1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64] 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 4 copy_dsdt } 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64] 7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 14 are available 15 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 17 18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 19 Format: <int> 20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 21 1,0: use 1st APIC table 22 default: 0 23 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 25 acpi_backlight=vendor 26 acpi_backlight=video 27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver 28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 29 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 36 37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 41 This option is useful for developers to identify the 42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 43 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 44 45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 47 Format: <int> 48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT 52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 56 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 57 debug layers and levels. 58 59 Enable processor driver info messages: 60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000 63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 64 object while interpreting AML: 65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 68 69 Some values produce so much output that the system is 70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 71 if you need to capture more output. 72 73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 74 { strict | lax | no } 75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 79 can interfere with legacy drivers. 80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 82 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 87 no further checks are performed. 88 89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 92 size limitation. 93 94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 95 ACPI will balance active IRQs 96 default in APIC mode 97 98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 100 default in PIC mode 101 102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 103 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 104 105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 106 use by PCI 107 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 108 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 113 the GPE dispatcher. 114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 115 GPE floodings. 116 Format: <int> 117 118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 122 auto-serialization feature. 123 This feature is enabled by default. 124 This option allows to turn off the feature. 125 126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 127 kernels. 128 129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 132 installed automatically and they will appear under 133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 134 This option turns off this feature. 135 Note that specifying this option does not affect 136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 138 139 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 140 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 141 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 142 second kernel for kdump. 143 144 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 145 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 146 147 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 148 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 149 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 150 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 151 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 152 153 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 154 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 155 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 156 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 157 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 158 strings 159 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 160 strings 161 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 162 163 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 164 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 165 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 166 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 167 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 168 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 169 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 170 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 171 care about the state of the feature group strings which 172 should be controlled by the OSPM. 173 Examples: 174 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 175 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 176 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 177 178 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 179 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 180 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 181 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 182 multiple times through kernel command line is also 183 meaningless. 184 Examples: 185 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 186 FALSE. 187 188 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 189 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 190 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 191 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 192 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 193 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 194 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 195 there are quirks related to this string. This command 196 is useful when one want to control the state of the 197 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 198 the OSPM features. 199 Examples: 200 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 201 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 202 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 203 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 204 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 205 equivalent to 206 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 207 and 208 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 209 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 210 211 acpi_pm_good [X86] 212 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 213 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 214 and always returns good values. 215 216 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 217 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 218 219 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 220 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 221 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 222 223 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 224 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, 225 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl } 226 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 227 s3_bios and s3_mode. 228 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 229 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 230 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 231 used during resume from hibernation. 232 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 233 control method, with respect to putting devices into 234 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 235 of _PTS is used by default). 236 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 237 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 238 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 239 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 240 but some broken systems don't work without it). 241 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 242 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 243 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 244 245 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 246 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 247 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 248 249 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 250 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 251 252 agp= [AGP] 253 { off | try_unsupported } 254 off: disable AGP support 255 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 256 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 257 258 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 259 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 260 261 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 262 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 263 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 264 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 265 266 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 267 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 268 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 269 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 270 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 271 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 272 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 273 274 32: only for 32-bit processes 275 64: only for 64-bit processes 276 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 277 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 278 279 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 280 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 281 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 282 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 283 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 284 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 285 286 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 287 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 288 Possible values are: 289 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when 290 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are 291 flushed before they will be reused, which 292 is a lot of faster 293 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 294 the system 295 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 296 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 297 allowed anymore to lift isolation 298 requirements as needed. This option 299 does not override iommu=pt 300 301 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 302 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 303 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 304 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 305 IOMMU initialization. 306 307 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 308 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 309 remapping modes: 310 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 311 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 312 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 313 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 314 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 315 316 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 317 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 318 Format: <a>,<b> 319 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 320 321 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 322 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 323 connected to one of 16 gameports 324 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 325 326 apc= [HW,SPARC] 327 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 328 Format: noidle 329 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 330 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 331 APC and your system crashes randomly. 332 333 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 334 Change the output verbosity while booting 335 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 336 Change the amount of debugging information output 337 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 338 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 339 driver name. 340 Format: apic=driver_name 341 Examples: apic=bigsmp 342 343 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 344 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 345 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 346 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 347 backup of CPU 0 348 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 349 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 350 shot down by NMI 351 352 autoconf= [IPV6] 353 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 354 355 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 356 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 357 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 358 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 359 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 360 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 361 apic=verbose is specified. 362 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 363 364 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 365 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 366 367 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 368 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 369 370 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 371 372 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 373 374 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 375 EzKey and similar keyboards 376 377 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 378 379 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 380 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 381 382 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 383 keyboards 384 385 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 386 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 387 388 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 389 Use software keyboard repeat 390 391 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 392 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 393 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 394 enabled until the next reboot 395 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 396 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 397 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 398 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 399 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 400 userspace auditd. 401 Default: unset 402 403 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 404 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 405 Default: 64 406 407 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 408 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 409 Format: { "0" | "1" } 410 0 - Disable the BAU. 411 1 - Enable the BAU. 412 unset - Disable the BAU. 413 414 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 415 Format: <io>,<mode> 416 417 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 418 Format: <io>,<mode> 419 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 420 421 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 422 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 423 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 424 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 425 426 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 427 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 428 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 429 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 430 431 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 432 embedded devices based on command line input. 433 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 434 435 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 436 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 437 no delay (0). 438 Format: integer 439 440 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages. 441 442 bert_disable [ACPI] 443 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 444 445 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 446 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 447 kernel args too. 448 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst 449 bttv.tuner= 450 451 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 452 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 453 at a time. 454 455 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 456 457 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 458 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 459 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 460 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 461 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 462 This option provides an override for these situations. 463 464 carrier_timeout= 465 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 466 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 467 it waits 120 seconds. 468 469 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 470 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 471 trust validation. 472 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 473 474 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 475 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 476 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 477 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 478 others). 479 480 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 481 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 482 483 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller 484 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable} 485 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 486 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 487 a single hierarchy 488 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 489 subsystem 490 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 491 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 492 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 493 494 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 495 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 496 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 497 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 498 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 499 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 500 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 501 all v1 hierarchies. 502 503 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 504 Format: <string> 505 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 506 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 507 508 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 509 Format: { "0" | "1" } 510 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 511 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 512 any implied execute protection). 513 1 -- check protection requested by application. 514 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 515 Value can be changed at runtime via 516 /selinux/checkreqprot. 517 518 cio_ignore= [S390] 519 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 520 clk_ignore_unused 521 [CLK] 522 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 523 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 524 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 525 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 526 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 527 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 528 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 529 platform with proper driver support. For more 530 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 531 532 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 533 [Deprecated] 534 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 535 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 536 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 537 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 538 539 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 540 Format: <string> 541 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 542 with the name specified. 543 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 544 the platform: 545 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 546 [ACPI] acpi_pm 547 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 548 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 549 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 550 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 551 [MIPS] MIPS 552 [PARISC] cr16 553 [S390] tod 554 [SH] SuperH 555 [SPARC64] tick 556 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 557 558 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 559 [ARM,ARM64] 560 Format: <bool> 561 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 562 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 563 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 564 systems. 565 566 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86] 567 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 568 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 569 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily 570 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific 571 ones should be. 572 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 573 or using the feature without checking anything 574 will still see it. This just prevents it from 575 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 576 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 577 some critical bits. 578 579 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 580 [ARM,X86,KNL] 581 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 582 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 583 placement constraint by the physical address range of 584 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 585 altogether. For more information, see 586 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h 587 588 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 589 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 590 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 591 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 592 a hypervisor. 593 Default: yes 594 595 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 596 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 597 allocations, by default set to 256K. 598 599 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 600 Format: 601 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 602 603 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 604 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 605 606 com90xx= [HW,NET] 607 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 608 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 609 610 condev= [HW,S390] console device 611 conmode= 612 613 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 614 615 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 616 617 ttyS<n>[,options] 618 ttyUSB0[,options] 619 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 620 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 621 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 622 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 623 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 624 625 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 626 information. See 627 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an 628 alternative. 629 630 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 631 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 632 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 633 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 634 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 635 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 636 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 637 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 638 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 639 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 640 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 641 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 642 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 643 the h/w is not re-initialized. 644 645 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 646 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 647 648 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 649 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 650 console=brl,ttyS0 651 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 652 653 console_msg_format= 654 [KNL] Change console messages format 655 default 656 By default we print messages on consoles in 657 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 658 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 659 `printk_time' param). 660 syslog 661 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 662 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 663 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 664 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 665 from /proc/kmsg. 666 667 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 668 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 669 Defaults to 0. 670 671 coredump_filter= 672 [KNL] Change the default value for 673 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 674 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. 675 676 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 677 [ARM,ARM64] 678 Format: <bool> 679 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 680 0: default value, disable debugging 681 1: enable debugging at boot time 682 683 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 684 disable the cpuidle sub-system 685 686 cpuidle.governor= 687 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 688 689 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 690 disable the cpufreq sub-system 691 692 cpu_init_udelay=N 693 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 694 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 695 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 696 Default: 10000 697 698 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 699 Format: 700 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 701 702 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 703 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 704 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 705 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 706 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 707 is selected automatically. 708 [KNL, x86_64] select a region under 4G first, and 709 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 710 hasn't been specified. 711 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 712 713 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 714 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 715 in the running system. The syntax of range is 716 start-[end] where start and end are both 717 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 718 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 719 720 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 721 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 722 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 723 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 724 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 725 available. 