1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64] 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 4 copy_dsdt } 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64] 7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 14 are available 15 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi 17 18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 19 Format: <int> 20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 21 1,0: use 1st APIC table 22 default: 0 23 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 25 acpi_backlight=vendor 26 acpi_backlight=video 27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver 28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 29 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 36 37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 41 This option is useful for developers to identify the 42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 43 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 44 45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 47 Format: <int> 48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT 52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 56 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about 57 debug layers and levels. 58 59 Enable processor driver info messages: 60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000 63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <int> 117 118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 122 auto-serialization feature. 123 This feature is enabled by default. 124 This option allows to turn off the feature. 125 126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 127 kernels. 128 129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 132 installed automatically and they will appear under 133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 134 This option turns off this feature. 135 Note that specifying this option does not affect 136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 138 139 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 140 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 141 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 142 second kernel for kdump. 143 144 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 145 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 146 147 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 148 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 149 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 150 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 151 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 152 153 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 154 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 155 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 156 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 157 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 158 strings 159 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 160 strings 161 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 162 163 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 164 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 165 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 166 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 167 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 168 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 169 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 170 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 171 care about the state of the feature group strings which 172 should be controlled by the OSPM. 173 Examples: 174 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 175 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 176 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 177 178 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 179 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 180 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 181 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 182 multiple times through kernel command line is also 183 meaningless. 184 Examples: 185 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 186 FALSE. 187 188 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 189 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 190 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 191 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 192 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 193 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 194 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 195 there are quirks related to this string. This command 196 is useful when one want to control the state of the 197 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 198 the OSPM features. 199 Examples: 200 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 201 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 202 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 203 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 204 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 205 equivalent to 206 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 207 and 208 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 209 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 210 211 acpi_pm_good [X86] 212 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 213 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 214 and always returns good values. 215 216 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 217 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 218 219 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 220 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 221 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 222 223 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 224 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, 225 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl } 226 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on 227 s3_bios and s3_mode. 228 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 229 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 230 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 231 used during resume from hibernation. 232 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 233 control method, with respect to putting devices into 234 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 235 of _PTS is used by default). 236 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 237 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 238 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 239 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 240 but some broken systems don't work without it). 241 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 242 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 243 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 244 245 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 246 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 247 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 248 249 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 250 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 251 252 agp= [AGP] 253 { off | try_unsupported } 254 off: disable AGP support 255 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 256 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 257 258 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 259 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 260 261 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 262 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 263 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 264 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 265 266 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 267 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 268 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 269 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 270 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 271 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 272 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 273 274 32: only for 32-bit processes 275 64: only for 64-bit processes 276 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 277 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 278 279 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 280 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 281 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 282 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 283 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 284 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 285 286 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 287 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 288 Possible values are: 289 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when 290 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are 291 flushed before they will be reused, which 292 is a lot of faster 293 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 294 the system 295 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 296 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 297 allowed anymore to lift isolation 298 requirements as needed. This option 299 does not override iommu=pt 300 301 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 302 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 303 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 304 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 305 IOMMU initialization. 306 307 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 308 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 309 remapping modes: 310 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 311 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 312 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 313 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 314 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 315 316 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 317 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 318 Format: <a>,<b> 319 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 320 321 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 322 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 323 connected to one of 16 gameports 324 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 325 326 apc= [HW,SPARC] 327 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 328 Format: noidle 329 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 330 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 331 APC and your system crashes randomly. 332 333 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 334 Change the output verbosity whilst booting 335 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 336 Change the amount of debugging information output 337 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 338 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 339 driver name. 340 Format: apic=driver_name 341 Examples: apic=bigsmp 342 343 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 344 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 345 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 346 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 347 backup of CPU 0 348 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 349 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 350 shot down by NMI 351 352 autoconf= [IPV6] 353 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 354 355 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 356 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 357 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 358 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 359 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 360 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 361 apic=verbose is specified. 362 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 363 364 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 365 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 366 367 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 368 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 369 370 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 371 372 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 373 374 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 375 EzKey and similar keyboards 376 377 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 378 379 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 380 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 381 382 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 383 keyboards 384 385 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 386 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 387 388 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 389 Use software keyboard repeat 390 391 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 392 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 393 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 394 enabled until the next reboot 395 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 396 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 397 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 398 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 399 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 400 userspace auditd. 401 Default: unset 402 403 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 404 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 405 Default: 64 406 407 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 408 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 409 Format: { "0" | "1" } 410 0 - Disable the BAU. 411 1 - Enable the BAU. 412 unset - Disable the BAU. 413 414 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 415 Format: <io>,<mode> 416 417 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 418 Format: <io>,<mode> 419 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 420 421 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 422 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 423 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 424 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 425 426 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 427 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 428 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 429 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 430 431 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 432 embedded devices based on command line input. 433 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt 434 435 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 436 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 437 no delay (0). 438 Format: integer 439 440 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages. 441 442 bert_disable [ACPI] 443 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 444 445 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 446 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 447 kernel args too. 448 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst 449 bttv.tuner= 450 451 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 452 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 453 at a time. 454 455 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 456 457 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 458 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 459 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 460 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 461 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 462 This option provides an override for these situations. 463 464 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 465 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 466 trust validation. 467 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 468 469 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 470 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 471 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 472 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 473 others). 474 475 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 476 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. 477 478 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller 479 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable} 480 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 481 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 482 a single hierarchy 483 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 484 subsystem 485 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 486 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 487 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 488 489 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1 490 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" } 491 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 492 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 493 494 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 495 Format: <string> 496 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 497 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 498 499 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 500 Format: { "0" | "1" } 501 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 502 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 503 any implied execute protection). 504 1 -- check protection requested by application. 505 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 506 Value can be changed at runtime via 507 /selinux/checkreqprot. 508 509 cio_ignore= [S390] 510 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. 511 clk_ignore_unused 512 [CLK] 513 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 514 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 515 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 516 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 517 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 518 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 519 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 520 platform with proper driver support. For more 521 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 522 523 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 524 [Deprecated] 525 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 526 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 527 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 528 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 529 530 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 531 Format: <string> 532 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 533 with the name specified. 534 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 535 the platform: 536 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 537 [ACPI] acpi_pm 538 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 539 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 540 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 541 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 542 [MIPS] MIPS 543 [PARISC] cr16 544 [S390] tod 545 [SH] SuperH 546 [SPARC64] tick 547 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 548 549 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 550 [ARM,ARM64] 551 Format: <bool> 552 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 553 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 554 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 555 systems. 556 557 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86] 558 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 559 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 560 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily 561 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific 562 ones should be. 563 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 564 or using the feature without checking anything 565 will still see it. This just prevents it from 566 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 567 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 568 some critical bits. 569 570 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 571 [ARM,X86,KNL] 572 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 573 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 574 placement constraint by the physical address range of 575 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 576 altogether. For more information, see 577 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h 578 579 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 580 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 581 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 582 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 583 a hypervisor. 584 Default: yes 585 586 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 587 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 588 allocations, by default set to 256K. 589 590 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 591 Format: 592 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 593 594 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 595 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 596 597 com90xx= [HW,NET] 598 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 599 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 600 601 condev= [HW,S390] console device 602 conmode= 603 604 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 605 606 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 607 608 ttyS<n>[,options] 609 ttyUSB0[,options] 610 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 611 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 612 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 613 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 614 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 615 616 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 617 information. See 618 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an 619 alternative. 620 621 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 622 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 623 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 624 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 625 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 626 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 627 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 628 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 629 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 630 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 631 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 632 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 633 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 634 the h/w is not re-initialized. 635 636 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 637 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 638 639 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 640 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 641 console=brl,ttyS0 642 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 643 644 console_msg_format= 645 [KNL] Change console messages format 646 default 647 By default we print messages on consoles in 648 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 649 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 650 `printk_time' param). 651 syslog 652 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 653 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 654 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 655 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 656 from /proc/kmsg. 657 658 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 659 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 660 Defaults to 0. 661 662 coredump_filter= 663 [KNL] Change the default value for 664 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 665 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. 666 667 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 668 [ARM,ARM64] 669 Format: <bool> 670 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 671 0: default value, disable debugging 672 1: enable debugging at boot time 673 674 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 675 disable the cpuidle sub-system 676 677 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 678 disable the cpufreq sub-system 679 680 cpu_init_udelay=N 681 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 682 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 683 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 684 Default: 10000 685 686 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 687 Format: 688 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 689 690 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 691 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 692 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 693 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 694 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 695 is selected automatically. Check 696 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details. 697 698 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 699 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 700 in the running system. The syntax of range is 701 start-[end] where start and end are both 702 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 703 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example. 704 705 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 706 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 707 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 708 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 709 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 710 available. 