282 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3283 3284 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3285 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3286 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3287 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3288 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3289 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3290 3291 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3292 options are: 3293 3294 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3295 3296 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3297 vulnerable CPUs. 3298 3299 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3300 3301 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3302 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3303 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3304 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3305 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3306 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3307 3308 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3309 mmio_stale_data=full. 3310 3311 For details see: 3312 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3313 3314 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL] 3315 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value 3316 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous 3317 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable 3318 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the 3319 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe 3320 3321 module.async_probe=<bool> 3322 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing 3323 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a 3324 specific module, use the module specific control that 3325 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both 3326 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are 3327 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for 3328 the specific module. 3329 3330 module.sig_enforce 3331 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3332 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3333 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3334 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3335 3336 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3337 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3338 3339 mousedev.tap_time= 3340 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3341 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3342 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3343 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3344 Format: <msecs> 3345 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3346 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3347 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3348 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3349 3350 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 3351 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3352 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3353 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3354 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3355 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3356 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3357 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3358 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3359 is not too small. 3360 3361 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3362 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3363 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3364 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3365 allocations. Use with caution! 3366 3367 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3368 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3369 3370 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3371 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3372 3373 mtdparts= [MTD] 3374 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3375 3376 mtdset= [ARM] 3377 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 3378 3379 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 3380 3381 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3382 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3383 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3384 3385 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3386 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3387 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3388 3389 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3390 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3391 Default is 1. 3392 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3393 using up MTRRs. 3394 3395 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 3396 Format: <integer> 3397 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3398 Default : 1 3399 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3400 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3401 3402 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3403 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3404 at a time. 3405 3406 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3407 3408 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3409 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3410 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3411 something different and driver-specific. 3412 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3413 file if at all. 3414 3415 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3416 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3417 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3418 waits 4 seconds. 3419 3420 nf_conntrack.acct= 3421 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3422 0 to disable accounting 3423 1 to enable accounting 3424 Default value is 0. 3425 3426 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3427 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3428 3429 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3430 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3431 3432 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3433 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3434 3435 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3436 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3437 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3438 requests. 3439 3440 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3441 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3442 channel should listen. 3443 3444 nfs.cache_getent= 3445 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3446 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3447 3448 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3449 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3450 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3451 3452 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3453 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3454 entries. 3455 3456 nfs.enable_ino64= 3457 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3458 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3459 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3460 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3461 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3462 3463 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3464 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3465 slots the client will assign to the callback 3466 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3467 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3468 a particular server. 3469 3470 nfs.max_session_slots= 3471 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3472 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3473 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3474 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3475 Note that there is little point in setting this 3476 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3477 3478 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3479 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3480 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3481 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3482 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3483 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3484 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3485 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3486 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3487 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3488 back to using the idmapper. 3489 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3490 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3491 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3492 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3493 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3494 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3495 3496 nfs.send_implementation_id = 3497 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3498 information in exchange_id requests. 3499 If zero, no implementation identification information 3500 will be sent. 3501 The default is to send the implementation identification 3502 information. 3503 3504 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 3505 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3506 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3507 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3508 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3509 after the locks are lost. 3510 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3511 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3512 parameter to '1'. 3513 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3514 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3515 3516 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 3517 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3518 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3519 3520 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3521 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3522 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3523 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3524 3525 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable = 3526 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3527 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3528 the destination of the copy. 3529 3530 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout = 3531 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3532 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3533 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3534 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3535 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3536 this parameter. 3537 3538 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3539 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3540 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3541 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3542 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3543 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3544 3545 3546 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3547 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3548 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3549 3550 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3551 when a NMI is triggered. 3552 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3553 3554 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3555 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3556 Valid num: 0 or 1 3557 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3558 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3559 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3560 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3561 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3562 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3563 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3564 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3565 need the box quickly up again. 3566 3567 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3568 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3569 3570 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3571 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3572 is present. 3573 3574 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3575 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3576 3577 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3578 3579 no_console_suspend 3580 [HW] Never suspend the console 3581 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3582 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3583 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3584 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3585 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3586 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3587 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3588 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3589 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3590 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3591 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3592 turn on/off it dynamically. 3593 3594 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3595 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3596 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3597 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3598 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3599 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3600 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3601 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3602 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3603 is set. 3604 3605 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3606 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3607 but will impact performance. 3608 3609 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3610 3611 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3612 (CPU alternatives feature). 3613 3614 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3615 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3616 3617 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3618 3619 nocache [ARM] 3620 3621 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3622 3623 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3624 3625 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3626 3627 noexec [IA-64] 3628 3629 nosmap [PPC] 3630 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3631 even if it is supported by processor. 3632 3633 nosmep [PPC64s] 3634 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3635 even if it is supported by processor. 3636 3637 noexec32 [X86-64] 3638 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3639 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3640 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3641 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3642 read implies executable mappings 3643 3644 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3645 3646 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3647 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3648 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3649 3650 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3651 3652 nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3653 3654 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3655 Equivalent to smt=1. 3656 3657 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3658 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3659 via the sysfs control file. 3660 3661 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3662 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3663 possible in the system. 3664 3665 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_E500,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3666 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3667 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3668 option. 3669 3670 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch 3671 history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks 3672 with this option. 3673 3674 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3675 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3676 3677 no_uaccess_flush 3678 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 3679 3680 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3681 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3682 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3683 3684 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3685 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3686 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3687 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3688 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3689 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3690 3691 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3692 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3693 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3694 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3695 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3696 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3697 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3698 3699 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait 3700 in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3701 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3702 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3703 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3704 correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate 3705 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3706 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3707 3708 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3709 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3710 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3711 3712 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3713 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3714 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3715 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3716 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3717 real-time systems. 3718 3719 no_hash_pointers 3720 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3721 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3722 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3723 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3724 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3725 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3726 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3727 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3728 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3729 value printed. This option should only be specified when 3730 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3731 kernels. 3732 3733 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3734 3735 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3736 Valid arguments: on, off 3737 Default: on 3738 3739 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3740 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3741 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3742 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3743 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3744 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3745 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3746 just as if they had also been called out in the 3747 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3748 3749 Note that this argument takes precedence over 3750 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 3751 3752 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3753 3754 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3755 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3756 3757 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3758 broken timer IRQ sources. 