1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64] 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 4 copy_dsdt } 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64] 7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 14 are available 15 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 17 18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 19 Format: <int> 20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 21 1,0: use 1st APIC table 22 default: 0 23 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 25 acpi_backlight=vendor 26 acpi_backlight=video 27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver 28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 29 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 36 37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 41 This option is useful for developers to identify the 42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 43 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 44 45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 47 Format: <int> 48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT 52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 56 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 57 debug layers and levels. 58 59 Enable processor driver info messages: 60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000 63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <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.rst 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.rst 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/common_io.rst 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/common_io.rst 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. 708 [KNL, x86_64] select a region under 4G first, and 709 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 710 hasn't been specified. 711 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 712 713 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 714 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 715 in the running system. The syntax of range is 716 start-[end] where start and end are both 717 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 718 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 719 720 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 721 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 722 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 723 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 724 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 725 available. 726 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 727 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 728 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 729 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 730 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 731 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 732 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 733 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 734 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at 735 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 736 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G 737 for second kernel instead. 738 0: to disable low allocation. 739 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 740 or memory reserved is below 4G. 741 742 cryptomgr.notests 743 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 744 745 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 746 Format: <dma> 747 748 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 749 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 750 751 dasd= [HW,NET] 752 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 753 754 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 755 (one device per port) 756 Format: <port#>,<type> 757 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 758 759 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot 760 time. See 761 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for 762 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg. 763 764 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 765 766 debug_boot_weak_hash 767 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 768 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 769 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 770 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 771 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 772 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 773 774 debug_locks_verbose= 775 [KNL] verbose self-tests 776 Format=<0|1> 777 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 778 self-tests. 779 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to 780 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally 781 only useful to kernel developers. 782 783 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 784 785 no_debug_objects 786 [KNL] Disable object debugging 787 788 debug_guardpage_minorder= 789 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 790 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 791 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 792 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 793 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 794 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 795 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 796 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 797 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 798 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 799 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 800 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 801 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 802 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 803 bypassed) which are not detectable by 804 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 805 tracking down these problems. 806 807 debug_pagealloc= 808 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 809 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 810 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 811 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 812 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 813 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 814 on: enable the feature 815 816 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 817 818 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 819 Format: <area>[,<node>] 820 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt. 821 822 default_hugepagesz= 823 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default 824 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by 825 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and 826 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems. 827 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size 828 if not specified. 829 830 deferred_probe_timeout= 831 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 832 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 833 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 834 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0 835 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also 836 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 837 retrying. 838 839 dhash_entries= [KNL] 840 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 841 842 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 843 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 844 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 845 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 846 miss to occur. 847 848 disable= [IPV6] 849 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 850 851 hardened_usercopy= 852 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 853 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 854 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 855 from reading or writing beyond known memory 856 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 857 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 858 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 859 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 860 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 861 862 disable_radix [PPC] 863 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 864 865 disable_tlbie [PPC] 866 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 867 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 868 869 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 870 Format: <int> 871 The number of initial APIC ID for the 872 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 873 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 874 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 875 causing system reset or hang due to sending 876 INIT from AP to BSP. 877 878 perf_v4_pmi= [X86,INTEL] 879 Format: <bool> 880 Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature. 881 The feature only exists starting from 882 Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer). 883 884 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 885 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if 886 to workaround buggy firmware. 887 888 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 889 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 890 891 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 892 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 893 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 894 entry later. This parameter disables that. 895 896 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 897 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 898 memory out of your available memory pool based on 899 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 900 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 901 902 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 903 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 904 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 905 906 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 907 908 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 909 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 910 911 dma_debug_entries=<number> 912 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 913 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 914 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 915 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 916 architectural default is too low. 917 918 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 919 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 920 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 921 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 922 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 923 driver later using sysfs. 924 925 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 926 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. 927 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 928 929 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 930 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 931 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 932 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 933 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 934 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 935 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 936 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 937 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 938 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 939 available in Documentation/driver-api/edid.rst. An EDID 940 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 941 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 942 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 943 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 944 data set with no connector name will be used for 945 any connectors not explicitly specified. 946 947 dscc4.setup= [NET] 948 949 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 950 Format: {"off" | "known"} 951 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 952 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 953 exists). 954 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 955 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 956 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 957 958 dump_apple_properties [X86] 959 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 960 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 961 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 962 963 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 964 module.dyndbg[="val"] 965 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 966 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 967 for details. 968 969 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions. 970 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.rst for more 971 information about the feature. 972 973 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 974 in some Intel CPUs. 975 976 module.async_probe [KNL] 977 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 978 979 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 980 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 981 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 982 which are not unmapped. 983 984 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 985 986 [ARM64] The early console is determined by the 987 stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node, 988 or determined by the ACPI SPCR table. 989 990 [X86] When used with no options the early console is 991 determined by the ACPI SPCR table. 992 993 cdns,<addr>[,options] 994 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 995 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 996 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 997 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 998 configured. 999 1000 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 1001 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 1002 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 1003 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 1004 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1005 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1006 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1007 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1008 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1009 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1010 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1011 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1012 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 1013 1014 pl011,<addr> 1015 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1016 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1017 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1018 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1019 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1020 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1021 the device registers. 1022 1023 meson,<addr> 1024 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1025 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1026 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1027 supported. 1028 1029 msm_serial,<addr> 1030 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1031 port at the specified address. The serial port 1032 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1033 yet supported. 1034 1035 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1036 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1037 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1038 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1039 yet supported. 1040 1041 owl,<addr> 1042 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1043 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1044 specified address. The serial port must already be 1045 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1046 1047 rda,<addr> 1048 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1049 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1050 specified address. The serial port must already be 1051 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1052 1053 sbi 1054 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1055 console. 1056 1057 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1058 1059 s3c2410,<addr> 1060 s3c2412,<addr> 1061 s3c2440,<addr> 1062 s3c6400,<addr> 1063 s5pv210,<addr> 1064 exynos4210,<addr> 1065 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1066 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1067 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1068 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1069 Options are not yet supported. 1070 1071 lantiq,<addr> 1072 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1073 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1074 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1075 yet supported. 1076 1077 lpuart,<addr> 1078 lpuart32,<addr> 1079 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1080 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1081 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1082 port must already be setup and configured. 1083 1084 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1085 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1086 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1087 address. The serial port must already be setup 1088 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1089 1090 qcom_geni,<addr> 1091 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1092 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1093 specified address. The serial port must already be 1094 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1095 1096 efifb,[options] 1097 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1098 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1099 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1100 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1101 mapped with the correct attributes. 1102 1103 linflex,<addr> 1104 Use early console provided by Freescale LinFlex UART 1105 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1106 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1107 already be setup and configured. 1108 1109 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1110 earlyprintk=vga 1111 earlyprintk=sclp 1112 earlyprintk=xen 1113 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1114 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1115 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1116 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1117 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1118 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1119 1120 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1121 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1122 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1123 1124 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1125 takes over. 1126 1127 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 1128 be used at a time. 1129 1130 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1131 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1132 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1133 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1134 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1135 You can find the port for a given device in 1136 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1137 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1138 1139 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1140 very good. 1141 1142 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 1143 the real console. 1144 1145 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. 1146 1147 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1148 1149 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1150 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1151 UART class. 1152 1153 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1154 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1155 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1156 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1157 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1158 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1159 default: on. 1160 1161 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1162 ekgdboc=kbd 1163 1164 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1165 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1166 1167 edd= [EDD] 1168 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1169 1170 efi= [EFI] 1171 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" } 1172 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI 1173 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by 1174 default. 1175 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1176 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1177 firmware implementations. 1178 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1179 debug: enable misc debug output 1180 1181 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1182 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1183 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1184 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1185 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1186 1187 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1188 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1189 updating original EFI memory map. 1190 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1191 from ss to ss+nn. 1192 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1193 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1194 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1195 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1196 1197 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1198 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of 1199 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1200 doesn't support it. 1201 1202 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1203 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1204 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1205 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1206 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1207 1208 1209 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1210 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1211 1212 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1213 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1214 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1215 1216 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1217 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1218 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1219 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1220 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1221 1222 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1223 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1224 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1225 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1226 1227 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1228 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1229 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1230 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1231 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1232 1233 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1234 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1235 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1236 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1237 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1238 Default value is 0. 1239 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce. 1240 1241 erst_disable [ACPI] 1242 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1243 support. 1244 1245 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1246 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1247 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1248 1249 evm= [EVM] 1250 Format: { "fix" } 1251 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1252 current integrity status. 1253 1254 failslab= 1255 fail_page_alloc= 1256 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1257 General fault injection mechanism. 