711 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 712 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 713 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 714 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 715 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 716 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 717 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 718 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 719 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at 720 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 721 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G 722 for second kernel instead. 723 0: to disable low allocation. 724 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 725 or memory reserved is below 4G. 726 727 cryptomgr.notests 728 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 729 730 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 731 Format: <dma> 732 733 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 734 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 735 736 dasd= [HW,NET] 737 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 738 739 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 740 (one device per port) 741 Format: <port#>,<type> 742 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 743 744 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot 745 time. See 746 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for 747 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg. 748 749 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 750 751 debug_boot_weak_hash 752 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 753 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 754 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 755 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 756 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 757 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 758 759 debug_locks_verbose= 760 [KNL] verbose self-tests 761 Format=<0|1> 762 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 763 self-tests. 764 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to 765 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally 766 only useful to kernel developers. 767 768 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 769 770 no_debug_objects 771 [KNL] Disable object debugging 772 773 debug_guardpage_minorder= 774 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 775 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 776 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 777 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 778 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 779 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 780 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 781 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 782 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 783 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 784 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 785 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 786 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 787 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 788 bypassed) which are not detectable by 789 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 790 tracking down these problems. 791 792 debug_pagealloc= 793 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 794 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In 795 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge 796 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable 797 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same 798 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 799 on: enable the feature 800 801 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 802 803 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 804 Format: <area>[,<node>] 805 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt. 806 807 default_hugepagesz= 808 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default 809 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by 810 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and 811 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems. 812 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size 813 if not specified. 814 815 deferred_probe_timeout= 816 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 817 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 818 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 819 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0 820 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also 821 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 822 retrying. 823 824 dhash_entries= [KNL] 825 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 826 827 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 828 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 829 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 830 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 831 miss to occur. 832 833 disable= [IPV6] 834 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 835 836 hardened_usercopy= 837 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 838 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 839 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 840 from reading or writing beyond known memory 841 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 842 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 843 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 844 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 845 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 846 847 disable_radix [PPC] 848 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 849 850 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 851 Format: <int> 852 The number of initial APIC ID for the 853 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 854 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 855 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 856 causing system reset or hang due to sending 857 INIT from AP to BSP. 858 859 disable_counter_freezing [HW] 860 Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature. 861 The feature only exists starting from 862 Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer). 863 864 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 865 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if 866 to workaround buggy firmware. 867 868 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 869 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 870 871 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 872 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 873 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 874 entry later. This parameter disables that. 875 876 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 877 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 878 memory out of your available memory pool based on 879 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 880 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 881 882 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 883 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 884 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 885 886 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 887 888 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 889 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 890 891 dma_debug_entries=<number> 892 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 893 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 894 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 895 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 896 architectural default is too low. 897 898 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 899 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 900 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 901 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 902 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 903 driver later using sysfs. 904 905 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 906 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 907 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 908 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 909 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 910 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 911 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 912 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 913 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 914 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 915 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID 916 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 917 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 918 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 919 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 920 data set with no connector name will be used for 921 any connectors not explicitly specified. 922 923 dscc4.setup= [NET] 924 925 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 926 Format: {"off" | "known"} 927 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 928 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 929 exists). 930 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 931 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 932 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 933 934 dump_apple_properties [X86] 935 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 936 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 937 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 938 939 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 940 module.dyndbg[="val"] 941 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 942 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 943 for details. 944 945 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions. 946 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more 947 information about the feature. 948 949 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 950 in some Intel CPUs. 951 952 module.async_probe [KNL] 953 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 954 955 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 956 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 957 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 958 which are not unmapped. 959 960 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 961 962 [ARM64] The early console is determined by the 963 stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node, 964 or determined by the ACPI SPCR table. 965 966 [X86] When used with no options the early console is 967 determined by the ACPI SPCR table. 968 969 cdns,<addr>[,options] 970 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 971 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 972 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 973 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 974 configured. 975 976 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 977 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 978 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 979 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 980 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 981 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 982 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 983 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 984 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 985 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 986 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 987 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 988 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 989 990 pl011,<addr> 991 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 992 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 993 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 994 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 995 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 996 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 997 the device registers. 998 999 meson,<addr> 1000 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1001 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1002 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1003 supported. 1004 1005 msm_serial,<addr> 1006 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1007 port at the specified address. The serial port 1008 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1009 yet supported. 1010 1011 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1012 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1013 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1014 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1015 yet supported. 1016 1017 owl,<addr> 1018 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1019 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1020 specified address. The serial port must already be 1021 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1022 1023 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1024 1025 s3c2410,<addr> 1026 s3c2412,<addr> 1027 s3c2440,<addr> 1028 s3c6400,<addr> 1029 s5pv210,<addr> 1030 exynos4210,<addr> 1031 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1032 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1033 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1034 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1035 Options are not yet supported. 1036 1037 lantiq,<addr> 1038 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1039 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1040 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1041 yet supported. 1042 1043 lpuart,<addr> 1044 lpuart32,<addr> 1045 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1046 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1047 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1048 port must already be setup and configured. 1049 1050 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1051 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1052 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1053 address. The serial port must already be setup 1054 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1055 1056 qcom_geni,<addr> 1057 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1058 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1059 specified address. The serial port must already be 1060 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1061 1062 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1063 earlyprintk=vga 1064 earlyprintk=efi 1065 earlyprintk=sclp 1066 earlyprintk=xen 1067 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1068 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1069 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1070 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1071 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1072 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1073 1074 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1075 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1076 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1077 1078 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1079 takes over. 1080 1081 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 1082 be used at a time. 1083 1084 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1085 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1086 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1087 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1088 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1089 You can find the port for a given device in 1090 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1091 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1092 1093 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1094 very good. 1095 1096 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 1097 the real console. 1098 1099 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. 1100 1101 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1102 1103 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1104 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1105 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1106 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1107 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1108 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1109 default: on. 1110 1111 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1112 ekgdboc=kbd 1113 1114 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1115 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1116 1117 edd= [EDD] 1118 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1119 1120 efi= [EFI] 1121 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" } 1122 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI 1123 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by 1124 default. 1125 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1126 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1127 firmware implementations. 1128 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1129 debug: enable misc debug output 1130 1131 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1132 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1133 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1134 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1135 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1136 1137 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1138 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1139 updating original EFI memory map. 1140 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1141 from ss to ss+nn. 1142 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1143 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1144 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1145 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1146 1147 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1148 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of 1149 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1150 doesn't support it. 1151 1152 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1153 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1154 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1155 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1156 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details. 1157 1158 1159 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1160 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1161 1162 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1163 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1164 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1165 1166 elevator= [IOSCHED] 1167 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"} 1168 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and 1169 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details. 1170 1171 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1172 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1173 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1174 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1175 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details. 1176 1177 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1178 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1179 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1180 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1181 1182 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1183 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1184 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1185 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1186 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1187 1188 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1189 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1190 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1191 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1192 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1193 Default value is 0. 1194 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce. 1195 1196 erst_disable [ACPI] 1197 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1198 support. 1199 1200 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1201 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1202 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1203 1204 evm= [EVM] 1205 Format: { "fix" } 1206 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1207 current integrity status. 1208 1209 failslab= 1210 fail_page_alloc= 1211 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1212 General fault injection mechanism. 1213 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1214 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1215 1216 floppy= [HW] 1217 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt. 1218 1219 force_pal_cache_flush 1220 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1221 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1222 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1223 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1224 1225 forcepae [X86-32] 1226 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1227 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1228 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1229 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1230 and may cause unknown problems. 1231 1232 ftrace=[tracer] 1233 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1234 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1235 boot debugging. 1236 1237 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1238 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1239 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1240 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1241 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1242 oops. 1243 1244 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1245 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1246 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 1247 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1248 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1249 tracing directory. 1250 1251 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1252 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1253 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1254 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1255 tracing directory. 1256 1257 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1258 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1259 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1260 function-list is a comma separated list of functions 1261 that can be changed at run time by the 1262 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1263 1264 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1265 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1266 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of 1267 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1268 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1269 1270 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1271 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1272 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1273 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1274 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1275 1276 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1277 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1278 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1279 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1280 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1281 1282 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1283 1284 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1285 Format: off | on 1286 default: on 1287 1288 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1289 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1290 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1291 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1292 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1293 1294 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1295 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1296 android emulator 1297 1298 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1299 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1300 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1301 GPT to be used instead. 1302 1303 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1304 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1305 Format: 0 | 1 1306 Default: 0 1307 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1308 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1309 Format: 0 | 1 1310 Default: 0 1311 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1312 Format: 0 | 1 1313 Default: 0 1314 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1315 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1316 Default: 1024 1317 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1318 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1319 Default: 1024 1320 1321 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1322 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1323 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1324 1325 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1326 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1327 backtraces on all cpus. 1328 Format: <integer> 1329 1330 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1331 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1332 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1333 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1334 1335 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1336 1337 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1338 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1339 1340 hest_disable [ACPI] 1341 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1342 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1343 logic will be disabled. 