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 { vendor | video | native | none } 26 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver 27 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 28 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 29 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. 30 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. 31 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. 32 33 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr 34 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 35 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 36 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 37 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 38 39 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 40 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 41 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 42 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 43 This option is useful for developers to identify the 44 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 45 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 46 47 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 48 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 49 Format: <int> 50 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 51 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 52 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 53 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS 54 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 55 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 56 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 57 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 58 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 59 debug layers and levels. 60 61 Enable processor driver info messages: 62 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 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: <byte> 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_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 140 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 141 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 142 143 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 144 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 145 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 146 second kernel for kdump. 147 148 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 149 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 150 151 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 152 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 153 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 154 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 155 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 156 157 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 158 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 159 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 160 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 161 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 162 strings 163 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 164 strings 165 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 166 167 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 168 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 169 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 170 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 171 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 172 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 173 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 174 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 175 care about the state of the feature group strings which 176 should be controlled by the OSPM. 177 Examples: 178 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 179 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 180 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 181 182 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 183 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 184 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 185 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 186 multiple times through kernel command line is also 187 meaningless. 188 Examples: 189 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 190 FALSE. 191 192 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 193 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 194 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 195 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 196 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 197 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 198 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 199 there are quirks related to this string. This command 200 is useful when one want to control the state of the 201 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 202 the OSPM features. 203 Examples: 204 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 205 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 206 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 207 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 208 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 209 equivalent to 210 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 211 and 212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 213 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 214 215 acpi_pm_good [X86] 216 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 217 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 218 and always returns good values. 219 220 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 221 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 222 223 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 224 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 225 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 226 227 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 228 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, 229 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl } 230 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 231 s3_bios and s3_mode. 232 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 233 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 234 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 235 used during resume from hibernation. 236 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 237 control method, with respect to putting devices into 238 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 239 of _PTS is used by default). 240 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 241 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 242 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 243 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 244 but some broken systems don't work without it). 245 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 246 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 247 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 248 249 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 250 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 251 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 252 253 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 254 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 255 256 agp= [AGP] 257 { off | try_unsupported } 258 off: disable AGP support 259 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 260 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 261 262 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 263 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 264 265 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 266 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 267 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 268 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 269 270 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 271 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 272 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 273 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 274 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 275 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 276 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 277 278 32: only for 32-bit processes 279 64: only for 64-bit processes 280 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 281 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 282 283 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 284 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 285 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 286 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 287 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 288 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 289 290 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 291 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 292 Possible values are: 293 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when 294 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are 295 flushed before they will be reused, which 296 is a lot of faster 297 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 298 the system 299 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 300 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 301 allowed anymore to lift isolation 302 requirements as needed. This option 303 does not override iommu=pt 304 305 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 306 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 307 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 308 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 309 IOMMU initialization. 310 311 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 312 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 313 remapping modes: 314 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 315 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 316 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 317 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 318 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 319 320 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 321 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 322 Format: <a>,<b> 323 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 324 325 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 326 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 327 connected to one of 16 gameports 328 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 329 330 apc= [HW,SPARC] 331 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 332 Format: noidle 333 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 334 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 335 APC and your system crashes randomly. 336 337 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 338 Change the output verbosity while booting 339 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 340 Change the amount of debugging information output 341 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 342 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 343 driver name. 344 Format: apic=driver_name 345 Examples: apic=bigsmp 346 347 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting 348 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 349 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 350 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 351 backup of CPU 0 352 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 353 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 354 shot down by NMI 355 356 autoconf= [IPV6] 357 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 358 359 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 360 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 361 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 362 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 363 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 364 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 365 apic=verbose is specified. 366 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 367 368 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 369 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 370 371 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 372 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 373 374 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 375 Identification support 376 377 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 378 support 379 380 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 381 382 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 383 384 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 385 EzKey and similar keyboards 386 387 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 388 389 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 390 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 391 392 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 393 keyboards 394 395 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 396 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 397 398 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 399 Use software keyboard repeat 400 401 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 402 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 403 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 404 enabled until the next reboot 405 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 406 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 407 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 408 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 409 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 410 userspace auditd. 411 Default: unset 412 413 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 414 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 415 Default: 64 416 417 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 418 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 419 Format: { "0" | "1" } 420 0 - Disable the BAU. 421 1 - Enable the BAU. 422 unset - Disable the BAU. 423 424 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 425 Format: <io>,<mode> 426 427 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 428 Format: <io>,<mode> 429 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 430 431 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 432 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 433 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 434 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 435 436 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 437 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 438 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 439 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 440 441 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 442 embedded devices based on command line input. 443 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 444 445 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 446 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 447 no delay (0). 448 Format: integer 449 450 bootconfig [KNL] 451 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 452 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 453 454 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 455 456 bert_disable [ACPI] 457 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 458 459 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] 460 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 461 462 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 463 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 464 kernel args too. 465 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 466 bttv.tuner= 467 468 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 469 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 470 at a time. 471 472 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 473 474 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 475 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 476 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 477 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 478 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 479 This option provides an override for these situations. 480 481 carrier_timeout= 482 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 483 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 484 it waits 120 seconds. 485 486 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 487 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 488 trust validation. 489 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 490 491 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 492 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 493 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 494 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 495 others). 496 497 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 498 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 499 500 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller 501 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable} 502 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 503 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 504 a single hierarchy 505 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 506 subsystem 507 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 508 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 509 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 510 511 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 512 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 513 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 514 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 515 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 516 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 517 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 518 all v1 hierarchies. 519 520 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 521 Format: <string> 522 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 523 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 524 525 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 526 Format: { "0" | "1" } 527 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 528 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 529 any implied execute protection). 530 1 -- check protection requested by application. 531 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 532 Value can be changed at runtime via 533 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 534 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 535 536 cio_ignore= [S390] 537 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details. 538 clk_ignore_unused 539 [CLK] 540 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 541 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 542 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 543 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 544 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 545 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 546 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 547 platform with proper driver support. For more 548 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 549 550 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 551 [Deprecated] 552 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 553 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 554 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 555 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 556 557 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 558 Format: <string> 559 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 560 with the name specified. 561 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 562 the platform: 563 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 564 [ACPI] acpi_pm 565 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 566 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 567 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 568 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 569 [MIPS] MIPS 570 [PARISC] cr16 571 [S390] tod 572 [SH] SuperH 573 [SPARC64] tick 574 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 575 576 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 577 [ARM,ARM64] 578 Format: <bool> 579 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 580 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 581 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 582 systems. 583 584 clearcpuid=BITNUM[,BITNUM...] [X86] 585 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 586 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 587 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily 588 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific 589 ones should be. 590 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 591 or using the feature without checking anything 592 will still see it. This just prevents it from 593 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 594 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 595 some critical bits. 596 597 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 598 [KNL,CMA] 599 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 600 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 601 placement constraint by the physical address range of 602 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 603 altogether. For more information, see 604 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 605 606 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 607 [ARM64,KNL,CMA] 608 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 609 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 610 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 611 specificed, the default value is 0. 612 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 613 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 614 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 615 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 616 617 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 618 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 619 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 620 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 621 a hypervisor. 622 Default: yes 623 624 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 625 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 626 allocations, by default set to 256K. 627 628 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 629 Format: 630 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 631 632 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 633 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 634 635 com90xx= [HW,NET] 636 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 637 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 638 639 condev= [HW,S390] console device 640 conmode= 641 642 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 643 644 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 645 646 ttyS<n>[,options] 647 ttyUSB0[,options] 648 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 649 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 650 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 651 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 652 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 653 654 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 655 information. See 656 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 657 alternative. 658 659 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 660 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 661 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 662 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 663 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 664 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 665 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 666 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 667 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 668 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 669 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 670 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 671 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 672 the h/w is not re-initialized. 673 674 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 675 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 676 677 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 678 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 679 console=brl,ttyS0 680 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 681 682 console_msg_format= 683 [KNL] Change console messages format 684 default 685 By default we print messages on consoles in 686 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 687 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 688 `printk_time' param). 689 syslog 690 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 691 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 692 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 693 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 694 from /proc/kmsg. 695 696 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 697 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 698 Defaults to 0. 699 700 coredump_filter= 701 [KNL] Change the default value for 702 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 703 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 704 705 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 706 [ARM,ARM64] 707 Format: <bool> 708 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 709 0: default value, disable debugging 710 1: enable debugging at boot time 711 712 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 713 disable the cpuidle sub-system 714 715 cpuidle.governor= 716 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 717 718 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 719 disable the cpufreq sub-system 720 721 cpufreq.default_governor= 722 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 723 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 724 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 725 726 cpu_init_udelay=N 727 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 728 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 729 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 730 Default: 10000 731 732 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 733 Format: 734 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 735 736 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 737 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 738 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 739 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 740 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 741 is selected automatically. 742 [KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and 743 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset' 744 hasn't been specified. 745 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 746 747 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 748 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 749 in the running system. The syntax of range is 750 start-[end] where start and end are both 751 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 752 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 753 754 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 755 [KNL, X86-64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 756 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 757 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 758 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 759 available. 760 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 761 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 762 [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 763 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 764 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 765 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 766 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra 767 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit 768 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at 769 at least 256M below 4G automatically. 770 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G 771 for second kernel instead. 772 0: to disable low allocation. 773 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 774 or memory reserved is below 4G. 775 776 cryptomgr.notests 777 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 778 779 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 780 Format: <dma> 781 782 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 783 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 784 785 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call 786 handling. When switched on, additional debug data is 787 printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is 788 detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try 789 to resolve the hang situation. 790 0: disable csdlock debugging (default) 791 1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact) 792 ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact, 793 but more data) 794 795 dasd= [HW,NET] 796 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 797 798 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 799 (one device per port) 800 Format: <port#>,<type> 801 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 802 803 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot 804 time. See 805 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for 806 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg. 807 808 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 809 810 debug_boot_weak_hash 811 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 812 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 813 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 814 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 815 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 816 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 817 818 debug_locks_verbose= 819 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 820 Format: <int> 821 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 822 self-tests. 823 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 824 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 825 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 826 useful to lockdep developers. 827 828 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 829 830 no_debug_objects 831 [KNL] Disable object debugging 832 833 debug_guardpage_minorder= 834 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 835 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 836 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 837 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 838 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 839 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 840 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 841 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 842 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 843 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 844 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 845 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 846 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 847 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 848 bypassed) which are not detectable by 849 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 850 tracking down these problems. 851 852 debug_pagealloc= 853 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 854 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 855 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 856 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 857 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 858 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 859 on: enable the feature 860 861 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace 862 and debugfs internal clients. 863 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 864 on: All functions are enabled. 865 no-mount: 866 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 867 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 868 its content. There is nothing to mount. 