1258 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1259 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1260 1261 floppy= [HW] 1262 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1263 1264 force_pal_cache_flush 1265 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1266 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1267 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1268 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1269 1270 forcepae [X86-32] 1271 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1272 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1273 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1274 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1275 and may cause unknown problems. 1276 1277 ftrace=[tracer] 1278 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1279 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1280 boot debugging. 1281 1282 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1283 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1284 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1285 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1286 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1287 oops. 1288 1289 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1290 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1291 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 1292 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1293 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1294 tracing directory. 1295 1296 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1297 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1298 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1299 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1300 tracing directory. 1301 1302 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1303 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1304 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1305 function-list is a comma separated list of functions 1306 that can be changed at run time by the 1307 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1308 1309 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1310 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1311 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of 1312 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1313 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1314 1315 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1316 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1317 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1318 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1319 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1320 1321 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1322 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1323 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1324 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1325 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1326 1327 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1328 1329 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1330 Format: off | on 1331 default: on 1332 1333 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1334 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1335 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1336 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1337 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1338 1339 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1340 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1341 android emulator 1342 1343 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1344 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1345 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1346 GPT to be used instead. 1347 1348 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1349 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1350 Format: 0 | 1 1351 Default: 0 1352 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1353 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1354 Format: 0 | 1 1355 Default: 0 1356 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1357 Format: 0 | 1 1358 Default: 0 1359 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1360 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1361 Default: 1024 1362 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1363 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1364 Default: 1024 1365 1366 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1367 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1368 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1369 1370 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1371 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1372 backtraces on all cpus. 1373 Format: <integer> 1374 1375 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1376 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1377 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1378 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1379 1380 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1381 1382 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1383 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1384 1385 hest_disable [ACPI] 1386 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1387 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1388 logic will be disabled. 1389 1390 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1391 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1392 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1393 size on bigger boxes. 1394 1395 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1396 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1397 Default: "on" 1398 1399 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1400 1401 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1402 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1403 verbose } 1404 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1405 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1406 VIA, nVidia) 1407 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1408 1409 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1410 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1411 1412 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1413 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages. 1414 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified 1415 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve 1416 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on 1417 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G 1418 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag). 1419 1420 hung_task_panic= 1421 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1422 Format: <integer> 1423 1424 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a 1425 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1426 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1427 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1428 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1429 1430 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1431 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1432 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1433 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1434 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1435 1436 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1437 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1438 guest on lock contention. 1439 1440 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1441 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1442 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1443 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1444 the real console. 1445 1446 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1447 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1448 registered from board initialization code. 1449 Format: 1450 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1451 1452 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1453 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1454 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1455 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1456 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1457 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1458 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1459 keyboard and cannot control its state 1460 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1461 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1462 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1463 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1464 for the AUX port 1465 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1466 controller 1467 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1468 controllers 1469 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1470 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1471 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1472 transitions, or never reset 1473 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1474 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1475 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1476 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1477 architectures force reset to be always executed 1478 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1479 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1480 1481 i810= [HW,DRM] 1482 1483 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1484 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1485 hardware. 1486 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature 1487 does not match list of supported models. 1488 i8k.power_status 1489 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1490 (disabled by default) 1491 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1492 capability is set. 1493 1494 i915.invert_brightness= 1495 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1496 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1497 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1498 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1499 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1500 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1501 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1502 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1503 value switches the backlight off. 1504 -1 -- never invert brightness 1505 0 -- machine default 1506 1 -- force brightness inversion 1507 1508 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1509 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1510 1511 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1512 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1513 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1514 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1515 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst. 1516 1517 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1518 Format: <int> 1519 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1520 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1521 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1522 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1523 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1524 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1525 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1526 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1527 was 0x3. 1528 1529 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1530 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1531 1532 idle= [X86] 1533 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1534 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1535 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1536 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1537 Not recommended. 1538 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1539 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1540 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1541 1542 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1543 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1544 Default: strict 1545 1546 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1547 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1548 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1549 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1550 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1551 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1552 encoding mode. 1553 1554 Available settings are as follows: 1555 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1556 supported by the FPU 1557 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1558 by the FPU 1559 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1560 by the FPU 1561 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1562 supported by the FPU 1563 1564 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1565 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1566 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1567 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1568 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1569 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1570 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1571 MIPS64 CPUs. 1572 1573 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1574 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1575 except where unsupported by hardware. 1576 1577 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1578 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1579 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1580 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1581 could change it dynamically, usually by 1582 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1583 1584 ignore_rlimit_data 1585 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1586 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1587 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1588 1589 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1590 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1591 1592 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1593 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1594 default: "enforce" 1595 1596 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1597 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1598 owned by uid=0. 1599 1600 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1601 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1602 measurements, instead of host native format. 1603 1604 ima_hash= [IMA] 1605 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1606 | sha512 | ... } 1607 default: "sha1" 1608 1609 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1610 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1611 1612 ima_policy= [IMA] 1613 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1614 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1615 fail_securely" 1616 1617 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1618 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1619 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1620 uid=0. 1621 1622 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1623 all files owned by root. 1624 1625 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1626 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1627 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1628 1629 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1630 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1631 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1632 flag. 1633 1634 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1635 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1636 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1637 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1638 opened for read by uid=0. 1639 1640 ima_template= [IMA] 1641 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1642 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" } 1643 Default: "ima-ng" 1644 1645 ima_template_fmt= 1646 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1647 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1648 1649 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1650 Format: <min_file_size> 1651 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1652 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1653 1654 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1655 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1656 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1657 1658 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1659 Format: <bufsize> 1660 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1661 1662 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1663 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1664 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1665 1666 init= [KNL] 1667 Format: <full_path> 1668 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1669 process. 1670 1671 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1672 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1673 startup. 1674 1675 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1676 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1677 modules and initcalls. 1678 1679 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1680 1681 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 1682 zeroes. 1683 Format: 0 | 1 1684 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 1685 1686 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 1687 Format: 0 | 1 1688 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 1689 1690 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1691 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1692 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1693 override in debugfs after boot. 1694 1695 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1696 Format: <irq> 1697 1698 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1699 1700 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1701 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1702 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1703 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1704 1705 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1706 on 1707 Enable intel iommu driver. 1708 off 1709 Disable intel iommu driver. 1710 igfx_off [Default Off] 1711 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1712 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1713 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1714 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1715 DMA. 1716 forcedac [x86_64] 1717 With this option iommu will not optimize to look 1718 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual 1719 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater 1720 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look 1721 for translation below 32-bit and if not available 1722 then look in the higher range. 1723 strict [Default Off] 1724 With this option on every unmap_single operation will 1725 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed 1726 to batching them for performance. 1727 sp_off [Default Off] 1728 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 1729 has the capability. With this option, super page will 1730 not be supported. 1731 sm_on [Default Off] 1732 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the 1733 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable 1734 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode 1735 will be used on hardware which claims to support it. 1736 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 1737 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 1738 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 1739 could harm performance of some high-throughput 1740 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 1741 mapping is enabled. 1742 Note that using this option lowers the security 1743 provided by tboot because it makes the system 1744 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 1745 nobounce [Default off] 1746 Disable bounce buffer for unstrusted devices such as 1747 the Thunderbolt devices. This will treat the untrusted 1748 devices as the trusted ones, hence might expose security 1749 risks of DMA attacks. 1750 1751 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 1752 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1753 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 1754 1755 intel_pstate= [X86] 1756 disable 1757 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 1758 scaling driver for the supported processors 1759 passive 1760 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 1761 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 1762 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 1763 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 1764 feature. 1765 force 1766 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 1767 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 1768 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 1769 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 1770 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 1771 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 1772 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 1773 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 1774 no_hwp 1775 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 1776 if available. 1777 hwp_only 1778 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 1779 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 1780 support_acpi_ppc 1781 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 1782 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 1783 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 1784 then this feature is turned on by default. 1785 per_cpu_perf_limits 1786 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 1787 cpufreq sysfs interface 1788 1789 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 1790 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 1791 off disable Interrupt Remapping 1792 nosid disable Source ID checking 1793 no_x2apic_optout 1794 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 1795 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 1796 1797 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 1798 strict regions from userspace. 1799 relaxed 1800 1801 iommu= [x86] 1802 off 1803 force 1804 noforce 1805 biomerge 1806 panic 1807 nopanic 1808 merge 1809 nomerge 1810 soft 1811 pt [x86] 1812 nopt [x86] 1813 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 1814 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 1815 1816 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 1817 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1818 0 - Lazy mode. 1819 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 1820 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 1821 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 1822 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 1823 the relevant IOMMU driver. 1824 1 - Strict mode (default). 1825 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 1826 synchronously. 1827 1828 iommu.passthrough= 1829 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 1830 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1831 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1832 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 1833 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 1834 1835 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems 1836 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 1837 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 1838 1839 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 1840 0x80 1841 Standard port 0x80 based delay 1842 0xed 1843 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 1844 udelay 1845 Simple two microseconds delay 1846 none 1847 No delay 1848 1849 ip= [IP_PNP] 1850 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 1851 1852 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 1853 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 1854 1855 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 1856 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 1857 1858 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 1859 [ARM, ARM64] 1860 Format: <bool> 1861 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 1862 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 1863 exposed by the device tree is too small. 