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 on: enable the feature 813 814 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 815 816 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 817 Format: <area>[,<node>] 818 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt. 819 820 default_hugepagesz= 821 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default 822 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by 823 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and 824 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems. 825 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size 826 if not specified. 827 828 deferred_probe_timeout= 829 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 830 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 831 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 832 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0 833 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also 834 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 835 retrying. 836 837 dhash_entries= [KNL] 838 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 839 840 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 841 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 842 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 843 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 844 miss to occur. 845 846 disable= [IPV6] 847 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 848 849 hardened_usercopy= 850 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 851 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 852 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 853 from reading or writing beyond known memory 854 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 855 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 856 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 857 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 858 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 859 860 disable_radix [PPC] 861 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 862 863 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 864 Format: <int> 865 The number of initial APIC ID for the 866 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 867 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 868 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 869 causing system reset or hang due to sending 870 INIT from AP to BSP. 871 872 perf_v4_pmi= [X86,INTEL] 873 Format: <bool> 874 Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature. 875 The feature only exists starting from 876 Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer). 877 878 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 879 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if 880 to workaround buggy firmware. 881 882 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 883 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 884 885 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 886 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 887 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 888 entry later. This parameter disables that. 889 890 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 891 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 892 memory out of your available memory pool based on 893 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 894 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 895 896 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 897 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 898 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 899 900 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 901 902 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 903 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 904 905 dma_debug_entries=<number> 906 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 907 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 908 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 909 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 910 architectural default is too low. 911 912 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 913 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 914 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 915 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 916 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 917 driver later using sysfs. 918 919 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 920 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. 921 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 922 923 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 924 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 925 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 926 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 927 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 928 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 929 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 930 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 931 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 932 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 933 available in Documentation/driver-api/edid.rst. An EDID 934 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 935 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 936 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 937 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 938 data set with no connector name will be used for 939 any connectors not explicitly specified. 940 941 dscc4.setup= [NET] 942 943 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 944 Format: {"off" | "known"} 945 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 946 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 947 exists). 948 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 949 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 950 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 951 952 dump_apple_properties [X86] 953 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 954 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 955 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 956 957 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 958 module.dyndbg[="val"] 959 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 960 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 961 for details. 962 963 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions. 964 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.rst for more 965 information about the feature. 966 967 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 968 in some Intel CPUs. 969 970 module.async_probe [KNL] 971 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 972 973 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 974 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 975 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 976 which are not unmapped. 977 978 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 979 980 [ARM64] The early console is determined by the 981 stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node, 982 or determined by the ACPI SPCR table. 983 984 [X86] When used with no options the early console is 985 determined by the ACPI SPCR table. 986 987 cdns,<addr>[,options] 988 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 989 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 990 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 991 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 992 configured. 993 994 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 995 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 996 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 997 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 998 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 999 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1000 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1001 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1002 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1003 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1004 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1005 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1006 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 1007 1008 pl011,<addr> 1009 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1010 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1011 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1012 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1013 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1014 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1015 the device registers. 1016 1017 meson,<addr> 1018 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1019 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1020 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1021 supported. 1022 1023 msm_serial,<addr> 1024 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1025 port at the specified address. The serial port 1026 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1027 yet supported. 1028 1029 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1030 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1031 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1032 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1033 yet supported. 1034 1035 owl,<addr> 1036 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1037 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1038 specified address. The serial port must already be 1039 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1040 1041 rda,<addr> 1042 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1043 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1044 specified address. The serial port must already be 1045 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1046 1047 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1048 1049 s3c2410,<addr> 1050 s3c2412,<addr> 1051 s3c2440,<addr> 1052 s3c6400,<addr> 1053 s5pv210,<addr> 1054 exynos4210,<addr> 1055 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1056 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1057 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1058 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1059 Options are not yet supported. 1060 1061 lantiq,<addr> 1062 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1063 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1064 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1065 yet supported. 1066 1067 lpuart,<addr> 1068 lpuart32,<addr> 1069 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1070 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1071 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1072 port must already be setup and configured. 1073 1074 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1075 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1076 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1077 address. The serial port must already be setup 1078 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1079 1080 qcom_geni,<addr> 1081 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1082 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1083 specified address. The serial port must already be 1084 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1085 1086 efifb,[options] 1087 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1088 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1089 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1090 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1091 mapped with the correct attributes. 1092 1093 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1094 earlyprintk=vga 1095 earlyprintk=sclp 1096 earlyprintk=xen 1097 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1098 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1099 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1100 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1101 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1102 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1103 1104 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1105 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1106 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1107 1108 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1109 takes over. 1110 1111 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 1112 be used at a time. 1113 1114 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1115 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1116 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1117 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1118 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1119 You can find the port for a given device in 1120 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1121 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1122 1123 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1124 very good. 1125 1126 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 1127 the real console. 1128 1129 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. 1130 1131 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1132 1133 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1134 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1135 UART class. 1136 1137 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1138 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1139 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1140 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1141 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1142 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1143 default: on. 1144 1145 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1146 ekgdboc=kbd 1147 1148 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1149 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1150 1151 edd= [EDD] 1152 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1153 1154 efi= [EFI] 1155 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" } 1156 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI 1157 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by 1158 default. 1159 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1160 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1161 firmware implementations. 1162 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1163 debug: enable misc debug output 1164 1165 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1166 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1167 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1168 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1169 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1170 1171 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1172 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1173 updating original EFI memory map. 1174 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1175 from ss to ss+nn. 1176 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1177 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1178 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1179 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1180 1181 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1182 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of 1183 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1184 doesn't support it. 1185 1186 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1187 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1188 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1189 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1190 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1191 1192 1193 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1194 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1195 1196 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1197 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1198 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1199 1200 elevator= [IOSCHED] 1201 Format: { "mq-deadline" | "kyber" | "bfq" } 1202 See Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.rst, 1203 Documentation/block/kyber-iosched.rst and 1204 Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.rst for details. 1205 1206 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1207 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1208 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1209 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1210 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1211 1212 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1213 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1214 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1215 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1216 1217 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1218 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1219 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1220 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1221 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1222 1223 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1224 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1225 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1226 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1227 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1228 Default value is 0. 1229 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce. 1230 1231 erst_disable [ACPI] 1232 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1233 support. 1234 1235 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1236 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1237 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1238 1239 evm= [EVM] 1240 Format: { "fix" } 1241 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1242 current integrity status. 1243 1244 failslab= 1245 fail_page_alloc= 1246 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1247 General fault injection mechanism. 1248 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1249 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1250 1251 floppy= [HW] 1252 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1253 1254 force_pal_cache_flush 1255 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1256 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1257 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1258 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1259 1260 forcepae [X86-32] 1261 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1262 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1263 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1264 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1265 and may cause unknown problems. 1266 1267 ftrace=[tracer] 1268 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1269 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1270 boot debugging. 1271 1272 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1273 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1274 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1275 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1276 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1277 oops. 1278 1279 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1280 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1281 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 1282 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1283 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1284 tracing directory. 1285 1286 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1287 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1288 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1289 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1290 tracing directory. 1291 1292 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1293 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1294 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1295 function-list is a comma separated list of functions 1296 that can be changed at run time by the 1297 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1298 1299 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1300 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1301 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of 1302 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1303 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1304 1305 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1306 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1307 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1308 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1309 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1310 1311 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1312 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1313 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1314 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1315 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1316 1317 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1318 1319 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1320 Format: off | on 1321 default: on 1322 1323 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1324 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1325 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1326 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1327 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1328 1329 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1330 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1331 android emulator 1332 1333 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1334 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1335 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1336 GPT to be used instead. 1337 1338 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1339 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1340 Format: 0 | 1 1341 Default: 0 1342 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1343 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1344 Format: 0 | 1 1345 Default: 0 1346 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1347 Format: 0 | 1 1348 Default: 0 1349 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1350 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1351 Default: 1024 1352 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1353 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1354 Default: 1024 1355 1356 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1357 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1358 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1359 1360 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1361 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1362 backtraces on all cpus. 1363 Format: <integer> 1364 1365 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1366 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1367 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1368 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1369 1370 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1371 1372 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1373 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1374 1375 hest_disable [ACPI] 1376 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1377 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1378 logic will be disabled. 