869 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 870 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 871 or directories within debugfs. 872 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 873 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 874 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 875 876 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 877 878 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 879 Format: <area>[,<node>] 880 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst. 881 882 default_hugepagesz= 883 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 884 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 885 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 886 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 887 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 888 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 889 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 890 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 891 Format: size[KMG] 892 893 deferred_probe_timeout= 894 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 895 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 896 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 897 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0 898 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also 899 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 900 retrying. 901 902 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 903 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 904 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 905 level 1 and decompression (default) 906 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 907 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 908 only (compression on level 1) 909 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 910 only (decompression) 911 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 912 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 913 914 dhash_entries= [KNL] 915 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 916 917 disable_1tb_segments [PPC] 918 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 919 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 920 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 921 miss to occur. 922 923 stress_slb [PPC] 924 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 925 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 926 on kernel addresses. 927 928 disable= [IPV6] 929 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 930 931 hardened_usercopy= 932 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 933 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 934 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 935 from reading or writing beyond known memory 936 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 937 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 938 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 939 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 940 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 941 942 disable_radix [PPC] 943 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 944 945 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 946 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 947 invalidate. 948 949 disable_tlbie [PPC] 950 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 951 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 952 953 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 954 Format: <int> 955 The number of initial APIC ID for the 956 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 957 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 958 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 959 causing system reset or hang due to sending 960 INIT from AP to BSP. 961 962 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 963 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 964 to workaround buggy firmware. 965 966 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 967 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 968 969 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 970 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 971 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 972 entry later. This parameter disables that. 973 974 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 975 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 976 memory out of your available memory pool based on 977 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 978 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 979 980 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 981 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 982 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 983 984 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 985 986 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 987 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 988 989 dma_debug_entries=<number> 990 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 991 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 992 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 993 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 994 architectural default is too low. 995 996 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 997 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 998 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 999 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1000 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1001 driver later using sysfs. 1002 1003 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1004 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. 1005 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1006 1007 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1008 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1009 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1010 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1011 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1012 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 1013 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 1014 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 1015 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 1016 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 1017 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID 1018 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 1019 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 1020 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data 1021 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1022 data set with no connector name will be used for 1023 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1024 1025 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1026 1027 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC] 1028 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1029 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1030 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1031 exists). 1032 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1033 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1034 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1035 1036 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1037 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1038 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1039 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1040 1041 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1042 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1043 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1044 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1045 for details. 1046 1047 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 1048 in some Intel CPUs. 1049 1050 <module>.async_probe [KNL] 1051 Enable asynchronous probe on this module. 1052 1053 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 1054 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1055 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1056 which are not unmapped. 1057 1058 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 1059 1060 When used with no options, the early console is 1061 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1062 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1063 the platform. 1064 1065 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1066 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1067 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1068 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1069 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1070 configured. 1071 1072 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 1073 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 1074 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 1075 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options] 1076 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1077 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1078 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1079 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1080 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1081 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1082 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1083 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1084 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 1085 1086 pl011,<addr> 1087 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1088 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1089 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1090 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1091 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1092 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1093 the device registers. 1094 1095 liteuart,<addr> 1096 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1097 specified address. The serial port must already be 1098 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1099 1100 meson,<addr> 1101 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1102 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1103 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1104 supported. 1105 1106 msm_serial,<addr> 1107 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1108 port at the specified address. The serial port 1109 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1110 yet supported. 1111 1112 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1113 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1114 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1115 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1116 yet supported. 1117 1118 owl,<addr> 1119 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1120 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1121 specified address. The serial port must already be 1122 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1123 1124 rda,<addr> 1125 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1126 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1127 specified address. The serial port must already be 1128 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1129 1130 sbi 1131 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1132 console. 1133 1134 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1135 1136 s3c2410,<addr> 1137 s3c2412,<addr> 1138 s3c2440,<addr> 1139 s3c6400,<addr> 1140 s5pv210,<addr> 1141 exynos4210,<addr> 1142 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1143 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1144 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1145 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1146 Options are not yet supported. 1147 1148 lantiq,<addr> 1149 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1150 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1151 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1152 yet supported. 1153 1154 lpuart,<addr> 1155 lpuart32,<addr> 1156 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1157 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1158 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1159 port must already be setup and configured. 1160 1161 ec_imx21,<addr> 1162 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1163 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1164 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1165 must already be setup and configured. 1166 1167 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1168 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1169 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1170 address. The serial port must already be setup 1171 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1172 1173 qcom_geni,<addr> 1174 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1175 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1176 specified address. The serial port must already be 1177 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1178 1179 efifb,[options] 1180 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1181 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1182 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1183 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1184 mapped with the correct attributes. 1185 1186 linflex,<addr> 1187 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1188 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1189 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1190 already be setup and configured. 1191 1192 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] 1193 earlyprintk=vga 1194 earlyprintk=sclp 1195 earlyprintk=xen 1196 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1197 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1198 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1199 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1200 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1201 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1202 1203 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1204 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1205 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1206 1207 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1208 takes over. 1209 1210 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 1211 be used at a time. 1212 1213 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1214 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1215 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1216 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1217 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1218 You can find the port for a given device in 1219 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1220 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1221 1222 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1223 very good. 1224 1225 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 1226 the real console. 1227 1228 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. 1229 1230 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1231 1232 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1233 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1234 UART class. 1235 1236 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1237 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1238 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1239 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1240 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1241 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1242 default: on. 1243 1244 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 1245 ekgdboc=kbd 1246 1247 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1248 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1249 1250 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1251 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1252 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1253 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1254 1255 edd= [EDD] 1256 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1257 1258 efi= [EFI] 1259 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1260 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1261 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1262 debug: enable misc debug output. 1263 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1264 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1265 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1266 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1267 firmware implementations. 1268 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1269 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1270 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1271 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1272 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1273 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1274 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1275 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1276 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1277 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1278 1279 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1280 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1281 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1282 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1283 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1284 1285 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86] 1286 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by 1287 updating original EFI memory map. 1288 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is 1289 from ss to ss+nn. 1290 1291 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000 1292 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000) 1293 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and 1294 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000. 1295 1296 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the 1297 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to 1298 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff. 1299 1300 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap 1301 related features. For example, you can do debugging of 1302 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box 1303 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as 1304 "soft reserved". 1305 1306 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1307 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1308 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1309 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1310 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1311 1312 1313 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1314 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1315 1316 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1317 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1318 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1319 1320 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1321 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1322 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1323 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1324 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1325 1326 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1327 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1328 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1329 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1330 1331 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1332 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1333 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1334 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1335 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1336 1337 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1338 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1339 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1340 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1341 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1342 Default value is 0. 1343 Value can be changed at runtime via 1344 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1345 1346 erst_disable [ACPI] 1347 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1348 support. 1349 1350 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1351 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1352 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1353 1354 evm= [EVM] 1355 Format: { "fix" } 1356 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1357 current integrity status. 1358 1359 failslab= 1360 fail_usercopy= 1361 fail_page_alloc= 1362 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1363 General fault injection mechanism. 1364 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1365 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1366 1367 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1368 Format: { initns | none } 1369 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1370 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1371 1372 floppy= [HW] 1373 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1374 1375 force_pal_cache_flush 1376 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1377 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1378 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1379 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1380 1381 forcepae [X86-32] 1382 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1383 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1384 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1385 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1386 and may cause unknown problems. 1387 1388 ftrace=[tracer] 1389 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1390 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1391 boot debugging. 1392 1393 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1394 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1395 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1396 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1397 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1398 oops. 1399 1400 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1401 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1402 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1403 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1404 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1405 tracing directory. 1406 1407 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1408 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1409 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1410 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1411 tracing directory. 1412 1413 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1414 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1415 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1416 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1417 that can be changed at run time by the 1418 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1419 1420 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1421 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1422 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1423 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1424 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1425 1426 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1427 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1428 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1429 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1430 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1431 1432 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1433 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1434 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1435 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1436 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1437 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1438 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1439 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1440 suppliers). 1441 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1442 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1443 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1444 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1445 up (sync_state() calls). 1446 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1447 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1448 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1449 1450 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1451 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1452 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1453 Format: <bool> 1454 1455 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1456 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1457 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1458 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1459 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1460 1461 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1462 1463 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1464 Format: off | on 1465 default: on 1466 1467 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1468 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1469 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1470 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1471 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1472 1473 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1474 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1475 android emulator 1476 1477 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1478 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1479 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1480 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1481 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1482 1483 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1484 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1485 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1486 GPT to be used instead. 1487 1488 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1489 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1490 Format: 0 | 1 1491 Default: 0 1492 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1493 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1494 Format: 0 | 1 1495 Default: 0 1496 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1497 Format: 0 | 1 1498 Default: 0 1499 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1500 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1501 Default: 1024 1502 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1503 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1504 Default: 1024 1505 1506 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1507 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1508 backtraces on all cpus. 1509 Format: 0 | 1 1510 1511 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1512 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1513 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1514 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1515 1516 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1517 1518 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1519 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1520 1521 hest_disable [ACPI] 1522 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1523 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1524 logic will be disabled. 1525 1526 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1527 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1528 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1529 size on bigger boxes. 1530 1531 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1532 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1533 Default: "on" 1534 1535 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1536 1537 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1538 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1539 verbose } 1540 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1541 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1542 VIA, nVidia) 1543 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1544 1545 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1546 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1547 1548 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1549 of gigantic hugepages. 1550 Format: nn[KMGTPE] 1551 1552 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1553 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1554 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1555 1556 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1557 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1558 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1559 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1560 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1561 the default huge page size. See also 1562 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1563 Format: <integer> 1564 1565 hugepagesz= 1566 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1567 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1568 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1569 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1570 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1571 architecture dependent. See also 1572 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1573 Format: size[KMG] 1574 1575 hung_task_panic= 1576 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1577 Format: 0 | 1 1578 1579 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1580 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1581 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1582 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1583 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1584 1585 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1586 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1587 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1588 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1589 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1590 1591 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1592 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the 1593 guest on lock contention. 1594 1595 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1596 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1597 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1598 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1599 the real console. 1600 1601 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1602 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1603 registered from board initialization code. 1604 Format: 1605 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1606 1607 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1608 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1609 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1610 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1611 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1612 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1613 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1614 keyboard and cannot control its state 1615 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1616 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1617 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1618 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1619 for the AUX port 1620 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1621 controller 1622 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1623 controllers 1624 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1625 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1626 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1627 transitions, or never reset 1628 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1629 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1630 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1631 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1632 architectures force reset to be always executed 1633 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1634 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1635 1636 i810= [HW,DRM] 1637 1638 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1639 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1640 hardware. 