1344 1345 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1346 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1347 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1348 size on bigger boxes. 1349 1350 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1351 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1352 Default: "on" 1353 1354 hisax= [HW,ISDN] 1355 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax. 1356 1357 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1358 1359 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1360 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1361 verbose } 1362 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1363 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1364 VIA, nVidia) 1365 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1366 1367 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1368 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1369 1370 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1371 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages. 1372 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified 1373 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve 1374 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on 1375 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G 1376 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag). 1377 1378 hung_task_panic= 1379 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1380 Format: <integer> 1381 1382 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a 1383 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1384 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1385 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1386 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1387 1388 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1389 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1390 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1391 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1392 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1393 1394 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1395 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1396 guest on lock contention. 1397 1398 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1399 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1400 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1401 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1402 the real console. 1403 1404 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1405 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1406 registered from board initialization code. 1407 Format: 1408 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1409 1410 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1411 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1412 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1413 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1414 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1415 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1416 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1417 keyboard and cannot control its state 1418 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1419 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1420 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1421 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1422 for the AUX port 1423 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1424 controller 1425 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1426 controllers 1427 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1428 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1429 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1430 transitions, or never reset 1431 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1432 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1433 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1434 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1435 architectures force reset to be always executed 1436 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1437 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1438 1439 i810= [HW,DRM] 1440 1441 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1442 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1443 hardware. 1444 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature 1445 does not match list of supported models. 1446 i8k.power_status 1447 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1448 (disabled by default) 1449 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1450 capability is set. 1451 1452 i915.invert_brightness= 1453 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1454 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1455 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1456 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1457 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1458 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1459 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1460 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1461 value switches the backlight off. 1462 -1 -- never invert brightness 1463 0 -- machine default 1464 1 -- force brightness inversion 1465 1466 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1467 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1468 1469 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1470 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1471 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1472 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1473 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt. 1474 1475 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1476 Format: <int> 1477 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1478 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1479 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1480 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1481 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1482 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1483 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1484 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1485 was 0x3. 1486 1487 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1488 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1489 1490 idle= [X86] 1491 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1492 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1493 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1494 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1495 Not recommended. 1496 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1497 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1498 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1499 1500 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1501 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1502 Default: strict 1503 1504 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1505 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1506 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1507 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1508 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1509 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1510 encoding mode. 1511 1512 Available settings are as follows: 1513 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1514 supported by the FPU 1515 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1516 by the FPU 1517 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1518 by the FPU 1519 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1520 supported by the FPU 1521 1522 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1523 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1524 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1525 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1526 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1527 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1528 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1529 MIPS64 CPUs. 1530 1531 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1532 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1533 except where unsupported by hardware. 1534 1535 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1536 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1537 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1538 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1539 could change it dynamically, usually by 1540 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1541 1542 ignore_rlimit_data 1543 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1544 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1545 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1546 1547 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1548 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1549 1550 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1551 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1552 default: "enforce" 1553 1554 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] 1555 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1556 owned by uid=0. 1557 1558 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1559 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1560 measurements, instead of host native format. 1561 1562 ima_hash= [IMA] 1563 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1564 | sha512 | ... } 1565 default: "sha1" 1566 1567 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1568 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1569 1570 ima_policy= [IMA] 1571 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1572 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1573 fail_securely" 1574 1575 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1576 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1577 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1578 uid=0. 1579 1580 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1581 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent 1582 of ima_appraise_tcb.) 1583 1584 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1585 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1586 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1587 1588 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1589 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1590 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1591 flag. 1592 1593 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1594 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1595 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1596 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1597 opened for read by uid=0. 1598 1599 ima_template= [IMA] 1600 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1601 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" } 1602 Default: "ima-ng" 1603 1604 ima_template_fmt= 1605 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1606 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1607 1608 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1609 Format: <min_file_size> 1610 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1611 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1612 1613 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1614 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1615 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1616 1617 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1618 Format: <bufsize> 1619 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1620 1621 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1622 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1623 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1624 1625 init= [KNL] 1626 Format: <full_path> 1627 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1628 process. 1629 1630 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1631 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1632 startup. 1633 1634 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1635 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1636 modules and initcalls. 1637 1638 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1639 1640 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1641 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1642 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1643 override in debugfs after boot. 1644 1645 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1646 Format: <irq> 1647 1648 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1649 1650 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1651 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1652 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1653 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1654 1655 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1656 on 1657 Enable intel iommu driver. 1658 off 1659 Disable intel iommu driver. 1660 igfx_off [Default Off] 1661 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1662 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1663 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1664 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1665 DMA. 1666 forcedac [x86_64] 1667 With this option iommu will not optimize to look 1668 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual 1669 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater 1670 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look 1671 for translation below 32-bit and if not available 1672 then look in the higher range. 1673 strict [Default Off] 1674 With this option on every unmap_single operation will 1675 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed 1676 to batching them for performance. 1677 sp_off [Default Off] 1678 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 1679 has the capability. With this option, super page will 1680 not be supported. 1681 ecs_off [Default Off] 1682 By default, extended context tables will be supported if 1683 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the 1684 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With 1685 this option set, extended tables will not be used even 1686 on hardware which claims to support them. 1687 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 1688 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 1689 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 1690 could harm performance of some high-throughput 1691 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 1692 mapping is enabled. 1693 Note that using this option lowers the security 1694 provided by tboot because it makes the system 1695 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 1696 1697 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 1698 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1699 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 1700 1701 intel_pstate= [X86] 1702 disable 1703 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 1704 scaling driver for the supported processors 1705 passive 1706 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 1707 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 1708 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 1709 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 1710 feature. 1711 force 1712 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 1713 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 1714 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 1715 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 1716 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 1717 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 1718 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 1719 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 1720 no_hwp 1721 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 1722 if available. 1723 hwp_only 1724 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 1725 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 1726 support_acpi_ppc 1727 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 1728 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 1729 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 1730 then this feature is turned on by default. 1731 per_cpu_perf_limits 1732 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 1733 cpufreq sysfs interface 1734 1735 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 1736 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 1737 off disable Interrupt Remapping 1738 nosid disable Source ID checking 1739 no_x2apic_optout 1740 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 1741 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 1742 1743 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 1744 strict regions from userspace. 1745 relaxed 1746 1747 iommu= [x86] 1748 off 1749 force 1750 noforce 1751 biomerge 1752 panic 1753 nopanic 1754 merge 1755 nomerge 1756 soft 1757 pt [x86] 1758 nopt [x86] 1759 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 1760 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 1761 1762 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 1763 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1764 0 - Lazy mode. 1765 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 1766 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 1767 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 1768 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 1769 the relevant IOMMU driver. 1770 1 - Strict mode (default). 1771 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 1772 synchronously. 1773 1774 iommu.passthrough= 1775 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 1776 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1777 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1778 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 1779 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 1780 1781 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems 1782 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 1783 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 1784 1785 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 1786 0x80 1787 Standard port 0x80 based delay 1788 0xed 1789 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 1790 udelay 1791 Simple two microseconds delay 1792 none 1793 No delay 1794 1795 ip= [IP_PNP] 1796 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 1797 1798 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 1799 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 1800 1801 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 1802 [ARM, ARM64] 1803 Format: <bool> 1804 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 1805 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 1806 exposed by the device tree is too small. 1807 1808 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 1809 [ARM, ARM64] 1810 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 1811 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 1812 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 1813 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 1814 LPIs. 1815 1816 irqfixup [HW] 1817 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1818 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1819 firmware running. 1820 1821 irqpoll [HW] 1822 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1823 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 1824 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1825 firmware running. 1826 1827 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 1828 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 1829 1830 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 1831 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 1832 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 1833 1834 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 1835 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 1836 1837 nohz 1838 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 1839 1840 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 1841 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 1842 workqueue's affinity configured via the 1843 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 1844 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 1845 1846 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 1847 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 1848 be configured manually after bootup. 1849 1850 domain 1851 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 1852 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 1853 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 1854 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 1855 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 1856 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 1857 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 1858 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 1859 1860 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 1861 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 1862 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 1863 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 1864 1865 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 1866 1867 1868 1869 iucv= [HW,NET] 1870 1871 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64] 1872 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1873 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1874 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 1875 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1876 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 1877 1878 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64] 1879 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1880 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1881 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 1882 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1883 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 1884 1885 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64] 1886 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 1887 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1888 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 1889 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 1890 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 1891 1892 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 1893 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 1894 1895 nokaslr [KNL] 1896 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 1897 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 1898 Layout Randomization). 1899 1900 kasan_multi_shot 1901 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 1902 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 1903 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 1904 invalid access. 1905 1906 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 1907 1908 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 1909 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 1910 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 1911 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 1912 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 1913 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 1914 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 1915 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 1916 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 1917 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 1918 1919 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 1920 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 1921 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 1922 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 1923 zone if it does not. 1924 1925 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 1926 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 1927 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 1928 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 1929 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 1930 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 1931 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 1932 1933 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 1934 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 1935 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 1936 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 1937 optional and is the number seconds in between 1938 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 1939 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 1940 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 1941 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 1942 the kernel debugger. 1943 1944 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 1945 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 1946 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 1947 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 1948 keyboard only format: kbd 1949 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 1950 Optional Kernel mode setting: 1951 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 1952 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 1953 1954 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 1955 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 1956 1957 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address. 