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.txt, pci=noacpi 17 18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 19 Format: <int> 20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 21 1,0: use 1st APIC table 22 default: 0 23 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 25 acpi_backlight=vendor 26 acpi_backlight=video 27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver 28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 29 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 36 37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 41 This option is useful for developers to identify the 42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 43 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 44 45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 47 Format: <int> 48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT 52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 56 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about 57 debug layers and levels. 58 59 Enable processor driver info messages: 60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000 63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <int> 117 118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 122 auto-serialization feature. 123 This feature is enabled by default. 124 This option allows to turn off the feature. 125 126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 127 kernels. 128 129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 132 installed automatically and they will appear under 133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 134 This option turns off this feature. 135 Note that specifying this option does not affect 136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 138 139 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 140 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 141 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 142 second kernel for kdump. 143 144 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 145 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 146 147 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 148 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 149 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 150 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 151 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 152 153 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 154 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 155 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 156 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 157 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 158 strings 159 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 160 strings 161 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 162 163 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 164 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 165 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 166 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 167 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 168 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 169 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 170 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 171 care about the state of the feature group strings which 172 should be controlled by the OSPM. 173 Examples: 174 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 175 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 176 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 177 178 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 179 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 180 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 181 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 182 multiple times through kernel command line is also 183 meaningless. 184 Examples: 185 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 186 FALSE. 187 188 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 189 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 190 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 191 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 192 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 193 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 194 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 195 there are quirks related to this string. This command 196 is useful when one want to control the state of the 197 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 198 the OSPM features. 199 Examples: 200 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 201 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 202 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 203 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 204 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 205 equivalent to 206 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 207 and 208 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 209 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 210 211 acpi_pm_good [X86] 212 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 213 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 214 and always returns good values. 215 216 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 217 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 218 219 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 220 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 221 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 222 223 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 224 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, 225 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl } 226 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on 227 s3_bios and s3_mode. 228 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 229 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 230 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 231 used during resume from hibernation. 232 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 233 control method, with respect to putting devices into 234 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 235 of _PTS is used by default). 236 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 237 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 238 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 239 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 240 but some broken systems don't work without it). 241 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 242 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 243 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 244 245 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 246 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 247 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 248 249 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 250 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 251 252 agp= [AGP] 253 { off | try_unsupported } 254 off: disable AGP support 255 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 256 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 257 258 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 259 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 260 261 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 262 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 263 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 264 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 265 266 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 267 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 268 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 269 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 270 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 271 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 272 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 273 274 32: only for 32-bit processes 275 64: only for 64-bit processes 276 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 277 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 278 279 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 280 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 281 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 282 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 283 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 284 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 285 286 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 287 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 288 Possible values are: 289 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when 290 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are 291 flushed before they will be reused, which 292 is a lot of faster 293 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 294 the system 295 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 296 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 297 allowed anymore to lift isolation 298 requirements as needed. This option 299 does not override iommu=pt 300 301 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 302 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 303 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 304 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 305 IOMMU initialization. 306 307 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 308 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 309 remapping modes: 310 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 311 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 312 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 313 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 314 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 315 316 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 317 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 318 Format: <a>,<b> 319 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 320 321 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 322 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 323 connected to one of 16 gameports 324 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 325 326 apc= [HW,SPARC] 327 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 328 Format: noidle 329 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 330 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 331 APC and your system crashes randomly. 332 333 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 334 Change the output verbosity while booting 335 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 336 Change the amount of debugging information output 337 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 338 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 339 driver name. 340 Format: apic=driver_name 341 Examples: apic=bigsmp 342 343 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 344 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 345 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 346 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 347 backup of CPU 0 348 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 349 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 350 shot down by NMI 351 352 autoconf= [IPV6] 353 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 354 355 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 356 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 357 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 358 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 359 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 360 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 361 apic=verbose is specified. 362 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 363 364 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 365 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 366 367 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 368 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 369 370 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 371 372 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 373 374 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 375 EzKey and similar keyboards 376 377 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 378 379 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 380 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 381 382 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 383 keyboards 384 385 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 386 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 387 388 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 389 Use software keyboard repeat 390 391 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 392 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 393 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 394 enabled until the next reboot 395 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 396 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 397 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 398 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 399 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 400 userspace auditd. 401 Default: unset 402 403 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 404 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 405 Default: 64 406 407 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 408 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 409 Format: { "0" | "1" } 410 0 - Disable the BAU. 411 1 - Enable the BAU. 412 unset - Disable the BAU. 413 414 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 415 Format: <io>,<mode> 416 417 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 418 Format: <io>,<mode> 419 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 420 421 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 422 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 423 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 424 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 425 426 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 427 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 428 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 429 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 430 431 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 432 embedded devices based on command line input. 433 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt 434 435 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 436 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 437 no delay (0). 438 Format: integer 439 440 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages. 441 442 bert_disable [ACPI] 443 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 444 445 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 446 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 447 kernel args too. 448 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst 449 bttv.tuner= 450 451 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 452 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 453 at a time. 454 455 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 456 457 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 458 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 459 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 460 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 461 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 462 This option provides an override for these situations. 463 464 carrier_timeout= 465 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 466 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 467 it waits 120 seconds. 468 469 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 470 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 471 trust validation. 472 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 473 474 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 475 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 476 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 477 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 478 others). 479 480 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 481 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. 482 483 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller 484 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable} 485 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 486 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 487 a single hierarchy 488 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 489 subsystem 490 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 491 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 492 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 493 494 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 495 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 496 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 497 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 498 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 499 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 500 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 501 all v1 hierarchies. 502 503 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 504 Format: <string> 505 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 506 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 507 508 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 509 Format: { "0" | "1" } 510 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 511 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 512 any implied execute protection). 513 1 -- check protection requested by application. 514 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 515 Value can be changed at runtime via 516 /selinux/checkreqprot. 517 518 cio_ignore= [S390] 519 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. 520 clk_ignore_unused 521 [CLK] 522 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 523 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 524 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 525 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 526 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 527 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 528 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 529 platform with proper driver support. For more 530 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 531 532 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 533 [Deprecated] 534 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 535 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 536 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 537 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 538 539 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 540 Format: <string> 541 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 542 with the name specified. 543 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 544 the platform: 545 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 546 [ACPI] acpi_pm 547 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 548 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 549 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 550 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 551 [MIPS] MIPS 552 [PARISC] cr16 553 [S390] tod 554 [SH] SuperH 555 [SPARC64] tick 556 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 557 558 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 559 [ARM,ARM64] 560 Format: <bool> 561 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 562 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 563 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 564 systems. 565 566 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86] 567 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 568 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 569 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily 570 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific 571 ones should be. 572 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 573 or using the feature without checking anything 574 will still see it. This just prevents it from 575 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 576 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 577 some critical bits. 578 579 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 580 [ARM,X86,KNL] 581 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 582 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 583 placement constraint by the physical address range of 584 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 585 altogether. For more information, see 586 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h 587 588 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 589 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 590 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 591 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 592 a hypervisor. 593 Default: yes 594 595 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 596 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 597 allocations, by default set to 256K. 598 599 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 600 Format: 601 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 602 603 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 604 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 605 606 com90xx= [HW,NET] 607 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 608 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 609 610 condev= [HW,S390] console device 611 conmode= 612 613 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 614 615 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 616 617 ttyS<n>[,options] 618 ttyUSB0[,options] 619 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 620 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 621 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 622 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 623 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 624 625 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 626 information. See 627 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an 628 alternative. 629 630 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 631 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 632 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 633 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 634 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 635 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 636 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 637 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 638 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 639 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 640 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 641 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 642 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 643 the h/w is not re-initialized. 644 645 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 646 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 647 648 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 649 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 650 console=brl,ttyS0 651 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 652 653 console_msg_format= 654 [KNL] Change console messages format 655 default 656 By default we print messages on consoles in 657 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 658 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 659 `printk_time' param). 660 syslog 661 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 662 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 663 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 664 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 665 from /proc/kmsg. 666 667 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 668 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 669 Defaults to 0. 670 671 coredump_filter= 672 [KNL] Change the default value for 673 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 674 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. 675 676 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 677 [ARM,ARM64] 678 Format: <bool> 679 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 680 0: default value, disable debugging 681 1: enable debugging at boot time 682 683 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 684 disable the cpuidle sub-system 685 686 cpuidle.governor= 687 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 688 689 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 690 disable the cpufreq sub-system 691 692 cpu_init_udelay=N 693 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 694 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 695 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 696 Default: 10000 697 698 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 699 Format: 700 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 701 702 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 703 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 704 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 705 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 706 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 707 is selected automatically. Check 708 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details. 709 710 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 711 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 712 in the running system. The syntax of range is 713 start-[end] where start and end are both 714 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 715 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example. 716 717 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 718 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 719 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 720 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 721 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 722 available. 723 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 724 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 725 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 726 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 727 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 728 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 729 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 730 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 731 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at 732 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 733 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G 734 for second kernel instead. 