3759 3760 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3761 3762 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3763 initial RAM disk. 3764 3765 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3766 remapping. 3767 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3768 3769 nointroute [IA-64] 3770 3771 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3772 3773 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3774 3775 nokaslr [KNL] 3776 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 3777 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 3778 Layout Randomization). 3779 3780 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3781 3782 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3783 fault handling. 3784 3785 no-vmw-sched-clock 3786 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3787 clock and use the default one. 3788 3789 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES] Disable paravirtualized 3790 steal time accounting. steal time is computed, but 3791 won't influence scheduler behaviour 3792 3793 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3794 3795 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3796 3797 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3798 3799 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3800 3801 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3802 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3803 3804 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3805 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3806 irq. 3807 3808 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware 3809 sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory 3810 for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will 3811 not load if they could possibly displace the pre- 3812 initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will 3813 be available for use. The respective drivers will not 3814 perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. 3815 3816 Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging. 3817 3818 nomodule Disable module load 3819 3820 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3821 pagetables) support. 3822 3823 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3824 3825 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 3826 in some Intel CPUs. 3827 3828 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 3829 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 3830 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 3831 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 3832 3833 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 3834 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 3835 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 3836 contention. 3837 3838 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3839 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3840 3841 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3842 with UP alternatives 3843 3844 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3845 space. 3846 3847 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3848 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3849 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3850 3851 nosbagart [IA-64] 3852 3853 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 3854 3855 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3856 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3857 3858 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3859 3860 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3861 3862 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3863 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3864 3865 nowb [ARM] 3866 3867 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3868 3869 NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the 3870 LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the 3871 IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR. 3872 3873 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3874 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3875 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3876 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3877 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3878 parameter's value. 3879 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3880 Default: 255 3881 3882 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3883 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3884 SAL PALO. 3885 3886 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3887 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3888 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3889 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3890 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3891 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3892 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3893 hot plugging. 3894 3895 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3896 3897 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only 3898 set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. 3899 3900 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 3901 NUMA balancing. 3902 Allowed values are enable and disable 3903 3904 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3905 'node', 'default' can be specified 3906 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3907 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3908 3909 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3910 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 3911 info. 3912 3913 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3914 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3915 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3916 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3917 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3918 interrupts *may* be lost! 3919 3920 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3921 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3922 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3923 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3924 3925 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 3926 3927 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 3928 3929 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 3930 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 3931 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 3932 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 3933 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 3934 3935 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3936 process, but there is a small probability of 3937 deadlocking the machine. 3938 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3939 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3940 3941 page_alloc.shuffle= 3942 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3943 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3944 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3945 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3946 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3947 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3948 can be read from sysfs at: 3949 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3950 3951 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3952 Storage of the information about who allocated 3953 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3954 we can turn it on. 3955 on: enable the feature 3956 3957 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3958 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3959 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3960 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3961 on: turn on poisoning 3962 3963 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 3964 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 3965 Format: <integer> 3966 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 3967 reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1). 3968 3969 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3970 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3971 timeout = 0: wait forever 3972 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3973 Format: <timeout> 3974 3975 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3976 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3977 bit 0: print all tasks info 3978 bit 1: print system memory info 3979 bit 2: print timer info 3980 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3981 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3982 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3983 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 3984 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 3985 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 3986 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 3987 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 3988 3989 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 3990 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 3991 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 3992 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 3993 called with any of the flags in this set. 3994 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 3995 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 3996 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 3997 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 3998 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 3999 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 4000 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 4001 4002 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 4003 on a WARN(). 4004 4005 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 4006 connected to, default is 0. 4007 Format: <parport#> 4008 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 4009 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 4010 Format: <mode> 4011 4012 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 4013 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 4014 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 4015 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 4016 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 4017 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 4018 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 4019 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 4020 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 4021 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 4022 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 4023 are specified on the command line, starting 4024 with parport0. 4025 4026 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 4027 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 4028 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 4029 computer where firmware has no options for setting 4030 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 4031 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 4032 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 4033 4034 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 4035 Format: <int> 4036 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 4037 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 4038 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 4039 4040 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 4041 Format: <int> 4042 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 4043 changes. Disabled by default. 4044 4045 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 4046 Format: <int> 4047 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 4048 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4049 Disabled by default. 4050 4051 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 4052 Format: <int> 4053 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 4054 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4055 Disabled by default. 4056 4057 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4058 Format: <int> 4059 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 4060 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 4061 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 4062 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 4063 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 4064 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 4065 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 4066 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 4067 all channels. 4068 4069 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 4070 Format: <int> 4071 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 4072 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4073 respectively. Disabled by default. 4074 4075 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 4076 Format: <int> 4077 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 4078 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4079 respectively. Disabled by default. 4080 4081 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4082 Format: <int> 4083 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 4084 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 4085 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 4086 All modes allowed by default. 4087 4088 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 4089 Format: <int> 4090 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4091 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4092 4093 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4094 Format: <int> 4095 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4096 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4097 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4098 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4099 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4100 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4101 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4102 By default all supported ports are probed. 4103 4104 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4105 Format: <int> 4106 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4107 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4108 4109 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4110 Format: <int> 4111 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4112 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4113 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4114 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4115 0 otherwise. 4116 4117 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4118 Format: <int> 4119 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4120 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4121 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4122 allowed by default. 4123 4124 pause_on_oops= 4125 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4126 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4127 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4128 4129 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4130 4131 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 4132 4133 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4134 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4135 specified in one of the following formats: 4136 4137 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4138 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4139 4140 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4141 bus/device/function address which may change 4142 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4143 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4144 by other kernel parameters. If the 4145 domain is left unspecified, it is 4146 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4147 to a device through multiple device/function 4148 addresses can be specified after the base 4149 address (this is more robust against 4150 renumbering issues). The second format 4151 selects devices using IDs from the 4152 configuration space which may match multiple 4153 devices in the system. 4154 4155 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4156 changes anything 4157 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4158 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4159 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4160 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4161 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4162 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4163 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4164 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4165 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4166 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4167 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4168 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4169 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4170 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4171 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4172 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4173 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4174 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4175 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4176 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4177 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4178 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4179 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4180 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4181 Configuration 4182 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4183 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4184 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4185 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4186 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4187 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4188 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4189 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4190 should never be necessary. 4191 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4192 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4193 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4194 when the system masks IRQs. 4195 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4196 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4197 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4198 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4199 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4200 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4201 on several machines and they hang the machine 4202 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4203 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4204 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4205 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4206 motherboard. 4207 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4208 Use with caution as certain devices share 4209 address decoders between ROMs and other 4210 resources. 4211 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4212 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4213 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4214 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4215 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4216 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4217 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4218 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4219 this way. 4220 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4221 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4222 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4223 F0000h-100000h range. 