1379 1380 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1381 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1382 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1383 size on bigger boxes. 1384 1385 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1386 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1387 Default: "on" 1388 1389 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1390 1391 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1392 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1393 verbose } 1394 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1395 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1396 VIA, nVidia) 1397 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1398 1399 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1400 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1401 1402 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1403 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages. 1404 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified 1405 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve 1406 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on 1407 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G 1408 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag). 1409 1410 hung_task_panic= 1411 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1412 Format: <integer> 1413 1414 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a 1415 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1416 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1417 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1418 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1419 1420 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1421 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1422 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1423 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1424 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1425 1426 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1427 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1428 guest on lock contention. 1429 1430 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1431 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1432 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1433 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1434 the real console. 1435 1436 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1437 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1438 registered from board initialization code. 1439 Format: 1440 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1441 1442 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1443 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1444 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1445 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1446 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1447 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1448 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1449 keyboard and cannot control its state 1450 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1451 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1452 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1453 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1454 for the AUX port 1455 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1456 controller 1457 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1458 controllers 1459 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1460 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1461 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1462 transitions, or never reset 1463 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1464 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1465 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1466 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1467 architectures force reset to be always executed 1468 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1469 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1470 1471 i810= [HW,DRM] 1472 1473 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1474 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1475 hardware. 1476 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature 1477 does not match list of supported models. 1478 i8k.power_status 1479 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1480 (disabled by default) 1481 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1482 capability is set. 1483 1484 i915.invert_brightness= 1485 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1486 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1487 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1488 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1489 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1490 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1491 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1492 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1493 value switches the backlight off. 1494 -1 -- never invert brightness 1495 0 -- machine default 1496 1 -- force brightness inversion 1497 1498 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1499 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1500 1501 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1502 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1503 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1504 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1505 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst. 1506 1507 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1508 Format: <int> 1509 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1510 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1511 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1512 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1513 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1514 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1515 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1516 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1517 was 0x3. 1518 1519 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1520 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1521 1522 idle= [X86] 1523 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1524 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1525 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1526 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1527 Not recommended. 1528 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1529 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1530 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1531 1532 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1533 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1534 Default: strict 1535 1536 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1537 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1538 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1539 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1540 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1541 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1542 encoding mode. 1543 1544 Available settings are as follows: 1545 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1546 supported by the FPU 1547 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1548 by the FPU 1549 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1550 by the FPU 1551 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1552 supported by the FPU 1553 1554 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1555 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1556 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1557 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1558 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1559 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1560 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1561 MIPS64 CPUs. 1562 1563 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1564 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1565 except where unsupported by hardware. 1566 1567 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1568 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1569 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1570 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1571 could change it dynamically, usually by 1572 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1573 1574 ignore_rlimit_data 1575 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1576 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1577 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1578 1579 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1580 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1581 1582 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1583 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1584 default: "enforce" 1585 1586 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1587 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1588 owned by uid=0. 1589 1590 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1591 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1592 measurements, instead of host native format. 1593 1594 ima_hash= [IMA] 1595 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1596 | sha512 | ... } 1597 default: "sha1" 1598 1599 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1600 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1601 1602 ima_policy= [IMA] 1603 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1604 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1605 fail_securely" 1606 1607 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1608 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1609 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1610 uid=0. 1611 1612 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1613 all files owned by root. 1614 1615 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1616 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1617 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1618 1619 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1620 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1621 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1622 flag. 1623 1624 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1625 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1626 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1627 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1628 opened for read by uid=0. 1629 1630 ima_template= [IMA] 1631 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1632 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" } 1633 Default: "ima-ng" 1634 1635 ima_template_fmt= 1636 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1637 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1638 1639 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1640 Format: <min_file_size> 1641 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1642 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1643 1644 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1645 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1646 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1647 1648 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1649 Format: <bufsize> 1650 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1651 1652 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1653 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1654 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1655 1656 init= [KNL] 1657 Format: <full_path> 1658 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1659 process. 1660 1661 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1662 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1663 startup. 1664 1665 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1666 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1667 modules and initcalls. 1668 1669 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1670 1671 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 1672 zeroes. 1673 Format: 0 | 1 1674 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 1675 1676 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 1677 Format: 0 | 1 1678 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 1679 1680 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1681 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1682 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1683 override in debugfs after boot. 1684 1685 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1686 Format: <irq> 1687 1688 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1689 1690 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1691 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1692 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1693 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1694 1695 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1696 on 1697 Enable intel iommu driver. 1698 off 1699 Disable intel iommu driver. 1700 igfx_off [Default Off] 1701 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1702 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1703 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1704 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1705 DMA. 1706 forcedac [x86_64] 1707 With this option iommu will not optimize to look 1708 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual 1709 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater 1710 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look 1711 for translation below 32-bit and if not available 1712 then look in the higher range. 1713 strict [Default Off] 1714 With this option on every unmap_single operation will 1715 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed 1716 to batching them for performance. 1717 sp_off [Default Off] 1718 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 1719 has the capability. With this option, super page will 1720 not be supported. 1721 sm_on [Default Off] 1722 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the 1723 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable 1724 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode 1725 will be used on hardware which claims to support it. 1726 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 1727 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 1728 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 1729 could harm performance of some high-throughput 1730 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 1731 mapping is enabled. 1732 Note that using this option lowers the security 1733 provided by tboot because it makes the system 1734 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 1735 1736 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 1737 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1738 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 1739 1740 intel_pstate= [X86] 1741 disable 1742 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 1743 scaling driver for the supported processors 1744 passive 1745 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 1746 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 1747 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 1748 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 1749 feature. 1750 force 1751 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 1752 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 1753 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 1754 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 1755 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 1756 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 1757 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 1758 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 1759 no_hwp 1760 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 1761 if available. 1762 hwp_only 1763 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 1764 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 1765 support_acpi_ppc 1766 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 1767 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 1768 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 1769 then this feature is turned on by default. 1770 per_cpu_perf_limits 1771 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 1772 cpufreq sysfs interface 1773 1774 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 1775 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 1776 off disable Interrupt Remapping 1777 nosid disable Source ID checking 1778 no_x2apic_optout 1779 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 1780 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 1781 1782 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 1783 strict regions from userspace. 1784 relaxed 1785 1786 iommu= [x86] 1787 off 1788 force 1789 noforce 1790 biomerge 1791 panic 1792 nopanic 1793 merge 1794 nomerge 1795 soft 1796 pt [x86] 1797 nopt [x86] 1798 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 1799 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 1800 1801 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 1802 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1803 0 - Lazy mode. 1804 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 1805 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 1806 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 1807 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 1808 the relevant IOMMU driver. 1809 1 - Strict mode (default). 1810 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 1811 synchronously. 1812 1813 iommu.passthrough= 1814 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 1815 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1816 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1817 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 1818 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 1819 1820 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems 1821 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 1822 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 1823 1824 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 1825 0x80 1826 Standard port 0x80 based delay 1827 0xed 1828 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 1829 udelay 1830 Simple two microseconds delay 1831 none 1832 No delay 1833 1834 ip= [IP_PNP] 1835 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 1836 1837 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 1838 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 1839 1840 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 1841 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 1842 1843 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 1844 [ARM, ARM64] 1845 Format: <bool> 1846 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 1847 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 1848 exposed by the device tree is too small. 1849 1850 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 1851 [ARM, ARM64] 1852 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 1853 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 1854 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 1855 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 1856 LPIs. 1857 1858 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 1859 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 1860 requires the kernel to be built with 1861 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 1862 1863 irqfixup [HW] 1864 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1865 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1866 firmware running. 1867 1868 irqpoll [HW] 1869 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1870 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 1871 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1872 firmware running. 1873 1874 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 1875 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 1876 1877 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 1878 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 1879 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 1880 1881 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 1882 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 1883 1884 nohz 1885 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 1886 1887 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 1888 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 1889 workqueue's affinity configured via the 1890 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 1891 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 1892 1893 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 1894 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 1895 be configured manually after bootup. 1896 1897 domain 1898 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 1899 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 1900 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 1901 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 1902 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 1903 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 1904 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 1905 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 1906 1907 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 1908 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 1909 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 1910 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 1911 1912 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 1913 1914 1915 1916 iucv= [HW,NET] 1917 1918 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64] 1919 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1920 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1921 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 1922 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1923 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 1924 1925 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64] 1926 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1927 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1928 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 1929 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1930 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 1931 1932 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64] 1933 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 1934 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1935 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 1936 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 1937 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 1938 1939 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 1940 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 1941 1942 nokaslr [KNL] 1943 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 1944 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 1945 Layout Randomization). 1946 1947 kasan_multi_shot 1948 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 1949 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 1950 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 1951 invalid access. 