1641 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature 1642 does not match list of supported models. 1643 i8k.power_status 1644 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1645 (disabled by default) 1646 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1647 capability is set. 1648 1649 i915.invert_brightness= 1650 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1651 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1652 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1653 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1654 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1655 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1656 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1657 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1658 value switches the backlight off. 1659 -1 -- never invert brightness 1660 0 -- machine default 1661 1 -- force brightness inversion 1662 1663 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1664 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1665 1666 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1667 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1668 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1669 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1670 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst. 1671 1672 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1673 Format: <int> 1674 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on 1675 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by 1676 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The 1677 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning. 1678 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the 1679 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which 1680 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value 1681 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it 1682 was 0x3. 1683 1684 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1685 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1686 1687 idle= [X86] 1688 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1689 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1690 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1691 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1692 Not recommended. 1693 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1694 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1695 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1696 1697 idxd.sva= [HW] 1698 Format: <bool> 1699 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 1700 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 1701 true (1). 1702 1703 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 1704 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed } 1705 Default: strict 1706 1707 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 1708 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 1709 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 1710 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 1711 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 1712 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 1713 encoding mode. 1714 1715 Available settings are as follows: 1716 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 1717 supported by the FPU 1718 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 1719 by the FPU 1720 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 1721 by the FPU 1722 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 1723 supported by the FPU 1724 1725 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 1726 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 1727 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 1728 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 1729 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 1730 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 1731 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 1732 MIPS64 CPUs. 1733 1734 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 1735 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 1736 except where unsupported by hardware. 1737 1738 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1739 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1740 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1741 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1742 could change it dynamically, usually by 1743 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1744 1745 ignore_rlimit_data 1746 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 1747 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 1748 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 1749 1750 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1751 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1752 1753 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1754 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 1755 default: "enforce" 1756 1757 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1758 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1759 owned by uid=0. 1760 1761 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 1762 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 1763 measurements, instead of host native format. 1764 1765 ima_hash= [IMA] 1766 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1767 | sha512 | ... } 1768 default: "sha1" 1769 1770 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1771 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1772 1773 ima_policy= [IMA] 1774 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 1775 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 1776 fail_securely | critical_data" 1777 1778 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 1779 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 1780 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 1781 uid=0. 1782 1783 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 1784 all files owned by root. 1785 1786 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 1787 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 1788 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 1789 1790 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 1791 verification failure also on privileged mounted 1792 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 1793 flag. 1794 1795 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 1796 critical data. 1797 1798 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 1799 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1800 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1801 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1802 opened for read by uid=0. 1803 1804 ima_template= [IMA] 1805 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1806 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" } 1807 Default: "ima-ng" 1808 1809 ima_template_fmt= 1810 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 1811 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 1812 1813 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1814 Format: <min_file_size> 1815 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1816 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1817 1818 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1819 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1820 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1821 1822 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1823 Format: <bufsize> 1824 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1825 1826 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1827 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1828 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1829 1830 init= [KNL] 1831 Format: <full_path> 1832 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1833 process. 1834 1835 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1836 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1837 startup. 1838 1839 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1840 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1841 modules and initcalls. 1842 1843 initramfs_async= [KNL] 1844 Format: <bool> 1845 Default: 1 1846 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 1847 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 1848 with devices being probed and 1849 initialized. This should normally just work, 1850 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 1851 historical behaviour of the initramfs 1852 unpacking being completed before device_ and 1853 late_ initcalls. 1854 1855 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1856 1857 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to 1858 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 1859 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 1860 setting. 1861 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 1862 Default is 0, 0 1863 1864 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 1865 zeroes. 1866 Format: 0 | 1 1867 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 1868 1869 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 1870 Format: 0 | 1 1871 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 1872 1873 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 1874 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 1875 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 1876 override in debugfs after boot. 1877 1878 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1879 Format: <irq> 1880 1881 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1882 1883 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1884 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1885 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1886 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1887 1888 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1889 on 1890 Enable intel iommu driver. 1891 off 1892 Disable intel iommu driver. 1893 igfx_off [Default Off] 1894 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1895 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1896 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1897 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1898 DMA. 1899 strict [Default Off] 1900 With this option on every unmap_single operation will 1901 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed 1902 to batching them for performance. 1903 sp_off [Default Off] 1904 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 1905 has the capability. With this option, super page will 1906 not be supported. 1907 sm_on [Default Off] 1908 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the 1909 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable 1910 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode 1911 will be used on hardware which claims to support it. 1912 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 1913 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 1914 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 1915 could harm performance of some high-throughput 1916 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 1917 mapping is enabled. 1918 Note that using this option lowers the security 1919 provided by tboot because it makes the system 1920 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 1921 1922 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 1923 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1924 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 1925 1926 intel_pstate= [X86] 1927 disable 1928 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 1929 scaling driver for the supported processors 1930 passive 1931 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 1932 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 1933 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 1934 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 1935 feature. 1936 force 1937 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 1938 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 1939 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 1940 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 1941 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 1942 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 1943 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 1944 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 1945 no_hwp 1946 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 1947 if available. 1948 hwp_only 1949 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 1950 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 1951 support_acpi_ppc 1952 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 1953 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 1954 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 1955 then this feature is turned on by default. 1956 per_cpu_perf_limits 1957 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 1958 cpufreq sysfs interface 1959 1960 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 1961 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 1962 off disable Interrupt Remapping 1963 nosid disable Source ID checking 1964 no_x2apic_optout 1965 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 1966 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 1967 1968 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 1969 strict regions from userspace. 1970 relaxed 1971 1972 iommu= [X86] 1973 off 1974 force 1975 noforce 1976 biomerge 1977 panic 1978 nopanic 1979 merge 1980 nomerge 1981 soft 1982 pt [X86] 1983 nopt [X86] 1984 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 1985 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 1986 1987 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 1988 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1989 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 1990 falling back to the full range if needed. 1991 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 1992 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 1993 greater than 32-bit addressing. 1994 1995 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 1996 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1997 0 - Lazy mode. 1998 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 1999 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2000 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2001 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2002 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2003 1 - Strict mode (default). 2004 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2005 synchronously. 2006 2007 iommu.passthrough= 2008 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2009 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2010 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2011 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2012 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2013 2014 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2015 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2016 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2017 2018 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 2019 0x80 2020 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2021 0xed 2022 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2023 udelay 2024 Simple two microseconds delay 2025 none 2026 No delay 2027 2028 ip= [IP_PNP] 2029 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2030 2031 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2032 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2033 2034 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2035 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2036 2037 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2038 [ARM, ARM64] 2039 Format: <bool> 2040 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2041 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2042 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2043 2044 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2045 [ARM, ARM64] 2046 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2047 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2048 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2049 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2050 LPIs. 2051 2052 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64] 2053 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2054 requires the kernel to be built with 2055 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2056 2057 irqfixup [HW] 2058 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2059 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2060 firmware running. 2061 2062 irqpoll [HW] 2063 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2064 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2065 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2066 firmware running. 2067 2068 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2069 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2070 2071 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2072 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2073 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2074 2075 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2076 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2077 2078 nohz 2079 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2080 2081 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2082 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2083 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2084 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2085 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2086 2087 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2088 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2089 be configured manually after bootup. 2090 2091 domain 2092 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2093 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2094 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2095 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2096 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2097 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2098 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2099 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2100 2101 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2102 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2103 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2104 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2105 2106 managed_irq 2107 2108 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2109 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2110 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2111 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2112 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2113 2114 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2115 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2116 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2117 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2118 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2119 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2120 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2121 2122 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2123 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2124 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2125 only delivered when tasks running on those 2126 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2127 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2128 queues. 2129 2130 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2131 2132 iucv= [HW,NET] 2133 2134 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2135 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2136 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2137 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2138 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2139 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2140 2141 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2142 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2143 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2144 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 2145 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2146 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2147 2148 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2149 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2150 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 2151 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2152 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as: 2153 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2154 2155 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2156 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2157 2158 nokaslr [KNL] 2159 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 2160 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 2161 Layout Randomization). 2162 2163 kasan_multi_shot 2164 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2165 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2166 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2167 invalid access. 2168 2169 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 2170 2171 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2172 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2173 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2174 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2175 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2176 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2177 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2178 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2179 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2180 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2181 2182 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2183 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2184 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2185 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2186 zone if it does not. 2187 2188 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2189 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2190 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2191 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2192 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2193 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2194 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2195 2196 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2197 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2198 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2199 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2200 optional and is the number seconds in between 2201 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2202 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2203 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2204 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2205 the kernel debugger. 2206 2207 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2208 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2209 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2210 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2211 keyboard only format: kbd 2212 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2213 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2214 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2215 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2216 2217 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW] 2218 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2219 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2220 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2221 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2222 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2223 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2224 2225 The name of the early console should be specified 2226 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2227 the early console might be different than the tty 2228 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2229 blank and the first boot console that implements 2230 read() will be picked. 2231 2232 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2233 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2234 2235 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2236 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2237 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2238 2239 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2240 Valid arguments: on, off 2241 Default: on 2242 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2243 the default is off. 2244 2245 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2246 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2247 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2248 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2249 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2250 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2251 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2252 2253 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2254 2255 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2256 Boot Parameter" section. 2257 2258 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user 2259 and kernel address spaces. 2260 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2261 0: force disabled 2262 1: force enabled 2263 2264 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2265 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2266 2267 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2268 Default is false (don't support). 2269 2270 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 2271 KVM MMU at runtime. 2272 Default is 0 (off) 2273 2274 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2275 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2276 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2277 force : Always deploy workaround. 2278 off : Never deploy workaround. 2279 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2280 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2281 2282 Default is 'auto'. 2283 2284 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2285 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2286 2287 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2288 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2289 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2290 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2291 minute. The default is 60. 2292 2293 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 2294 Default is 1 (enabled) 2295 2296 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 2297 for all guests. 2298 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 2299 2300 kvm-arm.mode= 2301 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation. 2302 2303 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2304 protected guests. 2305 2306 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2307 state is kept private from the host. 2308 Not valid if the kernel is running in EL2. 2309 2310 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. 2311 2312 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2313 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2314 system registers 2315 2316 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2317 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2318 system registers 2319 2320 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2321 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2322 system registers 2323 2324 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2325 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of 2326 LPIs. 2327 2328 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC] 2329 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2330 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2331 allocation. 2332 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2333 Format: <integer> 2334 Default: 5 2335 2336 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 2337 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 2338 Default is 1 (enabled) 2339 2340 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2341 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 2342 Default is 0 (disabled) 2343 2344 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2345 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 2346 Default is 1 (enabled) 2347 2348 kvm-intel.nested= 2349 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 2350 Default is 0 (disabled) 2351 2352 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2353 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 2354 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 2355 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 2356 2357 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2358 CVE-2018-3620. 2359 2360 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2361 2362 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2363 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2364 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2365 never: Disables the mitigation 2366 2367 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2368 2369 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 2370 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 2371 Default is 1 (enabled) 2372 2373 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2374 affected CPUs 2375 2376 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2377 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2378 2379 full 2380 Provides all available mitigations for the 2381 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2382 enables all mitigations in the 2383 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2384 2385 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2386 sysfs interface is still possible after 2387 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2388 when the first VM is started in a 2389 potentially insecure configuration, 2390 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2391 2392 full,force 2393 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2394 flush runtime control. Implies the 2395 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2396 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2397 2398 flush 2399 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2400 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2401 L1D flush. 2402 2403 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2404 sysfs interface is still possible after 2405 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2406 when the first VM is started in a 2407 potentially insecure configuration, 2408 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2409 2410 flush,nosmt 2411 2412 Disables SMT and enables the default 2413 hypervisor mitigation. 2414 2415 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2416 sysfs interface is still possible after 2417 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2418 when the first VM is started in a 2419 potentially insecure configuration, 2420 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2421 2422 flush,nowarn 2423 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2424 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2425 insecure configuration. 2426 2427 off 2428 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2429 emit any warnings. 2430 It also drops the swap size and available 2431 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2432 bare metal. 2433 2434 Default is 'flush'. 2435 2436 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2437 2438 l2cr= [PPC] 2439 2440 l3cr= [PPC] 2441 2442 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2443 disabled it. 2444 2445 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2446 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2447 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2448 Format: notscdeadline 2449 2450 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 2451 in C2 power state. 