4224 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4225 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4226 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4227 explicitly which ones they are. 4228 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4229 numbers ourselves, overriding 4230 whatever the firmware may have done. 4231 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4232 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4233 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4234 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4235 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4236 IRQ routing is enabled. 4237 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4238 or for PCI scanning. 4239 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4240 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4241 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4242 please report a bug. 4243 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4244 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4245 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4246 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4247 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4248 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4249 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4250 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4251 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4252 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4253 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4254 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4255 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4256 so this option is a temporary workaround 4257 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4258 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4259 handle more pci cards 4260 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4261 This might help on some broken boards which 4262 machine check when some devices' config space 4263 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4264 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4265 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4266 This sorting is done to get a device 4267 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4268 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4269 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4270 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4271 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4272 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4273 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4274 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4275 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4276 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4277 or bus can support) for best performance. 4278 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4279 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4280 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4281 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4282 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4283 that hot-added devices will work. 4284 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4285 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4286 The default value is 256 bytes. 4287 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4288 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4289 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4290 resource_alignment= 4291 Format: 4292 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4293 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4294 aligned memory resources. How to 4295 specify the device is described above. 4296 If <order of align> is not specified, 4297 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4298 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4299 windows need to be expanded. 4300 To specify the alignment for several 4301 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4302 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4303 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4304 for 4096-byte alignment. 4305 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4306 end-to-end CRC checking). 4307 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4308 the default. 4309 off: Turn ECRC off 4310 on: Turn ECRC on. 4311 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4312 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4313 Default size is 256 bytes. 4314 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4315 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4316 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4317 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4318 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4319 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4320 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4321 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4322 MMIO_PREF window. 4323 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4324 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4325 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4326 Default is 1. 4327 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4328 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4329 accommodate resources required by all child 4330 devices. 4331 off: Turn realloc off 4332 on: Turn realloc on 4333 realloc same as realloc=on 4334 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4335 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4336 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4337 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4338 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4339 port. 4340 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4341 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4342 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4343 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4344 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4345 taints the kernel. 4346 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4347 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4348 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4349 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4350 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4351 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4352 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4353 this removes isolation between devices and 4354 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4355 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4356 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4357 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4358 one PCI domain per PCI function 4359 4360 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 4361 Management. 4362 off Disable ASPM. 4363 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4364 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4365 4366 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4367 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4368 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4369 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4370 also tries to use these services. 4371 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4372 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4373 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4374 hotplug). 4375 4376 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4377 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4378 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4379 4380 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4381 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4382 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4383 4384 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4385 4386 pd_ignore_unused 4387 [PM] 4388 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4389 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4390 for debug and development, but should not be 4391 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4392 4393 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4394 boot time. 4395 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4396 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4397 4398 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4399 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4400 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4401 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4402 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4403 and performance comparison. 4404 4405 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4406 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4407 4408 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4409 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4410 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4411 4412 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4413 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4414 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4415 4416 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4417 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4418 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4419 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4420 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4421 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4422 remains 0. 4423 4424 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4425 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4426 4427 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4428 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4429 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4430 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4431 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4432 possible settings and some assignment information. 4433 4434 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4435 { off } 4436 4437 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4438 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4439 4440 pnp_reserve_irq= 4441 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4442 4443 pnp_reserve_dma= 4444 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4445 4446 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4447 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4448 4449 pnp_reserve_mem= 4450 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4451 autoconfiguration. 4452 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4453 4454 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4455 Default is 21. 4456 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4457 may be specified. 4458 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4459 4460 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4461 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4462 platform machine description specific power_save 4463 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4464 execution priority. 4465 4466 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4467 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4468 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4469 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4470 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4471 4472 ppc_tm= [PPC] 4473 Format: {"off"} 4474 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4475 4476 preempt= [KNL] 4477 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4478 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4479 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4480 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4481 can be preempted anytime. 4482 4483 print-fatal-signals= 4484 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4485 4486 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4487 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4488 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4489 coredump - etc. 4490 4491 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4492 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4493 4494 default: off. 4495 4496 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4497 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4498 panics 4499 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4500 default: disabled 4501 4502 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4503 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4504 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4505 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4506 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4507 in order to provide more debug information. 4508 Format: <bool> 4509 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4510 4511 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4512 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4513 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4514 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4515 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4516 Default: ratelimit 4517 4518 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4519 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4520 4521 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4522 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4523 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4524 4525 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4526 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4527 instead using the legacy FADT method 4528 4529 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4530 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4531 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4532 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4533 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4534 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4535 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4536 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4537 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4538 statistical time based profiling. 4539 4540 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4541 4542 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4543 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4544 that). 4545 Format: <bool> 4546 4547 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4548 tracking. 4549 Format: <bool> 4550 4551 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4552 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4553 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4554 per second. 4555 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4556 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4557 (0 = never). 4558 psmouse.resolution= 4559 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4560 psmouse.smartscroll= 4561 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4562 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4563 4564 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4565 4566 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4567 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4568 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4569 system calls and interrupts. 4570 4571 on - unconditionally enable 4572 off - unconditionally disable 4573 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4574 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4575 4576 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4577 4578 nopti [X86-64] 4579 Equivalent to pti=off 4580 4581 pty.legacy_count= 4582 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4583 default number. 4584 4585 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4586 4587 r128= [HW,DRM] 4588 4589 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 4590 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 4591 invalidate. 4592 4593 raid= [HW,RAID] 4594 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4595 4596 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4597 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4598 4599 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4600 4601 random.trust_cpu=off 4602 [KNL] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's 4603 random number generator (if available) to 4604 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4605 4606 random.trust_bootloader=off 4607 [KNL] Disable trusting the use of the a seed 4608 passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4609 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4610 4611 randomize_kstack_offset= 4612 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4613 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4614 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4615 that depend on stack address determinism or 4616 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4617 available on architectures that have defined 4618 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4619 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4620 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4621 4622 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4623 4624 cec_disable [X86] 4625 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4626 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4627 4628 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 4629 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 4630 as described above. 4631 4632 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 4633 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 4634 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 4635 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 4636 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 4637 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 4638 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 4639 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 4640 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 4641 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 4642 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 4643 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4644 4645 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 4646 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 4647 4648 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 4649 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 4650 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 4651 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 4652 4653 Note that this argument takes precedence over 4654 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 4655 4656 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4657 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4658 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4659 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4660 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4661 This improves the real-time response for the 4662 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4663 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4664 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4665 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4666 4667 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4668 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4669 process in one batch. 4670 4671 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4672 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4673 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4674 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4675 4676 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4677 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4678 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4679 4680 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4681 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4682 RCU grace-period initialization. 