735 0: to disable low allocation. 736 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 737 or memory reserved is below 4G. 738 739 cryptomgr.notests 740 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 741 742 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 743 Format: <dma> 744 745 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 746 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 747 748 dasd= [HW,NET] 749 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 750 751 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 752 (one device per port) 753 Format: <port#>,<type> 754 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 755 756 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot 757 time. See 758 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for 759 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg. 760 761 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 762 763 debug_boot_weak_hash 764 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 765 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 766 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 767 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 768 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 769 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 770 771 debug_locks_verbose= 772 [KNL] verbose self-tests 773 Format=<0|1> 774 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 775 self-tests. 776 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to 777 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally 778 only useful to kernel developers. 779 780 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 781 782 no_debug_objects 783 [KNL] Disable object debugging 784 785 debug_guardpage_minorder= 786 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 787 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 788 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 789 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 790 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 791 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 792 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 793 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 794 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 795 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 796 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 797 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 798 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 799 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 800 bypassed) which are not detectable by 801 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 802 tracking down these problems. 803 804 debug_pagealloc= 805 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 806 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In 807 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge 808 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable 809 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same 810 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 811 on: enable the feature 812 813 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 814 815 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 816 Format: <area>[,<node>] 817 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt. 818 819 default_hugepagesz= 820 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default 821 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by 822 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and 823 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems. 824 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size 825 if not specified. 826 827 deferred_probe_timeout= 828 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 829 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 830 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 831 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0 832 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also 833 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 834 retrying. 835 836 dhash_entries= [KNL] 837 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 838 839 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 840 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 841 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 842 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 843 miss to occur. 844 845 disable= [IPV6] 846 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 847 848 hardened_usercopy= 849 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 850 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 851 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 852 from reading or writing beyond known memory 853 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 854 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 855 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 856 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 857 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 858 859 disable_radix [PPC] 860 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 861 862 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 863 Format: <int> 864 The number of initial APIC ID for the 865 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 866 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 867 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 868 causing system reset or hang due to sending 869 INIT from AP to BSP. 870 871 perf_v4_pmi= [X86,INTEL] 872 Format: <bool> 873 Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature. 874 The feature only exists starting from 875 Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer). 876 877 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 878 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if 879 to workaround buggy firmware. 880 881 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 882 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 883 884 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 885 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 886 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 887 entry later. This parameter disables that. 888 889 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 890 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 891 memory out of your available memory pool based on 892 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 893 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 894 895 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 896 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 897 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 898 899 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 900 901 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 902 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 903 904 dma_debug_entries=<number> 905 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 906 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 907 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 908 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 909 architectural default is too low. 910 911 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 912 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 913 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 914 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 915 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 916 driver later using sysfs. 917 918 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 919 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. 920 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 921 922 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 923 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 924 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 925 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 926 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 927 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 928 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 929 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 930 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 931 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 932 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID 933 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 934 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 935 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 936 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 937 data set with no connector name will be used for 938 any connectors not explicitly specified. 939 940 dscc4.setup= [NET] 941 942 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 943 Format: {"off" | "known"} 944 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 945 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 946 exists). 947 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 948 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 949 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 950 951 dump_apple_properties [X86] 952 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 953 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 954 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 955 956 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 957 module.dyndbg[="val"] 958 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 959 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 960 for details. 961 962 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions. 963 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more 964 information about the feature. 965 966 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 967 in some Intel CPUs. 968 969 module.async_probe [KNL] 970 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 971 972 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 973 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 974 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 975 which are not unmapped. 976 977 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 978 979 [ARM64] The early console is determined by the 980 stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node, 981 or determined by the ACPI SPCR table. 982 983 [X86] When used with no options the early console is 984 determined by the ACPI SPCR table. 985 986 cdns,<addr>[,options] 987 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 988 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 989 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 990 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 991 configured. 992 993 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 994 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 995 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 996 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 997 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 998 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 999 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1000 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1001 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1002 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1003 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1004 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1005 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 1006 1007 pl011,<addr> 1008 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1009 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1010 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1011 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1012 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1013 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1014 the device registers. 1015 1016 meson,<addr> 1017 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1018 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1019 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1020 supported. 1021 1022 msm_serial,<addr> 1023 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1024 port at the specified address. The serial port 1025 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1026 yet supported. 1027 1028 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1029 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1030 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1031 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1032 yet supported. 1033 1034 owl,<addr> 1035 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1036 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1037 specified address. The serial port must already be 1038 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1039 1040 rda,<addr> 1041 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1042 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1043 specified address. The serial port must already be 1044 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1045 1046 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1047 1048 s3c2410,<addr> 1049 s3c2412,<addr> 1050 s3c2440,<addr> 1051 s3c6400,<addr> 1052 s5pv210,<addr> 1053 exynos4210,<addr> 1054 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1055 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1056 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1057 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1058 Options are not yet supported. 1059 1060 lantiq,<addr> 1061 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1062 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1063 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1064 yet supported. 1065 1066 lpuart,<addr> 1067 lpuart32,<addr> 1068 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1069 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1070 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1071 port must already be setup and configured. 1072 1073 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1074 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1075 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1076 address. The serial port must already be setup 1077 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1078 1079 qcom_geni,<addr> 1080 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1081 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1082 specified address. The serial port must already be 1083 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1084 1085 efifb,[options] 1086 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1087 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1088 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1089 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1090 mapped with the correct attributes. 1091 1092 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1093 earlyprintk=vga 1094 earlyprintk=sclp 1095 earlyprintk=xen 1096 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1097 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1098 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1099 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1100 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1101 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1102 1103 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1104 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1105 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1106 1107 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1108 takes over. 1109 1110 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 1111 be used at a time. 1112 1113 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1114 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1115 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1116 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1117 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1118 You can find the port for a given device in 1119 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1120 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1121 1122 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1123 very good. 1124 1125 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 1126 the real console. 1127 1128 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. 1129 1130 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1131 1132 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1133 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1134 UART class. 1135 1136 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1137 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1138 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1139 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1140 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1141 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1142 default: on. 1143 1144 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1145 ekgdboc=kbd 1146 1147 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1148 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1149 1150 edd= [EDD] 1151 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1152 1153 efi= [EFI] 1154 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" } 1155 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI 1156 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by 1157 default. 1158 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1159 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1160 firmware implementations. 1161 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1162 debug: enable misc debug output 1163 1164 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1165 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1166 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1167 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1168 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1169 1170 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1171 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1172 updating original EFI memory map. 1173 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1174 from ss to ss+nn. 1175 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1176 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1177 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1178 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1179 1180 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1181 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of 1182 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1183 doesn't support it. 1184 1185 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1186 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1187 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1188 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1189 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details. 1190 1191 1192 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1193 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1194 1195 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1196 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1197 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1198 1199 elevator= [IOSCHED] 1200 Format: { "mq-deadline" | "kyber" | "bfq" } 1201 See Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt, 1202 Documentation/block/kyber-iosched.txt and 1203 Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.txt for details. 1204 1205 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1206 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1207 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1208 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1209 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details. 1210 1211 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1212 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1213 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1214 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1215 1216 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1217 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1218 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1219 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1220 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1221 1222 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1223 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1224 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1225 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1226 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1227 Default value is 0. 1228 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce. 1229 1230 erst_disable [ACPI] 1231 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1232 support. 1233 1234 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1235 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1236 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1237 1238 evm= [EVM] 1239 Format: { "fix" } 1240 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1241 current integrity status. 1242 1243 failslab= 1244 fail_page_alloc= 1245 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1246 General fault injection mechanism. 1247 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1248 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1249 1250 floppy= [HW] 1251 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt. 1252 1253 force_pal_cache_flush 1254 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1255 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1256 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1257 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1258 1259 forcepae [X86-32] 1260 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1261 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1262 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1263 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1264 and may cause unknown problems. 1265 1266 ftrace=[tracer] 1267 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1268 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1269 boot debugging. 1270 1271 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1272 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1273 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1274 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1275 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1276 oops. 1277 1278 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1279 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1280 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 1281 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1282 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1283 tracing directory. 1284 1285 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1286 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1287 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1288 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1289 tracing directory. 1290 1291 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1292 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1293 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1294 function-list is a comma separated list of functions 1295 that can be changed at run time by the 1296 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1297 1298 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1299 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1300 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of 1301 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1302 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1303 1304 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1305 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1306 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1307 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1308 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1309 1310 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1311 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1312 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1313 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1314 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1315 1316 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1317 1318 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1319 Format: off | on 1320 default: on 1321 1322 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1323 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1324 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1325 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1326 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1327 1328 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1329 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1330 android emulator 1331 1332 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1333 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1334 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1335 GPT to be used instead. 1336 1337 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1338 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1339 Format: 0 | 1 1340 Default: 0 1341 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1342 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1343 Format: 0 | 1 1344 Default: 0 1345 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1346 Format: 0 | 1 1347 Default: 0 1348 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1349 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1350 Default: 1024 1351 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1352 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1353 Default: 1024 1354 1355 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1356 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1357 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1358 1359 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1360 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1361 backtraces on all cpus. 1362 Format: <integer> 1363 1364 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1365 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1366 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1367 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1368 1369 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1370 1371 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1372 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1373 1374 hest_disable [ACPI] 1375 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1376 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1377 logic will be disabled. 