2452 2453 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2454 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2455 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2456 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2457 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2458 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2459 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2460 2461 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2462 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2463 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2464 2465 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2466 when set. 2467 Format: <int> 2468 2469 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma- 2470 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 2471 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 2472 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 2473 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 2474 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 2475 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 2476 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 2477 2478 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2479 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2480 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2481 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2482 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2483 host link and device attached to it. 2484 2485 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2486 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 2487 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2488 The following configurations can be forced. 2489 2490 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2491 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2492 2493 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2494 2495 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2496 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2497 allowed. 2498 2499 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2500 2501 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM. 2502 2503 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 2504 and both resets. 2505 2506 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 2507 hot-unplug link recovery 2508 2509 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 2510 2511 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 2512 2513 * disable: Disable this device. 2514 2515 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 2516 the same attribute, the last one is used. 2517 2518 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 2519 2520 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 2521 2522 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 2523 Format: <integer> 2524 2525 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 2526 Format: <integer> 2527 2528 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 2529 Format: <integer> 2530 2531 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 2532 Format: <integer> 2533 2534 lockdown= [SECURITY] 2535 { integrity | confidentiality } 2536 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 2537 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 2538 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 2539 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 2540 to extract confidential information from the kernel 2541 are also disabled. 2542 2543 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 2544 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 2545 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 2546 number of online CPUs. 2547 2548 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 2549 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 2550 2551 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2552 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2553 2554 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2555 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2556 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2557 2558 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2559 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 2560 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 2561 mode during the locktorture test. 2562 2563 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2564 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2565 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2566 2567 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2568 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2569 2570 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 2571 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 2572 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 2573 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 2574 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 2575 transition abruptly to and from idle. 2576 2577 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2578 Specify the locking implementation to test. 2579 2580 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 2581 Enable additional printk() statements. 2582 2583 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 2584 Format: <irq> 2585 2586 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 2587 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 2588 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 2589 loglevels are defined as follows: 2590 2591 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 2592 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 2593 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 2594 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 2595 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 2596 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 2597 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 2598 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 2599 2600 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 2601 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 2602 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 2603 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 2604 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 2605 that allows to increase the default size depending on 2606 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 2607 2608 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 2609 This may be used to provide more screen space for 2610 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 2611 kernel boot problems. 2612 2613 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 2614 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 2615 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 2616 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 2617 specified in addition to the ports) causes 2618 attached printers to be reset. Using 2619 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 2620 to associate lp devices with, starting with 2621 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 2622 that lp device, or a parport name such as 2623 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 2624 port specification list means that device IDs 2625 from each port should be examined, to see if 2626 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 2627 so, the driver will manage that printer. 2628 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 2629 2630 lpj=n [KNL] 2631 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 2632 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 2633 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 2634 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 2635 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 2636 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 2637 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 2638 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 2639 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 2640 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 2641 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 2642 hardware. 2643 2644 ltpc= [NET] 2645 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 2646 2647 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 2648 2649 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 2650 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 2651 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 2652 2653 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 2654 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 2655 Example: machvec=hpzx1 2656 2657 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 2658 different yeeloong laptops. 2659 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 2660 2661 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 2662 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 2663 2664 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2665 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 2666 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 2667 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 2668 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 2669 only takes effect during system bootup. 2670 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 2671 which also disables the IO APIC. 2672 2673 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 2674 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 2675 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 2676 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 2677 devices can be requested on-demand with the 2678 /dev/loop-control interface. 2679 2680 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2681 2682 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 2683 2684 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 2685 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 2686 2687 mdacon= [MDA] 2688 Format: <first>,<last> 2689 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 2690 2691 mds= [X86,INTEL] 2692 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 2693 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 2694 2695 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2696 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2697 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2698 2699 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2700 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2701 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2702 not have direct access. 2703 2704 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 2705 options are: 2706 2707 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 2708 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 2709 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 2710 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 2711 2712 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 2713 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 2714 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 2715 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 2716 too. 2717 2718 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 2719 mds=full. 2720 2721 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 2722 2723 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 2724 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows: 2725 2726 1 for test; 2727 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 2728 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 2729 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 2730 2731 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 2732 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 2733 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 2734 belonging to unused RAM. 2735 2736 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 2737 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 2738 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 2739 2740 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 2741 memory. 2742 2743 memchunk=nn[KMG] 2744 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 2745 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 2746 2747 memhp_default_state=online/offline 2748 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 2749 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 2750 set according to the 2751 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 2752 option. 2753 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 2754 2755 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 2756 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 2757 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 2758 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 2759 option description. 2760 2761 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 2762 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 2763 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 2764 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 2765 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 2766 Multiple different regions can be specified, 2767 comma delimited. 2768 Example: 2769 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 2770 2771 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 2772 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 2773 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 2774 2775 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 2776 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 2777 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 2778 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 2779 memmap=64K$0x18690000 2780 or 2781 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 2782 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 2783 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 2784 will be eaten. 2785 2786 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] 2787 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 2788 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 2789 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 2790 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 2791 2792 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 2793 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region 2794 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 2795 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 2796 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 2797 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 2798 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 2799 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 2800 2801 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 2802 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 2803 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 2804 Setting this option will scan the memory 2805 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 2806 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 2807 from using the memory being corrupted. 2808 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 2809 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 2810 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 2811 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 2812 2813 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 2814 By default it checks for corruption in the low 2815 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 2816 use. Use this parameter to scan for 2817 corruption in more or less memory. 2818 2819 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 2820 By default it checks for corruption every 60 2821 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 2822 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 2823 2824 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 2825 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 2826 Format: {on | off (default)} 2827 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 2828 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages) 2829 from the hotadded memory which will allow to 2830 hotadd a lot of memory without requiring 2831 additional memory to do so. 2832 This feature is disabled by default because it 2833 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 2834 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 2835 memory blocks). 2836 The state of the flag can be read in 2837 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 2838 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 2839 the feature is not effective. 2840 2841 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest 2842 Format: <integer> 2843 default : 0 <disable> 2844 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 2845 performed. Each pass selects another test 2846 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 2847 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 2848 memory contents and reserves bad memory 2849 regions that are detected. 2850 2851 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 2852 Valid arguments: on, off 2853 Default (depends on kernel configuration option): 2854 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) 2855 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) 2856 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 2857 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 2858 2859 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst 2860 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 2861 2862 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 2863 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 2864 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 2865 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 2866 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 2867 2868 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 2869 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst. 2870 2871 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 2872 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 2873 platforms. 2874 2875 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 2876 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 2877 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 2878 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 2879 2880 mga= [HW,DRM] 2881 2882 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 2883 physical address is ignored. 2884 2885 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 2886 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 2887 Default: "0tb" 2888 MINI2440 configuration specification: 2889 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 2890 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 2891 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 2892 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 2893 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 2894 unconfigured. 2895 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 2896 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 2897 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 2898 VGA shield. 2899 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 2900 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 2901 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 2902 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 2903 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 2904 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 2905 2906 mitigations= 2907 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for 2908 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 2909 arch-independent options, each of which is an 2910 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 2911 2912 off 2913 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 2914 improves system performance, but it may also 2915 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 2916 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC] 2917 kpti=0 [ARM64] 2918 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 2919 nobp=0 [S390] 2920 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 2921 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 2922 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 2923 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 2924 l1tf=off [X86] 2925 mds=off [X86] 2926 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 2927 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 2928 no_entry_flush [PPC] 2929 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 2930 2931 Exceptions: 2932 This does not have any effect on 2933 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 2934 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 2935 2936 auto (default) 2937 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 2938 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 2939 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 2940 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 2941 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 2942 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 2943 2944 auto,nosmt 2945 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 2946 if needed. This is for users who always want to 2947 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 2948 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 2949 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 2950 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 2951 2952 mminit_loglevel= 2953 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 2954 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 2955 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 2956 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 2957 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 2958 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 2959 2960 module.sig_enforce 2961 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 2962 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 2963 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 2964 is always true, so this option does nothing. 2965 2966 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 2967 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 2968 2969 mousedev.tap_time= 2970 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 2971 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 2972 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 2973 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 2974 Format: <msecs> 2975 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 2976 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2977 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 2978 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 2979 2980 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] 2981 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 2982 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 2983 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 2984 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 2985 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 2986 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 2987 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 2988 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 2989 is not too small. 2990 2991 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 2992 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 2993 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 2994 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 2995 allocations. Use with caution! 2996 2997 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 2998 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 2999 3000 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3001 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3002 3003 mtdparts= [MTD] 3004 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3005 3006 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3007 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3008 at a time. 3009 3010 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 3011 3012 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 3013 3014 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 3015 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 3016 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 3017 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 3018 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 3019 3020 mtdset= [ARM] 3021 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 3022 3023 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c 3024 3025 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3026 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3027 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3028 3029 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3030 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3031 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3032 3033 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 3034 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3035 Default is 1. 3036 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3037 using up MTRRs. 3038 3039 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 3040 Format: <integer> 3041 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3042 Default : 1 3043 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3044 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3045 3046 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3047 3048 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3049 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3050 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3051 something different and driver-specific. 3052 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3053 file if at all. 3054 3055 nf_conntrack.acct= 3056 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3057 0 to disable accounting 3058 1 to enable accounting 3059 Default value is 0. 3060 3061 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3062 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3063 3064 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3065 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3066 3067 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3068 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3069 3070 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3071 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3072 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3073 requests. 3074 3075 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3076 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3077 channel should listen. 3078 3079 nfs.cache_getent= 3080 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3081 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3082 3083 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3084 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3085 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3086 3087 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3088 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3089 entries. 3090 3091 nfs.enable_ino64= 3092 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3093 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3094 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3095 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3096 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3097 3098 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3099 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3100 slots the client will assign to the callback 3101 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3102 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3103 a particular server. 3104 3105 nfs.max_session_slots= 3106 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3107 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3108 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3109 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3110 Note that there is little point in setting this 3111 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3112 3113 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3114 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3115 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3116 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3117 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3118 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3119 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3120 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3121 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3122 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3123 back to using the idmapper. 3124 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3125 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3126 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3127 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3128 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3129 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3130 3131 nfs.send_implementation_id = 3132 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3133 information in exchange_id requests. 3134 If zero, no implementation identification information 3135 will be sent. 3136 The default is to send the implementation identification 3137 information. 3138 3139 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 3140 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3141 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3142 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3143 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3144 after the locks are lost. 3145 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3146 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3147 parameter to '1'. 3148 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3149 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3150 3151 nfs4.layoutstats_timer = 3152 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3153 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3154 3155 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3156 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3157 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3158 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3159 3160 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3161 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3162 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3163 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3164 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3165 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3166 3167 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3168 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3169 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3170 3171 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3172 when a NMI is triggered. 3173 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3174 3175 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3176 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 3177 Valid num: 0 or 1 3178 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3179 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3180 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3181 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3182 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3183 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3184 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3185 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3186 need the box quickly up again. 3187 3188 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3189 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3190 3191 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3192 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3193 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3194 waits 4 seconds. 3195 3196 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3197 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3198 is present. 