1952 1953 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 1954 1955 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 1956 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 1957 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 1958 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 1959 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 1960 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 1961 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 1962 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 1963 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 1964 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 1965 1966 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 1967 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 1968 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 1969 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 1970 zone if it does not. 1971 1972 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 1973 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 1974 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 1975 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 1976 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 1977 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 1978 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 1979 1980 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 1981 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 1982 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 1983 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 1984 optional and is the number seconds in between 1985 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 1986 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 1987 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 1988 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 1989 the kernel debugger. 1990 1991 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 1992 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 1993 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 1994 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 1995 keyboard only format: kbd 1996 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 1997 Optional Kernel mode setting: 1998 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 1999 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2000 2001 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2002 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2003 2004 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address. 2005 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2006 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2007 2008 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2009 Valid arguments: on, off 2010 Default: on 2011 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2012 the default is off. 2013 2014 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2015 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2016 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2017 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2018 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2019 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2020 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2021 2022 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2023 2024 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2025 Boot Parameter" section. 2026 2027 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2028 and kernel address spaces. 2029 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2030 0: force disabled 2031 1: force enabled 2032 2033 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2034 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2035 2036 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2037 Default is false (don't support). 2038 2039 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 2040 KVM MMU at runtime. 2041 Default is 0 (off) 2042 2043 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2044 Default is 1 (enabled) 2045 2046 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2047 for all guests. 2048 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2049 2050 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2051 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2052 system registers 2053 2054 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2055 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2056 system registers 2057 2058 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2059 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2060 system registers 2061 2062 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2063 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2064 LPIs. 2065 2066 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2067 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2068 Default is 1 (enabled) 2069 2070 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2071 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 2072 Default is 0 (disabled) 2073 2074 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2075 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2076 Default is 1 (enabled) 2077 2078 kvm-intel.nested= 2079 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2080 Default is 0 (disabled) 2081 2082 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2083 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2084 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2085 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2086 2087 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2088 CVE-2018-3620. 2089 2090 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2091 2092 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2093 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2094 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2095 never: Disables the mitigation 2096 2097 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2098 2099 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2100 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2101 Default is 1 (enabled) 2102 2103 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2104 affected CPUs 2105 2106 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2107 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2108 2109 full 2110 Provides all available mitigations for the 2111 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2112 enables all mitigations in the 2113 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2114 2115 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2116 sysfs interface is still possible after 2117 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2118 when the first VM is started in a 2119 potentially insecure configuration, 2120 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2121 2122 full,force 2123 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2124 flush runtime control. Implies the 2125 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2126 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2127 2128 flush 2129 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2130 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2131 L1D flush. 2132 2133 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2134 sysfs interface is still possible after 2135 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2136 when the first VM is started in a 2137 potentially insecure configuration, 2138 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2139 2140 flush,nosmt 2141 2142 Disables SMT and enables the default 2143 hypervisor mitigation. 2144 2145 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2146 sysfs interface is still possible after 2147 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2148 when the first VM is started in a 2149 potentially insecure configuration, 2150 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2151 2152 flush,nowarn 2153 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2154 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2155 insecure configuration. 2156 2157 off 2158 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2159 emit any warnings. 2160 It also drops the swap size and available 2161 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2162 bare metal. 2163 2164 Default is 'flush'. 2165 2166 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2167 2168 l2cr= [PPC] 2169 2170 l3cr= [PPC] 2171 2172 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2173 disabled it. 2174 2175 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline 2176 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2177 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2178 2179 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2180 in C2 power state. 2181 2182 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2183 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2184 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2185 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2186 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2187 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2188 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2189 2190 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2191 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2192 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2193 2194 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2195 when set. 2196 Format: <int> 2197 2198 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma 2199 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 2200 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 2201 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 2202 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 2203 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 2204 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 2205 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 2206 2207 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2208 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2209 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2210 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2211 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2212 host link and device attached to it. 2213 2214 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2215 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 2216 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2217 The following configurations can be forced. 2218 2219 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2220 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2221 2222 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2223 2224 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2225 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2226 allowed. 2227 2228 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2229 2230 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 2231 2232 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 2233 and both resets. 2234 2235 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 2236 hot-unplug link recovery 2237 2238 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 2239 2240 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 2241 2242 * disable: Disable this device. 2243 2244 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2245 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2246 2247 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 2248 2249 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy 2250 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 2251 2252 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2253 Format: <integer> 2254 2255 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2256 Format: <integer> 2257 2258 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2259 Format: <integer> 2260 2261 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2262 Format: <integer> 2263 2264 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2265 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2266 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2267 number of online CPUs. 2268 2269 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2270 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2271 2272 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2273 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2274 2275 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2276 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2277 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2278 2279 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2280 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2281 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2282 mode during the locktorture test. 2283 2284 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2285 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2286 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2287 2288 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2289 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2290 2291 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2292 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2293 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2294 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2295 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2296 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2297 2298 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2299 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2300 2301 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2302 Enable additional printk() statements. 2303 2304 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2305 Format: <irq> 2306 2307 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2308 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2309 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2310 loglevels are defined as follows: 2311 2312 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2313 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2314 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2315 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2316 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2317 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2318 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2319 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2320 2321 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2322 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2323 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2324 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2325 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2326 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2327 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2328 2329 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2330 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2331 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2332 kernel boot problems. 2333 2334 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2335 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2336 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2337 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2338 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2339 attached printers to be reset. Using 2340 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2341 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2342 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2343 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2344 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2345 port specification list means that device IDs 2346 from each port should be examined, to see if 2347 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2348 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2349 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2350 2351 lpj=n [KNL] 2352 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2353 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2354 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2355 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2356 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2357 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2358 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2359 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2360 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2361 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2362 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2363 hardware. 2364 2365 ltpc= [NET] 2366 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2367 2368 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2369 2370 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2371 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2372 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2373 2374 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2375 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2376 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb 2377 2378 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different 2379 yeeloong laptop. 2380 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2381 2382 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2383 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2384 2385 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2386 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2387 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2388 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2389 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2390 only takes effect during system bootup. 2391 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2392 which also disables the IO APIC. 2393 2394 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2395 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2396 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2397 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2398 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2399 /dev/loop-control interface. 2400 2401 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2402 2403 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2404 2405 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2406 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2407 2408 mdacon= [MDA] 2409 Format: <first>,<last> 2410 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2411 2412 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2413 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2414 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2415 2416 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2417 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2418 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2419 2420 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2421 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2422 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2423 not have direct access. 2424 2425 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2426 options are: 2427 2428 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2429 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2430 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2431 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2432 2433 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 2434 mds=full. 2435 2436 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 2437 2438 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2439 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able 2440 to see the whole system memory or for test. 2441 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2442 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2443 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2444 belonging to unused RAM. 2445 2446 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2447 memory. 2448 2449 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2450 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2451 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2452 2453 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2454 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2455 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2456 set according to the 2457 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2458 option. 2459 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 2460 2461 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2462 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2463 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2464 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2465 option description. 2466 2467 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2468 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2469 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2470 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2471 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2472 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2473 comma delimited. 2474 Example: 2475 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2476 2477 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2478 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2479 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2480 2481 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2482 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2483 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2484 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2485 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2486 or 2487 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2488 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 2489 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 2490 will be eaten. 2491 2492 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2493 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2494 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2495 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2496 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2497 2498 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 2499 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 2500 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 2501 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 2502 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 2503 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 2504 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 2505 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 2506 2507 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2508 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2509 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2510 Setting this option will scan the memory 2511 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2512 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2513 from using the memory being corrupted. 2514 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2515 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2516 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2517 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2518 2519 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2520 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2521 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2522 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2523 corruption in more or less memory. 