1378 1379 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1380 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1381 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1382 size on bigger boxes. 1383 1384 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1385 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1386 Default: "on" 1387 1388 hisax= [HW,ISDN] 1389 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax. 1390 1391 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1392 1393 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1394 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1395 verbose } 1396 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1397 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1398 VIA, nVidia) 1399 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1400 1401 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1402 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1403 1404 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1405 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages. 1406 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified 1407 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve 1408 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on 1409 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G 1410 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag). 1411 1412 hung_task_panic= 1413 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1414 Format: <integer> 1415 1416 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a 1417 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1418 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1419 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1420 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1421 1422 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1423 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1424 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1425 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1426 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1427 1428 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1429 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1430 guest on lock contention. 1431 1432 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1433 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1434 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1435 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1436 the real console. 1437 1438 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1439 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1440 registered from board initialization code. 1441 Format: 1442 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1443 1444 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1445 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1446 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1447 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1448 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1449 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1450 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1451 keyboard and cannot control its state 1452 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1453 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1454 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1455 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1456 for the AUX port 1457 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1458 controller 1459 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1460 controllers 1461 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1462 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1463 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1464 transitions, or never reset 1465 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1466 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1467 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1468 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1469 architectures force reset to be always executed 1470 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1471 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1472 1473 i810= [HW,DRM] 1474 1475 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1476 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1477 hardware. 1478 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature 1479 does not match list of supported models. 1480 i8k.power_status 1481 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1482 (disabled by default) 1483 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1484 capability is set. 1485 1486 i915.invert_brightness= 1487 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1488 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1489 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1490 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1491 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1492 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1493 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1494 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1495 value switches the backlight off. 1496 -1 -- never invert brightness 1497 0 -- machine default 1498 1 -- force brightness inversion 1499 1500 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1501 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1502 1503 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1504 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1505 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1506 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1507 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt. 1508 1509 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1510 Format: <int> 1511 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1512 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1513 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1514 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1515 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1516 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1517 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1518 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1519 was 0x3. 1520 1521 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1522 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1523 1524 idle= [X86] 1525 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1526 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1527 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1528 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1529 Not recommended. 1530 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1531 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1532 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1533 1534 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1535 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1536 Default: strict 1537 1538 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1539 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1540 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1541 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1542 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1543 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1544 encoding mode. 1545 1546 Available settings are as follows: 1547 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1548 supported by the FPU 1549 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1550 by the FPU 1551 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1552 by the FPU 1553 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1554 supported by the FPU 1555 1556 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1557 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1558 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1559 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1560 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1561 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1562 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1563 MIPS64 CPUs. 1564 1565 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1566 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1567 except where unsupported by hardware. 1568 1569 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1570 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1571 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1572 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1573 could change it dynamically, usually by 1574 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1575 1576 ignore_rlimit_data 1577 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1578 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1579 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1580 1581 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1582 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1583 1584 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1585 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1586 default: "enforce" 1587 1588 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] 1589 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1590 owned by uid=0. 1591 1592 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1593 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1594 measurements, instead of host native format. 1595 1596 ima_hash= [IMA] 1597 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1598 | sha512 | ... } 1599 default: "sha1" 1600 1601 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1602 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1603 1604 ima_policy= [IMA] 1605 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1606 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1607 fail_securely" 1608 1609 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1610 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1611 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1612 uid=0. 1613 1614 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1615 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent 1616 of ima_appraise_tcb.) 1617 1618 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1619 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1620 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1621 1622 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1623 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1624 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1625 flag. 1626 1627 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1628 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1629 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1630 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1631 opened for read by uid=0. 1632 1633 ima_template= [IMA] 1634 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1635 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" } 1636 Default: "ima-ng" 1637 1638 ima_template_fmt= 1639 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1640 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1641 1642 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1643 Format: <min_file_size> 1644 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1645 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1646 1647 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1648 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1649 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1650 1651 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1652 Format: <bufsize> 1653 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1654 1655 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1656 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1657 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1658 1659 init= [KNL] 1660 Format: <full_path> 1661 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1662 process. 1663 1664 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1665 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1666 startup. 1667 1668 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1669 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1670 modules and initcalls. 1671 1672 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1673 1674 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1675 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1676 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1677 override in debugfs after boot. 1678 1679 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1680 Format: <irq> 1681 1682 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1683 1684 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1685 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1686 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1687 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1688 1689 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1690 on 1691 Enable intel iommu driver. 1692 off 1693 Disable intel iommu driver. 1694 igfx_off [Default Off] 1695 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1696 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1697 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1698 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1699 DMA. 1700 forcedac [x86_64] 1701 With this option iommu will not optimize to look 1702 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual 1703 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater 1704 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look 1705 for translation below 32-bit and if not available 1706 then look in the higher range. 1707 strict [Default Off] 1708 With this option on every unmap_single operation will 1709 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed 1710 to batching them for performance. 1711 sp_off [Default Off] 1712 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 1713 has the capability. With this option, super page will 1714 not be supported. 1715 sm_on [Default Off] 1716 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the 1717 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable 1718 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode 1719 will be used on hardware which claims to support it. 1720 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 1721 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 1722 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 1723 could harm performance of some high-throughput 1724 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 1725 mapping is enabled. 1726 Note that using this option lowers the security 1727 provided by tboot because it makes the system 1728 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 1729 1730 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 1731 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1732 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 1733 1734 intel_pstate= [X86] 1735 disable 1736 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 1737 scaling driver for the supported processors 1738 passive 1739 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 1740 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 1741 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 1742 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 1743 feature. 1744 force 1745 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 1746 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 1747 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 1748 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 1749 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 1750 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 1751 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 1752 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 1753 no_hwp 1754 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 1755 if available. 1756 hwp_only 1757 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 1758 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 1759 support_acpi_ppc 1760 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 1761 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 1762 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 1763 then this feature is turned on by default. 1764 per_cpu_perf_limits 1765 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 1766 cpufreq sysfs interface 1767 1768 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 1769 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 1770 off disable Interrupt Remapping 1771 nosid disable Source ID checking 1772 no_x2apic_optout 1773 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 1774 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 1775 1776 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 1777 strict regions from userspace. 1778 relaxed 1779 1780 iommu= [x86] 1781 off 1782 force 1783 noforce 1784 biomerge 1785 panic 1786 nopanic 1787 merge 1788 nomerge 1789 soft 1790 pt [x86] 1791 nopt [x86] 1792 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 1793 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 1794 1795 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 1796 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1797 0 - Lazy mode. 1798 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 1799 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 1800 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 1801 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 1802 the relevant IOMMU driver. 1803 1 - Strict mode (default). 1804 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 1805 synchronously. 1806 1807 iommu.passthrough= 1808 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 1809 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1810 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1811 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 1812 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 1813 1814 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems 1815 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 1816 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 1817 1818 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 1819 0x80 1820 Standard port 0x80 based delay 1821 0xed 1822 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 1823 udelay 1824 Simple two microseconds delay 1825 none 1826 No delay 1827 1828 ip= [IP_PNP] 1829 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 1830 1831 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 1832 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 1833 1834 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 1835 [ARM, ARM64] 1836 Format: <bool> 1837 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 1838 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 1839 exposed by the device tree is too small. 1840 1841 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 1842 [ARM, ARM64] 1843 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 1844 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 1845 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 1846 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 1847 LPIs. 1848 1849 irqfixup [HW] 1850 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1851 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1852 firmware running. 1853 1854 irqpoll [HW] 1855 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1856 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 1857 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1858 firmware running. 1859 1860 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 1861 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 1862 1863 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 1864 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 1865 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 1866 1867 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 1868 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 1869 1870 nohz 1871 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 1872 1873 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 1874 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 1875 workqueue's affinity configured via the 1876 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 1877 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 1878 1879 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 1880 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 1881 be configured manually after bootup. 1882 1883 domain 1884 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 1885 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 1886 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 1887 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 1888 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 1889 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 1890 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 1891 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 1892 1893 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 1894 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 1895 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 1896 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 1897 1898 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 1899 1900 1901 1902 iucv= [HW,NET] 1903 1904 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64] 1905 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1906 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1907 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 1908 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1909 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 1910 1911 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64] 1912 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1913 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1914 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 1915 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1916 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 1917 1918 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64] 1919 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 1920 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1921 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 1922 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 1923 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 1924 1925 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 1926 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 1927 1928 nokaslr [KNL] 1929 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 1930 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 1931 Layout Randomization). 1932 1933 kasan_multi_shot 1934 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 1935 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 1936 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 1937 invalid access. 1938 1939 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 1940 1941 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 1942 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 1943 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 1944 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 1945 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 1946 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 1947 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 1948 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 1949 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 1950 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 1951 1952 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 1953 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 1954 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 1955 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 1956 zone if it does not. 1957 1958 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 1959 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 1960 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 1961 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 1962 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 1963 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 1964 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 1965 1966 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 1967 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 1968 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 1969 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 1970 optional and is the number seconds in between 1971 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 1972 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 1973 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 1974 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 1975 the kernel debugger. 1976 1977 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 1978 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 1979 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 1980 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 1981 keyboard only format: kbd 1982 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 1983 Optional Kernel mode setting: 1984 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 1985 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 1986 1987 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 1988 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 1989 1990 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address. 1991 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 1992 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 1993 1994 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 1995 Valid arguments: on, off 1996 Default: on 1997 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 1998 the default is off. 1999 2000 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2001 and kernel address spaces. 2002 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2003 0: force disabled 2004 1: force enabled 2005 2006 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2007 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2008 2009 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2010 Default is false (don't support). 