1864 1865 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 1866 [ARM, ARM64] 1867 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 1868 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 1869 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 1870 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 1871 LPIs. 1872 1873 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 1874 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 1875 requires the kernel to be built with 1876 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 1877 1878 irqfixup [HW] 1879 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1880 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1881 firmware running. 1882 1883 irqpoll [HW] 1884 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1885 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 1886 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1887 firmware running. 1888 1889 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 1890 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 1891 1892 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 1893 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 1894 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 1895 1896 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 1897 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 1898 1899 nohz 1900 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 1901 1902 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 1903 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 1904 workqueue's affinity configured via the 1905 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 1906 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 1907 1908 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 1909 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 1910 be configured manually after bootup. 1911 1912 domain 1913 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 1914 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 1915 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 1916 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 1917 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 1918 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 1919 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 1920 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 1921 1922 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 1923 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 1924 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 1925 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 1926 1927 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 1928 1929 1930 1931 iucv= [HW,NET] 1932 1933 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64] 1934 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1935 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1936 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 1937 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1938 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 1939 1940 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64] 1941 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1942 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1943 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 1944 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1945 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 1946 1947 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64] 1948 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 1949 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1950 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 1951 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 1952 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 1953 1954 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 1955 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 1956 1957 nokaslr [KNL] 1958 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 1959 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 1960 Layout Randomization). 1961 1962 kasan_multi_shot 1963 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 1964 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 1965 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 1966 invalid access. 1967 1968 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 1969 1970 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 1971 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 1972 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 1973 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 1974 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 1975 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 1976 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 1977 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 1978 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 1979 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 1980 1981 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 1982 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 1983 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 1984 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 1985 zone if it does not. 1986 1987 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 1988 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 1989 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 1990 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 1991 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 1992 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 1993 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 1994 1995 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 1996 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 1997 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 1998 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 1999 optional and is the number seconds in between 2000 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2001 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2002 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2003 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2004 the kernel debugger. 2005 2006 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2007 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2008 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2009 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2010 keyboard only format: kbd 2011 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2012 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2013 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2014 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2015 2016 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2017 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2018 2019 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address. 2020 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2021 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2022 2023 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2024 Valid arguments: on, off 2025 Default: on 2026 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2027 the default is off. 2028 2029 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2030 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2031 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2032 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2033 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2034 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2035 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2036 2037 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2038 2039 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2040 Boot Parameter" section. 2041 2042 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2043 and kernel address spaces. 2044 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2045 0: force disabled 2046 1: force enabled 2047 2048 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2049 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2050 2051 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2052 Default is false (don't support). 2053 2054 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 2055 KVM MMU at runtime. 2056 Default is 0 (off) 2057 2058 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2059 Default is 1 (enabled) 2060 2061 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2062 for all guests. 2063 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2064 2065 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2066 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2067 system registers 2068 2069 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2070 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2071 system registers 2072 2073 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2074 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2075 system registers 2076 2077 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2078 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2079 LPIs. 2080 2081 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2082 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2083 Default is 1 (enabled) 2084 2085 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2086 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 2087 Default is 0 (disabled) 2088 2089 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2090 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2091 Default is 1 (enabled) 2092 2093 kvm-intel.nested= 2094 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2095 Default is 0 (disabled) 2096 2097 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2098 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2099 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2100 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2101 2102 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2103 CVE-2018-3620. 2104 2105 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2106 2107 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2108 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2109 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2110 never: Disables the mitigation 2111 2112 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2113 2114 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2115 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2116 Default is 1 (enabled) 2117 2118 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2119 affected CPUs 2120 2121 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2122 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2123 2124 full 2125 Provides all available mitigations for the 2126 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2127 enables all mitigations in the 2128 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2129 2130 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2131 sysfs interface is still possible after 2132 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2133 when the first VM is started in a 2134 potentially insecure configuration, 2135 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2136 2137 full,force 2138 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2139 flush runtime control. Implies the 2140 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2141 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2142 2143 flush 2144 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2145 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2146 L1D flush. 2147 2148 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2149 sysfs interface is still possible after 2150 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2151 when the first VM is started in a 2152 potentially insecure configuration, 2153 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2154 2155 flush,nosmt 2156 2157 Disables SMT and enables the default 2158 hypervisor mitigation. 2159 2160 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2161 sysfs interface is still possible after 2162 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2163 when the first VM is started in a 2164 potentially insecure configuration, 2165 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2166 2167 flush,nowarn 2168 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2169 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2170 insecure configuration. 2171 2172 off 2173 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2174 emit any warnings. 2175 It also drops the swap size and available 2176 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2177 bare metal. 2178 2179 Default is 'flush'. 2180 2181 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2182 2183 l2cr= [PPC] 2184 2185 l3cr= [PPC] 2186 2187 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2188 disabled it. 2189 2190 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline 2191 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2192 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2193 2194 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2195 in C2 power state. 2196 2197 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2198 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2199 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2200 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2201 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2202 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2203 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2204 2205 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2206 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2207 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2208 2209 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2210 when set. 2211 Format: <int> 2212 2213 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma 2214 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 2215 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 2216 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 2217 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 2218 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 2219 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 2220 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 2221 2222 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2223 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2224 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2225 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2226 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2227 host link and device attached to it. 2228 2229 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2230 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 2231 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2232 The following configurations can be forced. 2233 2234 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2235 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2236 2237 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2238 2239 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2240 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2241 allowed. 2242 2243 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2244 2245 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 2246 2247 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 2248 and both resets. 2249 2250 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 2251 hot-unplug link recovery 2252 2253 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 2254 2255 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 2256 2257 * disable: Disable this device. 2258 2259 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2260 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2261 2262 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 2263 2264 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy 2265 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 2266 2267 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2268 Format: <integer> 2269 2270 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2271 Format: <integer> 2272 2273 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2274 Format: <integer> 2275 2276 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2277 Format: <integer> 2278 2279 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2280 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2281 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2282 number of online CPUs. 2283 2284 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2285 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2286 2287 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2288 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2289 2290 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2291 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2292 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2293 2294 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2295 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2296 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2297 mode during the locktorture test. 2298 2299 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2300 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2301 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2302 2303 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2304 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2305 2306 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2307 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2308 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2309 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2310 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2311 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2312 2313 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2314 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2315 2316 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2317 Enable additional printk() statements. 2318 2319 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2320 Format: <irq> 2321 2322 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2323 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2324 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2325 loglevels are defined as follows: 2326 2327 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2328 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2329 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2330 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2331 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2332 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2333 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2334 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2335 2336 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2337 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2338 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2339 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2340 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2341 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2342 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2343 2344 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2345 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2346 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2347 kernel boot problems. 2348 2349 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2350 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2351 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2352 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2353 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2354 attached printers to be reset. Using 2355 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2356 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2357 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2358 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2359 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2360 port specification list means that device IDs 2361 from each port should be examined, to see if 2362 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2363 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2364 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2365 2366 lpj=n [KNL] 2367 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2368 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2369 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2370 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2371 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2372 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2373 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2374 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2375 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2376 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2377 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2378 hardware. 2379 2380 ltpc= [NET] 2381 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2382 2383 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2384 2385 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2386 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2387 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2388 2389 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2390 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2391 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2392 2393 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different 2394 yeeloong laptop. 2395 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2396 2397 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2398 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2399 2400 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2401 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2402 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2403 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2404 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2405 only takes effect during system bootup. 2406 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2407 which also disables the IO APIC. 2408 2409 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2410 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2411 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2412 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2413 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2414 /dev/loop-control interface. 2415 2416 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2417 2418 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2419 2420 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2421 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2422 2423 mdacon= [MDA] 2424 Format: <first>,<last> 2425 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2426 2427 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2428 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2429 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2430 2431 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2432 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2433 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2434 2435 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2436 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2437 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2438 not have direct access. 2439 2440 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2441 options are: 2442 2443 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2444 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2445 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2446 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2447 2448 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 2449 mds=full. 2450 2451 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 2452 2453 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2454 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able 2455 to see the whole system memory or for test. 2456 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2457 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2458 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2459 belonging to unused RAM. 2460 2461 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2462 memory. 