1958 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 1959 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 1960 1961 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 1962 Valid arguments: on, off 1963 Default: on 1964 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 1965 the default is off. 1966 1967 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 1968 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 1969 1970 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 1971 Default is false (don't support). 1972 1973 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 1974 KVM MMU at runtime. 1975 Default is 0 (off) 1976 1977 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 1978 Default is 1 (enabled) 1979 1980 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 1981 for all guests. 1982 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 1983 1984 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 1985 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 1986 system registers 1987 1988 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 1989 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 1990 system registers 1991 1992 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 1993 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 1994 system registers 1995 1996 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 1997 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 1998 LPIs. 1999 2000 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2001 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2002 Default is 1 (enabled) 2003 2004 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2005 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 2006 Default is 0 (disabled) 2007 2008 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2009 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2010 Default is 1 (enabled) 2011 2012 kvm-intel.nested= 2013 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2014 Default is 0 (disabled) 2015 2016 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2017 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2018 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2019 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2020 2021 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2022 CVE-2018-3620. 2023 2024 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2025 2026 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2027 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2028 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2029 never: Disables the mitigation 2030 2031 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2032 2033 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2034 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2035 Default is 1 (enabled) 2036 2037 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2038 affected CPUs 2039 2040 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2041 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2042 2043 full 2044 Provides all available mitigations for the 2045 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2046 enables all mitigations in the 2047 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2048 2049 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2050 sysfs interface is still possible after 2051 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2052 when the first VM is started in a 2053 potentially insecure configuration, 2054 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2055 2056 full,force 2057 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2058 flush runtime control. Implies the 2059 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2060 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2061 2062 flush 2063 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2064 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2065 L1D flush. 2066 2067 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2068 sysfs interface is still possible after 2069 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2070 when the first VM is started in a 2071 potentially insecure configuration, 2072 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2073 2074 flush,nosmt 2075 2076 Disables SMT and enables the default 2077 hypervisor mitigation. 2078 2079 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2080 sysfs interface is still possible after 2081 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2082 when the first VM is started in a 2083 potentially insecure configuration, 2084 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2085 2086 flush,nowarn 2087 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2088 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2089 insecure configuration. 2090 2091 off 2092 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2093 emit any warnings. 2094 2095 Default is 'flush'. 2096 2097 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst 2098 2099 l2cr= [PPC] 2100 2101 l3cr= [PPC] 2102 2103 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2104 disabled it. 2105 2106 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline 2107 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2108 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2109 2110 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2111 in C2 power state. 2112 2113 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2114 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2115 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2116 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2117 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2118 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2119 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2120 2121 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2122 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2123 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2124 2125 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2126 when set. 2127 Format: <int> 2128 2129 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma 2130 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 2131 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 2132 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 2133 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 2134 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 2135 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 2136 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 2137 2138 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2139 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2140 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2141 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2142 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2143 host link and device attached to it. 2144 2145 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2146 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 2147 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2148 The following configurations can be forced. 2149 2150 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2151 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2152 2153 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2154 2155 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2156 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2157 allowed. 2158 2159 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2160 2161 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 2162 2163 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 2164 and both resets. 2165 2166 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 2167 hot-unplug link recovery 2168 2169 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 2170 2171 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 2172 2173 * disable: Disable this device. 2174 2175 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2176 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2177 2178 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 2179 2180 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy 2181 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 2182 2183 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2184 Format: <integer> 2185 2186 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2187 Format: <integer> 2188 2189 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2190 Format: <integer> 2191 2192 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2193 Format: <integer> 2194 2195 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2196 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2197 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2198 number of online CPUs. 2199 2200 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2201 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2202 2203 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2204 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2205 2206 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2207 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2208 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2209 2210 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2211 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2212 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2213 mode during the locktorture test. 2214 2215 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2216 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2217 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2218 2219 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2220 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2221 2222 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2223 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2224 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2225 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2226 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2227 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2228 2229 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2230 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2231 2232 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2233 Enable additional printk() statements. 2234 2235 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2236 Format: <irq> 2237 2238 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2239 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2240 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2241 loglevels are defined as follows: 2242 2243 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2244 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2245 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2246 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2247 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2248 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2249 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2250 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2251 2252 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2253 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2254 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2255 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2256 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2257 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2258 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2259 2260 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2261 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2262 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2263 kernel boot problems. 2264 2265 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2266 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2267 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2268 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2269 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2270 attached printers to be reset. Using 2271 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2272 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2273 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2274 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2275 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2276 port specification list means that device IDs 2277 from each port should be examined, to see if 2278 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2279 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2280 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2281 2282 lpj=n [KNL] 2283 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2284 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2285 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2286 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2287 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2288 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2289 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2290 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2291 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2292 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2293 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2294 hardware. 2295 2296 ltpc= [NET] 2297 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2298 2299 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2300 2301 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2302 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2303 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb 2304 2305 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different 2306 yeeloong laptop. 2307 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2308 2309 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2310 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2311 2312 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2313 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2314 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2315 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2316 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2317 only takes effect during system bootup. 2318 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2319 which also disables the IO APIC. 2320 2321 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2322 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2323 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2324 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2325 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2326 /dev/loop-control interface. 2327 2328 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2329 2330 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt 2331 2332 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2333 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2334 2335 mdacon= [MDA] 2336 Format: <first>,<last> 2337 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2338 2339 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2340 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able 2341 to see the whole system memory or for test. 2342 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2343 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2344 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2345 belonging to unused RAM. 2346 2347 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2348 memory. 2349 2350 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2351 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2352 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2353 2354 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2355 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2356 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2357 set according to the 2358 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2359 option. 2360 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt. 2361 2362 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2363 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2364 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2365 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2366 option description. 2367 2368 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2369 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2370 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2371 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2372 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2373 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2374 comma delimited. 2375 Example: 2376 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2377 2378 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2379 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2380 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2381 2382 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2383 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2384 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2385 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2386 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2387 or 2388 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2389 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 2390 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 2391 will be eaten. 2392 2393 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2394 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2395 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2396 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2397 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2398 2399 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 2400 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 2401 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 2402 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 2403 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 2404 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 2405 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 2406 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 2407 2408 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2409 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2410 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2411 Setting this option will scan the memory 2412 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2413 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2414 from using the memory being corrupted. 2415 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2416 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2417 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2418 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2419 2420 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2421 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2422 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2423 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2424 corruption in more or less memory. 2425 2426 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2427 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2428 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2429 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2430 2431 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest 2432 Format: <integer> 2433 default : 0 <disable> 2434 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2435 performed. Each pass selects another test 2436 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2437 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2438 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2439 regions that are detected. 2440 2441 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 2442 Valid arguments: on, off 2443 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 2444 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 2445 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 2446 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 2447 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 2448 2449 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt 2450 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 2451 2452 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 2453 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 2454 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 2455 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 2456 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 2457 2458 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2459 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst. 2460 2461 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2462 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2463 platforms. 2464 2465 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2466 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2467 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2468 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2469 2470 mga= [HW,DRM] 2471 2472 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2473 physical address is ignored. 2474 2475 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2476 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2477 Default: "0tb" 2478 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2479 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2480 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2481 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2482 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2483 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2484 unconfigured. 2485 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2486 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2487 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2488 VGA shield. 2489 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2490 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2491 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2492 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2493 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 2494 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 2495 2496 mminit_loglevel= 2497 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 2498 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 2499 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 2500 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 2501 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 2502 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 2503 2504 module.sig_enforce 2505 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 2506 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 2507 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 2508 is always true, so this option does nothing. 2509 2510 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 2511 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 2512 2513 mousedev.tap_time= 2514 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 2515 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 2516 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 2517 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 2518 Format: <msecs> 2519 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 2520 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2521 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 2522 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2523 2524 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2525 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 2526 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 2527 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 2528 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 2529 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 2530 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 2531 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 2532 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 2533 is not too small. 2534 2535 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 2536 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 2537 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 2538 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 2539 allocations. Use with caution! 2540 2541 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 2542 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 2543 2544 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 2545 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 2546 2547 mtdparts= [MTD] 2548 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c. 2549 2550 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 2551 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 2552 at a time. 2553 2554 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 2555 2556 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 2557 2558 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 2559 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 2560 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 2561 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 2562 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 2563 2564 mtdset= [ARM] 2565 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 2566 2567 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c 2568 2569 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 2570 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 2571 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 2572 2573 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2574 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 2575 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 2576 2577 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2578 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 2579 Default is 1. 2580 Large value could prevent small alignment from 2581 using up MTRRs. 2582 2583 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 2584 Format: <integer> 2585 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 2586 Default : 1 2587 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 2588 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 2589 2590 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 2591 2592 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 2593 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 2594 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 2595 something different and driver-specific. 