2524 2525 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2526 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2527 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2528 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2529 2530 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest 2531 Format: <integer> 2532 default : 0 <disable> 2533 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2534 performed. Each pass selects another test 2535 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2536 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2537 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2538 regions that are detected. 2539 2540 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 2541 Valid arguments: on, off 2542 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 2543 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 2544 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 2545 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 2546 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 2547 2548 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst 2549 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 2550 2551 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 2552 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 2553 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 2554 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 2555 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 2556 2557 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2558 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst. 2559 2560 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2561 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2562 platforms. 2563 2564 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2565 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2566 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2567 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2568 2569 mga= [HW,DRM] 2570 2571 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2572 physical address is ignored. 2573 2574 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2575 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2576 Default: "0tb" 2577 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2578 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2579 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2580 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2581 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2582 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2583 unconfigured. 2584 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2585 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2586 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2587 VGA shield. 2588 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2589 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2590 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2591 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2592 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 2593 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 2594 2595 mitigations= 2596 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 2597 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 2598 arch-independent options, each of which is an 2599 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 2600 2601 off 2602 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 2603 improves system performance, but it may also 2604 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 2605 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 2606 kpti=0 [ARM64] 2607 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 2608 nobp=0 [S390] 2609 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 2610 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 2611 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 2612 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 2613 l1tf=off [X86] 2614 mds=off [X86] 2615 2616 auto (default) 2617 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 2618 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 2619 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 2620 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 2621 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 2622 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 2623 2624 auto,nosmt 2625 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 2626 if needed. This is for users who always want to 2627 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 2628 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 2629 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 2630 2631 mminit_loglevel= 2632 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 2633 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 2634 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 2635 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 2636 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 2637 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 2638 2639 module.sig_enforce 2640 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 2641 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 2642 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 2643 is always true, so this option does nothing. 2644 2645 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 2646 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 2647 2648 mousedev.tap_time= 2649 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 2650 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 2651 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 2652 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 2653 Format: <msecs> 2654 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 2655 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2656 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 2657 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2658 2659 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2660 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 2661 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 2662 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 2663 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 2664 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 2665 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 2666 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 2667 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 2668 is not too small. 2669 2670 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 2671 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 2672 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 2673 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 2674 allocations. Use with caution! 2675 2676 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 2677 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 2678 2679 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 2680 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 2681 2682 mtdparts= [MTD] 2683 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c. 2684 2685 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 2686 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 2687 at a time. 2688 2689 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 2690 2691 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 2692 2693 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 2694 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 2695 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 2696 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 2697 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 2698 2699 mtdset= [ARM] 2700 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 2701 2702 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c 2703 2704 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 2705 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 2706 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 2707 2708 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2709 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 2710 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 2711 2712 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2713 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 2714 Default is 1. 2715 Large value could prevent small alignment from 2716 using up MTRRs. 2717 2718 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 2719 Format: <integer> 2720 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 2721 Default : 1 2722 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 2723 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 2724 2725 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 2726 2727 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 2728 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 2729 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 2730 something different and driver-specific. 2731 This usage is only documented in each driver source 2732 file if at all. 2733 2734 nf_conntrack.acct= 2735 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 2736 0 to disable accounting 2737 1 to enable accounting 2738 Default value is 0. 2739 2740 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 2741 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2742 2743 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 2744 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2745 2746 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 2747 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2748 2749 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 2750 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 2751 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 2752 requests. 2753 2754 nfs.callback_tcpport= 2755 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 2756 channel should listen. 2757 2758 nfs.cache_getent= 2759 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 2760 to update the NFS client cache entries. 2761 2762 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 2763 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 2764 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 2765 2766 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 2767 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 2768 entries. 2769 2770 nfs.enable_ino64= 2771 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 2772 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 2773 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 2774 of returning the full 64-bit number. 2775 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 2776 2777 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 2778 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 2779 slots the client will assign to the callback 2780 channel. This determines the maximum number of 2781 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 2782 a particular server. 2783 2784 nfs.max_session_slots= 2785 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 2786 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 2787 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 2788 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 2789 Note that there is little point in setting this 2790 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 2791 2792 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2793 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 2794 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 2795 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 2796 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 2797 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 2798 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 2799 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 2800 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 2801 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 2802 back to using the idmapper. 2803 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 2804 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 2805 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 2806 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 2807 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 2808 UUID that is generated at system install time. 2809 2810 nfs.send_implementation_id = 2811 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 2812 information in exchange_id requests. 2813 If zero, no implementation identification information 2814 will be sent. 2815 The default is to send the implementation identification 2816 information. 2817 2818 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 2819 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 2820 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 2821 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 2822 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 2823 after the locks are lost. 2824 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 2825 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 2826 parameter to '1'. 2827 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 2828 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 2829 2830 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 2831 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 2832 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 2833 2834 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 2835 whatever value is the default set by the layout 2836 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 2837 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 2838 2839 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2840 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 2841 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 2842 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 2843 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 2844 migration from NFSv2/v3. 2845 2846 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 2847 when a NMI is triggered. 2848 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 2849 2850 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 2851 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 2852 Valid num: 0 or 1 2853 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 2854 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 2855 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 2856 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 2857 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 2858 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 2859 please see 'nowatchdog'. 2860 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 2861 need the box quickly up again. 2862 2863 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 2864 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 2865 2866 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 2867 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 2868 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 2869 waits 4 seconds. 2870 2871 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 2872 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 2873 is present. 2874 2875 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 2876 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 2877 2878 no_console_suspend 2879 [HW] Never suspend the console 2880 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 2881 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 2882 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 2883 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 2884 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 2885 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 2886 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 2887 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 2888 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 2889 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 2890 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 2891 turn on/off it dynamically. 2892 2893 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 2894 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 2895 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 2896 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 2897 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 2898 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 2899 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 2900 data will be no longer available. This parameter 2901 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 2902 is set. 2903 2904 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 2905 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 2906 but will impact performance. 2907 2908 noalign [KNL,ARM] 2909 2910 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 2911 (CPU alternatives feature). 2912 2913 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 2914 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 2915 2916 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 2917 2918 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 2919 on "Classic" PPC cores. 2920 2921 nocache [ARM] 2922 2923 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 2924 2925 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting 2926 2927 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 2928 2929 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 2930 2931 noexec [IA-64] 2932 2933 noexec [X86] 2934 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 2935 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2936 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 2937 2938 nosmap [X86,PPC] 2939 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 2940 even if it is supported by processor. 2941 2942 nosmep [X86,PPC] 2943 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 2944 even if it is supported by processor. 2945 2946 noexec32 [X86-64] 2947 This affects only 32-bit executables. 2948 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2949 read doesn't imply executable mappings 2950 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 2951 read implies executable mappings 2952 2953 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 2954 2955 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 2956 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 2957 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 2958 2959 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86,PPC] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 2960 2961 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 2962 Equivalent to smt=1. 2963 2964 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 2965 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 2966 via the sysfs control file. 2967 2968 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 2969 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 2970 possible in the system. 2971 2972 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 2973 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 2974 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 2975 option. 2976 2977 nospec_store_bypass_disable 2978 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 2979 2980 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 2981 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 2982 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 2983 2984 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 2985 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 2986 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 2987 performance of saving the states is degraded because 2988 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 2989 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 2990 2991 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 2992 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 2993 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 2994 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 2995 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 2996 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 2997 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 2998 2999 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or 3000 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to 3001 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger. 3002 3003 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3004 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3005 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3006 3007 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3008 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3009 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3010 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3011 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3012 real-time systems. 3013 3014 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3015 3016 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3017 Valid arguments: on, off 3018 Default: on 3019 3020 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3021 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3022 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3023 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3024 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3025 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3026 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3027 just as if they had also been called out in the 3028 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3029 3030 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3031 3032 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3033 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3034 3035 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3036 broken timer IRQ sources. 3037 3038 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3039 3040 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3041 initial RAM disk. 3042 3043 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3044 remapping. 3045 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3046 3047 nointroute [IA-64] 3048 3049 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3050 3051 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3052 3053 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3054 3055 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3056 fault handling. 3057 3058 no-vmw-sched-clock 3059 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3060 clock and use the default one. 3061 3062 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. 3063 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler 3064 behaviour 3065 3066 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3067 3068 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3069 3070 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 3071 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 3072 3073 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3074 3075 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3076 3077 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3078 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3079 3080 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3081 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3082 irq. 3083 3084 nomodule Disable module load 3085 3086 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3087 pagetables) support. 