3199 3200 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3201 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3202 3203 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3204 3205 no_console_suspend 3206 [HW] Never suspend the console 3207 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3208 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3209 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3210 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3211 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3212 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3213 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3214 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3215 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3216 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3217 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3218 turn on/off it dynamically. 3219 3220 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 3221 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 3222 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 3223 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 3224 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 3225 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 3226 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 3227 data will be no longer available. This parameter 3228 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 3229 is set. 3230 3231 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 3232 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 3233 but will impact performance. 3234 3235 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3236 3237 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching 3238 (CPU alternatives feature). 3239 3240 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3241 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3242 3243 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3244 3245 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 3246 on "Classic" PPC cores. 3247 3248 nocache [ARM] 3249 3250 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 3251 3252 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting 3253 3254 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3255 3256 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. 3257 3258 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3259 3260 noexec [IA-64] 3261 3262 noexec [X86] 3263 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 3264 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3265 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 3266 3267 nosmap [X86,PPC] 3268 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 3269 even if it is supported by processor. 3270 3271 nosmep [X86,PPC] 3272 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 3273 even if it is supported by processor. 3274 3275 noexec32 [X86-64] 3276 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3277 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3278 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3279 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3280 read implies executable mappings 3281 3282 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3283 3284 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3285 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3286 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3287 3288 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3289 3290 nohugevmalloc [PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3291 3292 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3293 Equivalent to smt=1. 3294 3295 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 3296 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 3297 via the sysfs control file. 3298 3299 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 3300 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 3301 possible in the system. 3302 3303 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for 3304 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) 3305 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this 3306 option. 3307 3308 nospec_store_bypass_disable 3309 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability 3310 3311 no_uaccess_flush 3312 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 3313 3314 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 3315 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 3316 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 3317 3318 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 3319 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 3320 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 3321 performance of saving the states is degraded because 3322 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 3323 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 3324 3325 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 3326 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 3327 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 3328 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 3329 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 3330 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 3331 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 3332 3333 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait 3334 in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3335 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3336 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3337 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3338 correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute 3339 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3340 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3341 3342 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3343 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3344 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3345 3346 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 3347 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 3348 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 3349 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 3350 in certain environments such as networked servers or 3351 real-time systems. 3352 3353 no_hash_pointers 3354 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3355 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3356 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3357 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3358 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3359 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3360 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3361 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3362 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3363 value printed. Pointers printed via %pK may still be 3364 hashed. This option should only be specified when 3365 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3366 kernels. 3367 3368 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3369 3370 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3371 Valid arguments: on, off 3372 Default: on 3373 3374 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3375 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3376 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3377 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3378 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3379 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3380 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3381 just as if they had also been called out in the 3382 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3383 3384 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3385 3386 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3387 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3388 3389 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 3390 broken timer IRQ sources. 3391 3392 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3393 3394 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3395 initial RAM disk. 3396 3397 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 3398 remapping. 3399 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3400 3401 nointroute [IA-64] 3402 3403 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3404 3405 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 3406 3407 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3408 3409 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3410 fault handling. 3411 3412 no-vmw-sched-clock 3413 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler 3414 clock and use the default one. 3415 3416 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time 3417 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't 3418 influence scheduler behaviour 3419 3420 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3421 3422 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3423 3424 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 3425 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx 3426 3427 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 3428 3429 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3430 3431 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3432 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3433 3434 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 3435 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 3436 irq. 3437 3438 nomodule Disable module load 3439 3440 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 3441 pagetables) support. 3442 3443 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 3444 3445 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 3446 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 3447 3448 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 3449 with UP alternatives 3450 3451 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 3452 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 3453 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 3454 available to user space applications. 3455 3456 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 3457 space. 3458 3459 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 3460 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 3461 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 3462 3463 nosbagart [IA-64] 3464 3465 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 3466 3467 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 3468 3469 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 3470 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 3471 3472 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 3473 3474 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 3475 3476 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 3477 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 3478 3479 nowb [ARM] 3480 3481 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 3482 3483 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 3484 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 3485 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 3486 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 3487 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 3488 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 3489 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 3490 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 3491 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 3492 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 3493 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 3494 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 3495 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 3496 3497 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC] 3498 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in 3499 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run 3500 without interruptions, before HW switches it. 3501 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this 3502 parameter's value. 3503 Format: integer between 1 and 255 3504 Default: 255 3505 3506 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 3507 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 3508 SAL PALO. 3509 3510 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3511 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 3512 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 3513 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 3514 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 3515 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 3516 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 3517 hot plugging. 3518 3519 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 3520 3521 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 3522 NUMA balancing. 3523 Allowed values are enable and disable 3524 3525 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 3526 'node', 'default' can be specified 3527 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 3528 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 3529 3530 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 3531 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 3532 info. 3533 3534 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 3535 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 3536 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 3537 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 3538 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 3539 interrupts *may* be lost! 3540 3541 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 3542 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 3543 For example, to override I2C bus2: 3544 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 3545 3546 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 3547 process, but there is a small probability of 3548 deadlocking the machine. 3549 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 3550 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 3551 3552 page_alloc.shuffle= 3553 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 3554 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may 3555 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is 3556 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side 3557 cache, and this parameter can be used to 3558 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag 3559 can be read from sysfs at: 3560 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 3561 3562 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 3563 Storage of the information about who allocated 3564 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 3565 we can turn it on. 3566 on: enable the feature 3567 3568 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 3569 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 3570 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 3571 off: turn off poisoning (default) 3572 on: turn on poisoning 3573 3574 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 3575 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 3576 timeout = 0: wait forever 3577 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 3578 Format: <timeout> 3579 3580 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 3581 User can chose combination of the following bits: 3582 bit 0: print all tasks info 3583 bit 1: print system memory info 3584 bit 2: print timer info 3585 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 3586 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 3587 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 3588 3589 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 3590 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 3591 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 3592 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 3593 called with any of the flags in this set. 3594 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 3595 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 3596 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 3597 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 3598 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 3599 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 3600 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 3601 3602 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 3603 on a WARN(). 3604 3605 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 3606 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 3607 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 3608 succeeds in any situation. 3609 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 3610 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 3611 kernel more unstable. 3612 3613 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 3614 connected to, default is 0. 3615 Format: <parport#> 3616 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 3617 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 3618 Format: <mode> 3619 3620 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 3621 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 3622 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 3623 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 3624 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 3625 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 3626 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 3627 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 3628 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 3629 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 3630 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 3631 are specified on the command line, starting 3632 with parport0. 3633 3634 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 3635 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 3636 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 3637 computer where firmware has no options for setting 3638 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 3639 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 3640 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 3641 3642 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 3643 Format: <int> 3644 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 3645 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 3646 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 3647 3648 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 3649 Format: <int> 3650 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 3651 changes. Disabled by default. 3652 3653 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 3654 Format: <int> 3655 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 3656 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3657 Disabled by default. 3658 3659 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 3660 Format: <int> 3661 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 3662 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 3663 Disabled by default. 3664 3665 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3666 Format: <int> 3667 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 3668 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 3669 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 3670 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 3671 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 3672 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 3673 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 3674 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 3675 all channels. 3676 3677 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 3678 Format: <int> 3679 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 3680 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 3681 respectively. Disabled by default. 3682 3683 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 3684 Format: <int> 3685 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 3686 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 3687 respectively. Disabled by default. 3688 3689 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3690 Format: <int> 3691 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 3692 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 3693 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 3694 All modes allowed by default. 3695 3696 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 3697 Format: <int> 3698 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 3699 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 3700 3701 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3702 Format: <int> 3703 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 3704 platform configuration and the use of other driver 3705 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 3706 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 3707 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 3708 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 3709 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 3710 By default all supported ports are probed. 3711 3712 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 3713 Format: <int> 3714 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 3715 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 3716 3717 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 3718 Format: <int> 3719 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 3720 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 3721 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 3722 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 3723 0 otherwise. 3724 3725 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 3726 Format: <int> 3727 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 3728 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 3729 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 3730 allowed by default. 3731 3732 pause_on_oops= 3733 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 3734 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 3735 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 3736 3737 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 3738 3739 pcd. [PARIDE] 3740 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 3741 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3742 3743 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options. 3744 3745 Some options herein operate on a specific device 3746 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 3747 specified in one of the following formats: 3748 3749 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 3750 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 3751 3752 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 3753 bus/device/function address which may change 3754 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 3755 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 3756 by other kernel parameters. If the 3757 domain is left unspecified, it is 3758 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 3759 to a device through multiple device/function 3760 addresses can be specified after the base 3761 address (this is more robust against 3762 renumbering issues). The second format 3763 selects devices using IDs from the 3764 configuration space which may match multiple 3765 devices in the system. 3766 3767 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 3768 changes anything 3769 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 3770 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 3771 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 3772 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 3773 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 3774 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 3775 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 3776 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 3777 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3778 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 3779 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 3780 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 3781 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 3782 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 3783 bus number. The config space is then accessed 3784 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 3785 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 3786 on the configuration access mechanisms. 3787 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 3788 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3789 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 3790 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 3791 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 3792 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 3793 Configuration 3794 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 3795 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 3796 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 3797 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 3798 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 3799 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 3800 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 3801 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 3802 should never be necessary. 3803 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 3804 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 3805 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 3806 when the system masks IRQs. 3807 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 3808 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 3809 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 3810 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 3811 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 3812 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 3813 on several machines and they hang the machine 3814 when used, but on other computers it's the only 3815 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 3816 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 3817 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 3818 motherboard. 3819 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 3820 Use with caution as certain devices share 3821 address decoders between ROMs and other 3822 resources. 3823 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 3824 expansion ROMs that do not already have 3825 BIOS assigned address ranges. 3826 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 3827 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 3828 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 3829 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 3830 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 3831 this way. 3832 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 3833 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 3834 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 3835 F0000h-100000h range. 3836 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 3837 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 3838 secondary buses and you want to tell it 3839 explicitly which ones they are. 3840 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 3841 numbers ourselves, overriding 3842 whatever the firmware may have done. 3843 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 3844 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 3845 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 3846 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 3847 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 3848 IRQ routing is enabled. 3849 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 3850 or for PCI scanning. 3851 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 3852 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 3853 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 3854 please report a bug. 3855 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 3856 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 3857 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 3858 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 3859 so this option is a temporary workaround 3860 for broken drivers that don't call it. 3861 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 3862 handle more pci cards 3863 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 3864 This might help on some broken boards which 3865 machine check when some devices' config space 3866 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 3867 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 3868 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3869 This sorting is done to get a device 3870 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 3871 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 3872 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 3873 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 3874 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 3875 supported by all devices below the root complex. 3876 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 3877 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 3878 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 3879 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 3880 or bus can support) for best performance. 3881 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 3882 every device is guaranteed to support. This 3883 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 3884 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 3885 reduced performance. This also guarantees 3886 that hot-added devices will work. 3887 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3888 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 3889 The default value is 256 bytes. 3890 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3891 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 3892 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 3893 resource_alignment= 3894 Format: 3895 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 3896 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 3897 aligned memory resources. How to 3898 specify the device is described above. 3899 If <order of align> is not specified, 3900 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 3901 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 3902 windows need to be expanded. 3903 To specify the alignment for several 3904 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 3905 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 3906 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 3907 for 4096-byte alignment. 3908 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 3909 end-to-end CRC checking). 3910 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 3911 the default. 3912 off: Turn ECRC off 3913 on: Turn ECRC on. 3914 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3915 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 3916 Default size is 256 bytes. 3917 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3918 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 3919 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3920 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3921 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 3922 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3923 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 3924 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 3925 MMIO_PREF window. 3926 Default size is 2 megabytes. 3927 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 3928 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 3929 Default is 1. 3930 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 3931 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 3932 accommodate resources required by all child 3933 devices. 3934 off: Turn realloc off 3935 on: Turn realloc on 3936 realloc same as realloc=on 3937 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 3938 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 3939 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 3940 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 3941 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 3942 port. 3943 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 3944 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 3945 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 3946 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 3947 conflict with unreported devices), so this 3948 taints the kernel. 3949 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 3950 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 3951 specified above) separated by semicolons. 