4683 4684 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4685 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4686 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4687 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4688 the rcu_node combining tree. 4689 4690 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 4691 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 4692 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 4693 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 4694 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 4695 4696 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 4697 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 4698 to zero. 4699 4700 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4701 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4702 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4703 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4704 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4705 4706 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4707 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4708 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4709 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4710 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4711 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4712 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4713 4714 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4715 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4716 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4717 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4718 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4719 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4720 condition. 4721 4722 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 4723 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 4724 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 4725 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 4726 4727 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4728 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4729 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4730 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4731 and maximum value is HZ. 4732 4733 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4734 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4735 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4736 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4737 4738 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4739 Set required age in jiffies for a 4740 given grace period before RCU starts 4741 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4742 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4743 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4744 a value based on the most recent settings 4745 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4746 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4747 This calculated value may be viewed in 4748 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4749 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4750 overwritten. 4751 4752 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4753 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4754 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4755 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4756 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4757 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4758 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4759 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4760 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4761 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4762 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 4763 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 4764 4765 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] 4766 Set the shift-right count to use to compute 4767 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from 4768 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. 4769 The result will be bounded below by the value of 4770 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl 4771 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in 4772 order to allow the CPU to do other work. 4773 4774 Please note that this callback-invocation batch 4775 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback 4776 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead 4777 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which 4778 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. 4779 4780 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] 4781 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, 4782 RCU reduces the lock contention that would 4783 otherwise be caused by callback floods through 4784 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the 4785 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to 4786 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra 4787 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. 4788 But if there are too many callbacks queued during 4789 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into 4790 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too 4791 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. 4792 4793 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4794 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4795 each group, which defaults to the square root 4796 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4797 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4798 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4799 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4800 4801 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4802 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4803 batch limiting is disabled. 4804 4805 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4806 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4807 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4808 4809 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4810 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4811 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4812 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4813 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4814 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4815 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4816 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4817 4818 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4819 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4820 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4821 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4822 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4823 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4824 4825 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 4826 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 4827 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 4828 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 4829 Larger delays increase the probability of 4830 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 4831 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 4832 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 4833 4834 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4835 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4836 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4837 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4838 4839 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 4840 Measure performance of asynchronous 4841 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4842 4843 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4844 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4845 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4846 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4847 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4848 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4849 4850 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 4851 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4852 grace-period primitives. 4853 4854 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4855 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4856 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4857 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4858 interference. 4859 4860 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4861 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4862 4863 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 4864 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4865 If this parameter has the same value as 4866 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 4867 and double-argument variants are tested. 4868 4869 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 4870 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4871 If this parameter has the same value as 4872 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 4873 and double-argument variants are tested. 4874 4875 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4876 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4877 4878 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4879 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4880 4881 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4882 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 4883 of allocations and frees. 4884 4885 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4886 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4887 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4888 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4889 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4890 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4891 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4892 a single reader. 4893 4894 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 4895 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4896 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 4897 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4898 4899 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL] 4900 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4901 4902 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4903 Shut the system down after performance tests 4904 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4905 testing. 4906 4907 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 4908 Enable additional printk() statements. 4909 4910 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4911 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4912 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4913 no holdoff. 4914 4915 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4916 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4917 in microseconds. 4918 4919 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4920 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4921 in microseconds. 4922 4923 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4924 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4925 in seconds. 4926 4927 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4928 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 4929 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4930 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4931 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 4932 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 4933 of CPUs to be used. 4934 4935 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4936 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4937 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4938 4939 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4940 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4941 forward-progress tests. 4942 4943 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4944 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4945 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4946 testing. 4947 4948 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4949 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4950 primitives, if available. 4951 4952 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4953 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4954 4955 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4956 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4957 update-side primitives, if available. 4958 4959 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4960 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4961 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4962 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4963 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4964 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4965 they are all non-zero. 4966 4967 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 4968 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 4969 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 4970 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 4971 4972 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 4973 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 4974 This can of course result in splats, and is 4975 intended to test the ability of things like 4976 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 4977 such leaks. 4978 4979 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 4980 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 4981 4982 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 4983 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 4984 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 4985 test, hence the "fake". 4986 4987 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 4988 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 4989 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 4990 4991 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 4992 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 4993 callback-offload toggling attempts. 4994 4995 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 4996 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4997 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4998 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 4999 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5000 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5001 5002 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 5003 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 5004 5005 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5006 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 5007 5008 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5009 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 5010 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 5011 5012 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 5013 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 5014 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 5015 task-exit processing. 5016 5017 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 5018 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 5019 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 5020 is spawned. 5021 5022 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 5023 The delay, in seconds, between successive 5024 read-then-exit testing episodes. 5025 5026 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 5027 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 5028 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 5029 during the rcutorture test. 5030 5031 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5032 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 5033 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 5034 5035 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 5036 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 5037 warnings, zero to disable. 5038 5039 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 5040 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 5041 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition 5042 to any other stall-related activity. 5043 5044 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 5045 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 5046 5047 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 5048 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 5049 5050 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 5051 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 5052 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 5053 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 5054 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 5055 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 5056 5057 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5058 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 5059 5060 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 5061 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 5062 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 5063 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 5064 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 5065 5066 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 5067 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 5068 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 5069 under test support RCU priority boosting. 5070 5071 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 5072 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 5073 5074 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 5075 Interval (s) between each boost test. 5076 5077 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 5078 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 5079 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 5080 5081 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 5082 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5083 5084 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 5085 Enable additional printk() statements. 5086 5087 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 5088 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 5089 stall warning. 5090 5091 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 5092 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5093 5094 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 5095 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 5096 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 5097 during early boot, that is, during the time 5098 before the init task is spawned. 5099 5100 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5101 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5102 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 5103 value is 300 seconds. 5104 5105 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5106 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 5107 messages. The value is in milliseconds 5108 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 5109 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 5110 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 5111 Setting this to zero causes the value from 5112 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 5113 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 5114 5115 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL] 5116 Provide statistics on the cputime and count of 5117 interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For 5118 multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods 5119 begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout. 5120 5121 rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL] 5122 Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the 5123 current expedited RCU grace period during an 5124 expedited RCU CPU stall warning. 