3088 3089 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3090 3091 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3092 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3093 3094 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3095 with UP alternatives 3096 3097 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 3098 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 3099 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 3100 available to user space applications. 3101 3102 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3103 space. 3104 3105 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3106 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3107 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3108 3109 nosbagart [IA-64] 3110 3111 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 3112 3113 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3114 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3115 3116 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3117 3118 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3119 3120 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3121 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3122 3123 nowb [ARM] 3124 3125 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3126 3127 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 3128 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 3129 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 3130 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 3131 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 3132 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 3133 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 3134 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 3135 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 3136 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 3137 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 3138 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 3139 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 3140 3141 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3142 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3143 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3144 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3145 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3146 parameter's value. 3147 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3148 Default: 255 3149 3150 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3151 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3152 SAL PALO. 3153 3154 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3155 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3156 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3157 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3158 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3159 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3160 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3161 hot plugging. 3162 3163 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3164 3165 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing. 3166 Allowed values are enable and disable 3167 3168 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3169 'node', 'default' can be specified 3170 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3171 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3172 3173 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3174 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more 3175 info. 3176 3177 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3178 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3179 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3180 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3181 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3182 interrupts *may* be lost! 3183 3184 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3185 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3186 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3187 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3188 3189 oprofile.timer= [HW] 3190 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters 3191 3192 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type 3193 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile 3194 userland or if you want common events. 3195 Format: { arch_perfmon } 3196 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural 3197 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the 3198 CPU specific event set. 3199 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI 3200 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer 3201 for generic hr timer mode) 3202 3203 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3204 process, but there is a small probability of 3205 deadlocking the machine. 3206 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3207 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3208 3209 page_alloc.shuffle= 3210 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3211 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3212 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3213 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3214 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3215 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3216 can be read from sysfs at: 3217 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3218 3219 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3220 Storage of the information about who allocated 3221 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3222 we can turn it on. 3223 on: enable the feature 3224 3225 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3226 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3227 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3228 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3229 on: turn on poisoning 3230 3231 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3232 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3233 timeout = 0: wait forever 3234 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3235 Format: <timeout> 3236 3237 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3238 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3239 bit 0: print all tasks info 3240 bit 1: print system memory info 3241 bit 2: print timer info 3242 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3243 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3244 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3245 3246 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3247 on a WARN(). 3248 3249 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 3250 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 3251 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 3252 succeeds in any situation. 3253 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 3254 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 3255 kernel more unstable. 3256 3257 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3258 connected to, default is 0. 3259 Format: <parport#> 3260 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3261 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3262 Format: <mode> 3263 3264 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3265 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3266 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3267 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3268 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3269 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3270 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3271 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3272 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3273 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3274 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3275 are specified on the command line, starting 3276 with parport0. 3277 3278 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3279 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3280 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3281 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3282 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3283 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3284 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3285 3286 pause_on_oops= 3287 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 3288 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 3289 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 3290 3291 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 3292 3293 pcd. [PARIDE] 3294 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 3295 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3296 3297 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 3298 3299 Some options herein operate on a specific device 3300 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 3301 specified in one of the following formats: 3302 3303 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 3304 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 3305 3306 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 3307 bus/device/function address which may change 3308 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 3309 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 3310 by other kernel parameters. If the 3311 domain is left unspecified, it is 3312 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 3313 to a device through multiple device/function 3314 addresses can be specified after the base 3315 address (this is more robust against 3316 renumbering issues). The second format 3317 selects devices using IDs from the 3318 configuration space which may match multiple 3319 devices in the system. 3320 3321 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 3322 changes anything 3323 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 3324 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 3325 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 3326 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 3327 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 3328 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 3329 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 3330 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 3331 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3332 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 3333 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 3334 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3335 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 3336 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 3337 bus number. The config space is then accessed 3338 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 3339 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 3340 on the configuration access mechanisms. 3341 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 3342 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3343 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 3344 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 3345 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 3346 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 3347 Configuration 3348 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 3349 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 3350 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 3351 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 3352 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3353 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 3354 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 3355 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 3356 should never be necessary. 3357 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 3358 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 3359 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 3360 when the system masks IRQs. 3361 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 3362 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 3363 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 3364 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 3365 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 3366 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 3367 on several machines and they hang the machine 3368 when used, but on other computers it's the only 3369 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 3370 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 3371 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 3372 motherboard. 3373 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 3374 Use with caution as certain devices share 3375 address decoders between ROMs and other 3376 resources. 3377 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 3378 expansion ROMs that do not already have 3379 BIOS assigned address ranges. 3380 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 3381 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 3382 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 3383 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 3384 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 3385 this way. 3386 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 3387 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 3388 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 3389 F0000h-100000h range. 3390 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 3391 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 3392 secondary buses and you want to tell it 3393 explicitly which ones they are. 3394 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 3395 numbers ourselves, overriding 3396 whatever the firmware may have done. 3397 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 3398 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 3399 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 3400 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 3401 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 3402 IRQ routing is enabled. 3403 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 3404 or for PCI scanning. 3405 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 3406 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 3407 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 3408 please report a bug. 3409 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 3410 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 3411 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 3412 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 3413 so this option is a temporary workaround 3414 for broken drivers that don't call it. 3415 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 3416 handle more pci cards 3417 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 3418 This might help on some broken boards which 3419 machine check when some devices' config space 3420 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 3421 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 3422 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3423 This sorting is done to get a device 3424 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 3425 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3426 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 3427 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 3428 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 3429 supported by all devices below the root complex. 3430 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 3431 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 3432 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 3433 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 3434 or bus can support) for best performance. 3435 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 3436 every device is guaranteed to support. This 3437 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 3438 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 3439 reduced performance. This also guarantees 3440 that hot-added devices will work. 3441 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3442 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 3443 The default value is 256 bytes. 3444 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3445 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 3446 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 3447 resource_alignment= 3448 Format: 3449 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 3450 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 3451 aligned memory resources. How to 3452 specify the device is described above. 3453 If <order of align> is not specified, 3454 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 3455 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource 3456 windows need to be expanded. 3457 To specify the alignment for several 3458 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 3459 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 3460 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 3461 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 3462 end-to-end CRC checking). 3463 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 3464 the default. 3465 off: Turn ECRC off 3466 on: Turn ECRC on. 3467 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3468 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 3469 Default size is 256 bytes. 3470 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3471 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window. 3472 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3473 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 3474 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 3475 Default is 1. 3476 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 3477 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 3478 accommodate resources required by all child 3479 devices. 3480 off: Turn realloc off 3481 on: Turn realloc on 3482 realloc same as realloc=on 3483 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 3484 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 3485 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 3486 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 3487 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 3488 port. 3489 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 3490 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 3491 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 3492 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 3493 conflict with unreported devices), so this 3494 taints the kernel. 3495 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 3496 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 3497 specified above) separated by semicolons. 3498 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 3499 redirect capabilities forced off which will 3500 allow P2P traffic between devices through 3501 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 3502 this removes isolation between devices and 3503 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 3504 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 3505 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 3506 3507 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 3508 Management. 3509 off Disable ASPM. 3510 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 3511 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 3512 3513 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 3514 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 3515 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 3516 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 3517 also tries to use these services. 3518 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 3519 hotplug). 3520 3521 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 3522 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 3523 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 3524 3525 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 3526 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 3527 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 3528 3529 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 3530 3531 pd_ignore_unused 3532 [PM] 3533 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 3534 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 3535 for debug and development, but should not be 3536 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 3537 3538 pd. [PARIDE] 3539 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3540 3541 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 3542 boot time. 3543 Format: { 0 | 1 } 3544 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 3545 3546 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 3547 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 3548 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 3549 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 3550 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 3551 and performance comparison. 3552 3553 pf. [PARIDE] 3554 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3555 3556 pg. [PARIDE] 3557 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3558 3559 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 3560 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 3561 3562 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 3563 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 3564 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 3565 3566 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 3567 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 3568 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 3569 3570 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 3571 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 3572 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 3573 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 3574 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 3575 possible settings and some assignment information. 3576 3577 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 3578 { off } 3579 3580 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 3581 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 3582 3583 pnp_reserve_irq= 3584 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 3585 3586 pnp_reserve_dma= 3587 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 3588 3589 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 3590 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 3591 3592 pnp_reserve_mem= 3593 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 3594 autoconfiguration. 3595 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 3596 3597 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 3598 Default is 21. 3599 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 3600 may be specified. 3601 Format: <port>,<port>.... 3602 3603 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 3604 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 3605 platform machine description specific power_save 3606 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 3607 execution priority. 