2596 This usage is only documented in each driver source 2597 file if at all. 2598 2599 nf_conntrack.acct= 2600 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 2601 0 to disable accounting 2602 1 to enable accounting 2603 Default value is 0. 2604 2605 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 2606 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2607 2608 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 2609 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2610 2611 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 2612 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2613 2614 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 2615 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 2616 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 2617 requests. 2618 2619 nfs.callback_tcpport= 2620 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 2621 channel should listen. 2622 2623 nfs.cache_getent= 2624 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 2625 to update the NFS client cache entries. 2626 2627 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 2628 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 2629 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 2630 2631 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 2632 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 2633 entries. 2634 2635 nfs.enable_ino64= 2636 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 2637 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 2638 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 2639 of returning the full 64-bit number. 2640 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 2641 2642 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 2643 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 2644 slots the client will assign to the callback 2645 channel. This determines the maximum number of 2646 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 2647 a particular server. 2648 2649 nfs.max_session_slots= 2650 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 2651 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 2652 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 2653 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 2654 Note that there is little point in setting this 2655 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 2656 2657 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2658 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 2659 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 2660 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 2661 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 2662 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 2663 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 2664 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 2665 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 2666 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 2667 back to using the idmapper. 2668 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 2669 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 2670 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 2671 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 2672 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 2673 UUID that is generated at system install time. 2674 2675 nfs.send_implementation_id = 2676 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 2677 information in exchange_id requests. 2678 If zero, no implementation identification information 2679 will be sent. 2680 The default is to send the implementation identification 2681 information. 2682 2683 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 2684 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 2685 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 2686 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 2687 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 2688 after the locks are lost. 2689 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 2690 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 2691 parameter to '1'. 2692 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 2693 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 2694 2695 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 2696 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 2697 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 2698 2699 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 2700 whatever value is the default set by the layout 2701 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 2702 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 2703 2704 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2705 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 2706 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 2707 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 2708 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 2709 migration from NFSv2/v3. 2710 2711 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 2712 when a NMI is triggered. 2713 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 2714 2715 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 2716 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 2717 Valid num: 0 or 1 2718 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 2719 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 2720 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 2721 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite 2722 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 2723 please see 'nowatchdog'. 2724 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 2725 need the box quickly up again. 2726 2727 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 2728 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 2729 2730 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 2731 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 2732 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 2733 waits 4 seconds. 2734 2735 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 2736 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 2737 is present. 2738 2739 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 2740 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 2741 2742 no_console_suspend 2743 [HW] Never suspend the console 2744 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 2745 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 2746 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 2747 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 2748 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 2749 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 2750 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 2751 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 2752 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 2753 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 2754 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 2755 turn on/off it dynamically. 2756 2757 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 2758 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 2759 but will impact performance. 2760 2761 noalign [KNL,ARM] 2762 2763 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 2764 (CPU alternatives feature). 2765 2766 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 2767 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 2768 2769 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 2770 2771 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 2772 on "Classic" PPC cores. 2773 2774 nocache [ARM] 2775 2776 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 2777 2778 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting 2779 2780 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 2781 2782 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 2783 2784 noexec [IA-64] 2785 2786 noexec [X86] 2787 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 2788 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2789 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 2790 2791 nosmap [X86] 2792 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 2793 even if it is supported by processor. 2794 2795 nosmep [X86] 2796 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 2797 even if it is supported by processor. 2798 2799 noexec32 [X86-64] 2800 This affects only 32-bit executables. 2801 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2802 read doesn't imply executable mappings 2803 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 2804 read implies executable mappings 2805 2806 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 2807 2808 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 2809 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 2810 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 2811 2812 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 2813 2814 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 2815 Equivalent to smt=1. 2816 2817 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 2818 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 2819 via the sysfs control file. 2820 2821 nospectre_v1 [PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 (bounds 2822 check bypass). With this option data leaks are possible 2823 in the system. 2824 2825 nospectre_v2 [X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2 2826 (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may 2827 allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent 2828 to spectre_v2=off. 2829 2830 nospec_store_bypass_disable 2831 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 2832 2833 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 2834 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 2835 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 2836 2837 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 2838 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 2839 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 2840 performance of saving the states is degraded because 2841 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 2842 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 2843 2844 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 2845 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 2846 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 2847 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 2848 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 2849 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 2850 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 2851 2852 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or 2853 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to 2854 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger. 2855 2856 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 2857 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 2858 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 2859 2860 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 2861 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 2862 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 2863 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 2864 in certain environments such as networked servers or 2865 real-time systems. 2866 2867 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 2868 2869 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 2870 Valid arguments: on, off 2871 Default: on 2872 2873 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 2874 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2875 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 2876 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 2877 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 2878 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 2879 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 2880 just as if they had also been called out in the 2881 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 2882 2883 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 2884 2885 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 2886 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 2887 2888 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 2889 broken timer IRQ sources. 2890 2891 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 2892 2893 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 2894 initial RAM disk. 2895 2896 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 2897 remapping. 2898 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 2899 2900 nointroute [IA-64] 2901 2902 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 2903 2904 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 2905 2906 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 2907 2908 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 2909 fault handling. 2910 2911 no-vmw-sched-clock 2912 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 2913 clock and use the default one. 2914 2915 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. 2916 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler 2917 behaviour 2918 2919 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 2920 2921 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 2922 2923 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 2924 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 2925 2926 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 2927 2928 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 2929 2930 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 2931 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 2932 2933 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 2934 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 2935 irq. 2936 2937 nomodule Disable module load 2938 2939 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 2940 pagetables) support. 2941 2942 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 2943 2944 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 2945 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 2946 2947 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 2948 with UP alternatives 2949 2950 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 2951 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 2952 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 2953 available to user space applications. 2954 2955 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 2956 space. 2957 2958 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 2959 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 2960 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 2961 2962 nosbagart [IA-64] 2963 2964 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 2965 2966 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 2967 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 2968 2969 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 2970 2971 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 2972 2973 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 2974 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 2975 2976 nowb [ARM] 2977 2978 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 2979 2980 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 2981 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 2982 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 2983 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 2984 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 2985 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 2986 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 2987 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 2988 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 2989 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 2990 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 2991 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 2992 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 2993 2994 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 2995 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 2996 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 2997 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 2998 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 2999 parameter's value. 3000 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3001 Default: 255 3002 3003 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3004 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3005 SAL PALO. 3006 3007 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3008 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3009 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3010 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3011 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3012 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3013 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3014 hot plugging. 3015 3016 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3017 3018 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing. 3019 Allowed values are enable and disable 3020 3021 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3022 'node', 'default' can be specified 3023 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3024 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details. 3025 3026 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3027 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more 3028 info. 3029 3030 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3031 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3032 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3033 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3034 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3035 interrupts *may* be lost! 3036 3037 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3038 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3039 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3040 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3041 3042 oprofile.timer= [HW] 3043 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters 3044 3045 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type 3046 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile 3047 userland or if you want common events. 3048 Format: { arch_perfmon } 3049 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural 3050 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the 3051 CPU specific event set. 3052 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI 3053 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer 3054 for generic hr timer mode) 3055 3056 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3057 process, but there is a small probability of 3058 deadlocking the machine. 3059 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3060 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3061 3062 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3063 Storage of the information about who allocated 3064 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3065 we can turn it on. 3066 on: enable the feature 3067 3068 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3069 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3070 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3071 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3072 on: turn on poisoning 3073 3074 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3075 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3076 timeout = 0: wait forever 3077 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3078 Format: <timeout> 3079 3080 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3081 on a WARN(). 3082 3083 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 3084 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 3085 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 3086 succeeds in any situation. 3087 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 3088 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 3089 kernel more unstable. 3090 3091 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3092 connected to, default is 0. 3093 Format: <parport#> 3094 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3095 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3096 Format: <mode> 3097 3098 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3099 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3100 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3101 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3102 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3103 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3104 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3105 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3106 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3107 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3108 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3109 are specified on the command line, starting 3110 with parport0. 3111 3112 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3113 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3114 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3115 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3116 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3117 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3118 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3119 3120 pause_on_oops= 3121 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 3122 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 3123 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 3124 3125 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 3126 3127 pcd. [PARIDE] 3128 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 3129 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3130 3131 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 3132 3133 Some options herein operate on a specific device 3134 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 3135 specified in one of the following formats: 3136 3137 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 3138 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 3139 3140 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 3141 bus/device/function address which may change 3142 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 3143 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 3144 by other kernel parameters. If the 3145 domain is left unspecified, it is 3146 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 3147 to a device through multiple device/function 3148 addresses can be specified after the base 3149 address (this is more robust against 3150 renumbering issues). The second format 3151 selects devices using IDs from the 3152 configuration space which may match multiple 3153 devices in the system. 3154 3155 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 3156 changes anything 3157 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 3158 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 3159 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 3160 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 3161 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 3162 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 3163 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 3164 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 3165 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3166 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 3167 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 3168 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3169 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 3170 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 3171 bus number. The config space is then accessed 3172 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 3173 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 3174 on the configuration access mechanisms. 3175 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 3176 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3177 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 3178 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 3179 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 3180 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 3181 Configuration 3182 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 3183 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 3184 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 3185 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 3186 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3187 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 3188 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 3189 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 3190 should never be necessary. 3191 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 3192 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 3193 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 3194 when the system masks IRQs. 3195 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 3196 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 3197 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 3198 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 3199 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 3200 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 3201 on several machines and they hang the machine 3202 when used, but on other computers it's the only 3203 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 3204 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 3205 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 3206 motherboard. 3207 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 3208 Use with caution as certain devices share 3209 address decoders between ROMs and other 3210 resources. 