726 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 727 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 728 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 729 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 730 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 731 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 732 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 733 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 734 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at 735 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 736 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G 737 for second kernel instead. 738 0: to disable low allocation. 739 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 740 or memory reserved is below 4G. 741 742 cryptomgr.notests 743 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 744 745 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 746 Format: <dma> 747 748 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 749 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 750 751 dasd= [HW,NET] 752 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 753 754 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 755 (one device per port) 756 Format: <port#>,<type> 757 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 758 759 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot 760 time. See 761 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for 762 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg. 763 764 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 765 766 debug_boot_weak_hash 767 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 768 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 769 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 770 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 771 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 772 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 773 774 debug_locks_verbose= 775 [KNL] verbose self-tests 776 Format=<0|1> 777 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 778 self-tests. 779 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to 780 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally 781 only useful to kernel developers. 782 783 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 784 785 no_debug_objects 786 [KNL] Disable object debugging 787 788 debug_guardpage_minorder= 789 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 790 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 791 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 792 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 793 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 794 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 795 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 796 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 797 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 798 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 799 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 800 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 801 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 802 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 803 bypassed) which are not detectable by 804 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 805 tracking down these problems. 806 807 debug_pagealloc= 808 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 809 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 810 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 811 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 812 on: enable the feature 813 814 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 815 816 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 817 Format: <area>[,<node>] 818 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt. 819 820 default_hugepagesz= 821 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default 822 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by 823 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and 824 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems. 825 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size 826 if not specified. 827 828 deferred_probe_timeout= 829 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 830 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 831 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 832 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0 833 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also 834 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 835 retrying. 836 837 dhash_entries= [KNL] 838 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 839 840 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 841 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 842 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 843 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 844 miss to occur. 845 846 disable= [IPV6] 847 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 848 849 hardened_usercopy= 850 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 851 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 852 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 853 from reading or writing beyond known memory 854 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 855 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 856 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 857 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 858 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 859 860 disable_radix [PPC] 861 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 862 863 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 864 Format: <int> 865 The number of initial APIC ID for the 866 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 867 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 868 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 869 causing system reset or hang due to sending 870 INIT from AP to BSP. 871 872 perf_v4_pmi= [X86,INTEL] 873 Format: <bool> 874 Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature. 875 The feature only exists starting from 876 Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer). 877 878 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 879 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if 880 to workaround buggy firmware. 881 882 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 883 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 884 885 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 886 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 887 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 888 entry later. This parameter disables that. 889 890 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 891 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 892 memory out of your available memory pool based on 893 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 894 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 895 896 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 897 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 898 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 899 900 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 901 902 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 903 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 904 905 dma_debug_entries=<number> 906 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 907 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 908 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 909 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 910 architectural default is too low. 911 912 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 913 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 914 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 915 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 916 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 917 driver later using sysfs. 918 919 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 920 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. 921 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 922 923 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 924 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 925 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 926 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 927 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 928 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 929 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 930 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 931 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 932 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 933 available in Documentation/driver-api/edid.rst. An EDID 934 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 935 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 936 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 937 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 938 data set with no connector name will be used for 939 any connectors not explicitly specified. 940 941 dscc4.setup= [NET] 942 943 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 944 Format: {"off" | "known"} 945 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 946 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 947 exists). 948 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 949 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 950 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 951 952 dump_apple_properties [X86] 953 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 954 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 955 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 956 957 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 958 module.dyndbg[="val"] 959 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 960 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 961 for details. 962 963 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions. 964 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.rst for more 965 information about the feature. 966 967 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 968 in some Intel CPUs. 969 970 module.async_probe [KNL] 971 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 972 973 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 974 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 975 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 976 which are not unmapped. 977 978 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 979 980 [ARM64] The early console is determined by the 981 stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node, 982 or determined by the ACPI SPCR table. 983 984 [X86] When used with no options the early console is 985 determined by the ACPI SPCR table. 986 987 cdns,<addr>[,options] 988 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 989 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 990 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 991 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 992 configured. 993 994 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 995 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 996 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 997 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 998 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 999 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1000 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1001 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1002 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1003 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1004 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1005 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1006 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 1007 1008 pl011,<addr> 1009 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1010 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1011 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1012 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1013 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1014 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1015 the device registers. 1016 1017 meson,<addr> 1018 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1019 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1020 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1021 supported. 1022 1023 msm_serial,<addr> 1024 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1025 port at the specified address. The serial port 1026 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1027 yet supported. 1028 1029 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1030 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1031 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1032 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1033 yet supported. 1034 1035 owl,<addr> 1036 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1037 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1038 specified address. The serial port must already be 1039 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1040 1041 rda,<addr> 1042 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1043 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1044 specified address. The serial port must already be 1045 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1046 1047 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1048 1049 s3c2410,<addr> 1050 s3c2412,<addr> 1051 s3c2440,<addr> 1052 s3c6400,<addr> 1053 s5pv210,<addr> 1054 exynos4210,<addr> 1055 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1056 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1057 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1058 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1059 Options are not yet supported. 1060 1061 lantiq,<addr> 1062 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1063 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1064 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1065 yet supported. 1066 1067 lpuart,<addr> 1068 lpuart32,<addr> 1069 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1070 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1071 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1072 port must already be setup and configured. 1073 1074 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1075 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1076 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1077 address. The serial port must already be setup 1078 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1079 1080 qcom_geni,<addr> 1081 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1082 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1083 specified address. The serial port must already be 1084 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1085 1086 efifb,[options] 1087 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1088 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1089 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1090 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1091 mapped with the correct attributes. 1092 1093 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1094 earlyprintk=vga 1095 earlyprintk=sclp 1096 earlyprintk=xen 1097 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1098 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1099 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1100 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1101 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1102 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1103 1104 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1105 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1106 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1107 1108 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1109 takes over. 1110 1111 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 1112 be used at a time. 1113 1114 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1115 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1116 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1117 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1118 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1119 You can find the port for a given device in 1120 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1121 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1122 1123 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1124 very good. 1125 1126 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 1127 the real console. 1128 1129 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. 1130 1131 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1132 1133 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1134 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1135 UART class. 1136 1137 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1138 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1139 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1140 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1141 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1142 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1143 default: on. 1144 1145 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1146 ekgdboc=kbd 1147 1148 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1149 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1150 1151 edd= [EDD] 1152 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1153 1154 efi= [EFI] 1155 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" } 1156 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI 1157 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by 1158 default. 1159 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1160 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1161 firmware implementations. 1162 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1163 debug: enable misc debug output 1164 1165 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1166 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1167 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1168 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1169 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1170 1171 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1172 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1173 updating original EFI memory map. 1174 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1175 from ss to ss+nn. 1176 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1177 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1178 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1179 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1180 1181 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1182 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of 1183 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1184 doesn't support it. 1185 1186 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1187 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1188 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1189 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1190 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1191 1192 1193 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1194 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1195 1196 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1197 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1198 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1199 1200 elevator= [IOSCHED] 1201 Format: { "mq-deadline" | "kyber" | "bfq" } 1202 See Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.rst, 1203 Documentation/block/kyber-iosched.rst and 1204 Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.rst for details. 1205 1206 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1207 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1208 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1209 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1210 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1211 1212 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1213 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1214 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1215 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1216 1217 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1218 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1219 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1220 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1221 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1222 1223 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1224 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1225 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1226 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1227 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1228 Default value is 0. 1229 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce. 1230 1231 erst_disable [ACPI] 1232 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1233 support. 1234 1235 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1236 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1237 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1238 1239 evm= [EVM] 1240 Format: { "fix" } 1241 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1242 current integrity status. 1243 1244 failslab= 1245 fail_page_alloc= 1246 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1247 General fault injection mechanism. 1248 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1249 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1250 1251 floppy= [HW] 1252 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1253 1254 force_pal_cache_flush 1255 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1256 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1257 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1258 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1259 1260 forcepae [X86-32] 1261 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1262 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1263 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1264 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1265 and may cause unknown problems. 1266 1267 ftrace=[tracer] 1268 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1269 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1270 boot debugging. 1271 1272 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1273 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1274 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1275 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1276 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1277 oops. 1278 1279 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1280 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1281 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 1282 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1283 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1284 tracing directory. 1285 1286 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1287 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1288 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1289 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1290 tracing directory. 1291 1292 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1293 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1294 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1295 function-list is a comma separated list of functions 1296 that can be changed at run time by the 1297 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1298 1299 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1300 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1301 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of 1302 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1303 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1304 1305 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1306 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1307 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1308 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1309 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1310 1311 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1312 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1313 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1314 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1315 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1316 1317 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1318 1319 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1320 Format: off | on 1321 default: on 1322 1323 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1324 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1325 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1326 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1327 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1328 1329 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1330 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1331 android emulator 1332 1333 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1334 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1335 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1336 GPT to be used instead. 1337 1338 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1339 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1340 Format: 0 | 1 1341 Default: 0 1342 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1343 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1344 Format: 0 | 1 1345 Default: 0 1346 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1347 Format: 0 | 1 1348 Default: 0 1349 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1350 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1351 Default: 1024 1352 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1353 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1354 Default: 1024 1355 1356 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1357 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1358 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1359 1360 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1361 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1362 backtraces on all cpus. 1363 Format: <integer> 1364 1365 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1366 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1367 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1368 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1369 1370 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1371 1372 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1373 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1374 1375 hest_disable [ACPI] 1376 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1377 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1378 logic will be disabled. 1379 1380 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1381 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1382 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1383 size on bigger boxes. 