2011 2012 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 2013 KVM MMU at runtime. 2014 Default is 0 (off) 2015 2016 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2017 Default is 1 (enabled) 2018 2019 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2020 for all guests. 2021 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2022 2023 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2024 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2025 system registers 2026 2027 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2028 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2029 system registers 2030 2031 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2032 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2033 system registers 2034 2035 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2036 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2037 LPIs. 2038 2039 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2040 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2041 Default is 1 (enabled) 2042 2043 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2044 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 2045 Default is 0 (disabled) 2046 2047 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2048 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2049 Default is 1 (enabled) 2050 2051 kvm-intel.nested= 2052 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2053 Default is 0 (disabled) 2054 2055 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2056 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2057 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2058 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2059 2060 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2061 CVE-2018-3620. 2062 2063 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2064 2065 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2066 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2067 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2068 never: Disables the mitigation 2069 2070 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2071 2072 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2073 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2074 Default is 1 (enabled) 2075 2076 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2077 affected CPUs 2078 2079 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2080 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2081 2082 full 2083 Provides all available mitigations for the 2084 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2085 enables all mitigations in the 2086 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2087 2088 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2089 sysfs interface is still possible after 2090 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2091 when the first VM is started in a 2092 potentially insecure configuration, 2093 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2094 2095 full,force 2096 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2097 flush runtime control. Implies the 2098 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2099 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2100 2101 flush 2102 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2103 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2104 L1D flush. 2105 2106 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2107 sysfs interface is still possible after 2108 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2109 when the first VM is started in a 2110 potentially insecure configuration, 2111 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2112 2113 flush,nosmt 2114 2115 Disables SMT and enables the default 2116 hypervisor mitigation. 2117 2118 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2119 sysfs interface is still possible after 2120 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2121 when the first VM is started in a 2122 potentially insecure configuration, 2123 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2124 2125 flush,nowarn 2126 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2127 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2128 insecure configuration. 2129 2130 off 2131 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2132 emit any warnings. 2133 It also drops the swap size and available 2134 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2135 bare metal. 2136 2137 Default is 'flush'. 2138 2139 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst 2140 2141 l2cr= [PPC] 2142 2143 l3cr= [PPC] 2144 2145 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2146 disabled it. 2147 2148 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline 2149 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2150 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2151 2152 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2153 in C2 power state. 2154 2155 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2156 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2157 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2158 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2159 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2160 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2161 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2162 2163 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2164 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2165 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2166 2167 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2168 when set. 2169 Format: <int> 2170 2171 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma 2172 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 2173 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 2174 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 2175 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 2176 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 2177 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 2178 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 2179 2180 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2181 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2182 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2183 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2184 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2185 host link and device attached to it. 2186 2187 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2188 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 2189 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2190 The following configurations can be forced. 2191 2192 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2193 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2194 2195 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2196 2197 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2198 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2199 allowed. 2200 2201 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2202 2203 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 2204 2205 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 2206 and both resets. 2207 2208 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 2209 hot-unplug link recovery 2210 2211 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 2212 2213 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 2214 2215 * disable: Disable this device. 2216 2217 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2218 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2219 2220 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 2221 2222 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy 2223 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 2224 2225 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2226 Format: <integer> 2227 2228 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2229 Format: <integer> 2230 2231 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2232 Format: <integer> 2233 2234 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2235 Format: <integer> 2236 2237 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2238 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2239 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2240 number of online CPUs. 2241 2242 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2243 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2244 2245 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2246 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2247 2248 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2249 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2250 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2251 2252 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2253 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2254 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2255 mode during the locktorture test. 2256 2257 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2258 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2259 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2260 2261 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2262 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2263 2264 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2265 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2266 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2267 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2268 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2269 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2270 2271 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2272 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2273 2274 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2275 Enable additional printk() statements. 2276 2277 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2278 Format: <irq> 2279 2280 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2281 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2282 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2283 loglevels are defined as follows: 2284 2285 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2286 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2287 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2288 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2289 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2290 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2291 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2292 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2293 2294 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2295 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2296 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2297 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2298 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2299 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2300 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2301 2302 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2303 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2304 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2305 kernel boot problems. 2306 2307 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2308 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2309 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2310 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2311 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2312 attached printers to be reset. Using 2313 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2314 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2315 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2316 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2317 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2318 port specification list means that device IDs 2319 from each port should be examined, to see if 2320 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2321 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2322 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2323 2324 lpj=n [KNL] 2325 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2326 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2327 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2328 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2329 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2330 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2331 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2332 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2333 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2334 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2335 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2336 hardware. 2337 2338 ltpc= [NET] 2339 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2340 2341 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2342 2343 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2344 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2345 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2346 2347 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2348 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2349 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb 2350 2351 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different 2352 yeeloong laptop. 2353 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2354 2355 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2356 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2357 2358 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2359 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2360 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2361 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2362 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2363 only takes effect during system bootup. 2364 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2365 which also disables the IO APIC. 2366 2367 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2368 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2369 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2370 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2371 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2372 /dev/loop-control interface. 2373 2374 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2375 2376 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt 2377 2378 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2379 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2380 2381 mdacon= [MDA] 2382 Format: <first>,<last> 2383 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2384 2385 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2386 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able 2387 to see the whole system memory or for test. 2388 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2389 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2390 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2391 belonging to unused RAM. 2392 2393 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2394 memory. 2395 2396 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2397 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2398 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2399 2400 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2401 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2402 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2403 set according to the 2404 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2405 option. 2406 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt. 2407 2408 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2409 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2410 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2411 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2412 option description. 2413 2414 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2415 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2416 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2417 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2418 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2419 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2420 comma delimited. 2421 Example: 2422 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2423 2424 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2425 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2426 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2427 2428 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2429 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2430 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2431 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2432 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2433 or 2434 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2435 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 2436 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 2437 will be eaten. 2438 2439 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2440 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2441 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2442 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2443 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2444 2445 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 2446 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 2447 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 2448 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 2449 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 2450 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 2451 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 2452 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 2453 2454 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2455 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2456 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2457 Setting this option will scan the memory 2458 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2459 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2460 from using the memory being corrupted. 2461 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2462 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2463 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2464 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2465 2466 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2467 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2468 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2469 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2470 corruption in more or less memory. 2471 2472 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2473 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2474 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2475 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2476 2477 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest 2478 Format: <integer> 2479 default : 0 <disable> 2480 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2481 performed. Each pass selects another test 2482 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2483 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2484 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2485 regions that are detected. 2486 2487 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 2488 Valid arguments: on, off 2489 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 2490 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 2491 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 2492 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 2493 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 2494 2495 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt 2496 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 2497 2498 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 2499 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 2500 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 2501 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 2502 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 2503 2504 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2505 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst. 2506 2507 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2508 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2509 platforms. 2510 2511 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2512 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2513 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2514 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2515 2516 mga= [HW,DRM] 2517 2518 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2519 physical address is ignored. 2520 2521 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2522 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2523 Default: "0tb" 2524 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2525 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2526 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2527 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2528 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2529 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2530 unconfigured. 2531 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2532 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2533 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2534 VGA shield. 2535 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2536 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2537 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2538 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2539 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 2540 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 2541 2542 mminit_loglevel= 2543 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 2544 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 2545 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 2546 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 2547 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 2548 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 2549 2550 module.sig_enforce 2551 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 2552 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 2553 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 2554 is always true, so this option does nothing. 2555 2556 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 2557 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 2558 2559 mousedev.tap_time= 2560 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 2561 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 2562 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 2563 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 2564 Format: <msecs> 2565 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 2566 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2567 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 2568 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2569 2570 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2571 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 2572 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 2573 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 2574 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 2575 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 2576 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 2577 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 2578 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 2579 is not too small. 2580 2581 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 2582 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 2583 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 2584 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 2585 allocations. Use with caution! 2586 2587 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 2588 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 2589 2590 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 2591 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 2592 2593 mtdparts= [MTD] 2594 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c. 2595 2596 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 2597 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 2598 at a time. 2599 2600 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 2601 2602 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 2603 2604 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 2605 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 2606 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 2607 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 2608 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 2609 2610 mtdset= [ARM] 2611 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 2612 2613 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c 2614 2615 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 2616 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 2617 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 2618 2619 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2620 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 2621 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 2622 2623 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2624 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 2625 Default is 1. 2626 Large value could prevent small alignment from 2627 using up MTRRs. 2628 2629 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 2630 Format: <integer> 2631 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 2632 Default : 1 2633 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 2634 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 2635 2636 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 2637 2638 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 2639 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 2640 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 2641 something different and driver-specific. 2642 This usage is only documented in each driver source 2643 file if at all. 2644 2645 nf_conntrack.acct= 2646 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 2647 0 to disable accounting 2648 1 to enable accounting 2649 Default value is 0. 