3952 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 3953 redirect capabilities forced off which will 3954 allow P2P traffic between devices through 3955 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 3956 this removes isolation between devices and 3957 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 3958 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 3959 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 3960 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 3961 one PCI domain per PCI function 3962 3963 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 3964 Management. 3965 off Disable ASPM. 3966 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 3967 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 3968 3969 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 3970 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 3971 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 3972 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 3973 also tries to use these services. 3974 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 3975 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 3976 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 3977 hotplug). 3978 3979 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 3980 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 3981 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 3982 3983 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 3984 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 3985 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 3986 3987 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 3988 3989 pd_ignore_unused 3990 [PM] 3991 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 3992 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 3993 for debug and development, but should not be 3994 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 3995 3996 pd. [PARIDE] 3997 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 3998 3999 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4000 boot time. 4001 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4002 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4003 4004 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4005 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4006 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4007 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4008 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4009 and performance comparison. 4010 4011 pf. [PARIDE] 4012 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4013 4014 pg. [PARIDE] 4015 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4016 4017 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4018 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4019 4020 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4021 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4022 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4023 4024 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4025 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4026 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4027 4028 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4029 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4030 4031 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4032 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4033 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4034 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4035 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4036 possible settings and some assignment information. 4037 4038 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4039 { off } 4040 4041 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4042 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4043 4044 pnp_reserve_irq= 4045 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4046 4047 pnp_reserve_dma= 4048 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4049 4050 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4051 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4052 4053 pnp_reserve_mem= 4054 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4055 autoconfiguration. 4056 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4057 4058 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4059 Default is 21. 4060 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4061 may be specified. 4062 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4063 4064 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4065 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4066 platform machine description specific power_save 4067 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4068 execution priority. 4069 4070 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4071 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4072 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4073 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4074 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4075 4076 ppc_tm= [PPC] 4077 Format: {"off"} 4078 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4079 4080 preempt= [KNL] 4081 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4082 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4083 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4084 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4085 can be preempted anytime. 4086 4087 print-fatal-signals= 4088 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4089 4090 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4091 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4092 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4093 coredump - etc. 4094 4095 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4096 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4097 4098 default: off. 4099 4100 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4101 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4102 panics 4103 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4104 default: disabled 4105 4106 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4107 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4108 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4109 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4110 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4111 Default: ratelimit 4112 4113 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4114 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4115 4116 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4117 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4118 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4119 4120 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4121 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4122 instead using the legacy FADT method 4123 4124 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4125 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4126 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" 4127 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4128 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4129 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 4130 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 4131 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4132 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4133 statistical time based profiling. 4134 4135 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4136 4137 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4138 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4139 that). 4140 Format: <bool> 4141 4142 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4143 tracking. 4144 Format: <bool> 4145 4146 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4147 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4148 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4149 per second. 4150 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4151 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4152 (0 = never). 4153 psmouse.resolution= 4154 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4155 psmouse.smartscroll= 4156 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4157 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4158 4159 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4160 4161 pt. [PARIDE] 4162 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst. 4163 4164 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4165 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4166 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4167 system calls and interrupts. 4168 4169 on - unconditionally enable 4170 off - unconditionally disable 4171 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4172 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4173 4174 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4175 4176 nopti [X86-64] 4177 Equivalent to pti=off 4178 4179 pty.legacy_count= 4180 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4181 default number. 4182 4183 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 4184 4185 r128= [HW,DRM] 4186 4187 raid= [HW,RAID] 4188 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4189 4190 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4191 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4192 4193 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4194 4195 random.trust_cpu={on,off} 4196 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the 4197 CPU's random number generator (if available) to 4198 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled 4199 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. 4200 4201 randomize_kstack_offset= 4202 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4203 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4204 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4205 that depend on stack address determinism or 4206 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4207 available on architectures that have defined 4208 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4209 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4210 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4211 4212 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4213 4214 cec_disable [X86] 4215 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4216 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4217 4218 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 4219 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 4220 4221 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 4222 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 4223 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be 4224 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that 4225 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and 4226 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number. 4227 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs, 4228 which can be useful for HPC and real-time 4229 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency 4230 for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4231 4232 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4233 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4234 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4235 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4236 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4237 This improves the real-time response for the 4238 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4239 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4240 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4241 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4242 4243 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4244 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4245 process in one batch. 4246 4247 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4248 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4249 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4250 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4251 4252 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4253 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4254 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4255 4256 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4257 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4258 RCU grace-period initialization. 4259 4260 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 4261 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4262 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 4263 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 4264 the rcu_node combining tree. 4265 4266 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 4267 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 4268 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 4269 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 4270 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 4271 4272 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 4273 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 4274 to zero. 4275 4276 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 4277 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 4278 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 4279 possibly be useful for architectures having high 4280 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 4281 4282 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 4283 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 4284 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 4285 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 4286 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 4287 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 4288 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 4289 4290 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 4291 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 4292 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 4293 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 4294 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 4295 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 4296 condition. 4297 4298 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 4299 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 4300 first attempt to force quiescent states. 4301 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 4302 and maximum value is HZ. 4303 4304 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 4305 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 4306 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 4307 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 4308 4309 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 4310 Set required age in jiffies for a 4311 given grace period before RCU starts 4312 soliciting quiescent-state help from 4313 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 4314 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 4315 a value based on the most recent settings 4316 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 4317 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 4318 This calculated value may be viewed in 4319 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 4320 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 4321 overwritten. 4322 4323 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 4324 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 4325 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 4326 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 4327 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 4328 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 4329 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 4330 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 4331 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 4332 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 4333 4334 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 4335 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 4336 each group, which defaults to the square root 4337 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 4338 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 4339 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 4340 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 4341 4342 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 4343 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4344 batch limiting is disabled. 4345 4346 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 4347 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 4348 batch limiting is re-enabled. 4349 4350 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 4351 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 4352 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 4353 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 4354 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 4355 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 4356 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 4357 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 4358 4359 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 4360 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 4361 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 4362 4363 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 4364 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 4365 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 4366 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 4367 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 4368 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 4369 4370 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 4371 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 4372 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 4373 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 4374 Larger delays increase the probability of 4375 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 4376 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 4377 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 4378 4379 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 4380 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 4381 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 4382 why a new grace period has not yet started. 4383 4384 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 4385 Measure performance of asynchronous 4386 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 4387 4388 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 4389 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 4390 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 4391 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 4392 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 4393 previously posted callbacks to drain. 4394 4395 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 4396 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 4397 grace-period primitives. 4398 4399 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4400 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4401 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4402 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4403 interference. 4404 4405 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 4406 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 4407 4408 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 4409 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4410 If this parameter has the same value as 4411 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 4412 and double-argument variants are tested. 4413 4414 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 4415 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 4416 If this parameter has the same value as 4417 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 4418 and double-argument variants are tested. 4419 4420 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 4421 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 4422 4423 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 4424 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 4425 4426 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 4427 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 4428 of allocations and frees. 4429 4430 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4431 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4432 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4433 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 4434 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4435 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4436 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 4437 a single reader. 4438 4439 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 4440 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 4441 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 4442 N, where N is the number of CPUs 4443 4444 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL] 4445 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4446 4447 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4448 Shut the system down after performance tests 4449 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 4450 testing. 4451 4452 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 4453 Enable additional printk() statements. 4454 4455 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 4456 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 4457 in microseconds. The default of zero says 4458 no holdoff. 4459 4460 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 4461 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 4462 in microseconds. 4463 4464 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 4465 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 4466 in microseconds. 4467 4468 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 4469 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 4470 in seconds. 4471 4472 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 4473 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 4474 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 4475 4476 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 4477 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 4478 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 4479 4480 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 4481 Number of seconds to wait between successive 4482 forward-progress tests. 4483 4484 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 4485 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 4486 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 4487 testing. 4488 4489 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 4490 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 4491 primitives, if available. 4492 4493 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 4494 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 4495 4496 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 4497 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 4498 update-side primitives, if available. 4499 4500 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 4501 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 4502 update-side primitives, if available. If all 4503 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 4504 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 4505 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 4506 they are all non-zero. 4507 4508 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 4509 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 4510 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 4511 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 4512 4513 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 4514 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 4515 This can of course result in splats, and is 4516 intended to test the ability of things like 4517 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 4518 such leaks. 4519 4520 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 4521 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 4522 4523 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 4524 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 4525 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 4526 test, hence the "fake". 4527 4528 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 4529 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 4530 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 4531 4532 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 4533 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 4534 callback-offload toggling attempts. 4535 4536 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 4537 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 4538 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 4539 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 4540 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 4541 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 4542 4543 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 4544 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 4545 4546 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4547 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 4548 4549 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4550 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 4551 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 4552 4553 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 4554 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 4555 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 4556 task-exit processing. 4557 4558 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 4559 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 4560 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 4561 is spawned. 4562 4563 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 4564 The delay, in seconds, between successive 4565 read-then-exit testing episodes. 4566 4567 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 4568 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 4569 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 4570 during the rcutorture test. 4571 4572 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4573 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 4574 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 4575 4576 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 4577 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 4578 warnings, zero to disable. 4579 4580 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 4581 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 4582 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition 4583 to any other stall-related activity. 4584 4585 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 4586 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 4587 4588 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 4589 Disable interrupts while stalling if set. 4590 4591 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 4592 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 4593 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 4594 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 4595 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 4596 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 4597 4598 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 4599 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 4600 4601 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 4602 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 4603 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 4604 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 4605 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 4606 4607 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 4608 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 4609 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 4610 under test support RCU priority boosting. 4611 4612 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 4613 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 4614 4615 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 4616 Interval (s) between each boost test. 4617 4618 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 4619 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 4620 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 4621 4622 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 4623 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 4624 4625 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 4626 Enable additional printk() statements. 4627 4628 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 4629 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 4630 stall warning. 4631 4632 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 4633 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4634 4635 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 4636 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 4637 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 4638 during early boot, that is, during the time 4639 before the init task is spawned. 4640 4641 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4642 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 4643 4644 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 4645 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 4646 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 4647 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 4648 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 4649 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 4650 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4651 4652 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 4653 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 4654 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 4655 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 4656 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 4657 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 4658 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 4659 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 4660 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4661 4662 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 4663 Once boot has completed (that is, after 4664 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 4665 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 4666 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 4667 4668 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 4669 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 4670 it to the value one, that is, converting any 4671 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 4672 period to instead use normal non-expedited 4673 grace-period processing. 4674 4675 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 4676 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 4677 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 4678 of a given grace period. Setting a large 4679 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 4680 but lengthens grace periods. 4681 4682 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 4683 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning 4684 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal 4685 to zero. 4686 4687 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 4688 Run the RCU early boot self tests 4689 4690 rdinit= [KNL] 4691 Format: <full_path> 4692 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 4693 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 4694 4695 rdrand= [X86] 4696 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 4697 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 4698 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 4699 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 4700 path). 