1384 1385 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1386 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1387 Default: "on" 1388 1389 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1390 1391 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1392 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1393 verbose } 1394 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1395 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1396 VIA, nVidia) 1397 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1398 1399 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1400 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1401 1402 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1403 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages. 1404 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified 1405 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve 1406 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on 1407 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G 1408 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag). 1409 1410 hung_task_panic= 1411 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1412 Format: <integer> 1413 1414 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a 1415 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1416 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1417 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1418 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1419 1420 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1421 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1422 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1423 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1424 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1425 1426 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1427 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1428 guest on lock contention. 1429 1430 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1431 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1432 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1433 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1434 the real console. 1435 1436 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1437 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1438 registered from board initialization code. 1439 Format: 1440 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1441 1442 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1443 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1444 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1445 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1446 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1447 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1448 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1449 keyboard and cannot control its state 1450 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1451 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1452 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1453 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1454 for the AUX port 1455 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1456 controller 1457 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1458 controllers 1459 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1460 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1461 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1462 transitions, or never reset 1463 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1464 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1465 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1466 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1467 architectures force reset to be always executed 1468 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1469 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1470 1471 i810= [HW,DRM] 1472 1473 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1474 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1475 hardware. 1476 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature 1477 does not match list of supported models. 1478 i8k.power_status 1479 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1480 (disabled by default) 1481 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1482 capability is set. 1483 1484 i915.invert_brightness= 1485 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1486 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1487 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1488 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1489 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1490 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1491 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1492 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1493 value switches the backlight off. 1494 -1 -- never invert brightness 1495 0 -- machine default 1496 1 -- force brightness inversion 1497 1498 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1499 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1500 1501 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1502 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1503 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1504 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1505 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst. 1506 1507 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1508 Format: <int> 1509 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1510 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1511 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1512 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1513 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1514 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1515 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1516 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1517 was 0x3. 1518 1519 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1520 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1521 1522 idle= [X86] 1523 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1524 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1525 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1526 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1527 Not recommended. 1528 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1529 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1530 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1531 1532 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1533 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1534 Default: strict 1535 1536 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1537 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1538 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1539 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1540 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1541 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1542 encoding mode. 1543 1544 Available settings are as follows: 1545 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1546 supported by the FPU 1547 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1548 by the FPU 1549 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1550 by the FPU 1551 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1552 supported by the FPU 1553 1554 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1555 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1556 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1557 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1558 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1559 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1560 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1561 MIPS64 CPUs. 1562 1563 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1564 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1565 except where unsupported by hardware. 1566 1567 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1568 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1569 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1570 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1571 could change it dynamically, usually by 1572 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1573 1574 ignore_rlimit_data 1575 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1576 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1577 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1578 1579 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1580 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1581 1582 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1583 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1584 default: "enforce" 1585 1586 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1587 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1588 owned by uid=0. 1589 1590 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1591 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1592 measurements, instead of host native format. 1593 1594 ima_hash= [IMA] 1595 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1596 | sha512 | ... } 1597 default: "sha1" 1598 1599 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1600 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1601 1602 ima_policy= [IMA] 1603 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1604 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1605 fail_securely" 1606 1607 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1608 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1609 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1610 uid=0. 1611 1612 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1613 all files owned by root. 1614 1615 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1616 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1617 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1618 1619 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1620 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1621 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1622 flag. 1623 1624 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1625 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1626 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1627 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1628 opened for read by uid=0. 1629 1630 ima_template= [IMA] 1631 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1632 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" } 1633 Default: "ima-ng" 1634 1635 ima_template_fmt= 1636 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1637 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1638 1639 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1640 Format: <min_file_size> 1641 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1642 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1643 1644 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1645 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1646 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1647 1648 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1649 Format: <bufsize> 1650 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1651 1652 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1653 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1654 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1655 1656 init= [KNL] 1657 Format: <full_path> 1658 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1659 process. 1660 1661 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1662 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1663 startup. 1664 1665 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1666 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1667 modules and initcalls. 1668 1669 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1670 1671 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 1672 zeroes. 1673 Format: 0 | 1 1674 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 1675 1676 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 1677 Format: 0 | 1 1678 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 1679 1680 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1681 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1682 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1683 override in debugfs after boot. 1684 1685 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1686 Format: <irq> 1687 1688 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1689 1690 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1691 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1692 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1693 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1694 1695 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1696 on 1697 Enable intel iommu driver. 1698 off 1699 Disable intel iommu driver. 1700 igfx_off [Default Off] 1701 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1702 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1703 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1704 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1705 DMA. 1706 forcedac [x86_64] 1707 With this option iommu will not optimize to look 1708 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual 1709 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater 1710 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look 1711 for translation below 32-bit and if not available 1712 then look in the higher range. 1713 strict [Default Off] 1714 With this option on every unmap_single operation will 1715 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed 1716 to batching them for performance. 1717 sp_off [Default Off] 1718 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 1719 has the capability. With this option, super page will 1720 not be supported. 1721 sm_on [Default Off] 1722 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the 1723 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable 1724 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode 1725 will be used on hardware which claims to support it. 1726 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 1727 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 1728 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 1729 could harm performance of some high-throughput 1730 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 1731 mapping is enabled. 1732 Note that using this option lowers the security 1733 provided by tboot because it makes the system 1734 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 1735 nobounce [Default off] 1736 Disable bounce buffer for unstrusted devices such as 1737 the Thunderbolt devices. This will treat the untrusted 1738 devices as the trusted ones, hence might expose security 1739 risks of DMA attacks. 1740 1741 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 1742 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1743 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 1744 1745 intel_pstate= [X86] 1746 disable 1747 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 1748 scaling driver for the supported processors 1749 passive 1750 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 1751 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 1752 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 1753 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 1754 feature. 1755 force 1756 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 1757 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 1758 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 1759 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 1760 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 1761 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 1762 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 1763 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 1764 no_hwp 1765 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 1766 if available. 1767 hwp_only 1768 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 1769 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 1770 support_acpi_ppc 1771 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 1772 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 1773 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 1774 then this feature is turned on by default. 1775 per_cpu_perf_limits 1776 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 1777 cpufreq sysfs interface 1778 1779 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 1780 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 1781 off disable Interrupt Remapping 1782 nosid disable Source ID checking 1783 no_x2apic_optout 1784 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 1785 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 1786 1787 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 1788 strict regions from userspace. 1789 relaxed 1790 1791 iommu= [x86] 1792 off 1793 force 1794 noforce 1795 biomerge 1796 panic 1797 nopanic 1798 merge 1799 nomerge 1800 soft 1801 pt [x86] 1802 nopt [x86] 1803 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 1804 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 1805 1806 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 1807 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1808 0 - Lazy mode. 1809 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 1810 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 1811 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 1812 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 1813 the relevant IOMMU driver. 1814 1 - Strict mode (default). 1815 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 1816 synchronously. 1817 1818 iommu.passthrough= 1819 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 1820 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1821 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 1822 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 1823 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 1824 1825 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems 1826 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 1827 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 1828 1829 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 1830 0x80 1831 Standard port 0x80 based delay 1832 0xed 1833 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 1834 udelay 1835 Simple two microseconds delay 1836 none 1837 No delay 1838 1839 ip= [IP_PNP] 1840 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 1841 1842 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 1843 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 1844 1845 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 1846 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 1847 1848 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 1849 [ARM, ARM64] 1850 Format: <bool> 1851 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 1852 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 1853 exposed by the device tree is too small. 1854 1855 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 1856 [ARM, ARM64] 1857 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 1858 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 1859 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 1860 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 1861 LPIs. 1862 1863 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 1864 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 1865 requires the kernel to be built with 1866 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 1867 1868 irqfixup [HW] 1869 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1870 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1871 firmware running. 1872 1873 irqpoll [HW] 1874 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1875 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 1876 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1877 firmware running. 1878 1879 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 1880 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 1881 1882 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 1883 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 1884 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 1885 1886 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 1887 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 1888 1889 nohz 1890 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 1891 1892 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 1893 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 1894 workqueue's affinity configured via the 1895 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 1896 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 1897 1898 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 1899 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 1900 be configured manually after bootup. 1901 1902 domain 1903 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 1904 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 1905 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 1906 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 1907 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 1908 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 1909 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 1910 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 1911 1912 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 1913 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 1914 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 1915 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 1916 1917 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 1918 1919 1920 1921 iucv= [HW,NET] 1922 1923 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64] 1924 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1925 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1926 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 1927 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1928 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 1929 1930 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64] 1931 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1932 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1933 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 1934 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1935 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 1936 1937 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64] 1938 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 1939 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1940 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 1941 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 1942 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 1943 1944 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 1945 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 1946 1947 nokaslr [KNL] 1948 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 1949 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 1950 Layout Randomization). 1951 1952 kasan_multi_shot 1953 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 1954 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 1955 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 1956 invalid access. 1957 1958 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 1959 1960 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 1961 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 1962 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 1963 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 1964 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 1965 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 1966 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 1967 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 1968 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 1969 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 1970 1971 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 1972 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 1973 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 1974 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 1975 zone if it does not. 1976 1977 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 1978 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 1979 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 1980 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 1981 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 1982 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 1983 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 1984 1985 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 1986 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 1987 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 1988 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 1989 optional and is the number seconds in between 1990 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 1991 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 1992 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 1993 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 1994 the kernel debugger. 1995 1996 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 1997 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 1998 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 1999 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2000 keyboard only format: kbd 2001 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2002 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2003 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2004 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2005 2006 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2007 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2008 2009 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address. 2010 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2011 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2012 2013 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2014 Valid arguments: on, off 2015 Default: on 2016 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2017 the default is off. 2018 2019 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2020 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2021 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2022 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2023 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2024 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2025 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2026 2027 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2028 2029 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2030 Boot Parameter" section. 2031 2032 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2033 and kernel address spaces. 2034 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2035 0: force disabled 2036 1: force enabled 2037 2038 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2039 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2040 2041 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2042 Default is false (don't support). 2043 2044 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 2045 KVM MMU at runtime. 