2650 2651 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 2652 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2653 2654 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 2655 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2656 2657 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 2658 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2659 2660 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 2661 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 2662 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 2663 requests. 2664 2665 nfs.callback_tcpport= 2666 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 2667 channel should listen. 2668 2669 nfs.cache_getent= 2670 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 2671 to update the NFS client cache entries. 2672 2673 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 2674 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 2675 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 2676 2677 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 2678 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 2679 entries. 2680 2681 nfs.enable_ino64= 2682 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 2683 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 2684 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 2685 of returning the full 64-bit number. 2686 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 2687 2688 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 2689 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 2690 slots the client will assign to the callback 2691 channel. This determines the maximum number of 2692 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 2693 a particular server. 2694 2695 nfs.max_session_slots= 2696 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 2697 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 2698 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 2699 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 2700 Note that there is little point in setting this 2701 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 2702 2703 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2704 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 2705 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 2706 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 2707 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 2708 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 2709 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 2710 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 2711 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 2712 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 2713 back to using the idmapper. 2714 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 2715 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 2716 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 2717 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 2718 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 2719 UUID that is generated at system install time. 2720 2721 nfs.send_implementation_id = 2722 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 2723 information in exchange_id requests. 2724 If zero, no implementation identification information 2725 will be sent. 2726 The default is to send the implementation identification 2727 information. 2728 2729 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 2730 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 2731 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 2732 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 2733 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 2734 after the locks are lost. 2735 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 2736 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 2737 parameter to '1'. 2738 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 2739 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 2740 2741 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 2742 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 2743 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 2744 2745 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 2746 whatever value is the default set by the layout 2747 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 2748 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 2749 2750 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2751 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 2752 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 2753 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 2754 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 2755 migration from NFSv2/v3. 2756 2757 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 2758 when a NMI is triggered. 2759 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 2760 2761 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 2762 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 2763 Valid num: 0 or 1 2764 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 2765 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 2766 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 2767 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite 2768 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 2769 please see 'nowatchdog'. 2770 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 2771 need the box quickly up again. 2772 2773 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 2774 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 2775 2776 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 2777 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 2778 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 2779 waits 4 seconds. 2780 2781 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 2782 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 2783 is present. 2784 2785 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 2786 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 2787 2788 no_console_suspend 2789 [HW] Never suspend the console 2790 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 2791 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 2792 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 2793 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 2794 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 2795 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 2796 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 2797 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 2798 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 2799 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 2800 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 2801 turn on/off it dynamically. 2802 2803 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 2804 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 2805 but will impact performance. 2806 2807 noalign [KNL,ARM] 2808 2809 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 2810 (CPU alternatives feature). 2811 2812 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 2813 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 2814 2815 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 2816 2817 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 2818 on "Classic" PPC cores. 2819 2820 nocache [ARM] 2821 2822 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 2823 2824 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting 2825 2826 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 2827 2828 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 2829 2830 noexec [IA-64] 2831 2832 noexec [X86] 2833 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 2834 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2835 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 2836 2837 nosmap [X86] 2838 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 2839 even if it is supported by processor. 2840 2841 nosmep [X86] 2842 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 2843 even if it is supported by processor. 2844 2845 noexec32 [X86-64] 2846 This affects only 32-bit executables. 2847 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2848 read doesn't imply executable mappings 2849 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 2850 read implies executable mappings 2851 2852 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 2853 2854 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 2855 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 2856 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 2857 2858 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 2859 2860 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 2861 Equivalent to smt=1. 2862 2863 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 2864 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 2865 via the sysfs control file. 2866 2867 nospectre_v1 [PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 (bounds 2868 check bypass). With this option data leaks are possible 2869 in the system. 2870 2871 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2 2872 (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may 2873 allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent 2874 to spectre_v2=off. 2875 2876 nospec_store_bypass_disable 2877 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 2878 2879 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 2880 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 2881 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 2882 2883 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 2884 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 2885 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 2886 performance of saving the states is degraded because 2887 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 2888 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 2889 2890 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 2891 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 2892 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 2893 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 2894 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 2895 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 2896 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 2897 2898 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or 2899 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to 2900 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger. 2901 2902 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 2903 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 2904 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 2905 2906 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 2907 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 2908 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 2909 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 2910 in certain environments such as networked servers or 2911 real-time systems. 2912 2913 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 2914 2915 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 2916 Valid arguments: on, off 2917 Default: on 2918 2919 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 2920 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2921 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 2922 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 2923 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 2924 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 2925 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 2926 just as if they had also been called out in the 2927 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 2928 2929 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 2930 2931 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 2932 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 2933 2934 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 2935 broken timer IRQ sources. 2936 2937 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 2938 2939 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 2940 initial RAM disk. 2941 2942 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 2943 remapping. 2944 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 2945 2946 nointroute [IA-64] 2947 2948 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 2949 2950 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 2951 2952 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 2953 2954 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 2955 fault handling. 2956 2957 no-vmw-sched-clock 2958 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 2959 clock and use the default one. 2960 2961 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. 2962 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler 2963 behaviour 2964 2965 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 2966 2967 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 2968 2969 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 2970 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 2971 2972 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 2973 2974 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 2975 2976 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 2977 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 2978 2979 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 2980 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 2981 irq. 2982 2983 nomodule Disable module load 2984 2985 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 2986 pagetables) support. 2987 2988 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 2989 2990 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 2991 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 2992 2993 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 2994 with UP alternatives 2995 2996 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 2997 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 2998 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 2999 available to user space applications. 3000 3001 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3002 space. 3003 3004 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3005 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3006 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3007 3008 nosbagart [IA-64] 3009 3010 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 3011 3012 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3013 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3014 3015 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3016 3017 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3018 3019 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3020 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3021 3022 nowb [ARM] 3023 3024 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3025 3026 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 3027 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 3028 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 3029 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 3030 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 3031 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 3032 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 3033 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 3034 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 3035 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 3036 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 3037 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 3038 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 3039 3040 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3041 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3042 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3043 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3044 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3045 parameter's value. 3046 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3047 Default: 255 3048 3049 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3050 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3051 SAL PALO. 3052 3053 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3054 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3055 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3056 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3057 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3058 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3059 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3060 hot plugging. 3061 3062 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3063 3064 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing. 3065 Allowed values are enable and disable 3066 3067 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3068 'node', 'default' can be specified 3069 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3070 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details. 3071 3072 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3073 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more 3074 info. 3075 3076 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3077 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3078 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3079 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3080 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3081 interrupts *may* be lost! 3082 3083 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3084 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3085 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3086 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3087 3088 oprofile.timer= [HW] 3089 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters 3090 3091 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type 3092 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile 3093 userland or if you want common events. 3094 Format: { arch_perfmon } 3095 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural 3096 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the 3097 CPU specific event set. 3098 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI 3099 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer 3100 for generic hr timer mode) 3101 3102 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3103 process, but there is a small probability of 3104 deadlocking the machine. 3105 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3106 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3107 3108 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3109 Storage of the information about who allocated 3110 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3111 we can turn it on. 3112 on: enable the feature 3113 3114 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3115 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3116 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3117 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3118 on: turn on poisoning 3119 3120 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3121 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3122 timeout = 0: wait forever 3123 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3124 Format: <timeout> 3125 3126 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3127 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3128 bit 0: print all tasks info 3129 bit 1: print system memory info 3130 bit 2: print timer info 3131 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3132 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3133 3134 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3135 on a WARN(). 3136 3137 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 3138 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 3139 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 3140 succeeds in any situation. 3141 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 3142 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 3143 kernel more unstable. 3144 3145 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3146 connected to, default is 0. 3147 Format: <parport#> 3148 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3149 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3150 Format: <mode> 3151 3152 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3153 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3154 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3155 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3156 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3157 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3158 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3159 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3160 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3161 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3162 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3163 are specified on the command line, starting 3164 with parport0. 3165 3166 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3167 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3168 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3169 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3170 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3171 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3172 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3173 3174 pause_on_oops= 3175 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 3176 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 3177 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 3178 3179 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 3180 3181 pcd. [PARIDE] 3182 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 3183 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3184 3185 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 3186 3187 Some options herein operate on a specific device 3188 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 3189 specified in one of the following formats: 3190 3191 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 3192 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 3193 3194 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 3195 bus/device/function address which may change 3196 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 3197 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 3198 by other kernel parameters. If the 3199 domain is left unspecified, it is 3200 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 3201 to a device through multiple device/function 3202 addresses can be specified after the base 3203 address (this is more robust against 3204 renumbering issues). The second format 3205 selects devices using IDs from the 3206 configuration space which may match multiple 3207 devices in the system. 3208 3209 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 3210 changes anything 3211 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 3212 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 3213 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 3214 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 3215 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 3216 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 3217 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 3218 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 3219 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3220 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 3221 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 3222 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3223 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 3224 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 3225 bus number. The config space is then accessed 3226 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 3227 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 3228 on the configuration access mechanisms. 3229 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 3230 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3231 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 3232 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 3233 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 3234 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 3235 Configuration 3236 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 3237 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 3238 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 3239 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 3240 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3241 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 3242 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 3243 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 3244 should never be necessary. 3245 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 3246 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 3247 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 3248 when the system masks IRQs. 3249 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 3250 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 3251 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 3252 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 3253 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 3254 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 3255 on several machines and they hang the machine 3256 when used, but on other computers it's the only 3257 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 3258 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 3259 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 3260 motherboard. 3261 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 3262 Use with caution as certain devices share 3263 address decoders between ROMs and other 3264 resources. 3265 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 3266 expansion ROMs that do not already have 3267 BIOS assigned address ranges. 3268 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 3269 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 3270 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 3271 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 3272 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 3273 this way. 3274 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 3275 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 3276 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 3277 F0000h-100000h range. 