3608 3609 ppc_strict_facility_enable 3610 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 3611 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 3612 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 3613 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 3614 3615 ppc_tm= [PPC] 3616 Format: {"off"} 3617 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 3618 3619 print-fatal-signals= 3620 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 3621 3622 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 3623 related application anomalies: too many signals, 3624 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 3625 coredump - etc. 3626 3627 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 3628 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 3629 3630 default: off. 3631 3632 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 3633 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 3634 panics 3635 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3636 default: disabled 3637 3638 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 3639 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 3640 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 3641 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 3642 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 3643 Default: ratelimit 3644 3645 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 3646 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3647 3648 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 3649 Limit processor to maximum C-state 3650 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 3651 3652 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 3653 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 3654 instead using the legacy FADT method 3655 3656 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 3657 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 3658 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 3659 [defaults to kernel profiling] 3660 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 3661 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 3662 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 3663 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 3664 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 3665 statistical time based profiling. 3666 3667 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk 3668 before loading. 3669 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 3670 3671 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 3672 tracking. 3673 Format: <bool> 3674 3675 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 3676 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 3677 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 3678 per second. 3679 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 3680 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 3681 (0 = never). 3682 psmouse.resolution= 3683 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 3684 psmouse.smartscroll= 3685 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 3686 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 3687 3688 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 3689 3690 pt. [PARIDE] 3691 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3692 3693 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 3694 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 3695 removes hardening, but improves performance of 3696 system calls and interrupts. 3697 3698 on - unconditionally enable 3699 off - unconditionally disable 3700 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 3701 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 3702 3703 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 3704 3705 nopti [X86_64] 3706 Equivalent to pti=off 3707 3708 pty.legacy_count= 3709 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 3710 default number. 3711 3712 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 3713 3714 r128= [HW,DRM] 3715 3716 raid= [HW,RAID] 3717 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3718 3719 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 3720 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 3721 3722 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 3723 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 3724 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 3725 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 3726 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 3727 3728 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 3729 3730 cec_disable [X86] 3731 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 3732 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 3733 3734 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 3735 The argument is a cpu list, as described above, 3736 except that the string "all" can be used to 3737 specify every CPU on the system. 3738 3739 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 3740 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 3741 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be 3742 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that 3743 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and 3744 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number. 3745 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs, 3746 which can be useful for HPC and real-time 3747 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency 3748 for asymmetric multiprocessors. 3749 3750 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 3751 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 3752 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 3753 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 3754 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 3755 This improves the real-time response for the 3756 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 3757 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 3758 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 3759 periodically wake up to do the polling. 3760 3761 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 3762 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 3763 process in one batch. 3764 3765 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 3766 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 3767 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 3768 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 3769 3770 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 3771 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3772 RCU grace-period cleanup. 3773 3774 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 3775 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3776 RCU grace-period initialization. 3777 3778 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 3779 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3780 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 3781 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 3782 the rcu_node combining tree. 3783 3784 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 3785 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 3786 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 3787 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 3788 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 3789 3790 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 3791 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 3792 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 3793 possibly be useful for architectures having high 3794 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 3795 3796 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 3797 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 3798 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 3799 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 3800 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 3801 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 3802 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 3803 3804 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 3805 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 3806 first attempt to force quiescent states. 3807 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 3808 and maximum value is HZ. 3809 3810 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 3811 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 3812 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 3813 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 3814 3815 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 3816 Set required age in jiffies for a 3817 given grace period before RCU starts 3818 soliciting quiescent-state help from 3819 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 3820 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 3821 a value based on the most recent settings 3822 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 3823 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 3824 This calculated value may be viewed in 3825 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 3826 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 3827 overwritten. 3828 3829 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 3830 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 3831 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 3832 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 3833 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 3834 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 3835 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 3836 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 3837 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 3838 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 3839 3840 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL] 3841 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which 3842 defaults to the square root of the number of 3843 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead 3844 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases 3845 that same overhead on each group's leader. 3846 3847 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 3848 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 3849 batch limiting is disabled. 3850 3851 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 3852 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 3853 batch limiting is re-enabled. 3854 3855 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 3856 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3857 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3858 3859 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL] 3860 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3861 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3862 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can 3863 prove do nothing more than free memory. 3864 3865 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 3866 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 3867 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 3868 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 3869 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 3870 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 3871 3872 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 3873 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 3874 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 3875 why a new grace period has not yet started. 3876 3877 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL] 3878 Measure performance of asynchronous 3879 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 3880 3881 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL] 3882 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 3883 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 3884 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 3885 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 3886 previously posted callbacks to drain. 3887 3888 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL] 3889 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 3890 grace-period primitives. 3891 3892 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL] 3893 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 3894 this parameter is to delay the start of the 3895 test until boot completes in order to avoid 3896 interference. 3897 3898 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL] 3899 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3900 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3901 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 3902 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3903 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3904 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 3905 a single reader. 3906 3907 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL] 3908 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 3909 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders. 3910 N, where N is the number of CPUs 3911 3912 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL] 3913 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 3914 3915 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL] 3916 Shut the system down after performance tests 3917 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 3918 testing. 3919 3920 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL] 3921 Enable additional printk() statements. 3922 3923 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 3924 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 3925 in microseconds. The default of zero says 3926 no holdoff. 3927 3928 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 3929 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 3930 in microseconds. 3931 3932 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 3933 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 3934 in microseconds. 3935 3936 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 3937 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 3938 in seconds. 3939 3940 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 3941 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 3942 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 3943 3944 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 3945 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 3946 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 3947 3948 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 3949 Number of seconds to wait between successive 3950 forward-progress tests. 3951 3952 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 3953 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 3954 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 3955 testing. 3956 3957 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 3958 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 3959 primitives, if available. 3960 3961 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 3962 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 3963 3964 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 3965 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 3966 update-side primitives, if available. 3967 3968 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 3969 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 3970 update-side primitives, if available. If all 3971 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 3972 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 3973 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 3974 they are all non-zero. 3975 3976 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 3977 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 3978 3979 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 3980 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 3981 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 3982 test, hence the "fake". 3983 3984 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 3985 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3986 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3987 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 3988 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3989 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3990 3991 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 3992 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 3993 3994 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 3995 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 3996 3997 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 3998 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 3999 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 4000 4001 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 4002 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 4003 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 4004 during the rcutorture test. 4005 4006 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4007 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 4008 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 4009 4010 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 4011 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 4012 warnings, zero to disable. 4013 4014 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 4015 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 4016 4017 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 4018 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 4019 4020 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 4021 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 4022 4023 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 4024 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 4025 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 4026 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 4027 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 4028 4029 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 4030 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 4031 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 4032 under test support RCU priority boosting. 4033 4034 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 4035 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 4036 4037 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 4038 Interval (s) between each boost test. 4039 4040 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 4041 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 4042 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 4043 4044 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 4045 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4046 4047 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 4048 Enable additional printk() statements. 4049 4050 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 4051 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4052 4053 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4054 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4055 4056 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 4057 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 4058 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 4059 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 4060 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 4061 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 4062 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4063 4064 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 4065 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 4066 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 4067 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 4068 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 4069 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 4070 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 4071 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 4072 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4073 4074 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 4075 Once boot has completed (that is, after 4076 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 4077 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 4078 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4079 4080 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4081 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 4082 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 4083 to zero. 4084 4085 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 4086 Run the RCU early boot self tests 4087 4088 rdinit= [KNL] 4089 Format: <full_path> 4090 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 4091 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 4092 4093 rdrand= [X86] 4094 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 4095 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 4096 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 4097 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 4098 path). 4099 4100 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 4101 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 4102 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 4103 mba. 4104 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 4105 rdt=cmt,!mba 4106 4107 reboot= [KNL] 4108 Format (x86 or x86_64): 4109 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ 4110 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 4111 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 4112 [[,]f[orce] 4113 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 4114 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 4115 reboot only), 4116 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 4117 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 4118 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 4119 to be used for rebooting. 4120 4121 relax_domain_level= 4122 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 4123 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 4124 4125 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 4126 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 4127 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 4128 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 4129 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 4130 4131 reservetop= [X86-32] 4132 Format: nn[KMG] 4133 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 4134 address space. 4135 4136 reservelow= [X86] 4137 Format: nn[K] 4138 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at 4139 the bottom of the address space. 4140 4141 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 4142 during initialization. 4143 4144 resume= [SWSUSP] 4145 Specify the partition device for software suspend 4146 Format: 4147 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 4148 4149 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 4150 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 4151 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 4152 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 4153 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 4154 4155 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4156 read the resume files 4157 4158 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 4159 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4160 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4161 4162 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 4163 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 4164 present during boot. 4165 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 4166 no Disable hibernation and resume. 4167 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 4168 (that will set all pages holding image data 4169 during restoration read-only). 4170 4171 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 4172 4173 rfkill.default_state= 4174 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 4175 etc. communication is blocked by default. 