2046 Default is 0 (off) 2047 2048 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2049 Default is 1 (enabled) 2050 2051 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2052 for all guests. 2053 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2054 2055 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2056 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2057 system registers 2058 2059 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2060 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2061 system registers 2062 2063 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2064 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2065 system registers 2066 2067 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2068 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2069 LPIs. 2070 2071 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2072 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2073 Default is 1 (enabled) 2074 2075 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2076 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 2077 Default is 0 (disabled) 2078 2079 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2080 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2081 Default is 1 (enabled) 2082 2083 kvm-intel.nested= 2084 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2085 Default is 0 (disabled) 2086 2087 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2088 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2089 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2090 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2091 2092 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2093 CVE-2018-3620. 2094 2095 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2096 2097 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2098 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2099 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2100 never: Disables the mitigation 2101 2102 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2103 2104 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2105 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2106 Default is 1 (enabled) 2107 2108 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2109 affected CPUs 2110 2111 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2112 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2113 2114 full 2115 Provides all available mitigations for the 2116 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2117 enables all mitigations in the 2118 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2119 2120 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2121 sysfs interface is still possible after 2122 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2123 when the first VM is started in a 2124 potentially insecure configuration, 2125 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2126 2127 full,force 2128 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2129 flush runtime control. Implies the 2130 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2131 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2132 2133 flush 2134 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2135 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2136 L1D flush. 2137 2138 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2139 sysfs interface is still possible after 2140 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2141 when the first VM is started in a 2142 potentially insecure configuration, 2143 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2144 2145 flush,nosmt 2146 2147 Disables SMT and enables the default 2148 hypervisor mitigation. 2149 2150 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2151 sysfs interface is still possible after 2152 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2153 when the first VM is started in a 2154 potentially insecure configuration, 2155 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2156 2157 flush,nowarn 2158 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2159 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2160 insecure configuration. 2161 2162 off 2163 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2164 emit any warnings. 2165 It also drops the swap size and available 2166 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2167 bare metal. 2168 2169 Default is 'flush'. 2170 2171 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2172 2173 l2cr= [PPC] 2174 2175 l3cr= [PPC] 2176 2177 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2178 disabled it. 2179 2180 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline 2181 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2182 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2183 2184 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2185 in C2 power state. 2186 2187 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2188 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2189 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2190 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2191 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2192 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2193 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2194 2195 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2196 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2197 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2198 2199 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2200 when set. 2201 Format: <int> 2202 2203 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma 2204 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 2205 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 2206 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 2207 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 2208 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 2209 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 2210 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 2211 2212 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2213 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2214 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2215 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2216 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2217 host link and device attached to it. 2218 2219 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2220 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 2221 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2222 The following configurations can be forced. 2223 2224 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2225 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2226 2227 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2228 2229 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2230 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2231 allowed. 2232 2233 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2234 2235 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 2236 2237 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 2238 and both resets. 2239 2240 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 2241 hot-unplug link recovery 2242 2243 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 2244 2245 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 2246 2247 * disable: Disable this device. 2248 2249 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2250 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2251 2252 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 2253 2254 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy 2255 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 2256 2257 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2258 Format: <integer> 2259 2260 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2261 Format: <integer> 2262 2263 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2264 Format: <integer> 2265 2266 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2267 Format: <integer> 2268 2269 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2270 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2271 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2272 number of online CPUs. 2273 2274 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2275 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2276 2277 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2278 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2279 2280 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2281 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2282 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2283 2284 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2285 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2286 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2287 mode during the locktorture test. 2288 2289 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2290 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2291 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2292 2293 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2294 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2295 2296 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2297 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2298 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2299 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2300 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2301 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2302 2303 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2304 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2305 2306 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2307 Enable additional printk() statements. 2308 2309 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2310 Format: <irq> 2311 2312 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2313 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2314 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2315 loglevels are defined as follows: 2316 2317 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2318 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2319 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2320 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2321 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2322 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2323 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2324 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2325 2326 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2327 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2328 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2329 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2330 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2331 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2332 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2333 2334 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2335 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2336 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2337 kernel boot problems. 2338 2339 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2340 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2341 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2342 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2343 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2344 attached printers to be reset. Using 2345 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2346 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2347 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2348 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2349 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2350 port specification list means that device IDs 2351 from each port should be examined, to see if 2352 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2353 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2354 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2355 2356 lpj=n [KNL] 2357 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2358 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2359 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2360 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2361 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2362 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2363 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2364 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2365 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2366 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2367 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2368 hardware. 2369 2370 ltpc= [NET] 2371 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2372 2373 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2374 2375 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2376 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2377 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2378 2379 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2380 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2381 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2382 2383 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different 2384 yeeloong laptop. 2385 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2386 2387 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2388 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2389 2390 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2391 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2392 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2393 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2394 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2395 only takes effect during system bootup. 2396 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2397 which also disables the IO APIC. 2398 2399 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2400 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2401 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2402 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2403 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2404 /dev/loop-control interface. 2405 2406 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2407 2408 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2409 2410 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2411 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2412 2413 mdacon= [MDA] 2414 Format: <first>,<last> 2415 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2416 2417 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2418 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2419 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2420 2421 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2422 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2423 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2424 2425 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2426 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2427 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2428 not have direct access. 2429 2430 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2431 options are: 2432 2433 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2434 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2435 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2436 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2437 2438 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 2439 mds=full. 2440 2441 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 2442 2443 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2444 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able 2445 to see the whole system memory or for test. 2446 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2447 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2448 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2449 belonging to unused RAM. 2450 2451 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2452 memory. 2453 2454 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2455 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2456 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2457 2458 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2459 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2460 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2461 set according to the 2462 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2463 option. 2464 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 2465 2466 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2467 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2468 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2469 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2470 option description. 2471 2472 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2473 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2474 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2475 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2476 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2477 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2478 comma delimited. 2479 Example: 2480 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2481 2482 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2483 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2484 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2485 2486 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2487 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2488 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2489 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2490 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2491 or 2492 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2493 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 2494 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 2495 will be eaten. 2496 2497 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2498 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2499 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2500 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2501 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2502 2503 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 2504 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 2505 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 2506 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 2507 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 2508 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 2509 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 2510 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 2511 2512 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2513 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2514 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2515 Setting this option will scan the memory 2516 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2517 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2518 from using the memory being corrupted. 2519 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2520 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2521 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2522 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2523 2524 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2525 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2526 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2527 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2528 corruption in more or less memory. 2529 2530 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2531 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2532 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2533 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2534 2535 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest 2536 Format: <integer> 2537 default : 0 <disable> 2538 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2539 performed. Each pass selects another test 2540 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2541 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2542 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2543 regions that are detected. 2544 2545 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 2546 Valid arguments: on, off 2547 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 2548 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 2549 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 2550 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 2551 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 2552 2553 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst 2554 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 2555 2556 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 2557 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 2558 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 2559 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 2560 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 2561 2562 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2563 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst. 2564 2565 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2566 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2567 platforms. 2568 2569 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2570 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2571 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2572 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2573 2574 mga= [HW,DRM] 2575 2576 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2577 physical address is ignored. 2578 2579 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2580 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2581 Default: "0tb" 2582 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2583 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2584 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2585 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2586 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2587 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2588 unconfigured. 2589 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2590 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2591 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2592 VGA shield. 2593 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2594 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2595 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2596 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2597 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 2598 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 2599 2600 mitigations= 2601 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 2602 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 2603 arch-independent options, each of which is an 2604 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 2605 2606 off 2607 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 2608 improves system performance, but it may also 2609 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 2610 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 2611 kpti=0 [ARM64] 2612 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 2613 nobp=0 [S390] 2614 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 2615 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 2616 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 2617 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 2618 l1tf=off [X86] 2619 mds=off [X86] 2620 2621 auto (default) 2622 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 2623 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 2624 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 2625 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 2626 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 2627 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 2628 2629 auto,nosmt 2630 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 2631 if needed. This is for users who always want to 2632 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 2633 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 2634 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 2635 2636 mminit_loglevel= 2637 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 2638 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 2639 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 2640 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 2641 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 2642 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 2643 2644 module.sig_enforce 2645 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 2646 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 2647 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 2648 is always true, so this option does nothing. 2649 2650 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 2651 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 2652 2653 mousedev.tap_time= 2654 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 2655 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 2656 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 2657 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 2658 Format: <msecs> 2659 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 2660 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2661 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 2662 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2663 2664 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2665 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 2666 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 2667 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 2668 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 2669 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 2670 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 2671 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 2672 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 2673 is not too small. 2674 2675 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 2676 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 2677 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 2678 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 2679 allocations. Use with caution! 2680 2681 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 2682 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 2683 2684 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 2685 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 2686 2687 mtdparts= [MTD] 2688 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c. 2689 2690 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 2691 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 2692 at a time. 2693 2694 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 2695 2696 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 2697 2698 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 2699 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 2700 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 2701 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 2702 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 2703 2704 mtdset= [ARM] 2705 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 2706 2707 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c 2708 2709 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 2710 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 2711 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 2712 2713 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2714 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 2715 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 2716 2717 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 2718 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 2719 Default is 1. 