2463 2464 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2465 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2466 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2467 2468 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2469 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2470 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2471 set according to the 2472 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2473 option. 2474 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 2475 2476 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2477 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2478 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2479 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2480 option description. 2481 2482 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2483 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2484 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2485 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2486 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2487 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2488 comma delimited. 2489 Example: 2490 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2491 2492 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2493 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2494 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2495 2496 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2497 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2498 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2499 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2500 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2501 or 2502 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2503 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 2504 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 2505 will be eaten. 2506 2507 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2508 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2509 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2510 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2511 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2512 2513 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 2514 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 2515 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 2516 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 2517 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 2518 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 2519 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 2520 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 2521 2522 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2523 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2524 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2525 Setting this option will scan the memory 2526 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2527 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2528 from using the memory being corrupted. 2529 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2530 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2531 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2532 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2533 2534 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2535 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2536 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2537 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2538 corruption in more or less memory. 2539 2540 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2541 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2542 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2543 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2544 2545 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest 2546 Format: <integer> 2547 default : 0 <disable> 2548 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2549 performed. Each pass selects another test 2550 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2551 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2552 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2553 regions that are detected. 2554 2555 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 2556 Valid arguments: on, off 2557 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 2558 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 2559 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 2560 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 2561 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 2562 2563 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst 2564 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 2565 2566 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 2567 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 2568 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 2569 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 2570 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 2571 2572 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2573 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst. 2574 2575 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2576 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2577 platforms. 2578 2579 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2580 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2581 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2582 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2583 2584 mga= [HW,DRM] 2585 2586 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2587 physical address is ignored. 2588 2589 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2590 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2591 Default: "0tb" 2592 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2593 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2594 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2595 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2596 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2597 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2598 unconfigured. 2599 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2600 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2601 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2602 VGA shield. 2603 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2604 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2605 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2606 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2607 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 2608 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 2609 2610 mitigations= 2611 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 2612 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 2613 arch-independent options, each of which is an 2614 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 2615 2616 off 2617 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 2618 improves system performance, but it may also 2619 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 2620 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 2621 kpti=0 [ARM64] 2622 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 2623 nobp=0 [S390] 2624 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 2625 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 2626 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 2627 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 2628 l1tf=off [X86] 2629 mds=off [X86] 2630 2631 auto (default) 2632 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 2633 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 2634 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 2635 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 2636 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 2637 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 2638 2639 auto,nosmt 2640 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 2641 if needed. This is for users who always want to 2642 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 2643 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 2644 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 2645 2646 mminit_loglevel= 2647 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 2648 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 2649 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 2650 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 2651 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 2652 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 2653 2654 module.sig_enforce 2655 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 2656 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 2657 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 2658 is always true, so this option does nothing. 2659 2660 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 2661 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 2662 2663 mousedev.tap_time= 2664 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 2665 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 2666 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 2667 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 2668 Format: <msecs> 2669 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 2670 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2671 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 2672 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2673 2674 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2675 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 2676 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 2677 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 2678 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 2679 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 2680 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 2681 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 2682 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 2683 is not too small. 2684 2685 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 2686 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 2687 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 2688 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 2689 allocations. Use with caution! 2690 2691 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 2692 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 2693 2694 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 2695 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 2696 2697 mtdparts= [MTD] 2698 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c. 2699 2700 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 2701 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 2702 at a time. 2703 2704 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 2705 2706 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 2707 2708 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 2709 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 2710 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 2711 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 2712 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 2713 2714 mtdset= [ARM] 2715 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 2716 2717 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c 2718 2719 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 2720 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 2721 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 2722 2723 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2724 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 2725 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 2726 2727 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2728 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 2729 Default is 1. 2730 Large value could prevent small alignment from 2731 using up MTRRs. 2732 2733 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 2734 Format: <integer> 2735 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 2736 Default : 1 2737 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 2738 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 2739 2740 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 2741 2742 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 2743 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 2744 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 2745 something different and driver-specific. 2746 This usage is only documented in each driver source 2747 file if at all. 2748 2749 nf_conntrack.acct= 2750 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 2751 0 to disable accounting 2752 1 to enable accounting 2753 Default value is 0. 2754 2755 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 2756 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2757 2758 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 2759 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2760 2761 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 2762 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2763 2764 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 2765 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 2766 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 2767 requests. 2768 2769 nfs.callback_tcpport= 2770 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 2771 channel should listen. 2772 2773 nfs.cache_getent= 2774 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 2775 to update the NFS client cache entries. 2776 2777 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 2778 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 2779 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 2780 2781 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 2782 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 2783 entries. 2784 2785 nfs.enable_ino64= 2786 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 2787 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 2788 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 2789 of returning the full 64-bit number. 2790 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 2791 2792 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 2793 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 2794 slots the client will assign to the callback 2795 channel. This determines the maximum number of 2796 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 2797 a particular server. 2798 2799 nfs.max_session_slots= 2800 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 2801 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 2802 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 2803 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 2804 Note that there is little point in setting this 2805 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 2806 2807 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2808 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 2809 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 2810 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 2811 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 2812 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 2813 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 2814 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 2815 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 2816 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 2817 back to using the idmapper. 2818 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 2819 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 2820 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 2821 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 2822 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 2823 UUID that is generated at system install time. 2824 2825 nfs.send_implementation_id = 2826 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 2827 information in exchange_id requests. 2828 If zero, no implementation identification information 2829 will be sent. 2830 The default is to send the implementation identification 2831 information. 2832 2833 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 2834 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 2835 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 2836 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 2837 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 2838 after the locks are lost. 2839 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 2840 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 2841 parameter to '1'. 2842 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 2843 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 2844 2845 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 2846 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 2847 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 2848 2849 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 2850 whatever value is the default set by the layout 2851 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 2852 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 2853 2854 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2855 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 2856 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 2857 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 2858 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 2859 migration from NFSv2/v3. 2860 2861 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 2862 when a NMI is triggered. 2863 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 2864 2865 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 2866 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 2867 Valid num: 0 or 1 2868 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 2869 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 2870 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 2871 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 2872 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 2873 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 2874 please see 'nowatchdog'. 2875 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 2876 need the box quickly up again. 2877 2878 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 2879 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 2880 2881 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 2882 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 2883 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 2884 waits 4 seconds. 2885 2886 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 2887 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 2888 is present. 2889 2890 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 2891 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 2892 2893 no_console_suspend 2894 [HW] Never suspend the console 2895 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 2896 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 2897 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 2898 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 2899 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 2900 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 2901 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 2902 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 2903 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 2904 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 2905 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 2906 turn on/off it dynamically. 2907 2908 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 2909 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 2910 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 2911 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 2912 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 2913 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 2914 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 2915 data will be no longer available. This parameter 2916 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 2917 is set. 2918 2919 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 2920 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 2921 but will impact performance. 2922 2923 noalign [KNL,ARM] 2924 2925 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 2926 (CPU alternatives feature). 2927 2928 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 2929 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 2930 2931 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 2932 2933 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 2934 on "Classic" PPC cores. 2935 2936 nocache [ARM] 2937 2938 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 2939 2940 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting 2941 2942 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 2943 2944 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 2945 2946 noexec [IA-64] 2947 2948 noexec [X86] 2949 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 2950 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2951 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 2952 2953 nosmap [X86,PPC] 2954 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 2955 even if it is supported by processor. 2956 2957 nosmep [X86,PPC] 2958 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 2959 even if it is supported by processor. 2960 2961 noexec32 [X86-64] 2962 This affects only 32-bit executables. 2963 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2964 read doesn't imply executable mappings 2965 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 2966 read implies executable mappings 2967 2968 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 2969 2970 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 2971 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 2972 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 2973 2974 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86,PPC] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 2975 2976 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 2977 Equivalent to smt=1. 2978 2979 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 2980 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 2981 via the sysfs control file. 2982 2983 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 2984 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 2985 possible in the system. 2986 2987 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 2988 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 2989 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 2990 option. 2991 2992 nospec_store_bypass_disable 2993 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 2994 2995 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 2996 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 2997 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 2998 2999 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3000 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3001 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3002 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3003 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3004 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3005 3006 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3007 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3008 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3009 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3010 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3011 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3012 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3013 3014 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or 3015 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to 3016 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger. 3017 3018 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3019 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3020 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3021 3022 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3023 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3024 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3025 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3026 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3027 real-time systems. 