4701 4702 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 4703 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 4704 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 4705 mba. 4706 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 4707 rdt=cmt,!mba 4708 4709 reboot= [KNL] 4710 Format (x86 or x86_64): 4711 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ 4712 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 4713 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 4714 [[,]f[orce] 4715 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 4716 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 4717 reboot only), 4718 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 4719 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 4720 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 4721 to be used for rebooting. 4722 4723 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 4724 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 4725 this parameter is to delay the start of the 4726 test until boot completes in order to avoid 4727 interference. 4728 4729 refscale.loops= [KNL] 4730 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 4731 primitive under test. Increasing this number 4732 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 4733 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 4734 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 4735 x86 laptops. 4736 4737 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 4738 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 4739 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 4740 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 4741 4742 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 4743 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 4744 the console log. 4745 4746 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 4747 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 4748 measured in microseconds. 4749 4750 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 4751 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 4752 4753 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 4754 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 4755 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 4756 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 4757 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 4758 4759 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 4760 Enable additional printk() statements. 4761 4762 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 4763 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 4764 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 4765 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 4766 specified. 4767 4768 relax_domain_level= 4769 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 4770 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 4771 4772 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 4773 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 4774 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 4775 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 4776 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 4777 4778 reservetop= [X86-32] 4779 Format: nn[KMG] 4780 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 4781 address space. 4782 4783 reservelow= [X86] 4784 Format: nn[K] 4785 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at 4786 the bottom of the address space. 4787 4788 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 4789 during initialization. 4790 4791 resume= [SWSUSP] 4792 Specify the partition device for software suspend 4793 Format: 4794 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 4795 4796 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 4797 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 4798 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 4799 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 4800 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 4801 4802 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4803 read the resume files 4804 4805 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 4806 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4807 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4808 4809 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 4810 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 4811 present during boot. 4812 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 4813 no Disable hibernation and resume. 4814 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 4815 (that will set all pages holding image data 4816 during restoration read-only). 4817 4818 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 4819 4820 rfkill.default_state= 4821 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 4822 etc. communication is blocked by default. 4823 1 Unblocked. 4824 4825 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 4826 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 4827 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4828 blocked and the previous configuration. 4829 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 4830 blocked and everything unblocked. 4831 4832 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 4833 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 4834 4835 ring3mwait=disable 4836 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 4837 CPUs. 4838 4839 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 4840 4841 rodata= [KNL] 4842 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 4843 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 4844 4845 rockchip.usb_uart 4846 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 4847 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 4848 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 4849 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 4850 4851 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 4852 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 4853 4854 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 4855 mount the root filesystem 4856 4857 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 4858 4859 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 4860 4861 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 4862 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 4863 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 4864 4865 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 4866 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 4867 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 4868 managed by CMA. 4869 4870 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 4871 4872 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 4873 4874 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 4875 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 4876 strict 4877 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 4878 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 4879 which is faster. 4880 4881 sa1100ir [NET] 4882 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 4883 4884 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter 4885 4886 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 4887 4888 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 4889 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 4890 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 4891 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 4892 4893 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 4894 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 4895 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 4896 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 4897 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 4898 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 4899 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 4900 value. 4901 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 4902 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 4903 1 64 ms 4904 2 128 ms 4905 and so on. 4906 Format: integer between 0 and 10 4907 Default is 0. 4908 4909 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 4910 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 4911 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 4912 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 4913 tests. 4914 4915 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 4916 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 4917 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 4918 default) disables this feature. Please note 4919 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 4920 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 4921 softlockup complaints, and so on. 4922 4923 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 4924 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 4925 smp_call_function() family of functions. 4926 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 4927 equal to the number of CPUs. 4928 4929 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 4930 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 4931 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 4932 4933 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 4934 Number seconds to wait between successive 4935 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 4936 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 4937 4938 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 4939 The number of seconds following the start of the 4940 test after which to shut down the system. The 4941 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 4942 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 4943 4944 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 4945 The number of seconds between outputting the 4946 current test statistics to the console. A value 4947 of zero disables statistics output. 4948 4949 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 4950 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 4951 to the set of CPUs under test. 4952 4953 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 4954 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 4955 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 4956 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 4957 functions. 4958 4959 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 4960 Enable additional printk() statements. 4961 4962 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 4963 The probability weighting to use for the 4964 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 4965 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 4966 default if all other weights are -1. However, 4967 if at least one weight has some other value, a 4968 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 4969 4970 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 4971 The probability weighting to use for the 4972 smp_call_function_single() function with a 4973 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 4974 4975 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 4976 The probability weighting to use for the 4977 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 4978 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 4979 Note well that setting a high probability for 4980 this weighting can place serious IPI load 4981 on the system. 4982 4983 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 4984 The probability weighting to use for the 4985 smp_call_function_many() function with a 4986 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 4987 and weight_many. 4988 4989 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 4990 The probability weighting to use for the 4991 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 4992 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 4993 weight_many. 4994 4995 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 4996 The probability weighting to use for the 4997 smp_call_function_all() function with a 4998 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 4999 and weight_many. 5000 5001 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 5002 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 5003 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 5004 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5005 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 5006 1 -- enable. 5007 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 5008 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 5009 5010 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 5011 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 5012 "lsm=" parameter. 5013 5014 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 5015 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5016 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 5017 0 -- disable. 5018 1 -- enable. 5019 Default value is 1. 5020 5021 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 5022 Format: { "0" | "1" } 5023 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 5024 0 -- disable. 5025 1 -- enable. 5026 Default value is set via kernel config option. 5027 5028 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 5029 5030 shapers= [NET] 5031 Maximal number of shapers. 5032 5033 simeth= [IA-64] 5034 simscsi= 5035 5036 slram= [HW,MTD] 5037 5038 slab_merge [MM] 5039 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 5040 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 5041 5042 slab_nomerge [MM] 5043 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 5044 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 5045 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 5046 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 5047 layout control by attackers can usually be 5048 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 5049 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 5050 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 5051 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 5052 own. 5053 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5054 5055 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 5056 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5057 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5058 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 5059 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 5060 5061 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] 5062 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 5063 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 5064 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 5065 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 5066 last alloc / free. For more information see 5067 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5068 5069 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 5070 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 5071 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 5072 fragmentation. For more information see 5073 Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5074 5075 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 5076 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 5077 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 5078 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 5079 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 5080 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 5081 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 5082 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5083 5084 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 5085 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 5086 lower than slub_max_order. 5087 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. 5088 5089 slub_merge [MM, SLUB] 5090 Same with slab_merge. 5091 5092 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 5093 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy. 5094 See slab_nomerge for more information. 5095 5096 smart2= [HW] 5097 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 5098 5099 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 5100 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 5101 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 5102 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 5103 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 5104 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 5105 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 5106 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 5107 1: Fast pin select (default) 5108 2: ATC IRMode 5109 5110 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical 5111 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of 5112 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the 5113 actual hardware limit. 5114 Format: <integer> 5115 Default: -1 (no limit) 5116 5117 softlockup_panic= 5118 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 5119 Format: 0 | 1 5120 5121 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 5122 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 5123 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 5124 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 5125 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 5126 5127 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 5128 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 5129 backtraces on all cpus. 5130 Format: 0 | 1 5131 5132 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 5133 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 5134 5135 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5136 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 5137 The default operation protects the kernel from 5138 user space attacks. 5139 5140 on - unconditionally enable, implies 5141 spectre_v2_user=on 5142 off - unconditionally disable, implies 5143 spectre_v2_user=off 5144 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 5145 vulnerable 5146 5147 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 5148 mitigation method at run time according to the 5149 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 5150 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the 5151 compiler with which the kernel was built. 5152 5153 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 5154 against user space to user space task attacks. 5155 5156 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 5157 the user space protections. 5158 5159 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 5160 5161 retpoline - replace indirect branches 5162 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline 5163 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk 5164 5165 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5166 spectre_v2=auto. 5167 5168 spectre_v2_user= 5169 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 5170 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 5171 user space tasks 5172 5173 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 5174 enforced by spectre_v2=on 5175 5176 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 5177 enforced by spectre_v2=off 5178 5179 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 5180 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 5181 per thread. The mitigation control state 5182 is inherited on fork. 5183 5184 prctl,ibpb 5185 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 5186 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5187 always when switching between different user 5188 space processes. 5189 5190 seccomp 5191 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 5192 threads will enable the mitigation unless 5193 they explicitly opt out. 5194 5195 seccomp,ibpb 5196 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 5197 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 5198 always when switching between different 5199 user space processes. 5200 5201 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 5202 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 5203 5204 Default mitigation: 5205 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 5206 5207 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5208 spectre_v2_user=auto. 5209 5210 spec_store_bypass_disable= 5211 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 5212 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 5213 5214 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 5215 a common industry wide performance optimization known 5216 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 5217 to the same memory location may not be observed by 5218 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 5219 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 5220 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 5221 end of a particular speculation execution window. 5222 5223 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5224 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 5225 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 5226 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 5227 5228 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 5229 Bypass optimization is used. 5230 5231 On x86 the options are: 5232 5233 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 5234 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 5235 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 5236 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 5237 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 5238 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 5239 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 5240 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 5241 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 5242 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 5243 for a process by default. The state of the control 5244 is inherited on fork. 5245 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 5246 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 5247 5248 Default mitigations: 5249 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" 5250 5251 On powerpc the options are: 5252 5253 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 5254 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 5255 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 5256 exit. 5257 off - No action. 5258 5259 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5260 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 5261 5262 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 5263 spia_fio_base= 5264 spia_pedr= 5265 spia_peddr= 5266 5267 split_lock_detect= 5268 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 5269 5270 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 5271 instructions that access data across cache line 5272 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 5273 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 5274 bus lock detection. 5275 5276 off - not enabled 5277 5278 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 5279 about applications triggering the #AC 5280 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 5281 the default on CPUs that support split lock 5282 detection or bus lock detection. Default 5283 behavior is by #AC if both features are 5284 enabled in hardware. 5285 5286 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 5287 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 5288 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 5289 both features are enabled in hardware. 5290 5291 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 5292 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 5293 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 5294 mode. 5295 5296 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 5297 CPL > 0. 5298 5299 srbds= [X86,INTEL] 5300 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 5301 (SRBDS) mitigation. 5302 5303 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 5304 exploit which can leak bits from the random 5305 number generator. 5306 5307 By default, this issue is mitigated by 5308 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 5309 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 5310 much slower. Among other effects, this will 5311 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 5312 5313 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 5314 the following option: 5315 5316 off: Disable mitigation and remove 5317 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 5318 5319 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 5320 Specifies how frequently to check for 5321 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 5322 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 5323 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 5324 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 5325 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 5326 are ignored. 5327 5328 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 5329 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 5330 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 5331 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 5332 grace period will be considered for automatic 5333 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 5334 expediting. 5335 5336 ssbd= [ARM64,HW] 5337 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 5338 5339 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 5340 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 5341 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 5342 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 5343 5344 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 5345 for both kernel and userspace 5346 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 5347 for both kernel and userspace 5348 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 5349 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 5350 to allow userspace to register its 5351 interest in being mitigated too. 5352 5353 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 5354 override the default stack gap protection. The value 5355 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 5356 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 5357 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 5358 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 5359 5360 stack_depot_disable= [KNL] 5361 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 5362 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 5363 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 5364 to false. 5365 5366 stacktrace [FTRACE] 5367 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 5368 5369 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 5370 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 5371 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 5372 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 5373 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 5374 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 5375 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 5376 5377 sti= [PARISC,HW] 5378 Format: <num> 5379 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 5380 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 5381 as the initial boot-console. 5382 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5383 5384 sti_font= [HW] 5385 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 5386 5387 stifb= [HW] 5388 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 5389 5390 sunrpc.min_resvport= 5391 sunrpc.max_resvport= 5392 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5393 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 5394 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 5395 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 5396 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 5397 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 5398 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 5399 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 5400 maximum port values. 5401 5402 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 5403 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5404 Limit the number of requests that the server will 5405 process in parallel from a single connection. 5406 The default value is 0 (no limit). 5407 5408 sunrpc.pool_mode= 5409 [NFS] 5410 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 5411 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 5412 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 5413 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 5414 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 5415 NFS server is running. 5416 5417 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 5418 automatically using heuristics 5419 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 5420 percpu one pool for each CPU 5421 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 5422 to global on non-NUMA machines) 5423 5424 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 5425 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 5426 [NFS,SUNRPC] 5427 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 5428 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 5429 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 5430 improve throughput, but will also increase the 5431 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 5432 5433 suspend.pm_test_delay= 5434 [SUSPEND] 5435 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 5436 mode before resuming the system (see 5437 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 5438 is set. Default value is 5. 5439 5440 svm= [PPC] 5441 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 5442 This parameter controls use of the Protected 5443 Execution Facility on pSeries. 5444 5445 swapaccount=[0|1] 5446 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 5447 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 5448 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst) 5449 5450 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 5451 Format: { <int> | force | noforce } 5452 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 5453 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 5454 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 5455 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 5456 5457 switches= [HW,M68k] 5458 5459 sysctl.*= [KNL] 5460 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 5461 process, as if the value was written to the respective 5462 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 5463 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 5464 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 5465 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 5466 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 5467 5468 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 5469 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 5470 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 5471 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 5472 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 5473 in older udev will not work anymore. 5474 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 5475 the kernel configuration. 5476 5477 sysrq_always_enabled 5478 [KNL] 5479 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 5480 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 5481 Useful for debugging. 5482 5483 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5484 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 5485 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 5486 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 5487 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 5488 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 5489 5490 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 5491 5492 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N] 5493 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 5494 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 5495 as the system sleep state during system startup with 5496 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 5497 The system is woken from this state using a 5498 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 5499 5500 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5501 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 5502 5503 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 5504 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 5505 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 5506 5507 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 5508 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 5509 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 5510 5511 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 5512 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 5513 critical and hot trip points. 