2720 Large value could prevent small alignment from 2721 using up MTRRs. 2722 2723 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 2724 Format: <integer> 2725 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 2726 Default : 1 2727 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 2728 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 2729 2730 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 2731 2732 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 2733 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 2734 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 2735 something different and driver-specific. 2736 This usage is only documented in each driver source 2737 file if at all. 2738 2739 nf_conntrack.acct= 2740 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 2741 0 to disable accounting 2742 1 to enable accounting 2743 Default value is 0. 2744 2745 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 2746 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2747 2748 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 2749 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2750 2751 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 2752 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2753 2754 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 2755 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 2756 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 2757 requests. 2758 2759 nfs.callback_tcpport= 2760 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 2761 channel should listen. 2762 2763 nfs.cache_getent= 2764 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 2765 to update the NFS client cache entries. 2766 2767 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 2768 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 2769 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 2770 2771 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 2772 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 2773 entries. 2774 2775 nfs.enable_ino64= 2776 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 2777 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 2778 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 2779 of returning the full 64-bit number. 2780 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 2781 2782 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 2783 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 2784 slots the client will assign to the callback 2785 channel. This determines the maximum number of 2786 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 2787 a particular server. 2788 2789 nfs.max_session_slots= 2790 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 2791 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 2792 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 2793 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 2794 Note that there is little point in setting this 2795 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 2796 2797 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2798 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 2799 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 2800 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 2801 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 2802 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 2803 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 2804 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 2805 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 2806 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 2807 back to using the idmapper. 2808 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 2809 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 2810 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 2811 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 2812 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 2813 UUID that is generated at system install time. 2814 2815 nfs.send_implementation_id = 2816 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 2817 information in exchange_id requests. 2818 If zero, no implementation identification information 2819 will be sent. 2820 The default is to send the implementation identification 2821 information. 2822 2823 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 2824 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 2825 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 2826 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 2827 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 2828 after the locks are lost. 2829 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 2830 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 2831 parameter to '1'. 2832 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 2833 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 2834 2835 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 2836 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 2837 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 2838 2839 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 2840 whatever value is the default set by the layout 2841 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 2842 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 2843 2844 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2845 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 2846 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 2847 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 2848 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 2849 migration from NFSv2/v3. 2850 2851 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 2852 when a NMI is triggered. 2853 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 2854 2855 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 2856 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 2857 Valid num: 0 or 1 2858 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 2859 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 2860 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 2861 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 2862 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 2863 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 2864 please see 'nowatchdog'. 2865 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 2866 need the box quickly up again. 2867 2868 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 2869 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 2870 2871 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 2872 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 2873 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 2874 waits 4 seconds. 2875 2876 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 2877 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 2878 is present. 2879 2880 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 2881 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 2882 2883 no_console_suspend 2884 [HW] Never suspend the console 2885 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 2886 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 2887 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 2888 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 2889 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 2890 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 2891 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 2892 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 2893 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 2894 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 2895 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 2896 turn on/off it dynamically. 2897 2898 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 2899 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 2900 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 2901 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 2902 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 2903 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 2904 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 2905 data will be no longer available. This parameter 2906 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 2907 is set. 2908 2909 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 2910 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 2911 but will impact performance. 2912 2913 noalign [KNL,ARM] 2914 2915 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 2916 (CPU alternatives feature). 2917 2918 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 2919 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 2920 2921 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 2922 2923 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 2924 on "Classic" PPC cores. 2925 2926 nocache [ARM] 2927 2928 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 2929 2930 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting 2931 2932 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 2933 2934 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 2935 2936 noexec [IA-64] 2937 2938 noexec [X86] 2939 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 2940 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2941 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 2942 2943 nosmap [X86,PPC] 2944 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 2945 even if it is supported by processor. 2946 2947 nosmep [X86,PPC] 2948 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 2949 even if it is supported by processor. 2950 2951 noexec32 [X86-64] 2952 This affects only 32-bit executables. 2953 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2954 read doesn't imply executable mappings 2955 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 2956 read implies executable mappings 2957 2958 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 2959 2960 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 2961 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 2962 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 2963 2964 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86,PPC] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 2965 2966 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 2967 Equivalent to smt=1. 2968 2969 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 2970 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 2971 via the sysfs control file. 2972 2973 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 2974 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 2975 possible in the system. 2976 2977 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 2978 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 2979 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 2980 option. 2981 2982 nospec_store_bypass_disable 2983 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 2984 2985 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 2986 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 2987 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 2988 2989 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 2990 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 2991 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 2992 performance of saving the states is degraded because 2993 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 2994 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 2995 2996 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 2997 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 2998 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 2999 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3000 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3001 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3002 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3003 3004 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or 3005 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to 3006 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger. 3007 3008 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3009 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3010 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3011 3012 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3013 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3014 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3015 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3016 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3017 real-time systems. 3018 3019 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3020 3021 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3022 Valid arguments: on, off 3023 Default: on 3024 3025 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3026 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3027 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3028 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3029 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3030 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3031 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3032 just as if they had also been called out in the 3033 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3034 3035 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3036 3037 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3038 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3039 3040 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3041 broken timer IRQ sources. 3042 3043 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3044 3045 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3046 initial RAM disk. 3047 3048 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3049 remapping. 3050 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3051 3052 nointroute [IA-64] 3053 3054 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3055 3056 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3057 3058 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3059 3060 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3061 fault handling. 3062 3063 no-vmw-sched-clock 3064 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3065 clock and use the default one. 3066 3067 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. 3068 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler 3069 behaviour 3070 3071 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3072 3073 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3074 3075 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 3076 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 3077 3078 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3079 3080 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3081 3082 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3083 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3084 3085 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3086 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3087 irq. 3088 3089 nomodule Disable module load 3090 3091 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3092 pagetables) support. 3093 3094 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3095 3096 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3097 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3098 3099 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3100 with UP alternatives 3101 3102 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 3103 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 3104 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 3105 available to user space applications. 3106 3107 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3108 space. 3109 3110 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3111 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3112 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3113 3114 nosbagart [IA-64] 3115 3116 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 3117 3118 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3119 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3120 3121 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3122 3123 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3124 3125 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3126 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3127 3128 nowb [ARM] 3129 3130 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3131 3132 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 3133 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 3134 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 3135 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 3136 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 3137 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 3138 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 3139 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 3140 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 3141 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 3142 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 3143 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 3144 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 3145 3146 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3147 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3148 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3149 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3150 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3151 parameter's value. 3152 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3153 Default: 255 3154 3155 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3156 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3157 SAL PALO. 3158 3159 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3160 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3161 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3162 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3163 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3164 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3165 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3166 hot plugging. 3167 3168 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3169 3170 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing. 3171 Allowed values are enable and disable 3172 3173 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3174 'node', 'default' can be specified 3175 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3176 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3177 3178 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3179 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more 3180 info. 3181 3182 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3183 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3184 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3185 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3186 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3187 interrupts *may* be lost! 3188 3189 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3190 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3191 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3192 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3193 3194 oprofile.timer= [HW] 3195 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters 3196 3197 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type 3198 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile 3199 userland or if you want common events. 3200 Format: { arch_perfmon } 3201 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural 3202 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the 3203 CPU specific event set. 3204 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI 3205 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer 3206 for generic hr timer mode) 3207 3208 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3209 process, but there is a small probability of 3210 deadlocking the machine. 3211 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3212 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3213 3214 page_alloc.shuffle= 3215 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3216 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3217 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3218 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3219 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3220 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3221 can be read from sysfs at: 3222 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3223 3224 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3225 Storage of the information about who allocated 3226 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3227 we can turn it on. 3228 on: enable the feature 3229 3230 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3231 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3232 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3233 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3234 on: turn on poisoning 3235 3236 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3237 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3238 timeout = 0: wait forever 3239 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3240 Format: <timeout> 3241 3242 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3243 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3244 bit 0: print all tasks info 3245 bit 1: print system memory info 3246 bit 2: print timer info 3247 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3248 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3249 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3250 3251 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3252 on a WARN(). 3253 3254 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 3255 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 3256 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 3257 succeeds in any situation. 3258 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 3259 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 3260 kernel more unstable. 3261 3262 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3263 connected to, default is 0. 3264 Format: <parport#> 3265 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3266 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3267 Format: <mode> 3268 3269 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3270 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3271 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3272 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3273 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3274 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3275 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3276 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3277 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3278 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3279 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3280 are specified on the command line, starting 3281 with parport0. 3282 3283 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3284 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3285 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3286 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3287 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3288 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3289 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3290 3291 pause_on_oops= 3292 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 3293 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 3294 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 3295 3296 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 3297 3298 pcd. [PARIDE] 3299 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 3300 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3301 3302 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 3303 3304 Some options herein operate on a specific device 3305 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 3306 specified in one of the following formats: 3307 3308 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 3309 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 3310 3311 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 3312 bus/device/function address which may change 3313 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 3314 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 3315 by other kernel parameters. If the 3316 domain is left unspecified, it is 3317 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 3318 to a device through multiple device/function 3319 addresses can be specified after the base 3320 address (this is more robust against 3321 renumbering issues). The second format 3322 selects devices using IDs from the 3323 configuration space which may match multiple 3324 devices in the system. 3325 3326 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 3327 changes anything 3328 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 3329 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 3330 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 3331 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 3332 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 3333 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 3334 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 3335 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 3336 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3337 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 3338 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 3339 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3340 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 3341 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 3342 bus number. The config space is then accessed 3343 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 3344 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 3345 on the configuration access mechanisms. 3346 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 3347 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3348 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 3349 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 3350 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 3351 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 3352 Configuration 3353 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 3354 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 3355 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 3356 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 3357 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3358 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 3359 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 3360 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 3361 should never be necessary. 