3028 3029 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3030 3031 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3032 Valid arguments: on, off 3033 Default: on 3034 3035 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3036 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3037 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3038 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3039 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3040 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3041 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3042 just as if they had also been called out in the 3043 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3044 3045 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3046 3047 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3048 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3049 3050 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3051 broken timer IRQ sources. 3052 3053 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3054 3055 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3056 initial RAM disk. 3057 3058 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3059 remapping. 3060 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3061 3062 nointroute [IA-64] 3063 3064 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3065 3066 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3067 3068 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3069 3070 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3071 fault handling. 3072 3073 no-vmw-sched-clock 3074 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3075 clock and use the default one. 3076 3077 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. 3078 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler 3079 behaviour 3080 3081 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3082 3083 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3084 3085 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 3086 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 3087 3088 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3089 3090 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3091 3092 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3093 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3094 3095 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3096 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3097 irq. 3098 3099 nomodule Disable module load 3100 3101 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3102 pagetables) support. 3103 3104 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3105 3106 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3107 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3108 3109 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3110 with UP alternatives 3111 3112 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 3113 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 3114 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 3115 available to user space applications. 3116 3117 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3118 space. 3119 3120 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3121 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3122 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3123 3124 nosbagart [IA-64] 3125 3126 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 3127 3128 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3129 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3130 3131 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3132 3133 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3134 3135 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3136 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3137 3138 nowb [ARM] 3139 3140 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3141 3142 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 3143 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 3144 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 3145 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 3146 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 3147 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 3148 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 3149 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 3150 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 3151 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 3152 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 3153 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 3154 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 3155 3156 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3157 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3158 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3159 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3160 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3161 parameter's value. 3162 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3163 Default: 255 3164 3165 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3166 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3167 SAL PALO. 3168 3169 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3170 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3171 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3172 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3173 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3174 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3175 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3176 hot plugging. 3177 3178 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3179 3180 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing. 3181 Allowed values are enable and disable 3182 3183 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3184 'node', 'default' can be specified 3185 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3186 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3187 3188 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3189 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more 3190 info. 3191 3192 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3193 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3194 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3195 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3196 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3197 interrupts *may* be lost! 3198 3199 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3200 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3201 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3202 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3203 3204 oprofile.timer= [HW] 3205 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters 3206 3207 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type 3208 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile 3209 userland or if you want common events. 3210 Format: { arch_perfmon } 3211 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural 3212 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the 3213 CPU specific event set. 3214 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI 3215 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer 3216 for generic hr timer mode) 3217 3218 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3219 process, but there is a small probability of 3220 deadlocking the machine. 3221 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3222 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3223 3224 page_alloc.shuffle= 3225 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3226 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3227 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3228 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3229 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3230 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3231 can be read from sysfs at: 3232 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3233 3234 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3235 Storage of the information about who allocated 3236 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3237 we can turn it on. 3238 on: enable the feature 3239 3240 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3241 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3242 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3243 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3244 on: turn on poisoning 3245 3246 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3247 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3248 timeout = 0: wait forever 3249 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3250 Format: <timeout> 3251 3252 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3253 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3254 bit 0: print all tasks info 3255 bit 1: print system memory info 3256 bit 2: print timer info 3257 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3258 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3259 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3260 3261 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3262 on a WARN(). 3263 3264 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 3265 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 3266 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 3267 succeeds in any situation. 3268 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 3269 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 3270 kernel more unstable. 3271 3272 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3273 connected to, default is 0. 3274 Format: <parport#> 3275 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3276 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3277 Format: <mode> 3278 3279 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3280 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3281 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3282 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3283 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3284 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3285 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3286 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3287 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3288 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3289 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3290 are specified on the command line, starting 3291 with parport0. 3292 3293 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3294 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3295 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3296 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3297 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3298 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3299 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3300 3301 pause_on_oops= 3302 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 3303 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 3304 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 3305 3306 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 3307 3308 pcd. [PARIDE] 3309 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 3310 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3311 3312 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 3313 3314 Some options herein operate on a specific device 3315 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 3316 specified in one of the following formats: 3317 3318 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 3319 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 3320 3321 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 3322 bus/device/function address which may change 3323 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 3324 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 3325 by other kernel parameters. If the 3326 domain is left unspecified, it is 3327 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 3328 to a device through multiple device/function 3329 addresses can be specified after the base 3330 address (this is more robust against 3331 renumbering issues). The second format 3332 selects devices using IDs from the 3333 configuration space which may match multiple 3334 devices in the system. 3335 3336 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 3337 changes anything 3338 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 3339 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 3340 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 3341 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 3342 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 3343 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 3344 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 3345 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 3346 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3347 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 3348 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 3349 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3350 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 3351 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 3352 bus number. The config space is then accessed 3353 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 3354 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 3355 on the configuration access mechanisms. 3356 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 3357 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3358 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 3359 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 3360 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 3361 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 3362 Configuration 3363 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 3364 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 3365 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 3366 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 3367 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3368 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 3369 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 3370 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 3371 should never be necessary. 3372 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 3373 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 3374 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 3375 when the system masks IRQs. 3376 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 3377 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 3378 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 3379 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 3380 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 3381 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 3382 on several machines and they hang the machine 3383 when used, but on other computers it's the only 3384 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 3385 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 3386 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 3387 motherboard. 3388 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 3389 Use with caution as certain devices share 3390 address decoders between ROMs and other 3391 resources. 3392 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 3393 expansion ROMs that do not already have 3394 BIOS assigned address ranges. 3395 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 3396 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 3397 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 3398 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 3399 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 3400 this way. 3401 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 3402 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 3403 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 3404 F0000h-100000h range. 3405 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 3406 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 3407 secondary buses and you want to tell it 3408 explicitly which ones they are. 3409 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 3410 numbers ourselves, overriding 3411 whatever the firmware may have done. 3412 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 3413 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 3414 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 3415 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 3416 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 3417 IRQ routing is enabled. 3418 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 3419 or for PCI scanning. 3420 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 3421 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 3422 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 3423 please report a bug. 3424 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 3425 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 3426 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 3427 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 3428 so this option is a temporary workaround 3429 for broken drivers that don't call it. 3430 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 3431 handle more pci cards 3432 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 3433 This might help on some broken boards which 3434 machine check when some devices' config space 3435 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 3436 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 3437 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3438 This sorting is done to get a device 3439 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 3440 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3441 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 3442 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 3443 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 3444 supported by all devices below the root complex. 3445 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 3446 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 3447 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 3448 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 3449 or bus can support) for best performance. 3450 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 3451 every device is guaranteed to support. This 3452 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 3453 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 3454 reduced performance. This also guarantees 3455 that hot-added devices will work. 3456 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3457 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 3458 The default value is 256 bytes. 3459 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3460 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 3461 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 3462 resource_alignment= 3463 Format: 3464 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 3465 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 3466 aligned memory resources. How to 3467 specify the device is described above. 3468 If <order of align> is not specified, 3469 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 3470 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 3471 windows need to be expanded. 3472 To specify the alignment for several 3473 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 3474 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 3475 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 3476 for 4096-byte alignment. 3477 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 3478 end-to-end CRC checking). 3479 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 3480 the default. 3481 off: Turn ECRC off 3482 on: Turn ECRC on. 3483 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3484 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 3485 Default size is 256 bytes. 3486 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3487 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window. 3488 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3489 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 3490 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 3491 Default is 1. 3492 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 3493 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 3494 accommodate resources required by all child 3495 devices. 3496 off: Turn realloc off 3497 on: Turn realloc on 3498 realloc same as realloc=on 3499 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 3500 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 3501 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 3502 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 3503 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 3504 port. 3505 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 3506 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 3507 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 3508 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 3509 conflict with unreported devices), so this 3510 taints the kernel. 3511 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 3512 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 3513 specified above) separated by semicolons. 3514 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 3515 redirect capabilities forced off which will 3516 allow P2P traffic between devices through 3517 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 3518 this removes isolation between devices and 3519 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 3520 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 3521 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 3522 3523 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 3524 Management. 3525 off Disable ASPM. 3526 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 3527 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 3528 3529 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 3530 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 3531 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 3532 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 3533 also tries to use these services. 3534 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 3535 hotplug). 3536 3537 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 3538 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 3539 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 3540 3541 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 3542 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 3543 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 3544 3545 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 3546 3547 pd_ignore_unused 3548 [PM] 3549 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 3550 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 3551 for debug and development, but should not be 3552 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 3553 3554 pd. [PARIDE] 3555 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3556 3557 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 3558 boot time. 3559 Format: { 0 | 1 } 3560 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 3561 3562 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 3563 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 3564 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 3565 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 3566 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 3567 and performance comparison. 3568 3569 pf. [PARIDE] 3570 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3571 3572 pg. [PARIDE] 3573 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3574 3575 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 3576 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 3577 3578 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 3579 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 3580 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 3581 3582 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 3583 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 3584 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 3585 3586 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 3587 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 3588 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 3589 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 3590 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 3591 possible settings and some assignment information. 