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