3362 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 3363 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 3364 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 3365 when the system masks IRQs. 3366 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 3367 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 3368 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 3369 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 3370 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 3371 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 3372 on several machines and they hang the machine 3373 when used, but on other computers it's the only 3374 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 3375 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 3376 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 3377 motherboard. 3378 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 3379 Use with caution as certain devices share 3380 address decoders between ROMs and other 3381 resources. 3382 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 3383 expansion ROMs that do not already have 3384 BIOS assigned address ranges. 3385 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 3386 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 3387 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 3388 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 3389 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 3390 this way. 3391 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 3392 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 3393 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 3394 F0000h-100000h range. 3395 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 3396 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 3397 secondary buses and you want to tell it 3398 explicitly which ones they are. 3399 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 3400 numbers ourselves, overriding 3401 whatever the firmware may have done. 3402 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 3403 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 3404 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 3405 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 3406 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 3407 IRQ routing is enabled. 3408 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 3409 or for PCI scanning. 3410 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 3411 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 3412 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 3413 please report a bug. 3414 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 3415 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 3416 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 3417 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 3418 so this option is a temporary workaround 3419 for broken drivers that don't call it. 3420 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 3421 handle more pci cards 3422 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 3423 This might help on some broken boards which 3424 machine check when some devices' config space 3425 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 3426 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 3427 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3428 This sorting is done to get a device 3429 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 3430 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3431 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 3432 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 3433 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 3434 supported by all devices below the root complex. 3435 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 3436 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 3437 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 3438 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 3439 or bus can support) for best performance. 3440 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 3441 every device is guaranteed to support. This 3442 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 3443 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 3444 reduced performance. This also guarantees 3445 that hot-added devices will work. 3446 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3447 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 3448 The default value is 256 bytes. 3449 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3450 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 3451 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 3452 resource_alignment= 3453 Format: 3454 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 3455 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 3456 aligned memory resources. How to 3457 specify the device is described above. 3458 If <order of align> is not specified, 3459 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 3460 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource 3461 windows need to be expanded. 3462 To specify the alignment for several 3463 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 3464 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 3465 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 3466 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 3467 end-to-end CRC checking). 3468 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 3469 the default. 3470 off: Turn ECRC off 3471 on: Turn ECRC on. 3472 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3473 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 3474 Default size is 256 bytes. 3475 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3476 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window. 3477 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3478 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 3479 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 3480 Default is 1. 3481 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 3482 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 3483 accommodate resources required by all child 3484 devices. 3485 off: Turn realloc off 3486 on: Turn realloc on 3487 realloc same as realloc=on 3488 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 3489 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 3490 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 3491 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 3492 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 3493 port. 3494 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 3495 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 3496 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 3497 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 3498 conflict with unreported devices), so this 3499 taints the kernel. 3500 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 3501 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 3502 specified above) separated by semicolons. 3503 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 3504 redirect capabilities forced off which will 3505 allow P2P traffic between devices through 3506 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 3507 this removes isolation between devices and 3508 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 3509 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 3510 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 3511 3512 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 3513 Management. 3514 off Disable ASPM. 3515 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 3516 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 3517 3518 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 3519 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 3520 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 3521 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 3522 also tries to use these services. 3523 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 3524 hotplug). 3525 3526 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 3527 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 3528 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 3529 3530 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 3531 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 3532 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 3533 3534 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 3535 3536 pd_ignore_unused 3537 [PM] 3538 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 3539 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 3540 for debug and development, but should not be 3541 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 3542 3543 pd. [PARIDE] 3544 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3545 3546 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 3547 boot time. 3548 Format: { 0 | 1 } 3549 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 3550 3551 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 3552 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 3553 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 3554 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 3555 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 3556 and performance comparison. 3557 3558 pf. [PARIDE] 3559 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3560 3561 pg. [PARIDE] 3562 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3563 3564 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 3565 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 3566 3567 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 3568 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 3569 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 3570 3571 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 3572 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 3573 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 3574 3575 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 3576 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 3577 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 3578 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 3579 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 3580 possible settings and some assignment information. 3581 3582 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 3583 { off } 3584 3585 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 3586 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 3587 3588 pnp_reserve_irq= 3589 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 3590 3591 pnp_reserve_dma= 3592 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 3593 3594 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 3595 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 3596 3597 pnp_reserve_mem= 3598 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 3599 autoconfiguration. 3600 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 3601 3602 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 3603 Default is 21. 3604 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 3605 may be specified. 3606 Format: <port>,<port>.... 3607 3608 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 3609 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 3610 platform machine description specific power_save 3611 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 3612 execution priority. 3613 3614 ppc_strict_facility_enable 3615 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 3616 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 3617 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 3618 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 3619 3620 ppc_tm= [PPC] 3621 Format: {"off"} 3622 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 3623 3624 print-fatal-signals= 3625 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 3626 3627 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 3628 related application anomalies: too many signals, 3629 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 3630 coredump - etc. 3631 3632 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 3633 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 3634 3635 default: off. 3636 3637 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 3638 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 3639 panics 3640 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3641 default: disabled 3642 3643 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 3644 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 3645 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 3646 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 3647 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 3648 Default: ratelimit 3649 3650 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 3651 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 3652 3653 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 3654 Limit processor to maximum C-state 3655 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 3656 3657 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 3658 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 3659 instead using the legacy FADT method 3660 3661 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 3662 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 3663 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 3664 [defaults to kernel profiling] 3665 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 3666 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 3667 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 3668 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 3669 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 3670 statistical time based profiling. 3671 3672 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk 3673 before loading. 3674 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 3675 3676 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 3677 tracking. 3678 Format: <bool> 3679 3680 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 3681 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 3682 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 3683 per second. 3684 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 3685 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 3686 (0 = never). 3687 psmouse.resolution= 3688 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 3689 psmouse.smartscroll= 3690 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 3691 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 3692 3693 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 3694 3695 pt. [PARIDE] 3696 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3697 3698 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 3699 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 3700 removes hardening, but improves performance of 3701 system calls and interrupts. 3702 3703 on - unconditionally enable 3704 off - unconditionally disable 3705 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 3706 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 3707 3708 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 3709 3710 nopti [X86_64] 3711 Equivalent to pti=off 3712 3713 pty.legacy_count= 3714 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 3715 default number. 3716 3717 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 3718 3719 r128= [HW,DRM] 3720 3721 raid= [HW,RAID] 3722 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3723 3724 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 3725 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 3726 3727 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 3728 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 3729 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 3730 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 3731 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 3732 3733 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 3734 3735 cec_disable [X86] 3736 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 3737 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 3738 3739 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 3740 The argument is a cpu list, as described above, 3741 except that the string "all" can be used to 3742 specify every CPU on the system. 3743 3744 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 3745 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 3746 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be 3747 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that 3748 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and 3749 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number. 3750 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs, 3751 which can be useful for HPC and real-time 3752 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency 3753 for asymmetric multiprocessors. 3754 3755 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 3756 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 3757 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 3758 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 3759 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 3760 This improves the real-time response for the 3761 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 3762 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 3763 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 3764 periodically wake up to do the polling. 3765 3766 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 3767 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 3768 process in one batch. 3769 3770 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 3771 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 3772 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 3773 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 3774 3775 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 3776 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3777 RCU grace-period cleanup. 3778 3779 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 3780 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3781 RCU grace-period initialization. 3782 3783 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 3784 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 3785 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 3786 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 3787 the rcu_node combining tree. 3788 3789 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 3790 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 3791 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 3792 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 3793 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 3794 3795 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 3796 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 3797 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 3798 possibly be useful for architectures having high 3799 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 3800 3801 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 3802 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 3803 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 3804 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 3805 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 3806 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 3807 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 3808 3809 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 3810 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 3811 first attempt to force quiescent states. 3812 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 3813 and maximum value is HZ. 3814 3815 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 3816 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 3817 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 3818 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 3819 3820 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 3821 Set required age in jiffies for a 3822 given grace period before RCU starts 3823 soliciting quiescent-state help from 3824 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 3825 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 3826 a value based on the most recent settings 3827 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 3828 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 3829 This calculated value may be viewed in 3830 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 3831 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 3832 overwritten. 3833 3834 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 3835 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 3836 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 3837 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 3838 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 3839 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 3840 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 3841 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 3842 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 3843 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 3844 3845 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 3846 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 3847 each group, which defaults to the square root 3848 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 3849 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 3850 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 3851 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 3852 3853 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 3854 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 3855 batch limiting is disabled. 3856 3857 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 3858 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 3859 batch limiting is re-enabled. 3860 3861 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 3862 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3863 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3864 3865 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL] 3866 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 3867 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 3868 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can 3869 prove do nothing more than free memory. 3870 3871 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 3872 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 3873 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 3874 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 3875 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 3876 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 3877 3878 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 3879 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 3880 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 3881 why a new grace period has not yet started. 3882 3883 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL] 3884 Measure performance of asynchronous 3885 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 3886 3887 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL] 3888 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 3889 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 3890 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 3891 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 3892 previously posted callbacks to drain. 3893 3894 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL] 3895 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 3896 grace-period primitives. 3897 3898 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL] 3899 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 3900 this parameter is to delay the start of the 3901 test until boot completes in order to avoid 3902 interference. 3903 3904 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL] 3905 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3906 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3907 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 3908 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3909 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3910 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 3911 a single reader. 3912 3913 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL] 3914 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 3915 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders. 3916 N, where N is the number of CPUs 3917 3918 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL] 3919 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 3920 3921 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL] 3922 Shut the system down after performance tests 3923 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 3924 testing. 3925 3926 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL] 3927 Enable additional printk() statements. 3928 3929 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 3930 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 3931 in microseconds. The default of zero says 3932 no holdoff. 3933 3934 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 3935 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 3936 in microseconds. 3937 3938 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 3939 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 3940 in microseconds. 3941 3942 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 3943 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 3944 in seconds. 3945 3946 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 3947 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 3948 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 3949 3950 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 3951 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 3952 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 3953 3954 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 3955 Number of seconds to wait between successive 3956 forward-progress tests. 3957 3958 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 3959 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 3960 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 3961 testing. 3962 3963 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 3964 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 3965 primitives, if available. 3966 3967 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 3968 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 3969 3970 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 3971 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 3972 update-side primitives, if available. 3973 3974 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 3975 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 3976 update-side primitives, if available. If all 3977 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 3978 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 3979 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 3980 they are all non-zero. 3981 3982 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 3983 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 3984 3985 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 3986 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 3987 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 3988 test, hence the "fake". 