4176 1 Unblocked. 4177 4178 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 4179 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 4180 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4181 blocked and the previous configuration. 4182 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4183 blocked and everything unblocked. 4184 4185 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4186 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 4187 4188 ring3mwait=disable 4189 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 4190 CPUs. 4191 4192 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 4193 4194 rodata= [KNL] 4195 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 4196 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 4197 4198 rockchip.usb_uart 4199 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 4200 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 4201 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 4202 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 4203 4204 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 4205 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 4206 4207 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4208 mount the root filesystem 4209 4210 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 4211 4212 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 4213 4214 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 4215 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4216 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4217 4218 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 4219 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 4220 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 4221 managed by CMA. 4222 4223 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 4224 4225 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 4226 4227 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 4228 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 4229 strict 4230 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 4231 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 4232 which is faster. 4233 4234 sa1100ir [NET] 4235 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 4236 4237 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter 4238 4239 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 4240 4241 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 4242 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 4243 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 4244 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 4245 4246 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 4247 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 4248 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 4249 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4250 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 4251 1 -- enable. 4252 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 4253 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 4254 4255 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 4256 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 4257 "lsm=" parameter. 4258 4259 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 4260 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4261 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 4262 0 -- disable. 4263 1 -- enable. 4264 Default value is set via kernel config option. 4265 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used 4266 later to disable prior to initial policy load. 4267 4268 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 4269 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4270 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 4271 0 -- disable. 4272 1 -- enable. 4273 Default value is set via kernel config option. 4274 4275 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 4276 4277 shapers= [NET] 4278 Maximal number of shapers. 4279 4280 simeth= [IA-64] 4281 simscsi= 4282 4283 slram= [HW,MTD] 4284 4285 slab_nomerge [MM] 4286 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 4287 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 4288 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 4289 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 4290 layout control by attackers can usually be 4291 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 4292 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 4293 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 4294 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 4295 own. 4296 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4297 4298 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 4299 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4300 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4301 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 4302 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 4303 4304 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB] 4305 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 4306 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 4307 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 4308 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 4309 last alloc / free. For more information see 4310 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4311 4312 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB] 4313 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for 4314 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable. 4315 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON. 4316 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug 4317 directories and files being created under 4318 /sys/kernel/slub. 4319 4320 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 4321 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4322 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4323 fragmentation. For more information see 4324 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4325 4326 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 4327 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 4328 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 4329 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 4330 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 4331 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 4332 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 4333 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4334 4335 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 4336 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 4337 lower than slub_max_order. 4338 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4339 4340 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 4341 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 4342 See slab_nomerge for more information. 4343 4344 smart2= [HW] 4345 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 4346 4347 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 4348 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 4349 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 4350 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 4351 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 4352 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 4353 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 4354 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 4355 1: Fast pin select (default) 4356 2: ATC IRMode 4357 4358 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 4359 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 4360 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 4361 actual hardware limit. 4362 Format: <integer> 4363 Default: -1 (no limit) 4364 4365 softlockup_panic= 4366 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 4367 Format: <integer> 4368 4369 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector 4370 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This 4371 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 4372 which is the respective build-time switch to that 4373 functionality. 4374 4375 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 4376 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 4377 backtraces on all cpus. 4378 Format: <integer> 4379 4380 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 4381 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 4382 4383 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 4384 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 4385 The default operation protects the kernel from 4386 user space attacks. 4387 4388 on - unconditionally enable, implies 4389 spectre_v2_user=on 4390 off - unconditionally disable, implies 4391 spectre_v2_user=off 4392 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4393 vulnerable 4394 4395 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 4396 mitigation method at run time according to the 4397 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 4398 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 4399 compiler with which the kernel was built. 4400 4401 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 4402 against user space to user space task attacks. 4403 4404 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 4405 the user space protections. 4406 4407 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 4408 4409 retpoline - replace indirect branches 4410 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline 4411 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk 4412 4413 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4414 spectre_v2=auto. 4415 4416 spectre_v2_user= 4417 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 4418 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 4419 user space tasks 4420 4421 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 4422 enforced by spectre_v2=on 4423 4424 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 4425 enforced by spectre_v2=off 4426 4427 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 4428 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 4429 per thread. The mitigation control state 4430 is inherited on fork. 4431 4432 prctl,ibpb 4433 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 4434 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 4435 always when switching between different user 4436 space processes. 4437 4438 seccomp 4439 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 4440 threads will enable the mitigation unless 4441 they explicitly opt out. 4442 4443 seccomp,ibpb 4444 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 4445 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 4446 always when switching between different 4447 user space processes. 4448 4449 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 4450 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 4451 4452 Default mitigation: 4453 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 4454 4455 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4456 spectre_v2_user=auto. 4457 4458 spec_store_bypass_disable= 4459 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 4460 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 4461 4462 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 4463 a common industry wide performance optimization known 4464 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 4465 to the same memory location may not be observed by 4466 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 4467 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 4468 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 4469 end of a particular speculation execution window. 4470 4471 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 4472 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 4473 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 4474 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 4475 4476 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 4477 Bypass optimization is used. 4478 4479 On x86 the options are: 4480 4481 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 4482 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 4483 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 4484 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 4485 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 4486 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 4487 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 4488 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 4489 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 4490 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 4491 for a process by default. The state of the control 4492 is inherited on fork. 4493 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 4494 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 4495 4496 Default mitigations: 4497 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 4498 4499 On powerpc the options are: 4500 4501 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 4502 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 4503 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 4504 exit. 4505 off - No action. 4506 4507 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4508 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 4509 4510 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 4511 spia_fio_base= 4512 spia_pedr= 4513 spia_peddr= 4514 4515 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 4516 Specifies how frequently to check for 4517 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 4518 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 4519 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 4520 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 4521 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 4522 are ignored. 4523 4524 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 4525 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 4526 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 4527 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 4528 grace period will be considered for automatic 4529 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 4530 expediting. 4531 4532 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 4533 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 4534 4535 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 4536 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 4537 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 4538 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 4539 4540 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 4541 for both kernel and userspace 4542 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 4543 for both kernel and userspace 4544 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 4545 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 4546 to allow userspace to register its 4547 interest in being mitigated too. 4548 4549 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 4550 override the default stack gap protection. The value 4551 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 4552 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 4553 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 4554 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 4555 4556 stacktrace [FTRACE] 4557 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 4558 4559 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 4560 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 4561 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 4562 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 4563 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 4564 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 4565 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 4566 4567 sti= [PARISC,HW] 4568 Format: <num> 4569 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 4570 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 4571 as the initial boot-console. 4572 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4573 4574 sti_font= [HW] 4575 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4576 4577 stifb= [HW] 4578 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 4579 4580 sunrpc.min_resvport= 4581 sunrpc.max_resvport= 4582 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4583 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 4584 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 4585 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 4586 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 4587 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 4588 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 4589 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 4590 maximum port values. 4591 4592 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 4593 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4594 Limit the number of requests that the server will 4595 process in parallel from a single connection. 4596 The default value is 0 (no limit). 4597 4598 sunrpc.pool_mode= 4599 [NFS] 4600 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 4601 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 4602 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 4603 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 4604 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 4605 NFS server is running. 4606 4607 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 4608 automatically using heuristics 4609 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 4610 percpu one pool for each CPU 4611 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 4612 to global on non-NUMA machines) 4613 4614 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 4615 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 4616 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4617 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 4618 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 4619 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 4620 improve throughput, but will also increase the 4621 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 4622 4623 suspend.pm_test_delay= 4624 [SUSPEND] 4625 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 4626 mode before resuming the system (see 4627 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 4628 is set. Default value is 5. 4629 4630 swapaccount=[0|1] 4631 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 4632 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 4633 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) 4634 4635 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 4636 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 4637 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 4638 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 4639 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 4640 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 4641 4642 switches= [HW,M68k] 4643 4644 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 4645 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 4646 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 4647 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 4648 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 4649 in older udev will not work anymore. 4650 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 4651 the kernel configuration. 4652 4653 sysrq_always_enabled 4654 [KNL] 4655 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 4656 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 4657 Useful for debugging. 4658 4659 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4660 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 4661 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 4662 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 4663 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt 4664 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 4665 4666 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 4667 4668 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 4669 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 4670 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 4671 as the system sleep state during system startup with 4672 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 4673 The system is woken from this state using a 4674 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 4675 4676 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4677 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 4678 4679 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 4680 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 4681 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 4682 4683 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 4684 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 4685 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 4686 4687 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 4688 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 4689 critical and hot trip points. 4690 4691 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 4692 1: disable ACPI thermal control 4693 4694 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 4695 -1: disable all passive trip points 4696 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 4697 value 4698 4699 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 4700 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 4701 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 4702 0: no polling (default) 4703 4704 threadirqs [KNL] 4705 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 4706 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 4707 4708 topology= [S390] 4709 Format: {off | on} 4710 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 4711 topology information if the hardware supports this. 4712 The scheduler will make use of this information and 4713 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 4714 Default is on. 4715 4716 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 4717 Format: {off} 4718 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 4719 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 4720 LPAR. 4721 4722 tp720= [HW,PS2] 4723 4724 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 4725 Format: integer pcr id 4726 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 4727 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 4728 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 4729 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 4730 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 4731 are saved. 4732 4733 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 4734 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 4735 4736 trace_event=[event-list] 4737 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 4738 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 4739 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See 4740 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 4741 4742 trace_options=[option-list] 4743 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 4744 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 4745 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 4746 to echo the option name into 4747 4748 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 4749 4750 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 4751 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 4752 4753 trace_options=stacktrace 4754 4755 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 4756 section. 