3211 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 3212 expansion ROMs that do not already have 3213 BIOS assigned address ranges. 3214 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 3215 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 3216 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 3217 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 3218 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 3219 this way. 3220 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 3221 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 3222 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 3223 F0000h-100000h range. 3224 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 3225 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 3226 secondary buses and you want to tell it 3227 explicitly which ones they are. 3228 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 3229 numbers ourselves, overriding 3230 whatever the firmware may have done. 3231 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 3232 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 3233 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 3234 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 3235 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 3236 IRQ routing is enabled. 3237 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 3238 or for PCI scanning. 3239 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 3240 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 3241 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 3242 please report a bug. 3243 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 3244 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 3245 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 3246 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 3247 so this option is a temporary workaround 3248 for broken drivers that don't call it. 3249 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 3250 handle more pci cards 3251 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 3252 This might help on some broken boards which 3253 machine check when some devices' config space 3254 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 3255 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 3256 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3257 This sorting is done to get a device 3258 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 3259 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3260 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 3261 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 3262 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 3263 supported by all devices below the root complex. 3264 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 3265 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 3266 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 3267 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 3268 or bus can support) for best performance. 3269 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 3270 every device is guaranteed to support. This 3271 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 3272 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 3273 reduced performance. This also guarantees 3274 that hot-added devices will work. 3275 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3276 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 3277 The default value is 256 bytes. 3278 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3279 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 3280 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 3281 resource_alignment= 3282 Format: 3283 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 3284 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 3285 aligned memory resources. How to 3286 specify the device is described above. 3287 If <order of align> is not specified, 3288 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 3289 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource 3290 windows need to be expanded. 3291 To specify the alignment for several 3292 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 3293 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 3294 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 3295 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 3296 end-to-end CRC checking). 3297 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 3298 the default. 3299 off: Turn ECRC off 3300 on: Turn ECRC on. 3301 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3302 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 3303 Default size is 256 bytes. 3304 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3305 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window. 3306 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3307 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 3308 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 3309 Default is 1. 3310 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 3311 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 3312 accommodate resources required by all child 3313 devices. 3314 off: Turn realloc off 3315 on: Turn realloc on 3316 realloc same as realloc=on 3317 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 3318 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 3319 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 3320 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 3321 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 3322 port. 3323 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 3324 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 3325 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 3326 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 3327 conflict with unreported devices), so this 3328 taints the kernel. 3329 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 3330 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 3331 specified above) separated by semicolons. 3332 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 3333 redirect capabilities forced off which will 3334 allow P2P traffic between devices through 3335 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 3336 this removes isolation between devices and 3337 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 3338 3339 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 3340 Management. 3341 off Disable ASPM. 3342 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 3343 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 3344 3345 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 3346 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 3347 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 3348 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 3349 also tries to use these services. 3350 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 3351 hotplug). 3352 3353 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 3354 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 3355 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 3356 3357 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 3358 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 3359 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 3360 3361 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 3362 3363 pd_ignore_unused 3364 [PM] 3365 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 3366 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 3367 for debug and development, but should not be 3368 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 3369 3370 pd. [PARIDE] 3371 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3372 3373 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 3374 boot time. 3375 Format: { 0 | 1 } 3376 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 3377 3378 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 3379 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 3380 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 3381 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 3382 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 3383 and performance comparison. 3384 3385 pf. [PARIDE] 3386 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3387 3388 pg. [PARIDE] 3389 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3390 3391 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 3392 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt. 3393 3394 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 3395 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 3396 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 3397 3398 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 3399 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 3400 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 3401 3402 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 3403 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 3404 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 3405 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 3406 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 3407 possible settings and some assignment information. 3408 3409 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 3410 { off } 3411 3412 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 3413 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 3414 3415 pnp_reserve_irq= 3416 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 3417 3418 pnp_reserve_dma= 3419 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 3420 3421 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 3422 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 3423 3424 pnp_reserve_mem= 3425 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 3426 autoconfiguration. 3427 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 3428 3429 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 3430 Default is 21. 3431 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 3432 may be specified. 3433 Format: <port>,<port>.... 3434 3435 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 3436 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 3437 platform machine description specific power_save 3438 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 3439 execution priority. 3440 3441 ppc_strict_facility_enable 3442 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 3443 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 3444 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 3445 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 3446 3447 ppc_tm= [PPC] 3448 Format: {"off"} 3449 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 3450 3451 print-fatal-signals= 3452 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 3453 3454 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 3455 related application anomalies: too many signals, 3456 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 3457 coredump - etc. 3458 3459 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 3460 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 3461 3462 default: off. 3463 3464 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 3465 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 3466 panics 3467 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3468 default: disabled 3469 3470 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 3471 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 3472 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 3473 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 3474 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 3475 Default: ratelimit 3476 3477 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 3478 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3479 3480 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 3481 Limit processor to maximum C-state 3482 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 3483 3484 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 3485 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 3486 instead using the legacy FADT method 3487 3488 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 3489 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 3490 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 3491 [defaults to kernel profiling] 3492 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 3493 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 3494 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 3495 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 3496 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 3497 statistical time based profiling. 3498 3499 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk 3500 before loading. 3501 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 3502 3503 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 3504 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 3505 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 3506 per second. 3507 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 3508 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 3509 (0 = never). 3510 psmouse.resolution= 3511 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 3512 psmouse.smartscroll= 3513 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 3514 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 3515 3516 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 3517 3518 pt. [PARIDE] 3519 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 3520 3521 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 3522 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 3523 removes hardening, but improves performance of 3524 system calls and interrupts. 3525 3526 on - unconditionally enable 3527 off - unconditionally disable 3528 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 3529 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 3530 3531 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 3532 3533 nopti [X86_64] 3534 Equivalent to pti=off 3535 3536 pty.legacy_count= 3537 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 3538 default number. 3539 3540 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 3541 3542 r128= [HW,DRM] 3543 3544 raid= [HW,RAID] 3545 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3546 3547 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 3548 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 3549 3550 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 3551 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 3552 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 3553 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 3554 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 3555 3556 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 3557 3558 cec_disable [X86] 3559 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 3560 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 3561 3562 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 3563 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3564 3565 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 3566 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 3567 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be 3568 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that 3569 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and 3570 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number. 3571 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs, 3572 which can be useful for HPC and real-time 3573 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency 3574 for asymmetric multiprocessors. 3575 3576 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 3577 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 3578 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 3579 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 3580 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 3581 This improves the real-time response for the 3582 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 3583 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 3584 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 3585 periodically wake up to do the polling. 3586 3587 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 3588 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 3589 process in one batch. 3590 3591 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 3592 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 3593 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 3594 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 3595 3596 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 3597 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3598 RCU grace-period cleanup. 3599 3600 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 3601 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3602 RCU grace-period initialization. 3603 3604 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 3605 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3606 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 3607 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 3608 the rcu_node combining tree. 3609 3610 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 3611 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 3612 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 3613 possibly be useful for architectures having high 3614 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 3615 3616 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 3617 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 3618 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 3619 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 3620 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 3621 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 3622 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 3623 3624 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 3625 Set required age in jiffies for a 3626 given grace period before RCU starts 3627 soliciting quiescent-state help from 3628 rcu_note_context_switch(). If not specified, the 3629 kernel will calculate a value based on the most 3630 recent settings of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 3631 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 3632 This calculated value may be viewed in 3633 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to 3634 set rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be 3635 cheerfully overwritten. 3636 3637 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 3638 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 3639 first attempt to force quiescent states. 3640 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 3641 and maximum value is HZ. 3642 3643 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 3644 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 3645 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 3646 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 3647 3648 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 3649 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 3650 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 3651 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 3652 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 3653 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 3654 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 3655 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 3656 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 3657 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 3658 3659 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL] 3660 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which 3661 defaults to the square root of the number of 3662 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead 3663 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases 3664 that same overhead on each group's leader. 3665 3666 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 3667 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 3668 batch limiting is disabled. 3669 3670 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 3671 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 3672 batch limiting is re-enabled. 3673 3674 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 3675 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3676 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3677 3678 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL] 3679 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3680 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3681 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can 3682 prove do nothing more than free memory. 3683 3684 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 3685 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 3686 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 3687 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 3688 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 3689 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 3690 3691 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL] 3692 Measure performance of asynchronous 3693 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 3694 3695 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL] 3696 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 3697 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 3698 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 3699 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 3700 previously posted callbacks to drain. 3701 3702 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL] 3703 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 3704 grace-period primitives. 3705 3706 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL] 3707 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 3708 this parameter is to delay the start of the 3709 test until boot completes in order to avoid 3710 interference. 3711 3712 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL] 3713 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3714 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3715 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 3716 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3717 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3718 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 3719 a single reader. 3720 3721 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL] 3722 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 3723 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders. 3724 N, where N is the number of CPUs 3725 3726 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL] 3727 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 3728 3729 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL] 3730 Shut the system down after performance tests 3731 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 3732 testing. 3733 3734 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL] 3735 Enable additional printk() statements. 3736 3737 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 3738 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 3739 in microseconds. The default of zero says 3740 no holdoff. 3741 3742 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL] 3743 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive 3744 callback-flood tests. 3745 3746 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL] 3747 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive 3748 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood 3749 test. 3750 3751 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL] 3752 Set the number of bursts making up a given 3753 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to 3754 disable callback-flood testing. 3755 3756 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL] 3757 Set the number of callbacks to be registered 3758 in a given burst of a callback-flood test. 3759 3760 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 3761 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 3762 in microseconds. 3763 3764 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 3765 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 3766 in microseconds. 3767 3768 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 3769 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 3770 in seconds. 3771 3772 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 3773 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 3774 primitives, if available. 3775 3776 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 3777 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 3778 3779 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 3780 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 3781 update-side primitives, if available. 3782 3783 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 3784 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 3785 update-side primitives, if available. If all 3786 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 3787 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 3788 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 3789 they are all non-zero. 3790 3791 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 3792 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 3793 3794 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 3795 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 3796 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 3797 test, hence the "fake". 