5125 5126 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 5127 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 5128 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 5129 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 5130 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 5131 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 5132 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5133 5134 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 5135 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 5136 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 5137 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 5138 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 5139 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 5140 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 5141 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 5142 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5143 5144 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 5145 Once boot has completed (that is, after 5146 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 5147 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 5148 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5149 5150 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 5151 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 5152 it to the value one, that is, converting any 5153 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 5154 period to instead use normal non-expedited 5155 grace-period processing. 5156 5157 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 5158 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 5159 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 5160 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 5161 a single callback queue. This switching only 5162 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 5163 set to the default value of -1. 5164 5165 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 5166 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 5167 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 5168 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 5169 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 5170 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 5171 the default value of -1. 5172 5173 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 5174 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 5175 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 5176 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 5177 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 5178 for use in testing. 5179 5180 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 5181 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 5182 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 5183 of a given grace period. Setting a large 5184 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 5185 but lengthens grace periods. 5186 5187 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 5188 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5189 informational messages, which give some indication 5190 of the problem for those not patient enough to 5191 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 5192 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 5193 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 5194 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 5195 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 5196 until the beginning of the next grace period. 5197 5198 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 5199 Multiplier for time interval between successive 5200 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 5201 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 5202 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 5203 the value three, so that the first informational 5204 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 5205 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 5206 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 5207 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 5208 5209 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5210 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5211 warning messages. Disable with a value less 5212 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 5213 A change in value does not take effect until 5214 the beginning of the next grace period. 5215 5216 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 5217 Run the RCU early boot self tests 5218 5219 rdinit= [KNL] 5220 Format: <full_path> 5221 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 5222 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 5223 5224 rdrand= [X86] 5225 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 5226 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 5227 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 5228 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 5229 path). 5230 5231 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 5232 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 5233 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 5234 mba, smba, bmec. 5235 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 5236 rdt=cmt,!mba 5237 5238 reboot= [KNL] 5239 Format (x86 or x86_64): 5240 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 5241 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 5242 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 5243 [[,]f[orce] 5244 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 5245 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 5246 reboot only), 5247 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 5248 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 5249 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 5250 to be used for rebooting. 5251 5252 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5253 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5254 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5255 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5256 interference. 5257 5258 refscale.loops= [KNL] 5259 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 5260 primitive under test. Increasing this number 5261 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 5262 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 5263 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 5264 x86 laptops. 5265 5266 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5267 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 5268 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 5269 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 5270 5271 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 5272 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 5273 the console log. 5274 5275 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 5276 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 5277 measured in microseconds. 5278 5279 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5280 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 5281 5282 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5283 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 5284 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 5285 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 5286 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 5287 5288 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 5289 Enable additional printk() statements. 5290 5291 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 5292 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 5293 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 5294 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 5295 specified. 5296 5297 relax_domain_level= 5298 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 5299 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 5300 5301 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 5302 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 5303 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 5304 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 5305 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 5306 5307 reservetop= [X86-32] 5308 Format: nn[KMG] 5309 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 5310 address space. 5311 5312 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 5313 during initialization. 5314 5315 resume= [SWSUSP] 5316 Specify the partition device for software suspend 5317 Format: 5318 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 5319 5320 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 5321 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 5322 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 5323 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 5324 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 5325 5326 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5327 read the resume files 5328 5329 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 5330 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5331 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5332 5333 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 5334 5335 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 5336 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 5337 vulnerability. 5338 5339 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop 5340 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other 5341 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- 5342 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors 5343 that don't. 5344 5345 off - no mitigation 5346 auto - automatically select a migitation 5347 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 5348 disabling SMT if necessary for 5349 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 5350 and older without STIBP). 5351 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation 5352 windows on basic block boundaries too. 5353 Safe, highest perf impact. It also 5354 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable 5355 on Intel. 5356 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT 5357 when STIBP is not available. This is 5358 the alternative for systems which do not 5359 have STIBP. 5360 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, 5361 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based 5362 systems. 5363 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP 5364 is not available. This is the alternative for 5365 systems which do not have STIBP. 5366 5367 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 5368 time according to the CPU. 5369 5370 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 5371 5372 rfkill.default_state= 5373 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 5374 etc. communication is blocked by default. 5375 1 Unblocked. 5376 5377 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 5378 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 5379 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5380 blocked and the previous configuration. 5381 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5382 blocked and everything unblocked. 5383 5384 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5385 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 5386 5387 ring3mwait=disable 5388 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 5389 CPUs. 5390 5391 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 5392 5393 rodata= [KNL] 5394 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 5395 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 5396 full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only 5397 [arm64] 5398 5399 rockchip.usb_uart 5400 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 5401 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 5402 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 5403 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 5404 5405 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 5406 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 5407 5408 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5409 mount the root filesystem 5410 5411 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 5412 5413 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 5414 5415 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 5416 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5417 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5418 5419 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 5420 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 5421 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 5422 managed by CMA. 5423 5424 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 5425 5426 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5427 5428 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5429 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5430 strict 5431 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 5432 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 5433 which is faster. 5434 5435 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5436 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5437 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5438 factor of the size of main memory. 5439 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5440 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5441 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5442 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5443 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5444 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5445 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5446 5447 sa1100ir [NET] 5448 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5449 5450 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5451 5452 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5453 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5454 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5455 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5456 5457 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5458 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5459 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5460 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5461 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5462 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5463 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5464 value. 5465 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5466 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5467 1 64 ms 5468 2 128 ms 5469 and so on. 5470 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5471 Default is 0. 5472 5473 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5474 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5475 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5476 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5477 tests. 5478 5479 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5480 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5481 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5482 default) disables this feature. Please note 5483 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5484 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5485 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5486 5487 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5488 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5489 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5490 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5491 equal to the number of CPUs. 5492 5493 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5494 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5495 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 5496 5497 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5498 Number seconds to wait between successive 5499 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 5500 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 5501 5502 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5503 The number of seconds following the start of the 5504 test after which to shut down the system. The 5505 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 5506 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 5507 5508 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5509 The number of seconds between outputting the 5510 current test statistics to the console. A value 5511 of zero disables statistics output. 5512 5513 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 5514 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 5515 to the set of CPUs under test. 5516 5517 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 5518 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 5519 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 5520 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 5521 functions. 5522 5523 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 5524 Enable additional printk() statements. 5525 5526 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 5527 The probability weighting to use for the 5528 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 5529 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 5530 default if all other weights are -1. However, 5531 if at least one weight has some other value, a 5532 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 5533 5534 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 5535 The probability weighting to use for the 5536 smp_call_function_single() function with a 5537 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5538 5539 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 5540 The probability weighting to use for the 5541 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 5542 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 5543 Note well that setting a high probability for 5544 this weighting can place serious IPI load 5545 on the system. 5546 5547 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 5548 The probability weighting to use for the 5549 smp_call_function_many() function with a 5550 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5551 and weight_many. 5552 5553 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 5554 The probability weighting to use for the 5555 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 5556 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 5557 weight_many. 5558 5559 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 5560 The probability weighting to use for the 5561 smp_call_function_all() function with a 5562 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 5563 and weight_many. 5564 5565 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 5566 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 5567 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 5568 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5569 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 5570 1 -- enable. 5571 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 5572 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 5573 5574 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 5575 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 5576 "lsm=" parameter. 5577 5578 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 5579 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5580 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 5581 0 -- disable. 5582 1 -- enable. 5583 Default value is 1. 5584 5585 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 5586 5587 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 5588 5589 shapers= [NET] 5590 Maximal number of shapers. 5591 5592 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 5593 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 5594 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 5595 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 5596 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 5597 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 5598 apic=verbose is specified. 