4757 4758 tp_printk[FTRACE] 4759 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 4760 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 4761 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 4762 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 4763 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 4764 4765 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 4766 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 4767 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 4768 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 4769 4770 ** CAUTION ** 4771 4772 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 4773 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 4774 the system to live lock. 4775 4776 traceoff_on_warning 4777 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 4778 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 4779 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 4780 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 4781 4782 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 4783 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 4784 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 4785 4786 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 4787 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 4788 4789 transparent_hugepage= 4790 [KNL] 4791 Format: [always|madvise|never] 4792 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 4793 with respect to transparent hugepages. 4794 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 4795 for more details. 4796 4797 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 4798 Format: <string> 4799 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 4800 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 4801 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 4802 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 4803 virtualized environment. 4804 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 4805 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 4806 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 4807 can add overhead. 4808 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 4809 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 4810 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 4811 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 4812 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 4813 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 4814 acceptable). 4815 4816 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 4817 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 4818 Format: 4819 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 4820 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 4821 4822 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 4823 happen after console_init() and before a proper 4824 console driver takes over, this boot options might 4825 help "seeing" what's going on. 4826 4827 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4828 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 4829 4830 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 4831 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 4832 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 4833 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 4834 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 4835 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 4836 reported either. 4837 4838 unknown_nmi_panic 4839 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 4840 4841 usbcore.authorized_default= 4842 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 4843 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 4844 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 4845 if device connected to internal port) 4846 4847 usbcore.autosuspend= 4848 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 4849 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 4850 is the time required before an idle device will be 4851 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 4852 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 4853 4854 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 4855 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 4856 4857 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 4858 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 4859 (default = 65536). 4860 4861 usbcore.blinkenlights= 4862 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 4863 4864 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 4865 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 4866 scheme, applies only to low and full-speed devices 4867 (default 0 = off). 4868 4869 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 4870 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 4871 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 4872 4873 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 4874 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 4875 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 4876 4877 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 4878 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 4879 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 4880 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 4881 4882 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 4883 4884 usbcore.quirks= 4885 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 4886 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 4887 commas. Each entry has the form 4888 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 4889 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 4890 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 4891 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 4892 the following meanings: 4893 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 4894 descriptors must not be fetched using 4895 a 255-byte read); 4896 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 4897 correctly so reset it instead); 4898 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 4899 Set-Interface requests); 4900 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 4901 handle its Configuration or Interface 4902 strings); 4903 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 4904 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 4905 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 4906 more interface descriptions than the 4907 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 4908 talking to these interfaces); 4909 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 4910 during initialization, after we read 4911 the device descriptor); 4912 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 4913 high speed and super speed interrupt 4914 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 4915 require the interval in microframes (1 4916 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 4917 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 4918 (bInterval-1). 4919 Devices with this quirk report their 4920 bInterval as the result of this 4921 calculation instead of the exponent 4922 variable used in the calculation); 4923 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 4924 handle device_qualifier descriptor 4925 requests); 4926 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 4927 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 4928 remote wakeup capability); 4929 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 4930 Power Management); 4931 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 4932 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 4933 frames instead of the USB 2.0 4934 calculation); 4935 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 4936 to be disconnected before suspend to 4937 prevent spurious wakeup); 4938 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 4939 pause after every control message); 4940 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 4941 delay after resetting its port); 4942 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 4943 4944 usbhid.mousepoll= 4945 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 4946 4947 usbhid.jspoll= 4948 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 4949 4950 usbhid.kbpoll= 4951 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 4952 4953 usb-storage.delay_use= 4954 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 4955 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 4956 4957 usb-storage.quirks= 4958 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 4959 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 4960 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 4961 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 4962 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 4963 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 4964 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 4965 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 4966 of sense data); 4967 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 4968 bytes of sense data); 4969 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 4970 device capacity by one sector); 4971 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 4972 READ_DISC_INFO command); 4973 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 4974 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 4975 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 4976 command, uas only); 4977 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 4978 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 4979 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 4980 reported device capacity by one 4981 sector if the number is odd); 4982 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 4983 device); 4984 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 4985 command, uas only); 4986 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 4987 unlock ejectable media); 4988 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 4989 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time); 4990 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 4991 initial READ(10) command); 4992 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 4993 reported by the device); 4994 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 4995 by default); 4996 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 4997 bogus residue values); 4998 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 4999 Logical Unit); 5000 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 5001 commands, uas only); 5002 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 5003 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 5004 medium is write-protected). 5005 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 5006 even if the device claims no cache) 5007 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 5008 5009 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 5010 Format: <int> 5011 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 5012 1 - undefined instruction events 5013 2 - system calls 5014 4 - invalid data aborts 5015 8 - SIGSEGV faults 5016 16 - SIGBUS faults 5017 Example: user_debug=31 5018 5019 userpte= 5020 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 5021 5022 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 5023 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 5024 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 5025 5026 vdso= [X86,SH] 5027 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 5028 5029 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 5030 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 5031 5032 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 5033 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 5034 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 5035 5036 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 5037 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 5038 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 5039 5040 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 5041 alias for vdso32=0. 5042 5043 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 5044 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 5045 5046 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 5047 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 5048 5049 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 5050 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 5051 5052 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 5053 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 5054 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 5055 level and then send out the event to user space through 5056 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 5057 will only send out the event without touching backlight 5058 brightness level. 5059 default: 1 5060 5061 virtio_mmio.device= 5062 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 5063 5064 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 5065 where: 5066 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 5067 like K, M and G) 5068 <baseaddr> := physical base address 5069 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 5070 request_irq()) 5071 <id> := (optional) platform device id 5072 example: 5073 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 5074 5075 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 5076 5077 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 5078 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 5079 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 5080 Use vga=ask for menu. 5081 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 5082 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 5083 5084 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 5085 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 5086 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 5087 All options are enabled by default, and this 5088 interface is meant to allow for selectively 5089 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 5090 debugging features. 5091 5092 Available options are: 5093 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 5094 - Disable all of the above options 5095 5096 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 5097 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 5098 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 5099 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 5100 mapped kernel RAM. 5101 5102 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 5103 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 5104 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 5105 5106 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 5107 Format: <command> 5108 5109 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 5110 Format: <command> 5111 5112 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 5113 Format: <command> 5114 5115 vsyscall= [X86-64] 5116 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 5117 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 5118 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 5119 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 5120 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 5121 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 5122 5123 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 5124 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 5125 page is readable. 5126 5127 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 5128 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 5129 page is not readable. 5130 5131 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 5132 them quite hard to use for exploits but 5133 might break your system. 5134 5135 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 5136 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 5137 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 5138 5139 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 5140 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 5141 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 5142 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 5143 5144 vt.default_blu= [VT] 5145 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 5146 Change the default blue palette of the console. 5147 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5148 ranging from 0-255. 5149 5150 vt.default_grn= [VT] 5151 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 5152 Change the default green palette of the console. 5153 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5154 ranging from 0-255. 5155 5156 vt.default_red= [VT] 5157 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 5158 Change the default red palette of the console. 5159 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5160 ranging from 0-255. 5161 5162 vt.default_utf8= 5163 [VT] 5164 Format=<0|1> 5165 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 5166 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 5167 newly opened terminals. 5168 5169 vt.global_cursor_default= 5170 [VT] 5171 Format=<-1|0|1> 5172 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 5173 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 5174 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 5175 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 5176 cursors, 1 will display them. 5177 5178 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 5179 Default: 2 = green. 5180 5181 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 5182 Default: 3 = cyan. 5183 5184 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 5185 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 5186 or other driver-specific files in the 5187 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 5188 5189 watchdog_thresh= 5190 [KNL] 5191 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 5192 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 5193 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 5194 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 5195 seconds. 5196 5197 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 5198 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 5199 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 5200 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 5201 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 5202 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 5203 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 5204 corresponding sysfs file. 5205 5206 workqueue.disable_numa 5207 By default, all work items queued to unbound 5208 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 5209 issued on, which results in better behavior in 5210 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 5211 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 5212 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 5213 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 5214 5215 workqueue.power_efficient 5216 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 5217 they show better performance thanks to cache 5218 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 5219 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 5220 5221 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 5222 were observed to contribute significantly to power 5223 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 5224 power usage at the cost of small performance 5225 overhead. 5226 5227 The default value of this parameter is determined by 5228 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 5229 5230 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 5231 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 5232 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 5233 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 5234 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 5235 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 5236 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 5237 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 5238 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 5239 impacted. 5240 5241 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 5242 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 5243 supporting x2apic. 5244 5245 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT] 5246 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform. 5247 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer 5248 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer. 5249 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt 5250 5251 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 5252 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 5253 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 5254 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 5255 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 5256 domains. 5257 5258 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 5259 Unplug Xen emulated devices 5260 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 5261 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 5262 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 5263 nics -- unplug network devices 5264 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 5265 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 5266 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 5267 the unplug protocol 5268 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 5269 5270 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 5271 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV 5272 optimizations. 5273 5274 xen_nopv [X86] 5275 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 5276 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 5277 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 5278 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 5279 5280 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 5281 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 5282 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 5283 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 5284 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 5285 5286 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 5287 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 5288 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 5289 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 5290 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 5291 more timer interrupts. 5292 5293 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 5294 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 5295 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 5296 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 5297 5298 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 5299 Format: 5300 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 5301 5302 xive= [PPC] 5303 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 5304 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 5305 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 5306 5307 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 5308 controller on both pseries and powernv 5309 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 5310 5311 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 5312 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 5313 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 5314 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 5315