3989 3990 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 3991 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 3992 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 3993 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 3994 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 3995 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 3996 3997 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 3998 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 3999 4000 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4001 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 4002 4003 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4004 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 4005 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 4006 4007 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 4008 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 4009 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 4010 during the rcutorture test. 4011 4012 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4013 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 4014 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 4015 4016 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 4017 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 4018 warnings, zero to disable. 4019 4020 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 4021 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 4022 4023 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 4024 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 4025 4026 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 4027 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 4028 4029 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 4030 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 4031 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 4032 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 4033 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 4034 4035 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 4036 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 4037 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 4038 under test support RCU priority boosting. 4039 4040 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 4041 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 4042 4043 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 4044 Interval (s) between each boost test. 4045 4046 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 4047 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 4048 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 4049 4050 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 4051 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4052 4053 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 4054 Enable additional printk() statements. 4055 4056 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 4057 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 4058 stall warning. 4059 4060 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 4061 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4062 4063 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4064 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4065 4066 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 4067 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 4068 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 4069 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 4070 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 4071 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 4072 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4073 4074 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 4075 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 4076 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 4077 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 4078 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 4079 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 4080 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 4081 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 4082 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4083 4084 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 4085 Once boot has completed (that is, after 4086 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 4087 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 4088 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4089 4090 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4091 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 4092 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 4093 to zero. 4094 4095 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 4096 Run the RCU early boot self tests 4097 4098 rdinit= [KNL] 4099 Format: <full_path> 4100 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 4101 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 4102 4103 rdrand= [X86] 4104 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 4105 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 4106 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 4107 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 4108 path). 4109 4110 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 4111 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 4112 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 4113 mba. 4114 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 4115 rdt=cmt,!mba 4116 4117 reboot= [KNL] 4118 Format (x86 or x86_64): 4119 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ 4120 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 4121 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 4122 [[,]f[orce] 4123 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 4124 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 4125 reboot only), 4126 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 4127 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 4128 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 4129 to be used for rebooting. 4130 4131 relax_domain_level= 4132 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 4133 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 4134 4135 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 4136 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 4137 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 4138 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 4139 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 4140 4141 reservetop= [X86-32] 4142 Format: nn[KMG] 4143 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 4144 address space. 4145 4146 reservelow= [X86] 4147 Format: nn[K] 4148 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at 4149 the bottom of the address space. 4150 4151 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 4152 during initialization. 4153 4154 resume= [SWSUSP] 4155 Specify the partition device for software suspend 4156 Format: 4157 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 4158 4159 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 4160 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 4161 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 4162 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 4163 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 4164 4165 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4166 read the resume files 4167 4168 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 4169 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4170 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4171 4172 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 4173 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 4174 present during boot. 4175 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 4176 no Disable hibernation and resume. 4177 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 4178 (that will set all pages holding image data 4179 during restoration read-only). 4180 4181 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 4182 4183 rfkill.default_state= 4184 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 4185 etc. communication is blocked by default. 4186 1 Unblocked. 4187 4188 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 4189 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 4190 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4191 blocked and the previous configuration. 4192 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4193 blocked and everything unblocked. 4194 4195 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4196 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 4197 4198 ring3mwait=disable 4199 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 4200 CPUs. 4201 4202 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 4203 4204 rodata= [KNL] 4205 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 4206 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 4207 4208 rockchip.usb_uart 4209 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 4210 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 4211 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 4212 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 4213 4214 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 4215 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 4216 4217 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4218 mount the root filesystem 4219 4220 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 4221 4222 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 4223 4224 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 4225 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4226 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4227 4228 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 4229 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 4230 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 4231 managed by CMA. 4232 4233 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 4234 4235 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 4236 4237 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 4238 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 4239 strict 4240 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 4241 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 4242 which is faster. 4243 4244 sa1100ir [NET] 4245 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 4246 4247 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter 4248 4249 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 4250 4251 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 4252 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 4253 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 4254 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 4255 4256 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 4257 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 4258 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 4259 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4260 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 4261 1 -- enable. 4262 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 4263 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 4264 4265 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 4266 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 4267 "lsm=" parameter. 4268 4269 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 4270 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4271 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 4272 0 -- disable. 4273 1 -- enable. 4274 Default value is set via kernel config option. 4275 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used 4276 later to disable prior to initial policy load. 4277 4278 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 4279 Format: { "0" | "1" } 4280 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 4281 0 -- disable. 4282 1 -- enable. 4283 Default value is set via kernel config option. 4284 4285 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 4286 4287 shapers= [NET] 4288 Maximal number of shapers. 4289 4290 simeth= [IA-64] 4291 simscsi= 4292 4293 slram= [HW,MTD] 4294 4295 slab_nomerge [MM] 4296 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 4297 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 4298 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 4299 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 4300 layout control by attackers can usually be 4301 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 4302 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 4303 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 4304 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 4305 own. 4306 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4307 4308 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 4309 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4310 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4311 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 4312 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 4313 4314 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB] 4315 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 4316 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 4317 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 4318 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 4319 last alloc / free. For more information see 4320 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4321 4322 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB] 4323 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for 4324 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable. 4325 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON. 4326 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug 4327 directories and files being created under 4328 /sys/kernel/slub. 4329 4330 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 4331 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 4332 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 4333 fragmentation. For more information see 4334 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4335 4336 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 4337 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 4338 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 4339 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 4340 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 4341 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 4342 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 4343 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4344 4345 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 4346 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 4347 lower than slub_max_order. 4348 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 4349 4350 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 4351 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 4352 See slab_nomerge for more information. 4353 4354 smart2= [HW] 4355 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 4356 4357 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 4358 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 4359 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 4360 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 4361 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 4362 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 4363 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 4364 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 4365 1: Fast pin select (default) 4366 2: ATC IRMode 4367 4368 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 4369 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 4370 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 4371 actual hardware limit. 4372 Format: <integer> 4373 Default: -1 (no limit) 4374 4375 softlockup_panic= 4376 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 4377 Format: <integer> 4378 4379 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector 4380 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This 4381 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 4382 which is the respective build-time switch to that 4383 functionality. 4384 4385 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 4386 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 4387 backtraces on all cpus. 4388 Format: <integer> 4389 4390 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 4391 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 4392 4393 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 4394 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 4395 The default operation protects the kernel from 4396 user space attacks. 4397 4398 on - unconditionally enable, implies 4399 spectre_v2_user=on 4400 off - unconditionally disable, implies 4401 spectre_v2_user=off 4402 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4403 vulnerable 4404 4405 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 4406 mitigation method at run time according to the 4407 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 4408 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 4409 compiler with which the kernel was built. 4410 4411 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 4412 against user space to user space task attacks. 4413 4414 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 4415 the user space protections. 4416 4417 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 4418 4419 retpoline - replace indirect branches 4420 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline 4421 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk 4422 4423 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4424 spectre_v2=auto. 4425 4426 spectre_v2_user= 4427 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 4428 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 4429 user space tasks 4430 4431 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 4432 enforced by spectre_v2=on 4433 4434 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 4435 enforced by spectre_v2=off 4436 4437 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 4438 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 4439 per thread. The mitigation control state 4440 is inherited on fork. 4441 4442 prctl,ibpb 4443 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 4444 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 4445 always when switching between different user 4446 space processes. 4447 4448 seccomp 4449 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 4450 threads will enable the mitigation unless 4451 they explicitly opt out. 4452 4453 seccomp,ibpb 4454 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 4455 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 4456 always when switching between different 4457 user space processes. 4458 4459 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 4460 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 4461 4462 Default mitigation: 4463 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 4464 4465 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4466 spectre_v2_user=auto. 4467 4468 spec_store_bypass_disable= 4469 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 4470 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 4471 4472 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 4473 a common industry wide performance optimization known 4474 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 4475 to the same memory location may not be observed by 4476 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 4477 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 4478 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 4479 end of a particular speculation execution window. 4480 4481 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 4482 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 4483 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 4484 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 4485 4486 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 4487 Bypass optimization is used. 4488 4489 On x86 the options are: 4490 4491 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 4492 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 4493 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 4494 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 4495 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 4496 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 4497 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 4498 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 4499 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 4500 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 4501 for a process by default. The state of the control 4502 is inherited on fork. 4503 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 4504 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 4505 4506 Default mitigations: 4507 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 4508 4509 On powerpc the options are: 4510 4511 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 4512 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 4513 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 4514 exit. 4515 off - No action. 4516 4517 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 4518 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 4519 4520 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 4521 spia_fio_base= 4522 spia_pedr= 4523 spia_peddr= 4524 4525 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 4526 Specifies how frequently to check for 4527 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 4528 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 4529 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 4530 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 4531 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 4532 are ignored. 4533 4534 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 4535 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 4536 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 4537 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 4538 grace period will be considered for automatic 4539 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 4540 expediting. 4541 4542 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 4543 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 4544 4545 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 4546 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 4547 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 4548 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 4549 4550 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 4551 for both kernel and userspace 4552 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 4553 for both kernel and userspace 4554 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 4555 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 4556 to allow userspace to register its 4557 interest in being mitigated too. 4558 4559 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 4560 override the default stack gap protection. The value 4561 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 4562 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 4563 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 4564 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 4565 4566 stacktrace [FTRACE] 4567 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 4568 4569 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 4570 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 4571 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 4572 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 4573 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 4574 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 4575 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 4576 4577 sti= [PARISC,HW] 4578 Format: <num> 4579 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 4580 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 4581 as the initial boot-console. 4582 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4583 4584 sti_font= [HW] 4585 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 4586 4587 stifb= [HW] 4588 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 4589 4590 sunrpc.min_resvport= 4591 sunrpc.max_resvport= 4592 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4593 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 4594 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 4595 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 4596 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 4597 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 4598 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 4599 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 4600 maximum port values. 4601 4602 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 4603 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4604 Limit the number of requests that the server will 4605 process in parallel from a single connection. 4606 The default value is 0 (no limit). 4607 4608 sunrpc.pool_mode= 4609 [NFS] 4610 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 4611 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 4612 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 4613 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 4614 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 4615 NFS server is running. 4616 4617 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 4618 automatically using heuristics 4619 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 4620 percpu one pool for each CPU 4621 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 4622 to global on non-NUMA machines) 4623 4624 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 4625 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 4626 [NFS,SUNRPC] 4627 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 4628 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 4629 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 4630 improve throughput, but will also increase the 4631 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 4632 4633 suspend.pm_test_delay= 4634 [SUSPEND] 4635 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 4636 mode before resuming the system (see 4637 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 4638 is set. Default value is 5. 4639 4640 swapaccount=[0|1] 4641 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 4642 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 4643 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) 4644 4645 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 4646 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 4647 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 4648 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 4649 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 4650 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 4651 4652 switches= [HW,M68k] 4653 4654 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 4655 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 4656 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 4657 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 4658 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 4659 in older udev will not work anymore. 4660 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 4661 the kernel configuration. 4662 4663 sysrq_always_enabled 4664 [KNL] 4665 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 4666 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 4667 Useful for debugging. 