5599 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 5600 5601 simeth= [IA-64] 5602 simscsi= 5603 5604 slram= [HW,MTD] 5605 5606 slab_merge [MM] 5607 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 5608 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 5609 5610 slab_nomerge [MM] 5611 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 5612 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 5613 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 5614 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 5615 layout control by attackers can usually be 5616 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 5617 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 5618 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 5619 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 5620 own. 5621 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5622 5623 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 5624 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5625 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5626 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 5627 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 5628 5629 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 5630 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 5631 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5632 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5633 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5634 last alloc / free. For more information see 5635 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5636 5637 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 5638 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5639 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5640 fragmentation. For more information see 5641 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5642 5643 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 5644 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 5645 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 5646 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 5647 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 5648 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 5649 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 5650 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5651 5652 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 5653 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 5654 lower than slub_max_order. 5655 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 5656 5657 slub_merge [MM, SLUB] 5658 Same with slab_merge. 5659 5660 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 5661 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 5662 See slab_nomerge for more information. 5663 5664 smart2= [HW] 5665 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 5666 5667 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 5668 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 5669 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 5670 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 5671 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 5672 disabling interrupts for extended periods 5673 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 5674 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 5675 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 5676 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 5677 5678 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 5679 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 5680 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 5681 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 5682 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 5683 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 5684 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 5685 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 5686 1: Fast pin select (default) 5687 2: ATC IRMode 5688 5689 smt= [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 5690 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 5691 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 5692 actual hardware limit. 5693 Format: <integer> 5694 Default: -1 (no limit) 5695 5696 softlockup_panic= 5697 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 5698 Format: 0 | 1 5699 5700 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 5701 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 5702 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 5703 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 5704 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 5705 5706 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 5707 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 5708 backtraces on all cpus. 5709 Format: 0 | 1 5710 5711 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 5712 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 5713 5714 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5715 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 5716 The default operation protects the kernel from 5717 user space attacks. 5718 5719 on - unconditionally enable, implies 5720 spectre_v2_user=on 5721 off - unconditionally disable, implies 5722 spectre_v2_user=off 5723 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5724 vulnerable 5725 5726 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 5727 mitigation method at run time according to the 5728 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 5729 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 5730 compiler with which the kernel was built. 5731 5732 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 5733 against user space to user space task attacks. 5734 5735 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 5736 the user space protections. 5737 5738 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 5739 5740 retpoline - replace indirect branches 5741 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 5742 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 5743 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 5744 eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS 5745 eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines 5746 eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE 5747 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 5748 5749 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5750 spectre_v2=auto. 5751 5752 spectre_v2_user= 5753 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5754 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 5755 user space tasks 5756 5757 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 5758 enforced by spectre_v2=on 5759 5760 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 5761 enforced by spectre_v2=off 5762 5763 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 5764 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 5765 per thread. The mitigation control state 5766 is inherited on fork. 5767 5768 prctl,ibpb 5769 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 5770 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5771 always when switching between different user 5772 space processes. 5773 5774 seccomp 5775 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 5776 threads will enable the mitigation unless 5777 they explicitly opt out. 5778 5779 seccomp,ibpb 5780 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 5781 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5782 always when switching between different 5783 user space processes. 5784 5785 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 5786 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 5787 5788 Default mitigation: "prctl" 5789 5790 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5791 spectre_v2_user=auto. 5792 5793 spec_store_bypass_disable= 5794 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 5795 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 5796 5797 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 5798 a common industry wide performance optimization known 5799 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 5800 to the same memory location may not be observed by 5801 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 5802 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 5803 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 5804 end of a particular speculation execution window. 5805 5806 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5807 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 5808 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 5809 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 5810 5811 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 5812 Bypass optimization is used. 5813 5814 On x86 the options are: 5815 5816 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 5817 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 5818 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 5819 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 5820 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 5821 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 5822 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 5823 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 5824 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 5825 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 5826 for a process by default. The state of the control 5827 is inherited on fork. 5828 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 5829 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 5830 5831 Default mitigations: 5832 X86: "prctl" 5833 5834 On powerpc the options are: 5835 5836 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 5837 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 5838 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 5839 exit. 5840 off - No action. 5841 5842 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5843 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 5844 5845 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 5846 spia_fio_base= 5847 spia_pedr= 5848 spia_peddr= 5849 5850 split_lock_detect= 5851 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 5852 5853 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 5854 instructions that access data across cache line 5855 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 5856 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 5857 bus lock detection. 5858 5859 off - not enabled 5860 5861 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 5862 about applications triggering the #AC 5863 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 5864 the default on CPUs that support split lock 5865 detection or bus lock detection. Default 5866 behavior is by #AC if both features are 5867 enabled in hardware. 5868 5869 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 5870 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 5871 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 5872 both features are enabled in hardware. 5873 5874 ratelimit:N - 5875 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 5876 per second for bus lock detection. 5877 0 < N <= 1000. 5878 5879 N/A for split lock detection. 5880 5881 5882 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 5883 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 5884 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 5885 mode. 5886 5887 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 5888 CPL > 0. 5889 5890 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 5891 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 5892 (SRBDS) mitigation. 5893 5894 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 5895 exploit which can leak bits from the random 5896 number generator. 5897 5898 By default, this issue is mitigated by 5899 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 5900 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 5901 much slower. Among other effects, this will 5902 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 5903 5904 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 5905 the following option: 5906 5907 off: Disable mitigation and remove 5908 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 5909 5910 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 5911 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 5912 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 5913 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 5914 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 5915 but takes effect only when the low-order four 5916 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 5917 (decide at boot). 5918 5919 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 5920 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 5921 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 5922 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 5923 5924 0: Never. 5925 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 5926 2: When rcutorture decides to. 5927 3: Decide at boot time (default). 5928 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 5929 5930 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 5931 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 5932 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 5933 5934 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 5935 Specifies how frequently to check for 5936 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 5937 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 5938 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 5939 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 5940 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 5941 are ignored. 5942 5943 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 5944 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 5945 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 5946 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 5947 grace period will be considered for automatic 5948 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 5949 expediting. 5950 5951 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] 5952 Specifies the number of no-delay instances 5953 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period 5954 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero 5955 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will 5956 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. 5957 5958 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] 5959 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of 5960 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, 5961 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled 5962 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each 5963 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. 5964 5965 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] 5966 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping 5967 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. 5968 5969 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 5970 Specifies the number of update-side contention 5971 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 5972 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 5973 structure to big form. Note that the value of 5974 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 5975 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 5976 5977 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 5978 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 5979 5980 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 5981 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 5982 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 5983 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 5984 5985 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 5986 for both kernel and userspace 5987 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 5988 for both kernel and userspace 5989 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 5990 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 5991 to allow userspace to register its 5992 interest in being mitigated too. 5993 5994 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 5995 override the default stack gap protection. The value 5996 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 5997 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 5998 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 5999 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 6000 6001 stack_depot_disable= [KNL] 6002 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 6003 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 6004 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 6005 to false. 6006 6007 stacktrace [FTRACE] 6008 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 6009 6010 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 6011 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 6012 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 6013 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 6014 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 6015 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 6016 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 6017 6018 sti= [PARISC,HW] 6019 Format: <num> 6020 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 6021 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 6022 as the initial boot-console. 6023 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6024 6025 sti_font= [HW] 6026 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6027 6028 stifb= [HW] 6029 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 6030 6031 strict_sas_size= 6032 [X86] 6033 Format: <bool> 6034 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 6035 against the required signal frame size which 6036 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 6037 be used to filter out binaries which have 6038 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 6039 6040 stress_hpt [PPC] 6041 Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash 6042 page table to increase the rate of hash page table 6043 faults on kernel addresses. 6044 6045 stress_slb [PPC] 6046 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 6047 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 6048 on kernel addresses. 6049 6050 sunrpc.min_resvport= 6051 sunrpc.max_resvport= 6052 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6053 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 6054 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 6055 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 6056 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 6057 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 6058 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 6059 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 6060 maximum port values. 6061 6062 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 6063 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6064 Limit the number of requests that the server will 6065 process in parallel from a single connection. 6066 The default value is 0 (no limit). 6067 6068 sunrpc.pool_mode= 6069 [NFS] 6070 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 6071 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 6072 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 6073 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 6074 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 6075 NFS server is running. 6076 6077 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 6078 automatically using heuristics 6079 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 6080 percpu one pool for each CPU 6081 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 6082 to global on non-NUMA machines) 6083 6084 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 6085 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 6086 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6087 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 6088 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 6089 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 6090 improve throughput, but will also increase the 6091 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 6092 6093 suspend.pm_test_delay= 6094 [SUSPEND] 6095 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 6096 mode before resuming the system (see 6097 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 6098 is set. Default value is 5. 6099 6100 svm= [PPC] 6101 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 6102 This parameter controls use of the Protected 6103 Execution Facility on pSeries. 6104 6105 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 6106 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } 6107 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 6108 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb 6109 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up 6110 to a power of 2. 