3798 3799 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 3800 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3801 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3802 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 3803 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3804 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3805 3806 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 3807 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 3808 3809 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 3810 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 3811 3812 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 3813 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 3814 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 3815 3816 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 3817 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 3818 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 3819 during the rcutorture test. 3820 3821 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 3822 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 3823 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 3824 3825 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 3826 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 3827 warnings, zero to disable. 3828 3829 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 3830 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 3831 3832 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 3833 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 3834 3835 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 3836 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 3837 3838 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 3839 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 3840 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 3841 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 3842 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 3843 3844 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 3845 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 3846 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 3847 under test support RCU priority boosting. 3848 3849 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 3850 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 3851 3852 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 3853 Interval (s) between each boost test. 3854 3855 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 3856 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 3857 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 3858 3859 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 3860 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 3861 3862 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 3863 Enable additional printk() statements. 3864 3865 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 3866 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 3867 3868 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 3869 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 3870 3871 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 3872 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 3873 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 3874 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 3875 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 3876 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 3877 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3878 3879 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 3880 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 3881 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 3882 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 3883 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 3884 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 3885 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 3886 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 3887 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3888 3889 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 3890 Once boot has completed (that is, after 3891 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 3892 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 3893 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 3894 3895 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 3896 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 3897 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 3898 to zero. 3899 3900 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 3901 Run the RCU early boot self tests 3902 3903 rdinit= [KNL] 3904 Format: <full_path> 3905 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 3906 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 3907 3908 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 3909 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 3910 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 3911 mba. 3912 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 3913 rdt=cmt,!mba 3914 3915 reboot= [KNL] 3916 Format (x86 or x86_64): 3917 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ 3918 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 3919 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 3920 [[,]f[orce] 3921 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio, 3922 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 3923 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 3924 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 3925 to be used for rebooting. 3926 3927 relax_domain_level= 3928 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 3929 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt. 3930 3931 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 3932 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 3933 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 3934 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 3935 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 3936 3937 reservetop= [X86-32] 3938 Format: nn[KMG] 3939 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 3940 address space. 3941 3942 reservelow= [X86] 3943 Format: nn[K] 3944 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at 3945 the bottom of the address space. 3946 3947 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 3948 during initialization. 3949 3950 resume= [SWSUSP] 3951 Specify the partition device for software suspend 3952 Format: 3953 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 3954 3955 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 3956 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 3957 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 3958 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 3959 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt 3960 3961 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 3962 read the resume files 3963 3964 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 3965 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 3966 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 3967 3968 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 3969 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 3970 present during boot. 3971 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 3972 no Disable hibernation and resume. 3973 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 3974 (that will set all pages holding image data 3975 during restoration read-only). 3976 3977 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 3978 3979 rfkill.default_state= 3980 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 3981 etc. communication is blocked by default. 3982 1 Unblocked. 3983 3984 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 3985 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 3986 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 3987 blocked and the previous configuration. 3988 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 3989 blocked and everything unblocked. 3990 3991 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 3992 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 3993 3994 ring3mwait=disable 3995 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 3996 CPUs. 3997 3998 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 3999 4000 rodata= [KNL] 4001 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 4002 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 4003 4004 rockchip.usb_uart 4005 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 4006 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 4007 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 4008 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 4009 4010 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 4011 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 4012 4013 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4014 mount the root filesystem 4015 4016 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 4017 4018 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 4019 4020 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 4021 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4022 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4023 4024 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 4025 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 4026 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 4027 managed by CMA. 4028 4029 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 4030 4031 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 4032 4033 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 4034 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 4035 strict 4036 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 4037 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 4038 which is faster. 4039 4040 sa1100ir [NET] 4041 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 4042 4043 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter 4044 4045 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 4046 4047 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 4048 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 4049 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 4050 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 4051 4052 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 4053 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 4054 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 4055 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4056 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 4057 1 -- enable. 4058 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 4059 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 4060 4061 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot. 4062 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first 4063 security module asking for security registration will be 4064 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated 4065 as if no module has been chosen. 4066 4067 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 4068 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4069 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 4070 0 -- disable. 4071 1 -- enable. 4072 Default value is set via kernel config option. 4073 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used 4074 later to disable prior to initial policy load. 4075 4076 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 4077 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4078 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 4079 0 -- disable. 4080 1 -- enable. 4081 Default value is set via kernel config option. 4082 4083 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 4084 4085 shapers= [NET] 4086 Maximal number of shapers. 4087 4088 simeth= [IA-64] 4089 simscsi= 4090 4091 slram= [HW,MTD] 4092 4093 slab_nomerge [MM] 4094 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 4095 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 4096 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 4097 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 4098 layout control by attackers can usually be 4099 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 4100 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 4101 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 4102 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 4103 own. 4104 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4105 4106 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 4107 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4108 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4109 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 4110 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 4111 4112 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB] 4113 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 4114 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 4115 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 4116 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 4117 last alloc / free. For more information see 4118 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4119 4120 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB] 4121 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for 4122 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable. 4123 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON. 4124 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug 4125 directories and files being created under 4126 /sys/kernel/slub. 4127 4128 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 4129 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4130 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4131 fragmentation. For more information see 4132 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4133 4134 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 4135 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 4136 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 4137 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 4138 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 4139 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 4140 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 4141 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4142 4143 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 4144 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 4145 lower than slub_max_order. 4146 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4147 4148 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 4149 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 4150 See slab_nomerge for more information. 4151 4152 smart2= [HW] 4153 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 4154 4155 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 4156 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 4157 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 4158 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 4159 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 4160 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 4161 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 4162 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 4163 1: Fast pin select (default) 4164 2: ATC IRMode 4165 4166 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 4167 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 4168 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 4169 actual hardware limit. 4170 Format: <integer> 4171 Default: -1 (no limit) 4172 4173 softlockup_panic= 4174 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 4175 Format: <integer> 4176 4177 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector 4178 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This 4179 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 4180 which is the respective build-time switch to that 4181 functionality. 4182 4183 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 4184 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 4185 backtraces on all cpus. 4186 Format: <integer> 4187 4188 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 4189 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt 4190 4191 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 4192 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 4193 4194 on - unconditionally enable 4195 off - unconditionally disable 4196 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4197 vulnerable 4198 4199 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 4200 mitigation method at run time according to the 4201 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 4202 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 4203 compiler with which the kernel was built. 4204 4205 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 4206 4207 retpoline - replace indirect branches 4208 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline 4209 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk 4210 4211 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4212 spectre_v2=auto. 4213 4214 spec_store_bypass_disable= 4215 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 4216 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 4217 4218 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 4219 a common industry wide performance optimization known 4220 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 4221 to the same memory location may not be observed by 4222 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 4223 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 4224 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 4225 end of a particular speculation execution window. 4226 4227 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 4228 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 4229 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 4230 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 4231 4232 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 4233 Bypass optimization is used. 4234 4235 On x86 the options are: 4236 4237 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 4238 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 4239 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 4240 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 4241 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 4242 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 4243 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 4244 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 4245 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 4246 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 4247 for a process by default. The state of the control 4248 is inherited on fork. 4249 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 4250 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 4251 4252 Default mitigations: 4253 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 4254 4255 On powerpc the options are: 4256 4257 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 4258 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 4259 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 4260 exit. 4261 off - No action. 4262 4263 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4264 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 4265 4266 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 4267 spia_fio_base= 4268 spia_pedr= 4269 spia_peddr= 4270 4271 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 4272 Specifies how frequently to check for 4273 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 4274 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 4275 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 4276 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 4277 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 4278 are ignored. 4279 4280 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 4281 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 4282 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 4283 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 4284 grace period will be considered for automatic 4285 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 4286 expediting. 4287 4288 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 4289 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 4290 4291 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 4292 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 4293 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 4294 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 4295 4296 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 4297 for both kernel and userspace 4298 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 4299 for both kernel and userspace 4300 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 4301 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 4302 to allow userspace to register its 4303 interest in being mitigated too. 4304 4305 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 4306 override the default stack gap protection. The value 4307 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 4308 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 4309 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 4310 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 4311 4312 stacktrace [FTRACE] 4313 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 4314 4315 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 4316 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 4317 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 4318 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 4319 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 4320 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 4321 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 4322 4323 sti= [PARISC,HW] 4324 Format: <num> 4325 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 4326 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 4327 as the initial boot-console. 4328 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4329 4330 sti_font= [HW] 4331 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4332 4333 stifb= [HW] 4334 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 4335 4336 sunrpc.min_resvport= 4337 sunrpc.max_resvport= 4338 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4339 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 4340 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 4341 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 4342 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 4343 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 4344 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 4345 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 4346 maximum port values. 4347 4348 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 4349 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4350 Limit the number of requests that the server will 4351 process in parallel from a single connection. 4352 The default value is 0 (no limit). 4353 4354 sunrpc.pool_mode= 4355 [NFS] 4356 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 4357 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 4358 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 4359 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 4360 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 4361 NFS server is running. 4362 4363 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 4364 automatically using heuristics 4365 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 4366 percpu one pool for each CPU 4367 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 4368 to global on non-NUMA machines) 4369 4370 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 4371 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 4372 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4373 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 4374 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 4375 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 4376 improve throughput, but will also increase the 4377 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 4378 4379 suspend.pm_test_delay= 4380 [SUSPEND] 4381 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 4382 mode before resuming the system (see 4383 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 4384 is set. Default value is 5. 4385 4386 swapaccount=[0|1] 4387 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 4388 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 4389 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt) 4390 4391 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 4392 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 4393 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 4394 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 4395 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 4396 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 4397 4398 switches= [HW,M68k] 4399 4400 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 4401 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 4402 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 4403 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 4404 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 4405 in older udev will not work anymore. 4406 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 4407 the kernel configuration. 4408 4409 sysrq_always_enabled 4410 [KNL] 4411 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 4412 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 4413 Useful for debugging. 4414 4415 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4416 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 4417 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 4418 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 4419 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt 4420 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 4421 4422 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 4423 4424 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 4425 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 4426 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 4427 as the system sleep state during system startup with 4428 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 4429 The system is woken from this state using a 4430 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 4431 4432 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4433 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 4434 4435 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 4436 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 4437 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 4438 4439 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 4440 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 4441 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 4442 4443 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 4444 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 4445 critical and hot trip points. 