3278 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 3279 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 3280 secondary buses and you want to tell it 3281 explicitly which ones they are. 3282 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 3283 numbers ourselves, overriding 3284 whatever the firmware may have done. 3285 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 3286 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 3287 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 3288 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 3289 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 3290 IRQ routing is enabled. 3291 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 3292 or for PCI scanning. 3293 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 3294 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 3295 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 3296 please report a bug. 3297 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 3298 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 3299 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 3300 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 3301 so this option is a temporary workaround 3302 for broken drivers that don't call it. 3303 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 3304 handle more pci cards 3305 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 3306 This might help on some broken boards which 3307 machine check when some devices' config space 3308 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 3309 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 3310 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3311 This sorting is done to get a device 3312 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 3313 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3314 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 3315 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 3316 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 3317 supported by all devices below the root complex. 3318 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 3319 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 3320 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 3321 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 3322 or bus can support) for best performance. 3323 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 3324 every device is guaranteed to support. This 3325 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 3326 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 3327 reduced performance. This also guarantees 3328 that hot-added devices will work. 3329 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3330 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 3331 The default value is 256 bytes. 3332 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3333 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 3334 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 3335 resource_alignment= 3336 Format: 3337 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 3338 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 3339 aligned memory resources. How to 3340 specify the device is described above. 3341 If <order of align> is not specified, 3342 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 3343 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource 3344 windows need to be expanded. 3345 To specify the alignment for several 3346 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 3347 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 3348 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 3349 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 3350 end-to-end CRC checking). 3351 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 3352 the default. 3353 off: Turn ECRC off 3354 on: Turn ECRC on. 3355 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3356 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 3357 Default size is 256 bytes. 3358 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3359 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window. 3360 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3361 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 3362 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 3363 Default is 1. 3364 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 3365 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 3366 accommodate resources required by all child 3367 devices. 3368 off: Turn realloc off 3369 on: Turn realloc on 3370 realloc same as realloc=on 3371 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 3372 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 3373 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 3374 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 3375 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 3376 port. 3377 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 3378 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 3379 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 3380 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 3381 conflict with unreported devices), so this 3382 taints the kernel. 3383 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 3384 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 3385 specified above) separated by semicolons. 3386 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 3387 redirect capabilities forced off which will 3388 allow P2P traffic between devices through 3389 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 3390 this removes isolation between devices and 3391 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 3392 3393 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 3394 Management. 3395 off Disable ASPM. 3396 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 3397 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 3398 3399 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 3400 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 3401 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 3402 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 3403 also tries to use these services. 3404 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 3405 hotplug). 3406 3407 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 3408 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 3409 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 3410 3411 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 3412 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 3413 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 3414 3415 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 3416 3417 pd_ignore_unused 3418 [PM] 3419 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 3420 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 3421 for debug and development, but should not be 3422 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 3423 3424 pd. [PARIDE] 3425 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3426 3427 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 3428 boot time. 3429 Format: { 0 | 1 } 3430 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 3431 3432 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 3433 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 3434 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 3435 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 3436 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 3437 and performance comparison. 3438 3439 pf. [PARIDE] 3440 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3441 3442 pg. [PARIDE] 3443 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3444 3445 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 3446 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt. 3447 3448 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 3449 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 3450 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 3451 3452 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 3453 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 3454 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 3455 3456 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 3457 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 3458 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 3459 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 3460 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 3461 possible settings and some assignment information. 3462 3463 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 3464 { off } 3465 3466 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 3467 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 3468 3469 pnp_reserve_irq= 3470 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 3471 3472 pnp_reserve_dma= 3473 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 3474 3475 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 3476 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 3477 3478 pnp_reserve_mem= 3479 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 3480 autoconfiguration. 3481 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 3482 3483 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 3484 Default is 21. 3485 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 3486 may be specified. 3487 Format: <port>,<port>.... 3488 3489 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 3490 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 3491 platform machine description specific power_save 3492 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 3493 execution priority. 3494 3495 ppc_strict_facility_enable 3496 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 3497 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 3498 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 3499 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 3500 3501 ppc_tm= [PPC] 3502 Format: {"off"} 3503 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 3504 3505 print-fatal-signals= 3506 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 3507 3508 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 3509 related application anomalies: too many signals, 3510 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 3511 coredump - etc. 3512 3513 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 3514 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 3515 3516 default: off. 3517 3518 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 3519 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 3520 panics 3521 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3522 default: disabled 3523 3524 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 3525 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 3526 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 3527 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 3528 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 3529 Default: ratelimit 3530 3531 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 3532 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3533 3534 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 3535 Limit processor to maximum C-state 3536 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 3537 3538 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 3539 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 3540 instead using the legacy FADT method 3541 3542 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 3543 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 3544 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 3545 [defaults to kernel profiling] 3546 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 3547 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 3548 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 3549 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 3550 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 3551 statistical time based profiling. 3552 3553 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk 3554 before loading. 3555 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 3556 3557 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 3558 tracking. 3559 Format: <bool> 3560 3561 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 3562 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 3563 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 3564 per second. 3565 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 3566 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 3567 (0 = never). 3568 psmouse.resolution= 3569 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 3570 psmouse.smartscroll= 3571 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 3572 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 3573 3574 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 3575 3576 pt. [PARIDE] 3577 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3578 3579 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 3580 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 3581 removes hardening, but improves performance of 3582 system calls and interrupts. 3583 3584 on - unconditionally enable 3585 off - unconditionally disable 3586 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 3587 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 3588 3589 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 3590 3591 nopti [X86_64] 3592 Equivalent to pti=off 3593 3594 pty.legacy_count= 3595 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 3596 default number. 3597 3598 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 3599 3600 r128= [HW,DRM] 3601 3602 raid= [HW,RAID] 3603 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3604 3605 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 3606 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 3607 3608 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 3609 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 3610 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 3611 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 3612 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 3613 3614 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 3615 3616 cec_disable [X86] 3617 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 3618 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 3619 3620 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 3621 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3622 3623 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 3624 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 3625 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be 3626 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that 3627 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and 3628 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number. 3629 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs, 3630 which can be useful for HPC and real-time 3631 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency 3632 for asymmetric multiprocessors. 3633 3634 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 3635 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 3636 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 3637 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 3638 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 3639 This improves the real-time response for the 3640 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 3641 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 3642 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 3643 periodically wake up to do the polling. 3644 3645 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 3646 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 3647 process in one batch. 3648 3649 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 3650 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 3651 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 3652 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 3653 3654 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 3655 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3656 RCU grace-period cleanup. 3657 3658 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 3659 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3660 RCU grace-period initialization. 3661 3662 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 3663 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3664 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 3665 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 3666 the rcu_node combining tree. 3667 3668 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 3669 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 3670 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 3671 possibly be useful for architectures having high 3672 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 3673 3674 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 3675 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 3676 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 3677 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 3678 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 3679 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 3680 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 3681 3682 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 3683 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 3684 first attempt to force quiescent states. 3685 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 3686 and maximum value is HZ. 3687 3688 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 3689 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 3690 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 3691 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 3692 3693 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 3694 Set required age in jiffies for a 3695 given grace period before RCU starts 3696 soliciting quiescent-state help from 3697 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 3698 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 3699 a value based on the most recent settings 3700 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 3701 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 3702 This calculated value may be viewed in 3703 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 3704 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 3705 overwritten. 3706 3707 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 3708 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 3709 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 3710 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 3711 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 3712 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 3713 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 3714 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 3715 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 3716 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 3717 3718 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL] 3719 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which 3720 defaults to the square root of the number of 3721 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead 3722 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases 3723 that same overhead on each group's leader. 3724 3725 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 3726 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 3727 batch limiting is disabled. 3728 3729 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 3730 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 3731 batch limiting is re-enabled. 3732 3733 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 3734 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3735 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3736 3737 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL] 3738 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3739 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3740 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can 3741 prove do nothing more than free memory. 3742 3743 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 3744 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 3745 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 3746 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 3747 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 3748 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 3749 3750 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 3751 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 3752 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 3753 why a new grace period has not yet started. 3754 3755 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL] 3756 Measure performance of asynchronous 3757 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 3758 3759 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL] 3760 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 3761 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 3762 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 3763 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 3764 previously posted callbacks to drain. 3765 3766 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL] 3767 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 3768 grace-period primitives. 3769 3770 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL] 3771 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 3772 this parameter is to delay the start of the 3773 test until boot completes in order to avoid 3774 interference. 3775 3776 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL] 3777 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3778 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3779 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 3780 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3781 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3782 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 3783 a single reader. 3784 3785 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL] 3786 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 3787 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders. 3788 N, where N is the number of CPUs 3789 3790 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL] 3791 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 3792 3793 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL] 3794 Shut the system down after performance tests 3795 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 3796 testing. 3797 3798 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL] 3799 Enable additional printk() statements. 3800 3801 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 3802 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 3803 in microseconds. The default of zero says 3804 no holdoff. 3805 3806 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 3807 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 3808 in microseconds. 3809 3810 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 3811 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 3812 in microseconds. 3813 3814 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 3815 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 3816 in seconds. 3817 3818 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 3819 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 3820 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 3821 3822 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 3823 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 3824 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 3825 3826 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 3827 Number of seconds to wait between successive 3828 forward-progress tests. 3829 3830 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 3831 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 3832 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 3833 testing. 3834 3835 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 3836 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 3837 primitives, if available. 3838 3839 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 3840 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 3841 3842 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 3843 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 3844 update-side primitives, if available. 3845 3846 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 3847 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 3848 update-side primitives, if available. If all 3849 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 3850 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 3851 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 3852 they are all non-zero. 3853 3854 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 3855 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 3856 3857 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 3858 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 3859 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 3860 test, hence the "fake". 3861 3862 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 3863 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3864 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3865 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 3866 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3867 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3868 3869 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 3870 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 3871 3872 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 3873 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 3874 3875 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 3876 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 3877 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 3878 3879 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 3880 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 3881 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 3882 during the rcutorture test. 3883 3884 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 3885 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 3886 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 3887 3888 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 3889 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 3890 warnings, zero to disable. 