6111 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 6112 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 6113 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 6114 6115 switches= [HW,M68k] 6116 6117 sysctl.*= [KNL] 6118 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 6119 process, as if the value was written to the respective 6120 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 6121 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 6122 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 6123 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 6124 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 6125 6126 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 6127 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 6128 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 6129 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 6130 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 6131 in older udev will not work anymore. 6132 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 6133 the kernel configuration. 6134 6135 sysrq_always_enabled 6136 [KNL] 6137 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 6138 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 6139 Useful for debugging. 6140 6141 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6142 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 6143 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 6144 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 6145 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 6146 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 6147 6148 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 6149 6150 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 6151 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 6152 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 6153 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 6154 as the system sleep state during system startup with 6155 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 6156 The system is woken from this state using a 6157 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 6158 6159 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6160 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 6161 6162 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 6163 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 6164 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 6165 6166 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 6167 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 6168 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 6169 6170 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 6171 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 6172 critical and hot trip points. 6173 6174 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 6175 1: disable ACPI thermal control 6176 6177 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 6178 -1: disable all passive trip points 6179 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 6180 value 6181 6182 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 6183 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 6184 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 6185 0: no polling (default) 6186 6187 threadirqs [KNL] 6188 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 6189 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 6190 6191 topology= [S390] 6192 Format: {off | on} 6193 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 6194 topology information if the hardware supports this. 6195 The scheduler will make use of this information and 6196 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 6197 Default is on. 6198 6199 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 6200 Format: {off} 6201 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 6202 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 6203 LPAR. 6204 6205 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 6206 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 6207 until after init has spawned. 6208 6209 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 6210 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 6211 even if there were no errors. This can be a 6212 very costly operation when many torture tests 6213 are running concurrently, especially on systems 6214 with rotating-rust storage. 6215 6216 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 6217 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 6218 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 6219 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 6220 6221 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 6222 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 6223 6224 tp720= [HW,PS2] 6225 6226 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 6227 Format: integer pcr id 6228 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 6229 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 6230 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 6231 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 6232 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 6233 are saved. 6234 6235 tp_printk [FTRACE] 6236 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 6237 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 6238 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 6239 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 6240 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 6241 6242 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 6243 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 6244 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 6245 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 6246 6247 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 6248 to stop the printing of events to console at 6249 late_initcall_sync. 6250 6251 ** CAUTION ** 6252 6253 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 6254 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 6255 the system to live lock. 6256 6257 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 6258 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 6259 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 6260 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 6261 make the system inoperable. 6262 6263 This command line option will stop the printing of events 6264 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 6265 6266 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 6267 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 6268 6269 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 6270 at boot up. 6271 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 6272 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 6273 depending on the architecture, may not be 6274 in sync between CPUs. 6275 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 6276 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 6277 but better for some race conditions. 6278 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 6279 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 6280 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 6281 once per event. 6282 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 6283 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 6284 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6285 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 6286 stamps. 6287 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6288 Architectures may add more clocks. See 6289 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 6290 6291 trace_event=[event-list] 6292 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 6293 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 6294 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 6295 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 6296 6297 trace_instance=[instance-info] 6298 [FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up. 6299 This will be listed in: 6300 6301 /sys/kernel/tracing/instances 6302 6303 Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created 6304 via: 6305 6306 trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2> 6307 6308 Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is 6309 unique. 6310 6311 trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall 6312 6313 will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and 6314 the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry 6315 event, and all events under the "initcall" system. 6316 6317 trace_options=[option-list] 6318 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 6319 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 6320 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 6321 to echo the option name into 6322 6323 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options 6324 6325 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 6326 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 6327 6328 trace_options=stacktrace 6329 6330 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 6331 section. 6332 6333 trace_trigger=[trigger-list] 6334 [FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events. 6335 Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional 6336 filter. 6337 6338 The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..." 6339 Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated. 6340 6341 For example: 6342 6343 trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2" 6344 6345 The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch" 6346 event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch" 6347 event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE). 6348 6349 See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst 6350 6351 6352 traceoff_on_warning 6353 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 6354 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 6355 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 6356 file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/ 6357 6358 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 6359 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 6360 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 6361 6362 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 6363 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 6364 6365 transparent_hugepage= 6366 [KNL] 6367 Format: [always|madvise|never] 6368 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 6369 with respect to transparent hugepages. 6370 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 6371 for more details. 6372 6373 trusted.source= [KEYS] 6374 Format: <string> 6375 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 6376 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 6377 sources: 6378 - "tpm" 6379 - "tee" 6380 - "caam" 6381 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 6382 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 6383 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 6384 successfully during iteration. 6385 6386 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 6387 Format: <string> 6388 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 6389 Can be one of: 6390 - "kernel" 6391 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 6392 - "default" 6393 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 6394 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 6395 6396 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 6397 Format: <string> 6398 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 6399 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 6400 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 6401 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 6402 virtualized environment. 6403 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 6404 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 6405 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 6406 can add overhead. 6407 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 6408 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 6409 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 6410 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 6411 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 6412 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 6413 acceptable). 6414 [x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer 6415 (HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was 6416 obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15). 6417 Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm. 6418 [x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with 6419 which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but 6420 only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy. 6421 This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and 6422 can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog. A console 6423 message will flag any such suppression or overriding. 6424 6425 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 6426 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 6427 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 6428 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 6429 Format: <unsigned int> 6430 6431 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 6432 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 6433 support TSX control. 6434 6435 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 6436 6437 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 6438 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 6439 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 6440 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 6441 so there may be unknown security risks associated 6442 with leaving it enabled. 6443 6444 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 6445 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 6446 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 6447 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 6448 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 6449 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 6450 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 6451 6452 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 6453 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 6454 6455 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 6456 6457 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6458 for more details. 6459 6460 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 6461 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 6462 6463 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 6464 certain CPUs that support Transactional 6465 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 6466 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 6467 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 6468 conditions. 6469 6470 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6471 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 6472 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 6473 access. 6474 6475 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 6476 options are: 6477 6478 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 6479 if TSX is enabled. 6480 6481 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 6482 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 6483 is not disabled because CPU is not 6484 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 6485 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 6486 6487 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 6488 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 6489 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 6490 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 6491 6492 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6493 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 6494 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 6495 required and doesn't provide any additional 6496 mitigation. 6497 6498 For details see: 6499 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6500 6501 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 6502 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 6503 Format: 6504 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 6505 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 6506 6507 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 6508 happen after console_init() and before a proper 6509 console driver takes over, this boot options might 6510 help "seeing" what's going on. 6511 6512 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6513 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 6514 6515 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 6516 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 6517 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 6518 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 6519 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 6520 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 6521 reported either. 6522 6523 unknown_nmi_panic 6524 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 6525 6526 usbcore.authorized_default= 6527 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 6528 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 6529 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 6530 if device connected to internal port) 6531 6532 usbcore.autosuspend= 6533 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 6534 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 6535 is the time required before an idle device will be 6536 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 6537 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 6538 6539 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 6540 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 6541 6542 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 6543 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 6544 (default = 65536). 6545 6546 usbcore.blinkenlights= 6547 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 6548 6549 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 6550 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 6551 scheme (default 0 = off). 6552 6553 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 6554 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 6555 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 6556 6557 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 6558 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 6559 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 6560 6561 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 6562 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 6563 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 6564 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 6565 6566 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 6567 6568 usbcore.quirks= 6569 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 6570 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 6571 commas. Each entry has the form 6572 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 6573 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 6574 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 6575 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 6576 the following meanings: 6577 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 6578 descriptors must not be fetched using 6579 a 255-byte read); 6580 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 6581 correctly so reset it instead); 6582 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 6583 Set-Interface requests); 6584 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 6585 handle its Configuration or Interface 6586 strings); 6587 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 6588 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 6589 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 6590 more interface descriptions than the 6591 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 6592 talking to these interfaces); 6593 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 6594 during initialization, after we read 6595 the device descriptor); 6596 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 6597 high speed and super speed interrupt 6598 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 6599 require the interval in microframes (1 6600 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 6601 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 6602 (bInterval-1). 