4668 4669 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4670 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 4671 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 4672 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 4673 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt 4674 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 4675 4676 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 4677 4678 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 4679 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 4680 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 4681 as the system sleep state during system startup with 4682 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 4683 The system is woken from this state using a 4684 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 4685 4686 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4687 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 4688 4689 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 4690 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 4691 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 4692 4693 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 4694 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 4695 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 4696 4697 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 4698 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 4699 critical and hot trip points. 4700 4701 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 4702 1: disable ACPI thermal control 4703 4704 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 4705 -1: disable all passive trip points 4706 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 4707 value 4708 4709 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 4710 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 4711 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 4712 0: no polling (default) 4713 4714 threadirqs [KNL] 4715 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 4716 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 4717 4718 topology= [S390] 4719 Format: {off | on} 4720 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 4721 topology information if the hardware supports this. 4722 The scheduler will make use of this information and 4723 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 4724 Default is on. 4725 4726 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 4727 Format: {off} 4728 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 4729 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 4730 LPAR. 4731 4732 tp720= [HW,PS2] 4733 4734 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 4735 Format: integer pcr id 4736 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 4737 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 4738 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 4739 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 4740 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 4741 are saved. 4742 4743 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 4744 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 4745 4746 trace_event=[event-list] 4747 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 4748 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 4749 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See 4750 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 4751 4752 trace_options=[option-list] 4753 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 4754 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 4755 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 4756 to echo the option name into 4757 4758 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 4759 4760 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 4761 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 4762 4763 trace_options=stacktrace 4764 4765 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 4766 section. 4767 4768 tp_printk[FTRACE] 4769 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 4770 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 4771 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 4772 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 4773 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 4774 4775 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 4776 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 4777 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 4778 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 4779 4780 ** CAUTION ** 4781 4782 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 4783 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 4784 the system to live lock. 4785 4786 traceoff_on_warning 4787 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 4788 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 4789 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 4790 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 4791 4792 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 4793 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 4794 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 4795 4796 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 4797 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 4798 4799 transparent_hugepage= 4800 [KNL] 4801 Format: [always|madvise|never] 4802 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 4803 with respect to transparent hugepages. 4804 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 4805 for more details. 4806 4807 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 4808 Format: <string> 4809 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 4810 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 4811 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 4812 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 4813 virtualized environment. 4814 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 4815 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 4816 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 4817 can add overhead. 4818 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 4819 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 4820 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 4821 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 4822 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 4823 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 4824 acceptable). 4825 4826 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 4827 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 4828 Format: 4829 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 4830 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 4831 4832 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 4833 happen after console_init() and before a proper 4834 console driver takes over, this boot options might 4835 help "seeing" what's going on. 4836 4837 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4838 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 4839 4840 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 4841 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 4842 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 4843 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 4844 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 4845 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 4846 reported either. 4847 4848 unknown_nmi_panic 4849 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 4850 4851 usbcore.authorized_default= 4852 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 4853 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 4854 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 4855 if device connected to internal port) 4856 4857 usbcore.autosuspend= 4858 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 4859 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 4860 is the time required before an idle device will be 4861 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 4862 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 4863 4864 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 4865 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 4866 4867 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 4868 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 4869 (default = 65536). 4870 4871 usbcore.blinkenlights= 4872 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 4873 4874 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 4875 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 4876 scheme, applies only to low and full-speed devices 4877 (default 0 = off). 4878 4879 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 4880 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 4881 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 4882 4883 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 4884 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 4885 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 4886 4887 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 4888 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 4889 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 4890 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 4891 4892 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 4893 4894 usbcore.quirks= 4895 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 4896 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 4897 commas. Each entry has the form 4898 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 4899 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 4900 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 4901 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 4902 the following meanings: 4903 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 4904 descriptors must not be fetched using 4905 a 255-byte read); 4906 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 4907 correctly so reset it instead); 4908 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 4909 Set-Interface requests); 4910 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 4911 handle its Configuration or Interface 4912 strings); 4913 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 4914 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 4915 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 4916 more interface descriptions than the 4917 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 4918 talking to these interfaces); 4919 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 4920 during initialization, after we read 4921 the device descriptor); 4922 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 4923 high speed and super speed interrupt 4924 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 4925 require the interval in microframes (1 4926 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 4927 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 4928 (bInterval-1). 4929 Devices with this quirk report their 4930 bInterval as the result of this 4931 calculation instead of the exponent 4932 variable used in the calculation); 4933 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 4934 handle device_qualifier descriptor 4935 requests); 4936 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 4937 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 4938 remote wakeup capability); 4939 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 4940 Power Management); 4941 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 4942 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 4943 frames instead of the USB 2.0 4944 calculation); 4945 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 4946 to be disconnected before suspend to 4947 prevent spurious wakeup); 4948 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 4949 pause after every control message); 4950 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 4951 delay after resetting its port); 4952 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 4953 4954 usbhid.mousepoll= 4955 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 4956 4957 usbhid.jspoll= 4958 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 4959 4960 usbhid.kbpoll= 4961 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 4962 4963 usb-storage.delay_use= 4964 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 4965 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 4966 4967 usb-storage.quirks= 4968 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 4969 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 4970 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 4971 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 4972 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 4973 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 4974 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 4975 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 4976 of sense data); 4977 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 4978 bytes of sense data); 4979 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 4980 device capacity by one sector); 4981 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 4982 READ_DISC_INFO command); 4983 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 4984 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 4985 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 4986 command, uas only); 4987 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 4988 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 4989 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 4990 reported device capacity by one 4991 sector if the number is odd); 4992 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 4993 device); 4994 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 4995 command, uas only); 4996 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 4997 unlock ejectable media); 4998 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 4999 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time); 5000 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 5001 initial READ(10) command); 5002 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 5003 reported by the device); 5004 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 5005 by default); 5006 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 5007 bogus residue values); 5008 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 5009 Logical Unit); 5010 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 5011 commands, uas only); 5012 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 5013 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 5014 medium is write-protected). 5015 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 5016 even if the device claims no cache) 5017 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 5018 5019 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 5020 Format: <int> 5021 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 5022 1 - undefined instruction events 5023 2 - system calls 5024 4 - invalid data aborts 5025 8 - SIGSEGV faults 5026 16 - SIGBUS faults 5027 Example: user_debug=31 5028 5029 userpte= 5030 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 5031 5032 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 5033 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 5034 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 5035 5036 vdso= [X86,SH] 5037 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 5038 5039 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 5040 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 5041 5042 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 5043 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 5044 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 5045 5046 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 5047 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 5048 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 5049 5050 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 5051 alias for vdso32=0. 5052 5053 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 5054 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 5055 5056 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 5057 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 5058 5059 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 5060 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 5061 5062 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 5063 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 5064 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 5065 level and then send out the event to user space through 5066 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 5067 will only send out the event without touching backlight 5068 brightness level. 5069 default: 1 5070 5071 virtio_mmio.device= 5072 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 5073 5074 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 5075 where: 5076 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 5077 like K, M and G) 5078 <baseaddr> := physical base address 5079 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 5080 request_irq()) 5081 <id> := (optional) platform device id 5082 example: 5083 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 5084 5085 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 5086 5087 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 5088 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 5089 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 5090 Use vga=ask for menu. 5091 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 5092 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 5093 5094 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 5095 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 5096 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 5097 All options are enabled by default, and this 5098 interface is meant to allow for selectively 5099 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 5100 debugging features. 5101 5102 Available options are: 5103 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 5104 - Disable all of the above options 5105 5106 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 5107 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 5108 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 5109 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 5110 mapped kernel RAM. 5111 5112 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 5113 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 5114 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 5115 5116 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 5117 Format: <command> 5118 5119 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 5120 Format: <command> 5121 5122 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 5123 Format: <command> 5124 5125 vsyscall= [X86-64] 5126 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 5127 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 5128 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 5129 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 5130 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 5131 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 5132 5133 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 5134 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 5135 page is readable. 5136 5137 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 5138 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 5139 page is not readable. 5140 5141 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 5142 them quite hard to use for exploits but 5143 might break your system. 5144 5145 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 5146 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 5147 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 5148 5149 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 5150 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 5151 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 5152 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 5153 5154 vt.default_blu= [VT] 5155 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 5156 Change the default blue palette of the console. 5157 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5158 ranging from 0-255. 5159 5160 vt.default_grn= [VT] 5161 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 5162 Change the default green palette of the console. 5163 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5164 ranging from 0-255. 5165 5166 vt.default_red= [VT] 5167 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 5168 Change the default red palette of the console. 5169 This is a 16-member array composed of values 5170 ranging from 0-255. 5171 5172 vt.default_utf8= 5173 [VT] 5174 Format=<0|1> 5175 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 5176 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 5177 newly opened terminals. 5178 5179 vt.global_cursor_default= 5180 [VT] 5181 Format=<-1|0|1> 5182 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 5183 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 5184 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 5185 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 5186 cursors, 1 will display them. 5187 5188 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 5189 Default: 2 = green. 5190 5191 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 5192 Default: 3 = cyan. 5193 5194 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 5195 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 5196 or other driver-specific files in the 5197 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 5198 5199 watchdog_thresh= 5200 [KNL] 5201 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 5202 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 5203 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 5204 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 5205 seconds. 5206 5207 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 5208 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 5209 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 5210 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 5211 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 5212 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 5213 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 5214 corresponding sysfs file. 5215 5216 workqueue.disable_numa 5217 By default, all work items queued to unbound 5218 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 5219 issued on, which results in better behavior in 5220 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 5221 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 5222 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 5223 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 5224 5225 workqueue.power_efficient 5226 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 5227 they show better performance thanks to cache 5228 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 5229 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 5230 5231 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 5232 were observed to contribute significantly to power 5233 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 5234 power usage at the cost of small performance 5235 overhead. 5236 5237 The default value of this parameter is determined by 5238 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 5239 5240 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 5241 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 5242 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 5243 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 5244 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 5245 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 5246 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 5247 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 5248 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 5249 impacted. 5250 5251 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 5252 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 5253 supporting x2apic. 5254 5255 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT] 5256 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform. 5257 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer 5258 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer. 5259 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt 5260 5261 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 5262 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 5263 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 5264 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 5265 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 5266 domains. 5267 5268 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 5269 Unplug Xen emulated devices 5270 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 5271 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 5272 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 5273 nics -- unplug network devices 5274 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 5275 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 5276 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 5277 the unplug protocol 5278 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 5279 5280 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 5281 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV 5282 optimizations. 5283 5284 xen_nopv [X86] 5285 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 5286 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 5287 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 5288 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 5289 5290 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 5291 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 5292 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 5293 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 5294 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 5295 5296 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 5297 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 5298 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 5299 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 5300 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 5301 more timer interrupts. 5302 5303 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 5304 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 5305 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 5306 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 5307 5308 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 5309 Format: 5310 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 5311 5312 xive= [PPC] 5313 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 5314 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 5315 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 5316 5317 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 5318 controller on both pseries and powernv 5319 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 5320 5321 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 5322 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 5323 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 5324 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 5325