3891 3892 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 3893 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 3894 3895 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 3896 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 3897 3898 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 3899 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 3900 3901 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 3902 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 3903 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 3904 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 3905 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 3906 3907 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 3908 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 3909 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 3910 under test support RCU priority boosting. 3911 3912 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 3913 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 3914 3915 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 3916 Interval (s) between each boost test. 3917 3918 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 3919 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 3920 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 3921 3922 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 3923 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 3924 3925 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 3926 Enable additional printk() statements. 3927 3928 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 3929 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 3930 3931 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 3932 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 3933 3934 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 3935 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 3936 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 3937 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 3938 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 3939 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 3940 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3941 3942 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 3943 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 3944 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 3945 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 3946 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 3947 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 3948 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 3949 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 3950 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3951 3952 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 3953 Once boot has completed (that is, after 3954 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 3955 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 3956 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3957 3958 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 3959 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 3960 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 3961 to zero. 3962 3963 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 3964 Run the RCU early boot self tests 3965 3966 rdinit= [KNL] 3967 Format: <full_path> 3968 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 3969 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 3970 3971 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 3972 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 3973 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 3974 mba. 3975 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 3976 rdt=cmt,!mba 3977 3978 reboot= [KNL] 3979 Format (x86 or x86_64): 3980 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ 3981 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 3982 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 3983 [[,]f[orce] 3984 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio, 3985 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 3986 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 3987 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 3988 to be used for rebooting. 3989 3990 relax_domain_level= 3991 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 3992 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt. 3993 3994 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 3995 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 3996 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 3997 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 3998 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 3999 4000 reservetop= [X86-32] 4001 Format: nn[KMG] 4002 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 4003 address space. 4004 4005 reservelow= [X86] 4006 Format: nn[K] 4007 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at 4008 the bottom of the address space. 4009 4010 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 4011 during initialization. 4012 4013 resume= [SWSUSP] 4014 Specify the partition device for software suspend 4015 Format: 4016 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 4017 4018 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 4019 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 4020 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 4021 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 4022 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt 4023 4024 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4025 read the resume files 4026 4027 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 4028 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4029 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4030 4031 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 4032 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 4033 present during boot. 4034 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 4035 no Disable hibernation and resume. 4036 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 4037 (that will set all pages holding image data 4038 during restoration read-only). 4039 4040 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 4041 4042 rfkill.default_state= 4043 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 4044 etc. communication is blocked by default. 4045 1 Unblocked. 4046 4047 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 4048 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 4049 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4050 blocked and the previous configuration. 4051 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4052 blocked and everything unblocked. 4053 4054 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4055 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 4056 4057 ring3mwait=disable 4058 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 4059 CPUs. 4060 4061 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 4062 4063 rodata= [KNL] 4064 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 4065 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 4066 4067 rockchip.usb_uart 4068 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 4069 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 4070 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 4071 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 4072 4073 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 4074 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 4075 4076 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4077 mount the root filesystem 4078 4079 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 4080 4081 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 4082 4083 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 4084 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4085 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4086 4087 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 4088 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 4089 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 4090 managed by CMA. 4091 4092 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 4093 4094 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 4095 4096 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 4097 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 4098 strict 4099 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 4100 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 4101 which is faster. 4102 4103 sa1100ir [NET] 4104 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 4105 4106 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter 4107 4108 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 4109 4110 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 4111 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 4112 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 4113 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 4114 4115 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 4116 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 4117 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 4118 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4119 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 4120 1 -- enable. 4121 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 4122 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 4123 4124 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 4125 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 4126 "lsm=" parameter. 4127 4128 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 4129 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4130 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 4131 0 -- disable. 4132 1 -- enable. 4133 Default value is set via kernel config option. 4134 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used 4135 later to disable prior to initial policy load. 4136 4137 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 4138 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4139 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 4140 0 -- disable. 4141 1 -- enable. 4142 Default value is set via kernel config option. 4143 4144 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 4145 4146 shapers= [NET] 4147 Maximal number of shapers. 4148 4149 simeth= [IA-64] 4150 simscsi= 4151 4152 slram= [HW,MTD] 4153 4154 slab_nomerge [MM] 4155 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 4156 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 4157 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 4158 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 4159 layout control by attackers can usually be 4160 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 4161 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 4162 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 4163 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 4164 own. 4165 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4166 4167 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 4168 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4169 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4170 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 4171 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 4172 4173 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB] 4174 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 4175 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 4176 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 4177 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 4178 last alloc / free. For more information see 4179 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4180 4181 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB] 4182 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for 4183 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable. 4184 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON. 4185 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug 4186 directories and files being created under 4187 /sys/kernel/slub. 4188 4189 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 4190 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4191 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4192 fragmentation. For more information see 4193 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4194 4195 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 4196 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 4197 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 4198 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 4199 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 4200 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 4201 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 4202 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4203 4204 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 4205 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 4206 lower than slub_max_order. 4207 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4208 4209 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 4210 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 4211 See slab_nomerge for more information. 4212 4213 smart2= [HW] 4214 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 4215 4216 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 4217 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 4218 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 4219 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 4220 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 4221 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 4222 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 4223 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 4224 1: Fast pin select (default) 4225 2: ATC IRMode 4226 4227 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 4228 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 4229 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 4230 actual hardware limit. 4231 Format: <integer> 4232 Default: -1 (no limit) 4233 4234 softlockup_panic= 4235 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 4236 Format: <integer> 4237 4238 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector 4239 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This 4240 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 4241 which is the respective build-time switch to that 4242 functionality. 4243 4244 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 4245 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 4246 backtraces on all cpus. 4247 Format: <integer> 4248 4249 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 4250 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt 4251 4252 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 4253 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 4254 The default operation protects the kernel from 4255 user space attacks. 4256 4257 on - unconditionally enable, implies 4258 spectre_v2_user=on 4259 off - unconditionally disable, implies 4260 spectre_v2_user=off 4261 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4262 vulnerable 4263 4264 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 4265 mitigation method at run time according to the 4266 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 4267 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 4268 compiler with which the kernel was built. 4269 4270 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 4271 against user space to user space task attacks. 4272 4273 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 4274 the user space protections. 4275 4276 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 4277 4278 retpoline - replace indirect branches 4279 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline 4280 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk 4281 4282 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4283 spectre_v2=auto. 4284 4285 spectre_v2_user= 4286 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 4287 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 4288 user space tasks 4289 4290 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 4291 enforced by spectre_v2=on 4292 4293 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 4294 enforced by spectre_v2=off 4295 4296 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 4297 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 4298 per thread. The mitigation control state 4299 is inherited on fork. 4300 4301 prctl,ibpb 4302 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 4303 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 4304 always when switching between different user 4305 space processes. 4306 4307 seccomp 4308 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 4309 threads will enable the mitigation unless 4310 they explicitly opt out. 4311 4312 seccomp,ibpb 4313 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 4314 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 4315 always when switching between different 4316 user space processes. 4317 4318 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 4319 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 4320 4321 Default mitigation: 4322 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 4323 4324 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4325 spectre_v2_user=auto. 4326 4327 spec_store_bypass_disable= 4328 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 4329 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 4330 4331 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 4332 a common industry wide performance optimization known 4333 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 4334 to the same memory location may not be observed by 4335 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 4336 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 4337 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 4338 end of a particular speculation execution window. 4339 4340 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 4341 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 4342 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 4343 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 4344 4345 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 4346 Bypass optimization is used. 4347 4348 On x86 the options are: 4349 4350 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 4351 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 4352 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 4353 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 4354 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 4355 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 4356 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 4357 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 4358 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 4359 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 4360 for a process by default. The state of the control 4361 is inherited on fork. 4362 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 4363 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 4364 4365 Default mitigations: 4366 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 4367 4368 On powerpc the options are: 4369 4370 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 4371 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 4372 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 4373 exit. 4374 off - No action. 4375 4376 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4377 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 4378 4379 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 4380 spia_fio_base= 4381 spia_pedr= 4382 spia_peddr= 4383 4384 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 4385 Specifies how frequently to check for 4386 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 4387 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 4388 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 4389 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 4390 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 4391 are ignored. 4392 4393 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 4394 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 4395 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 4396 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 4397 grace period will be considered for automatic 4398 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 4399 expediting. 4400 4401 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 4402 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 4403 4404 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 4405 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 4406 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 4407 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 4408 4409 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 4410 for both kernel and userspace 4411 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 4412 for both kernel and userspace 4413 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 4414 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 4415 to allow userspace to register its 4416 interest in being mitigated too. 4417 4418 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 4419 override the default stack gap protection. The value 4420 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 4421 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 4422 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 4423 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 4424 4425 stacktrace [FTRACE] 4426 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 4427 4428 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 4429 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 4430 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 4431 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 4432 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 4433 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 4434 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 4435 4436 sti= [PARISC,HW] 4437 Format: <num> 4438 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 4439 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 4440 as the initial boot-console. 4441 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4442 4443 sti_font= [HW] 4444 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4445 4446 stifb= [HW] 4447 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 4448 4449 sunrpc.min_resvport= 4450 sunrpc.max_resvport= 4451 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4452 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 4453 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 4454 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 4455 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 4456 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 4457 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 4458 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 4459 maximum port values. 4460 4461 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 4462 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4463 Limit the number of requests that the server will 4464 process in parallel from a single connection. 4465 The default value is 0 (no limit). 4466 4467 sunrpc.pool_mode= 4468 [NFS] 4469 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 4470 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 4471 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 4472 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 4473 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 4474 NFS server is running. 4475 4476 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 4477 automatically using heuristics 4478 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 4479 percpu one pool for each CPU 4480 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 4481 to global on non-NUMA machines) 4482 4483 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 4484 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 4485 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4486 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 4487 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 4488 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 4489 improve throughput, but will also increase the 4490 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 4491 4492 suspend.pm_test_delay= 4493 [SUSPEND] 4494 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 4495 mode before resuming the system (see 4496 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 4497 is set. Default value is 5. 4498 4499 swapaccount=[0|1] 4500 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 4501 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 4502 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt) 4503 4504 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 4505 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 4506 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 4507 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 4508 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 4509 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 4510 4511 switches= [HW,M68k] 4512 4513 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 4514 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 4515 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 4516 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 4517 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 4518 in older udev will not work anymore. 4519 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 4520 the kernel configuration. 4521 4522 sysrq_always_enabled 4523 [KNL] 4524 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 4525 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 4526 Useful for debugging. 