3592 3593 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 3594 { off } 3595 3596 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 3597 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 3598 3599 pnp_reserve_irq= 3600 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 3601 3602 pnp_reserve_dma= 3603 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 3604 3605 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 3606 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 3607 3608 pnp_reserve_mem= 3609 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 3610 autoconfiguration. 3611 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 3612 3613 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 3614 Default is 21. 3615 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 3616 may be specified. 3617 Format: <port>,<port>.... 3618 3619 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 3620 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 3621 platform machine description specific power_save 3622 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 3623 execution priority. 3624 3625 ppc_strict_facility_enable 3626 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 3627 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 3628 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 3629 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 3630 3631 ppc_tm= [PPC] 3632 Format: {"off"} 3633 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 3634 3635 print-fatal-signals= 3636 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 3637 3638 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 3639 related application anomalies: too many signals, 3640 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 3641 coredump - etc. 3642 3643 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 3644 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 3645 3646 default: off. 3647 3648 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 3649 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 3650 panics 3651 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3652 default: disabled 3653 3654 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 3655 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 3656 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 3657 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 3658 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 3659 Default: ratelimit 3660 3661 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 3662 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3663 3664 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 3665 Limit processor to maximum C-state 3666 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 3667 3668 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 3669 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 3670 instead using the legacy FADT method 3671 3672 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 3673 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 3674 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 3675 [defaults to kernel profiling] 3676 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 3677 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 3678 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 3679 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 3680 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 3681 statistical time based profiling. 3682 3683 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk 3684 before loading. 3685 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 3686 3687 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 3688 tracking. 3689 Format: <bool> 3690 3691 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 3692 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 3693 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 3694 per second. 3695 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 3696 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 3697 (0 = never). 3698 psmouse.resolution= 3699 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 3700 psmouse.smartscroll= 3701 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 3702 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 3703 3704 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 3705 3706 pt. [PARIDE] 3707 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3708 3709 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 3710 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 3711 removes hardening, but improves performance of 3712 system calls and interrupts. 3713 3714 on - unconditionally enable 3715 off - unconditionally disable 3716 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 3717 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 3718 3719 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 3720 3721 nopti [X86_64] 3722 Equivalent to pti=off 3723 3724 pty.legacy_count= 3725 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 3726 default number. 3727 3728 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 3729 3730 r128= [HW,DRM] 3731 3732 raid= [HW,RAID] 3733 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3734 3735 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 3736 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 3737 3738 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 3739 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 3740 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 3741 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 3742 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 3743 3744 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 3745 3746 cec_disable [X86] 3747 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 3748 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 3749 3750 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 3751 The argument is a cpu list, as described above, 3752 except that the string "all" can be used to 3753 specify every CPU on the system. 3754 3755 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 3756 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 3757 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be 3758 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that 3759 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and 3760 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number. 3761 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs, 3762 which can be useful for HPC and real-time 3763 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency 3764 for asymmetric multiprocessors. 3765 3766 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 3767 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 3768 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 3769 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 3770 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 3771 This improves the real-time response for the 3772 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 3773 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 3774 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 3775 periodically wake up to do the polling. 3776 3777 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 3778 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 3779 process in one batch. 3780 3781 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 3782 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 3783 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 3784 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 3785 3786 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 3787 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3788 RCU grace-period cleanup. 3789 3790 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 3791 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3792 RCU grace-period initialization. 3793 3794 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 3795 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3796 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 3797 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 3798 the rcu_node combining tree. 3799 3800 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 3801 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 3802 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 3803 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 3804 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 3805 3806 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 3807 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 3808 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 3809 possibly be useful for architectures having high 3810 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 3811 3812 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 3813 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 3814 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 3815 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 3816 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 3817 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 3818 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 3819 3820 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 3821 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 3822 first attempt to force quiescent states. 3823 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 3824 and maximum value is HZ. 3825 3826 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 3827 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 3828 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 3829 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 3830 3831 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 3832 Set required age in jiffies for a 3833 given grace period before RCU starts 3834 soliciting quiescent-state help from 3835 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 3836 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 3837 a value based on the most recent settings 3838 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 3839 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 3840 This calculated value may be viewed in 3841 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 3842 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 3843 overwritten. 3844 3845 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 3846 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 3847 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 3848 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 3849 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 3850 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 3851 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 3852 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 3853 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 3854 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 3855 3856 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 3857 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 3858 each group, which defaults to the square root 3859 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 3860 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 3861 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 3862 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 3863 3864 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 3865 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 3866 batch limiting is disabled. 3867 3868 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 3869 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 3870 batch limiting is re-enabled. 3871 3872 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 3873 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3874 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3875 3876 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL] 3877 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3878 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3879 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can 3880 prove do nothing more than free memory. 3881 3882 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 3883 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 3884 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 3885 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 3886 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 3887 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 3888 3889 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 3890 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 3891 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 3892 why a new grace period has not yet started. 3893 3894 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL] 3895 Measure performance of asynchronous 3896 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 3897 3898 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL] 3899 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 3900 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 3901 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 3902 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 3903 previously posted callbacks to drain. 3904 3905 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL] 3906 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 3907 grace-period primitives. 3908 3909 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL] 3910 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 3911 this parameter is to delay the start of the 3912 test until boot completes in order to avoid 3913 interference. 3914 3915 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL] 3916 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3917 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3918 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 3919 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3920 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3921 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 3922 a single reader. 3923 3924 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL] 3925 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 3926 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders. 3927 N, where N is the number of CPUs 3928 3929 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL] 3930 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 3931 3932 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL] 3933 Shut the system down after performance tests 3934 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 3935 testing. 3936 3937 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL] 3938 Enable additional printk() statements. 3939 3940 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 3941 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 3942 in microseconds. The default of zero says 3943 no holdoff. 3944 3945 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 3946 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 3947 in microseconds. 3948 3949 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 3950 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 3951 in microseconds. 3952 3953 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 3954 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 3955 in seconds. 3956 3957 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 3958 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 3959 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 3960 3961 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 3962 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 3963 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 3964 3965 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 3966 Number of seconds to wait between successive 3967 forward-progress tests. 3968 3969 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 3970 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 3971 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 3972 testing. 3973 3974 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 3975 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 3976 primitives, if available. 3977 3978 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 3979 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 3980 3981 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 3982 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 3983 update-side primitives, if available. 3984 3985 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 3986 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 3987 update-side primitives, if available. If all 3988 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 3989 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 3990 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 3991 they are all non-zero. 3992 3993 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 3994 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 3995 3996 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 3997 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 3998 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 3999 test, hence the "fake". 4000 4001 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 4002 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4003 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4004 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 4005 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4006 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4007 4008 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 4009 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 4010 4011 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4012 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 4013 4014 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4015 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 4016 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 4017 4018 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 4019 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 4020 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 4021 during the rcutorture test. 4022 4023 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4024 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 4025 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 4026 4027 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 4028 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 4029 warnings, zero to disable. 4030 4031 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 4032 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 4033 4034 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 4035 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 4036 4037 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 4038 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 4039 4040 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 4041 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 4042 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 4043 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 4044 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 4045 4046 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 4047 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 4048 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 4049 under test support RCU priority boosting. 4050 4051 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 4052 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 4053 4054 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 4055 Interval (s) between each boost test. 4056 4057 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 4058 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 4059 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 4060 4061 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 4062 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4063 4064 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 4065 Enable additional printk() statements. 4066 4067 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 4068 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 4069 stall warning. 4070 4071 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 4072 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4073 4074 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4075 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4076 4077 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 4078 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 4079 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 4080 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 4081 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 4082 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 4083 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4084 4085 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 4086 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 4087 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 4088 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 4089 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 4090 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 4091 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 4092 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 4093 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4094 4095 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 4096 Once boot has completed (that is, after 4097 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 4098 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 4099 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4100 4101 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4102 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 4103 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 4104 to zero. 4105 4106 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 4107 Run the RCU early boot self tests 4108 4109 rdinit= [KNL] 4110 Format: <full_path> 4111 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 4112 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 4113 4114 rdrand= [X86] 4115 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 4116 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 4117 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 4118 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 4119 path). 4120 4121 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 4122 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 4123 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 4124 mba. 4125 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 4126 rdt=cmt,!mba 4127 4128 reboot= [KNL] 4129 Format (x86 or x86_64): 4130 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ 4131 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 4132 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 4133 [[,]f[orce] 4134 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 4135 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 4136 reboot only), 4137 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 4138 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 4139 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 4140 to be used for rebooting. 4141 4142 relax_domain_level= 4143 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 4144 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 4145 4146 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 4147 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 4148 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 4149 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 4150 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 4151 4152 reservetop= [X86-32] 4153 Format: nn[KMG] 4154 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 4155 address space. 4156 4157 reservelow= [X86] 4158 Format: nn[K] 4159 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at 4160 the bottom of the address space. 4161 4162 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 4163 during initialization. 