5514 5515 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 5516 1: disable ACPI thermal control 5517 5518 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 5519 -1: disable all passive trip points 5520 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 5521 value 5522 5523 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 5524 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 5525 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 5526 0: no polling (default) 5527 5528 threadirqs [KNL] 5529 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 5530 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 5531 5532 topology= [S390] 5533 Format: {off | on} 5534 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 5535 topology information if the hardware supports this. 5536 The scheduler will make use of this information and 5537 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 5538 Default is on. 5539 5540 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] 5541 Format: {off} 5542 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off) 5543 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this 5544 LPAR. 5545 5546 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 5547 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 5548 until after init has spawned. 5549 5550 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 5551 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 5552 even if there were no errors. This can be a 5553 very costly operation when many torture tests 5554 are running concurrently, especially on systems 5555 with rotating-rust storage. 5556 5557 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 5558 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 5559 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 5560 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 5561 5562 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 5563 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 5564 5565 tp720= [HW,PS2] 5566 5567 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 5568 Format: integer pcr id 5569 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 5570 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 5571 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 5572 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 5573 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 5574 are saved. 5575 5576 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 5577 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 5578 5579 trace_event=[event-list] 5580 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 5581 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 5582 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 5583 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 5584 5585 trace_options=[option-list] 5586 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 5587 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 5588 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 5589 to echo the option name into 5590 5591 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 5592 5593 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 5594 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 5595 5596 trace_options=stacktrace 5597 5598 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 5599 section. 5600 5601 tp_printk[FTRACE] 5602 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 5603 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 5604 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 5605 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 5606 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 5607 5608 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 5609 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 5610 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 5611 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 5612 5613 ** CAUTION ** 5614 5615 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 5616 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 5617 the system to live lock. 5618 5619 traceoff_on_warning 5620 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 5621 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 5622 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 5623 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 5624 5625 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 5626 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 5627 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 5628 5629 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 5630 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 5631 5632 transparent_hugepage= 5633 [KNL] 5634 Format: [always|madvise|never] 5635 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 5636 with respect to transparent hugepages. 5637 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 5638 for more details. 5639 5640 trusted.source= [KEYS] 5641 Format: <string> 5642 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 5643 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 5644 sources: 5645 - "tpm" 5646 - "tee" 5647 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 5648 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 5649 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 5650 successfully during iteration. 5651 5652 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 5653 Format: <string> 5654 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 5655 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 5656 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 5657 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 5658 virtualized environment. 5659 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 5660 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 5661 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 5662 can add overhead. 5663 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 5664 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 5665 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 5666 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 5667 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 5668 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 5669 acceptable). 5670 5671 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 5672 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 5673 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 5674 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 5675 Format: <unsigned int> 5676 5677 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 5678 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 5679 support TSX control. 5680 5681 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 5682 5683 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 5684 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 5685 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 5686 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 5687 so there may be unknown security risks associated 5688 with leaving it enabled. 5689 5690 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 5691 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 5692 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 5693 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 5694 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 5695 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 5696 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 5697 5698 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 5699 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 5700 5701 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 5702 5703 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 5704 for more details. 5705 5706 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 5707 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 5708 5709 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 5710 certain CPUs that support Transactional 5711 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 5712 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 5713 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 5714 conditions. 5715 5716 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 5717 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 5718 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 5719 access. 5720 5721 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 5722 options are: 5723 5724 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 5725 if TSX is enabled. 5726 5727 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 5728 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 5729 is not disabled because CPU is not 5730 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 5731 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 5732 5733 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 5734 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 5735 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 5736 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 5737 5738 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 5739 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 5740 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 5741 required and doesn't provide any additional 5742 mitigation. 5743 5744 For details see: 5745 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 5746 5747 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 5748 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 5749 Format: 5750 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 5751 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 5752 5753 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 5754 happen after console_init() and before a proper 5755 console driver takes over, this boot options might 5756 help "seeing" what's going on. 5757 5758 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 5759 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 5760 5761 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 5762 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 5763 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 5764 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 5765 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 5766 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 5767 reported either. 5768 5769 unknown_nmi_panic 5770 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 5771 5772 usbcore.authorized_default= 5773 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 5774 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 5775 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 5776 if device connected to internal port) 5777 5778 usbcore.autosuspend= 5779 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 5780 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 5781 is the time required before an idle device will be 5782 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 5783 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 5784 5785 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 5786 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 5787 5788 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 5789 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 5790 (default = 65536). 5791 5792 usbcore.blinkenlights= 5793 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 5794 5795 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 5796 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 5797 scheme (default 0 = off). 5798 5799 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 5800 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 5801 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 5802 5803 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 5804 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 5805 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 5806 5807 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 5808 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 5809 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 5810 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 5811 5812 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 5813 5814 usbcore.quirks= 5815 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 5816 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 5817 commas. Each entry has the form 5818 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 5819 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 5820 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 5821 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 5822 the following meanings: 5823 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 5824 descriptors must not be fetched using 5825 a 255-byte read); 5826 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 5827 correctly so reset it instead); 5828 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 5829 Set-Interface requests); 5830 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 5831 handle its Configuration or Interface 5832 strings); 5833 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 5834 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 5835 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 5836 more interface descriptions than the 5837 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 5838 talking to these interfaces); 5839 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 5840 during initialization, after we read 5841 the device descriptor); 5842 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 5843 high speed and super speed interrupt 5844 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 5845 require the interval in microframes (1 5846 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 5847 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 5848 (bInterval-1). 5849 Devices with this quirk report their 5850 bInterval as the result of this 5851 calculation instead of the exponent 5852 variable used in the calculation); 5853 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 5854 handle device_qualifier descriptor 5855 requests); 5856 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 5857 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 5858 remote wakeup capability); 5859 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 5860 Power Management); 5861 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 5862 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 5863 frames instead of the USB 2.0 5864 calculation); 5865 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 5866 to be disconnected before suspend to 5867 prevent spurious wakeup); 5868 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 5869 pause after every control message); 5870 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 5871 delay after resetting its port); 5872 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 5873 5874 usbhid.mousepoll= 5875 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 5876 5877 usbhid.jspoll= 5878 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 5879 5880 usbhid.kbpoll= 5881 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 5882 5883 usb-storage.delay_use= 5884 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 5885 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 5886 5887 usb-storage.quirks= 5888 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 5889 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 5890 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 5891 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 5892 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 5893 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 5894 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 5895 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 5896 of sense data, not on uas); 5897 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 5898 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 5899 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 5900 device capacity by one sector); 5901 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 5902 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 5903 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 5904 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 5905 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 5906 command, uas only); 5907 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 5908 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 5909 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 5910 reported device capacity by one 5911 sector if the number is odd); 5912 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 5913 device); 5914 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 5915 command, uas only); 5916 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 5917 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 5918 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 5919 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 5920 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 5921 not on uas); 5922 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 5923 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 5924 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 5925 reported by the device, not on uas); 5926 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 5927 by default, not on uas); 5928 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 5929 bogus residue values, not on uas); 5930 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 5931 Logical Unit); 5932 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 5933 commands, uas only); 5934 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 5935 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 5936 medium is write-protected). 5937 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 5938 even if the device claims no cache, 5939 not on uas) 5940 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 5941 5942 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 5943 Format: <int> 5944 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 5945 1 - undefined instruction events 5946 2 - system calls 5947 4 - invalid data aborts 5948 8 - SIGSEGV faults 5949 16 - SIGBUS faults 5950 Example: user_debug=31 5951 5952 userpte= 5953 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 5954 5955 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 5956 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 5957 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 5958 5959 vdso= [X86,SH] 5960 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 5961 5962 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 5963 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 5964 5965 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 5966 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 5967 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 5968 5969 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 5970 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 5971 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 5972 5973 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 5974 alias for vdso32=0. 5975 5976 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 5977 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 5978 5979 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 5980 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 5981 5982 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 5983 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 5984 5985 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 5986 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 5987 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 5988 level and then send out the event to user space through 5989 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 5990 will only send out the event without touching backlight 5991 brightness level. 5992 default: 1 5993 5994 virtio_mmio.device= 5995 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 5996 5997 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 5998 where: 5999 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 6000 like K, M and G) 6001 <baseaddr> := physical base address 6002 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 6003 request_irq()) 6004 <id> := (optional) platform device id 6005 example: 6006 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 6007 6008 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 6009 6010 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 6011 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and 6012 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 6013 Use vga=ask for menu. 6014 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 6015 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 6016 6017 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 6018 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 6019 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 6020 All options are enabled by default, and this 6021 interface is meant to allow for selectively 6022 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 6023 debugging features. 6024 6025 Available options are: 6026 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 6027 - Disable all of the above options 6028 6029 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 6030 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 6031 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 6032 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 6033 mapped kernel RAM. 6034 6035 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390] 6036 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 6037 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 6038 6039 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 6040 Format: <command> 6041 6042 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 6043 Format: <command> 6044 6045 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 6046 Format: <command> 6047 6048 vsyscall= [X86-64] 6049 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 6050 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 6051 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 6052 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 6053 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 6054 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 6055 6056 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6057 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6058 page is readable. 6059 6060 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 6061 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 6062 page is not readable. 6063 6064 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 6065 them quite hard to use for exploits but 6066 might break your system. 6067 6068 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 6069 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 6070 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 6071 6072 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 6073 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 6074 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 6075 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 6076 6077 vt.default_blu= [VT] 6078 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 6079 Change the default blue palette of the console. 6080 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6081 ranging from 0-255. 6082 6083 vt.default_grn= [VT] 6084 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 6085 Change the default green palette of the console. 6086 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6087 ranging from 0-255. 6088 6089 vt.default_red= [VT] 6090 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 6091 Change the default red palette of the console. 6092 This is a 16-member array composed of values 6093 ranging from 0-255. 6094 6095 vt.default_utf8= 6096 [VT] 6097 Format=<0|1> 6098 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 6099 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 6100 newly opened terminals. 6101 6102 vt.global_cursor_default= 6103 [VT] 6104 Format=<-1|0|1> 6105 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 6106 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 6107 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 6108 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 6109 cursors, 1 will display them. 6110 6111 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 6112 Default: 2 = green. 6113 6114 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 6115 Default: 3 = cyan. 6116 6117 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 6118 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 6119 or other driver-specific files in the 6120 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 6121 6122 watchdog_thresh= 6123 [KNL] 6124 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 6125 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 6126 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 6127 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 6128 seconds. 6129 6130 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 6131 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 6132 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 6133 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 6134 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 6135 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 6136 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 6137 corresponding sysfs file. 6138 6139 workqueue.disable_numa 6140 By default, all work items queued to unbound 6141 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 6142 issued on, which results in better behavior in 6143 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 6144 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 6145 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 6146 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 6147 6148 workqueue.power_efficient 6149 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 6150 they show better performance thanks to cache 6151 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 6152 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 6153 6154 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 6155 were observed to contribute significantly to power 6156 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 6157 power usage at the cost of small performance 6158 overhead. 6159 6160 The default value of this parameter is determined by 6161 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 6162 6163 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 6164 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 6165 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 6166 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 6167 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 6168 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 6169 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 6170 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 6171 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 6172 impacted. 6173 6174 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 6175 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 6176 supporting x2apic. 6177 6178 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 6179 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 6180 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 6181 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 6182 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 6183 domains. 6184 6185 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 6186 Unplug Xen emulated devices 6187 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 6188 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 6189 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 6190 nics -- unplug network devices 6191 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 6192 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 6193 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 6194 the unplug protocol 6195 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 6196 6197 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN] 6198 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 6199 panic() code such as dumping handler. 6200 6201 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 6202 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations. 6203 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which 6204 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6205 6206 xen_nopv [X86] 6207 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 6208 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 6209 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 6210 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 6211 6212 xen_no_vector_callback 6213 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen 6214 event channel interrupts. 6215 6216 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 6217 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 6218 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 6219 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 6220 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 6221 6222 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN] 6223 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 6224 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 6225 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 6226 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 6227 more timer interrupts. 6228 6229 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 6230 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 6231 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 6232 6233 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 6234 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 6235 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 6236 6237 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 6238 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 6239 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 6240 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 6241 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 6242 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 6243 6244 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE] 6245 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 6246 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 6247 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 6248 6249 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM] 6250 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 6251 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 6252 contention. 6253 6254 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 6255 Format: 6256 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 6257 6258 xive= [PPC] 6259 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 6260 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 6261 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 6262 6263 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 6264 controller on both pseries and powernv 6265 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 6266 6267 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 6268 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 6269 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 6270 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 6271 6272 xmon [PPC] 6273 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 6274 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 6275 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 6276 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 6277 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 6278 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6279 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 6280 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 6281 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 6282 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 6283 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 6284 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 6285 can be written using xmon commands. 6286 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 6287 memory, and other data can't be written using 6288 xmon commands. 6289 off xmon is disabled. 6290