4527 4528 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4529 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 4530 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 4531 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 4532 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt 4533 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 4534 4535 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 4536 4537 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 4538 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 4539 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 4540 as the system sleep state during system startup with 4541 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 4542 The system is woken from this state using a 4543 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 4544 4545 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4546 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 4547 4548 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 4549 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 4550 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 4551 4552 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 4553 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 4554 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 4555 4556 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 4557 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 4558 critical and hot trip points. 4559 4560 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 4561 1: disable ACPI thermal control 4562 4563 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 4564 -1: disable all passive trip points 4565 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 4566 value 4567 4568 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 4569 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 4570 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 4571 0: no polling (default) 4572 4573 threadirqs [KNL] 4574 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 4575 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 4576 4577 tmem [KNL,XEN] 4578 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in. 4579 4580 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4581 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache 4582 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor. 4583 4584 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4585 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap 4586 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled 4587 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled. 4588 4589 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4590 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages 4591 to the hypervisor. 4592 4593 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4594 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately 4595 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the 4596 kernel based on different criteria. 4597 4598 topology= [S390] 4599 Format: {off | on} 4600 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 4601 topology information if the hardware supports this. 4602 The scheduler will make use of this information and 4603 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 4604 Default is on. 4605 4606 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 4607 Format: {off} 4608 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 4609 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 4610 LPAR. 4611 4612 tp720= [HW,PS2] 4613 4614 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 4615 Format: integer pcr id 4616 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 4617 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 4618 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 4619 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 4620 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 4621 are saved. 4622 4623 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 4624 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 4625 4626 trace_event=[event-list] 4627 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 4628 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 4629 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See 4630 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 4631 4632 trace_options=[option-list] 4633 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 4634 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 4635 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 4636 to echo the option name into 4637 4638 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 4639 4640 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 4641 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 4642 4643 trace_options=stacktrace 4644 4645 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 4646 section. 4647 4648 tp_printk[FTRACE] 4649 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 4650 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 4651 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 4652 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 4653 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 4654 4655 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 4656 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 4657 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 4658 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 4659 4660 ** CAUTION ** 4661 4662 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 4663 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 4664 the system to live lock. 4665 4666 traceoff_on_warning 4667 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 4668 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 4669 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 4670 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 4671 4672 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 4673 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 4674 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 4675 4676 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 4677 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 4678 4679 transparent_hugepage= 4680 [KNL] 4681 Format: [always|madvise|never] 4682 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 4683 with respect to transparent hugepages. 4684 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 4685 for more details. 4686 4687 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 4688 Format: <string> 4689 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 4690 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 4691 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 4692 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 4693 virtualized environment. 4694 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 4695 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 4696 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 4697 can add overhead. 4698 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 4699 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 4700 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 4701 4702 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 4703 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 4704 Format: 4705 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 4706 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 4707 4708 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 4709 happen after console_init() and before a proper 4710 console driver takes over, this boot options might 4711 help "seeing" what's going on. 4712 4713 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4714 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 4715 4716 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 4717 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 4718 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 4719 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 4720 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 4721 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 4722 reported either. 4723 4724 unknown_nmi_panic 4725 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 4726 4727 usbcore.authorized_default= 4728 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 4729 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 4730 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 4731 if device connected to internal port) 4732 4733 usbcore.autosuspend= 4734 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 4735 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 4736 is the time required before an idle device will be 4737 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 4738 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 4739 4740 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 4741 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 4742 4743 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 4744 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 4745 (default = 65536). 4746 4747 usbcore.blinkenlights= 4748 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 4749 4750 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 4751 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 4752 scheme, applies only to low and full-speed devices 4753 (default 0 = off). 4754 4755 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 4756 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 4757 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 4758 4759 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 4760 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 4761 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 4762 4763 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 4764 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 4765 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 4766 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 4767 4768 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 4769 4770 usbcore.quirks= 4771 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 4772 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 4773 commas. Each entry has the form 4774 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 4775 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 4776 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 4777 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 4778 the following meanings: 4779 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 4780 descriptors must not be fetched using 4781 a 255-byte read); 4782 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 4783 correctly so reset it instead); 4784 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 4785 Set-Interface requests); 4786 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 4787 handle its Configuration or Interface 4788 strings); 4789 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 4790 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 4791 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 4792 more interface descriptions than the 4793 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 4794 talking to these interfaces); 4795 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 4796 during initialization, after we read 4797 the device descriptor); 4798 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 4799 high speed and super speed interrupt 4800 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 4801 require the interval in microframes (1 4802 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 4803 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 4804 (bInterval-1). 4805 Devices with this quirk report their 4806 bInterval as the result of this 4807 calculation instead of the exponent 4808 variable used in the calculation); 4809 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 4810 handle device_qualifier descriptor 4811 requests); 4812 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 4813 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 4814 remote wakeup capability); 4815 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 4816 Power Management); 4817 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 4818 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 4819 frames instead of the USB 2.0 4820 calculation); 4821 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 4822 to be disconnected before suspend to 4823 prevent spurious wakeup); 4824 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 4825 pause after every control message); 4826 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 4827 delay after resetting its port); 4828 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 4829 4830 usbhid.mousepoll= 4831 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 4832 4833 usbhid.jspoll= 4834 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 4835 4836 usbhid.kbpoll= 4837 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 4838 4839 usb-storage.delay_use= 4840 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 4841 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 4842 4843 usb-storage.quirks= 4844 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 4845 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 4846 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 4847 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 4848 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 4849 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 4850 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 4851 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 4852 of sense data); 4853 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 4854 bytes of sense data); 4855 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 4856 device capacity by one sector); 4857 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 4858 READ_DISC_INFO command); 4859 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 4860 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 4861 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 4862 command, uas only); 4863 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 4864 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 4865 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 4866 reported device capacity by one 4867 sector if the number is odd); 4868 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 4869 device); 4870 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 4871 command, uas only); 4872 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 4873 unlock ejectable media); 4874 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 4875 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time); 4876 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 4877 initial READ(10) command); 4878 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 4879 reported by the device); 4880 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 4881 by default); 4882 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 4883 bogus residue values); 4884 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 4885 Logical Unit); 4886 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 4887 commands, uas only); 4888 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 4889 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 4890 medium is write-protected). 4891 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 4892 even if the device claims no cache) 4893 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 4894 4895 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 4896 Format: <int> 4897 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 4898 1 - undefined instruction events 4899 2 - system calls 4900 4 - invalid data aborts 4901 8 - SIGSEGV faults 4902 16 - SIGBUS faults 4903 Example: user_debug=31 4904 4905 userpte= 4906 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 4907 4908 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 4909 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 4910 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 4911 4912 vdso= [X86,SH] 4913 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 4914 4915 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 4916 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 4917 4918 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 4919 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 4920 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 4921 4922 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 4923 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 4924 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 4925 4926 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 4927 alias for vdso32=0. 4928 4929 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 4930 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 4931 4932 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 4933 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 4934 4935 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 4936 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt. 4937 4938 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 4939 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 4940 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 4941 level and then send out the event to user space through 4942 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 4943 will only send out the event without touching backlight 4944 brightness level. 4945 default: 1 4946 4947 virtio_mmio.device= 4948 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 4949 4950 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 4951 where: 4952 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 4953 like K, M and G) 4954 <baseaddr> := physical base address 4955 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 4956 request_irq()) 4957 <id> := (optional) platform device id 4958 example: 4959 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 4960 4961 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 4962 4963 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 4964 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and 4965 Documentation/svga.txt. 4966 Use vga=ask for menu. 4967 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 4968 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 4969 4970 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 4971 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 4972 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 4973 All options are enabled by default, and this 4974 interface is meant to allow for selectively 4975 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 4976 debugging features. 4977 4978 Available options are: 4979 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 4980 - Disable all of the above options 4981 4982 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 4983 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 4984 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 4985 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 4986 mapped kernel RAM. 4987 4988 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 4989 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 4990 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 4991 4992 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 4993 Format: <command> 4994 4995 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 4996 Format: <command> 4997 4998 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 4999 Format: <command> 5000 5001 vsyscall= [X86-64] 5002 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 5003 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 5004 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 5005 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 5006 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 5007 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 5008 5009 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 5010 emulated reasonably safely. 5011 5012 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions. 5013 This is a little bit faster than trapping 5014 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work 5015 better than they would in emulation mode. 5016 It also makes exploits much easier to write. 5017 5018 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 5019 them quite hard to use for exploits but 5020 might break your system. 5021 5022 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 5023 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 5024 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 5025 5026 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 5027 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 5028 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 5029 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 5030 5031 vt.default_blu= [VT] 5032 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 5033 Change the default blue palette of the console. 5034 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5035 ranging from 0-255. 5036 5037 vt.default_grn= [VT] 5038 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 5039 Change the default green palette of the console. 5040 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5041 ranging from 0-255. 5042 5043 vt.default_red= [VT] 5044 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 5045 Change the default red palette of the console. 5046 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5047 ranging from 0-255. 5048 5049 vt.default_utf8= 5050 [VT] 5051 Format=<0|1> 5052 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 5053 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 5054 newly opened terminals. 5055 5056 vt.global_cursor_default= 5057 [VT] 5058 Format=<-1|0|1> 5059 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 5060 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 5061 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 5062 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 5063 cursors, 1 will display them. 5064 5065 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 5066 Default: 2 = green. 5067 5068 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 5069 Default: 3 = cyan. 5070 5071 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 5072 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt 5073 or other driver-specific files in the 5074 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 5075 5076 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 5077 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 5078 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 5079 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 5080 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 5081 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 5082 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 5083 corresponding sysfs file. 5084 5085 workqueue.disable_numa 5086 By default, all work items queued to unbound 5087 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 5088 issued on, which results in better behavior in 5089 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 5090 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 5091 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 5092 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 5093 5094 workqueue.power_efficient 5095 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 5096 they show better performance thanks to cache 5097 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 5098 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 5099 5100 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 5101 were observed to contribute significantly to power 5102 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 5103 power usage at the cost of small performance 5104 overhead. 5105 5106 The default value of this parameter is determined by 5107 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 5108 5109 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 5110 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 5111 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 5112 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 5113 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 5114 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 5115 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 5116 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 5117 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 5118 impacted. 5119 5120 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 5121 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 5122 supporting x2apic. 5123 5124 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT] 5125 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform. 5126 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer 5127 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer. 5128 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt 5129 5130 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 5131 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 5132 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 5133 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 5134 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 5135 domains. 5136 5137 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 5138 Unplug Xen emulated devices 5139 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 5140 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 5141 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 5142 nics -- unplug network devices 5143 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 5144 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 5145 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 5146 the unplug protocol 5147 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 5148 5149 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 5150 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV 5151 optimizations. 5152 5153 xen_nopv [X86] 5154 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 5155 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 5156 5157 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 5158 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 5159 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 5160 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 5161 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 5162 5163 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 5164 Format: 5165 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 5166 5167 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 5168 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 5169 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 5170 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 5171