4446 4447 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 4448 1: disable ACPI thermal control 4449 4450 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 4451 -1: disable all passive trip points 4452 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 4453 value 4454 4455 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 4456 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 4457 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 4458 0: no polling (default) 4459 4460 threadirqs [KNL] 4461 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 4462 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 4463 4464 tmem [KNL,XEN] 4465 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in. 4466 4467 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4468 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache 4469 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor. 4470 4471 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4472 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap 4473 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled 4474 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled. 4475 4476 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4477 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages 4478 to the hypervisor. 4479 4480 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 4481 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately 4482 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the 4483 kernel based on different criteria. 4484 4485 topology= [S390] 4486 Format: {off | on} 4487 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 4488 topology information if the hardware supports this. 4489 The scheduler will make use of this information and 4490 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 4491 Default is on. 4492 4493 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 4494 Format: {off} 4495 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 4496 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 4497 LPAR. 4498 4499 tp720= [HW,PS2] 4500 4501 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 4502 Format: integer pcr id 4503 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 4504 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 4505 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 4506 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 4507 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 4508 are saved. 4509 4510 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 4511 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 4512 4513 trace_event=[event-list] 4514 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 4515 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 4516 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See 4517 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 4518 4519 trace_options=[option-list] 4520 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 4521 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 4522 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 4523 to echo the option name into 4524 4525 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 4526 4527 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 4528 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 4529 4530 trace_options=stacktrace 4531 4532 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 4533 section. 4534 4535 tp_printk[FTRACE] 4536 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 4537 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 4538 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 4539 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 4540 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 4541 4542 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 4543 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 4544 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 4545 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 4546 4547 ** CAUTION ** 4548 4549 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 4550 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 4551 the system to live lock. 4552 4553 traceoff_on_warning 4554 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 4555 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 4556 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 4557 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 4558 4559 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 4560 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 4561 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 4562 4563 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 4564 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 4565 4566 transparent_hugepage= 4567 [KNL] 4568 Format: [always|madvise|never] 4569 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 4570 with respect to transparent hugepages. 4571 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 4572 for more details. 4573 4574 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 4575 Format: <string> 4576 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 4577 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 4578 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 4579 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 4580 virtualized environment. 4581 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 4582 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 4583 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 4584 can add overhead. 4585 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 4586 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 4587 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 4588 4589 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 4590 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 4591 Format: 4592 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 4593 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 4594 4595 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 4596 happen after console_init() and before a proper 4597 console driver takes over, this boot options might 4598 help "seeing" what's going on. 4599 4600 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4601 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 4602 4603 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 4604 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 4605 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 4606 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 4607 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 4608 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 4609 reported either. 4610 4611 unknown_nmi_panic 4612 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 4613 4614 usbcore.authorized_default= 4615 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 4616 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 4617 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized) 4618 4619 usbcore.autosuspend= 4620 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 4621 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 4622 is the time required before an idle device will be 4623 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 4624 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 4625 4626 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 4627 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 4628 4629 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 4630 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 4631 (default = 65536). 4632 4633 usbcore.blinkenlights= 4634 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 4635 4636 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 4637 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 4638 scheme, applies only to low and full-speed devices 4639 (default 0 = off). 4640 4641 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 4642 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 4643 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 4644 4645 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 4646 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 4647 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 4648 4649 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 4650 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 4651 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 4652 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 4653 4654 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 4655 4656 usbcore.quirks= 4657 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 4658 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 4659 commas. Each entry has the form 4660 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 4661 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 4662 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 4663 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 4664 the following meanings: 4665 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 4666 descriptors must not be fetched using 4667 a 255-byte read); 4668 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 4669 correctly so reset it instead); 4670 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 4671 Set-Interface requests); 4672 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 4673 handle its Configuration or Interface 4674 strings); 4675 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 4676 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 4677 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 4678 more interface descriptions than the 4679 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 4680 talking to these interfaces); 4681 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 4682 during initialization, after we read 4683 the device descriptor); 4684 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 4685 high speed and super speed interrupt 4686 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 4687 require the interval in microframes (1 4688 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 4689 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 4690 (bInterval-1). 4691 Devices with this quirk report their 4692 bInterval as the result of this 4693 calculation instead of the exponent 4694 variable used in the calculation); 4695 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 4696 handle device_qualifier descriptor 4697 requests); 4698 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 4699 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 4700 remote wakeup capability); 4701 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 4702 Power Management); 4703 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 4704 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 4705 frames instead of the USB 2.0 4706 calculation); 4707 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 4708 to be disconnected before suspend to 4709 prevent spurious wakeup); 4710 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 4711 pause after every control message); 4712 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 4713 4714 usbhid.mousepoll= 4715 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 4716 4717 usbhid.jspoll= 4718 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 4719 4720 usbhid.kbpoll= 4721 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 4722 4723 usb-storage.delay_use= 4724 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 4725 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 4726 4727 usb-storage.quirks= 4728 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 4729 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 4730 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 4731 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 4732 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 4733 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 4734 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 4735 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 4736 of sense data); 4737 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 4738 bytes of sense data); 4739 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 4740 device capacity by one sector); 4741 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 4742 READ_DISC_INFO command); 4743 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 4744 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 4745 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 4746 command, uas only); 4747 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 4748 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 4749 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 4750 reported device capacity by one 4751 sector if the number is odd); 4752 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 4753 device); 4754 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 4755 command, uas only); 4756 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 4757 unlock ejectable media); 4758 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 4759 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time); 4760 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 4761 initial READ(10) command); 4762 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 4763 reported by the device); 4764 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 4765 by default); 4766 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 4767 bogus residue values); 4768 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 4769 Logical Unit); 4770 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 4771 commands, uas only); 4772 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 4773 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 4774 medium is write-protected). 4775 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 4776 even if the device claims no cache) 4777 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 4778 4779 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 4780 Format: <int> 4781 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 4782 1 - undefined instruction events 4783 2 - system calls 4784 4 - invalid data aborts 4785 8 - SIGSEGV faults 4786 16 - SIGBUS faults 4787 Example: user_debug=31 4788 4789 userpte= 4790 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 4791 4792 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 4793 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 4794 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 4795 4796 vdso= [X86,SH] 4797 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 4798 4799 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 4800 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 4801 4802 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 4803 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 4804 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 4805 4806 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 4807 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 4808 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 4809 4810 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 4811 alias for vdso32=0. 4812 4813 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 4814 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 4815 4816 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 4817 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 4818 4819 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 4820 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt. 4821 4822 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 4823 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 4824 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 4825 level and then send out the event to user space through 4826 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 4827 will only send out the event without touching backlight 4828 brightness level. 4829 default: 1 4830 4831 virtio_mmio.device= 4832 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 4833 4834 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 4835 where: 4836 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 4837 like K, M and G) 4838 <baseaddr> := physical base address 4839 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 4840 request_irq()) 4841 <id> := (optional) platform device id 4842 example: 4843 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 4844 4845 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 4846 4847 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 4848 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and 4849 Documentation/svga.txt. 4850 Use vga=ask for menu. 4851 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 4852 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 4853 4854 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 4855 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 4856 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 4857 All options are enabled by default, and this 4858 interface is meant to allow for selectively 4859 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 4860 debugging features. 4861 4862 Available options are: 4863 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 4864 - Disable all of the above options 4865 4866 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 4867 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 4868 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 4869 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 4870 mapped kernel RAM. 4871 4872 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 4873 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 4874 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 4875 4876 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 4877 Format: <command> 4878 4879 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 4880 Format: <command> 4881 4882 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 4883 Format: <command> 4884 4885 vsyscall= [X86-64] 4886 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 4887 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 4888 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 4889 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 4890 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 4891 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 4892 4893 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 4894 emulated reasonably safely. 4895 4896 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions. 4897 This is a little bit faster than trapping 4898 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work 4899 better than they would in emulation mode. 4900 It also makes exploits much easier to write. 4901 4902 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 4903 them quite hard to use for exploits but 4904 might break your system. 4905 4906 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 4907 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 4908 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 4909 4910 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 4911 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 4912 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 4913 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 4914 4915 vt.default_blu= [VT] 4916 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 4917 Change the default blue palette of the console. 4918 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4919 ranging from 0-255. 4920 4921 vt.default_grn= [VT] 4922 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 4923 Change the default green palette of the console. 4924 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4925 ranging from 0-255. 4926 4927 vt.default_red= [VT] 4928 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 4929 Change the default red palette of the console. 4930 This is a 16-member array composed of values 4931 ranging from 0-255. 4932 4933 vt.default_utf8= 4934 [VT] 4935 Format=<0|1> 4936 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 4937 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 4938 newly opened terminals. 4939 4940 vt.global_cursor_default= 4941 [VT] 4942 Format=<-1|0|1> 4943 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 4944 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 4945 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 4946 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 4947 cursors, 1 will display them. 4948 4949 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 4950 Default: 2 = green. 4951 4952 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 4953 Default: 3 = cyan. 4954 4955 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 4956 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt 4957 or other driver-specific files in the 4958 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 4959 4960 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 4961 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 4962 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 4963 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 4964 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 4965 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 4966 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 4967 corresponding sysfs file. 4968 4969 workqueue.disable_numa 4970 By default, all work items queued to unbound 4971 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 4972 issued on, which results in better behavior in 4973 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 4974 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 4975 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 4976 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 4977 4978 workqueue.power_efficient 4979 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 4980 they show better performance thanks to cache 4981 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 4982 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 4983 4984 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 4985 were observed to contribute significantly to power 4986 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 4987 power usage at the cost of small performance 4988 overhead. 4989 4990 The default value of this parameter is determined by 4991 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 4992 4993 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 4994 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 4995 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 4996 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 4997 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 4998 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 4999 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 5000 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 5001 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 5002 impacted. 5003 5004 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 5005 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 5006 supporting x2apic. 5007 5008 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT] 5009 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform. 5010 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer 5011 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer. 5012 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt 5013 5014 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 5015 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 5016 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 5017 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 5018 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 5019 domains. 5020 5021 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 5022 Unplug Xen emulated devices 5023 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 5024 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 5025 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 5026 nics -- unplug network devices 5027 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 5028 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 5029 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 5030 the unplug protocol 5031 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 5032 5033 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 5034 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV 5035 optimizations. 5036 5037 xen_nopv [X86] 5038 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 5039 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 5040 5041 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 5042 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 5043 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 5044 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 5045 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 5046 5047 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 5048 Format: 5049 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 5050 5051 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 5052 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 5053 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 5054 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 5055