4164 4165 resume= [SWSUSP] 4166 Specify the partition device for software suspend 4167 Format: 4168 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 4169 4170 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 4171 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 4172 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 4173 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 4174 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 4175 4176 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4177 read the resume files 4178 4179 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 4180 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4181 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4182 4183 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 4184 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 4185 present during boot. 4186 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 4187 no Disable hibernation and resume. 4188 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 4189 (that will set all pages holding image data 4190 during restoration read-only). 4191 4192 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 4193 4194 rfkill.default_state= 4195 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 4196 etc. communication is blocked by default. 4197 1 Unblocked. 4198 4199 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 4200 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 4201 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4202 blocked and the previous configuration. 4203 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4204 blocked and everything unblocked. 4205 4206 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4207 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 4208 4209 ring3mwait=disable 4210 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 4211 CPUs. 4212 4213 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 4214 4215 rodata= [KNL] 4216 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 4217 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 4218 4219 rockchip.usb_uart 4220 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 4221 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 4222 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 4223 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 4224 4225 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 4226 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 4227 4228 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4229 mount the root filesystem 4230 4231 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 4232 4233 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 4234 4235 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 4236 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4237 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4238 4239 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 4240 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 4241 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 4242 managed by CMA. 4243 4244 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 4245 4246 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 4247 4248 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 4249 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 4250 strict 4251 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 4252 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 4253 which is faster. 4254 4255 sa1100ir [NET] 4256 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 4257 4258 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter 4259 4260 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 4261 4262 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 4263 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 4264 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 4265 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 4266 4267 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 4268 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 4269 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 4270 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4271 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 4272 1 -- enable. 4273 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 4274 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 4275 4276 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 4277 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 4278 "lsm=" parameter. 4279 4280 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 4281 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4282 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 4283 0 -- disable. 4284 1 -- enable. 4285 Default value is set via kernel config option. 4286 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used 4287 later to disable prior to initial policy load. 4288 4289 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 4290 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4291 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 4292 0 -- disable. 4293 1 -- enable. 4294 Default value is set via kernel config option. 4295 4296 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 4297 4298 shapers= [NET] 4299 Maximal number of shapers. 4300 4301 simeth= [IA-64] 4302 simscsi= 4303 4304 slram= [HW,MTD] 4305 4306 slab_nomerge [MM] 4307 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 4308 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 4309 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 4310 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 4311 layout control by attackers can usually be 4312 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 4313 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 4314 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 4315 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 4316 own. 4317 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4318 4319 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 4320 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4321 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4322 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 4323 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 4324 4325 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB] 4326 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 4327 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 4328 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 4329 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 4330 last alloc / free. For more information see 4331 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4332 4333 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB] 4334 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for 4335 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable. 4336 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON. 4337 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug 4338 directories and files being created under 4339 /sys/kernel/slub. 4340 4341 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 4342 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4343 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4344 fragmentation. For more information see 4345 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4346 4347 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 4348 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 4349 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 4350 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 4351 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 4352 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 4353 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 4354 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4355 4356 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 4357 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 4358 lower than slub_max_order. 4359 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4360 4361 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 4362 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 4363 See slab_nomerge for more information. 4364 4365 smart2= [HW] 4366 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 4367 4368 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 4369 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 4370 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 4371 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 4372 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 4373 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 4374 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 4375 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 4376 1: Fast pin select (default) 4377 2: ATC IRMode 4378 4379 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 4380 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 4381 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 4382 actual hardware limit. 4383 Format: <integer> 4384 Default: -1 (no limit) 4385 4386 softlockup_panic= 4387 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 4388 Format: <integer> 4389 4390 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector 4391 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This 4392 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 4393 which is the respective build-time switch to that 4394 functionality. 4395 4396 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 4397 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 4398 backtraces on all cpus. 4399 Format: <integer> 4400 4401 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 4402 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 4403 4404 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 4405 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 4406 The default operation protects the kernel from 4407 user space attacks. 4408 4409 on - unconditionally enable, implies 4410 spectre_v2_user=on 4411 off - unconditionally disable, implies 4412 spectre_v2_user=off 4413 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4414 vulnerable 4415 4416 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 4417 mitigation method at run time according to the 4418 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 4419 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 4420 compiler with which the kernel was built. 4421 4422 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 4423 against user space to user space task attacks. 4424 4425 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 4426 the user space protections. 4427 4428 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 4429 4430 retpoline - replace indirect branches 4431 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline 4432 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk 4433 4434 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4435 spectre_v2=auto. 4436 4437 spectre_v2_user= 4438 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 4439 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 4440 user space tasks 4441 4442 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 4443 enforced by spectre_v2=on 4444 4445 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 4446 enforced by spectre_v2=off 4447 4448 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 4449 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 4450 per thread. The mitigation control state 4451 is inherited on fork. 4452 4453 prctl,ibpb 4454 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 4455 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 4456 always when switching between different user 4457 space processes. 4458 4459 seccomp 4460 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 4461 threads will enable the mitigation unless 4462 they explicitly opt out. 4463 4464 seccomp,ibpb 4465 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 4466 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 4467 always when switching between different 4468 user space processes. 4469 4470 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 4471 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 4472 4473 Default mitigation: 4474 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 4475 4476 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4477 spectre_v2_user=auto. 4478 4479 spec_store_bypass_disable= 4480 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 4481 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 4482 4483 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 4484 a common industry wide performance optimization known 4485 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 4486 to the same memory location may not be observed by 4487 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 4488 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 4489 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 4490 end of a particular speculation execution window. 4491 4492 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 4493 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 4494 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 4495 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 4496 4497 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 4498 Bypass optimization is used. 4499 4500 On x86 the options are: 4501 4502 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 4503 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 4504 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 4505 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 4506 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 4507 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 4508 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 4509 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 4510 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 4511 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 4512 for a process by default. The state of the control 4513 is inherited on fork. 4514 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 4515 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 4516 4517 Default mitigations: 4518 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 4519 4520 On powerpc the options are: 4521 4522 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 4523 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 4524 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 4525 exit. 4526 off - No action. 4527 4528 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4529 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 4530 4531 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 4532 spia_fio_base= 4533 spia_pedr= 4534 spia_peddr= 4535 4536 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 4537 Specifies how frequently to check for 4538 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 4539 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 4540 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 4541 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 4542 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 4543 are ignored. 4544 4545 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 4546 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 4547 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 4548 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 4549 grace period will be considered for automatic 4550 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 4551 expediting. 4552 4553 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 4554 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 4555 4556 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 4557 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 4558 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 4559 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 4560 4561 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 4562 for both kernel and userspace 4563 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 4564 for both kernel and userspace 4565 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 4566 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 4567 to allow userspace to register its 4568 interest in being mitigated too. 4569 4570 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 4571 override the default stack gap protection. The value 4572 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 4573 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 4574 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 4575 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 4576 4577 stacktrace [FTRACE] 4578 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 4579 4580 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 4581 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 4582 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 4583 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 4584 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 4585 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 4586 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 4587 4588 sti= [PARISC,HW] 4589 Format: <num> 4590 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 4591 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 4592 as the initial boot-console. 4593 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4594 4595 sti_font= [HW] 4596 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4597 4598 stifb= [HW] 4599 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 4600 4601 sunrpc.min_resvport= 4602 sunrpc.max_resvport= 4603 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4604 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 4605 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 4606 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 4607 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 4608 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 4609 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 4610 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 4611 maximum port values. 4612 4613 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 4614 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4615 Limit the number of requests that the server will 4616 process in parallel from a single connection. 4617 The default value is 0 (no limit). 4618 4619 sunrpc.pool_mode= 4620 [NFS] 4621 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 4622 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 4623 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 4624 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 4625 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 4626 NFS server is running. 4627 4628 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 4629 automatically using heuristics 4630 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 4631 percpu one pool for each CPU 4632 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 4633 to global on non-NUMA machines) 4634 4635 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 4636 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 4637 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4638 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 4639 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 4640 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 4641 improve throughput, but will also increase the 4642 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 4643 4644 suspend.pm_test_delay= 4645 [SUSPEND] 4646 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 4647 mode before resuming the system (see 4648 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 4649 is set. Default value is 5. 4650 4651 svm= [PPC] 4652 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 4653 This parameter controls use of the Protected 4654 Execution Facility on pSeries. 4655 4656 swapaccount=[0|1] 4657 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 4658 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 4659 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) 4660 4661 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 4662 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 4663 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 4664 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 4665 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 4666 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 4667 4668 switches= [HW,M68k] 4669 4670 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 4671 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 4672 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 4673 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 4674 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 4675 in older udev will not work anymore. 4676 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 4677 the kernel configuration. 4678 4679 sysrq_always_enabled 4680 [KNL] 4681 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 4682 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 4683 Useful for debugging. 4684 4685 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4686 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 4687 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 4688 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 4689 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt 4690 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 4691 4692 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 4693 4694 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 4695 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 4696 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 4697 as the system sleep state during system startup with 4698 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 4699 The system is woken from this state using a 4700 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 4701 4702 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4703 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 4704 4705 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 4706 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 4707 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 4708 4709 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 4710 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 4711 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 4712 4713 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 4714 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 4715 critical and hot trip points. 4716 4717 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 4718 1: disable ACPI thermal control 4719 4720 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 4721 -1: disable all passive trip points 4722 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 4723 value 4724 4725 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 4726 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 4727 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 4728 0: no polling (default) 4729 4730 threadirqs [KNL] 4731 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 4732 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 4733 4734 topology= [S390] 4735 Format: {off | on} 4736 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 4737 topology information if the hardware supports this. 4738 The scheduler will make use of this information and 4739 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 4740 Default is on. 4741 4742 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 4743 Format: {off} 4744 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 4745 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 4746 LPAR. 4747 4748 tp720= [HW,PS2] 4749 4750 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 4751 Format: integer pcr id 4752 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 4753 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 4754 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 4755 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 4756 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 4757 are saved. 4758 4759 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 4760 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 4761 4762 trace_event=[event-list] 4763 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 4764 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 4765 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See 4766 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 4767 4768 trace_options=[option-list] 4769 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 4770 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 4771 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 4772 to echo the option name into 4773 4774 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 4775 4776 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 4777 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 4778 4779 trace_options=stacktrace 4780 4781 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 4782 section. 