6603 Devices with this quirk report their 6604 bInterval as the result of this 6605 calculation instead of the exponent 6606 variable used in the calculation); 6607 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 6608 handle device_qualifier descriptor 6609 requests); 6610 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 6611 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 6612 remote wakeup capability); 6613 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 6614 Power Management); 6615 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 6616 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 6617 frames instead of the USB 2.0 6618 calculation); 6619 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 6620 to be disconnected before suspend to 6621 prevent spurious wakeup); 6622 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 6623 pause after every control message); 6624 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 6625 delay after resetting its port); 6626 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 6627 6628 usbhid.mousepoll= 6629 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 6630 6631 usbhid.jspoll= 6632 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 6633 6634 usbhid.kbpoll= 6635 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 6636 6637 usb-storage.delay_use= 6638 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 6639 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 6640 6641 usb-storage.quirks= 6642 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 6643 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 6644 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 6645 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 6646 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 6647 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 6648 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 6649 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 6650 of sense data, not on uas); 6651 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 6652 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 6653 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 6654 device capacity by one sector); 6655 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 6656 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 6657 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 6658 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 6659 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 6660 command, uas only); 6661 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 6662 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 6663 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 6664 reported device capacity by one 6665 sector if the number is odd); 6666 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 6667 device); 6668 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 6669 command, uas only); 6670 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 6671 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 6672 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 6673 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 6674 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 6675 not on uas); 6676 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 6677 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 6678 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 6679 reported by the device, not on uas); 6680 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 6681 by default, not on uas); 6682 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 6683 bogus residue values, not on uas); 6684 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 6685 Logical Unit); 6686 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 6687 commands, uas only); 6688 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 6689 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 6690 medium is write-protected). 6691 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 6692 even if the device claims no cache, 6693 not on uas) 6694 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 6695 6696 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 6697 Format: <int> 6698 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 6699 1 - undefined instruction events 6700 2 - system calls 6701 4 - invalid data aborts 6702 8 - SIGSEGV faults 6703 16 - SIGBUS faults 6704 Example: user_debug=31 6705 6706 userpte= 6707 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 6708 6709 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 6710 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 6711 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 6712 6713 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 6714 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 6715 6716 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 6717 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 6718 6719 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 6720 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 6721 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 6722 6723 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 6724 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 6725 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 6726 6727 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 6728 alias for vdso32=0. 6729 6730 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 6731 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 6732 6733 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 6734 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 6735 6736 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 6737 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 6738 6739 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 6740 Format: [0|1] 6741 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 6742 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 6743 level and then send out the event to user space through 6744 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 6745 will only send out the event without touching backlight 6746 brightness level. 6747 default: 1 6748 6749 virtio_mmio.device= 6750 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 6751 6752 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 6753 where: 6754 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 6755 like K, M and G) 6756 <baseaddr> := physical base address 6757 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 6758 request_irq()) 6759 <id> := (optional) platform device id 6760 example: 6761 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 6762 6763 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 6764 6765 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 6766 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 6767 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 6768 Use vga=ask for menu. 6769 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 6770 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 6771 6772 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 6773 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 6774 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 6775 All options are enabled by default, and this 6776 interface is meant to allow for selectively 6777 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 6778 debugging features. 6779 6780 Available options are: 6781 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 6782 - Disable all of the above options 6783 6784 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 6785 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 6786 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 6787 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 6788 mapped kernel RAM. 6789 6790 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 6791 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 6792 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 6793 6794 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 6795 Format: <command> 6796 6797 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 6798 Format: <command> 6799 6800 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 6801 Format: <command> 6802 6803 vsyscall= [X86-64] 6804 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 6805 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 6806 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 6807 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 6808 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 6809 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 6810 6811 emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated 6812 reasonably safely. The vsyscall page is 6813 readable. 6814 6815 xonly [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6816 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6817 page is not readable. 6818 6819 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 6820 them quite hard to use for exploits but 6821 might break your system. 6822 6823 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 6824 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 6825 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 6826 6827 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 6828 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 6829 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 6830 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 6831 6832 vt.default_blu= [VT] 6833 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 6834 Change the default blue palette of the console. 6835 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6836 ranging from 0-255. 6837 6838 vt.default_grn= [VT] 6839 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 6840 Change the default green palette of the console. 6841 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6842 ranging from 0-255. 6843 6844 vt.default_red= [VT] 6845 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 6846 Change the default red palette of the console. 6847 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6848 ranging from 0-255. 6849 6850 vt.default_utf8= 6851 [VT] 6852 Format=<0|1> 6853 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 6854 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 6855 newly opened terminals. 6856 6857 vt.global_cursor_default= 6858 [VT] 6859 Format=<-1|0|1> 6860 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 6861 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 6862 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 6863 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 6864 cursors, 1 will display them. 6865 6866 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 6867 Default: 2 = green. 6868 6869 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 6870 Default: 3 = cyan. 6871 6872 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 6873 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 6874 or other driver-specific files in the 6875 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 6876 6877 watchdog_thresh= 6878 [KNL] 6879 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 6880 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 6881 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 6882 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 6883 seconds. 6884 6885 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 6886 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 6887 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 6888 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 6889 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 6890 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 6891 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 6892 corresponding sysfs file. 6893 6894 workqueue.disable_numa 6895 By default, all work items queued to unbound 6896 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 6897 issued on, which results in better behavior in 6898 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 6899 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 6900 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 6901 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 6902 6903 workqueue.power_efficient 6904 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 6905 they show better performance thanks to cache 6906 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 6907 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 6908 6909 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 6910 were observed to contribute significantly to power 6911 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 6912 power usage at the cost of small performance 6913 overhead. 6914 6915 The default value of this parameter is determined by 6916 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 6917 6918 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 6919 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 6920 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 6921 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 6922 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 6923 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 6924 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 6925 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 6926 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 6927 impacted. 6928 6929 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 6930 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 6931 supporting x2apic. 6932 6933 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 6934 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 6935 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 6936 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 6937 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 6938 domains. 6939 6940 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 6941 Unplug Xen emulated devices 6942 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 6943 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 6944 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 6945 nics -- unplug network devices 6946 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 6947 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 6948 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 6949 the unplug protocol 6950 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 6951 6952 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 6953 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 6954 panic() code such as dumping handler. 6955 6956 xen_msr_safe= [X86,XEN] 6957 Format: <bool> 6958 Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR 6959 access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The 6960 default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE. 6961 6962 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 6963 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 6964 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 6965 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6966 6967 xen_nopv [X86] 6968 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 6969 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 6970 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 6971 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6972 6973 xen_no_vector_callback 6974 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 6975 event channel interrupts. 6976 6977 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 6978 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 6979 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 6980 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 6981 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 6982 6983 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 6984 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 6985 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 6986 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 6987 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 6988 more timer interrupts. 6989 6990 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 6991 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 6992 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 6993 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 6994 started with less memory configured than allowed at 6995 max. Default is 180. 6996 6997 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 6998 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 6999 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 7000 7001 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 7002 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 7003 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 7004 7005 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 7006 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 7007 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 7008 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 7009 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 7010 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 7011 7012 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 7013 Format: 7014 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 7015 7016 xive= [PPC] 7017 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 7018 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 7019 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 7020 7021 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 7022 controller on both pseries and powernv 7023 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 7024 7025 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 7026 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 7027 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 7028 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 7029 loads instead, as on POWER9. 7030 7031 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 7032 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 7033 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 7034 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 7035 7036 xmon [PPC] 7037 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 7038 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 7039 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 7040 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 7041 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 7042 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7043 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 7044 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 7045 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 7046 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7047 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 7048 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 7049 can be written using xmon commands. 7050 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 7051 memory, and other data can't be written using 7052 xmon commands. 7053 off xmon is disabled. 7054 7055 amd_pstate= [X86] 7056 disable 7057 Do not enable amd_pstate as the default 7058 scaling driver for the supported processors 7059 passive 7060 Use amd_pstate as a scaling driver, driver requests a 7061 desired performance on this abstract scale and the power 7062 management firmware translates the requests into actual 7063 hardware states (core frequency, data fabric and memory 7064 clocks etc.) 7065 active 7066 Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver, 7067 driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants 7068 to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff) 7069 to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will 7070 calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores 7071 frequency. 7072