4783 4784 tp_printk[FTRACE] 4785 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 4786 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 4787 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 4788 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 4789 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 4790 4791 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 4792 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 4793 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 4794 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 4795 4796 ** CAUTION ** 4797 4798 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 4799 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 4800 the system to live lock. 4801 4802 traceoff_on_warning 4803 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 4804 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 4805 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 4806 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 4807 4808 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 4809 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 4810 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 4811 4812 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 4813 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 4814 4815 transparent_hugepage= 4816 [KNL] 4817 Format: [always|madvise|never] 4818 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 4819 with respect to transparent hugepages. 4820 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 4821 for more details. 4822 4823 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 4824 Format: <string> 4825 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 4826 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 4827 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 4828 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 4829 virtualized environment. 4830 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 4831 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 4832 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 4833 can add overhead. 4834 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 4835 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 4836 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 4837 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 4838 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 4839 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 4840 acceptable). 4841 4842 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 4843 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 4844 Format: 4845 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 4846 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 4847 4848 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 4849 happen after console_init() and before a proper 4850 console driver takes over, this boot options might 4851 help "seeing" what's going on. 4852 4853 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4854 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 4855 4856 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 4857 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 4858 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 4859 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 4860 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 4861 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 4862 reported either. 4863 4864 unknown_nmi_panic 4865 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 4866 4867 usbcore.authorized_default= 4868 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 4869 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 4870 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 4871 if device connected to internal port) 4872 4873 usbcore.autosuspend= 4874 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 4875 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 4876 is the time required before an idle device will be 4877 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 4878 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 4879 4880 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 4881 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 4882 4883 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 4884 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 4885 (default = 65536). 4886 4887 usbcore.blinkenlights= 4888 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 4889 4890 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 4891 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 4892 scheme, applies only to low and full-speed devices 4893 (default 0 = off). 4894 4895 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 4896 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 4897 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 4898 4899 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 4900 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 4901 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 4902 4903 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 4904 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 4905 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 4906 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 4907 4908 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 4909 4910 usbcore.quirks= 4911 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 4912 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 4913 commas. Each entry has the form 4914 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 4915 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 4916 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 4917 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 4918 the following meanings: 4919 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 4920 descriptors must not be fetched using 4921 a 255-byte read); 4922 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 4923 correctly so reset it instead); 4924 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 4925 Set-Interface requests); 4926 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 4927 handle its Configuration or Interface 4928 strings); 4929 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 4930 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 4931 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 4932 more interface descriptions than the 4933 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 4934 talking to these interfaces); 4935 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 4936 during initialization, after we read 4937 the device descriptor); 4938 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 4939 high speed and super speed interrupt 4940 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 4941 require the interval in microframes (1 4942 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 4943 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 4944 (bInterval-1). 4945 Devices with this quirk report their 4946 bInterval as the result of this 4947 calculation instead of the exponent 4948 variable used in the calculation); 4949 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 4950 handle device_qualifier descriptor 4951 requests); 4952 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 4953 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 4954 remote wakeup capability); 4955 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 4956 Power Management); 4957 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 4958 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 4959 frames instead of the USB 2.0 4960 calculation); 4961 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 4962 to be disconnected before suspend to 4963 prevent spurious wakeup); 4964 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 4965 pause after every control message); 4966 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 4967 delay after resetting its port); 4968 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 4969 4970 usbhid.mousepoll= 4971 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 4972 4973 usbhid.jspoll= 4974 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 4975 4976 usbhid.kbpoll= 4977 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 4978 4979 usb-storage.delay_use= 4980 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 4981 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 4982 4983 usb-storage.quirks= 4984 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 4985 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 4986 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 4987 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 4988 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 4989 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 4990 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 4991 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 4992 of sense data); 4993 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 4994 bytes of sense data); 4995 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 4996 device capacity by one sector); 4997 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 4998 READ_DISC_INFO command); 4999 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 5000 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 5001 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 5002 command, uas only); 5003 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 5004 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 5005 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 5006 reported device capacity by one 5007 sector if the number is odd); 5008 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 5009 device); 5010 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 5011 command, uas only); 5012 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 5013 unlock ejectable media); 5014 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 5015 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time); 5016 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 5017 initial READ(10) command); 5018 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 5019 reported by the device); 5020 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 5021 by default); 5022 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 5023 bogus residue values); 5024 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 5025 Logical Unit); 5026 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 5027 commands, uas only); 5028 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 5029 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 5030 medium is write-protected). 5031 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 5032 even if the device claims no cache) 5033 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 5034 5035 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 5036 Format: <int> 5037 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 5038 1 - undefined instruction events 5039 2 - system calls 5040 4 - invalid data aborts 5041 8 - SIGSEGV faults 5042 16 - SIGBUS faults 5043 Example: user_debug=31 5044 5045 userpte= 5046 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 5047 5048 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 5049 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 5050 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 5051 5052 vdso= [X86,SH] 5053 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 5054 5055 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 5056 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 5057 5058 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 5059 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 5060 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 5061 5062 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 5063 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 5064 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 5065 5066 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 5067 alias for vdso32=0. 5068 5069 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 5070 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 5071 5072 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 5073 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 5074 5075 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 5076 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 5077 5078 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 5079 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 5080 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 5081 level and then send out the event to user space through 5082 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 5083 will only send out the event without touching backlight 5084 brightness level. 5085 default: 1 5086 5087 virtio_mmio.device= 5088 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 5089 5090 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 5091 where: 5092 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 5093 like K, M and G) 5094 <baseaddr> := physical base address 5095 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 5096 request_irq()) 5097 <id> := (optional) platform device id 5098 example: 5099 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 5100 5101 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 5102 5103 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 5104 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 5105 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 5106 Use vga=ask for menu. 5107 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 5108 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 5109 5110 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 5111 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 5112 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 5113 All options are enabled by default, and this 5114 interface is meant to allow for selectively 5115 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 5116 debugging features. 5117 5118 Available options are: 5119 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 5120 - Disable all of the above options 5121 5122 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 5123 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 5124 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 5125 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 5126 mapped kernel RAM. 5127 5128 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 5129 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 5130 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 5131 5132 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 5133 Format: <command> 5134 5135 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 5136 Format: <command> 5137 5138 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 5139 Format: <command> 5140 5141 vsyscall= [X86-64] 5142 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 5143 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 5144 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 5145 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 5146 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 5147 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 5148 5149 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 5150 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 5151 page is readable. 5152 5153 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 5154 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 5155 page is not readable. 5156 5157 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 5158 them quite hard to use for exploits but 5159 might break your system. 5160 5161 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 5162 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 5163 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 5164 5165 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 5166 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 5167 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 5168 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 5169 5170 vt.default_blu= [VT] 5171 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 5172 Change the default blue palette of the console. 5173 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5174 ranging from 0-255. 5175 5176 vt.default_grn= [VT] 5177 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 5178 Change the default green palette of the console. 5179 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5180 ranging from 0-255. 5181 5182 vt.default_red= [VT] 5183 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 5184 Change the default red palette of the console. 5185 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5186 ranging from 0-255. 5187 5188 vt.default_utf8= 5189 [VT] 5190 Format=<0|1> 5191 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 5192 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 5193 newly opened terminals. 5194 5195 vt.global_cursor_default= 5196 [VT] 5197 Format=<-1|0|1> 5198 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 5199 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 5200 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 5201 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 5202 cursors, 1 will display them. 5203 5204 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 5205 Default: 2 = green. 5206 5207 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 5208 Default: 3 = cyan. 5209 5210 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 5211 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 5212 or other driver-specific files in the 5213 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 5214 5215 watchdog_thresh= 5216 [KNL] 5217 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 5218 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 5219 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 5220 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 5221 seconds. 5222 5223 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 5224 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 5225 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 5226 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 5227 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 5228 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 5229 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 5230 corresponding sysfs file. 5231 5232 workqueue.disable_numa 5233 By default, all work items queued to unbound 5234 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 5235 issued on, which results in better behavior in 5236 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 5237 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 5238 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 5239 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 5240 5241 workqueue.power_efficient 5242 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 5243 they show better performance thanks to cache 5244 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 5245 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 5246 5247 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 5248 were observed to contribute significantly to power 5249 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 5250 power usage at the cost of small performance 5251 overhead. 5252 5253 The default value of this parameter is determined by 5254 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 5255 5256 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 5257 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 5258 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 5259 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 5260 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 5261 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 5262 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 5263 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 5264 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 5265 impacted. 5266 5267 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 5268 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 5269 supporting x2apic. 5270 5271 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT] 5272 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform. 5273 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer 5274 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer. 5275 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt 5276 5277 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 5278 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 5279 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 5280 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 5281 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 5282 domains. 5283 5284 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 5285 Unplug Xen emulated devices 5286 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 5287 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 5288 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 5289 nics -- unplug network devices 5290 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 5291 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 5292 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 5293 the unplug protocol 5294 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 5295 5296 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 5297 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV 5298 optimizations. 5299 5300 xen_nopv [X86] 5301 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 5302 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 5303 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 5304 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 5305 5306 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 5307 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 5308 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 5309 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 5310 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 5311 5312 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 5313 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 5314 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 5315 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 5316 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 5317 more timer interrupts. 5318 5319 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 5320 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 5321 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 5322 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 5323 5324 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 5325 Format: 5326 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 5327 5328 xive= [PPC] 5329 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 5330 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 5331 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 5332 5333 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 5334 controller on both pseries and powernv 5335 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 5336 5337 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 5338 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 5339 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 5340 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 5341 5342 xmon [PPC] 5343 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 5344 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 5345 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 5346 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 5347 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 5348 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 5349 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 5350 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 5351 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 5352 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 5353 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 5354 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 5355 can be written using xmon commands. 5356 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 5357 memory, and other data can't be written using 5358 xmon commands. 5359 off xmon is disabled. 5360